If you backed the Kickstarter or ordered on BackerKit you should have access to the digital files. You can also go to PelgranePress.com and pre-order the printed Heroes' Handbook and Gamemaster's Guide in a slipcase as well as the 13th Age Art Book. You’ll get the PDFs immediately and the printed books in several weeks, as soon as we’ve figured out all the shipping hurdles.
Digital launches are nice, and it’s wonderful to be able to talk and blog about the game knowing that it’s available. Part of the digital plan this time around is to keep the 2E PDFs updated with typo corrections and other errata. We’re not going to update the PDFs frequently, because it takes a fair amount of time and effort to handle the technical transfers, but we will do an update shortly after we’ve finished the Full Print Launch, partly because I neglected to give proper credit to two people who belonged on the credits page. While finishing 2E’s monster design, I took three or four villains that Steven Warzeha had designed as part of the Bestiary 3: Icon Followers project and drafted them into the NPC section. That’s also true of a page of Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s work on NPCs. So as soon as we update the PDFs, both Steven and Gareth will get a credit for Some Monster Design.
Meanwhile in analog world, the picture above is what a game table in my living room looked like yesterday as Jonathan finished signing the roughly 500 signature plates that Lee and I signed last week! We’re shipping the plates to Aaron for the fourth and final signature and then they’ll head back to Pelgrane to be inserted into the Limited Editions.
More notes: There are a lot of things I could write as designer notes for 2E. Happily the 13th Age Discord community leapfrogs over waiting for me write such things by hosting Ask Me Anything sessions! The next one is on Friday August 29th at noon PST, 3 PM EST. Show up if you can, or listen later, since the session should be recorded.
