We're closing in on final layout for Early Access. It's coming in at a whopping 636 pages!

The team made a second pass over the PDF over the weekend. Although we have layout changes to make, we are on track to release it this week. Should anything change, we'll let you know.

Dejan finished both the front and back of the Kickstarter-exclusive book cover! Due to popular demand, we have made the decision to include it on the gatefold cover of the GM screen, too! For now, we're heading back to our caves to finish out Early Access PDF.

Stay tuned!

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Following our Kickstarter, we have received no less than 45 inquiries regarding late pledges. This is something we cannot ignore.

It wasn’t an easy decision. However, after deliberating with the team over the pros and cons, we have decided to open up late pledges over at CrowdOx. This affords us several benefits for pledge management to our Kickstarter backers, while giving folks the chance to get a copy of ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG before it goes out to the general public in December 2016. However, this puts us in a tough situation: we can’t burn our early backers on Kickstarter, as we owe our initial success to them. To balance this out, we’re going to implement fair shipping charges for those who come through as a late pledge and bump up the price a touch. This is only fair; it gives new backers a way to get their hands on a pre-order, while allowing our early Kickstarter backers to take advantage of the free shipping in CA, US & EU with cheaper pricing on the hardback.

https://app.crowdox.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg

We are gearing up to launch the Early Access PDF, the adventure A Bitter Harvest and a few special surprises, which you'll find tonight, in the CrowdOx surveys!

However, the GM screen PDF is a bit behind schedule, as we want to make sure that it's up to the same quality as the Early Access PDF. We expect to have it ready next week at the very latest.

Keep an eye out this evening for an email survey from CrowdOx to help you understand how to input shipping, upgrade your pledges and reconcile shipping charges if you are outside CA, EU OR US or adding on additional books to your pledge.

While you're waiting, I wanted to show you the Table of Contents for ZWEIHÄNDER. The ToC is fully clickable (taking you to the page in the book from the header). We have also added a bookmark sidebar to navigate through our massive 637 page Early Access PDF. Take a look at the link here to preview!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=964

Hey gang,

What a great way to start an early Labor Day holiday!

As of a few moments ago, CrowdOx begun sending out surveys for Kickstarter backers only. In the survey, you can confirm your pledge, have the opportunity to upgrade, handle add-ons, reconcile shipping charges, choose the cover for hardback books and download digital content. This means the Early Access PDF, along with the adventure "A Bitter Harvest" and a few special surprises are available to download right now! The GM screen is not quite ready, but you should have everything you need to create characters and run adventures using ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG.

Remember, this is the Early Access release. The game is fully playable, and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have about ZWEIHÄNDER and its mechanics both here and on our forums over at GrimAndPerilous.com. We've set up sticky topics on our forum, broken down by chapter. Please post any issues you may see or questions about the chapter within the topic. Feel free to pose more generic questions in our general forum. Our play test lead Adam Rose, co-author Tanner Yea and I will do our best to get to your questions in a timely manner.

We can't wait to hear feedback. Happy gaming, and we'll speak with you all soon!

-d.fx

ps if you didn't get a chance to participate in the Kickstarter, we are in fact accepting late pledges over at our CrowdOx page: https://app.crowdox.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg

Kickstarter backers! If you have completed your survey email from CrowdOx, you will receive a second email indicating where to download your digital content shortly thereafter.

Rumor has it that Fantasy Flight Games has officially ended the licensing rights for Warhammer with Games Workshop. With the announcement of Runewars Miniature Game at GenCon, one can only speculate if this was a planned move. As we all know, Fantasy Flight Games stopped producing products for their WFRP Third Edition line sometime ago. This leaves open a question of whether or not Games Workshop plans to relicense Warhammer - specifically the fan-favorite Old World - to another company.

Check out this link over at EnWorld, and help us spread the word about ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG as a retroclone/USR/loveletter/heartbreaker/successor to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3751-Who-Will-Pick-Up-The-Warhammer-Licenses-Next#.V87MEpMrJMY

We have received a number of inquiries about when ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG's Early Access PDF will go out free to the public. We made this a part of our stretch goals, and it's a promise we intend to keep. However, our Kickstarter backers get the first slice of the cake, with CrowdOx late pledgers coming up next in line and the public last. With this in mind, we intend to make the Early Access PDF free to the public at the end of our CrowdOx campaign on October 31st.

If you don't want to wait until November, you can still do a late pledge over at CrowdOx to get all digital PDFs immediately. This includes the Early Access PDF, the 41 page introductory adventure A Bitter Harvest, 6 pre-generated characters and a form-fillable character sheet. You'll also receive the illustrated PDF later in November. Head over to our CrowdOx page to learn more.

https://app.crowdox.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg

We have updated our form-fillable character sheet!

