August Updates
9 months ago
– Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 06:52:49 AM
Hey everyone!
Updates this month remain the same - Manchae and Francita are working hard on Layout while our editing team is working hard on making passes through the text, Kaithzer and the artists on the project are adding additional art in places where we identify we need more art, and Shawn and I are looking into options given the whole tariff situation.
I am excited for you all to see this book and will be sure to get the PDFs in your hand as soon as they're finalized, hopefully by then we'll have a good plan as to what we'll do regarding physical production.
Once the PDF for 5e in english is finalized we'll start the Spanish localization effort and send the text to our partners in Brazil for the Portuguese localization.
Meanwhile, we've got two new creatures for you to preview from chapter five.
We'd love to hear your thoughts in our discord channel.
Until next time
Adrián Mejía
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August 2025 Update
10 months ago
– Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 03:49:12 PM
Hi all!
Gencon was cool, Shawn from the team was there and made a bunch of good connections.
Meanwhile Manchae and Francita have been very hard at work laying out the book.
Chapter 5 (Creatures) is mostly done and is now being proofread for any small editing changes we might need. Meanwhile Chapter 6 (appendices) is mostly done and Chapters 3 and 4 are underway. After that all we need are Chapters 1 and 2 and we are good to go and get a PDF out to all of y'all. I am so excited for you to see what we have.
So excited in fact, that I'm sharing a link to a preview of two of our creatures, the Anillere and the Ajuyay. Please note that we are still proofreading the text a little bit and the artwork isn't fully finalized yet. You can see the preview here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11soI4kuL73lR-q_UsXFpGGWIxGsgx84B&usp=drive_fs
Until next time friends!
Adrián Mejía
July 2025 Update
12 months ago
– Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 01:09:18 PM
Got some updates. Manchae represented Koboa at DOFF, a big games convention in Brazil. We had some interesting conversations and are excited for what could be coming down the road!
As for layout, Manchae and Francita have started working together to create some amazing things! They're still getting style finalized between the two of them but after that I expect we will have some awesome previews for you! Chapter 5 (Creatures) is almost done and Chapter 6 (Appendices) is pretty complete as well. After that we'll have four chapters to go and we'll be done!
Adrián
June 2025 Update
about 1 year ago
– Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 08:26:08 AM
Hi all!
We got updates.
Layout Progress
Manchae has been having health issues that have been causing him to not get the progress he's hoped for with layout. We've integrated a new layout artist to help carry the work, so we'd like to welcome Francita Soto as a layout artist to the team (she made the Koboa character sheets too so she isn't entirely new to the project). This week she's been getting up to speed on the file formats, fonts, etc that we use in the project and will hopefully start producing beautiful amazing work we can show you soon! Once she's working we will all meet and evaluate a new estimate on when we think things will be done and update you all accordingly.
Preview
Since I don't have any layout previews, I thought I'd show you the work on a new architecture diagram by Edwin that we are adding to the Nueva Vardia gazetteer.
Hope you have a great June!
Adrián Mejía
May Update
about 1 year ago
– Fri, May 02, 2025 at 06:19:54 AM
Hi everyone!
Let's start with some previews and then we'll tackle the elephant in the room, Tariffs.
Preview
Here's another preview for how our layout is going, this time for our Novpo Gazetteer.
Tariffs
Tariffs are something the entire TTRPG industry is dealing with, and there's no consensus yet on what the right thing to do is. So far we have been spending a lot of blood, sweat, and tears trying to come up with a plan and will let you know when we do. For now, we intend to delay any production (when we get to that point) until we have things figured out. In the meantime, we are still working hard to get the 5e PDF out as soon as its ready and in an amazing state.
That's all for now, hope y'all are doing well.
Adrián Mejía
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