Hey friends, here's the latest timeline update for Designers & Dragons: Origins.
1) Volumes 1-3 are printed. Vol. 4 is in progress. 2) Now that we have the final finished dimensions of all four books, we can proceed with production of the slipcase.
In our last update we mentioned that we had been hoping to produce the slipcases at the same time as the books were being printed - our vendor nixed that plan. That's thrown a significant wrinkle in our production schedule, but we are moving forward getting that piece spec'd out and manufactured.
Once the slipcase finishes, we'll have all four books assembled into the slipcase and then get the set shrinkwrapped and sent to our warehouse.
Short version: Our updated timeline is to begin fulfillment in September. We apologize for the delay. The scope of this project is very ambitious and frankly we did not anticipate that the creation of the slipcase would be contingent on the books being fully finished.
Note that we distribute the PDFs the same time the physical books start shipping so that will also happen in September.
You will certainly hear from us before then but that is our current project plan, We have high confidence in it.
On the brighter side, this update gives us a chance to share some photos of the advance copies of Volumes 1-3 we've gotten from our printer and the books are looking gorgeous:
Still life with lich dice tower.
A look at the endpapers in Vol. 1
A peek inside Vol. 1 with the ribbon bookmark.
PROTOTYPE slipcase WITHOUT ART for sizing purposes.
That's the latest information we have for you today. We will drop you another update once we're closer to fulfillment and we begin spinning up the various lockdown steps here in BackerKit.
