I arrive today with an update threefold, in which we discuss the fast approaching delivery of physical goods, the awesome vault discord community, and our upcoming stream this Sunday!

Notifications went out last week that addresses were being locked, which means shipping is indeed nigh! We've finally managed to resolve the issues we discussed in our last update, and are currently in the process of coordinating with our manufacturer and distributors as the goods are loaded onto pallets and about to cross the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean on their way home. Once they cross their respective oceans, they will be picked and packed, before being handed to couriers to be sent on their way to you!

We want as smooth a process as possible for you all after waiting so patiently for your rewards, and the best way for you to ensure that is to keep abreast of shipping notifications and updates via email. We will be sure to put out an update when the goods reach port and ahead of tracking emails, just in case!

I also wanted to shout out the Vault Community Discord, and extend another invitation to all who want to join! During the creation of Faerie the discord became an invaluable hub of connection and inspiration for Aston and myself. Getting to hear your ideas and about the games you are running in Faerie has become a real joy for us both, and we always want more. 

Talking of connecting with the community, Aston and myself will be running another stream this Sunday Apr 5, 2026 @ 7:00pm BST / 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT over on the Vault Youtube channel. We will be mostly discussing our latest project Lodestar: A Spacefarer’s Manual (including building some cool beasties and star-sailing ships), but everyone and anyone is welcome to stop by and get involved or ask us questions!

That’ll be all for this week, I hope the changing of the seasons continues to treat you all well. We had a lovely warm equinox here, and I spent the last weekend scaling the tallest mountain in England! I would highly recommend a hike up Scafell Pike for anyone who gets the chance, the scenery alone will be inspiring my D&D games and descriptions for years to come; though I’d add the caveat of going when the weather is a little less frosty!

I look forward to seeing some of you in the Vault Discord, and the rest of you when we next update (hopefully when goods start being sent to couriers)!

Hey Folks!
I wanted to hop in today with a much needed update on the physical goods and shipping:

When I last spoke to y'all I conveyed the news that we were assured by our manufacturing partners the goods would be complete and ready to ship from them to our distribution partners world wide by the end of March, this included a period of downtime for them over Chinese New Year, but should have all been safely within timelines.

Unfortunately it has come to light that our partners haven't been up front with us about how far along things were. So, whilst the majority of the components are finished, and we have double checked, they hit a major issue with the first production cycle of the Elder Magic dice. If you've been following along with this whole debacle you know that the dice have been something we've been really keen on getting right and the first production run just was not up to the standard we’d been promised. The good news is that we’ve been assured with all confidence that the goods will leave their facilities 18 days from now at the latest, meaning the majority of you should be receiving shipping notifications within a month of today (depending where you are, RoW might be a little longer).

Obviously this isn’t ideal, and both Conor and myself are really disappointed in how our manufacturer has handled things. We have been as transparent and open as we can throughout this process with you guys, and we just hope this mess hasn’t undermined the trust we’ve built here as a community. On the bright side, they’ve given us guaranteed end dates now, and are seriously considering looking to other manufacturers for production in the future.

As always, we are so incredibly grateful for your patience, we know it is frustrating but you have all been kind and supportive throughout this entire process! In the mean time, if you want to chat to us we're both pretty active in the Discord, and will be happy to talk at length and answer any Qs you might have about this or anything else! Otherwise, if you have any support queries, shipping address changes, or just any general order help feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]!
I hope the spring thaw is treating you all well, as we all defrost for the year ahead!
Have a wonderful week guys!
Aston

Hail Wanderers!

Today I want to give you a bit of a full sit rep on what's going on with physical goods, including where we're at, what's taken so long and what's next! 

