Quick update for everyone here - the factory has notified us that they are prepping the Monty Python Holy Grail Games for shipping from the plant at this time. They are palletizing the goods and prepping for them to be shipped in a container via boat to the port here in the United States. Once they arrive at port they will ship to our warehouse and we will immediately begin shipping to backers! As soon as we have the tracking information for the shipment we'll get another update out to keep you notified of the progress.
We're in the home stretch now! Everyone will be flinging farm animals before you know it.
After reading many, many comments - thank you! - I’ve made my decision about the “Kovalic’s Munchkin Miscellany” book. We will be letting John send it to his Patreon supporters.
This will please a great many of you, and annoy a few. I am sorry about the annoyance. In the end I was more persuaded by both the quantity and the spirit of those who said “Go ahead and do it.”
If you don't like this decision, please email us at [email protected] and we can work on refunding your pledge. Please use the e-mail that you supported from. This option will be open for 30 days after the posting of this update.
And to the very many of you who said “Fine with us! Do the thing!” - you have my thanks and John’s, and we’ll do our best to keep the Munchkin fires burning.
😵💫 What is going on? This feels like a dream! $50k in 3 DAYS!?! Wow thank you all so so much for your support, this is so much more than I ever expected! While I did have plans just incase, y'all are going way faster than I was anticipating, but I can keep up... probably! Let's talk about all that this means, our next goals, the results of our last giveaway, and how you can enter another one!
- Join Today's Livestream @2pm PST and Help Crochet Some Dinos!
Join today's stream to find out live the winners of our livestream giveaway, they'll each be winning a hand crocheted brontosaurus. You can also help me crochet the dinos on stream to be given away to today's winner because we're doing 2 more giveaways too! Our stream will begin at 2pm PST right here and hopefully our internet wont suddenly die mid stream this time 😅.
- Another Stretch Goal Reached!
We just hit $50k!? Okay I'll be honest I was NOT expecting to hit this so soon, if ever at all!! Luckily I had a plan and our lovely artist (thank you Dom!!) is helping out at warp speed to create our new assets on the spot! Here's what you unlocked for blasting through the last goal:
UNLOCKED: 2 New Event Tiles for Lava Run!
These new event tiles will be optional additions to your game, allow you to add additional complexity to your dash to survival! Clear the way and stop the lava in it's tracks with the new Tsunami and Rainstorm tiles! *These rules are still being tested and are not final!
Tsunami - Clears the bottom 4 rows of all lava tiles (pit's remain in place) and push back any dinos up to the 4th row.
Rainstorm - Remove 3 lava tiles of your choice on the board.
- New Tier Level
Want to support but can't afford the game? Thank you so much! I've added this new tier to allow you to help unlock further tiers and access backer exclusive content at a lower price point. Plus, you'll receive a free dino crochet pattern of your choice on launch!
- Next Goal - Co-Op Mode At 600 Backers! - UPDATE - UNLOCKED!!
Okay, I've got a really cool one to share that I've been saving, but you're going so fast that I decided to add in a new tier list to the campaign! This alternate tier list will unlock giveaways and weird planned twists that I was keeping secret!
600 Backers = New Co-Op Mode!! - UNLOCKED!
- Enter the Giveaway to win a hand crocheted dino from the livestream!
As promised, we're doing another double giveaway! To win one of the 2 hand crocheted brontosaurus made in today's livestream, comment below with what you would name your brontosaurus if you won!
We'll choose a winner at the start of our next livestream! 1 winner will be randomly chosen from the backers at the time, and 1 randomly from the comments below!
We're only one week in and have already erupted straight through 4 stretch goals! Let's look at what we've unlocked, this week's livestreams and giveaways, and what's in store for future rewards!
And before I forget, enter this week's giveaway during Friday's livestream by commenting your favorite dinosaur movie on this post!
👏 Co-Op + Single Player Mode Unlocked! 🔓✨
We hit 600 backers! That means we've unlocked my most anticipated addition to Lava Run, Co-Op Mode!! This new game mode is an extension of the single player version, where you work together to escape the volcano to the raft!
