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!
Looks dope, right?
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!
MEGA-AWESOME.
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!
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!
Hope you all had a great holiday and close to 2025. Our team is enjoying a little rest, but I just wanted to let you know that we've gotten the book off to the printers and everything is looking great. We'll do a larger accounting in January of where we're at with everything. But right now we're mostly just working on getting the optimized PDF ready and tidying up some final pieces of merch. For example, the pins! See below!
Otherwise, we're still on track and wishing all of you a Happy New Year and a wonderful 2026!
Quick update. Thank you so much for sending in your feedback on Wages. We've corrected a ton of errors and now we're getting the print files together for production. We're also almost finished with Megadamage 01, so I wanted to share some of the spreads from that as well! It's looking AMAZING. 200 pages. 11x12.4". The best writing and comics in sci-fi horror right now. You're gonna love it.
Okay, more soon!
--Sean
The Greatest Satanic Sci-Fi Novel You've Never Heard Of, by Sean McTiernan
Mars Pall, by Don Austin
Unions, by Talison Crosby
An Interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky by Luke Gearing
Sohnoma by G.D. Hand
You should have just now received an e-mail notifying you that we've updated your PDF copy of Wages of Sin to the pre-final draft! We’ve already received a round of feedback from our proofreaders and are implementing those fixes now, but before we lock it all in, we’re releasing it to you for any final notes. If you don't get an e-mail, just log into backerkit to grab your downloads. It should just replace the old file. You're looking for v0.2.
Help us kill the last bugs
If you spot any typos, formatting issues, or other errors, please let us know using this Google Form. Many of you have caught some fantastic details in past releases, and it’s helped us ship cleaner, sharper books. We can’t thank you enough. It really helps. You have until Friday, October 31 to get those notes in so we can implement them before sending the files to print.
While You’re Here — The Dream Returns
If you haven’t already, check out Prospero’s Dream, our newest campaign boxed set and centerpiece of this year’s Mothership Month. Every project in the event has funded, and together they expand the Dream into this just amazingly cool shared setting. You can check that out here. If you loved A Pound of Flesh, you'll love this.
Alright, that's all for now! Thank you as always for your support and patience. If you have any issues, be sure to e-mail Tyler at [email protected] and we'll get you squared away.