So we held off on a lot of production at the tail end of last year because we wanted to wait for better news on the tariff situation, unfortunately as a small company the tariff bill attached to literally 10's of thousands of pounds of physical goods could have ruined us. During this time we've been able to also source a new distribution partner that will provide more reliable distribution for our world wide customers so waiting was a pretty good choice! But also once we started to move forward with production myself and Conor got our hands on the goods and there were a number of minor errors that required a back and forth including sending samples to and from our manufacturer while we nailed down the best products we could for you guys.

So as of right now our goods are in production with our manufacturer, we have had assurances from them that they'll be finished by the time we hit chinese new year (this was important to us as otherwise it'd incur further delays when our manufacturer took time off for the holidays!). 

So once our goods finish up in the factories we'll be having them hauled across the world to our various distribution centres across the world. Once they begin that journey we'll input each of your orders onto our partner's system so they know what's going where etc! It is around this time that you should start receiving shipping notifications!

So that's where we're at on shipping, next just a couple of small points I wanna re-cover from last weeks update:
First of all, Blightmoor is still coming this week! If you already have it in your pledge it'll hit your inboxes the same as all the other digital goods, if you don't it'll go up on our E-store at the same time!
Next the Gauntlet final hits today! The final round of our ongoing creature creation competition is now live over in the discord and its been a tough fight with some fierce competition. As always make sure you go and make your votes heard in the Discord!
Finally, we're having a bit of a roundtable discussion stream this Sunday to go over various Lodestar and Faerie bits and pieces, we'd be thrilled for y'all to be there!

As always, we're thankful for your patience and understanding with Faerie. We know it's taken longer than any of us would have liked but unfortunately various world events over the past year have vastly changed global shipping and manufacturing.
Have a wonderful week and hopefully we'll see you on Sunday!

Aston

Hail Wanderers!

Just a bit of a shorter one today as I will be back on Monday for a slightly more comprehensive update!

First I have the promised previews, our completely custom Witches Grimoire and the Deck Boxes for our Spell & Item Cards! The Grimoire is a particular favourite of mine, as I assume many of you also are, I am a bit of a fiend for Stationary so getting to work on our own custom notebooks is a genuine joy. As for the spell and item cards... they're just gorgeous! A bit of Conor's custom art combined with some tastefully applied metallic gilding? Incredible!

Next, we've noticed alot of you aren't seeing the updates hit your inbox or at the top of the page so in hopes we can keep y'all in the loop a little we've sent notifications out on this update to everyone rather than just backers. For those that haven't seen an update in a little while: Hey! We hope the new year is treating you well! If you wanna make sure you can keep a bit more of a finger on the pulse with things then feel free to hop on over to our Discord! As a bit of a quick run down of where we are right now: Faerie hasn't shipped yet, we are looking at getting final timelines to you next week! (If we can wrench them from the cold corporate hands of our manufacturer!)

As of Monday we will be launching our final vote over in the Discord for the first ever Vault Gauntlet! Right now the second Semi-Final is running and these last few rounds have been Incredibly tight so please go and show all of the wonderful entrants some love! 

For those of you that have been waiting on it prepare yourselves! The Beast of Blightmoor is about to make itself known. Next week we will be launching the final piece of content for Faerie! It's been something I've been elbow deep in for the last little while but it is finally coming together! For those that don't know, Beast of Blightmoor is our intro adventure for Faerie: meant as an easy to run adventure that will introduce a new party to the themes of the setting! As soon as it's finished we'll also be popping it up on our E-Store! So be sure to keep an eye out if you didn't pick it up during the campaign!

On Monday we'll be announcing something new we're trying out this year, something of a roundtable/FAQ stream that we'll be running once a month, part of it will be dedicated to Lodestar but we will also be making room to have a bit of a yap about the state of Faerie, talking about the reasoning behind delays and such so check back in and make sure you're subscribed to our Youtube Channel if you're interested! We will be taking questions about our content and beyond so we'd love to see y'all there!

Okay maybe that wasn't actually shorter than usual but I will still be back on Monday! Until then I can probably fit one more TPK level encounter into Blightmoor....
Have a wonderful weekend gang!
Aston