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PROJECT UPDATE
The Dragons Vault
CREATOR
16 days ago
Project Update: State of the Vault 01: Cyborgs, Bardbarians, and more!
Ahoy Spacers!
Me and Conor are just hopping on for our first ever State of the Vault stream, we'll be chatting through some of the feedback for Battlewrought fighter, answering any design questions you might have about the Superstition Bard or Comet Barbarian and just answering any general questions you might have!
We'd love for you to hop on over and have a chat! If you don't catch the stream live it'll be available as a VOD afterwards!
Hopefully see you there, and if we don't have a wonderful week all the same!
Aston
We'd love for you to hop on over and have a chat! If you don't catch the stream live it'll be available as a VOD afterwards!
Hopefully see you there, and if we don't have a wonderful week all the same!
Aston
PROJECT UPDATE
The Dragons Vault
CREATOR
27 days ago
Project Update: Playtest 02: Path of the Comet Barbarian & College of Superstition Bard, Playtest Survey Open, and Roundtable this week!
Ahoy me valiant Spacefarers!
I come aboard today with treasure and good tidings a'plenty!
First of all, for those that have ever valuble feedback on our previous playtest (Battlewrought Fighter & Assorted Arcana) I come bearing the playtest survey! Myself and Conor go through these pretty thoroughly when we're finalizing the subclasses before they make it into the book so it's always super valuable to hear what y'all think! We had a record number of replies on the previous survey so we'd love to keep up the pattern!
But I'm not just here to harvest your deeply valuble knowledge and experience, I also come bearing the gift of your next playtest document! Inside the link at the bottom of this update you will find Playtest 02: Path of the Comet Barbarian & College of Superstition Bard! Will you be a force of pure momentum on the battlefield? Leaping great distances to destroy your foes (and their worldly possessions)? Or will you instead choose to imbue your usually inspirational bardic dice with the malicious intent of terrifying superstition? Whichever path you tread we hope it will be a glorious one!
And finally who wants another stream? *queue cheering and joyous noise here* Me and Conor have decided we wanna chat to you more than we do at the minute! We want you guys to be able to field questions, hear updates, and just generally pick our brains on whatever y'all fancy! So if you have burning questions about the design of any of our mechanics, Lodestar's Content, or even just about our favourite soup we'd love to have you! We'll be going live this Sunday (15th Feb) at 7pm GMT (That's 11am PST and 2pm EST)! If you're interested in joining make sure you hop over to our discord or subscribe to our Youtube to make sure you get the announcement!
That's all for me for this week gang, I hope you love the content and have an incredible day!
Aston
I come aboard today with treasure and good tidings a'plenty!
First of all, for those that have ever valuble feedback on our previous playtest (Battlewrought Fighter & Assorted Arcana) I come bearing the playtest survey! Myself and Conor go through these pretty thoroughly when we're finalizing the subclasses before they make it into the book so it's always super valuable to hear what y'all think! We had a record number of replies on the previous survey so we'd love to keep up the pattern!
But I'm not just here to harvest your deeply valuble knowledge and experience, I also come bearing the gift of your next playtest document! Inside the link at the bottom of this update you will find Playtest 02: Path of the Comet Barbarian & College of Superstition Bard! Will you be a force of pure momentum on the battlefield? Leaping great distances to destroy your foes (and their worldly possessions)? Or will you instead choose to imbue your usually inspirational bardic dice with the malicious intent of terrifying superstition? Whichever path you tread we hope it will be a glorious one!
And finally who wants another stream? *queue cheering and joyous noise here* Me and Conor have decided we wanna chat to you more than we do at the minute! We want you guys to be able to field questions, hear updates, and just generally pick our brains on whatever y'all fancy! So if you have burning questions about the design of any of our mechanics, Lodestar's Content, or even just about our favourite soup we'd love to have you! We'll be going live this Sunday (15th Feb) at 7pm GMT (That's 11am PST and 2pm EST)! If you're interested in joining make sure you hop over to our discord or subscribe to our Youtube to make sure you get the announcement!
That's all for me for this week gang, I hope you love the content and have an incredible day!
Aston
Includes Backer-Exclusive Content
PROJECT UPDATE
The Dragons Vault
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: New Year, New Playtest!
Ahoy Spacefarers!
I hope you all had as restful a time over the holidays as we did here at the vault! Myself and Aston have spent a solid few weeks away from work and with our families, but are now officially back on the space-grind to bring Lodestar to life!
With that in mind, here is our first official playtest document for Lodestar, featuring the awesome Battlewrought Fighter subclass and a selection of new magic items and spells! So if you’ve ever wanted to experience the true power of being a cyborg space-pirate, here be your opportunity!
Have a play with it, see what you like and don’t like, then next month with will return with a feedback survey to collect all of your thoughts and ideas (along with a brand new playtest document).
If you’d like to discuss the playtest, as well as all things Dragons Vault, head on over to our community Discord today!
That’s all from me for now, we’ve some exciting things on the way soon and some awesome news to share too, but for now I leave you in the capable hands of the Battlewrought!
- Conor
I hope you all had as restful a time over the holidays as we did here at the vault! Myself and Aston have spent a solid few weeks away from work and with our families, but are now officially back on the space-grind to bring Lodestar to life!
