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Happy Tuesday, my friends! We’ve had a busy month, so I thought I’d get you updated on what’s going down at TKG.

First, it’s been great to have you all share in our excitement for Megadamage! We love reading everyone’s comments about their favorite short stories and the eagerness to soon flip through the physical copies. If you didn’t have the chance to back Megadamage, we plan to have it available to purchase from the TKG store at a later date. Stay tuned!

Our printer also sent us new samples of the Wages of Sin Deluxe Version. Check it out!

The cloth-covered hardback gives a lo-fi aesthetic that will look rad on the shelf in between campaigns. In the case of Wages of Sin, maybe all that glitters is gold after all.

It looks like the Wages of Sin books are still right on schedule for April. Daniel says they are ready to be picked up from the manufacturer and should freight to the warehouse next month! If you have any questions or problems, please reach out to my old pal Tyler at [email protected]. Thanks for reading! 

Hello, folks!

My name is Hayley and I am the new Sales & Marketing Manager at TKG! I am stoked to be here. Even though I've only been in my role for a few days, I have been a big fan of TKG for more than a decade. I think our games rock (and no, Sean is not paying me to say that). As someone whose household backed Wages of Sin and has also been eagerly awaiting the Megadamage release, I am excited to give you all an update!

First of all, I am happy to say that the Megadamage PDF is now available for download! I got a sneak peek of the final file early last week and pored over all 200 pages of the book. Megadamage brings you a captivating interview with Philip Eisner, writer of Event Horizon, horrifying short stories and comics, an article overviewing Teamsters and Trade Unionism, tips for weaving cultural dynamics into RPG storytelling by TKG's very own Luke Gearing, and much more. Check it out today!

Right now, it looks like we are on track to meet our goal of having the Wages of Sin books ready to freight to the warehouse in April! Dai has also been working to fix hyperlinks in the PDF. I plan to be popping in here at least every month to give an update and share what I am excited to see happening at TKG. 

If you have any questions or problems, please reach out to my old pal Tyler at [email protected]. Thanks for reading and I'll be in touch soon! 

Hey gang,

Sorry this update is running a little late, January really got away from me. Here's where we're at!

We lost a bit of time during the holidays unfortunately. So we're going to miss our Q1 deadline. However, we've made good progress and we have just approved the "wet proofs" or "press proofs." These proofs are on the final ink and paper that are being used and they look gorgeous. With these proofs we're able to check for readability and color issues primarily, to make sure the text and illustrations pop and read as clearly on the page as they do on the screen.

We've approved the proofs and now printing will finalize. Once that's done we'll be sent an "F&G proof" or "folded & gathered proof," of the final book by around March 18. Hardcover books are made of "signatures" basically a group of pages that are bound together like a magazine. You then bind all the signatures together and that's your book. The F&G proof is a copy of the book without covers or binding, rather its simpled folded and gathered. We get each of the signatures collated together as they appear, but they have no binding (they're just folded in half) and they haven't been trimmed either. Once those are approved all the pages will be bound and we'll get an advance copy around April 6. We'll approve those and the books should be ready to freight to the warehouses by April 13.

It's not what we had hoped, and I'm sure it wasn't what you all were looking forward to either. But these books look incredible. Additionally, we have the new remediated PDF export of Wages of Sin for you, with better searching and hyperlinking, done by the incredible Dai Shugars.

Also, I was hoping to have this out tonight, but it looks like it'll be tomorrow next week (miscommunication between me and Dai, it should be ready next week) as the PDF remediation wraps up on MEGADAMAGE 01. This one has been a long time in the making. It's got short fiction, articles, interviews, comics, and even some gaming content. We know that your shelves often get filled with adventures and games you don't get a chance to play. We wanted to make something that would feed your brain as a Warden without really demanding anything in return. We hope you like it, we've got a lot more in store for MEGADAMAGE 02. And finally, the Supply Pod stickers, card packs, pins and patches are all in production and wrapping shortly.

Okay, that's it for now. I'm incredibly sorry about the late update, it seemed like we were constantly just around the corner  and then the month got away from me.

As always, if you have any issues, please contact Tyler at [email protected] and we'll be back to talk with all of you soon!