It's come to my attention that your surveys may not reflect the items as listed in your original pledge. Let me assure you that you will get everything from your original pledge, and I’ll explain what’s going on. From my end, the basic pledge levels get packaged as a single bundle. That is, if you ordered a “deluxe” volume, all the parts (the cling stickers, dividers, cover panels, binders, interior pages, etc.) get assembled by me, then shrink wrapped, then shipped. Those bundles sit as a single item in my company’s inventory. When I set up the Backerkit, I listed everything in them separate so you could see what comes in the different versions. However, in the pledge manager portion of things, it wants to have each of those items have their own SKU, own shipping costs, and so-on. For simplicity sake, I just made a SKU for the bundle, not every item in it. But again, I can assure you that everything you signed up for (including accompanying PDFs, VTT maps, and the incentives for being an Early Bird and/or backing X-Crawl Rodeo) will get to you! I apologize about this strangeness, I have learned from it for the future.
On a side note, if you know of anyone that missed the campaign and would like to order any of the Unnatural Selections volumes “on sale” please let them know that the Pre-Order store is up and running (https://unnatural-selections-volume-4.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders).
As far as the project as a whole goes… I’ve very happy with the amount of time/work that is being made up after the loss of my computer. The edits are back from the editor and being attended to, almost all the art is in (just a few revisions left), the cling stickers, binders, etc. have all been produced and delivered. And I got the second and third printings of Volumes 1 and 2 set for those that ordered those.
At this point, I’m confident we will be delivering in March, maybe mid-March. I will say, for backers who were awesome enough to sponsor extra monsters, if you could fill-out your surveys with your attribution lines, ASAP, that would be help me in getting this to print in a timely manner.
Cling Stickers for Volume 4!
If you didn’t notice them on the add-ons, there is a 2-sticker sheet set that may be the perfect thing for those of you that are “monsters only” backers. These stickers give you waterproof, permanent-stick images and labels you could put on the outside of your own binders to decorate them in an “Unnatural Selections” fashion. I, myself, have all the monsters in a single, bigger binder I ordered online, and I have used a few of the stickers on it to show them off. There are also “tab cover” stickers for those that have the “deluxe” version of the product and need to write-over different partitions you made previously on those divider pages.
Sticker Sheet Add-ons!
Make any binder WORTHY of containing "Unnatural Selections!"
Finally, I have included an image of the Foo-Bear entry (sponsored by David McGuire), because it just makes me chuckle! Have a great Valentine’s Day weekend.
Foo-Bears are cursed with a cute exterior despite their war-loving culture.
