Last 13 hours for Hall of Judgment
almost 6 years ago – Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 01:00:42 PM

Progress

Things going very, very well! We passed $14,000 during the night, while I was getting a tiny bit of sleep. Not a lot, since there's work to be done. But some.

Let's share this around, hit as many as possible, get the word out, etc. It's more effective if it comes from backers!

Layout Continues

I'm down to six monsters yet to do. Looking at the Thegn of Your Own level, I know I have characters from everyone but one, and he's working on it.

That means that I have a bit of rules tweaking to do for Wilderness survival (the Powered by GURPS version needed more tweaking than initially intended), I  have to put some treasure in one encounter, and a few other odds and ends.

Then it's time to re-playtest the thing at least once. Blindtest, really. Which brings me to:

Playtest Announcement

Call for Hall of Judgement playtesters, Playing on discord.  

• Text based so theater of the mind.  
• Using Pseudobot for rolling.  
• Starting NZ(UTC +12) 9-10PM.  
• Over 3 or 4 weeknights next week.  
• Using any of the Pregens from DFRPG or Hall of judgement for simplicity, testing and speed  
• Fair warning the GM is a parent and it is the school holidays  
• Message the user (E) on the gaming ballistic discord server if interested
  

If we get more testers than we can handle, priority will go first to highest pledge total, then to who backed first. But if you want to try out the adventure and the pre-gens, this is your shot to do so before publication.

More Shipping

Immediately after I posted my last update, more info came in to make me rethink. The now-128-page book makes things revise a bit. I was premature in stating what things would be. I'm going to look into several ways of getting this all done, but I won't know what it is until next week. It's really about, oddly enough, the best way to get the stuff to US backers. The "not the US" are easy and that's settled in terms of how, if not precisely how much.

As soon as the campaign closes I can send my fulfillment partner the backer list, and we can start working up pricing options. I have a few novel ideas that might be the best of both worlds. As soon as I know, you'll know shortly thereafter.

Finish Strong

I'm now very, very confident in PDF delivery by the first week in August, probably August 1. With the characters in hand, the monsters certainly finished by this weekend (maybe even tonight), and only a bit of writing clean-up to do, the list is pretty small. I've got a great prelim layout pass I'm still happy with, so I'm feeling pretty good about this one.

Please share and spread the word in these last critical 12 hours - the trend in Kickstarters I've seen has been an explosion in the last day, and here we are. 

International Shipping: A preparatory note
almost 6 years ago – Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:43:47 PM

Roughly 30% of the pledges are from outside the easy reach of the US Postal Service. This usually means ridiculous shipping costs.

Not this time.

I don't know exactly what the costs will be just yet, but what I can tell you is I am printing and fulfilling from the United Kingdom. So the cost of shipping will be on the order of $10-15 for just about everyone. For those in the USA, it will be a tetch more than we're used to, but I think if I have my information right, this will be made up for in speed of delivery, relatively speaking.

For those "not in the USA," this should be both faster and cheaper than usual. 

So if you're currently PDF because you love PDF, that's awesome. I love it too.

If you're currently PDF-only because oh my god the shipping, don't be too worried: I think we've got you covered.

I hope to get some info back from my fulfillment partner in the next half-day or so; but in the meantime: give it a think.

Last 48 Hours! Time for the Big Push!
almost 6 years ago – Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:39:13 AM

We're now at 48 hours to go. It has been, and likely will continue to be, an awesome and humbling experience.

It's not even done yet, and it's already been my most successful KS to date from a number of backers perspective, and may yet still eclipse Dragon Heresy as my most financially successful KS as well.

And let's not beat around the bush here. While money to me is of course good for me, the licensing revenue to SJGames is the best of all. Darn near infinite ROI. But it's really just the start: as Zarina said in The Pirate Fairy (can you tell I have two girls?): "From a trickle to a roar!" 

This is the time: go to your social network, go to your Favorite Local Game Stores if you have one, tell your friends. Share this, encourage folks to pledge. Let's freakin' blow up the last two days.

What's in it for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG community:

What's in it for you?   

• A Foreword by Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch, GURPS Line Editor, that should make everyone that's wanted to publish for GURPS sit up and take notice  
• 20 pages of viking-inspired town, with festivals, culture, and adventure seeds Three micro-dungeons to explore: a ruins and two underground warrens.  
• Five maps by MonkeyBlood Design (Glynn Seal), ENnie-nominated cartographer. These things are unbelievably cool.  
• The main adventure, featuring a non-linear evolution in encounters, not-just-combat challenges, and more  
• Over a dozen sample characters; five or six are backer submitted at the Thegn of Your Own tier!  
• More than 30 creatures ready to play with a new open layout for easy digestion.  

This book is VERY different, and quite frankly, better in almost every way than Lost Hall of Tyr, from which it sprung. 128 pages (rather than 64), full color, awesome art, and layered and hyperlinked for ease of use. The print copies will be 93#/140gsm interior paper; fulfillment is from the UK so international shipping should be pretty affordable.

Finally: let's not beat around the bush: let me quote from the aforementioned foreword:

 "...it bodes well for Dungeon FantasyRoleplaying Game fans and fans of SJ Games products in general. We now have evidence that licensing third-party publishers to crowdfund content for our games pays off. That isn’t a guarantee we’ll agree to every proposal—our standards remain exacting, and we still prefer people we know and trust—but it means we’ll listen. Intently." -Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch

Please help drive more support the Hall of Judgment Kickstarter. 

48 hours to go.

Terrible Dire Ram: If we pass $16,147
almost 6 years ago – Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:00:27 PM

Just because I'm feeling punchy.

If we pass $16,147 - the total KS funds raised by Dragon Heresy - I will guarantee that this medieval beasty makes it into the book.

 Maybe a Terrible Dire Ram.

Just think of your players trying to explain to folks how their PCs met their untimely end.

Ask Me Anything (gaming related): Wed July 11 9pm CST
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:41:24 PM

I'm going to host an Ask Me Anything about Hall of Judgment, Gaming Ballistic, and anything else gaming-related you want to chat about.

Thanks to the actions of Erik Tenkar of Tenkar's Tavern, I now have a channel on his Discord server. Since he's got a lot of folks there regularly, I figured his site would be a better place to host it than my channel.

So: if you want to Ask Me Anything, come by and join the Gaming Ballistic channel of the Tenkar's Tavern Discord. It will somewhat contemporaneous with the Wednesday Tavern Chat (8pm until folks get worn out), but that's fine too!

There will be a voice channel available as well as text chat.

See you tomorrow!