By the end of next week River of Lies will join the Purple Planet Horde at the fulfillment center in Portland, OR. Orders will be coming to you soon. I know there's been some issues with shipping charges, especially for those of you outside the US. I'm really sorry that we haven't landed that plane as well as we could have. You'll have to forgive us as we, once again, navigate the uncharted waters of a multi-campaign cross collaboration. We knew it was going to be a complex endeavor to pull off. I'm confident Goodman Games will do everything in their powers to get it right.
Want to see what you'll be getting from Horse Shark Games? Of course you do!
Photo Dump!!!
Cover by Stefan Poag (everyone is getting a HSG sticker!)
Frontispiece by Colin Richard (What the heeell is that thing?)
The Twilight Spires, bonus drop-in encounter by Donn Stroud (Illustration by Jayna Pavlin)
A Twilight Spire by Juan Ochoa and The Last Mushroom of Ishgar'Ols drop-in encounter (Illustration by Brad McDevitt)
Bestiary (Jayna and Brad again on illos) and the Prophesy of the Weirdling Sun
I'll not spoiler the rest of the book for you, but there's plenty more illustrations inside. Thank you so much for supporting my contribution to the Purple Planet Horde! I am lucky to have you on board! I've signed a distribution contract with Goodman Games and these books will also appear in your LFGS soon (no bonus one-sheets though).
I'll be sending out digital copies (via DriveThruRPG) this coming week and releasing the book and drop-in encounters to the general public there as well. If you really want those drop-in encounters in physical format, get in touch. There's some left-overs and I'll be peddling them at cons and all that.
1) The master pledge manager is live. Backers can see what they've backed and select items to add on, but you can’t see shipping charges. (we are currently at this stage)
2) In a couple weeks we will be locking down your order and calculating and uploading the shipping charges
3) Backers will then see their shipping charges.
4) Cards are charged. 5) Every campaign ships their books to the fulfillment company. 5) The fulfillment begins.
Netcrawl on Backerkit
Don't forget Netcrawl launches on September 3rd! Follow the project now
Feeling it
I woke up this morning and I got out of bed. Had a big ol' cup of coffee to clear my head. Email pinging with finished maps! Everything's almost done and that is what is up with that! Ooo wee!
Yes. That's right. All the images for River of Lies are in. Big thanks to the artists for getting all those images done: Stefan Poag, Del Teigeler, Steven Gomez, Doug Kovacs, Brad McDevitt, Juan Ochoa, Jayna Pavlin, Colin Richards, Matt Sutton, Jon Wilson
Donn Stroud is hard at work on the bonus drop-in encounter and then I'll need a few more spots to finish those.
Everything starts going to the printers very very soon.
What's up with Horse Shark?
Hey, it is May and I have dropped nary a word about River of Lies. What's up with that?
Fear not! I have been actively working on River of Lies between all the other plates I have spinning. Behold!:
Back in early April I finished the rough draft and gave it to Jeff Scifert for editing. Jeff is finished.
I got a little bonus editing from Stefan Surratt as he has volunteered to give it a Judge's play test with a group of his own. Thank you, Stefan!
I've had Del Teigeler in mind for cartography since December and I finally managed to finish my rough maps sometime in the 1st week of April. He's got a commission ahead of this one, but River of Lies is up next. I figure I'll have sometime before summer begins.
About mid April I started layout for the interior. Spots for art were identified.
Talks continue with a fulfillment partner that can handle all the projects together at the same time. Joseph Goodman is leading that charge.
I started reaching out to my regular artists to see if they want to grab some spots. Many of the those commissions are underway. I thrilled to have a lot of regulars returning. More as those pieces hit my inbox.
I've finalized page count and paid for printing.
So things are going pretty well. I suspect the biggest rock is getting our fulfillment partner settled and see what the shipping/handling pricing is going to look like.
Netcrawl
Netcrawl RPG: Adventuring in the WorldNet
You may remember that Netcrawl is another project I am working on. I'm happy to announce that it will also be on Backerkit and starts September 3rd. Go and follow the project now.
Thanks for supporting the projects. Talk to you soon!
Thank the gods.
First things first. Thank you backers. I couldn't ask for a better group to have along with me for the journey. As we indicated at the beginning, all the Purple Planet Horde and Goodman Games will be fulfilling together with a third party packing and shipping boxes from the US, Canada, UK/Europe & Australia. The details are yet to be determined. For now sit back and relax. You've earned it.
This is it. Only a day and a half to back the River of Lies and all the other Purple Planet goodness. Man is my wallet blown-out.
Returning backers will get a free sticker. Yes you. My good friends that backed The House of the Red Doors, Enchiridion of the Computarchs, or Cats of Rahtlü, support the crowdfunding campaign before it ends and a free sticker will be included with your pledge.
This weekend I had a blast at CincyCon playing River of Lies. The look on the faces of the players as they discovered the terrible, wrenching truth of House Thero'Agarst's plans to change the Purple Planet and its weirdling sun forever will be with me until my end of days. Minds. Were. Blown. Check out these good sports:
River of Lies play test at Cincy Con 2024
Ok, folks let's bravely go forth and conquer the Purple Planet before its too late!
I did not receive any of the DriveThruRPG links for the content related to my pledge for this, and it is not wrapped up in the main Purple Planet pledge content like some of the other projects.
I don't see anywhere else to reach out and contact you for the content, so I am leaving this here.
Thanks!
By the end of next week River of Lies will join the Purple Planet Horde at the fulfillment center in Portland, OR. Orders will be coming to you soon. I know there's been some issues with shipping charges, especially for those of you outside the US. I'm really sorry that we haven't landed that plane as well as we could have. You'll have to forgive us as we, once again, navigate the uncharted waters of a multi-campaign cross collaboration. We knew it was going to be a complex endeavor to pull off. I'm confident Goodman Games will do everything in their powers to get it right.
Want to see what you'll be getting from Horse Shark Games? Of course you do!
Photo Dump!!!
Cover by Stefan Poag (everyone is getting a HSG sticker!)
Frontispiece by Colin Richard (What the heeell is that thing?)
The Twilight Spires, bonus drop-in encounter by Donn Stroud (Illustration by Jayna Pavlin)
A Twilight Spire by Juan Ochoa and The Last Mushroom of Ishgar'Ols drop-in encounter (Illustration by Brad McDevitt)
Bestiary (Jayna and Brad again on illos) and the Prophesy of the Weirdling Sun
I'll not spoiler the rest of the book for you, but there's plenty more illustrations inside. Thank you so much for supporting my contribution to the Purple Planet Horde! I am lucky to have you on board! I've signed a distribution contract with Goodman Games and these books will also appear in your LFGS soon (no bonus one-sheets though).
I'll be sending out digital copies (via DriveThruRPG) this coming week and releasing the book and drop-in encounters to the general public there as well. If you really want those drop-in encounters in physical format, get in touch. There's some left-overs and I'll be peddling them at cons and all that.
1) The master pledge manager is live. Backers can see what they've backed and select items to add on, but you can’t see shipping charges. (we are currently at this stage)
2) In a couple weeks we will be locking down your order and calculating and uploading the shipping charges
3) Backers will then see their shipping charges.
4) Cards are charged. 5) Every campaign ships their books to the fulfillment company. 5) The fulfillment begins.
Netcrawl on Backerkit
Don't forget Netcrawl launches on September 3rd! Follow the project now
Hey,
Just got my survey for the Purple Planet. I almost ordered your book again. Why are your rewards not listed in the big survey? Your book is an addon.
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