Updates

All ready-to-fulfill physical orders have been placed with the printer!

This was actually the case over the past weekend, and some of you got emails from DriveThruRPG/Lightning Source as a result, but today is when I pushed the final big button too: getting the print run for The Cog That Remains ordered as well! Double hurray!

So, I suspect over the next week or so the actual shipping of the books will be confirmed and I'll start moving orders to Fulfilled, providing tracking numbers (where I can - Royal Mail won't give me any, unfortunately). That will, gradually, bring this project to a close.

The only caveat is that there are five orders that are not ready-to-fulfill. Aside from the BackerKit notifications and updates like this one, I'll be reaching out to you five personal-like one more time to try to get those orders over the finish line. Hopefully it can be managed, and we can get to 100%!

I don't have any plans to do another crowdfunding project any time soon (this project saw to that by sniping The Cog The Remains), but while I was setting this one up I ran across a difference of opinion. Some creators who print the way I do leaned very heavily towards only asking for a lower amount per pledge while giving backers an at-cost print-on-demand coupon, letting them deal with printing/shipping costs directly, while others saw that as less convenient for the backers and did all the ordering themselves while factoring the print costs into their pledge levels and charging shipping once addresses are gathered.

I went with the latter for Tales but ended up splitting the difference on The Cog That Remains, and while 11 folks ordered the TCTR PDF+Physical add-on 19 people have used the PoD coupon option (so far). So, I've also got a poll attached to this update, purely based on curiosity, to see if the larger group has a preference.

Alright, that's it for now, I'm going to go stare at these 87 printing orders without blinking until they start changing from "Confirmed" to "Shipped"!

- Seamus

Updating on the run again!

I've been seeing the digital rewards getting distributed! I hope everyone is enjoying their games or are at least glad to have a larger (digital) Shelf of Opportunity - and that the PoD copies of The Cog That Remains make their way safely to you. If anyone is having any issues, please let me know!

On schedule per my last update, I'm going to be locking addresses on 5/22/26 for everyone who has completed their survey and add-on/shipping payments. That means that over the weekend the physical rewards will begin getting printed and shipped to backers.

I'll be reaching out individually to the last stragglers in the need-to-complete-survey and had-a-problem-charging-cards categories of backer to see if we can sort things out and get those folks their rewards in a timely manner as well.

At the same time, the full print run of Tales from the Print will soon also being printing and shipping out to IPR - i.e. the original point of this whole campaign! Hurray!

Thank you again for all your support, and I'll have another update soon.

- Seamus

Another quick update!

Alright, that's it, talk to you again soon!

- Seamus

Non-giant-robot-game life has been a Something for sure, so just dropping in for a quick update.

We're at 92% completion on the surveys! In fact, that means there are only 10 folks who still need to provide their response. If you're one of those 10, but have lost or never received your survey email, you can summon a new one through this fine and elegantly-crafted link; just provide your email and a new survey will be sent off! Right now I'm planning on locking orders on 5/1/26, but it could be earlier if everything gets done.

Speaking of everything getting done, an update for the last update: I should have the finalfinalfinal3definitelyforsurethistimefinal.exe proof copies of The Cog That Remains in hand within a few days, so at the risk of angering the layout gods and having them smite the copies in transit I feel comfortable saying there will not be any lag between Cog and the other rewards. Once surveys are locked everyone should get all their digital rewards at the same time, and when print rewards go out both books should be ordered at the same time.

I spent last weekend at PAX East, and part of that was spent running add-on A Stern Chase Is A Long Chase with Games on Demand; it was the first time I exposed that game to the unhinged crucible of convention play as opposed to people I already knew. It was a lot of fun, and I came away with some lessons learned, so Stern Chase will be even better by the time everyone gets it.

Alright, that's it for now. See you on the next one!

- Seamus

The Pledge Manager is revving up, and the 'smoke test' for surveys should be going out shortly! Basically, 5% of you will get your surveys to make sure everything is functioning appropriately, and then the rest of them will go out.

Behind the scenes, a proof for The Cog That Remains came in, and had lovingly suffered something of a formatting error. Small? Yes. Ignorable? Not for me, I'm afraid. As a result the digital rewards for Cog will lag a bit behind the others while I fight format demons and make sure that those who get the PoD version will be getting something I'm satisfied with. This is more of a bother than it should be given the reduced speed in printing that I mentioned in an earlier update, but it should still be resolved by the end of the month.

That's it for now! Fingers crossed that it's the smoke from a fancy cocktail and not a terrible server fire.

- Seamus