A new edition of the occult tabletop game about broken and obsessed people risking everything to change the world.
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Beloved cabal,
Over the last month Thomas has been working hard to integrate in-house proofreading feedback on the first draft of the three UA3 books, and has now sent out a second draft for a slightly wider group of proofreaders to catch any stray layout or text errors that have eluded us. Once this is done, Thomas will prepare a backer-ready set of documents for you to look over. This set will be the almost-final versions, giving us both a way to share the beautiful layout work with all of you and a way to work in a third proofing pass.
Once we're sure we've caught as many errors and issues as possible, the books are going to go off to press. Thomas then devotes time to creating screen-friendly and user-accessible versions of the PDF files, as well as ePUB and MOBI versions. You should expect those closer to the end of the year. It's our aim to make them more than just flat PDF versions of the files we send to the printers.
As we speak, Q-Workshop is creating our sets of UA3 Dice. Those are due to arrive in our warehouse in about a month, assuming there are no hold-ups. When we get them, we plan to ship them and one or two other items directly to all backers who're expecting dice. This shipment will NOT include the printed books for UA3, which are still on target for next April. We did not want you to wait to use them with your digital versions, assuming you've decided to get a UA3 campaign going right away.
A very small number of you already have some older UA2 and UA1 books being sent along if you've added them during BackerKit. Again, those are being sent separate from the printed final copies of the rulebooks, so don't be alarmed if you've had a shipping notice sent to you!
Books Four and Five move to editing soon after being delayed a few weeks for revisions. We hope to see those in layout later this year and in your hands before the holiday season, or early in the new year in any case. We're probably going to drop the manuscripts into your download folders before layout, too, just so you'll have a working version of those books in your hands earlier.
As always, please send any and all comments, feedback, questions, or complaints to us at crowdfund AT atlas-games DOT com, and keep following us on Twitter at @atlasgames and on Facebook! For those of you who love Google+, we have a presence there as well, and we strongly encourage you to start a community for your games and share the links with us so we can spread the good word of Unknown Armies worldwide.
Beloved cabal,
Greg Stolze, co-creator of Unknown Armies and lead writer & designer of this new edition (which is being proofread now after a first layout draft - a quarter million words of layout) has a new Kickstarter project.
THANK YOU FOR SCREAMING is a collection of Greg's short fiction, reasonably priced for backers and gathered together into an unholy mix of thought-provoking and disturbing visuals for your brain meats.
Here at Atlas we always encourage our creative contributors in their artistic endeavors. Support Greg in this one, if you're a fan of his!
Best,
--Cam and the Unknown Armies production team
Blessed Cabal,
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That's right, our very own graphic adept Thomas Denagh has turned over the first draft of the UA3 layout for Book One: Play, Book Two: Run, and Book Three: Reveal and these books are looking FANTASTIC. There's more work to be done of course: editorial adept Colleen Riley is poring over each page, finding errant spaces, widows, orphans, demons, the usual stuff. This proofreading takes about a week or so, and then Thomas goes back to make revisions.
99% of the content of these books is in hand and waiting for Colleen. Greg's work is terrific on Book Four: Expose, and you're sure to find something dark and disturbing in Book Five: Mine. You won't see these books until early next year, however, around the time you get your physical copies.
As always, the best way to contact me is crowdfund AT atlas-games DOT com, or through the Kickstarter or BackerKit message systems. Don't hesitate to follow up with questions if you have them, we want to help you.
From all of us here at Atlas Games & Unknown Armies, have a safe and happy end of summer and we'll see you after Labor Day!
--Cam and the UA3 production team
Happy humpday, beloved cabal!
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A lot of folks are asking, hey why are the Unknown Armies 3 PDFs not in my downloads folder on BackerKit? The short answer is that they're not done yet!
Book One: Play is being laid out by Thomas right now! He's figuring out how to squeeze all of those juicy words and gorgeous art into the page count we assigned to him, but there's a chance the book's just going to have to get a little bigger.
Book Two: Run is in Thomas' hands as well, ready for layout.
Book Three: Reveal is still in my hands for final development and review after Colleen's exhaustive edits, and I'm turning it over to Thomas this week.
Book Four: Expose is being written by Greg, who is promising all manner of dark and disturbing content. That's due to be turned over to us roughly at the end of the month.
Also due at the end of the month is the combined content of Book Five: Mine, from our fiendish freelancers. That one's going to be a literal smorgasbord of weird, from new (or newly updated) archetypes to a huge pile of rituals and even some curious new optional rules to make your UA3 game even stranger.
Our expected delivery of the core set of Book One, Book Two, and Book Three in digital format is tentatively set to be the beginning of November. That's not a fixed date, but we think it's fairly reasonable. Delivery of your printed books is set for some time in April, as forecast on the Kickstarter page. We hope to have Book Four and Book Five available at around the same time as those physical books ship out.
Extra stuff, like the Campaign Starter Kits, James Semple's Musick for Unknown Armies, and various other stretch goals should also be done at around the same time in the late spring of 2017. The dice, for example, are going to ship out at the same time, although those may be in their own packages (especially if you're outside of the USA).
Remember as always to contact me directly at crowdfund AT atlas-games DOT com for all of your questions, queries, quotes, and furious rejoinders.
Go in peace,
Cam and the UA3 Production Team