Well that’s our first Dicefunder! 😀 2,700 of you raised over $300k for these cool new dice! That is not a small thing folks, these are dice for a game that, technically, doesn’t exist yet! So this is a major milestone. Though to be fair our patrons and backers are already playing Draw Steel. The success of this crowdfunder means y’all will get to play Draw Steel with Draw Steel dice WAY before the actual hardcovers ship next year. 

It’s incredibly cool that we get to do this. Our operations team, Geoff & Jerry had an idea, they thought folks would like new unique dice for our new game and they pressed the rest of the team into service and you folks will see, in just a few months, the finished result!

Getting to do that, to have a small but doable idea and bring it to market where it lives or dies purely on its own merits, no publisher or studio above us, is a huge privilege and one we take seriously. Getting to make Draw Steel at all is a major miracle, but being able to have an idea for something like custom dice, and then just…bring it to the people, ask “Do you want this?” is a huge thrill for all of us. 

We are already working with Chessex to get the dice made. We didn’t wait, we committed early because we had faith and, thanks to you folks, that faith paid off.

We’ll have prototypes of the Good King Omund dice to show off soon, but for now let’s talk about the plan moving forward. 

We are hard at work on the backerkit site that we will use to collect shipping details, we expect to send out surveys in around 2-3 weeks. 

We have a limited pre-order store that will open up later this week, but Hero boxes will only be available as add-ons for existing backers. This is because we need to get our final orders in place quickly to meet delivery timelines. If you missed this campaign, we plan to have more dice offerings later next year and will sell any extra dice remaining after fulfillment via our mcdm.shop.

Will collect shipping fees, sales tax, VAT, etc starting around January 7th when we return from holiday break. Shipping should begin shortly afterwards. We will be shipping from three hubs: Amsterdam, New South Wales, and Florida. Dice being much lighter than books, it appears that we will be able to use air freight to get the dice from the factory in Europe to the delivery hubs more quickly than past campaigns. That said, we have no control over international shipping and have learned the hard way that the best laid plans...

Thank you so much for making this dicefunder possible, we are all really excited to get your dice to you soon so you can Draw Steel and Roll Power!

-MCDM