Well it LOOKS like the final “see p. XX” has been turned into a “see p.54”, and the final bit of art that looked frustratingly pixellated on-screen has been test-printed on the home printer and looks fine there… so we have hit the button and sent the files to DriveThruRPG for their pre-print process.

As soon as I get an email back to say that pre-print is done, hopefully in the next few days, I will be ordering a proof copy. This is a requirement of the DTRPG process, we have to order and approve a proof copy before they will sell any copies to you, which is sensible enough, honestly.

Looks like a late July or early August release for both print and PDF though. Whew. This hasn’t been easy! Almost there though.

I will have some time next week to hopefully finalise the text of the next release, The Summoner’s Tale. This doesn’t need much more than a final proof-read, strictly — but, when I ran a version of it at the 40th anniversary Day of Legend, I got some useful feedback for a couple of minor improvements, so I’m going to make those too. Then it should be ready to get art (which I already have some of) and layout before going to a PDF release. It’s a much shorter adventure than Cursed King so the process should be much speedier, especially as it won’t be getting a print release just yet. That said, with this and the upcoming Monk’s Tale, we might just have enough of our Tales PDFs to put them together as “Tales of Legend Volume I”, or something similar. Summoner’s Tale has some great background on Port Clyster, which could perhaps be expanded to give a bit of bonus setting material to really round out the “Tales” collection.

Before the collection, though, we are still on for releasing Brymstone… More on that, soon.

Here’s a teaser for Cursed King — a low-res version of the map of Thuland from the end of the book. We have some more detail on several of these areas in the Thuland Gazetteer that rounds out Cursed King, although the plateau in the Pagan Mountains is something that I only realised existed when making the map — it’s referenced in the main rulebook! What’s up there? Your version of the Lands of Legend may vary, so, for the moment, you get to decide…