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First, a word from the boss - Head of Creative & Design/CEO Dom McDowall: 

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone for the kind words after the last update (and to Eoin who said hi in Eire Hobbies!). The old saying that mistakes are inevitable, and it’s dealing with them that counts, has been pointed out by a few people, and I guarantee that the team and I are absolutely committed to fixing them. I think that’s one of the things in C7’s DNA, as a creator-led company. It really matters to me that we make the best games we can, on a deep and personal level. It’s been a difficult year for us, and for me with one thing and another - but that doesn’t change anything about my commitment to making and sharing the best games we can.

So, as we said in the last update, not everything has gone smoothly and we’re doing our best to catch up with those delays to some physical books and accessories - an update on these is below. Generally, though, things are getting back on track, and a load of difficult work we’ve done behind the scenes this year will stand us in good stead.

It’s great to see the reactions to the new Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay rulebook - it was wonderful to get the chance to dive back in eight years after making 4th Edition, and fantastic to see the changes and additions going down well! 

-Dom

An update on our Print releases

When our pre-orders go live, we include an estimated release date. We work them out from the standard time each remaining stage of the process takes, but if any stages take longer than this, the date changes. Most recently, for example, Victoriana shipments were hit by multiple typhoons, adding a month to the time it took for them to get from the factory to our warehouses. 

Some of our recent print releases have taken longer to get printed and sent out to you than we wanted. Champions of Chaos, for example, experienced longer delays as we came across some issues that needed to be corrected to meet our stringent quality standards.

Meanwhile, we’re doing everything we can to get your pre-orders to you, and will be updating pre-order customers via email when we know more. Here are the latest ETAs for some key pre-order items in production:

  • Victoriana - US copies arriving now, non-US November 2026 

  • Warhammer The Old World RPG Starter Set & GM screen - November 2026

  • Wrath & Glory Adventures in Gilead - November 2026

  • Map bundles - November 2026

  • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite - January 2027

  • Age of Sigmar Soulbound Champions of Chaos - Spring 2027
  • Imperium Maledictum Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide and GM’s Guide - Spring 2027
  • Uncharted Dungeons - Development has been extended, and we'll be sharing the first sections with backers asap.

An update on our games in development

In better news, we are absolutely flat out creating new books and products for all our games! We’ll have much more to share as we settle back into these regular updates, but for now, here’s a whistle stop tour of the biggest names and updates for you.

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy RPG

We know you’re excited about this one - we are too, and we wish we could tell you more.

But for now, just be assured: our designers are still hard at work developing the Horus Heresy RPG, and we’ll have more details to share in upcoming updates.

Upcoming releases for our Warhammer RPGs

It’s an incredibly busy time at Cubicle 7, with our game designers labouring hard on incredible new books for all our Warhammer RPGs - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition, Warhammer The Old World Roleplaying Game, Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum, and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound. Some you may have heard about, others remain shrouded in mystery, but trust us, they’re all going to be fantastic.

When it comes to our next Production Update in a few weeks, we’ll be sharing the first tantalising details about some of our upcoming releases for each of these games - so keep your eyes on the blog!

The Laundry TTRPG

The Laundry HR department is pleased to share that the next volume of our official guidance for Laundry operatives is almost ready for deployment. 
Following an official consultation among senior management, the Legal Affairs department, and that one Zombie that works in accounting, we’re authorised to inform you that the title has changed from With Hideous Strength to The Laundry Roleplaying Game: Inhuman Resources Handbook.

This new volume advances the era of play to around 2013, and offers operatives two powerful new character options, in the form of individuals afflicted with PHANG Syndrome and the Alfär. It also includes guidance for managing new non-human operative types, including Ghosts, Deep Ones, and Gorgons - alongside fulsome GM advice and numerous fresh threats to put your new operatives to the test.

More information on the Inhuman Resources Handbook will be published via the Cubicle 7 blog very soon, and the book will open up for backers on Kickstarter not long after. To be among the first operatives briefed into the new material, make sure you subscribe to the campaign preview here.

Victoriana 

After a long and storm-harried journey, US backers of Victoriana are getting their copies right now, while the non-US stock is currently arriving in our warehouse and will be shipping very soon (as we said above, all Kickstarter backers and pre-order customers should have their copies by the end of November).

Looking ahead, we have MUCH more planned for Victoriana, our brand new RPG of steam, sorcery, and revolution! Design work on the next release - a tome of arcane spellwork and myriad wonders - is already advanced, so we’ll have much more to share on that in the next couple of production updates. And more books are already planned for after that!

Harrowhill Point

Development of our new horror roleplaying campaign, Harrowhill Point, is in full swing. It’s a complete roleplaying experience with everything you need in the box, including rules, characters, a haunting campaign, and endless handouts. 

The game is set in 1983, in the remote New England town of Harrowhill Point - a sleepy harbour nestled on the coast of the frigid North Atlantic. The Point is a place all too familiar with misfortune and rife with superstition, where hard-bitten sailors risk their lives for a good catch of herring, and where old tales refuse to die. 

Watch this space for more, and be sure to subscribe to the Harrowhill Point Kickstarter page to keep up to date!

Future production update schedule

As we wrote in the last blog, we’re stepping up our communication with you all about the games we’re working on, right now.

We are constantly hard at work designing outstanding TTRPGs for your table, and we want to keep you better informed about what’s going on in the white-hot core of our game design forges! In particular, when we have to push back our planned final release date on something, you deserve to know what we’re changing or fixing, and why.

So, starting today, we will:

  • Update you on progress once every month via a production update like this - shared on our blog and via our email newsletter.

  • Publish a broader production update video once every three months, which will review our progress on any delayed products, alongside our other releases.

  • Publish additional, smaller production updates in the form of short blog updates or videos, when we have something exciting to share that just can’t wait for the next monthly update!

We’ll also launch a new page on the website that’ll allow you to see, at a glance, where we’re at with each of our current projects.

A closing note from Dom

In the next update we’ll look more at work in progress and future releases, as well as the current status of titles in print or shipping. Thanks again for your support, and for your patience when things don’t go as smoothly. I can’t promise that we won’t experience setbacks and delays in the future, but I can promise that we take them seriously and do our best to resolve them as well and as quickly as we can. 

These regular, monthly production update blogs (PUBs, if you like) are a big part of that - and we’ll see you back here for the next one!