🎄 December Updates
- Double Proficiency
- Dec 8, 2025
- 3 min read
More Birds! Physical Books! Mushrooms Inbound!
This is a copy of the newsletter sent on 8th December 2025
Dearest Subscribers,
It's us again, happy to deliver you the freshest updates from the icy north. We got birds! (Get used to this line, I've accepted it as my current special interest.) We've been working moderately hard on the upcoming bird book, and unreasonably hard on planning the upcoming year for our little studio.
Let us bring you up to speed.
Mycologist's Primer
For those of you who supported our latest Kickstarter campaign, we bear news about the upcoming fulfillment. We're slightly off from our estimated November, but we're just awaiting the delivery of the books to our publisher's warehouse, which is scheduled for this week. The plan is to start the packing and shipping as soon as the books arrive! You will find the detailed timeline in the update published on Kickstarter on 2nd December.
Meanwhile, our partners at PixelTable (whom you might know from their stellar work on the digital Alice is Missing TTRPG) are resolving the last technical quirks of the Natural Worlds Library app. Soon, our bespoke app filled with the content from the first three Primers will be available in app stores! If you supported the creation of the app during the Mycologist's Primer Kickstarter, you'll be one of the first people to try it out!
Physical Primers on DriveThruRPG!
If you'd like to grab a hardcover copy of the Herbalist's Primer or Geologist's Primer, we are happy to announce that you can now get a printed retail copy though DriveThruRPG! (link)
This is a perfect opportunity to get a book for yourself or your friends and family - at a low-low price of $35 each, with free PDF version included!
Other digital offerings from the series (adventures, posters, flash cards, adventure hooks, etc.) are now also on sale - for the next 24 hours only!
Zoologist's Primer: Birds
Meanwhile, Jakub and I are chipping away at the 100-entry bird book. Our Patrons already have access to the first ten, from albatross to caracara. Bear in mind, these are very much WIP and are subject to change for any reason, from atmospheric pressure to us finding a really cool fact we absolutely have to include.
You can get access to all of it by joining our Patreon, which also grants you access to our Discord server, which is chill and relaxed, and we get to post memes, bird gifs, and talk about worldbuilding and folklore. It's fun!
If you have no issues with delayed gratification, you can of course just stick to the newsletter or join the Patreon as a free member. You'll get all the info monthly, and the book will eventually appear on Kickstarter and later in retail, just like the previous ones did. We hear that FOMO is good for business, but we'd rather save you the anxiety.
We have also posted an extensive FAQ about the Zoologist's Primer: Birds on our blog. Reading it will be 7 minutes you'll never get back, but it will tell you oh-so-many cool things about the upcoming book! If you had any burning questions about the project, they may have already been answered! (If not, shoot us a comment, we'll add it!)
Other projects
Our sci-fi game Aphelion is in playtesting, we're working on a sci-fantasy game (it is gonna be such a Slavic-flavored cool thing), and we're keeping ourselves high on dopamine making smaller space-themed projects about which we're hoping to tell you soon.
For now, though, all we can say is: love you, see you after the holidays. May they be good for you! 💖
Anna & Jakub 🐦⬛
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