July Production Schedule Update
almost 6 years ago – Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:51:30 AM

Good afternoon from John Wick Presents! 

A couple quick announcements, and then the updated Production Schedule. 

Firstly, we have been teasing it, but War of the Cross, the strategy board game set in 7th Sea’s Theah, is coming back to Kickstarter. Instead of inundating you with updates here, sign up here for notifications about War of the Cross. 

Next, if you’re going to be at GenCon, we have a real treat for you. Sweet Jenny, the favorite gambling game of pirates and sailors, was brought to life by Darryl Loyd and available for download on DriveThruRPG. With Darryl's help, we have decided to do a full production run of this game and will have a limited number of physical copies available at GenCon! Beautiful art graces a custom deck of cards; Sweet Jenny is a perfect prop for your character, and a fantastic game in its own right. Sweet Jenny will be in your FLGS in September.

If you’d like to GM a game of 7th Sea at GenCon, check here for more information. If you’re not able to play games with us at GenCon, we will be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia this year as well. 

Now, what everyone was really waiting for: 

Production Update

• Lands of Gold and Fire: COMPLETE, all backer copies are in the mail.  
• Cities of Faith - Vaticine City: delay in art, delivery estimate by September 2018  
• The Colonies: in layout, PDF delivery estimated by September 2018  
• Secret Societies: in layout, PDF delivery estimated by October 2018  
• Cities of Faith - Iskandar: in layout, PDF delivery estimated by September 2018  
• Cities of Faith - Quamontaigne:  in dev editing, delivery TBD  
• Maps: estimated delivery late July / early August 2018, see below*
• The Gossamer Empire: layout, delivery TBD

Everyone has been remarkably patient, and I know we’re all chomping at the bit for these beautiful maps. Unfortunately, they’re delayed. We’ve given some bits and pieces of the story behind this, but we wanted to fill everyone in. 

As many of you already know, it was going to cost way too much to print each map individually, which required us to send all of them to print at once in a batch. This means that the final versions of the maps had to wait until we’d written all the source material, which meant waiting on the completion of writing on The Colonies.

With that done, we had updated our schedule to optimistically have the maps out last month. But then our cartographer, Mark Richardson, had surgery, as we revealed in a prior update. He is now recovered and back at work this month.

We're pushing to have the maps finalized and sent to print by the end of the month, and as always, we'll keep you apprised if that slips. Once again, we apologize for the delay and appreciate you sticking with us.
That's our update for now. Americans, enjoy the holiday, and we'll see you all next week!

Thanks,
Melissa, Marketing & Sales Director at John Wick Presents

Micro June Update
almost 6 years ago – Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:47:54 PM

Hello everyone!

I’m Melissa Lewis-Gentry, the new Director of Marketing & Sales here at John Wick Presents. Usually I’m someone who stays behind the scenes, but I’m so excited to be on board with 7th Sea!

Other than my saying hello, this is just a micro update for those of you who backed for physical copies of the books. You should have received your coupons for Lands of Gold and Fire today. Thanks again everyone for your support.

Some of you may have heard rumors that War of the Cross is coming back after we demoed it at Origins. The board game has been updated quite a lot since last year; expect more updates about it in July.

We have news on other projects as well, so expect a full production update next week!

May Production Update
almost 6 years ago – Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:07:21 PM

Hello everyone!

We’re so happy to finally have Lands of Gold and Fire (digitally) in your hands. Thanks for your feedback on the book, and congratulations to the dev team for another special contribution to the world of 7th Sea.

We’ll be shipping physical books soon. With that, it’s time for another production update.

Production Schedule

The New World: COMPLETE

Lands of Gold and Fire: PDFs delivered, physical books shipping early June

Cities of Faith - Vaticine City: awaiting art, delivery estimate June 2018

The Colonies: in layout, PDF delivery estimated August 2018

Secret Societies: in layout, PDF delivery estimated September 2018

Cities of Faith - Iskandar: in layout, delivery TBD

Cities of Faith - Quamontaigne: dev editing, delivery TBD

Maps: Colonies map dev review, delivery estimated June 2018*

The Gossamer Empire: layout, electronic delivery estimated June 2018

*Maps! We love Mark Richardson, our 7th Sea cartographer. Mark works around-the-clock delivering beautiful, technical maps to us… and he’s currently recovering from appendicitis. Please send Mark your well-wishes and your patient recovery time. We’ll keep you updated on the status of the maps along the way!

Lands of Gold and Fire on DriveThru

If you know someone who missed out on the 2nd Edition Kickstarter who you think would love Ifri, Lands of Gold and Fire is now live on DriveThruRPG!

We’re proud to see this sourcebook on DriveThru’s TOP 5 bestseller list today! So much love goes into every book we make. We hope it really shows.

We’ll have more updates coming! The adventure continues!

Lands of Gold and Fire Final PDFs
almost 6 years ago – Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:37:21 PM

Hey everyone,

We've hit the go button on the DriveThruRPG coupons for the final version of Lands of Gold and Fire. DriveThru codes should be available in the digital downloads section of your Backerkit account. If you have any trouble accessing the files, please drop us a line at [email protected] and we'll get you sorted out. 

The office is closed for Memorial Day, May 28, but we'll be sending out a production update next week to catch you up on the rest of the schedule.

Take care!

Production Update and Map of The Known World of Terra Preview
about 6 years ago – Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:30:39 PM

Hi everyone!

As always, thank you for sharing your thoughts and feedback about Lands of Gold and Fire. We’re happy to announce that the book has gone to print. It’ll take us about a week or two to generate the download-friendly files for you while we do printer proofs and make final adjustments, so expect PDF copies of Lands of Gold and Fire to drop in early May. Sorry about the slight delay!

Production Schedule

Here’s the current production schedule:

The New World: COMPLETE

Lands of Gold and Fire: at printer, PDF delivery estimated early May 2018

Cities of Faith - Vaticine City: awaiting art and final edits, delivery estimate May 2018

The Colonies: copy editing to layout, PDF delivery estimated July 2018

Secret Societies: copy editing, PDF delivery estimated August 2018

Cities of Faith - Iskandar: in layout, delivery TBD

Cities of Faith - Quamontaigne: dev editing, delivery TBD

Maps: Colonies map dev review, estimated May 2018

The Gossamer Empire: layout, electronic delivery estimated early May 2018

Map Preview

Print maps are still due to arrive in May (expect later in the month). Here’s an in-development preview of The Map of the Known World of Terra from cartographer Mark Richardson, including some border areas that aren’t final yet—we’re still playing around at the edges of the map a bit.

Pretty cool to see it all coming together, huh? We’ve seen a lot of the world now, and there’s so much left to explore!

We’ll see you here next month with Ifri PDFs and more!