First Card Print, Dividers UPDATE; (and we know, we messed up Immovable Rod...)

GUILD HALL UPDATE — 2026-01-31

PRE-PRODUCTION RUN NEARING COMPLETION

The first pre-production run for Immediate Fulfillment Sets and marketing / review sets is nearly finished.

This is the “real” print run that confirms everything behaves correctly at scale, so we're ready to hit the ground running for full-scale fulfillment!

There’s a video of the cards being printed that’s honestly hypnotic: just a steady, mechanical rhythm as sheets roll through the press, over and over, perfectly consistent.

To put scale on this:
this order represents well over one million individual cards total across the full system.
That’s not per set — that’s the combined volume moving through production.

Everything we’ve seen so far matches the approved samples.

DIVIDER SHEETS & BINDERS

The divider sheets for the pre-production sets are complete and are now moving into final assembly and packaging alongside the binders.

A few important changes from the original prototype that are now locked in:

• “Tools” is no longer its own divider section
  In practice, it didn’t justify a dedicated tab (there are only 37 total, including instruments and tool kits).
  Tools will now live under Adventuring Gear or the new “Quest Items & Misc.” section, depending on your preference! (or even in "Crafting Materials"... that makes sense, too)
• New divider: “Quest Items & Misc.”
  This replaces the Tools tab and better reflects how tables actually track plot-critical items, oddities, keys, contracts, weird artifacts, etc. (and, of course whatever your GM creates on the MuleBrew Custom Card Creator!)
• Currency and Crafting Materials now have distinct artwork
  In the prototype, these shared the same divider image with different tab labels.
  They now each have their own dedicated art, which makes scanning and sorting much faster at the table.

These changes are already reflected in the pre-production sets.

WET-ERASE MARKERS

We’ve received samples of wet-erase markers and are selecting which ones will be included in the Books of Holding boxes.

The intent here is very practical:

• tracking consumables
• tracking constantly changing values (hit points, charges, temporary effects, etc.)
• writing directly on sleeves without committing anything permanently

Once finalized, these will be bundled directly with the binders.

DAILY UNIDENTIFIED ITEM — 2026-01-30 ISSUE

Quick transparency note on yesterday’s Daily Unidentified Item.

The item type was incorrect — it should have been Rod. That was a proofreading miss on our end.

The intent of the image was to show something what we felt was fairly boring and unassuming (basically a three-foot metal pipe) doing something absurd with magic — in this case, holding a massive boulder suspended in mid-air. That contrast didn’t land cleanly, and the incorrect item type made it worse.

What we’re doing about it:

• Everyone will receive a corrected result for that day
• The feedback on the image is noted
• That item is now on the revision list for when we do a future re-print with updated item art

Thanks to everyone who flagged it quickly — this is exactly why we run this stuff live and listen closely.

More soon.