Before you pledge to a game about the dead, you deserve straight answers about the living details: what arrives at your door, when it is likely to arrive, and what happens if the road runs long.
This page is written for two kinds of reader: the backer deciding whether to pledge, and the backer who already has and wants to know what comes next. Everything below describes the planned launch and is framed as an estimate, not a guarantee. Where a number would be misleading before the campaign locks, we leave it out on purpose. What we will not do is dress up a hope as a fact.
The core pledge is planned to be the complete First Turning set: the full 62-card First Turning launch set, meaning every Warden, every Site and every Spirit in that set. There are no booster packs and no random pulls. You are not buying a chance at the game, you are buying the whole game. If a card exists in the set, it is in your box.
Alongside the cards, the launch box is planned to include:
Premium foils and numbered editions, where offered, are cosmetic only. They look extraordinary on the table but grant no gameplay advantage, so a standard set and a deluxe set play from the exact same card pool. Nothing about MORANA is pay-to-win. You can read the full reasoning on the fixed distribution page.
MORANA is built as a line of self-contained sets, and the one that funds and ships first is The First Turning, the 62-card launch set. It is the finished, fully illustrated set and the one this campaign is about. It is a complete, playable game on its own.
Any later set is a separate campaign and a separate delivery. You never need a future set to play the game you back at launch, and you are never quietly locked out of content you already own. If and when a second set is revealed, it will get its own page, its own showcase and its own honest timeline, and backing it will always be a fresh choice rather than an automatic charge.
Here is the part most campaigns rush and most backers wish they had not. We treat every date as a planned estimate, subject to change, because the honest truth of manufacturing is that some steps are outside anyone's total control. The sequence, from the day the campaign closes, is planned to run roughly like this:
Stacked end to end, a conservative window runs several months from campaign close through to parcels landing. We would rather quote a cautious estimate and beat it than promise a fast date and miss it. When the campaign goes live, the estimated month will be stated plainly on the campaign page, and it may still move if a supplier does.
Fixed distribution is the reason MORANA can launch honestly, and it is also the reason it is not shipped overnight. A game sold in random packs has to gamble on a large print run before anyone buys, sitting on inventory. MORANA does the opposite: we print after the campaign, in the exact quantity ordered, with zero unsold-inventory risk.
The trade-off is time. Printing after the fact adds a production step between your pledge and your parcel that an off-the-shelf product does not have. We think that trade is worth it, and we would rather you understand it going in than feel surprised by it later. In exchange, the game you back is far more likely to actually get made and to reach you as promised.
Shipping realities differ by where you live, and we would rather set expectations than paper over them. In broad, planned terms:
Exact regions served, carriers and shipping costs are finalized when the campaign goes live and may change before then. If a destination cannot be served responsibly at launch, we will say so on the campaign page rather than take a pledge we cannot fulfil.
Delays are the norm in crowdfunded manufacturing, not the exception, and we plan for them out loud. If any planned date slips, our commitment is simple:
Print-to-demand removes the worst failure mode, a project that overprints and collapses under unsold stock. It does not remove the ordinary friction of factories, freight and carriers. Treating those risks as real is how a small, honest launch stays trustworthy.
Before the campaign, the best way to stay close to the project and to be first in line is the Founders' List, where launch updates and the confirmed timeline are shared before anyone else. Prospective and confirmed backers with a specific question can reach the team directly through the contact on the press and contact page. Once the campaign is live, updates and messages also run through the crowdfunding platform itself, so an answer is never more than a message away.
All contents, dates, regions and shipping details on this page describe the planned First Turning launch and are estimates, not promises; final numbers lock when the campaign goes live and may change before then. Rules terms are summarized from the official Rules Reference. This page describes MORANA only and does not reference any other product.