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Hey y'all!
I apologize for the delay on updates. I have some news. :)
If you didn't know - our introductory adventure from the guidebook The Undead Gala was nominated for an ENNIE! I've placed the adventure on sale for a month for $0.99, so if you want to support us, please urge people to spend the dollar to check out The Vineyard that way. The PDF on DriveThruRPG will still include a $15 coupon to pre-order the book itself before we begin printing. Link to share here:
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Voting will open up next week and it would be a huge blessing if y'all voted for us - we have some stiff competition!
We have just wrapped up dozens of pages of additional plot hooks and locations within the Forever Stairwell. Randomly rolled content can be used anywhere, but I wanted to make sure that both our unprepared GMs and our "dungeon crawl friendly" tables had something flexible to use leading up to a confrontation with our BBEG.
Our timeline has shifted to look at 2025 as a more realistic release date for our guidebook. The fact of the matter is that I would much rather release the book up to my standards and I'm not going to compromise on quality. If I have to cut content for financial concerns, it will likely be some extraneous art that I wanted done, not design work. As of right now, we are approximately $15,000 from paying off the labor for the development of the book. I'm chipping away at this using the funds from my freelancing and Producer work for Metal Weave Games.
I will finish the book, it's just much more expensive than I budgeted for because we undershot our internal goal. Thank you everyone for your patience.
Hey y'all! I do not have a lot to report as of now as we are still wrapping up narrative contributions. I have some writers still working on two villains, I am doing a mechanical fitting for the villains we have finished narratively, and I am playtesting villains as I can in my pro games.
I have been taking it easier than usual this past month due to burn out and I hope to pick up my workload once we receive all contributor words. It will be easier to understand what is left and what we can fit in there once that step is finished. Thank you for your patience.
Exciting news! Our narrative designer Kienna has been hired by a little RPG company you may have heard of: Larian Studios. She has taken a step back from most active TTRPG projects after wrapping up her current work with us on the Vineyard RPG & Vineyard RPG: Adventures. We are immensely grateful for filling this role on short notice in 2023 after our previous narrative designer & co-creator M Ebel was hired by a games company full time. I'm not saying that people are guaranteed to get hired on full time when they pick up the ND position here, but it's happened twice now, so... I mean - I'm sensing a pattern. There's something in the pages.
In all seriousness: Kienna deserves the opportunity and I've been humbled to work alongside her for the past couple years. I've written a very Mom Is So Proud Post that you can check out here: https://x.com/isfridayTV/status/1759576103105224753
She will continue to contribute to the Vineyard RPG as her schedule allows. I'm eager to share her writing work on the whisperborne, Confessor Istillias, and more. In addition: Her narrative design has impacted the entire book positively.
I couldn't be more hyped than to work alongside one of the most prolific and skilled voices in the industry! He will be taking over for Kienna Shaw as our narrative designer for both Vineyard RPG and Vineyard RPG: Adventures. His experience and skill within the World of Darkness & Dune IPs are especially thrilling for what we're aiming to achieve with The Vineyard RPG.
Khaldoun Khelil has been developing and writing games for over 20 years. He has written for numerous RPGs and worked for think tanks such as the Middle East Institute and the World Policy Institute. Khaldoun writes games of personal horror, political conspiracy, and dark fantasy.
His credits include work on Dune, Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Mummy the Curse, Vampire the Requiem, and Cthulhu Awakens. Most recently Khaldoun was the developer and principal author on The Black Hand: Playing the Sabbat for V5’s Storyteller’s Vault.
Check him out here: https://twitter.com/kkhelil
We've run out of runway for the book so I've been paying with my full time job's income to contributors. Therefore, the production process has slowed way down. I'm only able to put 2-4k a month toward VRPG. I'm roughly estimating that we'll need to move digital fulfillment (and start physical fulfillment/manufacturing) in the Fall of 2024 because of this.
I had originally budgeted and scoped that the project would earn $100,000 to achieve the vision I had. When we funded $58,000, I made the decision to stick to my original vision. I'd rather the book be late than bad, because then it is bad forever.
Once I have 95% of the writing in hand (by March) then I will make a decision on what can fit into the core book and what I'll have to release as additional supplements. I apologize for the delay.
I've brought on Alex Gray, one of the fantastic writers over at dScryb to help us with your description tables for each section of the City. A small preview below:
I've received an inquiry about someone being unable to download their preview of The Undead Gala. If you are a backer and you are running into trouble - please message me on Kickstarter with your email! I'll send it to you ASAP.