Eight publishers are simultaneously crowdfunding TTRPG supplements in the same fantastic setting! The Purple Planet: Where mighty death worms rule the wastes, beastling tribes wage an endless war, befouled winds whistle through ancient crypts, and fungal forests flourish in the weirdling light. Where ancient technologies offer life... or a quick death. Will you and your companions stand as conquerors atop this alien land? Or will you fall beneath the blast of an ink black death ray, just another corpse left to litter the wastes of the Purple Planet?
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We are happy to report that the vast majority of USA pledges have also shipped. We are showing USA at 95%+ shipped.
For USA pledges, we are currently processing late survey completions, replacements for missing / damaged items, and so on. If you are a USA backer who has not received a tracking number or your pledge items, please triple check your survey, confirm you've paid your postage charge, and then email [email protected] so we can help get your product to you!
For Canada backers, an early draft of this update reflected shipping - however, that was premature! The Canada market is "very close" to shipping and we will provide more details soon as we get some further communication from our local fulfillment partner.
For EU/UK and AUS/NZ backers, the bulk shipments are en route to local market fulfillment partners. The update is still the same as last time: bulk shipments in progress. As soon as those bulk shipments land and local fulfillment begins, we will let you know.
In the meantime, we hope USA backers are enjoying their pledge items! For those of you who backed more than one Purple Planet project, you should have received them all in one delivery, which is more affordable for backers than multiple shipments.
We'll continue to post updates for EU/UK and AUS/NZ backers as the bulk shipments make their long journeys across the ocean.
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to wrap this project up for good. Based on your feedback, we’ve upgraded three of the DCC RPG Roll20 modules with the existing VTT maps and tokens. DCC #66.5 Doom of the Savage Kings, DCC #67 Sailors of the Starless Sea, and DCC #68 People of the Pit are all updated on the Roll20 Marketplace and DriveThruRPG. Finally, the last bug fixes and requested feature updates submitted to Metamorphic were made and are now live. This concludes the Roll20 for DCC crowdfunding project.
The link to submit bugs and suggestions for feature improvements to Metamorphic remains live should you discover anything that was overlooked during the bug-stomping and upgrading period. That link is: https://support.metamorphic-digital.com/
In closing, we’d like to thank you once more for your support and we’re already planning on how to provide further Roll20 support for the DCC RPG line in the future. We look forward to a continued relationship with Metamorphic in that capacity.
Hello, all you high-rollers! It's May and we've received more news from our friends over at Metamorphic Digital Studio about progress on the Roll20 For DCC project. Right now all the core rulebook's images are loaded onto Roll20's servers, which is going to speed up the creation of the compendium once the cascading style sheets are loaded onto the platform as well. This will hopefully be done before the end of May and then things can really get chugging along. Then it's time to start tackling adventures!
Speaking of sheets, the devs have been adding flavor and decorative elements to the character sheets while this is all underway. When you choose your class, the character sheet style will change as well. Here are some examples of the decorated character sheets that Metamorphic shared with us. Anyone who knows the great artwork that goes into DCC products will be happy to see that the Roll20 version isn't skimping on these!
You can tell this is the Thief character sheet thanks to the highly-useful rope and grappling hook.
When you're a Dwarf with a hammer (or an axe), all your problems start looking like nails (or necks).
The handy pull-down menu allows you to quickly customize the character sheet to your PC's chosen class.
Two staves, no waiting, for this Wizard!
We here at Goodman Games are quite pleased with Metamorphic's progress and we'll continue to keep you fine backers updated as we receive regular status reports from their DCC Roll20 team. We're all looking forward to the day people around the globe can hop onto Roll20 for a new DCC RPG campaign without a ton of work needed. More to come when we hear it!
And for those who might have missed it, Roll20 recently announced that Roll20 will be coming to Discord as an Activity. Yes, you can now have you Roll20 peanut butter in your Discord chocolate! You can read about that here.
