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For the first year of Unwritten’s life, we’ve had the pdf as “Pay What You Want”, and the softcover at $20. While this has been lovely ‘exposure’ (and the artists and freelancers among you know how fraught that word can be…), we’ve consistently gotten the feedback (and sales notices) that this is very undervalued for the product, especially now that the baseline print standard (and with it, costs) has gone up. So, beginning July 15, the Unwritten PDF will be $10, and the softcover $25. This is still well in line with industry standards for similar products, while remaining affordable.

Supplements & Demo Module

Are behind, and we know it. There’s a laundry list of reasons why there are delays, from the semi-serious, to the just flaky. There’s not really any point in trying to spell them all out and make excuses- we just need to push forwards and get them done. Scott is taking over several areas of writing, I’m focusing on outlines and data. We promised them to you, and you will get them.

Swag and Goodies

The Unwritten Colouring Book: Just because. Featuring some of our favorite pieces of original art from the book, and some that haven’t made it into the wild yet. Available as a pdf from our website for $5 on July 15

Unwritten On Redbubble:
Ae’gura Map: Available as a poster in 3 sizes, and as a spiral bound notebook. Cover the poster in contact paper and you’ve got a write-on map for your adventures! Now available
Unwritten Age Journals: Featuring some of the Ages from our Guild of Writers backer level, these hardbound journals can be ordered with blank, lined or graphed pages. Coming July 15.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/unwrittenrpg/shop

The Great Library

Our website now features Ages written by fans of Unwritten, and shared with their permission. If you’d like to submit an Age for consideration, there’s a form for that, too! http://www.unwrittenrpg.com/the-great-library

Transitioning from Kickstarter notifications

News and PR in the future will be posted on our website, social media, and mailing list. Contact through Kickstarter will be limited to delivering supplements to backers, and any other needed backer-only information. Sign up for the mailing list on our main page; we will never share, sell, or otherwise spam your inbox.

Obduction

Cyan’s new game arrives on July 26, and we can’t wait!! Complex, seemingly abandoned worlds; unclear motivations and meanings; exploration and deep thinking?!? Yes, please.
http://obduction.com/
https://www.gog.com/game/obduction
http://store.steampowered.com/app/306760/

Mysterium

The annual social gathering of Myst & D’ni fans approaches; this year in Salt Lake City, August 5-7
http://www.mysterium.net/

2015 has been one heck of a year! We got physical books out to backers with only a few tumbles along the way & we released the book and two mini-supplements to the public. Including our backers, there’s now 2400+ copies of Unwritten out in the world! Pretty impressive for a small, very indie publisher!

In 2016 we’ll be focusing on a few things:

GENCON
Unwritten will be available for sale at the Indie Game Developer Network booth. As of right now, we don’t know if Scott and/or I will be attending. If any of you are going to GenCon, and would be interested in running an Unwritten game, please contact us

We’ll also be submitting Unwritten for ENnie award (http://www.ennie-awards.com/) consideration, which is both exciting and scary! You can help build awareness for Unwritten by:
1) Writing a review or rating the game! This is especially helpful on
ENWorld
DriveThruRPG
RPGGeek
We aslo love reviews on blogs, podcasts, personal pages, whatever! If you write a review, please share the link with us, so we can share it on the Unwritten page.
2) Run a game at your Favorite Local Gaming Spot, give game store owners our email (team@unwrittenrpg.com).
3) Talk to people about Unwritten! We’ve found that there is a whole lot of enthusiasm for Unwritten, once people know it exists- people remember Myst, and are excited to hear that there’s a tabletop RPG way for them to play in the universe.

SUPPLEMENTS
As we got into the writing of the supplements, we found we were really unsatisfied with them as simple stat books, and with the outline we’d built to present those stats. So, being detailed D’nerd writers, we overhauled. While this does mean that release of the supplements will take longer than originally stated, we think the wait will be worth it for a more comprehensive, detailed resource.

Supplement PDFs will be sent to backers as they are finished, then made available on DTRPG for a small cost. Once all the pdfs have been released our intention is to also compile them into a softcover volume to match the print Unwritten book.

GM MATERIALS
We’ve had many requests for Quick Start Guides and Demo Game packets, for people who want to run an Unwritten game at conventions or events. So this is something we’ll be building and making available for download on the website & DTRPG.

AGE LIBRARY
We’ve seen some pretty amazing Ages come out of Unwritten games, and we want to share them with everyone! On our website (www.unwrittenrpg.com) in the coming months we’ll be building a Great Library of our own, where we’ll showcase some of the magnificent worlds Unwritten players have visited.

THE FORUM
The Unwritten forum was a great tool during the beta test period, but it is pretty much unused at this point. We encourage everyone to join us on G+ and Facebook  for chatting with the team, talking with other players, putting together games & generally hanging out.

AUTOGRAPH BOOKPLATES
One of the survey questions we asked our backers was if they wanted their copy autographed. Unfortunately, because of the way books were shipped directly to backers, we weren’t able to sign any. Instead, we’ve designed a bookplate that we’ll autograph. We’re looking into the best way to have these printed, and then they’ll be available to everyone for a small postage cost.

We’re looking forward to what 2016 has in store for Unwritten, and we thank you all for your encouragement, enthusiasm, feedback & support!

~Scott & Eleri

Unwritten is Shipping!
You heard that right, deep city explorers, copies of Unwritten are beginning to wend their way to your homes. THIS WILL BE AN ONGOING PROCESS, that may take several weeks to complete, but it begins! The books are being shipped directly from the printer to you, to cut down on time, materials and added shipping costs. NOTE: If you were a hardcover backer, and you had softcover add-ons, they will come in separate shipments.

When can non-backers get their hands on Unwritten?
We are eyeing a public release date for the PDF and the Softcover on DriveThruRPG in late May, pending backer shipping progress. Coinciding with this we’re plotting a Launch Party somewhere in the Seattle metro area- further details TBA

Happy Chrisolstkwanzakkuah everyone! We are neck deep in layout currently, plugging in art, sorting out bits and bobs; and we are very optimistic we can order our proof copy by the end of the year.  This means that, barring need to make any major changes, we’ll be able to order print copies early next year! Wahoo! Once the book is proofed, printed and sent to us, we’ll sign the copies that need signed, and start shipping. Because we chose to do two seperate shippings of swag and books, the book will be shipped out in waves, one set each month. If the sneaky back end thing Eleri has planned works, each wave will be notified when their books are shipped. crosses fingers

What comes after all the Kickstarter book rewards have been shipped? The softcover & PDF/ebook versions of Unwritten will hit DriveThruRPG and be available to the general public. The supplimental pdfs should be available to backers by April 1, and on DTRPG soon after that. We’ are considering making those available as pay PoD books, as well. We’ll be sending out review copies of the PDF as soon as it is done, so if you have a favorite RPG blog, podcast or website you’d like to see review Unwritten, please let us know!

On a tangent, we started watching The Librarians tonight, the tv series based on The Librarian movie trilogy. This show, like the recently ended Warehouse 13, is a great source of inspiration for Unwritten campaigns. While the Librarians and the Warehouse Agents are a bit more likely to be rough-and-tumble than your average D’ni Explorer, and there’s no magical artifacts to be found in Unwritten, there’s a strong emphasis in both shows on solving unusual puzzles and decoding infomation, exploring unusual places, and fussing with strange objects. Soak up the inspiration!