Dear wanderers, we are almost into the final 24 hours of the BackerKit campaign! This has been a crazy month for me and honestly a life changing success for a one man creative team! I will be able to focus solely on delivering this project to you all wherever you may be. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much. I know you have put your trust in me and I do not intend to disappoint.

Once the campaign finishes on the 30th of August, BackerKit will begin collecting pledges and processing the payments. Please do make sure you have the right payment method connected to the pledge. You will be able to alter your pledge until we lock orders, which won't happen until next year, so you have a few months to grab some more add-ons if you'd like.

I'm going to be on holiday from the 2nd to the 16th of September, so I won't be answering comments or making any updates. Once I return all pledges should have been processed and I will set up the BackerKit pledge manager and begin distributing some PDFs. Everyone who pledged for a digital download of Vaults of Vaarn #4 or Pariahs of Vaarn will get those zines as PDFs as soon as I'm back, and a full preview PDF of the core rulebook should follow soon afterwards. 

Just a note to say there has been some noise regarding the suspension of the de minimus threshold for US customs. My understanding is that this should not affect the delivery of the project. Books are still exempt from tariffs and the only added charge is an extra 50p paid to the Royal Mail to ensure my packages are customs compliant. It is irritating but such is life. 

If it looks as though the tariff-exempt status of printed matter is changing, I will let everyone know and discuss options moving forward. 

Dear wanderers, we are entering the final stretch of the campaign. It's been a wild summer and I'm really excited to jump into working on the project full-time from October. Thank you all once again for the amazing show of support. This will be a quick update but there are a few things I wanted to address. 

I had a question about shipping to the EU and whether backers would have any customs fees or VAT to pay. Having spoken with my distribution partners I can confirm that there should not be any unexpected fees or customs handling charges. To quote directly: 'we can ship customs friendly to the EU using a mixture of IOSS and DDP shipping methods. So the backer should not get charged customs at the door.' 

If you live in the EU and were worried about extra charges during the fulfilment process, hopefully this answers your questions. 

Hey folks, just a quick update this week as we're now past the halfway point in the funding campaign. Obviously everything continues to go really well and I've taken some further days off, in anticipation of lots of hard work to come over the following year. 

I do have a small amount of sketching to share. I've been working on some ideas for potential chapter heading drawings. Having enjoyed doing the large wraparound cover image I'm cooking up some more Vaarnish landscapes for the book. Hopefully you'll get to see some of these as final versions!

Wow! We've cracked an incredible funding milestone today and the project has gone above £100,000 pledged! I am supposed to be a professional writer of words but I am running out of ways to express how unexpected this was! Thank you so much to everyone who has pledged, spread the word, commented!

As a special extra for breaking this funding milestone, all backers are now eligible to receive a PDF adventure zine titled Awful Bliss. This adventure module will take PCs into the chaos of the Great Gloating, a Cacklemaw-only music festival in the depths of the blue desert. I've had the idea for this one for a while and I'm really glad to get to make it a reality.

Awful Bliss will be worked on after the core rulebook is complete, and I'll let you all know once it's in production. 

Hello seekers, what a week it has been! Since I signed out to take some much needed time away from the screen, we have raised another £30,000! This is so far beyond my expectation that I just don't know what to say. Thank you everyone!

I've given a lot of thought to how to expand the scope of the campaign without slowing down production, and I think an extra digital reward is probably the way to do it. It keeps postage costs the same and can be easily distributed to everyone via Backerkit once it's complete.

So: once the campaign reaches £100,000 raised (how insane it feels that this is a possibility), all backer tiers will receive an additional PDF reward: Awful Bliss. This will be a zine-sized adventure module that focuses on Vaarn's horrible hyena-women, the Cacklemaw. I have a special place in my heart for them and I think they can easily carry an adventure. Expect ritual puppets, 'fun' and 'games', repulsive food and drink, and dreadful live bands at the Great Gloating, the annual weekend gathering of all the Cacklemaw Clans. The Great Gloating will be part music festival and part espionage survival-horror as the PCs infiltrate the gathering to rescue a kidnapped Hegemony Consul and become embroiled in the plots of She Who Laughs Last, a legendary Cacklemaw assassin. 

The Shrike, my enormous infernal OSE adventure module, won the gold ENNIE award for Best Longform Adventure on Friday night! I am officially now an award-winning writer for the rest of my days which is fun. I'm not currently able to offer this adventure as an add-on because I don't publish it myself, which makes fulfilment a bit tricky.

That's all for now! I'll be updating at least weekly for the remainder of the campaign, and should be around to reply to questions on weekdays excluding Wednesdays.