Unlocking Dual Realms of Magic: "A Catalogue of Relics of Power"
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 08:29:13 AM
Hello backers!
We are excited to announce a small campaign for Kickstarter’s Make 100 Month in 2024! Embark on a thrilling journey with renowned traveler and sage Arthur Thel-am-Rajai as we unveil "A Catalogue of Relics of Power," a book designed for an immersive experience in your campaign world.
What will be inside?
Dive into the mystical realms with 100 cleric-based magic items, complete with rules for 5E compatible games and Pathfinder 2. Each is a portal to adventure with rich narrative, item history, and anecdotes, offering a versatile resource for your gaming sessions and personal exploration.
This isn't just another gaming accessory! "A Catalogue of Relics of Power" serves as a bridge between your tabletop adventures and real-world creativity. Use it as an out-of-game resource for players and storytellers, or integrate it into your game world as an in-game artifact. Launch epic retrieval quests, campaigns for (or against!) the deities themselves, or loot grabs through perilous dungeons!
What is Kickstarter Make 100?
Make 100 campaigns are designed to sell 100 unique items, so this campaign will be limited to 100 backers. You can get the PDF version for $3, and you can add a soft cover print version for $5. As well, if you haven’t completed your collection of Tabletop Journeys Kickstarter Exclusive products, they will be available here too!
Sign up to get notified when the campaign goes live this Thursday!
BackerKit Survey update
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 07:24:42 AM
Hello friends!
Just a quick update, we are at 80% completion on the survey, which is AWESOME! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to respond, and thank you doubly to folks who are taking advantage of the Add-ons available!
One quick update: If you purchased the "You Become an NPC!" Add-on, there was an error in the survey because of a deprecated BackerKit feature. That has now been corrected, so you should be able to complete your surveys now. As always, if there are any issues, please let us know!
Josh, Glen, and Lewanika
Backerkit Surveys are on their way!
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 05:26:34 PM
Hello Backers!
Just a quick message to let you know that I am sending out the Backerkit surveys tonight. Don't hesitate to reach out if things don't look right. The Backerkit store will allow you to add physical copies if you didn't buy them during the campaign, access Add-Ons if you were accidentally blocked out from adding them the first time around, etc.
From us and ours, to you and yours, we wish you a very happy holiday season and we will be back in the New Year with more updates!
Josh, Glen, and Lewanika
WIP Wednesday Update for December 6, 2023
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 10:37:19 AM
Hello Backers!
First off, sorry for the long delay between updates. November was an incredibly busy month for the podcast, between our first live convention event at AcadeCon in Ohio, wrapping up our production schedule for the rest of the year, and getting ready for the holidays with our families! But we wanted to touch base on progress, timelines, BackerKit surveys, etc to keep you in the loop on where we are and provide some sneak peeks at what is to come next year!
Progress and Timelines
This is probably of the most interest to all of you since you backed the project! We are wrapping up the core writing on the book right now, with the aim of having it all done by early January. From there, the process that we follow is a collaborative one. All three of us are going to read everything written by the others, leave feedback and suggestions, and do whatever rewrites are necessary. After that, we hand it off for editing, and as individual documents get “Glenned Up”, Josh will start doing the layout. Once the PDF is complete, we will send it off to the printers for proof copies, make last minute adjustments, and order our print run and begin distributing. All that to say, based on our original project estimates, we are about a month ahead of where we thought we would be right now (which is awesome).
BackerKit Surveys
We have already built out the Backerkit survey and storefront for after pledge orders, so that is going to be coming to you pretty soon. Part of the reason is that one of our Add-Ons was for you to work with us on an NPC for the book, so we need to know who those NPCs are going to be! These will be additional NPCs on top of the one or two that each faction was already going to get. If you have never gone through this part of the process before, what happens is that we request a "smoke test", which will email the surveys to a handful of you. That will give us a final chance to work out any of the kinks in the process before sending out the remaining surveys about a week later. So watch your inboxes!
Pre-order Store
If you are wondering why we are opening up an aftermarket store for this project, when we haven’t before, there are a few big reasons. For one, now that we are doing physical books, we want to make sure that anyone who wants a hard cover, stickers, pin, etc can get it in this initial run. That just makes it easier for everyone involved. For two, we are actively working to bring the book to other retailers, and this gives them a place to get their orders in also. Lastly, and this is sort of a mea culpa from Josh, because we are still learning how this all works, we inadvertently locked PDF backers out of getting any of the physical Add-Ons. Whoops. Don’t worry, though, most of the Add-ons will stay exclusive for you folks who backed during the campaign.
So, what’s next?
Well, as the writing wraps up on this project, there are a couple of smaller projects that we will be launching in the first quarter of next year. The first is a “Make 100” campaign on Kickstarter, “A Catalogue of Relics of Power”, which is a pseudo in-game book containing one hundred magic items written by renowned traveler and scholar Arthur Thel-am-Rajai (he has appeared in other books before…). And we are putting together another small project for ZineQuest in February. More details on both of those to come!
Thank you all for your support, as this project shapes up, it is really taking on a special character. These factions are so much fun to write, we hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Please feel free to send us any questions you have either by commenting here, or you can email us at [email protected].
We will update you again after the holidays, and wish you and your families a safe, happy, healthy end of year.
Josh, Glen, and Lewanika
Update for October 26, 2023
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 07:56:00 AM
Hey friends, apologies in advance for missing the normal Wednesday Work in Progress update. The tragedy in Lewiston, ME last touched a lot of us pretty personally, so we were fully allocated there.
But obviously, we have some exciting things to talk about because the campaign successfully funded!
We owe you all a tremendous thank you for backing this project, we are really excited to be bringing these Factions to you. We didn't hit many of our stretch goals, so while we aren't going to change our estimated timeline just yet, since the majority of the rough draft writing is complete already, we should have some exciting news for you all sooner than we thought. And a really special thank you to our Retail Backers who went above and beyond to bring this campaign to life. We are pumped, and will be talking about ways to come visit and work with you all when the books come in to plan something awesome, so stay tuned!
So, what's next?
Well, Kickstarter will start charging the cards they have on file and reconciling all of that. Once that is complete, they will start the process of transferring the funds to us. That process takes a couple of weeks. After that, backers who picked up the "Make me an NPC" Add-on should expect a word so that we know what those NPCs should look like. We'll get writing those and hand those off to the artists for portraits.
We'll be using Backerkit again for distribution of the rewards, but we'll be sure to keep you in the loop here as well when those surveys go out so that we can collect physical addresses. There will be another occasion to add those Add-ons too. It looks like we accidentally locked PDF Backers out from getting any of the physical items (t-shirts, mugs, pins, stickers, etc). Totally unintentional, and we will make sure to configure the Backer Kit options to let you get those items if you would like.
On the book printing front, we "budgeted" three months for turn around there. I did a quick mock up with our printer based on the estimated page count of the book and the number of books that we are going to need, and they estimated about two weeks for delivery once we submit the order. The goal will be to get all physical items sent at roughly the same time, even if they are coming from different providers, so that you get everything at the same time, but all things are looking good on that front so far.
We don't want to burden you with updates, so I would expect to hear from us every two weeks, on Work in Progress Wednesdays, or whenever we have a major milestone to talk about or need input on. If you ever have any questions along the way, please do not hesitate to reach out. You can find all of our social media at https://linktr.ee/ttjourneys or you can message us directly here through Kickstarter.
Thank you again so very sincerely, and we'll be in touch!
Josh, Glen, and Lewanika
