Another big update, let's split it into five parts:
Where I've Been
Print-On-Demand Shipping Now
Mud, Blood, and Stone Complete
Cave of the Blue Behir - Monster Hunt 2 Released
Excess Copies
What's Next?
Where I've Been
I was working in the military on a mission that slowly ate up all my time until I hit 100+ hours a week and had no time for anything other than work. I got off mission at the end of May, with the expectation that I would get a running start back into everything Ward Against Evil. Instead, I slept for a week, then my wife convinced me to go on a vacation with her before getting back into work.
Now, I'm back, and was to close out the final parts of this Backerkit campaign with my wife.
Print-On-Demand Shipping Now
If you ordered any Print-On-Demand products, check your emails, you should have received one from me ([email protected]) with your purchase confirmation. I'll send tracking when I get it, right now they're out printers.
Why did the PODs take so long?
We needed Mud, Blood, and Stone to be completed so we can send the PODs out together and save on shipping.
Why did Mud, Blood, and Stone take so long?
To be honest, it was only a page or two away from completion for months, but because it was so close to completion it was easy to put off as work slowly ate up all my time. Now it is finally completed, reviewed by the editor, the final art pieces emplaced, and ready for sale.
Mud, Blood, and Stone Completed
Mud, Blood, and Stone is complete! If you ordered the PDF or Print Zine you should have received an email with an itch.io download code. Grab it to get it for free. If you didn't buy it during the campaign, here's the link for you:
Some of you received physical prints of this Crowns 2e Monster Hunt already with your initial book purchases. For those who didn't, you can now check out Cave of the Blue Behir on itch.io for free at the link below: https://ward-against-evil.itch.io/cave-of-the-blue-behir-mh2
For those of you unfamiliar with Crowns 2e Monster Hunts, these are one-page boss battles with a short quest to go along with them. They're free and I think there's going to be one more coming down the pipe before the series is over.
If inspiration strikes, I think it'd be fun to make like eight of these and combine them into a little zine people can buy, but that's for another day...
Excess Copies
I have more physical Title Cards, Crowns 2e books, and printed Monster Hunts than I have friends to hang them out to. This is on purpose, I like making extras in case people get messed up orders or I had forgotten to get a distant relative a copy.
The plan currently is to wait a month or two to see if anyone is still missing their orders. After that, I'll be reaching out to retailers in my area and/or from this audience and seeing if they'd like copies at a discounted rate to stock up their shelves.
I'd sell them myself, but honestly I have so little free time that it wouldn't be worth it to have a booth and a local convention to sell them by hand. Plus, it's always fun to get emails from people saying they found my book on store shelves.
That's the plan at the moment, things may change, but I don't imagine they will dramatically.
What's Next?
I have a multi-month training event starting later this year. I do not plan on any major productions before then because I've learned my lesson of trying to mix military-time and rpg-small-business-time the hard way with this last Backerkit.
Crowns 2e is still in the headlights for smaller content releases. The Lesser Key of Magic (a previously discussed spells expansion) and some short dungeons and monster hunts might be all we get for the foreseeable future. But who knows? Maybe I can get a firm foundation on Reign of Pigs (the next hex-flower adventure, Mud, Blood, and Stone sized), knock it out before training starts, and just focus on the POD version.
We'll see, until then thank you guys so much for backing! AND GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ADVENTURES
