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Hi Alexander 🙂

First of all, thank you so much for the  continued interest in Fantasy World. It's really awesome, and I hope you are still able to enjoy the game even in its current "commercially indisposed" state 😁

Yes, having the PDF available sooner rather than later would be best. Once the file is available it would take little extra effort to set up a couple of PoD options to make physical copies available too. Unfortunately, life happens and plans get derailed. Still, I would like to offer you at least a small status update and future timeline 👍

I am currently absorbed by the final stages of my Master in game development, which directed me towards the development of Torque Arena (miniature sports game) and its companion game Torque Saga (solo journaling rpg in the solarpunk world of Torque).

Additionally, some family struggles will pretty much occupy my upcoming months, at least until September. Then I still have a master thesis to write, but that's a problem for future me 😅

Luca is also absorbed by life necessities. And some very interesting design work that I am not at liberty to discuss here 😎

Hence, Fantasy World is our top priority project "after everything else we can't ignore or postpone" 😬

Still, we finished wrapping things up with MS Edizioni, which took longer than expected. And got back the original working files for the Fantasy World rulebook pdf. Now, here's the rub...

At the time of my last post it was not immediately clear that in order to put forward a non-MS Fantasy World pdf we would need to literally re-build the file from the ground up. Even using the same art and assets and text and cloning the original layout (all of which were produced and are owned by Luca and I) the new file needs to be manually re-laid out again... which requires time and effort. And since we are doing it, I want to incorporate all the typos and errata that players reported throughout the years... which adds a little extra time and work on top.

So the current "plan" is to rebuild the FW pdf + errata as soon as possible, definitely before starting work on a second edition of the game proper.

The problem is, unfortunately, that "as soon as possible" is not going to be until a few more months, at least. And we have currently no way to draft a reasonable timeline. I would love to have the PDF back online not long after the summer months, but I can't offer any assurances. Maaaybe sometime before the end of the year could be more realistic? But again, more pressing matters might delay it all again.

I am really sorry for this state of things, but such are the vagaries of small indie development. Still, thanks again for the passion and support ❤️‍🔥