ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG - a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay retroclone

We are finalizing shipment details with our distributor, but the goal is to begin our first wave on August 15th. Additional details will follow mid to late next week.

For those who live near the Kansas City area, we are going to set up an event at Tabletop Game & Hobby for folks to pick up their copies. We haven't locked down a date yet, but tentatively planning for August 12th or 19th. If this date doesn't work out, I can meet you locally to drop off the books in-person.
I am still working out details, but I'd like to get a head count of folks who would be interested in this option. If you live in the area and would be interested in picking up your copy in-person, please fill out this web form. It is only valid until Monday August 7th, so be sure to get your submission in before the weekend is over.

Note that this is only valid for those who already paid for their books on Kickstarter and CrowdOx. Due to limited inventories, we cannot make any promises for additional books being made available during time of pick-up.

https://form.jotform.us/72153711623146

Alex Pe of True Mask Games continues with part 2 of ‘A Bitter Harvest, an adventure using ZEIHANDER. From Youtube:

Welcome to “A Bitter Harvest”, the introductionary adventure from the ZWEIHÄNDER RPG Core Rolebook! This adventure is designed to teach the rules to new players and give all of us a first glimpse into the grimdark fantasy that is the world of Zweihänder!

After getting involved with a wedding in the river port town of Swanzi, our party was hired by the rich merchant Franz Raffke, father of the bride. He has been promised a dowry of hemp by the groom, one Maximilian Steiger of Vorberg village, and the wagons with the hemp have failed to arrive. Thus our group travels with the newlyweds to Vorberg to check upon the wagons…and find them on the road only an hour from the village. Horses and drivers are dead, seemingly slain by mutants. With night approaching our group hurried on to Vorberg, only to find the gates of the village closed and well guarded. Seems like the citizens of Vorberg already know what happened…

https://youtu.be/85ESYt-TqmQ

We previously predicted that Cubicle 7 Entertainment would acquire the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license.

It was confirmed a few short days after we broke the story, well ahead of Warhammer Fest. I’d like to think we had a part in Cubicle 7 tipping their hand a bit early, given the response on our Facebook page and website traffic search terms for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e.

Now, it appears that Cubicle 7 Entertainment will be granting insight into the future of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th edition at Gen Con 2017, based on their response on Facebook.

While Cubicle 7 Entertainment has promised additional news, we recommend you watch their Gen Con Event Link to see if anything pops up on the radar in the meanwhile.

https://grimandperilous.com/cubicle...s-to-warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-4e-at-gencon/

Last Saturday, TableTop Game & Hobby hosted a pre-release for ZWEIHÄNDER to fans in the Kansas City, Missouri area. It gave us an opportunity to hand-deliver books early, and to meet/discuss others’ experience with ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG. We handed out a little over 150 lbs. of books (you do the math), met with old Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay fans and converted a few over to the ZWEIHÄNDER open-source approach!

Phill Kilgore – the proprietor of TableTop Game & Hobby – has been a long-time supporter of ours, even prior to our Kickstarter. In fact, we are excited to announce that TableTop Game & Hobby will be the first retail store to carry ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG! Thanks again to Phill, Walter and the entire staff of TableTop.

Take a look at some of the pictures from the event below!

https://grimandperilous.com/zweihander-pre-release-at-tabletop-game-hobby/

That’s right, folks. We’ll be at Gen Con 50… sorta. Two of our playtesters, Ben & Kay, will be on the convention floor Saturday the 19th (wearing ZWEIHANDER shirts you can see in the image below). They will be carrying a limited number of hardback copies of ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous RPG, which will be given away for free to any one who can find them (Where’s Waldo-style)! As with all games, there are rules we al have to abide by:

1. There are only three copies to give away (technically, there are four, however we are hand-delivering one copy to Cubicle 7 Entertainment as a show of good faith for their stewardship of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th edition).
2. They will only be carrying the books with them on Saturday the 19th.
3. If you find them, you can only get one copy (limit one per customer/group).
4. You cannot get a book from Ben or Kay if they’re in line for food, in the restroom, in the middle of a game or outside the convention floor.
5. You must give them your email address (so we can also give you a PDF copy of the book from DriveThruRPG).
6. You must take a picture with them and yourself, and post it to Facebook or other social media (and definitely send a copy of the photo to daniel@grimandperilous.com).

Supplies are extremely limited. But don’t fret! Even if the books are gone by the time you find them, give them your email address. We will gladly comp you a PDF copy from DriveThruRPG once they return from the convention.

Thanks, and maybe we’ll see you at Gen Con 51 in an official capacity next year!

https://grimandperilous.com/zweihander-at-gen-con-50-get-a-book-for-free-if-you-can-find-us/

It’s been a very long road, and the day is finally here…

ZWEIHANDER BEGINS SHIPPING FRIDAY!

All books will be shipped out by USPS Domestic within the United States, and USPS International outside the continental U.S. Pay heed to the following considerations:

United States Backers: For shipments within the continental United States, books will begin shipping Friday 8/18. You will be receiving an email within the next 48-72 hours with tracking information. Note that each book or sword will be individually packaged, thus you will receive separate emails for each.

International Backers: For shipments outside the continental United States, your books are on pallets headed to our distribution center in Chicago, IL. Distribution outside the US can take longer, however we have been assured that they’ll begin deployment from the distribution center on 8/25. As above, you will receive a separate email for each of the books and swords you ordered. However, there is one caveat: books will ship as ‘bound printed matter’ with a declared value of $10. This value is under most countries’ thresholds for duties and taxes, so you shouldn’t have incur any additional charges.

