I want to quickly thank you all for supporting this project. I have just a quick update for today to let you know that the smoke tests have been run and I found no issues with the surveys so I sent the survey emails out to everyone a few moments ago. You should see an email from Backerkit about these surveys showing up in your inbox soon if you have not already. If for some reason you don't see the email in your inbox check the usual spam folders and if you still don't see it try using the link below to access your survey. If the very unlikely situation occurs that this still does not work for you please leave me a comment or send me an email, addressed to [email protected] and I'll get things straightened out for you as soon as possible.

https://azalea.backerkit.com/

Also as to the determining a winner for the last Terrain Takedown. I decided not to add this question to the survey after all and simply declare them both the winners since they were both equally popular and produce both sets!

Thank you again for your support. I can't wait to share more about this project with you as it continues to develop in the near future.

Hey all I just want to very quickly let you know how the project has progressed over the last couple of months as I've been working on getting as much done as quickly as I can.  I got really busy today and over the last week and didn't have the time to put together much in the way of visuals for you but I will have a bunch of previews and nice things to look at on the next update. Anyway here is where we stand so far:

Terrain Packs
Draft 100%, Line Art, 90%, Paint 40%, Assembly 10%, Review 0%, Release X
Maps
Draft 90%, Line Art, 80%, Paint 50%, Assembly 20%, Review 0%, Release X
Adventures
Draft 75%, Review 0%, Release X

To elaborate just a bit on the above, I have nearly finished the maps I have just a couple left to sketch out and plan a bit more before getting the final line art done, and about half of the painting remains to be completed. The adventures are nearly complete and I'm pretty excited to share some of the silly and strange stuff I've cooked up for that little book.  The review stage will occur once I have completed or mostly completed the "final" versions of each reward at which point I'll go over everything and see if any elements need to be revised and ensure that everything is cohesive. 

I want to thank you all again for your incredible patience. I know that this has taken me a very long time and I really look forward to getting this project to you as soon as I can.  

Hey everyone, 

I want to quickly update you all on the progress that I have made on the project. As you know I have had a number of delays and setbacks due to personal health issues. However, I have been working on getting everything back on track and I want to give you an update as to the progress I have made thus far. I took a quick stock of where I am on each stage of development and I have the following rough progress to share with you.

I want to break the whole project down into stages which I will illustrate a bit better with some easy to read at a glance graphics but for now, I'm just going to give you some raw percentage-based estimates for where we are right now. The stages I've broken this down into are as follows, Draft, Line Art, Paint, Assembly (printables, asset packs, etc...), Review, and Release. 

Terrain Packs
Draft 100%, Line Art, 75%, Paint 30%, Assembly 5%, Review 0%, Release X
Maps
Draft 90%, Line Art, 80%, Paint 40%, Assembly 20%, Review 0%, Release X
Adventures
Draft 50%, Review 0%, Release X

I hope that makes sense and like I said I will put a graphic together for subsequent updates which will make progress tracking much simpler. 

I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to each of you for your support of this project and I want to apologize for this extended period of silence. I feel it's crucial to provide transparency about the unforeseen challenges I've faced in recent months, which have affected the project's progress.

Hey everyone,

I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to give you a quick update on the status of the project. As you know, I've been working hard to get this project closer to the completion mark and providing you all with a massive set of test pieces. Unfortunately, life has thrown me one curveball after another, which has impacted my schedule.

Recently, I had an unexpected trip to the hospital for several days due to a cough that caused an internal bleed. But the good news is that I avoided having surgery and am home, mostly recovered, and getting back to work. I'll be meeting with an allergist on Friday to finally get this cough sorted out and under control. Unfortunately, I'll also be getting scheduled for a much-needed abdominal hernia surgery, which was caused by this chronic cough.

I want to thank you all for your continued support and patience. I'm doing my best to make up for lost time and get back on schedule, but you should expect some delay in delivery. Based on my setbacks and revised schedule, I'm expecting to deliver the rewards by the end of June of this year. I apologize for how long this project has taken compared to my original projections.

To try and reduce the sting of these delays, I'm tentatively planning to release each pack individually as it is completed. I'll work on completing and delivering the terrain packs based on their popularity going from most ordered to least, until everything has been completed.

Thank you all again for your understanding and support. Let's keep moving forward together.

Anthony

Hello everyone. I want to apologize for my lack of communication and absence of updates. I have had a rather unfortunate last month or so which has set me behind schedule on all of my projects. I have been experiencing one issue after another in my personal life. Shortly before Thanksgiving I and my family all got sick for the entire remainder of November then as soon as we recovered I had a series of family emergencies crop up shortly followed by my wife and I contracting Covid. I and my wife are thankfully doing just fine. I have finally begun to recover from everything and resume my work. 

Unfortunately, due to these setbacks, I have not been able to provide you with any other previews or progress updates. This is something I will rectify next month where I will provide a nice chunky update for you to test out and provide feedback on.

Thank you for your patience with me while I get everything back on track.

