And So July Succumbs To August...
Epic of Dreams News!
Hello everyone!
This month we have been working very hurriedly on wrapping up everything with this project and getting it to you!
Today we'll be talking about Adventures, T-Shirts, and Printers.
Adventures
So I was very confident about the 40-page World Without Skies adventure. I started working on it every day, but was quickly overcome by the burnout I've been avoiding for a long time.
We're going to release both The Ire of Jaguar Man, and this World Without Skies hi-fi dungeon23 booklet eventually, but for now, we're going to keep things small and simple; a 1 page brochure adventure featuring the new presentation style we're going to be championing in our upcoming releases.
I've been working really hard on this during this past week to try and have something that's as close to "Final And Ready For Print" as quickly as possible.
I present to you the Level 1 Circle of Adventure,
"Yer 'Oncles Gasping Re-Quest".
To show my work, here is everything we have already in the chamber for the other half of this 4-panel brochure.
This past week, I've spent around an hour or more a day working on this. I'm pretty burnt out, but I've been able to manage this by doing it in small bursts.
Over the weekend, we were able to playtest this in the Discord server, and we had a really great time! I think this adventure is going to hit hard at your tables, and I can't wait to see what you think of it.
I apologize for all this revolving door trying to deliver stretch goal content. I really want to give you the best of what I have to offer, and I want to give you as much value for your time as I can. This will be the actual real adventure offering coming with your Kickstarter pledges. Thank you for understanding.
T-Shirts
We're going to be printing the T-Shirts through Printful, getting a high-quality base shirt for the run. We'll be sending these separate from the rest of your packages, as Printful ships direct to consumer.
Printers
This month has entailed a lot of back and forth with Mixam. Somehow, whenever I upload files and send them to them, the bleed is never correct. I love the site, love the company, they provide a superior product for a great price. Literal weeks have been lost in back and forth because of technical issues with the files, in spite of me taking intentional measures to 'makedamnsure' that everything is just so, it ends up not being so.
I had the impression that the softcovers were good to go and in production for around a week, until I got an email yesterday that instead the order was paused because the files I had resupplied last week were still not to snuff. I thought we were going to have the softcovers in-hand this week.
With the hardcovers we've had even more of this. We had to rebuild the cover file from scratch, and are still in the process of getting those files perfect. All of this has also been exacerbated by the fact that I'm traveling a lot for work these days, and am only on my desktop with my Adobe setup probably 2 days out of any given week.
This may sound like a long contrivance, but it's actually the opposite.
I am frustrated that it's taken a lot longer than I thought it would for these orders to be done, but all of this process on my end will serve to ensure that the end product is going to be pristine for all of you.
Bonus News - Our First Online Random Engine!
Over the weekend we produced the first iteration of some of our future online tools using Perchance!
Check out the Hero Generator 1.0!
Thank you again for your patience with this campaign. I am officially burnt out, but I am still going to deliver, and we're going to release a lot of awesome content for this game in the years to come.
I hope you're there with us as we continue on this path.
Join the discord, we talk there every day.
Much Love, from Your Worst Servant
Drew
P.S. Special thanks to Kevin Miner & Derek Bizier. Y'all are the best and I really appreciate your wisdom & support these past few months.
I just received another email from our printers saying that the softcover order is in fact shipping out now. When I know what's going on I'll report back asap. Thanks!