* Reputation Points field on page 1
* Coins and their denominations on page 2
* Magick and Spells on page 4
* Minor layout updates pages 1-4

Did you miss out on ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG on Kickstarter? You can do a Late Pledge over at CrowdOx until October 31st.

Let us know what you think here: http://grimandperilous.com/?p=1014

ZWEI fans!

We have made a five-page PDF of the most common tracking tables you’ll use at the game table. Contained within are:

* Combat Conditions Tracker
* Social Intrigue Tracker
* Wilderness Travel Tracker
* Chase Scene Tracker

Check it out on our home page at GrimandPerilous.com

Plus, our Game Mastery PDF-only screen is ready to download for Kickstarter and CrowdOx backers. Featuring artwork from Dejan Mandic and Jussi Alarauhio, it will come in both portrait vertical and horizontal landscape formats, perfect for print-on-demand/insertion into “The World’s Greatest Screen”.

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=1018

We have some very exciting news to share for fans of WFRP 3e!

In light of the licensing issues between Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games, our team has been working on a method to "back in" the dice mechanics from Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay third edition. It took quite a bit of retooling, but fortunately, ZWEIHANDER's ruleset has proven to be very accommodating to this approach.

Our play test phase begins tonight, to see how well they gel within ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG's framework. Providing everything goes according to plan (with tweaks here and there), we will publish these rules as a free PDF in the coming weeks, leading up to the print edition.

Did you miss out on ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG on Kickstarter the first time around? We are keeping Late Pledges open at CrowdOx until October 31st: https://app.crowdox.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg

Come check out the world's first Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay retroclone/loveletter/heartbreaker/OSR/spiritual successor: ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG: http://grimandperilous.com

Thanks to contributor John Williams, ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous RPG character sheet is now available for Roll20!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg/posts/1715728

As a part of our $33K Fury Die stretch goal, we promised to release Early Access PDF for free. We originally planned to wait until after Oct 31, but in celebration of Halloween weekend, you can now download the digital release over at CrowdOx!

We will provide an update next week on progress with the hardback release of ZWEIHÄNDER, along with a peek at new artwork by Dejan Mandic.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think in the comments below. If you have direct feedback on rules, please join the discussion on our forum.

https://app.crowdox.com/projects/grimandperilous/zweihander-grim-and-perilous-rpg

Hey gang,

First things first: thanks to your feedback, we've reworked several of the Traits and addressed many of the concerns you had about rule clarity. This also includes a massive revamping of Chapter 12: Bestiary. We're working hard to get everything wrapped up soon, so we can begin shipping hardbacks in December.

For those who backed at the ZWEIHÄNDER! Tier, we have the swords on their way to the office, and will show you pics of them soon. By the way, if you didn't have a chance to back at the ZWEIHÄNDER! Tier and live in the US, we have an option now available for you over at CrowdOx.

In other news, we brought on Matthew Pook (affectionally known as Pookie) as our editor & proofreader. He is a professional editor, working for Sixtystone Press and has edited titles for Chronicle Games, Autarch LLC, Cubicle Seven Entertainment, Miskatonic River Press, Modiphius Entertainment and Triple Ace Games. Currently, Pookie also edits the Age of Cthulhu line for Goodman Games and OSR titles for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. He also is a well-known reviewer, having published each week for a decade in Steve Jackson Games' Pyramid e-zine. We are so incredibly proud to have an industry veteran on-board to professionally edit ZWEIHÄNDER. Even with this latest addition to our team, we are still estimating to have all edits complete before the end of November.

As of October 28th, the Early Access PDF went out to the public for free. If you have a friend who didn't back on Kickstarter or didn't do a late pledge, they can now download it for free over on CrowdOx. We will bring it live on RPGNow.com later this week.

Ok, now onto art stuff! Embracing the order/chaos idea from the book, Dejan has completely reworked our interior borders. For proof of concept, our 'Mother of Dragons' Milena has created a new mock-up of Chapter 2: How To Play. See the artwork and new updates over at our Kickstarter!

The Early Access PDF for ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is now FREE on RPGNow.com

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/192264/ZWEIHNDER-Grim--Perilous-RPG-Early-Access-Core-Rules

ZWEIHÄNDER fans!

As of 3:26PM central, Matthew Pook completed his edits for ZWEIHÄNDER! He managed to cut out a lot of the redundancy, eliminated the more confusing elements and massively swept out font errors, typos and removed excessive use of semicolons. We also backed in many of the errors the community caught, and updated several rules in the book that were confusing. We are so incredibly lucky to have him onboard to bring ZWEIHÄNDER to market!

In the meanwhile, take a look at a few snapshots from our early proof of chapters 1-3. Dejan and our Mother of Dragons Milena have been working hard to whip this book into shape, and it shows. Note that we still have a long way to go, as we're still working on font sizing, image nudging, borders and other technical changes for print. They are by no means final:

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