Author: Remi Permann

Really appreciate the new backer update, especially the stretch goal timeline!

One relatively minor thing that wasn’t touched on: still planning on selling U’Duasha separately? I know it was mentioned a while back as being in the works.

Any chance U’Duasha’s gone up for sale yet? I know it was planned for “soon.”

Has anyone made/is anyone making a modern-day hack?

I’d love to scratch the Payday itch at the table.

Has there been any word on the Lockport city setting? Just remembered it the other day.

Also, an incredibly low-priority question: have the U’Duasha edited playbooks (NOT the lovely Iruvian playbooks, which I adore) shown up anywhere? With the Iruvian names and contacts.

Might be looking at an U’Duasha game soon and would love to have it.

Can we please have an honest discussion with the developers about stretch goals?

I’m not trying to start a fight, and I dearly hope this doesn’t get me banned, but it’s worth addressing somewhere beyond the Kickstarter comments section. The game is stellar; everyone here loves it a lot. But it’s also a project that funded tens of thousands of dollars more than its initial goal, and it did so in part thanks to lots of awesome stretch goals that sounded really, really exciting. The core game has been out for nearly a year and a half now, and it’s great! And Vigilantes is great, and Scum & Villainy is a lot of fun, and the beta for Blades Against Darkness is really interesting… and then everything else trails off.

Bluecoats was shooting for an August of last year release, and now we’re nearly at August of this year. Quite a few others were mentioned to be in progress or starting writing imminently, with no word since. Folks who’ve inquired after them have been told that they’re hear when there’s news, but it’s tough to go through months and rapidly approaching a year of radio silence without so much as a peep.

Much more distressing is some of the comments on the KS page. Stretch goals drove a lot of the crowdfunding, and that excitements has kept a lot of people interested ever since. Hearing that they’re “not ironclad promises of 100% certain delivery — they’re ideas for additional related projects that can be started because of the success of the KS” and that they’re “they’re pretty much on the honor system to be delivered now” is a much bigger deal than should be mentioned off-hand in a buried comment thread. “This has worked out well in a few instances, and badly in others” is a frightening sentiment to hear.

Stretches of several months without communication is worrying but manageable; paired with the revelation that there’s no guarantee the stretch goal content is coming and it throws a whole lot of doubt into the mix. If there’s content that is not going to happen, or is in rocky shape, that’s just as newsworthy as when something is finally done enough to play.

I’m not here to start a fight, or to make anyone look bad. I just want to know what’s going on, because we’ve heard very little, and if there’s things my group should stop holding out hope for, then I’d appreciate knowing as much.

Am I right in reading (and dearly hoping) Womb of Night as essentially being Rogue Trader by way of Forged in the Dark?

Has there been any word on Womb of Night?

I’m a little sad how quiet all the stretch goal news has been as of late.

Can any backers share their impressions of the Blades Against Darkness draft that just went out?

Have we heard anything about Coneycatchers?

Wish things weren’t so quiet on the stretch goal front.