It’s been a moment since we last checked-in with you all, but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been busy behind the scenes. We are solidly in the editing stage for the four core books that make up each version of the Castle Whiterock boxed set. Conversions are still underway, but mostly on the ancillary material from previous Organized Play adventures, Free RPG Day releases, and so forth, meaning this is a much shorter and simpler task than getting the massive contents of the main boxed set books into shape.
While the writers and editors are getting things wrapped up, the artists are hard at work bringing the maps and interior art to life. We hope to be able to show off some of those shortly.
And since I know people are going to ask, we’re in talks with printers about the Big Ass GM's Screen and what it would take to do the clear inserts the majority of folks have expressed interest in. Fingers crossed we’ll have more concrete details in the near future.
The Book of Funnels Coming Next Month
While I have your attention, I’d also like to mention the upcoming DCC #115 The Book of Funnels crowdfunding project here on Backerkit. This book includes 12+ brand-new 0-level funnels for all three of our “Crawl Classics” product lines (DCC, MCC, and XCC), plus add-ons and bonus content for crowdfunding backers, including the return of the beloved DCC 0-Level Scratch Off Character Sheets! Need a new funnel to kick off your next campaign? Then head on over to the Backerkit teaser page to sign up and be one of the first to back it when it launches in the weeks ahead.
Shortly after midnight this morning, Mega Dungeon Month and the Castle Whiterock Backerkit campaign finally came to an end. After three days of Overtime Mode, the gates to the castle swung shut, but not before achieving the penultimate stretch goal of Mike’s Big Ass GM’s Screen. Congratulations and a sincere thank you to all our backers for making this crowdfunding campaign a stellar success. Not only did we fund Castle Whiterock, but also more than a dozen other Castle Whiterock-themed game releases achieved their goals. As I’ve said before, we couldn’t do it without your faith in us.
Things are going to be a little quiet for awhile around these parts as we recover from Dungeon Con 2 and focus on getting the Castle Whiterock sets and their associated stretch goals and add-ons finalized. But we will keep you updated regularly with their progress.
I can, however, reveal that Joseph Goodman is talking with the printer about the possibility of including clear packets for the BAGS, which so many of you requested. If that proves feasible, it will make the BAGS completely customizable, allowing you to use whatever tables and charts you might need for your game system of choice. We’ll update you with more once we have an answer.
Until then, let me extend the thanks of the entire Goodman Games gang for making Castle Whiterock our third most successful crowdfunding campaign even and for your ongoing trust and fanaticism when it comes to making great gaming products for your home tables. We often say our fans are the best simply because you prove it again and again. Castle Whiterock was no exception.
Like true warriors, you have overcome every achievement—leaving all obstacles crushed under your iron boots!
So, we added some new stretch goals. Here is the line up:
The "Devious Door Randomizer" added to each book.
The "Quick Start" dungeon added to each book.
Dunn's Torch: an app we will develop (free to each backer) to track torches, lanterns and magic light at the table. Featuring an animated Dunn the Dwarf, so you feel safe and secure as you delve!
The posters (early bird, reservation, and add-on editions) all oversized for added epic gameplay.
The "Build a Boss" section added to each book. Craft your epic dungeon boss with this killer tool!
You have unlocked new levels!
Check out more details below... (and don't forget, if Dunn the Dwarf survives all 4 rounds, the amount needed for ALL stretch goals is each decreased by 25%!)
At this level, we will create a "Devious Door Randomizer" for the book. No two portals will look alike with this table of trapped, tricked out, and tremendous archways, gates, portals, hatches, secret doors, or portcullises!
Goal: $15,001 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
Once we hit this goal, we will add the IOs, android, web app for all backers called "Dunn's Torch." This app is a variable timer for RPG game lighting (torch, lantern, magic lights)--a great device to keep the action going!
At this level, we will create a "Build a Boss" section for the book. Quickly generate dozens of nasty bosses with randomized motivations, origins, powers, and appearances.
If YOU, the backers, can correctly guide DUNN THE DWARF through 4 rounds of our mini-dungeon, Dunn unlocks secret treasures for EVERY backer. Vote each week in the polls to guide him on. (He survived 4 rounds!)
Goal: 4 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
We are now in proofing and final editing for most materials.
What is next: We will get everything ready for printing and lock up shipping estimates by end of summer/early fall. This keeps is on track if not a little ahead, but with summer activity, trips, and visits upcoming we will be off the grid for a little while.
Fun little teaser of the LOST LEVELArea 1-9
This is a work in progress...(final print and PDF yet to be completed and sent)
I just learned that we have an indigenous berry in Chicago called the "serviceberry." They look like blueberries and are also called "juneberries" because they fruit in June, making them June fruiters (which is really fun to say). The blooming of Serviceberries is one of the earliest signs of spring, foretelling the arrival of the itinerant preachers who would soon arrive to perform services for all of the people who died during the winter, hence the name. Fun! All of this is to say that I've had way too much coffee today and have lost control of the same part of my brain as Estelle Getty's Golden Girl.
June update
So the campaign ended a little over a month ago, and I have done nearly zip. Well, not really, I have ordered and received the bumper stickers, sticker sheets, and "Child of Bobugbubilz" patches! It was really surreal placing an order for nearly $2,000 worth of stickers.
Playtesting
I need to do a ton more playtesting of Mutant Spawn. I'll send out an email/Backerkit update shortly about in-person and online opportunities to participate.
Campaign numerology
Here are a few (out of order) screenshots of weird numerological moments captured throughout the campaign. They demonstrate how obsessively I monitored the campaign.
I missed 1-4, 8, and 9.
And, finally, the real reason for this update
Ok, now that you're all softened up. I have a new campaign launching in August. It is part three in the Saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau Rejects: The Sorcerer's Conundrum. It's a level-2 adventure compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG that puts the players into a labyrinth filled with everyone's favorite TTRPG pillar: puzzles!
If you follow the campaign, you get a FREE set of 36 VTT Tokens featuring characters and monsters from previous adventures in the saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau rejects: The Sorcerer's Fate, The Sorcerer's Return, and Aufgebläht or Bust, available only by following The Sorcerer's Conundrum!
If you've already followed, thank you! Go back to the teaser page and get your FREE VTT tokens!
Apparently link a digitial file to a reward and telling Backerkit ... hey everyone getting this reward should get this file was not enough.
After that you have to click a button that says "distribute files to backers" and then You need to click a diffeerent button to email everyone the information on how to get the files.
Sorry everyone ... I am learning as I go here as these seem like unneccessary steps ... but they are done now so you should have access to the files from an email sent out with information.
IF you are a pay over time backer ... sorry ... Backerkit will not send you the files until the final payment is made.
Also the part of Backerkit that you put the digital files into said I could use STL files ... but now I just found out that STL files will load BUT THEN NEVER ATTACH TO YOUR PROJECT (they just go into electronic limbo). So with that new information if you reward is getting STL files ... I zipped the files and that format did load and also attached to the project so you can get them now.
I am on annual vacation for my wife to visit her aging father ... so doing my best to stay up to make sure I fix anything as fast as possible around being away from my current home base.
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