So, bunch of small updates, all related to fulfillment. 

Thus far, between digital and physical fulfillment, Gaming Ballistic has completed 227 orders, with 174 remaining, and a single solitary lonesome survey uncompleted.

Of the 174 unfulfilled, 31 are out of the United Kingdom hub with physical rewards, another 7 are AUS/NZ with physical. 

The rest of the domestic fulfillment is basically "everyone who ordered the quick reference cards."

Back to those in a moment.

As of this morning, I placed the order at Mixam UK for 35 copies each of the primary three books, and another 28 or 30 or so for Shields Up. I am expecting those to arrive at GamesQuestUK in 9-10 days. 

Half of the 30 UK-Hub orders do not include cards. They will go out as soon as GQ-UK gets them tracked in, validates that they're not damaged (this has happened twice before), and processes the orders. 100% of the time, this takes longer than it should, but does get done.

There is a single order that also contains Hand of Asgard, Nordlondr Folk, and Delvers to Grow...printing a single book doesn't make sense, so I'll send those over along with the 18 decks of Quick-Reference cards.

I was holding off posting about this until I had more information. There was a staff kerfuffle at my card printer. Having now spoken to my new contact, it was all understandable and nothing nefarious. It did, however, mean that we lost the time over the holidays where I'd have liked to have been printing cards.

Artiforge was sensitive to the timeliness of my order, and so did a quick inventory of what would be needed to make the printing happen.

Notionally, all the cards could be printed in a single day, cut and packed in another day, assuming machine availability and all consumables on hand. Unfortunately, the 4" x 5" card die was damaged, so they need to order another one. They asked me if I could scale my stuff down to 3.5x5", which is a "no" because I think we all want them to be compatible with the old cards. Plus...way, way too much info on a GURPS card to make them smaller. 

So we'll have to wait. Likely 4-6 weeks before the die comes in. It's complicated by issues of quality and delivery; there's an overseas vendor whose dies are really top-notch, but Chinese New Year interferes with timing; the US vendor tends to wear out faster, but can arrive sooner. Artiforge is absorbing the cost of die replacement (as they should, since it's a "standard" die size), so the choice on what route to take is on them.

What we have decided to do is to get all the cards printed immediately. The vendor has my card files as of yesterday, and they'll inspect them and decide on the best packaging strategy. So the printing will be finished, and as soon as the die comes in and gets through Quality Control, they'll be cut and packed and I'll drive over to pick them up.

At that point, I'll box up the remaining domestic physical books and cards and get them out, as well as shipping 18-20 card decks to satisfy the UK hub. I will also need to ship books to Australia, as small-volume printing is very expensive at Mixam-AUS (Mixam-UK is almost always reasonable for quantities as low as 5 books).

So, a delay. I don't like it, but without a die-cutter, we can't make cards. 

Not exactly.

Here was the original schedule:

If we do get the cards in February, then all domestic packages will be in hand by March, easily.
It will take time to get the packages of cards to the Australia reshipper and the UK GamesQuest site. A few weeks each. That still means most folks will have their orders by March, but I do expect a few stragglers.

I'm sorry about that; I was really thinking we'd have it all wrapped by before the end of January.

My authors were asking at what point the books were going to go on sale. I don't like putting things out there before backers get them - that's why you backed, to make it happen and get it first.

But everyone has their digital copies, and has for a while. I'd like to throw those up on my web store through January, and then list them on W23 and DriveThru in February.

Physical won't happen until every package is in the mail, though. Same rationale. Y'all get it first.

Sorry for the lengthy update, but I wanted to be complete. As schedules firm up (maybe we get the die sooner? In these days later is usually the better bet, but we can hope) I'll update Team Nightmare.