Many thanks to all the folks I met at GenCon! It was great seeing so many backers face-to-face.

We're getting word from folks as far as Russia and New Zealand that their bundles are arriving now. If you haven't received yours yet, let us know and we'll sort everything out as best we can.

Meanwhile, reviews and actual play have been rolling in. Here's a quick overview.

Reviews

MTV Geek: Lessons in Compassion and Mischief from The Flying Temple

Tabletop Manifesto: Whale Tales to be told

Nick Bate

Flames Rising

Actual Play

Dave City

The Space Turtle: Vomiting Whales and Poor, Poor Kitties

Cheryl and her four-year-old daughter

Rick Neal, who says "Fiasco is for actors, Do is for writers."

Doyce Testerman and his extended family

Evan and his family

Busy busy busy! Got a big stack of books to sign and doodle for the $100+ backers. Thanks for letting me deface your property! I hope to finish those up this weekend and start mailing them out next week.

Reports of backers $40 and under have been trickling in all week. Those books will continue shipping over the next several business days. When you get yours, be sure to tweet, post, or blog about it!

For newcomers, here are some important links:
» Pre-order the Book at Evil Hat
» Buy the PDF at Evil Hat | RPGNow

We're happy to announce that the first expansion for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is now available for backers to download. Do: The Book of Letters adds a whole slew of new troubles for your pilgrimage. A whole slew, I say. Not just half a slew. The R&D guys recommended just a fourth of a slew, but no, I demanded you get the whole thing.

Thanks so much for your support. Enjoy!

Oh, if you're not a backer and you'd like to get your mitts on the PDF, it's available for purchase from Evil Hat's webstore here. It's 56 pages of new letters, new info about the Temple-verse, and all for five smackeroos!





Hello backers! You should have a message from me via Kickstarter with a link to the rough draft layout PDF of Do: The Book of Letters. Keep an eyeball out for typos or other edits and send them in by Monday evening. Thanks!

Meanwhile, enjoy these photos of an advance copy of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple!



Hello all! The video above shows my process for cel shading the cover artwork for Do: The Book of Letters. Many thanks again to Liz Radtke for doing the linework! See more of her art at http://lizradtke.blogspot.com/ and follow more updates about Do my blog! http://www.danielsolis.com

Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is almost completely printed and ready to ship in a few weeks. We would like to send The Book of Letters and Pilgrims of the Flying Temple in the same box, so getting BoL laid out and edited is our priority at the moment. We hope to be done on our end by the end of the month. You've already seen some of Amy Houser's art for the book, right? :)

See more at the blog!



Grant Chen of gaming blog MiniEnt is holding a letter-writing contest to get the pilgrims to Mars! He says:

"I want to see letters from Mars. That’s why MiniEnt is going to hold its very first contest: CyDonia or Bust! We want to see letters from Mars addressed to the Pilgrims of the Flying Temple asking for help.

"If you write the best letter, you’ll be getting a PDF of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple when it becomes available for sale.

"If you already have a copy, we can offer Happy Birthday Robot or some other non-Dresden Files PDF from the Evil Hat store."

Deadline: Saturday, June 18, 2011

» See more at Cydonia or Bust!



Hello, Backers! You should now have access to the electronic edition of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. This includes a full-color PDF and a barebones printer-friendly PDF, too. Hope you enjoy! Please share your experiences on forums, Facebook and Twitter. Ping me at gobi81 at gmail dot com when you do so. I'd love to share your stories, too.

Here are some more updates:

* The PDF will be for sale on evilhat.com in a few days! If you missed your chance to join the kickstarter campaign, you'll be able to get a PDF then. [UPDATE: Actually, it's up right now!]

* The book is at the printer. It is on schedule for distribution with plenty of time for GenCon. (I'll be a GenCon signing books at the Indie Press Revolution booth. Schedule TBD.)

* The book will be on sale for pre-order in July at evilhat.com.

* Do: The Book of Letters is being edited and illustrated right now. (All of your letters have been accepted!) You can see Liz Radtke's sketches for the cover here. 

* We plan on wrapping up BoL in late July, so look for more announcements then.

EDIT:

Oh! We still need shipping information for Doug D., Reed Z., Stephen C., and Nelson C. If you want your books when they're ready, please reply to the survey with your shipping info!

The cover's done, the inside layout is done, and over one hundred proof readers have scoured the text for typos and errors. Above, you can see some page samples from the book. The team is giving the print files one last pass before we go to press tomorrow morning!

Many, many thanks to those who generously spent time scouring the PDF this week to find typos and grammatical errors. The overall sentiment has been "This book looks great! It was lots of fun to read! Now, here are twenty typos I found." Hey, at least you had enough fun reading the book to bother finding those typos!

I have a hardcopy printout of the document, with handwritten notes for consolidating all the edits in one place and each typo-hunter's name written on the front page. Not a super high-tech process, but it works. There was surprisingly little overlap between people's edits, so I'm very confident that the final book will be mostly error-free.

Tonight is the last night to submit any typos and claim a star next to your donor credit. My apologies if I don't reply to you, but a LOT are coming in really fast. I'll do my best to make sure all typo-hunters are accounted for and credited.

P.S. A tiny handful of you have not yet sent us your email address and shipping information. Please do so if you want to get your books and PDFs!

Click to embiggen! Our final tally was $24,383 from 552 backers! That's over 600% funding! The video below is a special thanks from the whole development team: Lillian Cohen-Moore, Ryan Macklin, Fred Hicks, Liz Radtke, and yours truly. We'll have more thorough data and analysis as soon as we finish last-minute edits and send the core book to print. Thank you, thank you!

Heyo everyone! As we wind down the campaign, I just wanted to run down the current pricing for all the bundles.

$10: Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Do: The Book of Letters in PDF format.

$25: Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple in print. + Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Do: The Book of Letters in PDF format.

$40: Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Do: The Book of Letters, both in print*. + Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Do: The Book of Letters in PDF format.

* Note: This is the only time The Book of Letters will be available in print. Hereafter, it's PDF-only.

In print, the corebook is hardcover, the supplement is softcover.

Oh! And please add $10 for international shipping.

Thanks for your support! We're coming in for a landing. :)

A little over a day left to go. If we can hit $25k by the end (which hits Olympus Mons height on the graph), I'll write a letter for the Book of Letters that sends the Pilgrims to Mars!