Drintera® Magazine Suspending Publication; 2025 Kickstarter cancelled

The January 2025 issue of Drintera® Magazine is running a bit late, and it will be the last issue of the magazine for the foreseeable future. We’ll be suspending publication after January 2025 and looking for a new way to finance continued development of the Drintera setting.

The Kickstarter for the 2025 magazine is cancelled. The full cost of publishing the magazine was over $1,500 per issue. 12 issues would then cost more than $18,000. I didn’t feel we could raise $18,000, which meant we’d be facing the prospect of succeeding at the Kickstarter and still losing significant money.

We have every intention of continuing work on Drintera. The vision of a heroic fantasy TTRPG setting with broad cultural representation has huge potential. Follow our Patreon to see where we go with it!

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.

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)