Hey everyone I want to quickly reach out as it has been some time since the last update.

Most of you have already completed your surveys but we still have a number of outstanding surveys to be completed. If you don't seem to have received an email try the following link https://azalea.backerkit.com If that doesn't work or if you have any trouble completing your survey please reach out either in the comments below or send me an email at [email protected] and I will get back to you as soon as possible to help you out.

I'm going to give things a little bit more time and then I'll send out the PDF copies of It's Tough to Be a God and Riddlehouse Vol. 1 to anyone who has selected those options in their survey as part of their pledge reward. If you pick them up as add-ons we'll have to wait until we charge cards to send those out.

The Crimson Spire book is turning out pretty neat. I have designed the tower itself to be something of a puzzle and will be including some maps for this location as well. Various rooms that one finds within magically transport those who enter to faraway locations (the settings for our adventures).  There is a kind of hilarious order of mystics who operate spire with some characters that might be inspired by Terry Pratchett's incredible work. I can't wait to share this book and everything else with you all soon.

I'll have another update later this month where I will showcase some of the new pieces I have completed. My intention going forward is to have an update at least once a month where I will showcase bits and bobs that I have completed or have in a near-finished state.  That way you have an opportunity to provide some feedback and thoughts while I work and I can take that input into consideration.

Thank you all again for your support, this project is a lot of fun for me and I hope you will all enjoy using it as much as I am enjoying creating it.

The pledge manager surveys are set up. I will have the Backerkit crew review the setup and help me apply any necessary credits and promotional rewards to the cart of everyone who qualifies. Once that is complete I will run a smoke test to send out a handful of surveys to monitor for any issues that might crop up and after 24 hours from the smoke tests going out, I will send the rest of the surveys out to everyone.

I am also launching the preorder store and will have that available for anyone who didn't make it into the campaign but would still like to support the project.

Thank you again for supporting the project.

Hey everyone I wanted to quickly update you all on where we are since I know it's been quite a while since the campaign wrapped and I posted my last update.

I am working on setting up the pledge manager and surveys to go out to you to collect the necessary information to deliver your rewards as well as offer you the chance to grab any addons you might want as well as make changes to your pledge. The items are all set up for the most part. The survey is still getting refined a bit and I'm working up some images to give you an idea of what is in the addons that I haven't shown any art for up to this point.

I am still waiting for the funds to clear and be transferred. Once they clear I'll be free to send out the surveys as soon as they are ready.

While we all wait to get the surveys and post-campaign going I'd like to share with you some of what I've been up to lately.

I have launched a Ko-fi where I am sharing everything I am working on. Mostly early draft versions of my work, behind-the-scenes looks at projects, opportunities to provide feedback on projects in development, and playtest copies of upcoming projects. Explorer & Adventurer members get access to all of my direct published work for free with their membership as well. I am also considering using this page as a way to chronicle the development of the terrain sets. If any of what I have mentioned is something you are interested in feel free to give that a look.

I also launched a website! www.crimsonterrain.com and have been working on developing a small blog there called The Vorpal Spoon as well as offering my published works for sale direct from me.

I have been significantly ramping up my release schedule this summer. I have begun publishing a small one-shot adventure series for 5th edition fantasy called Tiny Terrors. I recently released the second issue and have already begun work on the third. I am shooting for a weekly release schedule on these tiny books for Tier 1 adventurers. I have seen a good amount of success with them so far and have been enjoying writing them so you can expect to keep seeing these pop up regularly for the foreseeable future, they are available (along with all my published work) at DriveThruRPG and CrimsonTerrain.com

As always, I also encourage you to follow me on whatever social media platform you prefer. I am most active on Twitter, but I also post to Instagram and Facebook with some regularity (I'm trying to improve this last one). Follow me there @CrimsonTerrain Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

Until next time I want to thank you again for your support and I can't wait to get these terrain sets out for you to use in your game.

We did it! Thank you so much for supporting this project! 

Please read through this update and check the campaign page if you have any questions!
 
Charging Cards
BackerKit will soon begin charging your cards and processing your pledges. If your card is declined, you will have a window in which to fix the payment method before they make a second attempt.

Pledge Manager
In about 2 weeks, you will receive the BackerKit Survey where you choose your pledge rewards, pick up any add-ons you want to add from the post campaign add-on shop, and make any changes to your pledge you might want.

So we have a bit of an unprecedented result. Unless I am mistaken prehistoric and modern have tied. However, as the highlander would say, "there can be only one." So I have decided to take this last round to the survey. I'm going to include the vote in the survey when they go out and whichever pack wins will not only be the one added but since they were so popular the runner up will be one of the first new sets I work on once this project is completed and delivered. 

That's right, of course this isn't the end. I'll be making even more terrain sets in the future. Starting with all the sets we didn't quite get to make part of this project. Keep your eyes on your inboxes as I'll be posting frequent status updates and peeks into the terrain I'm working on throughout the post campaign process as I bring this project to life.

I really couldn't do this without you all. Thank you again for all of your support!