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Project Update: Fulfillment Update June 29: USA 77% Shipped
Just a quick fulfillment update for Caverns of Thracia. USA is 77% shipped. The warehouse crew worked this weekend to continue picking and packing. We have about 250 boxes boxes packed and awaiting shipping labels on Monday, and then roughly another 500 to be picked and packed. I think we probably have about 1 to 1.5 weeks of shipping remaining.
To repeat something from our previous update: In answer to the question, "I haven't gotten a tracking number yet - should I be worried?" - the answer is, no, you should not be worried. We are still very much in the midst of shipping orders.
For international backers, we're awaiting updates from local fulfillment partners. It appears that Canada may begin fulfillment soon - we're trying to get an exact date. UK/EU and AUS/NZ are still on the water. More to come there as inventory lands in market.
Thanks everyone!
Project Update: Pledge Manager Open for Deadlands Lost Colony: Mad World! PREORDER NOW if you missed the campaign
Thank you for being patient while we set up the portal for you to confirm your pledge—or upgrade for more goodies and Add Ons—for the Deadlands Lost Colony: Mad World campaign.
Our Pledge Manager for this Project is BackerKit
We're using BackerKit.com to confirm your pledge, give you the chance to upgrade your reward level, and Add On to your pledge. Look for an email later today from BackerKit.com (check your Spam or Promotions tab) with a link to the portal.
Emails are sending in waves, to avoid looking like spam, so your email may not arrive as soon as this Update is posted. After 24 hours, check your spam folder. If you use Gmail, sometimes your invite will go to your "Promotions" tab.
If that doesn't work:
1. Click https://deadlands-lost-colony-mad-world.backerkit.com/
2. Click "Get My Survey"
3. Enter your email address (the one you pledged with during the BackerKit campaign)
4. Wait at least 10 minutes - then go to your email, open the invite, and click the giant button to confirm all your goodies.
There's something wrong with my pledge!
That's not impossible. If you notice something is awry, send us a message directly to [email protected] and we'll look at it for you.
What if I need to change my address?
As long as your items have not shipped, you can always change your address. Just simply log back in to BackerKit at https://deadlands-lost-colony-mad-world.backerkit.com/ and make the appropriate change.
If I have a friend who missed the project, can they still join?
YES!!!! You can share this link to your friends and they can preorder too:
https://deadlands-lost-colony-mad-world.backerkit.com/
Shipping (estimated to begin in November 2025)
No Digital Add-Ons in Pledge Manager
Here's a link you can share for folks looking to purchase the PDFs only:
https://peginc.com/product-category/settings/lost-colony/
Complimentary PDFs
All customers who finish their pledge manager before October 1, 2025 will be granted their PDFs on PEGINC.COM automatically when we pull data and begin gifting on that date. If you finish your survey later, you will need to forward a copy of your paid receipt to [email protected] and request comp PDFs. You must have an existing store account at PEGinc.com for comp PDFs to be gifted. Please include the email address you use to log into your PEGinc.com account.
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Project Update: And what's with all the carrots? [Backer Preview Manuscript #3B]
The middle of the week, the middle section of our terrific trio of species explored in Pugmire Unleashed! Today, we're hopping right into lagomorphs - rabbits and hares!
Digital and Print-on-Demand Rewards
Creating and fulfilling physical versions this way gets you the best price, fastest delivery, and excellent customer support!
DriveThruRPG's printing partners are located both within in the USA and the UK (and expanding), making shipping cheaper and avoiding the tariffs incurred by international manufacturing and shipping!
Draft Manuscript Previews
Because they want your feedback! These manuscript previews are of the current draft manuscript – the document in its latest, approved form. This may not be the final form after editing and any additional development, but you can consider it about 95% finished, so keep that in mind.
You can use this Feedback Form to shrea your thoughts directly with the Pugmire developers and help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PREVIEWS - BACKERS ONLY
Project Update: June Update-Backer Monsters Announced!
Summer has finally arrived with a sizzle here in the Northeast US. I hope all are staying cool and enjoying some nice vacation time.
Both main monster books are deep into layout, and most of the supporting books are in various stages of layout. The next steps will be proofing the layout documents and then preparing the files to go to the printer. Two additional topics for this update: We are ready to announce the 14 lucky backers that had their submitted monsters selected for publication. And of course we have more new art to share!
ANNOUNCING THE 14 BACKER-SUBMITTED MONSTERS
We received scores of monster submissions from the backers for both versions of the rules. And it was difficult whittling the submissions down to the very best 14. The selection teams needed to decide between a host of animated constructs, weird aberrations and monstrous beasts. When the votes were tallied, we had our deadly dozen plus two! And don't worry: if a monster was accepted in DCC rules, it will be converted to 5E rules in-house. Same with 5E accepted monsters: these were converted to DCC rules in-house. So regardless of which rules version of the book you are getting, you get all 14 monsters!
Without further delay, here is the list:
Blooderfly by Heath Harris
Cinderhowl by Reuben Taylor
Corvus Corpus by Bob Nelson
Cycloctopus by Shane "Kablooey" Madgett
Glowmander by Louis Bouvier AKA Bouvietto
Gravel Golem by Jackson Baker
Locustomite by Kyle Bascom
Mind Shrike by Mehran Baluch
Mireling by Paul Penna
Necrose by Dusty Harrell
Okkar's Table by Robert Wertz
Siltfiddler by Chris Harvey-Savage
Spellstealer Golem by noideer
Tenterhooks by Jonah Buck
Congratulations to all the backers with an accepted monster! We will be in touch with you shortly with contracts and explain the next steps. Based on the name alone, which of these monsters is your favorite? Tell us in the comments, below.
HOW ABOUT SOME MORE ART?
Which one of these monsters, based on the art, is your favorite? Tell us in the comments, below!
We will back with another update in a few weeks, and I'm sure you will not want to miss it!
Project Update: Long Awaited Sayuri's Update
Project Update: [AUS/NZ Backers] Fulfillment Update June 24
This update is for AUS/NZ backers. Here is the latest on the fulfillment situation. As you all may remember from this earlier update, the pallet headed to Australia was lost and eventually found.
As you'll see from the attached receipt, there’s a substantial amount missing — including what I suspect are the hardest-to-replace SKUs like the stretch goals and limited editions.
For context, we’re approaching end-of-financial-year here in Australia, and nearly every major warehouse is currently in the thick of annual stocktake. I’ve paid for ICAL to do a full audit of every bay where this stock could have ended up, but due to their internal EOFY stocktake, they won’t be able to complete this until Thursday or Friday next week.
I’m not sure what the chances are that the missing items will turn up, but I’ve gone ahead with the search anyway in the hope that we can recover the limited edition and other high-value items.
Will keep you posted as I hear more — just wanted to flag it with you early.
- Fulfill your pledge using a mix of “inventory in Australia” and “inventory shipped in from other markets” – this will honestly vary pledge-by-pledge at this point, and we won’t know for sure until we get the final inventory count
- Offer a full refund
- Some sort of makeup item. We were already planning to give a credit of some kind when the fulfillment finally finishes. I’m now wondering if we should perhaps also create some special Australia-only item for Purple Planet backers. “My shipment went to the Purple Planet and back, and all I got was this lousy sticker!” Or a one-page mini-encounter. Could be something fun or something more substantial or “all of the above.”
- Some combination of the above
What are your thoughts, friends and backers down under?
Project Update: Files at the Printer!
Just a very brief update to let you know that we have uploaded the files for this project to the printer!
Whew... it was a lot of pages.
In the coming months we will have photos of proofs as we work through the process.
The question we usually get right now is, "Well if the files are at the printer, why don't I have the e-book PDF yet?" Two reasons. First, through the print proofing process, we always catch mistakes. Better to burn the PDFs after all those are fixed. Second, the e-book PDF is a different workflow than the printer files. The screen-res PDFs have crops, different output specs, hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc. So, once we get through the proofing process, we'll start on the digital PDFs for you all.
That's all for now. More to come once we have some proofs to show off!
Ask me anything about the project.
Project Update: Final update (for now) - free digital stretch goals, books arriving, and thank you!
This will likely be my last update for a while as all rewards are now available, ordered, or in process (so long as you filled out your survey on time).
I have word that several folks have recieved physical copies of their books and can see the tracking info showing that the rest should be delivered in the next 1-2 weeks, so keep an eye out! If you don't recieved your book by July 14, please email me at [email protected] (that's the fastest way to get it resolved).
Stretch goals for the two digital games have also been filled! You can find No Prob! and Mission Solar System on the TTRPGkids here for free:
Mission Solar System, an Educational TTRPG About Space Stuff
No Prob! A Educational TTRPG About Problem Solving
There's also a full update on the project(s) here with some more info on where to easily find everything and how awesome it was to get to run a couple sessions of ACN with folks at Origins last weekend! It's wonderful seeing it out in the world.
TTRPGkids Dev Log #8
For any straggler orders that were submitted late or had issues with charges, I'll be handling those on a monthly basis as forms and payment come in. If you fill out your survey late, it can also help for you to email me at [email protected] so I know to go check the campaign and send you your rewards.
To link to the future, please check out my next project, StoryGuider, which is a choose-your-path kind of game (just like ACN) that's made specifically for little kids and early readers! It's a project I've been working on for a few years now, and I'm excited to be hiring artists and hopefully some translation proofreaders to support stretch goals for translating into French, Spanish, and possibly other languages.
And.... with that, I want to express my thanks in supporting this project, and I hope you find connection, adventure, and a creative outlet through ACN. You helped make this possible, and I'm glad to share this experience with you all.
Thank you, and, as always, happy gaming!
Steph, TTRPGkids.com