And So it Begins
over 5 years ago – Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:27:42 PM

It's fulfillment week for two of my Kickstarters, whose physical product are coming due at roughly the same time. So: dual-wielding emails! (I picked up that proficiency/specialization over the last few months)

Other Books

If you are not in the USA and ordered Dungeon Grappling or Lost Hall of Tyr  as a physical copy from either the Hall of Judgment or Dragon Heresy Kickstarters, your books are now on the way. I placed the orders for six folks for Dungeon Grappling, and two more for Lost Hall (both of those from the Dragon Heresy KS). I have contacted the backers with a personal email with a copy of the info forwarded to me, as well as an order number.

Any issues, let me know. The UK product should show up within two weeks. Italy shortly thereafter. The Australia/New Zealand can take days or weeks, depending on when things fall together. But do contact me if things don't move sprightly as things go forward.

Hall of Judgment

I've heard from Kixto in the UK, and they're in the process of filling the HoJ orders for international folks, after which they'll forward the rest of the orders to me via airmail. That still means that it's not crazy-talk for me to see a pallet of books on my floor by the end of the week, or perhaps the weekend. This weekend is a holiday weekend in the US (Labor Day) and I'll be at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival all three days doing Viking Martial Arts demonstrations . . . but as soon as it's remotely possible, I'll bundle your HoJ books and any other physical product that you've ordered into one shipping box and get them on the way by next week at the latest. So on schedule for Sept 15.

Dragon Heresy

The Dragon Heresy books are still going to be the last to leave. The books are done, and 50 books will head over to Dice Latte in Korea as soon as a few customs issues are sorted out and folks get back from vacation. Then the international copies for both DH and HoJ Kickstarters will go out. Sometime this week, I expect the books (nearly 1,500 of them) to move to staging at the shipyard, and then three weeks on the water to the USA. Then another week to get to Studio 2 in TN, and finally they'll break the order into "keep 'em!" and "ship to Doug" and then I'll do fulfillment from my house. So six to seven weeks until books are in-hand: first two weeks in October, I suspect.

Again, the US orders that have Dragon Heresy in them will be sent in one bunch. I will not hold Hall of Judgment waiting for a Dragon Heresy bundle, so if you ordered Dragon Heresy through the HoJ Kickstarter and you're in the USA, expect two packages: one with HoJ and Dungeon Grappling and/or Lost Hall of Tyr (if you ordered those) and another with Dragon Heresy.

If you're on the Dragon Heresy KS, you'll get everything at once.

Printing Complete!
over 5 years ago – Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:32:31 PM

Link to Blog Entry, with pictures

Printing Complete!

I was informed this morning that all 500 copies finished at the printer and were mailed to fulfillment on Wed Aug 22 (two days ago!). I expect that my partner in the UK will start doing their thing anywhere between yesterday and Monday. International backers will thus start seeing their stuff that following week (Aug 27-31), and even Australia should be 5-7 working days from that point.

For the USA, I expect (?) that I'll get my boxes of books late next week. If that's the case, I can print labels and package shipments over the Labor Day weekend when I'm not out at the MN Ren Fest dressed as a viking, and then folks should see books-in-hand by mid-September.

Nice Things Said on the Dungeon Fantasy RPG Kickstarter

I'll just repeat it here. Note this was written by Phil Reed, and that I had no notice that nice things were going to be said until I read them myself.

Dungeon Fantasy: Hall of Judgment PDF Now on Warehouse 23! 

Posted by Philip Reed

Congrats, Doug, on a fantastic job on the new Dungeon Fantasy: Hall of Judgment micro-setting and scenario. The Kickstarter campaign that you ran went as smooth as any could hope for, and at the Steve Jackson Games office, we're proud to include your work in the Warehouse 23 catalog!

For those of you who have not yet checked out Doug's work on the Dungeon Fantasy: Hall of Judgment supplement, now is your chance! The PDF is available at Warehouse 23, and we're happy to report that Doug was so good to work with that we're currently considering possible future projects that he would create under license. No decisions at the moment, but we'll be sure to announce here if Doug produces another supplement for use with the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game.

First Review of HoJ
over 5 years ago – Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:21:09 PM

Ubiratan of Octopus Carnival (a fellow backer) reviews the new adventure supplement Hall of Judgment (an expansion and rewrite of the older Lost Hall of Tyr) that went on sale yesterday as PDF, written for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG, Powered by GURPS. He says nice things about Hall of Judgment.

Shameless ask: if you have the time and the inclination, it's stuff like this that make magic happen, getting the word out beyond "the creator is yapping about his Awesome Project again."

So thanks to Ubiratan! I can't wait to get the physical books to you guys.

Printing almost complete
over 5 years ago – Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:33:31 AM

This Wednesday, Aug 22, the printing of 500 copies of Hall of Judgment should be complete. That day, or possibly the next, the books will make a short hop to the Kixto fulfillment center, also in the UK.

To properly prepare for this and ensure information is up to date, Backerkit Pre-orders from this print run will close sometime tomorrow. 

What does this mean? Well, for one, yay! It means that the hardcopy phase of the Kickstarter is about to begin.

But it also means that international orders not placed by when I close the Backerkit pre-orders will not be fulfilled from the UK, which means painful shipping. 

Even so: Of the 500 copies, a stunning-to-me 385 of them are already spoken for. I'll be looking at post-fulfillment velocity, and if things actually pick up as you nice folks all write about your games and talk up the product (hint hint?) then perhaps the next stage is an even larger print run, and putting the books into retail distribution. Then there would be Powered-by-GURPS support actually on the shelves. Wouldn't that be cool?

So: stay tuned, but tomorrow I will be closing down the Backerkit pre-orders, sorting "not-the-USA" and domestic orders, and getting that info into the hands that need it. From there, I anticipate 2-3 weeks until folks have their books.

Soon!

Redundant emails
over 5 years ago – Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:40:06 AM

I've been tapped by a few backers asking about redundant emails. Perhaps it's Backerkit, perhaps I hit "send, darnit!" twice.

But in any case, the key files you'll want for Hall of Judgment are

• Hall of Judgment u20180809.pdf
• HoJ Encounter Files Zipped
• HoJ Glynn Seal Map Pack

These would have come in emails with various titles, like "Glynn Seal Map Files" and apparently "Glynn Seal Map Files #2," which contains the same everything.

Don't sweat it. You don't need 'em all.