Hail and well met Wanderers!
I arrive today with some more art previews, news, and timeline updates! Before anything too wordy, take a look at some more of the artwork that...
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Pre-Order Charges & Bestiary Preview!
Hail Wonderful Wanderer's!
A public update this week to ensure as many people see the information as possible!
Firstly and most importantly, as we near the end of our deve...
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about 2 months ago
Book Previews and The Power of Names!
Hail Wanderers!
This week I'm popping in to drop off a couple of gifts and give an update on where we're at with Faerie currently!
Preview Pages
First of all I have some su...
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Etterkin Swings By, and Faerie Playtest Survey 06!
Hail Adventurers!
Me again this week, I have come once again to ask for your valuable feedback! This time last month we released Playtest 06: Player Heritage Options, which ...
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3 months ago
Magical Familiars & Mundane Tariffs
Hail and well met Wanderers!
I hope you are all fairing well and enjoying (for those in the northern hemisphere, apologies to our Australian and Kiwi backers) these early we...
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Faerie Playtest Survey 05: Better late than never!
Hail Adventurers!
While going through our Class feedback to tweak and modify the classes for their finalised versions we realised we didn't actually collect feedback for pla...
Our campaign for Faerie is over, twas a battle well fought and a victory well earned! Thank you all for raising your banner amongst our own, and making this our most successful project to date! If you’re reading this and didn’t have chance to back, our pre-order store is now open too, and will remain so until we lock orders for manufacture and fulfilment next year.
Now onto the final business for this week, including a round up of loose ends and a key dates roadmap of what you can expect from us and when!
Willow’s Fate
If you’ve not already, go check out our final update on Willow to learn her fate, and find out what awesome rewards you have all unlocked as a result of your choices and rolls! The final roll was done live on stream, and thanks to my sleep deprivation and the efforts of your fellow backers, something pretty wild happened…
Post-Campaign Survey
Expect to receive your post campaign surveys in one weeks time, August 30th. Once they’ve been sent out you will have until September 30th to complete them. If your surveys are not complete by the deadline we cannot guarantee you will receive your rewards, so please do make sure to get them filled in when they arrive.
Playtest Content
Our first playtest survey will also be released on August 30th, to collect your feedback on the preview PDF content such as the Fetch Rogue and Witch class (we will release the full class soon, and collect more thorough feedback later once all features and spells have been made available). We will also be releasing our first official playtest document on August 30th. Which will contain the Witch Knight Fighter subclass, the Circle of Blight Druid subclass, spells & more! We will release a survey the following month for you to post your feedback, alongside the next playtest document. This will continue monthly until we finalise the book ready for fulfilment!
Update & Streaming Schedule
You can expect to hear from us here on Backerkit fortnightly (every 2 weeks) with an official update that will detail progress on the book, the art, and the various rewards! As for streaming, I don’t yet know when we will be hopping on again, but rest assured it will happen and you will be notified plenty in advance. Last nights stream was a tonne of fun, we designed two new monsters and even rolled Willows final roll live! If you missed it, the VoD is available on YouTube HERE.
Fulfilment Timeline
We are penned for a June 2025 fulfilment date, digital goods will likely go out some time prior but this is the deadline we have for everything so expect notifications about receiving rewards no later than May 2025. Returning backers from Tempest can expect your exclusive “Guide to the Wyldsea” expansion to be with you sometime in the next couple months, and any purchases of the Tempest PDF or Dragons Vault Digital Collection will be sent out in a similar timescale once we’ve finished all of our backend work for Faerie.
That’s all of the important dates going forward! If there’s any amendments, changes or delays we will be sure to make you aware as far in advance as possible.
And as a final note, I’d like to say a personal thank you to every single one of you who joined us on this campaign. Because of you me and Aston get to work our dream jobs, I can’t emphasise enough how grateful we are! And if you are returning from Tempest, a special thank you for sticking with us as we continue to grow and develop! Aston will be handling surveys and content for the next week or so while I take a short holiday after working pretty relentlessly the last couple of months, I’ll still be active in our discord if you have any questions or want to talk about Faerie!
I arrive today with some more art previews, news, and timeline updates! Before anything too wordy, take a look at some more of the artwork that you’ll soon get to see in full glory on the pages of Faerie:
Fulfilment timeline
The book is going through its final stages now as we prepare for digital fulfilment and to send off for print! Originally we had hoped that our Summer 2025 fulfilment date would land us firmly in the month of June, but it is now looking like it’ll be the end of July. Which is slightly later than we had hoped, but it should allow us to finish everything up to a standard we know you’ll appreciate without too much crunch on our end. Once digital goods have begun to fulfil it will also mean physical goods will have begun manufacture. As always we will keep you well informed on all the goings on from our end, as well as the general goings on in the fulfilment space (tariff updates for example).
Once we reach that point we will be sure to let you know with weekly updates, and you can always pop into our community Discord if you want to join the discussion or ask any questions!
Release Stream!
We’ve been getting a lot of requests for another stream, and since we enjoyed the launch stream so much we figured why not! So, as celebration on the release of Faerie we are going to have a little live shindig over on our YouTube sometime in August. More details on that to come soon, but you can look forward to joining myself and Aston as we go through Faerie page by page, take questions, and perhaps finish off with a tease of our next project!
That’s all from me for now. I meant to put out a small post on the solstice, but it entirely slipped my mind; so I’ll say a very belated happy solstice to you all now instead, I hope you’re all well and enjoying the season!
