Good day! And the final day of the campaign! This has truly been a unique experience for all of us at Cephalofair Games, and I hope you had a good time with the Gloomhaven Grand Festival. Whether you watched a lot of streams, or worked out the puzzles, voted in the polls, or just backed for $1 and moved on, I hope you enjoyed doing so, and will continue to have a good time when you receive what you pledged for.

So just how will we go from running this grand festival to delivering you your stuff? Well, it will be a process, but a process that we are very familiar with. Once the campaign ends, we're going to transition to an update every other week on Fridays, just to keep you abreast of the goings on as we move through completing the various projects. Initially, these will probably focus on Buttons & Bugs, as that is the first thing we are working on getting out the door (in addition to the Frosthaven reprint and playsurface books). And then we'll move on from there!

So you can expect the next update for this project to arrive July 28, and then we will also be working on opening up the pledge manager some time the week following that. If I'm being totally honest, we all need a bit of vacation after this. It was an intense experience preparing for this thing and then running it, and now we've got a long road ahead of us. But we'll get it done!

All that's left now is to give you a recap of yesterday's streams and tell you what's coming up for today, so let's get to it.

Bright and early yesterday morning, Drew, Dennis, and I got together for a final Gloomhaven: Second Edition play, and even though we were tackling one of the most notoriously hard scenarios in the game, it went pretty well! Of course, the new version of the scenario was a little easier, but it was still no joke.



Then, after a Fireside Chat with Price, we had a great RPG stream with the Good Time Society showing off the digital features of Hero Lab and Roll20.

And we finished the night off by completing the final scenario of Gloomhaven Digital with Brambeard Gaming, where I rode my high from playing Squid Face well in the earlier stream to just absolutely losing my mind and tanking it. Good times.

And today? Well, we decided to close things out by just rerunning all four gameplay videos of the Old School RPG. We started at 6am PST, and it will be running up until 4pm PST, when Price, Ruel, and I will hop on one last stream to play some Buttons & Bugs, chat, and watch that final number go up. If you're looking for a place to share in the excitement of those final hours, this will be where it's at!

And that's it! I will say it once again that it has been an experience writing these updates for you everyday. And while I'm looking forward to getting my life back, I also just want to thank everyone once again for joining us for this festival and participating in whatever way you did. I won't catch you tomorrow, but I will catch you next Friday, the 28th, for a post-vacation run-down of where we're at. Until then!

Good day! We're in the last 48 hours now! This campaign has lasted a full month at this point, and we've sent a lot of information your way over that time! I figured, instead of filling out an update with yet more information, it would be good to take a beat and provide you with an organized way to view all the valuable posts and videos from all those previous updates. So today, it is time for lists of links!

But before we get to that, I've gotta tell you about all the exciting stuff we've got planned for today.

First of, the dread time has come for Drew, Dennis, and I to play scenario 72, the most notorious scenario in the original Gloomhaven. Did it get better? Will we survive? We'll start playing at 8am PST, so you'll just have to watch to find out.

And then, as with every Tuesday, you can join me at 4pm PST for a Fireside Chat. I'll be talking with Price about running this campaign, and the next steps once the time is up.

Then right after that at 5pm PST, we have a very special extra RPG live play for you from Good Time Society! We really wanted to show off the slick functionality of the Gloomhaven RPG digital tools from Hero Lab and Roll20, so we brought GTS on board for another play featuring Josephine McAdam as the GM, and Lexi McQueen, Phill Correa, and Kate Elliott as the players.

And if that isn't enough, we've even got counter-programming for you. At 6pm PST, I'll be jumping on Twitch with Brambeard Gaming to (possibly?) finish our Gloomhaven Digital campaign.

Okay, on with the important info!

We'll start off with our most popular offer, Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs. We announced this tiny solo version of Gloomhaven halfway through the campaign, and it was a big hit! Here are the best places to find out more about it:

Then we have the RPG! This has been a massive endeavor to translate Gloomhaven's rules and lore to an RPG, but it is definitely worth your time!

And then out big game announcement last month, a complete rework of the game that started it all, Gloomhaven: Second Edition. This was helmed by Drew and Dennis, and they made sure to give you a plethora of information about it.

Our plethora of minis! Over 600 figures to replace all the monsters, bosses, and summons across all Gloomhaven and Frosthaven games.


A painting video from Ninjon.
A painting series from Tabletop Minions (parts one, two, three, four, five, and six)
A painting series from Jamie Daggers (parts one and two)
Announcing our partnership with Army Painter.
And an update with some painting tips.

Finally, who could forget the reprint of Frosthaven, which is also available during the campaign? And possibly more exciting - the Frosthaven playsurface books!


A wonderful playthrough with Penny Arcade.
Another great playthrough from Pixel Circus.
A deeper look at the Frosthaven playsurface books.

                               

Phew, that's a lot of stuff! And there's still more to come! Be sure to check out all the great streams we're kicking off today, and we'll see you tomorrow for the last day of the campaign!

Good day! I think we had a little bit of trouble getting the last Old School episode to stream yesterday, so if you didn't see it, you can find it here. I talked more about this series of videos, but if you're looking for something to watch today, I think the whole series, which you can find here, is a good option.

And since there's not much else to go over today (we won't have any new streams) I figure I'd take the opportunity to give you a quick recap of the story going on with the polls, which is just a little choose-your-own-adventure story where you all vote on what happens next.

The protagonist is a Harrower Music Note, who had city guards arrive at their house (presumably for stealing fruit?), so they put them to sleep with a song, stole their money and clothes and then tried to escape. They ran into another group of guards and try to masquerade as one to get by using a guard's uniform, but that didn't go so well, and they lost the guard uniform in the escape. They then headed down to the Sinking Market to lay low with their friend Dash, a Quatryl Mindthief, who is using mind control technology to make seagulls dance in a musical performance. They agree to supply the music, but they are now having trouble booking a gig at the local music venue, the Brown Door.

All very exciting stuff, and, like the rest of you, I have no idea what will happen next, but I'll try to get the story wrapped up by Wednesday when the Backerkit campaign ends! Catch you tomorrow!

Good day! Another short weekend update for you today. First, I want to highlight the two great streams we had yesterday. Chris from Brushwood Minis joined Price for some chill painting and conversation about the minis and painting the minis and all that fun stuff.

Then I had a nice time with Joe and Alexander from Satire for the Friday Fireside Chat to talk more about the main narrative of Gloomhaven: Second Edition, general lore, and the prospect of tiny people from Buttons & Bugs now living in the Gloomhaven world.

And today, we have the grand finale of the Old School RPG play at 4pm PST! Where friendships are betrayed, and the command of the flight of drakes hangs in the balance! We hit a good stopping point, but the wagon is still far from delivered, so I'd love to keep this campaign going after the Backerkit campaign ends, but we'll see on everyone's availability.

The goal of the Old School RPG was to give you all a more conventional long-form RPG play experience that would be closer to what you'd be likely to see playing it yourself. While all RPG groups are different, we wanted to capture the vibe of four normal friends just hanging out and playing the RPG. I personally think we accomplished that goal pretty well, and so I strongly encourage you to watch if you're looking for a better idea of how the game will play with your own group.

And I want to thank Adrian, Alice, and Jon for joining me on the adventure. This was a last-minute idea I had, but all three of them didn't hesitate to jump on board this crazy train (yes, that was a reference for the group). And, of course, a huge thanks to Ruel for producing the show and translating our chaotic energy into something watchable for everyone else.

That's all I've got for today. Except a link to yesterday's puzzle discussion! I also have that. Catch you tomorrow!