Hey Liminal Horror community.

We’re excited to announce that our adventure The Mall Remastered was nominated for the ENnie Award: Best Adventure - Short Form.

We'd love it if you voted for this wet, gooey, practical effects filled TTRPG adventure set in a 199x mall pulled out of time and space.. Here’s how:

This is exciting because this is our second year in a row being nominated (The Bloom was up for Best Adventure - Long Form, last year). 

To celebrate we’ve made the digital version of The Mall Remastered free while voting for those who want to check it out who haven’t yet.

The ENnies winners are determined by fans, and so you and your friends can cast your votes. We’d love to have you choose our little ol adventure that answers the question: What if The Thing was set in a 1990s mall?

Now we’re off to continue working on the Deluxe Edition.

PS: Since film is such an important part of Liminal Horror, I made a soundtrack for The Mall for if/when it became an HBO/Netflix miniseries. Enjoy: Spotify or Youtube.

Hey Liminal Horror Fans!

We wanted to provide an early July update on where we are at in the Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition journey. 

Given the size of the book (432 pages) we ordered a sample copy from our printer. This will allow us to see how layout and design translates to the page. This will help us make color, margin, and gutter adjustments to make the best product we can.

It will also allow us to determine final weight and size, which is the last piece of the puzzle for the BackerKit survey and preorder pages going up!

We are finishing up the BackerKit survey and are just waiting on final weights to be able to get accurate shipping estimates. Once those are in we will be launching the surveys. It is important that once those go out you finalize the info! That is also where you will be able to add any additional items. Completing the survey will also allow us to start the digital fulfillment. We will be doing 2 waves (the first wave including all the previously released content, and the second wave with the new content unlocked by the campaign).

A lot of people have been wondering about being able to order a physical copy of "Einfühlung", the Haunted House Starter Scenario Zine that was unlocked during the campaign. While we unlocked the digital version of this for all backers, we didn’t hit the 150k to get everyone a free zine. Despite this, we’ll still be able to print copies and make backers able to add them to their pledges. (trust me, you won’t want to miss out)

PREORDER STORE 

We will be opening up the preorder store for those who missed out on the original campaign. This will be going up when the surveys launch (it is also waiting on the weights and info from our publisher).

What's an update without a look at where we are in the dev-process.

It is both a lot to do and the home stretch on most of it! We will be launching another update when the preorder store and backerkit surveys launch!

Best,

The Liminal Horror Dev Team

Liminal Horror community, all of us of the LH dev team want to thank you for your support through this process. This was a first crowdfund for us of this size (not for Space Penguin though, haha) and to see the excitement and engagement has been truly humbling. We really believe in this community and supporting this game, and having you all along for the ride during this next phase is truly special.

So to summarize:
Each backer is getting the Deluxe Edition (either pdf or physical based on your backer level). This is being designed to truly be the ultimate horror RPG toolkit. There is going to be something for everyone in this bad boy and honestly it will make waves when it releases to the wider public.

We unlocked three adventures for the book, a ribbon, a pdf bundle of all the official LH releases, Case Files 01 our new semiannual publication full of rules/adventures/supplements (a free pdf or physical copy based on your backing level), and a pdf copy of our new Haunted House Starter Adventure.

So what’s next:
LAYOUT UPDATE
One of the goals for the dev team was to have the manuscript ready by the launch time. We wanted to be prepared as possible and be able to really devote the post campaign time to the nuances of building the book. For the most part we hit that goal. Of course there are a few bits left to polish up (and some additions that get revealed during layout) but this has really allowed us to keep momentum on the text/book.

One of the key portions is that Josh has been building templates for each of the sections. This allows us to create a unified design for each section that is clean and usable both in print and digitally. The process has been that I (Goblin) have been putting the sections into a draft layout that Josh will then go back through and do a final tinkering/design pass on. It lets them devote their pass to more of the minutia while I work on getting the bulk of the pieces in place.

As of today I (Goblin Archives) have completed the draft layouts for the two largest sections in the book: The Catalog of the Strange (130 pages) and the Haunted Pacific Northwest (71 pages but still has one adventure, Cult Classic, left to go into layout).

Thumbnails for the Catalog of the Strange Draft Layout

Thumbnails for the Haunted Pacific Northwest Draft Layout


As for whats left to do:
- Layout on Investigators Guide, Facilitators Guide, Appendices
- Final design tweaks and flourishes.
- Josh gets to finish making all the Generic Location Maps!!!
- Final edit pass
- Annotating and hyperlinking
- Indexing
- Layout and finishing of Case Files 01
- Finish the last bits of Einfühlung, then go into layout and finishing up.

There's definitely work left to do, but we've been making good progress, and as summer starts there then is more time to dedicate to some of these pieces. Our timelines were super intentional and we aimed to be very realistic with our own pacing. And we have the benefit of being a pretty well oiled team which helps immensely.


While you wait:
The quick start rules for Liminal Horror are ready and available right now both on itch.io and on the Liminal Horror website.

You can also look and see the hundreds of releases from the community on the Liminal Horror Library.

We did it! We've unlocked "Einfühlung", a Haunted House Starter Adventure. Since we broke $120,000 every backer gets a pdf of a new adventure written by Josh Domanski and Goblin Archives. Also, we're in our last 24 hours, so if you haven't backed, now is the time!  

If you haven't backed, now is the perfect time to jump on as you get so much (whether you are a digital only backer for $20 or a physical backer).

This new starter adventure will take a party through a few modes of play, investigating a strange occurrence and then hitting a point where everything breaks bad/strange. Inspired by the greats in the starter adventure space (Troika’s Blancmange & Thistle, Mörk Borg’s Rotblack Sludge, and Mothership’s Another Bug Hunt) we wanted to present something that would be easy to onboard players and facilitators to modern horror. A good starter adventure introduces the themes of the game, while also injecting advice into the module. It's a self contained package that helps ease players/facilitators into this style of game.

The framing: A famous  artist has gone missing (who also happens to have some worrying connections to The Church of Celestial Science). As the Investigators search for their whereabouts they journey through the artist's home, which is filled with strange and sometimes upsetting pieces of art that seem almost otherworldly. Can the new party figure out what happened to the artist while also being able to make it out of the house alive?