And don't forget about the 3 other stretch goals we've unlocked, including new Dino Tiles giving each character a special move, a new playable dinosaur, the Brontosaurus, and 2 new event tiles the Tsunami and Rainstorm!
🔴 Weekly Livestreams 🔴
Join the livestream on Wednesday where we'll be going through an overview of the prototype rules live, and play a game or two of the single player mode! The stream starts at 1pm PST on Wednesday 9/18right here.
We'll also be live AGAIN on Friday, starting at night, where we'll be crocheting some dinos while we watch a movie! Join the Movie Night Slumber Party Crochet Along starting Friday (9/20) @6pm PST on the Club Crochet channel right here.
We've added a few more new stretch goals to work towards since y'all have absolutely BLASTED through the ones I had prepped! Thank you so much again!! Here are the next goals to reach:
1000 Instagram Followers - Unlock a new optional event tile to play with to add to the expanded rule set!
$75k Funds - Unlock a new playable dinosaur piece! We'll be voting on which design to add into the game!
🧶 New Dinosaur Crochet Pattern for Backers (see below!) 🧶
We just released a brand new collaboration pattern on my site, Club Crochet! As a special extra thank you for all the support throughout this week, me and the designer, DrewbiesZoo, are releasing the new Parasaurolophus crochet pattern free to any backers of this project (as well as members of Club Crochet of course).
Heads-up, this design is not small enough to be a playable piece in Lava Run, but it does crochet an adorable new dino, the Parasaurolophus! We'll have the option to unlock this dino as a playable piece if we reach our next stretch goal by the way!!
You can find the downloadable PDF and video tutorial below if you are already a backer of the project ⬇️
We’re back with another Trivia Tuesday for The Magnus Protocol Mysteries! This week's question has just dropped, and we can’t wait to see how you fare. Remember, every answer counts in the race to the top of our leaderboard, where the competition is getting fiercer each week. 🔍
Have you checked out our Leaderboard recently? Some of you are pulling ahead with your detective skills, but there’s still plenty of time for others to climb up! Whether you're sitting comfortably at the top or making a comeback from behind, every Trivia Tuesday is an opportunity to boost your rank. Make sure you keep those answers coming!
🗣️ Let’s Talk About Alice…
Now, we have a fun twist for you this week! If you’ve been following The Magnus Protocol, you know that Alice is one of the more enigmatic characters in our story. We’d love to hear your theories, thoughts, and even wild guesses about Alice. What role do you think she plays in the unfolding mystery? 🤔
We have an announcement for all backers that purchased an Atlas box.
All Atlas boxes made from this print run have a dice tray included in the box. This was not intentional and resulted due to a miscommunication surrounding the assembly process of the Atlas box with our manufacturers.
Our mistake is now your gain! Everyone who ordered the Atlas box (a lot of you) will be receiving a free dice tray! 🎉
If you purchased both a dice tray and an Atlas box, you will be receiving two dice trays: one from the add-on and the free one in the Atlas box. If you're one of the backers who received two dice trays, hopefully you can find a use for the second one for larger Moonrollers games or as part of another game (maybe Moonrakers?). However, if you feel deeply upset about receiving a second free dice tray, please send us a message at [email protected] and we will do our best to reach a suitable solution for you.
Now onto our regularly scheduled fulfillment updates:
Please read your region below for the latest fulfillment news 📰
Our US warehouse is hard at work packing all of your games to be shipped! We're still a bit behind schedule due to the manufacturing issues we discovered last week. We were hopeful they could finish fulfillment by the end of September, but it may bleed into October if they experience any other issues.
We also submitted our first wave of replacement orders this week, and will likely submit another wave at the end of September so the warehouse can fully focus on fulfilling the rest of the orders from the campaign. If you have any issues with your order, please contact us with the support form mentioned above!
Canada
The US warehouse had to unpack and repack some Canadian orders due to some issues with the Appendix A box for the Mythic Mischief Volume 2 campaign so their timeline for shipment to Canada has been pushed back by a bit. However, we heard they are super close to completion on all Canadian orders being packed!