With that in mind, here is our first official playtest document for Lodestar, featuring the awesome Battlewrought Fighter subclass and a selection of new magic items and spells! So if you’ve ever wanted to experience the true power of being a cyborg space-pirate, here be your opportunity!
Have a play with it, see what you like and don’t like, then next month with will return with a feedback survey to collect all of your thoughts and ideas (along with a brand new playtest document).
If you’d like to discuss the playtest, as well as all things Dragons Vault, head on over to our community Discord today!
That’s all from me for now, we’ve some exciting things on the way soon and some awesome news to share too, but for now I leave you in the capable hands of the Battlewrought!
- Conor
Includes Backer-Exclusive Content
PROJECT UPDATE
The Dragons Vault
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: End of Year Sign Off!
Ahoy Spacefarers!
As we rapidly approach the turning of the Calendar I'm just hopping in to let you know where we're at and where we will be given the new year! As a small note myself and Conor will be out of office until January 5th, any support requests directed towards us won't get remedied till then! But please make sure you check out our FAQ before dropping us an email, chances are if you have a question someone else already has too!
Me and Conor will be back in January for our first big play-test document, we've been spending the last week brainstorming and settling on final plans for the book and Oh Boy is she gonna be a beauty! We've also been paying close attention to the feedback y'all have presented in our previous survey and it looks promising so far! As always hearing your thoughts and ideas regarding the work we put out is always invaluable!
And finally, as always, thank you all so much for your support over this last year. It's been our biggest (so far) and the Dragons Vault only exists with all of your support. Each and every one of you from the Preorder customers to the OG Tempest backers, this is a job that rides on the support and engagement of our community and we couldn't have found a better one on the digital hellscape that is the internet!
Happy Christmas, to those of you who celebrate, and a Happy New Year from both myself and Conor!
We'll see you in '26!
Aston
As we rapidly approach the turning of the Calendar I'm just hopping in to let you know where we're at and where we will be given the new year! As a small note myself and Conor will be out of office until January 5th, any support requests directed towards us won't get remedied till then! But please make sure you check out our FAQ before dropping us an email, chances are if you have a question someone else already has too!
Me and Conor will be back in January for our first big play-test document, we've been spending the last week brainstorming and settling on final plans for the book and Oh Boy is she gonna be a beauty! We've also been paying close attention to the feedback y'all have presented in our previous survey and it looks promising so far! As always hearing your thoughts and ideas regarding the work we put out is always invaluable!
And finally, as always, thank you all so much for your support over this last year. It's been our biggest (so far) and the Dragons Vault only exists with all of your support. Each and every one of you from the Preorder customers to the OG Tempest backers, this is a job that rides on the support and engagement of our community and we couldn't have found a better one on the digital hellscape that is the internet!
Happy Christmas, to those of you who celebrate, and a Happy New Year from both myself and Conor!
We'll see you in '26!
Aston
PROJECT UPDATE
The Dragons Vault
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: Pledge Manager Update!
Ahoy Spacefarers!
Just a shorter one today with a couple of bits to mention about the pledge manager!
First of all, everything is working as intended! We've already seen over 60% of you complete your survey! That's a pretty incredible response rate so soon so thank you so much for your promptness with that!
Those of you that are on a "pay over time" pledge offered by Backerkit will get your surveys as soon you've completed your final payment (or you decide to pay it off early!) but there are no time incentives or limited exclusives there so don't worry about missing out on anything!
Next, those of you that are in the EU may have noticed slightly increased shipping alongside the D20 incentive, this is because our shipping profiles were slightly too tight in terms of weight, this has now been adjusted and should be more accurate to the profiles shown on the campaign page! (do keep in mind though that these profiles are weight based, adding extra incentives/addons will increase the weight of the package and may increase the shipping profile!)
Finally the Playtest Survey is open for the content available on our preview PDF (that is available on the front of the Backerkit page). These surveys will come consistently through development alongside our playtest documents, its important to us that you enjoy the content we provide and that you think it's fun and balanced so this is your chance to make your feelings known!
That's all from me for this week, have a wonderful week!
Aston
Just a shorter one today with a couple of bits to mention about the pledge manager!
First of all, everything is working as intended! We've already seen over 60% of you complete your survey! That's a pretty incredible response rate so soon so thank you so much for your promptness with that!
Those of you that are on a "pay over time" pledge offered by Backerkit will get your surveys as soon you've completed your final payment (or you decide to pay it off early!) but there are no time incentives or limited exclusives there so don't worry about missing out on anything!
Next, those of you that are in the EU may have noticed slightly increased shipping alongside the D20 incentive, this is because our shipping profiles were slightly too tight in terms of weight, this has now been adjusted and should be more accurate to the profiles shown on the campaign page! (do keep in mind though that these profiles are weight based, adding extra incentives/addons will increase the weight of the package and may increase the shipping profile!)
Finally the Playtest Survey is open for the content available on our preview PDF (that is available on the front of the Backerkit page). These surveys will come consistently through development alongside our playtest documents, its important to us that you enjoy the content we provide and that you think it's fun and balanced so this is your chance to make your feelings known!
That's all from me for this week, have a wonderful week!
Aston
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