Hey everyone!

You should be getting (or have already gotten) an email from DriveThruRPG with your digital rewards from the campaign for download over there. After claiming your free copies, I'd love it if you'd give a 5-star review to all your downloads. It really helps other people find the products and know they're worth picking up.

If you didn't get the email, it might be because you haven't filled out your survey or have had an issue with your card. After checking to make sure you don't have any issues with your survey, if you still don't get the email within a few days, you can send me an email at [email protected] and I'll try sending it again.

There were also a few more minor typos and formatting errors that were caught before sending the book off to the printers (converting "feet" to "ft." in stat blocks, for example), so I've updated the PDF to v1.02. This is the version currently on DriveThruRPG, and has been added to the BackerKit Digital Downloads as well.

I shared this picture in the Discord a few days ago when these arrived, but was waiting for this update to make a post here.

Tome of Intangible Treasures II is easily the biggest book I've ever made. I knew what to expect because of the page count of course, but it's a different experience to see it in the "flesh" as it were.

Overall, the physical quality is looking pretty good. The paper has a nice thickness to it and feels very premium, the ribbon bookmarks look great, and the covers are very smooth and glossy. There were a couple of issues I noted, however. For one, the colors are looking quite red. This makes the reprint of the first book look too purple on its cover where it should be blue, and the greens in the new book look muddied. It also makes the title look more orange than yellow/gold. I also noted some dents in pages that seemed to have been made by machinery, so I've asked them to look into that as well to ensure that that doesn't happen again. Finally, the binding currently has no glue in it. While at first that seems like a good thing because it means the book can basically be opened flat, there's enough shift in some of the pages that it ends up creating some ugly page spreads where the edge of another page shows through. When books are bound with a little glue in addition to the sewn binding, it tightens up the pages making the gutter less visible at the cost of having the book lie less flat. I checked some other books I own that are this big, and the amount of glue in them seemed to strike a good balance between usability when lying open on a table and looking nice, so I'm hoping to get there with this as well.

These issues need to be fixed and confirmed with another proof before we can move on to the full print run, so that will add a bit of a delay although I'm hoping not too much!

I realized I hadn't applied credit for UK reduced-rate book VAT before charging cards like I'd intended to. I added credit and had BackerKit initiate a refund for all excess credit on UK backers' accounts that should go through in the next week or so if it hasn't already.

Thanks as always for your support, and as I said at the top I really would appreciate any 5-star reviews you're willing to give any of your rewards on DriveThruRPG! It really does make a difference.

- Josh