As of yesterday afternoon, we finished shipping all the card decks of this project, if folks have completed their surveys. (18 haven't, so earlier today I had Backerkit send another reminder email to those people.)
Anyone getting a package should have gotten an email with a tracking link from our shipping service "Pirate Ship". If you didn't, here is likely what happened:
The message went to a spam/promos folder. Please check there.
I forgot to copy your email address into the form. I'm sure I did 99% of the time, but doing so was an extra step so it is possible I missed a few.
Or, you pledged for just PDFs--check your pledge level in Backerkit. We can invoice you the difference if you wish to upgrade.
In all cases if you think I made a mistake please just send me an email at [email protected] and we'll get it sorted out.
Next up for us (as mentioned before) is a major update to Worldographer--our map-making software. In fact, we used the software to make many of the campsite maps (along with some art assets from our Patreon). If you're interested, please check out this preview video and click the "Yes, count me in" button on this page.
Don't forget we'll be at Gen Con booth #263! We'll have these decks there, as well as the new-ish Sidequest & NPC decks we released earlier this year plus our prior decks, dice, and more!
I'm happy to announce that the printer is shipping the decks to me early this week, then I'll promptly turn them around to you later in the week--if there are no issues.
So once I send this message I'll click a button to send an email letting you know that you've got two days to make address changes. If you don't need to update your address, you don't need to do anything. At that point addresses will lock.
I'm very excited to get these in your hands!
Meanwhile, if you haven't checked out our next project, "Worldographer 2025", please do! It is a major update to our map-making software Worldographer that includes a revised UI, more generator features, prettier coastlines & rivers, and much more. See the linked page for a fuller list. If you are interested, please do click the "Yes, count me in" link on that page--it helps us plan.
Note: I've just made the tough choice to push it back a couple more weeks mostly due to 'life events'--one of my kids had an opportunity pop up that will have me traveling for a week, then we're at Gen Con (booth #263--would love to see you).
Before sending the Encounter Builder decks to print, we added 2 more cards to the decks to make them 52 content cards, plus a cover/credits card & a promo card. (The printer likes 54 cards per deck.)
So now for the not so great news. I under estimated the time our printer would need to get these printed and back to me. The files were sent to them on June 6th & approved just a day or two later, but the decks won't arrive here until July 20th. I'll turn them around as soon as possible so most of you will have them before the end of July. (International orders will likely be an extra week or so in transit.)
What's next? Many of you know us (Inkwell Ideas) from our best selling product Worldographer. The current version has been out for 7-8 years, with regular small updates. Next we're funding an overhaul with larger updates! Learn more about it here. And if you're considering supporting it, please click the "Yes, count me in!" button--it really helps us plan the project.
I've just had BackerKit send an email with instructions/links to download the files for this project, if you've completed the pledge manager. If you haven't, please do, and expect a link within a day--it seems BackerKit requires a manual step by me to "lock" orders.
There is a zip file of the new Restless Encounters deck's files and another zip of the 3 Encounter Builders' decks. For all the decks, we have a two files:
One where each card is a small card-size page--good for viewing on a screen, especially with a front and back side-by-side
The other with 4 card fronts on one page and those 4 cards' backs on the next page--and set up to duplex print so the upper left art card is the upper right text card.
In both cases we have some extra bleed around the cards--if printing, trim them down to 3.5"x2.5" from the original 3.75"x2.75". This is in case a printer isn't set up precisely--just a little bit of the border will be cut. If you're cutting them yourself, look for tick marks on the edges of the cards to help you know where to cut.
We do plan to send these files to the printer early next week. If you're able, please download and look them over by Monday. While I've edited them myself last week (in addition to a few weeks ago) and had a professional editor (Adam) edit them last week as well, a stray typo can be missed. Or a final export can go awry. So please post a comment (or email [email protected]) if you find an issue.
It has been almost two weeks since our campaign ended, but we've been busy finalizing the files/decks! Our text has been edited one more time, and about half of the additional art has been submitted. We have just 5 pieces outstanding right now--and we expect that by early next week.
(If you're seeing this and you haven't pledged, you still can here. We'll keep that open until we're about to ship the physical decks.)
Our pledge surveys have also been set up. Fortunately this campaign is much simpler than prior campaigns: in most cases we just need shipping addresses or one/two small clarifications.
So in minutes we'll send the surveys to a few of you as a smoke test. Then in a day or two (or next Tuesday at the latest due to the US Memorial Day holiday) we'll send the surveys out to everyone else.
Thank you! We expect a quick turnaround on this project. PDFs should go out next week, and the files will go to the printer the week after that. Then we should be sending the printed decks out in early/mid June.
To be honest I wasn't sure what to expect with this new project. I really loved the concept--it truly did seem to hit a need for TTRPG game masters that isn't addressed by many other resources. But it is different from anything else we've done.
We were almost done writing the cards before launch--I think just the two bonus cards were not started. But the writing is now 100% done and I read through all the cards one more time yesterday and sent them over to our editor to edit. We are waiting on a handful of art pieces, but I'm confident we'll have those in the next week or two.
