September Update: Locking Shipping Addresses!

10 days ago – Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:00:59 PM Ahoy ahoy, Cortex-philes! This update is all about one thing: finalising the address we are shipping your physical books to. If you didn’t back the Cortex Prime Game Handbook at a physical level, you can go ahead and skip this update (although there are still thirty people who haven’t responded even to the BackerKit survey… if this is you, even if you only backed at a dollar, please go do that!). You need to have your current address properly finalized in BackerKit (see below) no later than September 22, 2020! Locking Addresses Shortly I’ll be sending out a separate email via BackerKit that tells you I’m going to lock your addresses. This should include instructions and a link to go ahead and update your shipping address. If for some reason you don’t get that email but you DO get this one (or you read it here on Kickstarter in your app, or something like that) you should be able to go straight to: Your BackerKit Projects Select Cortex Prime, then it takes you straight to your order. You can edit your shipping address on that page. Remember to save your changes. Alternately you can go straight to the Cortex Prime backerkit page and navigate to your account information there. Reminder! Don’t respond to this update—or send me a direct message on Kickstarter—with your mailing address change. All changes need to be made by you on your Cortex Prime BackerKit page, NOT on Kickstarter. Thanks! P.S. We will have another update this month where we’ll share a bit more about next steps for Cortex, so keep a look out for that after you confirm your shipping address. All the best, Cam and the Cortex Prime production crew

August Update: Final PDF, Xadia, and Grayskull!

about 1 month ago – Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:35:24 AM Ahoy ahoy, Cortex-Philes! This month brings confirmation on deliverables for the Cortex Prime Game Handbook and two huge announcements. Let’s get right to it. Backer PDF! Backers should all soon get notification via BackerKit emails of your final, full-featured, linked and indexed Cortex Prime Game Handbook PDF. This is it, not a pre-release version or an almost-there version. Those of you who backed the PDF on BackerKit (rather than just the physical book) should also get access to this. As a reminder, this file is stored in your Digital Downloads folder on your BackerKit page, accessed via the Cortex Prime links you’ve had all this time. There should also be a direct link to download it in that email. We are hard at work on creating a secondary PDF that is specifically designed for enhanced accessibility for those who use screen readers. Working in conjunction with DOTS RPG, a team of accessibility experts that specialize in the TRPG space, we’ve made some accessibility improvements for the PDF going out now, but there’s more to come. That PDF will be available to everyone who got the Cortex Prime Game Handbook PDF. Printing and Shipping As confirmed by our print partner, Taylor Specialty Books, the printed hardcover and softcover Cortex Prime Game Handbooks are scheduled to be complete and ready to ship to our fulfilment partner in Minnesota at the end of September. As always, this assumes we don’t have any further COVID-19 related delays. Once they arrive at our fulfilment warehouse, our fulfilment partner will box them up and ship them out to backers around the world. Now is a good time to check your BackerKit account for your correct mailing address! There’s going to be another email next month that essentially says, “Here’s what we have on record, is this right?” from BackerKit, but checking it now can make things easier. Note: your Kickstarter account no longer has any bearing on your information, so updating it there won’t affect our records on BackerKit. You must update it on BackerKit for us to have the right contact and shipping information. Big Licenses for 2021! This month we were thrilled to announce the first two major Fandom Tabletop RPG licenses primed by Cortex: Tales of Xadia and Legends of Grayskull. Each consists of a line of gorgeous full-color print game books and our digital toolset, as well as an upcoming organized play program and much more. Tales of Xadia: The Dragon Prince RPG is based on the Emmy-award-winning Netflix animated series, which has already had three seasons and was recently renewed for four more! With Tales of Xadia, we’re using flavorful mods from Cortex Prime to capture the heartfelt emotional resonance of the show with the broad variety of backgrounds and options that fans expect. Wonderstorm, the producers of The Dragon Prince, have allowed us to explore parts of this world beyond the story of the show, which makes it not only a must for fans but also a fresh alternative to standard fantasy RPGs. Legends of Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe RPG draws from Mattel’s living myth featuring He-Man, Skeletor, She-Ra, and Hordak, as well as a dizzying array of other colorful heroes and villains, magical and technological marvels, and a cross-generational fan base. We’re excited to provide this evergreen core game handbook with which you can create your own Masters of the Universe or your favourites from toys, cartoons, and comics. Legends of Grayskull builds on Cortex Prime’s rich history of super heroic action and introduces a new take on some familiar Cortex mechanics to truly capture what it feels like to tap into the power of Grayskull. That’s it for now! As always, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook and join the discussion over on our official discord.gg/EGwwfwS Discord server. Peace, Cam and the Cortex Production Crew

