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.
The results are in… our adventure officially begins at Pooh’s House! 🏡
Looks like you all felt right at home in this cosy hideaway! We can’t wait to bring this little nook to life - just imagine the honey pots & comfy chairs. To celebrate, here’s the latest stamp for your collection!
Tales in The Hundred Acre Woods - Stamp Collection
🎯 Introducing - Follower Goals! 🎯
Every 500 new followers we’ll unlock a new community reward, and you’ve already smashed through 3,000! 🎉 To say thank you, all backers at a physical pledge level will now receive a freesticker set featuring all the poll stamps you’ve chosen so far - and the ones still to come! 🙌
Follower Goals
Next up at 3,500 followers -a brand-new “How to Play” comic, brought to life with gorgeous custom illustrations from our art team! But we need your help to unlock it. Share the project, spread the word, and let’s hit that next milestone together! 🚀
✨ New Poll: Choose Your Trinket! ✨
No adventurer sets off empty-handed! So now that we know where our adventure begins, it’s time to pack for the journey. What will you bring? Vote below and help decide what stamp comes next! 👇
The crowdfunding campaign is done and we're very happy with the result! 137 backers have put 2,657 € into our project kitty, which means we can make the English version of Catcrawl a reality! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this Zine Month project! 🐱💖
What's next?
I'm currently setting up the pledge manager for you. This is where we will be collecting your addresses and shipping costs (if applicable) and where you can choose further add-ons if you like.
Once the set-up is done and approved by Backerkit, you'll get another email from me with details and a link to your Backerkit survey. Please make sure to fill it in as soon as possible so there won't be any delays in you getting your games!
Project status
The German version of the game has already been printed and shipped to me. Unfortunately, there was an issue with the print quality, so I'm currently waiting to hear back from the printer about a reprint. I don't expect this to impact the overall fulfillment time.
The English version is currently in proofreading and will be sent to the printer's as soon as I've gotten it back and worked in any corrections.
I'll of course keep you posted about all relevant developments. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out anytime!
Here is the latest on Grimtooth's Traps fulfillment. As noted in previous updates, all regions of the world except AUS/NZ were already fulfilled.
We are happy to report that AUS/NZ is now 95%+ fulfilled! Backers in those regions received email notifications of their tracking numbers late last week.
We still have a few makeup shipments, including some backers whose shipments were shorted on the stretch goal booklet or Goodman Games Gazette. In general, if you have a concern about your shipment, please email us at [email protected].
A Construct's Nature is still on track, and, since last time, art has been completed! Right now, I'm working on layout, incoporating feedback from a final playtest, and some fine-tuning with the cover and trim edges. Once this is done, I'll be ordering test prints and then moving into tweaking the slide layout while waiting for the prints to arrive.
Art reveals!
Since the art is now complete, I want to share a few pieces with you! I've drawn over 250 individual art assets for the book, and the collage below shows some of these pieces, ranging from background scenery to objects to characters (and there are actually two characters shown here). I hope you enjoy these sneak peeks:
Add-ons status
While I was planning on releasing Critter Mech Squad, one of the add-ons, this month, I ran into some issues with the proof copy and will need to re-order after making an adjustment to the trim allowance. So, instead, I released Ranger Mech Squad this month since that one came through OK! This one will be ready when ACN is, and hopefully Critter Mech Squad's update will be ready soon as well.
Surveys starting in March
For surveys, my plan is to release them in two rounds, starting in March. The first will collect shipping address information and info on any add-ons you'd like to include. Based on this, I'll calculate shipping, which will be collected in the second round of surveys. I'm talking with the Backerkit team right now on the best to handle this, and if there's any changes to the plan, I'll let you know in the next update.
Greeting Games launching in March
Also in March, I'll be participating in Pocketopia on Backerkit with Greeting Games! This is a crowdfunding campaign to hire artists (and one special young writer) to create mini games and TTRPG references that fit on cards and postcards! If you haven't signed up already, please do so, as there are going to be a couple of early bird rewards.
I look forward to kicking off surveys at the next check in, and... happy gaming! -Steph C, TTRPGkids.com
Just a heads up that this weekend (Feb 21) we will be smoke testing the pledge manager survey.
This means about 4% of you will receive the survey link so we can check everything is working as it should.
Once we've had a check through everything on Monday we'll send the pledge manager out to everyone. There will be an update as well to keep you up to speed with what's happening!
As always any questions or queries you can reach us here of [email protected]
Our smoke test was successful and surveys were sent out yesterday, so check your email! Please note that if you opted into the pay in four option, your survey will not come until after your final payment.
All freebies from the VIP program, early bird reward, and returning backer reward have already been added to your order. You should see these on your survey when you fill it out. If you do not, please contact us.
We will begin sending out pdfs and other digital goods in a few weeks after we lock down orders. I will make another announcement when that time comes.
Barrister Unlock
We know a lot of you were disappointed that we fell just short of our Barrister Stretch goal. We discussed and have decided that we will be adding the expanded Barrister content to the SRD as a thank you to all of you for being such an amazing community. Thank you all so much for your support and engagement with MythCraft.
Progress
A quick update to where we are with some of the content that was offered.
The Core books, Quick Start Guide, and Legends Volume I are all updated and in final stages of layout. These should be ready to go out to everyone once orders are locked.
Legends Volume II and the Cloven Lands are finished and in copy editing!
Writing on the adventures and anthology have begun.
Roll20 VTT development has begun and Foundry is due to being soon.
MythCraft the Podcast
Did you know that we have an official MythCraft actual play podcast? MythCraft the Podcast will be returning March 3rd for its next adventure, The Ties that Bind. We will be doing a live early listening party in our discord on the 2nd! The new two weeks we will be doing sneak peeks and reveals of the timeline, the story, and the characters.