We're also still waiting on our Canadian fulfillment partner, Pick and Pack Logistics, to confirm some details for us before we can ship to Canada. They will be the partner receiving the goods from our US warehouse to sort and ship off to final destinations. You will receive the tracking information once Pick and Pack has your packages! The timeline for this process is still unclear at the moment, but we hope to have a better estimate to share with you by our next update.
Mexico, Central/South America
International orders haven't shipped yet, but you will receive a shipping email once they have!
Europe 🌍
Even better news than last week: Fulfillment in the UK/EU started this week!
Spiral Galaxy got our inventory earlier than expected and got everything sorted and packed in record time. Some people should start receiving tracking emails soon but if you haven't seen tracking yet, don't panic. Fulfillment will likely last a few weeks.
If you have any shipment or damage issues about your package, please reach out to the Spiral Galaxy fulfillment support team at [email protected]
Aetherworks has received the inventory from the UK! We also just cleared the documents needed to ship the App A replacement pieces, so that is currently making its way to Aetherworks from the US. Our Aetherworks account manager was out of office this week so we weren't able to confirm a start date yet, but we will let you know as soon as we know! 🙂
Asia and Rest of World 🌏
Similar to last week's update:
VFI updated us that due to a vessel delay, the UK container will arrive at their port with an ETA of Sept 15. You can continue following the boat's position here. We are also shipping items from the US to VFI to supplement the missing Appendix A pieces, so the timeline for fulfillment is currently dependent on when both shipments will make it to VFI. We will update you once we hear back from VFI about when they have received the inventory!
Out of Office 🏖️
The IV team will be out of office this upcoming week to recharge with some R&R (Revenge & Rejuvenation?). Our customer service email ([email protected]) will still be open but you may experience a delay in response time. We will not have an update next Friday, but we will post one early in the week we are back (Sept 23/24)!
Thanks for all of your understanding and support. We hope you have a lovely weekend! 💖
All digital files were delivered today. If the PDF bundle of our TTRPG was included with your order, you should have received an email from DriveThruRPG with your codes. These codes should make the four books in the bundle all show up as $0. If they do not, contact DriveThruRPG, as this is a technical glitch on their end, and they can fix it for you. If you do not already have an account at DriveThruRPG, you may not have received the email. In this case, create an account on DriveThruRPG and then comment below or message me, and I can re-send the email. Also, please let me know if you have an account on DriveThruRPG and did not receive the email. I can send it again.
For those whose order included the 5e PDF bundle of our TTRPG, you can find a .zip with all files in the Digital Downloads section of your Backerkit account. We do not publish our 5e conversions on DriveThruRPG, so you will not be getting a link from them.
As the card game will be going into manufacturing on Monday, we will be charging for pre-orders on Monday. This only affects nine people, so the vast majority of you will not receive this notification, but I just wanted to make those who will be receiving it aware in advance.
AHHHH!!! Dude WHAT?! 200% funded in nearly 24 hours?! How the what?!?! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!
We've already unlocked a NEW DINO!! (Very) Warm welcome to our newest dino added to the game, the Brontosaurus!
In the expanded rules for Lava Run, their new ability allows them to peak at another player's tiles once per game! I need a name for this though, vote now using the poll below!
Or download the PDF if you're a backer using the link below!
Thank you all again so much! I'm working on more of the tiers now just incase we hit another stretch goal! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments! -Louie
Good day! We're feeling optimistic over here at Cephalofair and we get to check off lots of boxes for elements that are ready for the printer on Gloomhaven! We'll talk more about the progress below, but it feels good to finally start wrapping things up.
Some people ask why it took so long when it wasn't even a new product, but, from a production standpoint, it basically was. We built this game fresh from the ground up, and hopefully that shows in the final quality.
So, without further ado, let's get to it!
Gloomhaven
From Arch:
With drafts of nearly all components in hand, game design and graphic design teams have had their hands full in the past month with final component proofing and revisions. We’re thankful to our playtesters who have been particularly thorough in their ongoing reviews and feedback!
