Dragons Landing
over 5 years ago
– Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:58:31 PM
I heard from a backer in Sweeden that he just received his hardcopy of Dragon Heresy. So "international" backers should look for theirs this week or next, ideally.
Last I heard, we're still on schedule to have the bulk of the US order arrive at Studio 2 on October 8, which hopefully means will see inventory at my house later that week, and then into media mail for the USA. Hopefully that means US folks should have their games by Oct 21.
If your address has changed since the Kickstarter, ping me at [email protected] and I'll change it in Backerkit. Once the books arrive at my house, I'll print postage via the Backerkit online system - that worked beautifully when I did it for Hall of Judgment - and that, as they say, will be that. 186 copies of Dragon Heresy, plus assorted other copies of Lost Hall and Dungeon Grappling, will be distributed. A few of you ordered 3-4 of them.
I think you'll be pleased with the books. We're almost there!
Hardcover fulfillment has begun!
over 5 years ago
– Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 08:28:09 AM
It's been a long time coming, but the first hardcovers are going into the mail. As seems to be amusingly the case, it's the international books that go out first. Roughly half the books went out last week, and the rest will go out next week. Postal service is Korean air mail, so it should be pretty much everywhere in about two weeks. Hopefully everyone will have theirs by Oct 6 or so, certainly I hope by Oct 13.
For the US folks, I expect October 8 (ish) to be the date that something like 1500 books arrive at Studio 2, and then it'll take a few days to get 320 books (about half a pallet) to me in Minnesota. I've already got the packing materials, labels, etc, and so will be able to process the US books and get them into the mail in a matter of days. After that, it's the usual 2-10 days for USPS to get it there, so everyone should have their stuff by the end of October, as promised.
Shipping internationally was unpredictably expensive. That's on my end, and it will figure strongly into "lessons learned" for the future.
And So it Begins (Dragon Heresy and Hall of Judgment)
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:33:04 PM
It's fulfillment week for two of my Kickstarters, whose physical product are coming due at roughly the same time. So: dual-wielding emails! (I picked up that proficiency/specialization over the last few months).
Other Books
If you are not in the USA and ordered Dungeon Grappling or Lost Hall of Tyr as a physical copy from either the Hall of Judgment or Dragon Heresy Kickstarters, your books are now on the way. I placed the orders for six folks for Dungeon Grappling, and two more for Lost Hall (both of those from the Dragon Heresy KS). I have contacted the backers with a personal email with a copy of the info forwarded to me, as well as an order number.
Any issues, let me know. The UK product should show up within two weeks. Italy shortly thereafter. The Australia/New Zealand can take days or weeks, depending on when things fall together. But do contact me if things don't move sprightly as things go forward.
Hall of Judgment
I've heard from Kixto in the UK, and they're in the process of filling the HoJ orders for international folks, after which they'll forward the rest of the orders to me via airmail. That still means that it's not crazy-talk for me to see a pallet of books on my floor by the end of the week, or perhaps the weekend. This weekend is a holiday weekend in the US (Labor Day) and I'll be at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival all three days doing Viking Martial Arts demonstrations . . . but as soon as it's remotely possible, I'll bundle your HoJ books and any other physical product that you've ordered into one shipping box and get them on the way by next week at the latest. So on schedule for Sept 15.
Dragon Heresy
The Dragon Heresy books are still going to be the last to leave. The books are done, and 50 books will head over to Dice Latte in Korea as soon as a few customs issues are sorted out and folks get back from vacation. Then the international copies for both DH and HoJ Kickstarters will go out.
The Dragon Heresy books are still going to be the last to leave. The books are done, and 50 books will head over to Dice Latte in Korea as soon as a few customs issues are sorted out and folks get back from vacation. Then the international copies for both DH and HoJ Kickstarters will go out.
Sometime this week, I expect the books (nearly 1,500 of them) to move to staging at the shipyard, and then three weeks on the water to the USA. Then another week to get to Studio 2 in TN, and finally they'll break the order into "keep 'em!" and "ship to Doug" and then I'll do fulfillment from my house. So six to seven weeks until books are in-hand: first two weeks in October, I suspect.
Again, the US orders that have Dragon Heresy in them will be sent in one bunch. I will not hold Hall of Judgment waiting for a Dragon Heresy bundle, so if you ordered Dragon Heresy through the HoJ Kickstarter and you're in the USA, expect two packages: one with HoJ and Dungeon Grappling and/or Lost Hall of Tyr (if you ordered those) and another with Dragon Heresy.
If you're on the Dragon Heresy KS, you'll get everything at once.
One week until shipping begins
over 5 years ago
– Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:14:15 PM
A lot of frantic below-the-waterline work happened over the last few days. Realizing that taking delivery of 2.5 tons of books (!!) at the bottom of my driveway was a terrible, terrible plan, I quickly accelerated my actions to get books into a distribution channel.
This was aided by Steve Jackson himself, who pointed me in the right direction thanks to my being a licensee of SJG's with the Hall of Judgment product. In any case, more to come on this later, but:
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50 books are headed to Korea, where the fine folks at Dice Latte will take care of international order fulfillment and some of my comp copies that go outside the USA
- 320 books will come directly to me (32 cartons, about 1,000 lbs of books) so that I can get the US folks into media mail (about 200 books) and have some for GameHole Con and personal direct inventory
- 1,160 books will go into distribution
The timing of this will be another week to prepare, then probably a week on either side of a 3-week ocean transit, and then media mail, for 1-2 weeks more. So hardbacks should be in hand by mid-October. Not quite as sprightly as I'd like (my fault), but you will very much like the results when you get them in your hands.
Retail Tour and GameHole Con
For grins, I took the book around to three local game stores (two game stores and a comic book store, actually), and uniformly I got the impression that these folks wanted the book on their shelves. Gratifying. I got a confirmed "I'll take two copies as soon as you get them" from the comic book store, which just moved to new premises that are almost but not quite in walking distance from my house.
I will also be lugging my spare inventory to GameHole Con in Madison, WI in November. I hope to move a few books, and meet anyone who's there: I'll be in the Dorkstock mini-convention for most of the time that I'm not walking the floor. I don't have a lot of plans other than running my new Dungeon Fantasy RPG adventure "Hall of Judgment" twice.
Lost Hall of Tyr, 2nd Edition
But of course, what about Dragon Heresy? Well, Hall of Judgment is a modification adaptation of Lost Hall of Tyr, which itself is for 5e. But HoJ doubled in size, and (even if I do say so myself) more than tripled in quality of content in the expansion.
So I will be revising Lost Hall and incorporating most of the information and new stuff from HoJ, back-converted from the Dungeon Fantasy RPG (Powered by GURPS) to Dragon Heresy. It will support level 3-5 instead of 4-7, so that it's fully playable within the reach of the Dragon Heresy Introductory Set.
It will also be a free upgrade to anyone who currently owns the PDF of Lost Hall of Tyr.
Watch this space and my blog to get more news on this one; I'm excited to take the expanded material that really gives some more meat to Torengar (called Norðlond in Hall of Judgment) and put it back in its native environment. It will begin what is hopefully a long train of supporting materials for the parallel settings.
That's all for now!
Advance Copies Arrive! They look AMAZING
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:19:14 PM
It was the moment I’ve been waiting for, and it arrived today. The first six copies of the fully-printed, smyth-sewn, entirely freakin’ awesome Dragon Heresy Introductory Set arrived today by FedEx.
I am utterly blown away. This is a book I think anyone would be proud to put on their shelf. Even better, to take out and play. The production values are ridiculously good. Yeah, I know, it’s my book, but wow.
I took a bunch of pictures and posted them on my blog:
