Hexploration Decks & Tiles Updated Files Sent, Still More To Go! (Fill Out Your Surveys!)
Hi All,
I'm pushing hard to get the printed decks and tiles to you ASAP--I know the printer typically takes 4-6 weeks, and I want to have these at Gen Con to debut them to th...
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Surveys Sent, Feedback Wanted!
We've just sent the surveys via Backerkit. If somehow yours hasn't shown up, go here:
https://hexploration.backerkit.com/ which will let you login to your Backerkit account....
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14 days ago
Writing, Art, and Minimaps done! Surveys coming next week!
This update took an extra week because the work took an extra week to finish. However, as of now:
• All Hexploration Card Deck writing is done for all 5 decks, and edited!
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about 1 month ago
Wrapping Up Writing & Art
Time for another bi-weekly update. I genuinely enjoy sharing the details and more samples with you all! Here are bullet points on where we are--I find bullets helpful to get...
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about 2 months ago
Wilderness & Settlement Decks off to Editing, New Previews
Hi Folks,
Our Wilderness deck is in our editor's hands, and the Settlements deck is done--once I read through it one more time, it will go to our editor in a few days. The Un...
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~Two Week Update
We're just a little past two weeks from the end of the campaign, and things are progressing along nicely. I've been creating more tiles with Dyson and Andrew has been writing...
Hi All, I'm pushing hard to get the printed decks and tiles to you ASAP--I know the printer typically takes 4-6 weeks, and I want to have these at Gen Con to debut them to the general public there. But only after shipping to you all.
Thanks to several backers who did a deep dive, plus our editor giving a few bits an extra look, the files are ready.
I've now submitted them to the printer (as well as the tiles) so I've just updated the files at DriveThruRPG. We still have a bunch to do--here are the major things we have left:
More icons for features/points-of-interest, coasts, and rivers for the clings. (These are being printed by a different printer, so we have a bit more time.)
Black & White tiles (digital only, the printed tiles will be color only as that's the vastly more popular choice.)
Box art for the tiles set as well as box art for the overall Hexploration Kit box. (If you're getting physical tiles and all 5 decks, you're getting a nice box for all of it.)
Make versions of the Deck pdfs with multiple per page.
So I'll be working on the above over the next couple of weeks!
Please do check out the files. If you filled out the survey and redeemed your codes to get the digital files on DriveThru you should have gotten update notifications in the past hour or so. Even if you didn't see the notifications, the files were all updated--check your DriveThru library. The new versions have -20250529 in the filename.
If you haven't done the survey yet, please do! I'm waffling a bit on the final print run size and it will help me decide. If you can't find your message about it, go here: https://hexploration.backerkit.com/ which will let you login to your Backerkit account. If you're one of the project followers who didn't back the project yet, you can also make a late pledge at that link!
Looking through the tiles I noticed that not a single one if for a 'water barrier'. Is there any chance of adding 'Water' tiles at this time or at a later date?
We've just sent the surveys via Backerkit. If somehow yours hasn't shown up, go here: https://hexploration.backerkit.com/ which will let you login to your Backerkit account.
We're excited to get these to you! Of course we want the final product to be amazing... so even though they've been through 3 rounds of editing now, if you notice something wrong (a typo, a game rule/guidance that seems incomplete, etc.) please send an email to [email protected]. I'll look for comments too as best I can, but often I check Backerkit's comments tab on the admin page and don't see anything then a few days later check an individual update and see a comment that had already been posted. We'll be sending these to the printer late next week, so please get comments to me by the 27th.
We're using these next 6 days to work on more of the Hex tiles and related icons--for example you'll note that the B&W versions that are large images designed for printing haven't been added to the zip yet. And there are a few more we plan to include.
We've set things up to be delivered via DriveThruRPG. This has the advantage that if you follow the links to get them there at no extra cost, you'll have them in your library and not need to do anything special to get the updated versions later.
This update took an extra week because the work took an extra week to finish. However, as of now:
All Hexploration Card Deck writing is done for all 5 decks, and edited!
All art for the Card Decks is also done.
All the Hex Minimap Tiles are done as well!
But getting to this point was more work than I expected, which is why it took the extra week and we didn't get the surveys out before this update. However, the surveys are now almost ready--we just need to tweak one thing with them. Backerkit doesn't like us to send them before the weekend anyway, so we'll get them sent early next week.
Meanwhile we still do have plenty to do:
Box art.
Finish integrating the edits that our editor has made.
Finalize the hex tiles--which fronts will go with which backs; exactly how many blanks and sea tiles we'll have, that sort of thing.
Finalize the clings.
Anyway, I'm going to push to have these done as a first public draft in time for when we launch surveys next week. Then I'd like to give you all a week to send me feedback on them. (Catch typos, etc.) Then I'll send them to the printer.
More samples! (Note these don't yet have our editor's comments included.) First, a few of the final "Stranger Places" deck's last cards center on how would a mini-realm be changed based on who an area was made for. Something like Ravenloft's Domains, but not Horror. In addition to the 'Artist', we have inventor, wizard, and cosmic guardian themed cards--plus a card with translation and navigation items useful for visiting other realms and planes.
Next here are a couple more art samples:
Pirate Town
Sea Trench
And below are a few of the final card sides from the High Seas deck. Our intent with these first two is to give you the basics of 15+ ships--and you can create stats for your game system if needed. Some games have stats for a handful of ships. This list will let you create more by adjusting a similar ship's stats based on the details here. BTW, if you're a naval expert and know how some of these can be improved, drop me a line! As I wrote above, we were pushing hard, so excuse the typos--especially in the last cards.
