ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG fans!

As we ready to close out 2016 and head into 2017, we wanted to share some updates with ya'll. Head over to our Kickstarter to preview every full-page image from all 12 chapters now!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1773258

ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG fans!

You want updates and a downloadable bestiary? You get updates and a downloadable bestiary!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1789951

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay fans!

One of our backers has been running a ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous RPG campaign set the Old World! You can follow their adventures over here: https://troubleinthemoot.obsidianportal.com/

Are any of you going to Pensacon this weekend?

Co-author Tanner Yea of ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG will be hosting a demo of 'A Bitter Harvest' at the Pensacola Grand Hotel on the second floor. You can get in on the action Friday the 17th, from 7PM-11PM. Spots are limited and are first come, first serve. There will be a sign-up book to reserve a spot, so show up a bit early to make sure your seat is secure. Tanner will be wearing a neon pink hat if you need to identify him in the room, or want to corner him at the convention to ask for rules clarifications, give feedback about your experience with Early Access or other questions related to Grim & Perilous Studios release schedule.

Participants will be entitled to receive the illustrated PDF of ZWEIHÄNDER when it is released in March. Be sure to pass your email address, along with your first and last name, to Tanner at the end of the game.
http://pensacon.com/

Happy gaming!

Our art director Dejan is about to wrap up the remaining four pieces of art this week. In the meanwhile, I wanted to share our philosophical vision to art direction in ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG.

Our personal values strongly guided the writing process and art direction. On the outset of the project, Dejan, Tanner and I made the joint decision to include representation of all real-world races and genders throughout the book. In addition, these races are expressed in the art using female and male genders. This includes instances of transgendered and intersex characters and creatures. We also use nudity and sexuality throughout the book. In most cases, nudity is represented as the natural state of creatures, and at other times, we use it in tandem with sexuality. We hope you won't be dissuaded from enjoying ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG because of this.

Now... with that out of the way, I wanted to give you a taste of some of the new illustrations from our bestiary. Follow the link below (warning: NSFW)!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1813848

ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG fans!

We appreciate everyone's feedback on the recent batch of artwork for the bestiary. It's a critical part of our design process, and a way for us to self-check ourselves against the needs and wants of the community.
Following this, we spent the weekend revising a number of creatures from the bestiary. This includes dialing back the explicitness, and revamping a handful of creatures whose images could be taken out of context. The changes manage to 'sanitize' some of the images, while keeping with our vision of the bestiary.

The following includes revised images and a handful of ones we haven't made public yet. Kickstarter's interface won't allow us to dial in the image size correctly, so they may appear to be of lower quality than they actually are.

We'll work on releasing Professions and Races images later this week, as to better explain our approach to real-world racial and gender inclusiveness in the character artwork.

Thanks everyone, and happy gaming!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1817859

Hey gang,

Slight change of plans - Kickstarter Live isn't working at the moment. Instead, we're going to livestream from my Facebook profile at 2PM CST today. You can ask any questions in the comments section, and we'll be sure to upload the AMA to our site following the conversation.

Today, I will speak more about ZWEIHÄNDER's progress, shipping updates and clarifications regarding late pledges and the distribution of the illustrated PDF.

Adam Rose - our lead playtester - will also be joining us to help answer any questions related to clarify rules, character creation and helping solve some of the more unusual exceptions-based rules you may have about ZWEIHÄNDER.

Tune in today (Feb 28th) from 2-3PM CST on Facebook, as we go live to answer your questions.

See you all soon!

https://www.facebook.com/mformoniker

-d.fx

Thanks for all the questions and feedback from yesterday. Despite Kickstarter Live going down, we managed to get a livestream set up on my personal Facebook account. We'll plan to do another AMA in a few weeks, once we have the illustrated PDF out to you all.

