As of today, I have finished merging people's orders backwards, so anyone who backed both this project and the one from May on Backerkit who requested it in their survey, your orders are now merged into one project.
What this looks like: your order on the other project was marked as Fulfilled, and the items from it have been added to your order on THIS project. If you're curious, you can go take a look for yourself to make sure things made it over okay.
I am going to LOCK ADDRESSES on the 27th of March. The goal is to make sure our shipping numbers and addresses are correct.
As of now, we are aiming to have our production finished by mid April, with items to our fulfillment team in China and then picked-and-packed by the end of April for your orders.
April 30th - May 10th, we'll see International (non-North American) shipping starting to go out.
May 25-30th, we'll see the container with the North American orders arrive to the USA.
June 10th, all orders should have been shipped out and, hopefully, in-hand already.
That's it! Chinese New Year breaks end shortly, so we'll see items in production soon, and then it's a fulfillment time where things happen, packages are packed, labels are placed, and then items go places!
Now, I will say these are the dates as given to me by the fulfillment team. The manufacturer doing the dice items may note that the manufacturing could take a little longer, but June to the start of July is still a great timeline estimate.
So that's that, otherwise you'll just be looking for my updates about the shipping charges being added to your orders near the end of March, and I'll be harrassing people who haven't gotten their surveys in. You can always just go on backerkit.com and check your surveys there if you're not sure if it's in yet!
So talk again in March when shipping charges are coming up!
Nothing big to report, but I did want to come in and share the "7 Was Wrong Pin" design final form! It is officially named the 1000 Goblin Pin!
It will be 2.5" wide, and while it was offered here cheaper, it will retail for $15. This is the 'commemorative' pin I put up in our final moments when we reached 1000 backers, proving me wrong about that!
Also, look at the dice chests! Just kind of fun to see them in process. They are just about done, and I've paid manufacturing with the manu, but we won't start until March since we have to work around the Chinese New Year here in Feb.
More info in March when we have some clearer timeline info!
First off, the Helper Dice Set arrived to me! And the dice are good, the cards are good, the box is good-- we're good. (Okay, there are a few small things I've asked them to fix, but very little.) In receiving this, that means I've received all three sets now. I have gone ahead and sent in a handful of digital file updates, including the thinner large set box designs, the final versions of the guidebooks, and that means we're done.
The Dice Chests are already in production, the Dice Goblin pin is about to be in production-- and the stone dice?
The Stone Dice
The Stone Key Keepers set can be seen here above! That's the Housewife's dice, then underneath the Black Lantern dice. Then we have the 7 Key Keepers with their suns and moons, plus the astrology d12. And at the bottom? The 4 Gametaker Dice! Then off to the right, we have the stone Helper Dice Set! Bear in mind that the patterning on each die can be unique, so the red-inked die in the Helper's set is a bit hard to read on that side of the die, but that's just a mismatch of patterning with the design on that particular die and on that particular face. It happens from time to time, but shouldn't be an issue most of the time. It was also a bit of a dark photo from the manufacturer, so I don't feel those will be representative of the in-person experience.
Merging Orders
I will be merging orders shortly to get ready to put shipping on people's orders. This is a manual process I'll be doing personally, so it may take a little bit. However, for people whose orders are merged, you'll find that I'm moving one of your two orders to the 'Fulfilled' bucket. That's just so we don't accidentally re-ship that order. I'm choosing not to cancel one order because that will make later records confusing-- so instead I'm merging items from one to the other order, then moving the one that had its items moved to be considered Fulfilled.
Timeline
So based on the fact that we're just now sending in the final files, I think it's safe to say we won't be shipping until the back half of March and then April at the earliest. This is because February is the Chinese New Year, and everything basically grinds to a halt around that time. This isn't ideal, I thought we could be manufacturing through January, but I needed photos of the real dice in the guidebooks this time around, both stone and plastic, so I could make sure the guides were comprehensive resources.
So I'm going to claim this: By the end of May, we will be all shipped out, ideally all items in people's hands.
I'm a little nervous because I have the Goblin's Tarot set to fund in May, but I'd rather say end of May items in hand and then get to move that sooner as things get done on time, than say we'll be all shipped by the start of May and then it turns out some are still shipping mid-May.
And time-wise, I think that's pretty solid here, as we launched in May last year, so a year turnaround is great for a crowdfunder.