We have been assured by our distributor that duties for bound printed matter are generally the exception, and not the rule. In case of customs charges, please contact us direct with a receipt of duties, and we will issue you a reimbursement through Stripe or Paypal (whichever method you prefer).

Please note that we have taken every precaution to ensure expedient and reliable shipping. Bundling books together was extremely cost-prohibitive, but bundling them separately allowed us to upgrade the packaging to the strongest packaging money could buy.

The mailing process can be frustrating. Understand that until you receive the email notification, we do not have the ability to track down your book until its in transit. Simply put, if you haven’t received your tracking ID yet, we don’t have it yet, either.

For questions beyond this, do not respond in-line or by private message on our Kickstarter or web forums. Please reach out to us direct at daniel@grimandperilous.com so that we can respond faster. Daniel will personally be watching Kickstarter and the forums for miscellaneous inquiries, but we have others monitoring the email address above who can respond within 24 hours of submission.

Please be patient with us as our distributor gets everything lined up. Should the stars align as expected (and Tzeentch doesn’t do anything funky on the day of the solar eclipse), folks in the continental United States should have books in-hand by mid next week.

We are beyond thrilled to get this book into your hands, and would love it if you’d share a picture of you with the book on social media. Please visit our Facebook page and tag us – we’d love to feature each and every one of you holding a copy of ZWEIHANDER in-hand. The most creative picture will net a handful of winners a special surprise!

Thanks, and we can’t wait to hear about your grim & perilous tales using ZWEIHANDER! Join the conversation over at our web forums, and tell us about your experience.

Books have begun to arrive at folks’ doorsteps in the United States! Check out this thread over at RPG.net, reporting on the quality of the book: https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?809159-Zweihander-Arrives

As mentioned in our previous post, our international shipments are on pallets in Chicago. However, given that we’ve seen a small handful of books landing at the doorstep with dented edges, I’ve ordered our distribution center to pause and repackage. Following this, remaining books will be wrapped in bubble wrap and replaced in the card-stock shippers. This should remedy any risks that international backers incur with having their local shipper handle the books improperly.

Although this will delay shipments by a couple of working business days, I’d rather plan for disaster than take any other risks. We want this to be perfect for each and every one of our supporters!

For those who’ve experienced damage to their books in the domestic US, email me at daniel@grimandperilous.com and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Greatly appreciate your patience on this, folks. And stay tuned! We may have some awesome news regarding a revised GM Screen here soon!

Hey gang,

Great news! Almost 100% of domestic shipments have hit peoples' doorstep. So far, we've only had a small handful of ruined books to replace. Those are already out the door to people as of today.

Our main distributor has repackaged all books with bubble wrap and thread-enhanced tape (top left-hand side of the photo):


International orders are being queued for next Tuesday to begin their trek across the sea. You can expect media mail to land around early to mid-Sept, barring any unusual requirements/customs hiccups for countries outside the EU. Remember: these are being declared as a $10 media, so you shouldn't have to incur any duties. If you do, email me a receipt to daniel@grimandperilous.com and I will personally reimburse you through PayPal.

If you're interested in additional copies beyond our limited print run, we will have a bog standard print-on-demand version at DriveThruRPG in September. However, it will not be of the same quality as our Kickstarter version whatsoever. That means no ribbon, no soft touch cover, no matte pages and middle-of-the-road offset paper/binding.

Finally, we are going to head back to Kickstarter this year with a new GM screen! We want to make honest to goodness, old school portrait-styled physical screens for purchase (which will also come with digital inserts for the Hammerdog Press screen). You've likely seen Dejan Mandic's concept artwork on our Facebook page (take a look at our cover photo). One of our stretch goals will be to initiate a second limited print run of Zweihänder. To note, almost all of our 3,680 books are spoken for. If we can hit that next stretch goal, we can avoid DTRGP print quality issues, and set ourselves up for success with our next chaos-themed supplement to be announced later this year.

Stay tuned for more information, and be sure to share with us your experience with Zweihänder in the coming days!

https://grimandperilous.com/domesti...ete-international-shipments-inbound-and-more/

Alex Pe of True Mask Games continues with part 3 of ‘A Bitter Harvest, an adventure using ZEIHANDER. From Youtube:

Welcome to “A Bitter Harvest”, the introductionary adventure from the ZWEIHÄNDER RPG Core Rolebook! This adventure is designed to teach the rules to new players and give all of us a first glimpse into the grimdark fantasy that is the world of Zweihänder!

The village of Vorberg is in danger! A group of mutants attacked a convoy nearby, crucifying several bodies. This attack seems an echo of the past, for the Orx have already attacked the village 12 years ago, taking all the women and girls. Now Waldmann, son to Maximilan Steiger, the leader of Vorberg, has suggested to scout the mutant encampment…and our characters have decided to go with him. What dangers will they face at the hill know as the Horned Monk?

[video=youtube_share;OaoYRlbU80A]https://youtu.be/OaoYRlbU80A[/video]

Alex Pe of True Mask Games concludes ‘A Bitter Harvest’, an adventure using ZEIHANDER. From Youtube:

Welcome to our FINAL session of “A Bitter Harvest”, the introductory adventure from the ZWEIHÄNDER RPG Core Rolebook! This adventure is designed to teach the rules to new players and give all of us a first glimpse into the grimdark fantasy that is the world of Zweihänder! The truth is out! The group has discovered what truly happened during the mutant attack twelve years ago…and now the fate of the village of Vorberg is in their hands! Will they try to talk, or will naked steel decide the victor? One thing is for sure: in the end, there will be blood.

[video=youtube_share;33UJ8TR8MbI]https://youtu.be/33UJ8TR8MbI[/video]