Backers might be interested to know that signups for advance notification of Goodman Games' next crowdfunding project are now live. Coming in less than two months will be Caverns of Thracia for both DCC RPG and 5e. This legendary adventure is jam-packed with more than 100 new monsters, a five-level dungeon, a ruined city, an island archipelago, plus new magic and spells, and offers a year or more of adventure around the table. Suitable for levels 1-10 (5e) or 1-5 (DCC), Caverns of Thracia makes for the perfect next installment in Goodman Games' ongoing OAR line of adventures. Please stop by the Caverns of Thracia landing page and sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live. Don't miss out on this one!
We're happy to report that Metamorphic is hard at work converting the DCC RPG rules over to Roll20. As you can imagine, with so many tables and charts, this isn't an easy or quick job, but the fine folks at Metamorphic are proving to be up to the challenge.
Just recently, they shared with us some details of the work in progress. We're greatly pleased with how things are going in just the short time they've been at work. Here are some screenshots of what they’re working on! . Check these out!
DCC fans will recognize that border pattern from the character sheets, now in digital format.
Anyone need a cleric? Maybe not with that much disapproval!
Heeliu, what do your keen elvish eyes see?!!
No dungeon party is complete without a thief!
That ape-man has magic missile! With a +12 modifier! Run!!!
And of course we'll need a way to keep track of all our loot.
The text/math on these graphics are just placeholders for now, so don't worry if thing looks a little wonky. We want to make sure the big picture is working properly before we get down into the nitty gritty details. Bear in mind, too, that everything is still in the early stages and what you see here might not reflect where things end up.
Once we get the majority of the DCC rulebook ported over to Roll20, work can begin converting the modules too. In the meantime, we here at Goodman Games haven't been idle. We're already at work on the cool art assets for the tokens and reviewing the module maps to see how best to convert them over to Roll20. This is going to be awesome!
We'll have more to report as Metamorphic sends us status updates and we'll share the news with you as we get it. Keep an eye our for more as we receive it!
Thank you all for supporting the Roll20 for DCC Backerkit campaign. We said at the start of this campaign that it would be up to the fans to determine if there was a desire to bring DCC RPG to Roll20 and you showed us without a doubt that there was. Your belief in this project was 100% responsible for it becoming a reality and we can’t thank you enough.
We ended last night a mere $140 short of the final stretch goal to add a seventh DCC module to the planned six Metamorphic is converting to Roll20. So, although we can’t thank you enough, we can say “close enough” and call that last stretch goal achieved! Those of you who backed at the DCC Core Rules + First 6 Adventures tier will receive a seventh adventure as well (title to be determined). The converted seventh adventure will ultimately be available for purchase separately via Goodman Games and Roll20 for those of you who chose to back at a lower tier.
Now comes the hard part: the waiting. We’ll be making the final arrangements with Metamorphic to start converting DCC RPG and the adventures over to Roll20 and will update you once we have more information about that process. Metamorphic has an established track record of creating stellar products for Roll20 and we know were in good hands. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a long history of making DCC RPG and other Goodman Games’ products available for Roll20. Thank you again for supporting this Backerkit project and believing in DCC RPG for Roll20.
May your (virtual) dice always roll in your favor!
Congratulations, you're getting a charactermancer!
We're here at GAMA Expo this week. I had a chance to sit down with the Metamorphic team for breakfast. Metamorphic (formerly known as Sigil) has coded some of the best Roll20 conversions out there, and they're the ones who will handle DCC on Roll20.
Here we are, plotting world domination...and also talking charactermancers! We're able to make the charactermancer work at $29k so we are going to call that stretch goal CLEARED. Congratulations everyone, you're getting a charactermancer!
Goodman Games x Metamorphic: Joe Goodman on the left, Jan and Amy of Metamorphic on the right
With that in mind, we've set up one more stretch goal. Help us clear $32k and we can throw another DCC adventure into the mix. Fair warning: it will be a "skinny module" not a huge hardcover. We had some great suggestions in our recent poll so we will definitely consider the results of that poll in the selection.
Today is the last day for this crowdfunding. Really only half a day remains. Please tell your friends and let's bring DCC to Roll20 in the best possible way!
Again, thanks to all our amazing backers who have come out to support the Horde is startling fashion! We’ve knocked off two more stretch goals: Sandbox Notes for the regions around the Orb, and the Bestiary! Now onto tech loot and another mini-adventure, The Rift that Breaths!
