As production is in full swing I can now share a closer look at the final map designs for our two new essentials map packs.
These large maps are all laminated so dry erase safe, feature a 1" grid throughout and are fold out. As you can see below we have designed them so that they can be used together to create larger map areas.
Essential RPG Battle Maps - Pirate Coast
Our six pirate maps, printed on 3 double sided sheets
Essential RPG Battle Maps - Gothic Castles
Our six gothic castle maps, printed on 3 double sided sheets
These maps are fully compatible with our existing maps, drawn in the same scale and style.
We are now expecting to have everything printed, wrapped and packed up to ship out of factory to our warehouses in October.
We will be working on our shipping arrangements in the coming weeks, and we expect to lock orders and charge cards at the end of September. We will send an update out before we do this.
Thanks for all your support and feedback!
Matt & Tam Loke Battle Mats
And one final thing...
Now we have cleared all design work and the production process is well underway, we are delighted to announce our new project.
Deck of Fateship - Untold Revelations is a deck of 100 conversations prompts for in-character conversations.
Designed to support players to develop emotionally intelligent RPG characters, and evolve multi dimensional character motivations, backstories and even story arcs, these prompts will spark roleplay and conversation.
Perfect for story led adventures, GMs who want to support player led storytelling with in-character roleplay and players who want to develop their RPG Character, Untold Revelations is a handy and player friendly tool.
We've had the first production samples from the factory and wanted to share a video to show you these huge maps in person.
Everything is looking great and the factory have started printing everything!
Our next update will look at the Battle Screen, our GM screen and battle map in one. We'll also share the map designs that can be found in the Pirate Coast and Gothic Castles packs too.
Projects We Love
We'd like to shout out a project our friends at Ghostfire Gaming are currently running for Aberration.
Aberration is a 1–4 player cooperative dark-fantasy board game that combines tower defence, worker placement, bag building, asymmetric heroes, and fog-of-war mechanics.
Defend your village against the monstrous forces of the Great Beast. Push into a corrupted wilderness, build your pool of actions, strengthen your hero, and adapt as the map and the horrors moving across it shift and evolve through the game.
Designed by Peter Lee (Lords of Waterdeep, Horrified, and Tyrants of the Underdark), Aberration delivers a strategic and thematic cooperative experience.
We attended both MCM Comic Con and UK Games Expo at the end of May, and thank you so much to all the backers who swung by to say hi!
We opened the pledge manager last month, and thank you to everyone who has completed it! The survey will be open until the Dungeoneerium is much closer to shipping, so there is no rush for those of you who are waiting to see the maps before you finalize your survey!
Speaking of the maps, Matt has happily returned to the design studio where he will remain until he has finished! I have seen some of the first drafts and you will not be disappointed, these are some great maps! They are taking a little longer than we expected to design, but this is due to the size! We will be able to share (nearly) final versions of all the map artwork before the end of June!
And we hope to have final files signed off before our next convention which is Gen Con! If you're attending swing by and say hi to our lovely US team who help Matt out with the booth.
Matt & Tam Loke Battle Mats
And Finally, we are expanding our Designer's Deck range! The Town Designer's Deck and the Sewer Designer's Deck will join our award winning Dungeon Designer's Deck.
These are 5E encounter generators, which feature cards with a map terrain tile on the front and a related D6 roll table of 5E encounters on the reverse. The Sewer Designer's Deck allows you to use the cards to build a sewer tunnel map with the cards (or add them to the enclosed Boss Battle Maps), while the Town Designer's Deck allows you to add the features to the enclosed battle maps to generate Town Buildings and Areas.
We will also be creating Two new Essential RPG Battle Maps packs - Sewer and Town Streets, and a 5E quest deck - Town Notice Board.
We will be sending out the pledge manager survey this week.
This is where we collect shipping and taxes, and gather your address details. There are also optional purchases you can add to your order.
You can switch pledge level, on the page with the green "Get started" button there is a "switch your pledge level" link.
Please note the survey will remain open until we need to provide the details to our warehouses, which typically is about the time the maps leave our factory as we will need to know numbers for our shipping plans and for our warehouses to book the projects in.
So we will not be locking orders or charging cards for about 12 weeks, so you have plenty of time to complete your survey. We will send an update our before we do this so you can make any changes.
As always if you have any questions or queries please let us know!
