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August Update
Hey there backers, got your August update here.
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Murkdice
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July Update
July update for you backers…
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Murkdice
2 months ago
June Update
Hey there backers, today we’re delivering you our June update!
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Murkdice
3 months ago
May Update
As promised, we have a May backer update for you on Inkvein! 
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Murkdice
3 months ago
Thank you!

The sigil of Gispyri (the Hourflame) seems fitting for this occasion. Inkvein's funding campaign has ended! And thanks to over 800 of you fine backers not only is the book coming to life but we're getting to add even more to it via the stretch goals. Your enthusiasm and support means the world to the whole team.

Now, about what happens next. There's still some stuff to do until Inkvein is ready to be sent as a beta pdf: we've got editing cycles to go through, Luke needs to write some of the remaining stretch goals, and he needs to finish up around 40 illustrations (he's already done 60 though!)

We expect to have a beta pdf of the core text available to backers towards the end of Q2 (late June). If things go well, we might manage earlier than that, but we'll see!

The GM handbook will be designed after we're happy with the core book to avoid having to rework it if there are any changes to the core text. We expect to be sending off for test copies of the main book, GM handbook, and bookmark character sheets in Q3.

For now, we'll update you on progress on the core text at the end of each month (you'll get an update at the end of April, May, and June) to keep you in the loop. 

In the meantime, thank you again, and you'll hear from us soon!
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Murkdice
3 months ago
60 minutes left!

We've given a load of sneak previews of Inkvein over the past couple of days. For this last call to back it, just 1 hour from the campaign ending and so close to the Pentower Dungeon Expansion stretch goal, I’m going to share the draft foreword of the book.

I’ve talked a lot about what is in the book, but not why I wrote it.

When I was eleven, I went on a school trip. Part of it involved caving. Not casually walking around a few large chambers, but getting suited up, helmeted, and head-torched. I was a tall boy, nearly 6ft by that age, and my muscles still had a lot of catching up to do. I was still afraid of the dark; I remember staring at the yawning mouth of stone that held only dark within.

I had to crawl through letterboxes and try to heave myself over slippery ledges that I was too tall and weak for. My helmet kept catching the cave ceiling mere centimetres above my stooped head.

Towards the end, I had to squeeze through a tunnel filled with water up to my waist. One by one, my classmates dropped into it. When it was my turn, as I sank into the water, my light began to flicker and give out. The people before me were already far ahead, obscured by corners and twists, and I had to move forwards before anyone else could descend safely behind me.

With light fading and the darkness closing in, I waded and pawed my way through the tunnel, dragging my fingers along the walls and hunching to fit into the constricting tube. I still remember the feeling. The disorientation. The alien nature of the space around me. I learned a couple of lessons: our tools and senses can fail us, can abandon us, and that there are places that I do not belong, that I do not know, and perhaps never can know.

Earlier than this, at 9 years old, a wave caught me and tumbled me to shore in a grip that I had no power to resist until I washed into the shallows. I had felt a tiny portion of the ocean’s mass envelope my body, and it was suffocating.

I knew this feeling before these incidents. My earliest memory is of a jumper being pulled over my head and the head hole being misaligned. It took too long to be fixed. My sight was gone. My hearing muffled by thick twisting fabric. My arms were constrained, pinned to my body.

I hate being trapped. That is why this book exists.

If you think a caving megadungeon written by someone with claustrophobia might be interesting, now is the time to get it! 
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I know I am asking the same as "how long is a piece of string?", but I am new to TTRPGs and so I don't have any clue at all what to expect from the length of a Megadungeon Campaign! I can't wait to have the book and am trying to plan it in somehow. I am going to assume they are better as longer campaigns, in keeping with the "Mega" in the title, but for anyone who has run Megadungeon Campaigns before, how long did you run yours for? I am expecting a variety of answers, but maybe it will give me some idea of the kind of range to expect! Or maybe there is some kind of estimate (with +/- depending on style of play) when taking into account there is a finite number of caves?

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