Thanks for your patience, and for your diligence in submitting your surveys! The booklets have been received, and I've sent the shipping order for our UK backers - so folk in the UK should be getting their stuff over the next few days. YAY!
I think I said it in the last update, but to inform you of how Araukana logistics works, basically, we have three distribution partners. All Rolled Up, who are really cool folk who helped us a ton weather the storm of what was the original Zephyr shipping nightmare. They are in the UK, and in charge of UK orders. Then, there's GMS, who has the EU/CA/ROW links to fulfill orders outside the UK: All Rolled Up will be shipping most of the remaining copies of Bonds & Baggage to them. Then, GMS will fulfill EU/CA/ROW (that's our Phase Two), and send a large box with circa 100 copies to the US, where there's Gamerati, our US distro partner. They will fulfill US orders, so that's Phase Three.
I know it sounds complex, but given how wild logistics have been over the last few years, I think I managed to organize a pretty good network here for distro. It takes a bit longer than if we shipped everything from a single warehouse, but it is orderly, and it is cheaper for backers and for me than shipping from one place to everywhere else.
So with that in mind, I'll send another update when EU/CA/ROW stuff ships, and the same for when US ships. I've closed the pre-order page now, and will have the new stuff up for sale at araukana.com as soon as we got the US warehouse supplied.
If you have any questions, lemme know. Thank you so much for making this supplement real :) Fede
Just wanted to let y'all know that we finished proofing of the document, and sent it off to print! It should be delivered at our UK warehouse on the 1st of October. I've also sent the notices for orders to get locked - make sure you respond to the survey if you haven't yet.
From now, the shipping process will be as follows:
1) We get the UK orders shipped as soon as the B&B copies arrive at the warehouse.
2) At the same time, we have stock moved to a different UK warehouse, which is the one we use to fulfill EU and Canada (I know, it's wild, but I have to have a separate warehouse because EU regulations especially are really rough right now), and we ship from there.
3) 2/3rds of our stock is moved to the US, to our US warehouse in Washington. From there, we start shipping orders to US backers.
So just to make it clearer, the order in which backers should be getting their copies is first UK, then EU/Canada/ROW, and then US
Thank you very much for your patience :) hopes the next update finds us getting the physicals! Also, for the digital rewards, I'll be sending these out as soon as the surveys are locked, 48 hours from now.
Hope you're having a nice end of winter (yes, it is winter here in the southern hemisphere). I wanted to touch base with y'all, since after illustration work and design and a proper rest, I've finished draft work on what will be the Bonds & Baggage supplement (the Backpack Add On)! The final document is clocking in at 72 pages, so after edits and proofing I'll be sending it to the printer :))) I'm very happy to share the news with y'all. Here are some shots from the interiors, and the cover:
At the same time, I've already set up the pledge manager for the project, and sent it for approval, so we should have all of it ready in a couple of days time to proceed with surveys. I should receive a shipping fees chart in the next couple days too, to make sure we have that input correctly.
So, yay! We are pushing through! Thank you so much for your patience. I know this took longer than expected, but I really didn't envision this to become a fully fledged adventure, with all new illustration work, pregens, etc. - I think it has been worth the wait and the work, and hope you enjoy it <3
In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Just wanted to give y'all an update! I continue to work on the backpack add on, which will have a new name given that now it comes with a whole ass starter adventure plus pregens. I've been taking care to illustrate and write the adventure so that it's accessible, works as a good intro to several key mechanics, and can be used with the pregens for quick plug and play :)
Here are a few of the spreads I've been churning out:
Together with some of the pregens! I made a party that's pretty functional, and the adventure introduces each character quickly and with a small rundown of their party role. For example, here's Ophu, a good all-rounder on utility for food processing, with an edge versus Salt State Heroes: ...as well as Auiphi, who has some crafting chops and can serve as the party's medic: Once all these are done, we should be quickly running it through testing/proofing, and getting them printed for y'all. Thank you so much for your patience, I hope the added value is appreciated <3 I remain ready to answer any questions in the meantime!
Thank you so much for partaking of the Zephyr campaign! This was a great success for us, and as I suggested on the last update, I will indeed by printing the intro adventure together with the Backpack Add On - yay!
This wouldn't have been possible if we had not raised all we did, and I'm very thankful that we'll be able to put this onto the supplement too. So much so, I'm left thinking that I should probably come up with a new name for it, since it's clearly not just the backpack rules and character sheets anymore :)
I spent the last week resting, and so this week I'll be back at work on Zephyr so we can get this one sent to print, set up the pledge manager, and get things shipping ASAP. If you have any questions, remember you can ask anytime, and feel free to join our discord if you wanna talk about the game.
We are now on the final 24 hours of the campaign, and I'm very glad to see how much support we have garnered for Zephyr!
Now's the time to spread the word and get the ball rolling for the last stretch :) you can help us if you wish to by sharing the following post on BlueSky. Also, yesterday we had a lovely chat with Jon from Handiwork games, about Maskwitches and Zephyr, which you can check out here - remember that if you back any one of the games, you receive A|STATE from Jon, and Nibiru from me, so make sure you check out Maskwitches on these final hours!
