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Everyone who participated in our Spycraft Third Edition playtest previews at Gen Con 2010 has been contacted at the email address provided at the show. This is the only way we'll be confiming names, so if you don't see an email from us sometime today, please drop us a line so we can double-check your credit. Many thanks to all who played!

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This and "Leprechaun: The Marshmallowing" appear to be what happens when Alex can't remember the real name of Changeling: The Dreaming. Such are the diversions from real work at this year's Crafty Summit (though we were actually discussing Mastercraft, and specifically Spycraft Third and 10kB, mechanics when the tangent occurred). Yestersday was highly productive, actually - we propped up the spines of two new systems for modern that we've wanted in Spycraft since Classic, and found ways to both consolidate and sttrengthen several Fantasy Craft rules for contemporary play. It's good timing, too, as this lets us slip in some of that for unofficial playtesting at Gen Con. Hope to see you there!

First day of the summit is done and we're winding down (well, I am - Alex is already asleep, the bastard). Today's agenda involved a series of last-minute items for Gen Con Indy (that'll happen a lot this trip, methinks), a review of the forwarded Time of High Adventure proofs, and a lengthy discussion on new classes, lethality, and genre emulation that produced what I hope will be the foundation of something really special in Spycraft Third (and 10kB). Gen Con attendees will see a little of it in action in our demos and events, and I imagine it'll be a big topic of discussion at our seminar on Thursday night at the show (7pm, at the Marriott Indiana Ballroom C). Anyone who's going should definitely attend BTW - it'll be your first chance not only to learn about modern Mastercraft but also to directly influence its development. More soon but for now, Stay Crafty!

It's just eight hours to Pat boarding a plane for Crafty HQ, where he and Alex will be brewing all manner of awesome (and a little bit o' WHATTHEHELLISTHAT?) at this year's Crafty Summit. For those of you who haven't been around when we do these, it's basically the Crafty partners' chance to take a mindwalk and see what we stumble across. There's usually a bit of an agenda - this year it's mostly about Spycraft Third Edition and Ten Thousand Bullets, with a bit of Mistborn and LGW for good measure - but really, anything can and will come up. Expect the blog to be punctuated with bits of flotsam, jetsam, and other misc. debris along the stream of consciousness over the next 10 days or so, and then.... GEN CON!!! (We'll be blogging live from the show as well, so stay tuned - there's lots of goodness to come.)

We've received all the files back from layout and we're packaging the book up for the printer today. It looks amazing and truly delivers on the book's promise. From Sean Macdonald's incredible Vault map (we were worried about finding a cartographer who could do its old school isometric vibe justice, but Sean really hit it out of the park) to Brendon Goodyear's kick-ass layout work (that [REDACTED] page is unreal) to the great campaign background and seeds in Chapter 4, and of course Loren Dean's first adventure trilogy with us, complete at last... We're proud to call this our first Fantasy Craft supplement. Can't wait for you to check it out - in just under three weeks. The printers assure us the POD run will be ready for us when we arrive at Indy for the Best Four Days in Gaming!