Right now I'm waiting on just a couple of more art pieces, which should be here by the end of the week. As soon as they come in I will slot them in, do a quick once over, and go ahead and release the pdfs. With that in mind, I've activated the smoke test for the campaign, so a small number of backers should be getting surveys today/tomorrow. Once it seems like its working I'll release the full survey.

Todd

I hope everyone is having aa great holiday season as we get ready to move into the new year. I wanted to drop a quick update to let everyone know where we are. As it stands now there are still some art pieces outstanding. I've spoken to the artists, and should be getting all of the finished pieces in by the end of the first week in January. I've gotten enough of the pieces in -- and have a firm idea of what the missing pieces are -- that I'm going to start slotting them into the document this week, so that by the time I have the rest of the art in it will just be a matter of adding the rest of the pieces. This has pushed the timeline back by a week or two, but nothing major. I will be aiming to send surveys out at the end of next week, as well, to make sure that I have counts correct for manufacturing.

I'm also going to be changing the title -- when I set it up I didn't realize there was already someone publishing titles under the "BX Advanced" name, so will likely be making a change to "OSR Advanced Options" or something similar.
 
I also wanted to share some of the art that I have gotten in already.

I'd like to thank everyone who backed this campaign and outline the path forward. I've already reached out to the artists and over the next week will be compiling a list of the art I'll be needing based on the current layout. While we didn't hit the two high-level stretch goals, I've had a couple of backers reach out to me asking about the sewn binding, in particular. We're *close* to the initial 10,000 stretch goal. Let me figure out the art budget and exact printing costs based on the number of copies I'll be ordering, and I'm going to see if I can't squeeze in one or the other stretch goals; I'll likely be doing the sewn binding rather than ribbon bookmark, just because I think the sewn binding makes a huge difference in quality and durability.

Again, thanks everyone for backing. I'll be updating periodically with progress reports and posting art as it comes in.