The final thing I wanted to say is (and this is not 100% confirmed, since I need to ensure we can do this), I may be able to fit the adventure I'm writing into the contents of the backpack add on. We gotta check to see how much in terms of page content this bulks it up, but it should be pretty cool if we can pull it off - and the more money we raise, the more likely it'll be!
Thanks in earnest for all your support, and stay tune!
Thanks for your patience, and for your diligence in submitting your surveys! The booklets have been received, and I've sent the shipping order for our UK backers - so folk in the UK should be getting their stuff over the next few days. YAY!
I think I said it in the last update, but to inform you of how Araukana logistics works, basically, we have three distribution partners. All Rolled Up, who are really cool folk who helped us a ton weather the storm of what was the original Zephyr shipping nightmare. They are in the UK, and in charge of UK orders. Then, there's GMS, who has the EU/CA/ROW links to fulfill orders outside the UK: All Rolled Up will be shipping most of the remaining copies of Bonds & Baggage to them. Then, GMS will fulfill EU/CA/ROW (that's our Phase Two), and send a large box with circa 100 copies to the US, where there's Gamerati, our US distro partner. They will fulfill US orders, so that's Phase Three.
I know it sounds complex, but given how wild logistics have been over the last few years, I think I managed to organize a pretty good network here for distro. It takes a bit longer than if we shipped everything from a single warehouse, but it is orderly, and it is cheaper for backers and for me than shipping from one place to everywhere else.
So with that in mind, I'll send another update when EU/CA/ROW stuff ships, and the same for when US ships. I've closed the pre-order page now, and will have the new stuff up for sale at araukana.com as soon as we got the US warehouse supplied.
If you have any questions, lemme know. Thank you so much for making this supplement real :) Fede
Just wanted to let y'all know that we finished proofing of the document, and sent it off to print! It should be delivered at our UK warehouse on the 1st of October. I've also sent the notices for orders to get locked - make sure you respond to the survey if you haven't yet.
From now, the shipping process will be as follows:
1) We get the UK orders shipped as soon as the B&B copies arrive at the warehouse.
2) At the same time, we have stock moved to a different UK warehouse, which is the one we use to fulfill EU and Canada (I know, it's wild, but I have to have a separate warehouse because EU regulations especially are really rough right now), and we ship from there.
3) 2/3rds of our stock is moved to the US, to our US warehouse in Washington. From there, we start shipping orders to US backers.
So just to make it clearer, the order in which backers should be getting their copies is first UK, then EU/Canada/ROW, and then US
Thank you very much for your patience :) hopes the next update finds us getting the physicals! Also, for the digital rewards, I'll be sending these out as soon as the surveys are locked, 48 hours from now.
Hope you're having a nice end of winter (yes, it is winter here in the southern hemisphere). I wanted to touch base with y'all, since after illustration work and design and a proper rest, I've finished draft work on what will be the Bonds & Baggage supplement (the Backpack Add On)! The final document is clocking in at 72 pages, so after edits and proofing I'll be sending it to the printer :))) I'm very happy to share the news with y'all. Here are some shots from the interiors, and the cover:
At the same time, I've already set up the pledge manager for the project, and sent it for approval, so we should have all of it ready in a couple of days time to proceed with surveys. I should receive a shipping fees chart in the next couple days too, to make sure we have that input correctly.
So, yay! We are pushing through! Thank you so much for your patience. I know this took longer than expected, but I really didn't envision this to become a fully fledged adventure, with all new illustration work, pregens, etc. - I think it has been worth the wait and the work, and hope you enjoy it <3
In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Just wanted to give y'all an update! I continue to work on the backpack add on, which will have a new name given that now it comes with a whole ass starter adventure plus pregens. I've been taking care to illustrate and write the adventure so that it's accessible, works as a good intro to several key mechanics, and can be used with the pregens for quick plug and play :)
Here are a few of the spreads I've been churning out:
Together with some of the pregens! I made a party that's pretty functional, and the adventure introduces each character quickly and with a small rundown of their party role. For example, here's Ophu, a good all-rounder on utility for food processing, with an edge versus Salt State Heroes: ...as well as Auiphi, who has some crafting chops and can serve as the party's medic: Once all these are done, we should be quickly running it through testing/proofing, and getting them printed for y'all. Thank you so much for your patience, I hope the added value is appreciated <3 I remain ready to answer any questions in the meantime!
Thank you so much for partaking of the Zephyr campaign! This was a great success for us, and as I suggested on the last update, I will indeed by printing the intro adventure together with the Backpack Add On - yay!
This wouldn't have been possible if we had not raised all we did, and I'm very thankful that we'll be able to put this onto the supplement too. So much so, I'm left thinking that I should probably come up with a new name for it, since it's clearly not just the backpack rules and character sheets anymore :)
I spent the last week resting, and so this week I'll be back at work on Zephyr so we can get this one sent to print, set up the pledge manager, and get things shipping ASAP. If you have any questions, remember you can ask anytime, and feel free to join our discord if you wanna talk about the game.
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