We will be back in a couple of weeks with another update, so I’ll see you then.
A public update this week to ensure as many people see the information as possible!
Firstly and most importantly, as we near the end of our development cycle on Faerie and move swiftly towards production (and distribution!) we need to start locking down our numbers for physical goods.
The following message is ONLY relevant to Pre-Order customers, not original campaign backers!
As of today, we will be locking existing Pre-Orders so changes cannot be made to them. As of friday this week (7th June) we will be charging ALL cards on those orders. If your card fails to charge, your order will be entirely forfeit, so please get this fixed ASAP (Reach out to me at [email protected] for any support here). If you rectify this after we send our final numbers off to our manufacturer then you could potentially miss out on recieivng any physical rewards from Faerie at all!
Due to the nature of Backerkits Pre-Order capability this will mean we will stop taking digitial Pre-Orders too but we will replace this with a link to our digitial storefront where all of our PDFs will be available (including a Faerie Pre-Order right up until publication!). More on that in a later update to come!
Okay, now the housekeeping is out of the way, a general update: In a previous update we mentioned a tentative June distribution deadline and as you may have guessed we haven't hit that, however there are no major delays you need to worry about. We are still on track for our original more general Summer distribution start!
However, as you all know I never like to come empty handed so I have delved deep into the bestiary and torn some pages a sunder for you to view! I present the official art for three of Faeries Fearsome Foes:
The Shellycoat - A strange creature that collects bits and pieces from fallen warriors, covering itself in their armour. The Screaming Skull - A particularly horrifying brand of undead that pulls on the numerous british myths of cursed relics and skulls across the isles. The Wulver - Strange Lupine Faeries that don't shift back and forth like a werewolf but permenantly exist in a horrifying amalgamation of beast and man.
Shellycoat, Screaming Skull, and Wulver.
Those updates are all for me for this week! As always if you need any support with your order, feel free to reach out to us via our support email [email protected]. Or if you just fancy a chat we'd love for you to pop over to our Discord!
This week I'm popping in to drop off a couple of gifts and give an update on where we're at with Faerie currently!
Preview Pages
First of all I have some super high resolution previews of various double page spreads from the book, Conor has been hard at work deciding on layouts, border art, font choices, and a number of other artistic bits and pieces that make sure the final product will look gorgeous when it gets into your hands. These four double page spreads have been mocked up with the current vibe and honestly we're loving it!
Faerie Page Preview
Obviously these are just sample pages, not all in the correct order and subject to change but they give a very strong idea of the final product! (also for the eagle eyed amongst you, containing a tiny little taster of the fealty system!)
The Magic of Names
Next, a gift for the more mechanically minded of you folks. One of our Stretch Goals for the campaign was the Magic Of Names. Which introduced a new sub-school of magic to Faerie, Naming is particularly important to Faerie folklore so we wanted to make sure we do it justice for the book. Not simply relying on flavor or vibe to put across the implications of Onomancy, there are a couple of rules specific to this category of spells which help them feel ancient and 'different' to some of the more standard 5e spells without bogging down spell descriptions. Below I have the page explaining those rules, as-well as a preview of four of the thirteen upcoming Onomancy spells!
Onomancy Preview
Don't worry about the order of the spells in the preview image, these are just four spells we chose to share to give y'all a real feel for the type of magic you can expect! A particular favorite of mine is Goetia: a spell cast as a reaction to your own spell casting! (Fellow spell slot burners anyone?)
Finally, a bit of a brief update in terms of where we're at! As you can see the book itself is really coming together, most of the actual writing of the book is pretty much finalized at this point (pending proof reading etc!), Conor is also deep into illustration the various art pieces for the book and designing the physical goods too! All this to say, Faerie is getting very close! And as always we just want to reiterate: Faerie is only possible because of you guys, getting to spend our research days with our nose in books on British folklore and designing rad new mechanics based around what we find. We truly have the greatest job in the world and that is all thanks to our wonderful backers & preorder customers!
Okay, enough from me for this week! As always, if y'all have any questions or queries (or just wanna chat!) feel free to hop into our Discord! Or if you need any order related support drop me an email at [email protected]!
Me again this week, I have come once again to ask for your valuable feedback! This time last month we released Playtest 06: Player Heritage Options, which included two entirely new lineages, a sub-lineage for multiple base-game lineages as well as lineage specific feats for the Hagborn, Etterkin, and Cairndwin! If you missed that just scroll back here a few updates and you'll see it, or you can jump onto our Discord to find all of our playtest files easily accessible! (Plus lots of discussion about them and how our Wonderful community immediately breaks our homebrew!). If you've had chance to playtest any of the lineages or even just have an opinion on their balance, design, or feel then please fill out the survey found Here! It's always a real joy to read through the responses, whether it's just someone telling us they love the vibe or if there's an issue with balance, we love to know what you think.
But this week I do not only come baring surveys and discord links! Conor has mocked up a little look at the art for the Etterkin as well as their lore write up from the book itself. This gives you a little sneakpeak into some design elements that will be making their way into the final book, obviously some elements are subject to change but we're really loving how it's all coming together right now (and honestly, speaking personally Conor has done an Incredible job!)
Etterkin Preview
Honestly, I'm still astounded at the amount of wonderful art Conor is able to consistently pull out! But enough gushing from me for this week! We hope to hear from you in the Survey, Speak to you in the Discord, and See you again in a couple of weeks!