Guess who's back? Here's your proper update for The Dose Makes The Poison, and it's a BEAST.
Firstly, apologies for the multiple emails from me last night and today, I made a bit of a digital fulfilment error on Backerkit that should all be sorted now.
Headlines/TLDR
Pre-production Pdf of TDMTP and digital assets have been sent out via Backerkit
Test copies of the zine, poster and bookmark have been ordered, patches are here
The pamphlet of Timed Release is the only thing outstanding and being worked on now
Postage - looking like postage estimates from the campaign will stand, possibly a bit higher for the EU
Will be looking to charge cards in the next week or two (for add ons and shipping), will give 48 hours notice
Orders and addresses have been already been locked, contact me if you need anything changed between now and when I charge cards
More info on all this below.
First a quick shout out. Over the past month or so Chris Airiau has been helping me with final proofreading (the number of errors and typos found should give you confidence that this is a No AI zine). Chris has just announced a new Mothership module, funding in (I think) September and you are duty bound to follow this here, it sounds great:
"Twisting Unseen is a 36pg Mothership RPG adventure inspired by BLAME!, Pandorum, Half-Life, and yokai folklore… the players Build the Superstructure with Map Tiles of Twisted Substrata illustrated by Ripley Matthews, against a Voidcrawl-inspired 1d100 event table of Relics, Omens, Factions, Hazards, and Incursors."
Pre-production Pdf of TDMTP and digital assets have been sent out via Backerkit
Last night you should've received the pre-full-production pdf of The Dose Makes The Poison, and some of you should also have received the digital assets bundle to accompany the zine. This morning the rest of you (that took anything above the zine-only tier) should have received the asset bundle download in a second email. Sending these individually was an error on my part but hopefully all sorted now. Live, laugh, learn, as it used to say above the door of solitary confinement, back in my prison days.
If you spot any typos between now and when I send to print, feel free to add them to the google doc in the below Backers Only section.
I'm really delighted with how everything has turned out. Norgad has done a superb job with layout and artwork in a style that feels fresh and doesn't sacrifice usability.
I've enjoyed getting the audio and video assets together for this, too. Hopefully they'll help sell the setting and add to the immersion for your players. Big shout out to squinch from the Mothership Discord, who's done a great voice acting job on a couple of the audio assets and has been a total breeze to work with, highly recommend!
Test copies of the zine, poster and bookmark have been ordered. Patches are here
I'm expecting test copies of all of the above coming early next week from my main printer, Mixam UK. Which is pretty darn exciting! Pamphlet and stickers are coming from a different printer, soon, and patches have actually been here since March but I forgot to mention that previously.
And while we're here's below is the 'waiting room' poster, which should be giclee print on 300msg archival uncoated stock, unless the test print comes back looking shite or something:
The pamphlet of Timed Release is the only thing outstanding and being worked on now
Exactly what it says on the tin 👆
Postage - looking like postage estimates from the campaign will stand, possibly a bit higher for the EU
I'm waiting to get the test prints to confirm the weight of the zine, but I'm optimistic that I'll be able to stick to my quoted shipping fees from the original campaign (see below) with the possible exception of the EU which think will have to be a bit higher, sorry.
I'll be shipping Royal Mail economy and won't be including any possible customs charges you might incur at your end, but these low cost items should fly under the de minimis threshold for most countries.
I'm currently trying to work out how you post 700-odd packages that won't get me blacklisted by all the Inverness posties.
Those proposed shipping estimates from November:
UK: £4.5
EU: £6.50
USA: £8.50
ROW: £10
Will be looking to charge cards in the next week or two (for add ons and shipping), will give 48 hours notice
I'll be aiming to collect shipping and any outstanding additional add ons paid for, and pre-orders. I'll give you notice so it's not a surprise!
Orders and addresses have been already been locked, contact me if you need anything changed between now and when I charge cards
The eagle eyed of you might have noticed that I've already locked addresses. I did this by accident at the same time as locking orders, just because. If any of you need to change address details just drop me an email and I'll update it manually, I've done this for a few of you already.
If you've read this far I just want to say thanks again for giving me the opportunity to produce this zine for you. It's been a massive learning curve for sure, but I wouldn't have it any other way, and I really hope you enjoy the finished product. I'm already looking forward to the next one - I've even restructured my working week to have a full day each week to work on RPG stuff, which is pretty cool.
I'll be back in touch again soon, till then, don't go changin'.
Andrew
To finish, a pic of Angus looking pissed off at me for spending too much time on my laptop:
