Progress on Map Revisions for Magonomia Core Rules

As we posted at the end of February, the Enchanted England map in Magonomia Core Rules has some errors and we’re working on corrections. There’s some progress on that effort: this weekend the cartographer handed over the updated map for final polishing — getting those pesky towns settled into their proper places, and double-checking that notable locations mentioned in the book are also mentioned on the map.

When this is done, we’ll update both the consumer PDF and the digital master for print-on-demand, and order a new set of proofs. The updated map should be in the book before Gen Con.

The updated map will be available as a free download on the Shewstone website. We can’t afford to send out replacement copies to the customers who bought the version with the erroneous map, but we’ll give everyone who’s already bought the print edition (including crowdfunding backers) a coupon to order an updated copy for the cost of printing (plus taxes, shipping, etc.)

New video review of Magonomia

RPG Imaginings shares their impressions of Magonomia chapter by chapter in this 34-minute video:

A 34-minute walkthrough of Magonomia by RPGImaginings.

Bestiary Crowdfunding Delayed till Fall 2022

We’re hard at work on our first full-length Magonomia® supplement, A Bestiary of Enchanted England. Writing and illustration is going well; in fact, a few of the authors and illustrations have completed all their assignments. You can see our progress in our last few months’ blog posts about product development. This is shaping up to be a truly unique bestiary, firmly grounded in sixteenth-century lore and enriched with role-playing advice and plot hooks for each creature.

We’ve decided to delay the crowdfunding launch of this project until Fall 2022. We want to get at least some playtesting done before we launch, and we didn’t account for that up front.

The overall production and release schedule isn’t affected much. We’ve just decided to get the product further along in development before the crowdfunding launch.

The silver lining is that there will be some playtesting events and you can sign up to be invited to participate.

Pregenerated character index on Magonomia® wiki

Following up last week’s article about Gemini : we actually have published quite a few ready-made PCs for Magonomia, between the Starter Rules, Early Access, and now the Core Rules Example characters.

We’ve made a list of all the published characters on the Magonomia wiki, including where to download them and what (if any) changes are needed to bring them up to date to the final, published Core Rules.

These should help you get started quickly with a published adventure or homebrew one-shot. Enjoy!

Magonomia® Core Rules crowdfunding fulfilment complete!

We’ve tracked down the last few backers and sent out their rewards for the Magonomia® Core Rules project. If you’re a backer and haven’t received your rewards, please email service@shewstone.com.

Backers, you may be tired of hearing this, but thank you once again for believing in a big project from a first-time publisher. Your support kept us going through the ups and downs. You made magic happen!

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Here are the milestone dates:

1. Crowdfunding launch: March 15, 2020

2. 100% funded: April 27, 2020

3. Original estimated delivery date: November 30, 2020

4. PDF delivery: August 2, 2021 (8 months behind schedule)

5. Print delivery: December 4, 2021 (12 months behind schedule)