Super Mega Important

Hi Everybody!

Watch your mailbox and updates for the link to the backer survey. But before that, please go to https://www.griffonloregames.com/my-account/ and register with the email you use for Kickstarter! The new (stripped to the basics but retooled for account management and fulfillment) website is where we can apply digital products to your account and you can download them at will.

It’s also the software that we use to ship physical products and change your order.

Once you have registered (with your email that you use for Kickstarter!), please answer the survey when it shows up on Kickstarter or your mailbox. That is how we can match your registration on our website with your Kickstarter rewards.

To Summarize: 

1: Register on https://www.griffonloregames.com/my-account/ with your Kickstarter email

2: When Kickstarter prompts you, answer the survey (including your address)

3: On the backend, we’ll connect the rewards with your account on our website

4. When the PDFs are released you will immediately be able to download them

5. You can change your address anytime on our website up until we print the shipping label and stuff the books in the mail

A Small Digression

Kickstarter is pretty dang cool. A good chuck of our Kickstarter backers came from people browsing and searching. How Kickstarter works for campaigns after it’s over? Not so much cool. This is why there are so many custom and third-party Post-Campaign services. Our new website is geared towards distribution, and, unlike our prior site, if it gets bogged down we can easily scale it. Over time, we’ll snazzy it up, but it’s job right now is customer fulfillment and blog updates.

Project Update

Everybody is nailing it. The artwork is great, the maps are great, the adventure is great—and Christophe and I really wanted to ship by the end of the month, but that’s not going to happen. Mainly for two reasons:

1: Interior Design – Third Time is the Charm

Finding our interior designer was a much more difficult process than anticipated and we went through two separate design teams that were not meeting expectations before casting a wide net to find the third. Our new interior designer is now hard at work creating the templates for the book layout team. He’s super professional, a D&D and Pathfinder fan, and already has gone above and beyond to make up for the lost time.

2: More Content Than Planned For

In hindsight, we should have commissioned all of the maps and artwork and kicked off the campaign after they were all in draft mode. It’s super helpful seeing the maps and artwork while adventure writing. We plan to do this for the next module in Chronicles of the Celestial Chains Adventure Path, Beneath a Dreary Wave.

That’s a minor issue as the largest impact to our schedule is Curse of the Lost Memories is going to clock in somewhere between 130 and 150 pages (depending stat block style, font choice and the interior design). We keep reviewing the writing and wondering if we’re just going off and being verbose, putting in content that should be in the Kingdom of Lothmar Guide, being boring and blah, blah, blah. But no, we’re covering the necessary areas in a guided sandbox. While it’s mainly bad that we didn’t judge the page count properly, the content is highly useful.

Because we’ve significantly blown past 100 pages, we’re commissioning more interior artwork to break up any walls of text. As you can see by the examples included in this update, Ryan is nailing it. Our backers have made it clear they bought into the quality vision by driving over almost all of our stretch goals.

So on one hand, the project isn’t going to ship at the end of the month, on the other, it’s dramatically more content in the module that we campaigned on. We’re going to try super-hard to get the PDFs out by the end of July or somewhere close to it.

Larger Book

A larger book has higher printing cost and higher shipping cost. And that’s perfectly OK. We’re not going to bill any backers for this; please consider yourselves initial investors to what is shaping up to be one of the most epic hard fantasy module to hit the shelves.

Intern

We’ll be getting an INTERN soon. She’ll be a huge help and as soon as she arrives, we’ll get her an alias, but for now everyone can think of her as THE INTERN.

We’ll Say it Again

Thanks so much! We’re living a dream and we’re excited to get you this module. We really appreciate everyone’s support and can’t wait to get you guys the finished product.