So we plan to send the surveys as soon as possible. If Backerkit is like Kickstarter, they will take 2 weeks to collect payment (allowing time for people to update expired credit cards or anything like that) and then we can send out the surveys. Because two weeks from now puts us right before Memorial Day we may not get the surveys out until just after Memorial Day. PDFs will go out at roughly the same time--maybe a day or two later.
Then we'll have about a week for anyone to point out any problems or additional typos before we send them to the printer. Finally it should be 4 weeks or so for them to print the decks and me to send them to you! (Late June/early July--depending on the printer's backlog.)
Shout-Outs! I feel very lucky to have some great friends & colleagues as fellow game creators. Below are two of their projects that are worth checking out.
First up, already launched & funded is the Oracle Monster Generator from Nord Games: Use it & the many options on each of 420 cards to generate new monsters for your game setting!
Second, Jason at Earl of Fife Games has an upcoming Kickstarter called "Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old": Delve into an ancient dwarven kingdom, navigating political intrigue and uncovering long-lost secrets in the Halls of Splendor. It is a campaign setting with 4 subclasses, 10 backgrounds, 9 new adversaries, 10 new feats, and confront corruption with a brand-new 5E sub-system.
As of yesterday afternoon, we finished shipping all the card decks of this project, if folks have completed their surveys. (18 haven't, so earlier today I had Backerkit send another reminder email to those people.)
Anyone getting a package should have gotten an email with a tracking link from our shipping service "Pirate Ship". If you didn't, here is likely what happened:
The message went to a spam/promos folder. Please check there.
I forgot to copy your email address into the form. I'm sure I did 99% of the time, but doing so was an extra step so it is possible I missed a few.
Or, you pledged for just PDFs--check your pledge level in Backerkit. We can invoice you the difference if you wish to upgrade.
In all cases if you think I made a mistake please just send me an email at [email protected] and we'll get it sorted out.
Next up for us (as mentioned before) is a major update to Worldographer--our map-making software. In fact, we used the software to make many of the campsite maps (along with some art assets from our Patreon). If you're interested, please check out this preview video and click the "Yes, count me in" button on this page.
Don't forget we'll be at Gen Con booth #263! We'll have these decks there, as well as the new-ish Sidequest & NPC decks we released earlier this year plus our prior decks, dice, and more!
I'm happy to announce that the printer is shipping the decks to me early this week, then I'll promptly turn them around to you later in the week--if there are no issues.
So once I send this message I'll click a button to send an email letting you know that you've got two days to make address changes. If you don't need to update your address, you don't need to do anything. At that point addresses will lock.
I'm very excited to get these in your hands!
Meanwhile, if you haven't checked out our next project, "Worldographer 2025", please do! It is a major update to our map-making software Worldographer that includes a revised UI, more generator features, prettier coastlines & rivers, and much more. See the linked page for a fuller list. If you are interested, please do click the "Yes, count me in" link on that page--it helps us plan.
Note: I've just made the tough choice to push it back a couple more weeks mostly due to 'life events'--one of my kids had an opportunity pop up that will have me traveling for a week, then we're at Gen Con (booth #263--would love to see you).
Before sending the Encounter Builder decks to print, we added 2 more cards to the decks to make them 52 content cards, plus a cover/credits card & a promo card. (The printer likes 54 cards per deck.)
So now for the not so great news. I under estimated the time our printer would need to get these printed and back to me. The files were sent to them on June 6th & approved just a day or two later, but the decks won't arrive here until July 20th. I'll turn them around as soon as possible so most of you will have them before the end of July. (International orders will likely be an extra week or so in transit.)
What's next? Many of you know us (Inkwell Ideas) from our best selling product Worldographer. The current version has been out for 7-8 years, with regular small updates. Next we're funding an overhaul with larger updates! Learn more about it here. And if you're considering supporting it, please click the "Yes, count me in!" button--it really helps us plan the project.
I've just had BackerKit send an email with instructions/links to download the files for this project, if you've completed the pledge manager. If you haven't, please do, and expect a link within a day--it seems BackerKit requires a manual step by me to "lock" orders.
There is a zip file of the new Restless Encounters deck's files and another zip of the 3 Encounter Builders' decks. For all the decks, we have a two files:
One where each card is a small card-size page--good for viewing on a screen, especially with a front and back side-by-side
The other with 4 card fronts on one page and those 4 cards' backs on the next page--and set up to duplex print so the upper left art card is the upper right text card.
In both cases we have some extra bleed around the cards--if printing, trim them down to 3.5"x2.5" from the original 3.75"x2.75". This is in case a printer isn't set up precisely--just a little bit of the border will be cut. If you're cutting them yourself, look for tick marks on the edges of the cards to help you know where to cut.
We do plan to send these files to the printer early next week. If you're able, please download and look them over by Monday. While I've edited them myself last week (in addition to a few weeks ago) and had a professional editor (Adam) edit them last week as well, a stray typo can be missed. Or a final export can go awry. So please post a comment (or email [email protected]) if you find an issue.
