A Festive Update: Art, Progress, and Holiday Cheer!
Salutations and Felicitations, Wanderers!
We have some delightful news to brighten your day! First off, we’re thrilled to share some art sketches for the book. The marvell...
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about 2 months ago
October Update - Writing and Layout Progress!
October Update
Hello wanderers!
Firstly, another quick reminder regarding surveys! There are missing backers who have not filled in the surveys through Backerkit. If you ar...
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The Wanderer's Tome
3 months ago
Foundry update (1 day left for 30% off!) and DEADLINE!
Greetings Wanderers!
A small update for our backers regarding the foundry VTT module. You have 24 hours left to use 30% off code on the module for Flabbergasted. Scroll down t...
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The Wanderer's Tome
4 months ago
Flabbergasted! for Foundry VTT - OUT NOW!
Flabbergasted for Foundry VTT - Out now!
Greetings Wanderers!
You've asked and we've listened! Flabbergasted our ENNIE-nominated TTRPG is finally available on Foundry VTT! We'...
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5 months ago
August Update - Foundry VTT and Writing Progress!
August Update
Hello wanderers!
Before we get into the book progress - first a quick update regarding surveys! There are missing backers who have not filled in the surveys thro...
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7 months ago
Pre-order store open! Surveys being sent out!
Hi everyone! It's time for our first post-funding update!
We've been working on writing out Mystifed and opening up our pre-order store so first things first:
BackerKit Surve...
We have some delightful news to brighten your day! First off, we’re thrilled to share some art sketches for the book. The marvellously talented Dozerdraws is hard at work illustrating all the chapter title art, and we’re expecting the final pieces to be completed by early January. Keen-eyed backers might even spot their custom commission portrait in these sketches!
Flabbergated is Back in stock! Just a quick note to let you all know that we have in our hands the reprint of Flabbergasted - now available to purchase from our store. If you ordered Flabbergasted in the mystified campaign, it will be shipped out with Mystified and not earlier.
Next, back to writing and layout progress! Next, on to writing and layout progress! Since our last update, we’ve assembled a group of beta readers to review our completed chapters and provide invaluable feedback. We’re pleased to report that the first three chapters are now fully finalised, laid out, and sent off to our beta readers.
You can see our progress with each chapter below.
1 - The Cold Open | Finalised | sent to beta readers
2 - The Usual Suspects | Finalised | sent to beta readers
3 - Cracking the Case | Finalised | sent to beta readers
4 - Director’s Notes
Secret Societies | 40% written
*NEW* Secret Society Mystery | 0% written (had the idea to add a secret society related mystery in this chapter, but we have yet to start it!)
Club Upgrades | 100% written | Laid out
Combat | need re-writing
5 - The Tale
Pembrook | 100% written | Layout in progress
Detailed Mystery | 100% written |
Short Mystery | 100% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 100% written
Porto Verde | 100% written
Detailed Mystery | 25% written
Short Mystery | 100% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 100% written
Kravenspire | 100% written
Detailed Mystery | 100% written
Short Mystery | 100% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 10% written
6 - Bits & Bobs
Occult in the 1920s | 100% written
*NEW* Archaeological Revival in the 1900s | 0% written
*NEW* Slang and euphemisms for death | 0% written
*NEW* An overview of parlour games | 0% written
Tables | 100% written
We must admit, the writing process is taking a bit longer than anticipated. As we lay out the book, the text often needs adjusting, and new ideas have a habit of sneaking in. Still, we’re pleased to say we’re on track to send the book to print in the first quarter of next year.
Finally, we’d like to wish you all a very happy holiday season! We’ll be taking a well-earned break from next week until the 2nd of January, after which we’ll dive back in with renewed vigour.
Cheerio for now, and may your holidays be utterly jolly! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Just wanna express how much I'm looking forward to get my hands on Mystified and Wanderer's companion! Who shares my feelings? I know you're there, don't be shy :)
Firstly, another quick reminder regarding surveys! There are missing backers who have not filled in the surveys through Backerkit. If you are one of them, check your emails for an invite. Otherwise you can message us or retrieve your survey through here - https://mystified.backerkit.com/.
For the backers who backed at The Chief Inspector and The Wanderer level, please check your emails. We've just sent another reminder as there are a few of you who haven't gotten back to us. It's important to reply as we can't include your commission in the book until we get that information from you.
Now writing and layout progress! We've written a lot of the book at this point, and we are also laying it out and editing as we go along.
Here is where we are at with regards to writing the book and the current structure:
1 - The Cold Open | 100% written | fully laid out
2 - The Usual Suspects | 100% written | fully laid out
3 - Cracking the Case | 90% written | fully laid out
Running the Mystery | 90% written | layout in progress
4 - Director’s Notes | 100% written
Secret Societies | 100% written
Club Upgrades | 100% written
Combat | 100% written
5 - The Tale
Pembrook | 50% written
Detailed Mystery | 25% written
Short Mystery | 0% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 0% written
Porto Verde | 100% written
Detailed Mystery | 25% written
Short Mystery | 100% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 100% written
Kravenspire | 100% written
Detailed Mystery | 25% written
Short Mystery | 50% written
10 Mystery Hooks | 0% written
6 - Bits & Bobs
Occult in the 1920s | 100% written
Tables | 100% written
We're happy to share some of the book layouts with you below :)
We're hoping to finish the first draft of the book by November. We're still on track to hopefully get this published by the first quarter of 2025. We'll keep you updated once we have a better estimate.
We've also reprinted Flabbergasted. We received advance copies of the reprint and the books should be in our warehouse by November. So exciting! We're really happy with the quality and will be using this printer to print Mystified and the GM Screens as well. Our last update is that the art briefs have been sent out and our artist is working on the final illustrations for Mystified. The artist Dozerdraws will be creating a full illustration for the start of each chapter.
That's all for this update! Please message us if you have any queries.
A small update for our backers regarding the foundry VTT module.You have 24 hours left to use 30% off code on the module for Flabbergasted. Scroll down to see the coupon if you're a backer and be sure to use it before time's up ♥ You can learn more and purchase the Foundry module here.
We're also pleased to announce that once Mystified is done, we will be working on a Foundry conversion for it as well. 🎉 Mystified module will be out next year with Hod Publishing. 🎉
I also wanted to give a shout-out to another game we're crowdfunding right now here on Backerkit! Deadline - A Clockwork Press is the latest game we've been working on.
DEADLINE is a news-chronicling and map-making TTRPG where players take on the role of a journalist for the largest news publishing house in the city. Presented in a newspaper format, this game brings a new approach to storytelling and world-building.
You've asked and we've listened! Flabbergasted our ENNIE-nominated TTRPG is finally available on Foundry VTT! We've partnered up with Hod Publishing for this virtual tabletop conversion and we're very happy with the end result!
The Foundry VTT module contains both the Core Rules plus the “Welcome to Brabble Manor” setting. Apart from converting the entire Flabbergasted book for Foundry, there are some unique features like custom animated backgrounds in landscape format, new club emblems, and a 1920s music playlist.
