Hello! We have something exciting for you while we're waiting for the Shadow Society PDF to be wrapped up: The Between Companion App!
The Between Companion App is a web-based app that can be used to manage and track your campaign of The Between. Players can use it to create and manage their Hunters, and Keepers can use it to organize Threats, Masterminds, Unscenes, and Hargrave House. Information is updated in real-time for every player, making it a powerful tool for online play, and can even take the place of a character sheet in face-to-face play when used on a mobile device.
The Companion App releases officially within the next week or so, but we'd love to get some eyes on it to test it out, put it through its paces. Check it out here.
If you have any feedback, please head over to The Gauntlet Discord server, and then to the app-testing channel.
Public Access RPG on Quinns Quest
We're very excited to let you know that our game Public Access recently received a glowing review on Quinns Quest!
To coincide with the massive surge of attention the game is getting, we are bringing it to Kickstarter March 17th in order to fund a long-awaited physical edition! Follow along with the campaign here.
Hello! We wanted to let you know that The Between is now available to preorder! If you weren't able to back during the campaign, you can head over to our preorder store and grab the books there!
In addition to the books, we have some terrific new add-ons: the "It's Worse Than That" enamel pin and the London at Night cards!
"It's Worse Than That" Enamel Pin
The enamel pin is only $8 and includes FREE SHIPPING. The Keeper saying "It's Worse Than That..." when the players roll the Night Move is a time-honored tradition, and now you can wear your love of wretched outcomes with pride! Comes on a Theodora Blue backing!
London at Night box open
London at Night box closed
Unscene cards
Room cards
London at Night is something really special. We've taken every Unscene and Hargrave House Room and put them on beautiful, postcard-sized cards so you have an elegant, interactive feature at the table that would make the Undeniable proud (of something other than themselves). The Unscene cards feature a map of London with a bullseye showing where the Unscene is taking place, and the HH Rooms cards have a unique illustration for that room. It features Unscenes and Rooms from both the core game and Shadow Society, around 100 cards total. They come in a beautiful, Theodora Blue box with magnetic closure.
We and over 3500 backers hope you'll take this dark, fog-choked journey with us!
Quick update: The smoke test is live. That means a small number of you (less than 200) have received your surveys. We'll be monitoring this throughout the day to ensure there are no major issues. Once we're satisfied everything looks good, we'll send the surveys more widely and open the preorder store (most likely later today or early tomorrow). Thanks!
Hey everyone, Jason here! Just a quick update to let you know I have submitted surveys/preorders to BackerKit for final approval. They say they need 2 business days to get back to me, but they're usually pretty responsive, and so if they get back to me with approval tomorrow, I'll go ahead and launch them. They may want to wait until Monday since we have to do the smoke test first, and they like to be available to respond quickly to any problems we encounter during the smoke test. In any case, I'll send a quick follow-up update as soon as the smoke test is active (the smoke test is 5% of the surveys—enough to see if there are any weird issues). After the smoke test is passed (usually 24 hours after sending it), I'll send surveys to everyone and then open the preorder store, at which point I'll do a third, more comprehensive update with revised timelines.
I know I've been a little quiet lately, and I apologize for that. But everything is back on track (it was never off track, I'm just a perfectionist, and a little gun shy because of this incredibly complex and perilous business environment we're all in right now). We're still working on the last two books, and so I've taken the extra time to really get the logistics part of this right. I've managed to get preorders and shipping down to very reasonable levels—I think folks will be happy with where we've landed on things, price-wise. I wish all I had to do was write the games, but unfortunately, we're a tiny operation, and so I have to do the business management, too.
Ok, like I said, I'll let you know as soon as the smoke test goes out!
Hello! The PDF of The Between core book is now available in the backer folder (linked in the backer-only portion of this post)! Now that the PDF is ready, we're ready to launch the preorders and pledge manager. I decided to hold off so that folks preordering would be able to get one of the book PDFs right away. Preorders and pledge manager should launch next week; I'll post another update when that happens so you can go pay your shipping and/or preorder. We have a couple of really neat add-ons for this campaign, which I'll also talk about more in that post.
If you are planning to preorder and want to get hold of the core book PDF before preorders go live, just DM me on Discord and I'll send it to you.
One thing you'll notice on the book PDF is that it's considerably larger than what we originally promised. That's because we decided to scale the book up to 11x7, as opposed to the original 8x5 we had planned (it's the same size as the Trophy books, which means about halfway between digest size and trad game books like D&D). Even at that bigger size, the book is still 260+ pages! It's a big boy! Shadow Society and Suns will also be in that format. I've included a picture showing the book as we originally planned it atop the Trophy books to show you the size difference.
Shadow Society is up next! Should be ready to go by the end of October!