The flowcharts and punchboards are some of the more complicated components to produce. While the game design team reviews these, the graphic design team has been working on color correction and optimization for print. We’re looking forward to getting those boards out to the manufacturer within the next week so they can begin to build the custom tools that are needed to cut them.
The scenario books and rule book are also well underway. The scenario books are currently being reviewed, while the rule book is just waiting on final component images to get dropped in before a final design and playtester pass.
We’re expecting to have all final game component files off to production by early October.
That’s all for now! Back to work for me!
Miniatures
Twilight Archon
Manifestation of Corruption
Valrath Commander
Our miniature manufacturer is preparing samples of our flight stands and base rings for physical product line testing. Our team has requested samples of these so we can make sure we're happy with the usability, design, and fit before things move further and faster with wider sculpt production.
We received and approved a few more digital modifications this week, but are still largely waiting for the factory designers to shift focus back to our project this month. We've been told they have several new artists and production team members being prepared to move back onto our production line and we're excited for this, continuing to communicate that we all hope to start seeing that progress soon.
RPG
As you saw last time, the layout of the roughly 300 pages continues. It looks like at this point the last thing we'll be waiting on to send this to the printers are the art pieces, which are about 2 months out from completion.
In the meantime, we are continuing to do high-level playtesting to make any tweaks to cards and stats that are needed. Then, when the full layout comes in, we'll do a thorough review pass on the book with the sketches and rough color art. Then it should all come together as the final art comes in so that we can drop those in and then begin work with the factory. And once that process has started, we'll be able to put together a much more thorough timeline.
For now, here is the latest designer diary from Danielle:
Greetings Mercenaries!
It’s time for our August update! Layout is moving along nicely, and I’ve contracted artists for about 70% of the book. I’m currently working with our layout artist to put placeholders within the rest of the book so I can get those pieces of art commissioned. The process of getting art takes time. I’ve definitely let all our artists know that we would like these illustrations sooner rather than later, but I’m determined to take the time to ensure that we are getting the best illustrations. So if that means corrections or edits that make it take a little longer, those are a necessary step. The Gloomhaven RPG is the first time we really get to show off so many parts of the world that just aren’t in the board game, or aren’t illustrated there. So we want to make sure that everyone’s first look is as creepy and beautiful as it is in our imaginations.
Once I start getting sketches in, I’ll share them, but that won’t be until next month’s update. Instead, have a couple of layout images from the ancestry chapter so you can get an idea of what the Skills look like in RPG layout as opposed to what they’ll look like on the cards. I’ll note that the 3-column design here is specifically so that each ancestry fits exactly on two page spreads, which makes my ADHD brain that craves organization extremely happy. The class Talents and Skills might not get the same column treatment, but the Skills will look the same for consistency.
We are also beginning playtesting of the higher levels of character play. We feel we have a good handle on how the game plays at level 1, but we want to make sure nothing falls apart as characters level, or if a group has a mixed level party. So far, the playtesters are feeling really good about the game, and we’ve had some great feedback coming in from them already.
Finally, I’m going to be attending Spiel in Essen, Germany at the start of October. If you’re in the area, come by the booth and I’ll be running folks through demos much like we did at UK Games Expo. Come by and say hi, and maybe get a game in. I’ll also run folks through character creation using the materials we had available at Gencon.
Until next time!
Danielle
Note that physical cards will have the same graphic design as the board game's cards.
And that's about it. Sorry for the lateness on this one. You can find the latest scenario for the Frosthaven community-driven campaign here. And thanks to everyone who came out to the booth at PAX West and Grandcon! Catch you next time!
We expect to have the dice bags in hand by 9/20. Barring anything unusual, we can begin shipping by 9/23!
If you need to change your address, go ahead and adjust it now. If you're not sure how to do this or need help, contact Michael at [email protected], and he'll help you.
Otherwise, look for our next update, which is announcing that shipping has officially started. Again, we expect this to be around 9/23
We're extremely pumped to get these dice, cases, and bags in your hands!!