Mini Adventure Update Speaking of mini-adventures, we made a mistake with the free mini-adventure available to those who back within the first 48 hours. The original plan was to add Caves of the Orb Thralls as a $2 add-on after the first 48 hours had passed.. but we accidentally set the date incorrectly so the add-on was available from the very beginning. Unfortunately , once someone adds that add-on (and 25 of you did), we can’t delete it.
So the updated plan is we’re now creating another mini-adventure called Death Sentries of the Orb Shadow, which is now the free mini-adventure offered to all you wonderful backers who have backed the campaign in the first 48 hours. It will become available as an add-on after the free period passes. This also means that Caves of the Orb Thralls will remain up as an add-on that all who are interested can add to their pledge. Sorry for the confusion: and thanks for your incredible support!
The time you have been waiting for is now upon us. The hard copy materials have begun landing on all of our doorsteps (in the US). Those wonderful packages of glorious gaming content, awesome artwork and creative prose have made their way through boats, planes, trains and trucks to land on your front porch. Let the unboxing begin!
I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Goodman Games and along with all of the third party publisher horde members who created some fabulous content. Hopefully you were just as impressed as I was as I unboxed my extremely large cache of creativity. The only question now is how soon can I get this to my gaming table.
The Purple-Planet Campaign was a milestone for Backerkit, as the first ever RPG multi-creator collaboration project. As with all new ventures, yes there were a couple of hiccups which can be address in the future. As an insider on this project, I also know that we had no plans to do a consolidated fulfilment during the early stages of this campaign. This was a change made on the fly in order to minimize shipping costs for our backers. This consolidation took additional time, coordination and effort, and probably caused more then a few headaches. In the end, this consolidation made it so that all of your Purple Planet products landed at your home at the same time. For me, this fact was a big deal.
We have a personal family rule when eating out at a restaurant, nobody eats until everybody at the table has received their meal. Many times we have sent back multiple meals, insisting that everything arrive together so we can eat together as a family. In a similar manner, I am really happy that everything Purple Planet was able to show up at the same time instead of you receiving bits and pieces over a 4-6 month period. After all, what good is a first level adventure if you still haven't gotten the Purple Planet setting information found in Tome of Adventure Vol. 4. Call me crazy, but that is how my mind works.
Additionally, some of us (me included) had originally committed to a specific method of digital fulfilment, which we wanted to maintain (promise made, promise kept issue). Unfortunately, this led to some backers thinking that they would be receiving their digital content in the same Backerkit download location as all of the other Purple Planet content. I apologize for this confusion. As mentioned in previous updates, If you backed my project, please check your DriveThroughRPG.com libraries and downloads to make sure that you have received your Random Acts of Violet digital content. It was originally sent on November 5th, 2024. If you have not received your download links, please email me at [email protected] and I will get you sorted as quickly as possible.
Also, if you missed getting in on the action during the campaign, copies of all Purple Planet content can be found on the Goodman Games website.
Thank you for your support. Thank you for backing my work. Thank you for making this entire process possible.
Tim Sattley High Dive Games
Now for a little poll. For those of you who have already dug into Random Acts of Violet, please let me know what part you liked the most. I'd love to hear your feedback as I continue to create things going forward.
I (like many others) had items missing from my shipment (and one item that was incorrect), and as directed contacted [email protected]. Part of the response was the following:
I do want you to know that I have taken your information, I have passed it onto our fulfillment center, and we will be getting those missing items out to you. As far as when they'll be shipping out, I'm hard pressed to say as we're at the mercy of the warehouse, and they're still getting through Kickstarter fulfillments.
Unfortunately, I don't have more concrete answers to give you at this time, and I really do apologise for the continued confusion and frustration. But I am working to make sure we can figure something out for you.
Since replacement items seem to be at the mercy of kickstarter fulfillment is there any info on what the process or timeline looks like for getting missing items sent out? I don't know if I need to send the incorrect item back, if I'm waiting for a response from support, if I'll get info on a new shipment, if a new package will just one day show up on my doorstep, or if I should be expecting anything this decade. Any help?
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