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

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

Hey folks!

We are up to 86% of you have filled out your surveys! Great work, and keep it up. Also a reminder, if you find any typos or issues with the PDFs we distributed last week (CYST, Horror Core, and The Diner), let us know at [email protected] or here in the comments. 

Thank you everyone for the feedback on CYST and to those who found a handful of typos. Dave is working through these typos now, and working on The Arcade and Xanthophobia. We are taking in your feedback because we want to make sure you all are receiving a quality product. So, it's poll time! 

Originally, we planned to print books here in the US with a fulfillment time of mid-April. We received the proofs for CYST and showed them off at GAMA Expo in Louisville to retailers and distributors. The proofs look good and are well made, but they do not have some quality improvements like tailbands, bookmark, color end sheets, gloss/foil cover stamping, and smythe sewn binding. So, in short, we can make a nicer looking book...with an extended fulfillment timeline if we print overseas. Also, with a longer timeline, we will have time to add in your feedback to the book (specifically around Abigail not clearly being in Acts 2 and 3). 

Simply put, we can fix the typos and print the book based on the proofs we received if we fulfill at the end of April (1 month). Or, we can delay fulfillment by 4-6 months and print overseas with the added in component upgrades, plus add in more of your feedback. Let us know in the poll below, and as always provide your thoughts in the comments! 

Tomorrow, Dave and I are going to review these results and comments and make a game plan. That is all for now, looking forward to hearing from you!