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Gascony's Legacy: The Legend of the Three Musketeers

Created by Lynnvander

A temporary Legacy store for you to gain access to all the Legacy goodness!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

On the Boat (Finally) and Happy Holidays
over 3 years ago – Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 07:42:01 PM

This update is a bit later than we planned, but let’s give you the good news. We got confirmation yesterday that Gascony’s Legacy and its expansion content are now on the water, heading to North America!


Boat Name: CMA CGM SWORDFISH

ETD Ningbo: Dec 23 2020

ETA Chicago: Jan 14 2021


After that, the games still need to clear US customs, get forwarded to our warehouse for distribution and fulfilment, and then they will be mailed to you. This is a significant delay from our earlier estimate, and this new timeline puts the games in your hands sometime in February 2021. 


For the long version, read on.

What Happened?

Behind the scenes, there were a few hiccups that we dealt with. Rather than post several updates with all of our setbacks and no solutions, we continued to work on it until we solved it and could tell the full story.


First, after two rounds of physical proofs from the printer, they shared a video with us of how the core game boxes were being packed. We found that a previously-identified diecut mistake on the punchboards was still present. All of the punchboards were already printed (and miscut) at this point, so our best solution was to create a small additional punchboard with those pieces correctly cut and include it in every game.


The specific issue I’m talking about has to do with the character boards. Of the eight characters in the core game, two of them have an extra hit point. This is represented by five notches on the bottom of the character board instead of four, because that’s where you slot in the little double-sided heart tokens. The miscut punchboards had 4 notches for everybody, which significantly weakens Porthos and Queen Anne.

This may seem like a small issue unworthy of a delay. After everything we’ve been through with this project already, the last thing we want is for the game you receive not to be the game we designed. Fixing this now means it’s correct and we won’t need to issue replacements.


The end result is that the printer needed a bit of extra time to print the additional punchboard and pack it into all of the boxes. As such, you will have two copies of Porthos and Queen Anne in your core game boxes. You should use the ones with more health.


Second, we had to sort out new distribution and fulfilment arrangements in the US.

For games kickstarted by Lynnvander before Gascony’s Legacy (such as Albion’s Legacy, Sherwood’s Legacy, and Neverland’s Legacy), we worked with US-based publisher partners such as Jasco Games to handle warehousing and distribution into retail. We also handled the Kickstarter fulfilment ourselves, in-house. None of that is the case for Gascony’s Legacy. 


We are working with D6 to handle our Kickstarter fulfilment for Gascony’s Legacy. They’ve been doing an outstanding job handling the complexities of Frosthaven’s multi-wave kickstarter fulfilment, and we’re happy to have their help. It will be a lot smoother on our end. 


We are also working with a US distributor to put the remaining games from our print run into retail. Since we are based in Canada and are no longer working with a US publishing partner, we had to go through a process of setting up Lynnvander as a US importer. This came with several of its own bureaucratic hurdles, and was impacted a bit by Covid. Without the paperwork for Lynnvander done, we couldn’t import the games to the US, which means we couldn’t put them on the boat because they didn’t have anywhere to go. That’s now sorted.


These were not things we expected to deal with in the process of getting Gascony’s Legacy to you, but in the long run they give us the most options.

Updating Addresses

In our last update, we asked you for updated addresses by November 1st. Most of you have done so – there are a handful of backers still outstanding. If you don’t confirm your current address for us, we won’t be able to send you a game. Our timeline is a bit longer now, so none of the addresses have been locked for fulfilment yet. You’ve still got a few weeks.

Other Games and Items

One last note, several of you have reached out to us regarding missing items from older Lynnvander Kickstarter projects. We’re working through those tickets individually, but it is taking some time.


We'll update again when the games have landed in North America. In the meantime, Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Manufacturing, Timeline and Next Steps
over 3 years ago – Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:56:47 PM

Manufacturing Well Underway!

In addition to the issues Josh pointed out during the unboxing, we identified a couple small issues with the punchboards. We have since corrected and proofed them again, and confirmed everything is set. 

We gave the manufacturer the green light to start the full print run about a week ago, and they confirm they will have everything ready to ship on September 30th!

Timeline and Next Steps

Everything for Gascony's Legacy - the core game and the three expansions - will be printed and shipped together in one wave. The two stretch goals we unlocked (playable Milady and the additional scenario) were merged into the core game, so there's no additional package for those.

