Some exciting news today :D We're about to unleash the pledge manager! Soon you'll be receiving an email guiding you to a survey where you'll be able to make selections for your rewards (if you've chosen rewards where there are options), add extra items to your rewards if there's something you missed out on during the campaign, and most importantly provide us with your shipping address so we know where to get your brand new dice to you!
Two things you should know before we hit that button:
Pay-Over-Time
Anyone who selected Pay-Over-Time won't see the survey just yet. BackerKit doesn't allow surveys to be sent out until payments are complete, so you'll see your surveys after the 4 month payment period is up!
Smoke Test
Before surveys go out, we have to perform something called a "Smoke Test". Basically 5 percent of backers in each pledge level get their surveys first. If we discover that Noodle the Goblin has gotten into the system and scrambled our pledge questions (again), this is how we'll discover the errors and get them fixed. If everything looks good and there are no problems, the full surveys go out a few days later!
That's All Folks!
That's it for this update! Be well, be kind, and keep those crits rolling :D
The Kobold Crew at Bookwyrm Games and the Dork Tales team <3
In our last hour, you got us across the finish line and unlocked the final set of dice - a stunning porcelain style set of Mage d10s that we just KNOW you're going to love. Thank you so so much, from the bottom of the hearts of a crew of Kobold and a bunch of Dorks, thank you <3
We took a couple of days to recover (just kidding, we've been finalizing designs, prepping to travel to UK Games Expo *come see the Bookwyrm Crew if you're there next week!!*, and generally running around like crazy) but we're back to it now, and we wanted to give you some expectations for timeline and how things will work from here!
Missed the Campaign?
Hey, that's ok! Chester once slept through his alarm and none of us were brave enough to wake him up (not after last time, anyway. We miss Jerry. He's not dead, we don't think, we just don't know how to get him out of that astral prison...) so he slept through spring.
If you missed the Dorky campaign and still want to get your hands on these brand new artifacts of power (did we mention we unlocked EVERY stretch goal?) we'll be opening our Late Backer store in June! Keep your eyes on our updates, we'll announce when that goes live :D
Timelines
Now that the campaign has ended with a rousing success (THANK YOU AGAIN!) we're into the creation phase. Our Head Artificer is working with the Dorks to finalize designs and begin the forging process for all the artifacts that you'll be receiving. After that's done, they'll be blessed by our resident cleric (to which god? We'll never tell!) so make sure they roll those sweet natural 20s, five percent of the time, every time.
Survey
While some of the Kobold are working on that, others will be painstakingly crafting your Pledge Manager surveys. A much more difficult proposition with their little Kobold claws, but they'll manage somehow. One the Pledge Manager is up and running, we'll send out a "smoke test", wherein five percent of the backers from each pledge level will receive their survey. This helps us identify which of our Kobold are making errors, and apply corrective action.
After we've confirmed the survey is working correctly, we'll release it completely and everyone will be able to select their rewards as well as adding on anything you missed out on during the campaign but have only just realized you can't live without! The surveys will stay open for a few weeks so everyone can complete them, at which point we'll lock them down so we've got some final numbers.
Fulfilment
We expect creation of the artifacts to take a few months. Well keep you in the loop as we progress so you've always got a picture of where we are in the process. Right now we're targetting September - December 2026 as our fulfilment window!
Shipping
This is always the fun one xD We do a lot of shipping so we've gotten pretty good at it, but borders, customs, and tariffs make things...dynamic...to say the least. That said, our shipping runway looks pretty clear at the moment. We'll be charging for shipping a little closer to the fulfilment date, so we can make sure to have the most up-to-date numbers and costs.
That's About It Folks
That's the news for this update! Keep your eyes on your inboxes for future updates which may include photos of your artifacts as they're completed... oooh...aaaaah....
Genuinely, thank you so much to all of you who supported this project. It's incredibly easy to say "we love you", every creator seems to do it so it just becomes white noise but TRULY, we see ALL of you and we appreciate you more than we can say. From the Kobold and the Dorks, thank you.
Now that I have had a night to sleep after being at Otafest and then a minor case of food poisoning Tuesday, let me just say WOW.
I am still at a loss for words for the INCREDIBLE success we had with this backerkit. Thank you so much for sharing, pledging, hyping and supporting us. I am so excited to be able to say we smashed our expectations for this backerkit from being funded in 7 mins, to reaching our absolute stretch goal and unlocking the mage porcelain d10 set.
More updates will come as we get the vampire, ylos, adv/dvg, and Mage Porcelain set ordered. And several polls will be done for asmr, the backerkit game, and so much more.
I again can't thank you all enough and am incredibly proud of our community.
Thanks as well to the Bookwyrm team for helping us create some incredibly cool things, I cant wait to roll these!
It's been a pretty exciting ride across the last few weeks for the Dork Tales crew and the Kobold at Bookwyrm Games! We're truly blown away by the support, and we appreciate you all so much <3
With only THREE DAYS left to go, we thought we'd provide a small update and a little bit of information about some of the cool stuff you've unlocked along our journey here. Let's start with the stuff we think is most fun!
Unlocks!
We blasted past a couple of our goals really quickly (thank you!) which means we managed to unlock a couple more sets of dice :D
At $4,000 we unlocked the brand new Ylos set, which comes with 4 d6s, 2 d20s, and all the other regular polyhedrals for a grand total of 11 dice in the set! Back to the original sets of dice you'd be likely to pick up back when Kelly and Michael were playing for the first time.
Next up, at $6,000 we unlocked a brand new set of Vampire d10s! The absolute beating heart of Michael's gaming love, we're super excited to be able to make these black and red d10s sporting a Raven that totally doesn't mean bad news is on the way...
And we are super SUPER close to unlocking an advantage/disadvantage set of d20s! As of the time of this update, we're sitting at nearly $7,400, and these dice unlock at $8,000!
As a reminder, backing at the Rumor Monger level or above gets you all of the unlocked stretch goal items FOR FREE! They just end up in your package at the end of the campaign as a thank you for your support!
If you'd like access to these items but at a lower tier, you can add them to your survey once the pledge manager opens, or now that they're unlocked, add them to your pledge through the "Add Ons" section!
Thank You!
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all so much for your support! We appreciate you all, and we're looking forward to getting these dice into your hands soon :D
I am just stunned by the momentum and support this project has received. Already as I write this we have reached over 5K in pledges which I am just incredibly amazed and humbled by. We have unlocked a new game, a new dice set and so much more already with more fun surprises still to unlock.
UPDATES:
I have adjusted our shipping countries to include Australia, UK and Ireland so those supporters should be able to back now! What is a first run without a few hiccups?
As well for those wanting only certain add ons or access to the backerkit pledge manager we have added a 1$ SUPPORT US tier. Which will allow that!
Again thank you all for the amazing support and momentum this first day! And don't worry if we smash 10K we have more dice and ideas in mind. *cough* dork tales plushie *cough* I mean what?