SO FOR NOW, hang out and have a nice day. I'll let you all know when things are moving more certainly and we are more certain of our ability to get things locked in to a particular timeline. I will especially be checking in to share when shipping is being tagged on people's orders so people can check it before we charge it.
So talk again when I have more news!
7DA your pub gob
ps again, Pub Gob Trinkets has its first solo-launch a week from today with new tarot-style enamel pins, this time with a gorgeous stained-glass treatment! So consider giving it a look if you like enamel pins, or got the previous tarot-style pins from us in 2024!
As of today, I got all the print files laid out for everything on this darned project. Art prints, oracle die face decks and boxes and little white books, etc etc.
Well, the guidebooks aren't done done. I'm doing my final read throughs now to grab typos, and I am waiting on getting photos of the stone dice for the Key Keepers and Helper set, plus the Helper dice manufacturing sample for the Appendix. In the Seasons guidebook, you'll see the dice pages have the stone die in the top corner. The Key Keepers set just doesn't have that yet, as I don't have Key Keeper stone dice in hand. Or potentially made at all. Hard to say, my point of contact is sick right now.
But you can take a look at both guidebooks now here!
Feel free to bug me about my typos in the comments, doesn't hurt to have extra eyes. : )
I can confirm we have shrunk the guidebooks a little, 3mm thinner each by lowering the paper weight (which will make them fit in the chest drawer made for them), and we have made the boxes they come in a full inch plus less deep, so there isn't wasted space. Plus they will fit on a bookshelf better that way, and pack smaller in a box for shipping (or storage, for those of us who need to store the 300+ sets extra that get made haha).
In finishing everything, I updated cheat sheets, made new boxes for the oracle die face decks, retooled the Journal pages to work better for whatever dice you use (and laid out the other 3 grids in the simplified line-only design), etc. It was a fair bit of work, but it's all done!
Cheat Sheets now have a border with the coloration of their stone dice, and a border line with the ink color of that stone die. This does a couple things: It addresses some folks want, stone dice awareness in the set, and it brought the info in on each card a bit so it won't get cut off. Stone dice overlaid here aren't on the actual cards, I just did that so you could see the color matching. I also tagged each die's card with what kind of die it is, Obstacle, Action, Topic, Characterizer, or Connection, as well as what page to find the full writeup and in what guidebook, in case you mix your cheat sheet cards between sets.
This is an awesome set of oracle tools that I am so proud of. They are just what they needed to be! And having put in a bunch of work on the darned books, delving into the new set as well with sample readings, I can say I am so so so excited for you all to see these in your hands early next year.
Alright friends, stay tuned for my notice that I've sent in the final guidebook files, and see you in 2026 when these will exist in the real world.
Hello, (Sorry for the double email for people who backed the Kickstarter!)
I have samples for the Seasons and Key Keepers Sets in hand, plus wooden boxes! It will be a little bit before I have the Helpers Set in hand, but I am happy to report that set is complete! These colors aren't all correct, we're adjusting some, but the designs are all final. And they look great. I have the proper colors all selected and things ready to go to the manufacturer, including the lords cards with foil elements, the dice symbol cards, and... Oh gosh, I need to write up their cheat sheet cards now and finalize the deck box! I know what I'm doing tomorrow then before I send it to the manufacturer!
Now, you can see the samples of the sets! I say it in the video, but the boxes are being nearly halved in depth, so they'll be a bit smaller. 10"x7"x1.6". The samples in the video are 3" deep. The cloths are also not the right size or material, but that's an easy fix. (I mailed over a cloth from the 2nd edition for them to check against.) And some dice colors aren't quite right, but overall it all looks really good.
I've still got guidebook work to finish over the next few weeks here in November, but once those are done we can get manufacturing moving December to January and be shipping in Feb/March. It turned out even just setting up the images in the books and updating the pages to have the dice colors has taken a while, not to mention the full page extensions of all die face meanings. I've already written half page entries for the Housewife and Black Lantern dice for their tarot guide books, so those are halfway ready as-is, just extending the cheat sheet card meanings for the Gametaker's dice now, then writeups on the Lords card meanings, overview 1-page entries for each die on what they are about as a whole, and then it's on to advice on reading the new grids!
It sounds like a lot, but it comes together quickly.
Talk again soon when I have the guidebooks together and ready, or if I get the Helper dice set samples quickly!