Once the print run is complete, ocean freight to our warehouse takes approximately 40 days plus potentially a week or two to clear customs. We'll post another update with tracking information for the boat when we have it.

This means we should have everything on hand and ready to fulfil to you around November 16th, which means Gascony's Legacy will be in your hands before Christmas.

Updating Addresses

It was quite some time ago that all of you filled out the backer surveys and provided your shipping addresses. From our experience fulfilling missing content from the other Legacy games over the past 18 months, it's very likely the information we have is no longer correct. We don't want to ship packages that won't reach you, so we will be reaching out to all backers via email to collect current addresses.

If you purchased Gascony's Legacy through any of our kickstarters, or directly from Lynnvander.com, keep an eye on your inbox for an email from [email protected] with instructions for updating your shipping address. 

Please note that even if your address has changed, we will not be asking you to pay for shipping again.

We're aiming to have all of this address information updated by November 1st to ensure a smooth start to fulfilment. We'll be sending out reminders closer to the date as well.

Finally, we just want to say thanks for sticking with us on this project. We're finally in the home stretch of getting everything delivered to you and we'll be posting more updates to keep you appraised of our progress with manufacturing and shipping.

Samples have arrived from the Manufacturer - Finally!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:20:08 PM

Hey backers,

This update has been a long time coming. I know we've asked for your patience as we dealt with all manner of delays relating to this game, of which the latest hurdle has been Covid-19.

Today however, we have finally received the manufacturing samples for the all of the Gascony's Legacy content!

Samples fresh out of the shipping box

We will be reviewing all of these printed samples to make sure they are free of printing errors, and to ensure that we are fulfilling the quality game we have promised.

Unboxing Samples

Josh will be unboxing the Gascony's Legacy core game and the three expansion boxes during his live stream today at 4pm EST: 

If you miss the live stream, the video will be on Youtube afterward.

We'll be posting another update shortly with our next steps.

COVID Update
over 3 years ago – Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 11:11:36 PM

Hey backers, 

I'm finally able to get to update this Kickstarter.  In short, the games are in China, our team has not been able to meet or do anything in person since March and all our travel plans and regular production schedules for all our games/clients have been put on hold/delayed/reorganized etc. while we worked to figure out how to navigate this COVID storm. 

We appreciate your patience.  We're now revving our engines and putting plans in place for how to even set the games up for delivery.  Everything, including regular mail is becoming a problem as the world shut down and is now starting up again.  If you belong to a country or area that isn't as shut down as ours, you're perhaps fortunate in that you still retain some semblance of normalcy.  

We here in Canada, specifically Ontario and in Seattle, have not had as much luck and are just phasing into a new normal. That being said, China, with due reason has had their own issues regarding COVID, however, our manufacturer is still working with us, just at a slower capacity. 

We do hope to at least do an unboxing video for you in the coming weeks.  We're going to try and punch that video out, will most likely be a Skype from the team on Youtube.  We'll update on that as soon as we have a date.  I do talk about Gascony's Legacy on YouTube every Monday. Come talk with me there and ask any questions you may have. 

http://www.youtube.com/LynnvanderStudios

Stay safe everyone.  I know this game has taken, what seems like forever, and of COURSE we'd get a delay that actually isn't our faults, however, we are coming out of the darkness and working diligently to continue somehow. 

Be safe,

Lynnvander

Update Countdown 1.5
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:27:56 PM

Hey Musketeers, 

I hope that everyone is okay and safe in this crazy time regarding the pandemic of Covid-19. 

Here is a brief update on what's going on from our perspective.  China has fired up their engines again and are manufacturing product as of a couple of weeks ago.  We've completed the press files with very little changes and I believe we are manufacturing most of the components.   

We have time for the rule-book still, maybe a week or so before it prints as we are proofing it with the printer. While this happens we have time to do a little proofing of our own.  We've decide to show you the rule-book here. If there's anything that pops out to you that is glaring at us, please be sure to let us know in the comments below, on our Facebook page or during a live stream of our channel. 

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/Lynnvanderstudios 

Youtube streams - http://www.youtube.com/lynnvanderstudios

Here's the rule-book!  We look forward to your comments and we're excited to have you be a part of this project still. We appreciate everything you'd done to wait and accepting our delays and apologies. We're very close to the finish line now. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/16djgywcnu2akpy/Gascony%27sLegacy_RulebookWEB_20200327.pdf?dl=0