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Hall of Judgment - a Dungeon Fantasy RPG Supplement

Created by Douglas H. Cole

Hall of Judgment is a micro-setting and scenario for the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game (Powered by GURPS). It features non-linear adventuring for 4-6 250-point characters. Explore a Viking-flavored world trekking through cold, harsh mountains, and face down dangerous faerie. Search for a lost holy place, and the priceless relics within. Easily portable and usable with any GURPS Fantasy campaign

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Postage Purchased; Initial Packages into the mail
over 5 years ago – Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:35:10 PM

All postage has now been purchased, and labels addressed. That's it for addresses.

A small stack of books will go out in the next hour or so: anyone who bought more than one of HoJ, or mixed HoJ with DG got done up first, mostly for simplicity. I will be printing labels and boxing up books starting as soon as I get back from dropping off this first load!

I'm excited to have these finally going out. As are you, to get them, I hope.

Address changes? Last chance.
over 5 years ago – Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 06:54:22 PM

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USA Deliveries: Likely a one week delay
over 5 years ago – Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 01:45:57 PM

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Arrivals and Departures
over 5 years ago – Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 04:09:23 PM

A quick one this Tuesday morning. 

I continue - via comments, Twitter, and other methods - to hear about HoJ successfully arriving in the UK, Finland, and even a copy to Australia over the last week. Excellent. Kixto got it done, which is all one can ask for.

For the US backers - and the US author - there are seven cartons of books in Exeter in the UK, waiting for DHL to do . . . whatever it is that they do in order to clear them for departure and put them on a plane. I contacted DHL this morning to see if there was anything I needed to do. They assured me that they'd get back to me before tomorrow at 5pm. 

"Well, yeah. Everything's supposed to arrive by tomorrow noon."
"I guess that's one version of hearing from us, then?""Right."

If that happens, I should be able to get my labels and postage organized and printed. I'll box up the multiple-order (HoJ plus LHoT or Dungeon Grappling, for example, or more than one copy of HoJ) because they're "special" and then start boxing up the single-copy orders immediately thereafter. Since I'll be shipping out 281 books, each of which is about 1.1 lbs, it might require more than one trip to the USPS. Good news is with pre-paid postage, I won't have to ring 'em in individually.

Anyway: assuming, they show up, most folks should get them by mid-September.

In personal news: I spent three straight days in chain mail at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with Asfolk Viking Martial Arts. Had a great time doing shield-and-sword, axe, and spear demos for very good crowds through the weekend. I'm feeling a bit baked today, but it was a great time.

International Shipping underway
over 5 years ago – Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:58:28 AM

Shipping Timing

I received a note from Kixto this morning. They shipped out 107 books via Royal Mail. Start looking for them in the next few days to arrive.

The remainder of the books, about 200kg worth, will head to me via AirMail. I expect 5-7 working days transit time, so end of next week. Possibly earlier, and if that happens, I'll let folks know. I just spoke with Mark over at Kixto (and as a by-the-by, if you're printing and shipping from the UK, I recommend them highly), and it's likely that I'll pay my invoice in the next 24 hours and the books will hop on a plane in cartons via DHL; this simplifies a great many things. So I'm hopeful.

Shipping Costs

Just for the sake of full disclosure. 

International shipping has presently cost me $925 for 107 books; $999 was collected, so the error was in my favor by $0.70 per book on international shipping.

On the domestic side, the jury is still out. It looks like the total cost to bring books from the UK to me to you will wind up being $7.25 per book, or perhaps a bit higher. So I'll lose about $1.25 per book mailed out. That's not horrid. I've got 300 book mailers arriving Friday, and will be printing postage on a thermal printer. So the longest part of the process will be packing up the books, and I've got a plan for that.

Once the shipping is done, I'll recap the project financials and post a summary of what the viability of such a book would have been had it not had so much pre-work done in the form of Lost Hall of Tyr.