In the meanwhile, come watch all one and a half (!) hours of our ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG AMA On YouTube!

https://youtu.be/9kkGc0FB_NA?t=1s

As promised, we're releasing a series of artwork from ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG. In our first installment for today, we'll show you the illustrations from Chapter 3: Character Creation. Let us know what you think below!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1820798

In our second installment for today, check out some of the kick-ass ladies of ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG! This represents a mere sampling of the 120+ Professions found in the core book.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1820820

We'd be doing a discredit to our fanbase if we didn't show you the misfortunate 'gentlemen' of a grim & perilous world. In our third and final installment for today, here's a peek at some of the fellas in ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG.

This should give you the full picture of what we mean by inclusiveness - it's portraying a multi-cultural hodgepodge of RPG fans as the characters, as opposed to portraying traditional, 'in-game stereotypes' about elves, dwarves, humans, etc...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1820863

Happy early GM's Day!

Remember, you can pick up the FREE early access PDF of ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG - all 625+ pages of gritty adventure - right now over at CrowdOx! Alternatively, you can pick it up over at DriveThruRPG!

Have fun storming the castle!

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Hey gang,

We're in the home stretch. Only a few more images remain before we complete layout!

As some of you may have heard in our AMA, we are going to be including the playtest adventure A Bitter Harvest into the main book! Originally written as a fan adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by Ovid and adapted for ZWEIHÄNDER, the adventure includes Chase Scenes, Combat Encounters, Social Intrigue and Wilderness Travel. It is meant to teach a GM how to use each of these tools during a game, while providing a structured adventure to better teach players how ZWEIHÄNDER's mechanics work. Although most of the adventure requires the players to follow the story arc, it encourages investigation and critical thinking upon their part to put together a mystery, with a shocking resolution requiring the players to decide the best course of action to bring the adventure to a close. Although this adds about 21 pages, we wanted to ensure that GMs have a go-to adventure to introduce ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG to players.

If you aren't already following our Facebook page, you should take a moment to do so now. We've uploaded a handful of exclusive images for the campaign seeds of Gangs of Kahabro, The Lost Colony of Roanoke and Goth Moran Divided. Come check them out, exclusively on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/grimandperilous/

Images are finally wrapped up for ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG! While Milena and Dejan continue working on perfecting layout, I wanted to share the second draft of our fully illustrated Bestiary - all 157 pages of it! Although we are still working on optimizing composition, arranging borders, font changes and image facing, this should give you a good look at what we're trying to achieve... 'old school feel, new school appeal'.

Note that this is a low resolution version and that the headers/borders will be changing in the final version. Let us know what you think: https://goo.gl/MCC5LA

With your feedback from our forums at Strike to Stun, Facebook and here on Kickstarter, the book is now complete. All the I's are dotted, T's crossed, edits done, cuts made, clarity added and improvements galore. It's been a phenomenal amount of work - far more than we had anticipated - but we couldn't have gotten there without your help. Thank you so much for being an engaged and interactive community!

So here's where we're at: this weekend, Adam Rose (our lead playtester) and I are going to finish up our table of contents. Once this happens, we'll repackage everything for Milena using InDesign, and have her prepare the Early Access Illustrated v2 PDF file for distribution the following week. We'll update our backers - both on Kickstarter and CrowdOx - with where to download. While that's happening, I will be sending off the PDF to Lulu.com (our printer) to have a few galley proofs made for myself and Tanner (roughly a week to get one made and in-hand). This is to ensure that everything meets our criteria and that the colors are correct for the cover art. I anticipate that it will take us a few days to do a quick read and verify all is in place. Once Tanner gives me the go-ahead, I will then pass off the PDF to our shipment team. We have contracted one of our internal play testers (Mike 'The Boss' Bossaller) and a group of trusted individuals to plug in orders for us. The shipments will go out in phases over a period of 3-4 weeks, starting first with domestic orders in North America, followed by international shipments.

So there you have it! Thanks once more for your patience. It's been a wild ride, and I am super pumped to show you what five years of playtesting can produce: the world's first Kickstarter-funded Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay loveletter/heartbreaker/OSR/retroclone/whatever you want to deem it as.

Head over to Kickstarter to see some additional artwork: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1852242