Can You See Them? A Scenario Book for the Horror RPG.

Hey everyone!

Sorry you haven't heard from us in a while. Usually, no news is good news. I am going to update you on where everything is at, namely an updated timeline we have for manufacturing CYST hardcover and Xanthophobia.

Can You See Them? (hardcover) and Xanthophobia (both editions)
We've adjusted the story of CYST based on your feedback. We are wrapping up those changes now and then will go through another proofing process before we update the PDF in Backerkit. Dave is making good progress on Xanthophobia. We tried to schedule both of these products at the same, where they'd arrive here in the US for fulfillment at the end of September. Unfortunately, we could not make that schedule work. However, we are able to get both books printed at the same time with a delivery in Novemeber. We decided it was best to go with this schedule and get both CYST hardcover and Xanthophobia shipped together. This means that everything will still be fulfilled and at your doorstep before the holiday season! As with everything, PDFs will be available as soon as they are ready.

Can You See Them?, The Diner, Arcade, and Horror Softcovers
We already have The Diner and Horror Core Rulebook ordered and in our fulfillment center. Arcade will be done and proofed soon. As mentioned, CYST files are close to done and will be proofed soon. All of these softcovers will be printed at local destinations via with KDP or Mixam. We expect to have everything ready to go all at once (including the VHS sets which I will detail below), that way all you folks will be waiting on is CYST hardcover and the Xanthophobia versions.

Some exciting news is that we recently opened a new location, and now have plenty of space at our old spot to hold all of the books and accessories for fulfillment. This is where most of the DMDave fulfillment magic will happen. You can see pictures the stacks of VHS cases and some of the other accessories that we are staging. This room will soon be full of everything for this project and our team will have plenty to package up for shipping!



VHS Sets
Everything going into the VHS sets will be made here in the US. We're just waiting on components for them at this point, as well as the finalized Arcade. We already have a majority of the cases staged, and expect these to be ready to go with the other softcovers and accessories.

Additional Add-ons
Other smaller add-ons like GM Screens, pins, and so forth will go out on a case-by-case basis. For example, if you're waiting just for the hardcover and all you got was one pin, we'll wait for it to print. But if you went all-in and you're just waiting on Xanth, we'll send the pin with everything else. If you have any questions about this, let us know.

The shirts are coming from Printful, so those will probably ship directly from them.

Bonus PDF and PDF updates
Dave is still working on the bonus PDF that will be made available to everyone. We will post another update once we've updated the PDF file for CYST, or upload any new digital downloads. If you still need assistance with accessing the PDFs, let us know here! 

We cannot thank everyone enough for making this such a great project, especially with your engagement and feedback. Let us know if you have prepped any games from the PDFs, I've been told that folks have already ran Horror at some local conventions! We love hearing about those games. Speaking of conventions, we will be at BGG.Spring in Dallas, TX this month, and then Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH. If you are there, feel free to stop by and say hello!

Hey all! 

Happy Monday! Quick update on the production status of CYST hardcover and Xanthophobia. I talked to our manufacturer and they were able to confirm that we will have the hardcover of CYST in our warehouse by the end of September, and we can start fulfillment of those books shortly after that. As a reminder, everything else (less Xanthophobia) is going to be fulfilled before this timeline. 

We are going to try and get Xanthophobia on that same schedule, but the deadline for getting the files to the printer is a bit quick, so Xanthophobia might be arriving in October. We are still working with the manufactuer on this schedule, but Xanthophobia either either be shipped with CYST hardcover, or shortly after. 

Dave is hammering away at the changes to CYST and The Arcade! We will send out an update once the updated CYST PDF and The Arcade PDF are available. 

That's all for right now, let us know if you need anything here or at [email protected]!

-Bob and Team DMDave

Hey all,

Just letting you all know that I've added the new "heroic" ending to Can You See Them? that resolves it a bit more. It's another Chapter about 8 pages long and is pulled from '80s and '90s horror movie tropes. 

I commissioned another piece of art to go with it, and it's in proofing, but hopefully, we'll have the new PDF ready for you by next week. As of this writing, our printer's just waiting on us to get the manuscript over.

I'll drop more information as things shake out.

Thanks again!

 - Dave

Hey everyone!

Just got back from getting a ROOT CANAL (yes, it's the worst), but I wanted to pop in and give you an update on the status of the different projects.

Can You See Them? Hardcover and Softcover
CYST is getting a secondary treatment to adjust some of the expectations. The original set will henceforth be known as "the Director's Cut," and the new version will have a little more narrative drive for you. Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback.

Because the quality of the Mixam books was so-so, and you almost unanimously agreed to wait a little longer to make them a bit nicer, we'll be printing the books overseas to ensure that it has lots of nice little bits with them. Bob's coordinating that now.

Assuming no hiccups, those should go into production soon and be in their final destinations, probably by the end of the summer.

The Diner, Arcade, and Horror Softcovers
The Arcade is nearly complete. Once it's done, I'll have all these cleaned up and ready to go for you as a package. That way, even though you're waiting for CYST to finish up, you'll have these. All of these are printed at local destinations via Mixam or KDP.

You can expect these to start shipping relatively soon. We just got a new location we're using, so we might wait until we have that, but it has a full shipping facility.

VHS Sets
Everything going into the VHS sets will be made here in the US. We're just waiting on components for them at this point, as well as the finalized Arcade.

You can expect these to start shipping relatively soon. We just got a new location we're using, so we might wait until we have that, but it has a full shipping facility.

Additional Add-ons
Xanthophobia will come last as it was the last thing added, and I plan to have this printed overseas, too, so it's got all the fun bells and whistles. But I can't imagine it coming later than August/September. PDF, of course, will come out far before that—the censored version, that is.

Other smaller add-ons like GM Screens, pins, and so forth will go out on a case-by-case basis. For example, if you're waiting just for the hardcover and all you got was one pin, we'll wait for it to print. But if you went all-in and you're just waiting on Xanth, we'll send the pin with everything else. If you have any questions about this, let us know.

The shirts are coming from Printful, so those will probably ship directly from them.

Bonus PDF
Because the shipping schedule got backed up a little, I'm going to toss in a bonus PDF for everyone as a way to say 1) thank you for your continued support and 2) thank you for being patient. We didn't expect the campaign to do as well as it did, so it's changed our schedule a bit. So this extra PDF will be a way of saying thanks. I'll host a poll for it soon.

Let us know if you have any additional questions, concerns, etc. And thanks again, everyone!

Hey folks!

Thanks so much for the feedback on our CYST hardcover fulfillment poll! We are gathering a quote from our manufacturing and making sure we can fit into that 4-6 month schedule. Once we have an official decision, you'll see an update from us!

Quick reminder that we are locking down and charging cards again tomorrow at 11 AM EST. We are at 86% of surveys completed, only about 139 more to go! 

Thanks everyone, that's all for now!

-Bob and Team DMDave