Sup ya nerds. Lots going on in this update. Lots to think about moving forward.
All the extras are in production. Very psyched to see those rendered in meatspace. Drafting the text/art/layout of Dimensia is 99% done. I've been experiencing feature creep since the crowdfunding so I've officially capped myself on page count. The last bits to finish off for the book are the example of play comic (now 7 pages) and the character sheet for the Knave/Troika hack. After that, it's off to proofreading and editing. Once all that's done, I'll send out the PDFs to backers while I get printing on the road. Speaking of:
I've been considering upgrading the base zine to a nice perfect bound softcover book like the print copies of Active Time Event!!! It would cut into my take-home pay a little, but after assembling a bunch of zines over the weekend for FLUKE! 2026, I've been thinking that a perfect bound print may just be better overall. It's not what I originally advertised, but it would read to many people as a strict upgrade. I've attached a poll to this update to get a vibe on how backers feel about this.
I've been cracking away at finishing the text, art, and layouts of Doors of Dimensia. It will still be a few weeks before I have a proper beta PDF. In the meantime, the side stuff is going into production. I'll probably redesign the stickers for the bundle as the one on the crowdfunding page was kinda slapped together on the fly as was the patch mockup. Speaking of, here's a proper draft of the patch design I finished today.
The final will look pretty close to this! Old school punk style screen printing white paint on black canvas. Crisp.
Extremely grateful for the success of this campaign! I'm off to grind in the TTRPGs mines for a couple months illustrating and writing up the rest of the text. There are about 6 blank pages left to finish, and a lot of layout shenanigans will ensue.
In the meantime, here's a beta PDF of the current build. Everything in this version is subject to change (though most of it won't). Feel free to slap it on your table for play!
Doors of Dimensia was on the @weirdplace.bsky.social ZiMo stream yesterday! I got in the chat and had to tell Gabriel what a Depth Crawl was. Absolute legends. A massive pleasure to be a part of it! If y'all aren't familiar, please go check out their dope channel and their current kickstarter Residue.
I really appreciate everyone's support to get this project made! A good few of my personal friends have swooped in here in the last 48 hours to get Stretch Goal #1 completed. This means I'll make full stat block conversions for Knave 2E, Fabula Ultima, Troika!, and Cloud Empress. These will go in the digital package that comes with every purchase of Doors of Dimensia.
Now, on to the fun stuff! Over the course of this campaign, I became acutely aware of how few people actually knew what a Depth Crawl was (shoutout to the Weird Place ZiMo stream lol). I had this idea a few days ago after reading the extensive Example of Play section in Mythic Bastionland- a comic that quite literally illustrates the example of play for the Depth Crawl. This would show both above the table procedure for generating the Depth Crawl as well as the beautiful nonsense that befalls the player characters in the fiction. I doodled this little sketch on my lunch break at work today. If you think this is a cool idea and haven't pledged yet, here's your sign to do so!
The new and final goal is $1350. Can we do it? 47 hours to raise about $125. I'll be back at the end to give a general state of affairs. Ciao~
