Progress!
9 months ago
– Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 01:53:10 PM
Hello everyone,
To make things simple, this update goes out to both our Kickstarters still in production, so some of you might get duplicate e-mails. Apologies about that.
First, we'll take a look at the Wilderness and the haunted island!
Hardships of Wilderness are close to finished, in Swedish. I have received the final pdf with Marie's notes and proofreadings and are currently working on making all corrections and small changes. Once that is done, I will share the Swedish PDF with you all. At the same time, the Swedish text will be sent to Sraddhapa for translation to English. Next up is Luvataans Secrets, which will undergo some rewritings after feedback from a few playtesters. Once that is done and Marie has made her thing with that text, that book will also be shared as a BETA PDF and sent for translation.
As we mentioned before, Creatures of the Northern Wilds are already translated and will be layouted as soon as we have finished the other two books textwise. The Swedish edition has sold really well, so we are now looking at a reprint at the same time as we send the titles from this Kickstarter to print.
Then we have the Kickstarter for Alea Masona - adventures for young players. This is our most delayed project. There are several reasons for this, mainly that I didn't realize how big a job it would be to update the texts. But we will get there!
Lately I have been sitting with the Adventure book, and worked on the English version. The book has grown a lot as we have added additional adventures. This means the ones of you who supported it on Kickstarter will get a great value for your money, as the price will be significantly higher in retail (not for the stores that supported it, of course).
I have also been drawing quite a few maps for the adventures. The old maps really weren't that good, and were in need of a work over. A few maps still left before I can cross that box.
We aim to print the Alea Masona-books at the same time as Hardships and Luvaatan, so we will soon be able to share the Beta PDFs with you.
That's all for today, over and out!
Kind regards,
Daniel
Monsters for Masona!
9 months ago
– Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 05:32:05 AM
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Status update for our projects
11 months ago
– Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:38:55 AM
Hello everyone,
Our translator is almost finished with Creatures of the Northern Wilds. This means that we will soon be able to start with the layouts and should be able to share the PDF with you early this summer.
The main texts for Hardships of Wilderness (Swedish version) have been sent back to me by our editor, and I'm about to dive in and make the necessary changes and updates. Once all the texts are updated, we will send them to the translator for the English version.
The next step is to work on Secrets of Luvaatan. As I said, these adventures are mostly finished. However, we are thinking about adding a new adventure site for it. It will add more excitement to the story, and since we're in such a good place, it won't delay the project. Once it is done, this text will also be sent for translation.
Printing is still expected to take place at the end of September for fulfilment in November this year.
We will soon perform a smoke test for the PledgeManager, so a few of you should receive invitations so we can see that all things are working properly, before opening up for the rest of you and for late pledges.
We are also working on our next Kickstarter for Dragonbane, The Chronicles of Sorrow. A four-part epic campaign, previously published in Swedish (well, the first three parts, the last book will be published in Swedish at the same time as it's English counterpart). You can follow the Kickstarter here (click on the image):
We also have another project we're working on, which is a less dark and gritty campaign than The Chronicles of Sorrow: Alea Masona. This project is made up of three books: Alea Masona - Adventures for Young Players, Monsters in Masona and Adventures in Masona. Three exciting books for young players and families, based on our bestselling Swedish RPG Sagospelet Äventyr. We ran this project through Kickstarter, and while we had most things in place for this project, we ran into delays. Mostly because I miscalculated how much work it would take to convert all the text into both Swedish and English and keep it consistent. However, we are getting close to release and hope to see the books in print in November.
Lastly, we're preparing for meeting some of you at Swedens oldest convention GothCon in Gothenburg, where we are celebrating the release of our Swedish kickstarter Tjuvar och Lönnmördare (and yes, this too will be published in English).
Kind regards,
Daniel & the team
Book 1: Alea Masona finished!
12 months ago
– Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 03:36:00 AM
Hello all!
We have finally finished the first book, Alea Masona, in English. We will release it in two different editions: one mass market version soft cover version and one Kickstarter edition, which includes some extras - and it will also be printed in hard cover. The Kickstarter version will be numbered and signed, and we will never print it again.
The first step is to share the file via DriveThruRPG, so you should receive a notification from there soon.
The work on the other two books is proceeding, and hopefully I can share some exciting news in the not too distant future.
King regards,
Daniel
Preview: The Cover for book 1: Alea Masona
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:57:27 AM
Hello everybody!
We're still working on the titles. The first book Alea Masona is almost finished. Today we made the print file for the cover, and the inlay is waiting for two graphic elements before it is considered finished.
We're also continuing to work on the adventure book and doing layouts for Monsters in Masona, where the monster attacks still need to be translated, but we're getting closer every day!
Until next time, have fun!
Kind regards,
Daniel
PS The cover is still subject to change and proofreading.