Soon you’ll receive an email from us with a uniquelink to your BackerKit survey for the Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2024!
Fill this out to give us your address, so we know where to send your rewards!
We have sent surveys to just 5% of backers so far to test everything is working as it should. You can expect your email by this Friday 21st February.
After you respond to your survey, you can go back later and change your responses at any time before we close the surveys and get our final counts. Surveys will close March 28th and this will be the date cards are charged for any add-ons you choose.
Even as I'm typing this, it looks like we're either just about to unlock our Stretch Goal target or will later today. We've been dancing back and forth across this funding target for the past few hours, so I'll hold off for a few hours but anticipate marking our first Stretch Goal target as achieved later today.
I know Larry Blamire and the TC: Steam Wars writing team are all pretty excited about the new possibilities this Stretch Goal could open up. Larry's shared more artwork in progress...
Once we've crossed that funding target and stuck the landing, I'll update and we can work on our next target! But, until then, let's get on with our main focus for today! The next manuscript section!
I lied. One more quick thing to note before we get into the manuscript.
Shipping Costs will be Collected in the Pledge Manager
First up, it's amazingly expensive to ship, especially from Onyx Path's home base in the US. And that's as of today - we're all in the dark about how things will look in 2 years. We get that, but there's not much we can do at this time. Onyx Path is in a difficult space where the company is big enough that they're not saving money by fulfilling out of Rich's garage, but small enough that they haven't been able to set up ongoing international partners to handle portions of the fulfillment. So we are where we are - for now.
The best we can do at this point is to plan carefully, advise everyone up front that international shipping will likely be expensive (see our projections on the main page) and only charge what it costs us when the time comes. We’ll be charging for shipping in the Pledge Manager once the books are being printed and we can deal with the actual shipping charges rather than using our best-guesses this far out. If you live outside the US and aren't sure you want the hardcover or other physical items, you can pledge to the PDF tier now and upgrade your pledge in the Pledge Manager once we know the final shipping costs.
Draft Manuscript Previews
Over the course of this campaign, backers are receiving the entire current draft manuscript for Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars, but not all in one go. The previews will come out in bite-sized sections throughout the campaign. This helps me seem interesting over these 30 days, but it's more about guiding the conversation and helping steer feedback for the developers.
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.
In fact, you can help guide the team through the next stages of development by providing feedback on these manuscript previews! The Onyx Path team has set up a special Feedback Form just for campaign backers for this very purpose: <Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars Feedback Form>
You can use this Feedback Form to shrea your thoughts directly with the TC: Steam Wars developers and help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PREVIEWS - BACKERS ONLY
Remember, thanks to BackerKit magic, these download links are visible to Backers only - you must be logged in and reading this on the website to have access to the manuscript preview links. So, if you're reading this via e-mail, click that "Learn More" button on the bottom and I'll see you below this title treatment.
Yesterday and last night we rallied and ended up with 1,626 backers and just over $255,000 in funding! Overtime Mode was a blast, as the campaign continued for over 5 hours past the end time. Huge shout out to Rick for co-hosting the live stream with me for 3.5 hours and to Scott for jumping on for a bit to chat about old movies (among other things).
How about this for good news! We unlocked the GM screen when we passed $250K! The player facing side will include full color art, while the inside will include the 6 tables of random Giant's Bag Contents.
Yesterday and last night night we also unlocked 2 more slots for backers to submit 2-Page UnderDelves! So we will select 9 backer submitted UnderDelves to appear alongside the Goodman Games 5E team UnderDelves. Don't forget UnderDelve submissions are due in less than a week (Feb. 18th at midnight EST). See the Backer only section below for more information on how to submit a 2-Page UnderDelve.
During Overtime Mode last night, we unlocked 13 new UnderDeep-themed monsters. These will appear in the Stretch Goal book, available for free only to the backers of this campaign. Its our way to say Thanks for your support! The Stretch Goal book will be approximately 32 pages long, and will feature the six 2-Page Giant-themed Delves, the six random tables of Giant's Bag Contents, and now bestiary of 13 fully designed UnderDeep-themed monsters. In case you missed it last night, here is a list of the monsters (the last two were unlocked after the live stream ended):
1. Arachnibat: A CR 7 Monstrosity-a giant bat/giant spider hybrid 2. Sporetender Crab: A Gargantuan CR 10 Monstrosity with a fungus forest on its back 3. Darkness Stalker: A CR 9 Elemental that alters form and power based on available light 4. Lode Walker: A CR 12 Construct of magnetic metal that collects debris to forge weapons 5. Swarm of Threadlings: A CR 4 Swarm of Oozes that float through the UnderDeep 6. Dragonmole: A CR 23 (!) Dragon/mole hybrid that rules a huge region of the UnderDeep 7. Sporegrove Sentinel: A CR 10 Plant-a giant mushroom-like treant guardian 8. Phantaworm: A CR 8 Monstrosity-an ethereal worm 9. Ormhala: A CR 14 Monstrosity-a giant bat/giant serpent hybrid 10. Rune Dragon: A CR 15 Dragon with Runes on its scale that it can activate. 11. Crystallure: A CR 9 Monstrosity with a bioluminescent crystal lure 12. Motrold: A CR 8 Giant-a disgusting troll with mold-infused hide 13. Deep Skyphozoa: A CR 17 Aberration-a massive planar jellyfish stuck in the UnderDeep
And a special Shout Out to Team Storm Giants for winning the Trivia Challenge during the campaign. We will announce in an upcoming Update what that means for the victorious team.
Again, thank you to all the backers. And especially the backers that kept us company for hours while live streamed during Overtime. We are exhausted, but it was so much fun!
