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Our printer has informed us that manufacturing of the HMK books (both Standard Edition and Collector's Edition) will likely be completed on November 26. The books will then be sent to our three shipping hubs in Germany, the USA, and New Zealand where they will likely arrive around December 10 (Germany and New Zealand) and early January (USA). From there, they will be sent on to their destination addresses, which will take about a week on average. This means that European and New Zealander customers should receive their HMK books around December 17 and all other customers around January 10.

As communicated earlier, all books will be based on version 1.2 of HMK, which is already available as a file download. This version contains a considerable amount of corrections and small rules tweaks. The printing process was postponed in order to ensure that these improvements could make it into the physical books.

If you have any questions or comments, let us know via our forums, our Discord community, or via e-mail.

We have something new for our Premium Users: a genealogy of the Chéler clan Wésen. This is an excerpt from the Clan Wésen section of the long-planned Clans & Folk of Chélemby module, written by Robin Crossby back in 2002 (and updated in 2006). It has never been released before.

It can work as a nice little accompaniment to the existing Chélemby products, and will be of particular interest if your campaign involves the important Clan Wésen in any way -- whose influence stretches beyond Chélemby through various trading stations they operate (cf. Venarive).

(Reminder: Premium Content is exclusive content for Kelestia.com Premium Users. A Premium User is any Kelestia.com customer who has purchased products for $100 or more. The content can be accessed under Free Stuff→Premium Area.)

Version 1.2 of the HMK PDF has just been uploaded. This version replaces the existing file download. HMK owners can go to the Account→Files section of Kelestia.com and re-download the file called hmkcore.pdf there to receive the new version. If you would like to keep the previous version(s), please make sure that you rename them or store them in a different folder -- otherwise it is possible that they will be overwritten.

While we announced earlier that the printed books of HMK would be based on rules version 1.1, they are now actually based on version 1.2. Several corrections and clarifications were made to the document literally in the last minute. A special thanks goes to members of the KP fan community for their outstanding contribution to these fixes!

Incorporating all the changes made it necessary to postpone the production of the books a bit. Our printing firm is the renowned Standart Impressa in Lithuania, well-regarded in role-playing circles for their high quality book production. They began manufacturing HMK in early October and are expected to ship the books to our three different hubs around November 10. From there, it will take about 10 days for them to arrive at our European hub in Germany, 30 days to our North-American hub in the US (Kentucky), and 30 days to our Oceanian hub in New Zealand. Finally, we must include about a week for the books to be handled, shipped, and delivered to their ultimate destination: your doorstep.

Based on these current estimates, European, Asian, and African customers would receive their ordered books in late November or early December and all other customers in late December or early January.

We will update these estimated arrival dates to you when Standart has definitively shipped them from Lithuania in early November.

We hope you understand our decision to postpone the book production for a few weeks in order to be able to deliver a more polished version to you.

As usual, if you have any questions or comments, let us know via our forums, our Discord community, or via e-mail.

By popular request, we have created a free document containing printer-friendly versions of the Melee, Missile, Injury, and Healing Sequences, and have also included HMK's opposed Melee test results in an old-style matrix format (similar to the ones in the original HârnMaster and HMG). This document has been designed to be printed out as a quick reference at the gaming table, but can certainly also be handy in its digital form. It is part of the HMK Document Package, available from the Free Stuff→Aids & Tools section. Finally, we have also added an updated version of the HMK auto-calc sheets to this bundle, fixing a minor bug.

The fully corrected PDF version 1.1 of HMK is now available for all customers to redownload. To do so, please go to your Account→Files section and click on the file named hmkcore.pdf. The file name is still the same, but once downloaded and opened up, you will see the new version number appear in the PDF title and also on the Acknowledgements page.

New HMK purchasers will of course immediately receive version 1.1.

The physical books (Standard and Collector's Edition), about to go into print any day now, will be based on this fully corrected version.