July Update: Hammerheads Spotlight!

about 2 months ago – Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:10:55 AM Ahoy ahoy, Cortex-Philes! With the Game Handbook off at press, the System Reference undergoing structural editorial review, and the Cortex RPG digital platform in development, and some other exciting announcements coming very soon, everything Cortex is coming together nicely. This month’s update touches on some of the above, just to keep you informed of our ongoing progress and what to look out for. Print Proofs are Here! We got our wet proofs in from Taylor Specialty Books. Tina reviewed them all for any lingering layout issues, Amanda joined her in taking careful note of anything that may have escaped our extensive proofreading pass, and now all of those notes and minor fixes are submitted. We’re still on track for September to get these books shipped out, barring of course any future delays due to the pandemic or other unforeseen factors. Here’s a photo of Tina’s office helper contributing to the print proof review process! Tortellini Surveys the Print Proofs Hammerheads Spotlight Those of you who have read over the pre-release Game Handbook PDF may know about Hammerheads, one of the three spotlight settings in the Settings chapter. In order to give people a taste of Cortex Prime, we’ve assembled a standalone Hammerheads Spotlight mini-game with all of the rules you need in order to play a crew of Hammerheads agents. You can use this to teach your friends the rules or give them a go yourself. What’s more, this represents your first look at the Cortex digital compendium thanks to the tireless efforts of our engineering and content team at Fandom Tabletop! Check out the Spotlight here and let us know what you think! In the meantime, we hope you’re all safe and well and doing as best you can. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook and join the discussion over on our official Discord server. Peace, Cam and the Cortex Team

June Update: Off to Press!

3 months ago – Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 03:06:58 AM Ahoy ahoy, Cortex-Philes! We’re approaching the end of the month but we have some more production news for all backers. Without further ado, here are the details. Game Handbook to Press Amanda and Tina have been reviewing an internally-printed version of the Game Handbook and fixed even more format and typographical issues, resulting in an even better Game Handbook. Now it’s off to our print partners at Taylor Specialty Books who have opened up again after the COVID-19 shutdown in Texas. With the caveat that print schedules and shipping may be further delayed by the pandemic, Taylor has told us to expect delivery of the hardcovers and softcovers sometime in September. This means that once we get them delivered to our fulfilment partner, backer copies will be shipped out worldwide. We’ve had multiple requests for news about updating your shipping address, and the simple answer to this is: BackerKit is where all of that information is kept. Update your BackerKit account shipping address and we can take it from there. Changing your address in Kickstarter will not be enough, as we migrated all of the backer accounts from KS last year. You will get a reminder to do this closer to the shipping date, but it may pay to revisit your account if you’ve moved in the last 12 months or so. Digital Copy News Now that the print files are off to press, we’re turning our attention to producing a high quality, full-featured version of the Game Handbook PDF. Our plan is to release this to backers in advance of the printed copies. Our engineers are also working on CortexRPG.com and the Cortex Rules Compendium. More on that in a future update. As always we appreciate your contribution to the discussion over on the Cortex Discord, and on Twitter and Facebook. Keep sharing and keep caring! Peace, Cam and the Cortex Production Crew