Hello, old-school and pinball fans! (and fans of both!)

The really important part of this update is Joe Goodman getting back into the top scores on his favorite pinball machine, which we'll discuss below. But in more mundane matters, we are progressing well through the layout stage. Actually, that is the most important part, so we'll cover the layout progress first! Just kidding about the pinball scores... but we will cover that below, too!

In this previous update we showed you layouts of Old-School Adventures #1. It's 95% done; we are in final proofreading, adding a few pages at the end to get to the correct page multiples, and a few other minor tweaks.

In today's update, we will show you layout pages from various Pinball Crawl Classics adventures. Each adventure is in layout, and the artists are furiously working to finalize the remaining images.

Here, then, are a bunch of pinball layout pages!

Once all the layout is complete for Pinball Crawl Classics, we anticipate sending this job to the printer. We're very close now. Hopefully before the next update!

Probably worth mentioning that Castle Whiterock is live and closing in on $500k. We've cleared literally all the stretch goals, so we went back and added more. Backers also get a free book! The Book of Bonus Adventures is yours if you support it. More details here!

Now, on to important matters! In the previous update, I discussed how some guy named Ethan turned out to be a pinball wizard and wiped me off the Bride of Pinbot high scores. At that time I had #1 at a score of just under 13 million. Well, the good news is I've clawed my way back to #3 and achieved a high score of 17 million, my personal best. It's still a long way back to #1 (Ethan set a high bar) but I'm slowly getting there!

Hello everyone!

This update has some details on layout, and art, and other such topics. But more importantly, some dude named Ethan came in outta nowhere and wiped my high score off Bride of Pinbot! Grrr. We'll deal with that at the end. For now, here's the real substance of this update...

OSA #1 is through first-pass layout. We're currently proofreading, fixing text/image overlaps, and so on. Here are a few previews of select page spreads...

The PCC adventures are written and edited. Now they are all in various stages of art commission. In previous updates / livestreams we showed you a number of images and maps from Gorgar. Here are a few images that just came in for Swords of Fury...

...and here are a few recent additions to Cosmic Gunfight...

Now, on to the important part. Joe Goodman here. I hit a couple local pinball places with some frequency. Research, you know. All a tax writeoff, of course, at least as long as this project is current.

Anyway, I had the high score on Bride of Pinbot at one machine for quite some time. Just under 13 million. Of course, if you know the machine, I never made the Billionaire's Club (haven't gotten that shot) but 13 million ain't too shabby. Photograph evidence below... and yes, JEG is me...

So the other day I walk in, and some guy is playing the machine and he's absolutely killing it. After watching him for a while, I realize he's good. REALLY good.

We get talking. Turns out he used to manage the location, and he's good at virtually every machine there. He teaches me a specific move on Bride of Pinbot: backhand flip off the left flipper gets it up the left ramp almost every time, and even catches it easy on a miss. Amazing move.

My game immediately improves... but it doesn't matter. Cuz dude's name is Ethan and he literally wiped my #1 score off the top 10, and proceeded to fill the ranks with his own name.

A day or two later I got 10 million and didn't even make the top 10.

I think I met a real-life Pinball Wizard. Now the challenge is on to get my name back on the top 10! Practice, practice, practice!

If you're not already following the project, please do! Classic megadungeon, 30 levels, DCC or 5E, amazing adventure.