Good evening!

As I’ve polished up my non-indexed draft of Advanced Rules for distribution to y’all, I’ve scratched my head as to how I would like to distribute this copy to backers. I’ve been sharing pre-release work via Google Drive and a backer-only portion of a post, but since this is the final product, I would like to lock it to being a backer a little more. Non-backers will be able to access the content of the book via the live site, so this version is reserved for folks who have purchased Advanced Rules.

To get this draft distributed to you, I am going to distribute the files via BackerKit, so I am now going to start the process of sending out the BackerKit survey for Advanced Rules, and you will receive your digital copy of this non-indexed version of Advanced Rules as soon as you complete your survey.

We are using the BackerKit feature, auto-lock and charge, so when you complete your survey, you will immediately pay for shipping or any add-ons, and it will lock your order. You get to choose when your card is charged rather than waiting for us to charge you. We know from experience that it can lead to financial anxiety when your card is charged at a bad time. We’ll just remind you to take your survey rather than having to remind you to take your survey and lock your order, and we don’t have to track down failed charges.

Unfortunately, since we first made our shipping estimate in January, our shipping prices have increased, and the book has gotten longer and literally heavier to ship. Our U.S. domestic rates have gotten a little higher, but we are able to offer better rates worldwide, and we are able to offer delivery duty paid shipping to backers everywhere

We’re now offering digital add-ons for the first time, so if you don’t want to add any physical add-ons, you can get digital editions, and backers for digital pledge levels can also purcahse add-ons with their order.

Pledge Level Shipping Rates

Shipping will be organized by RV Games via ShipBob for worldwide shipping. Rates on BackerKit will all be charged via USD and converted by your bank, but we have provided local currency conversions as a courtesy.

Add-Ons

Zines and pamphlets ordered as add-ons include free shipping. Heavier items include a $5 USD shipping charge on top of the pledge level shipping.

Retailers will be able to add items from a wholesale shop. Retailers are charged $13 USD + $1 USD/Item ordered for shipping.

We are awaiting final BackerKit approval for our survey, and we foresee that happening within the next few days.

We’ll upload our non-indexed draft of Advanced Rules into BackerKit, so it will be ready for distribution once surveys are distributed. We’ll send out our smoke test survey to 10% of backers once we are approved, and then we will send out surveys to everyone a few days after that.

Roz is working on the index, and we will be moving into physical production near the end of the month, so we can get books produced and fulfilled during October.

Once physical fulfillment has completed, we will then send out final copies to backers via DriveThruRPG and Itch.io before opening up sales publicly and to retailers. Since all orders will already be locked and charged, we will be able to quickly push out orders to the warehouse as soon as the books are available for your region.

We will keep Late Pledges open for the project until we complete fulfillment, so it's not too late to get a copy if you missed out during the campaign.

I’m really excited to share this work with you, and I appreciate you standing by as we start the fulfillment process. There are a lot of steps and a lot of gremlins that can get in the way between now and then, but things are looking good at the moment.