It's Happening!!!!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 03:29:47 PM

This is going to be the shortest and the biggest update to date!!! Keeping it short and sweet but the big announcement!

IT IS GOING TO PRINT ON MONDAY!!!

We are going through two print companies - one for the deluxe (API based out of Atlanta) and the Standard book is going through DTRPG (since they do fulfillment)

Timelines - The Deluxe book is going to take 4-6 weeks to have it in my hands and will be shipping immediately from there! The Standard book will be shipped out from DTRPG to everyone who got that one. The Card Decks we are also printing from DTRPG so those will arrive seperately. We are sending the Cards through after the book so expect the books to be shipped first! 

Digital fulfillment - Once I send the PDFs to print, I am formatting the bookmarks in the PDF. Those will come through as soon as they are ready! I'll be sending all of the PDFs, digital maps, digital tokens STLs and all of the Seventh Moon Adventures PDFs over through Backerkit sometime mid-late april once I have those files ready to send. It will be one large PDF of the full book, and 15 mini PDFs (one for each dungeon) 

VTT Conversions - We are starting on those next week! I am unsure of the timeline on them, but they shouldn't take too terribly long, but I am thinking some time in May is when those will be ready. 

That's it for now! I'll post an update of the physical book once they send me my proof copies and keep everyone in the loop on when those ship out!

Big Update: ALL WRITING IS COMPLETE!!!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 10:58:57 AM

ALL WRITING FOR THE TOME OF DUNGEONS IS COMPLETE!

I have been waiting for literally NINE FULL MONTHS to say those words! ALL writing for the Tome of Dungeons is now finished! That feels so good, I want to say it again, hahaha! 

So what's left?

We are currently going back over and adjusting bits and pieces here and there and taking our feedback from Playtest into the final wave of formatting! We will be sending the final version over to print later this month!

Once we send the print version to our manufacturer, we will be getting a proof copy to review and ensure there are no issues with the layout. Once we approve that copy the full-scale print production will begin! Once we get everything shipped to us, we will begin packaging everything up and shipping everything out in April as planned! We will be shipping everything out in waves based on the orders made, starting with the Standard Edition first. We'll send out an update later once we are shipping to reflect when and what to expect!

We will also be doing our final formatting for the PDF version while we are waiting on the printed books to arrive (setting up bookmarks and whatnot) as well as beginning our VTT conversions at that time!

The digital fulfillment will include the PDF for the full book, and each Dungeon will have its own PDF as well. You will also receive all digital maps and tokens!

All VTT Versions will likely be sent out sometime in late April or May, depending on when they are ready. We have a different person working on each VTT conversion. We will send out updates for each VTT version as they are ready and how to get them! 

I am currently finishing up the final maps for the last two chapters (as well as I will be making an edit to the very first Dungeon to account for some changes based off of the feedback we received from the Playtest).  I am expecting to have all of the maps finished over the next week. 

All tokens for the ToD original monsters in the VTT versions are finished, and all Illustration work for the book and cards is good to go as well! I still need to make the Tokens for the SRD creatures that appear in the dungeons as well, those will be created once we are finished with the physical book. 

All STL files are finished, and we will be setting up pre-supported files for resin printing and sending those out when we release the digital content in April! Each miniature will have a version with and without the base, and pre-supported versions of each. 

Add-Ons & Zines for both the Tome of Dungeon and the Seventh Moon Adventures will be shipped out with the books! All of the Zines for the Seventh Moon Adventures are printed and ready to go, and once we send the full book to print, we will start printing the Zines for the Tome of Dungeons zine edition that were added to those orders! We print all of our zines in-house, and already have all paper and ink we need to complete these orders!

Thank You ALL once again!

Thank you for your support, and your patience as we have created this book! This has been by far the largest project I have ever worked on, and I am beyond appreciative of every single person who has sent their support and believed in me to bring this dream to life! There is still work to be done, and we are full steam working to bring it all together! I can't wait to get this book into your hands (and onto your digital bookshelves)! 

I'll be posting my next update later in the month once we get our proof copy in, and we will have several updates this month and next month as we send out each wave of digital and physical books and cards to you! 

Finishing up Tome of Dungeons!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 12:33:43 PM

Greeting Humans!

February is here and it is officially crunch time! We will be sending out one last Playtest for Lair of the Undying Atropal later this week once I finish formatting that one up, and we are taking in all of the Playtest data and making a few edits here and there to some of the earlier dungeons!

We are also finishing up the writing of both of the high level Tier 4 Dungeons (Chronos, and Illusionary Prison) right now, but those two are not likely to see as much of a playtest as the rest of the book, but we will be sending out a Playtest PDF later in the month, and if we do get feedback in within time it may get considered, but I do not want to push back our print run. They are going to be level 17 and 19 dungeons anyways so Playtesting those will no doubt bring in such a wide variety of data anyways.

We are also writing the Mega Dungeon of Doom this month and that will not be playtested at all. We aren’t even putting a suggested level on that one. It will be brutal, and we are leaning on that one to not be balanced at all anyways. So send your level 1 parties on in, it will be fun... right?

We still need to do some of the final illustrations for the card decks and we will likely send a “playtest” version of those out (really more so to get a survey on each item, trap, etc and feedback on the general aesthetic of the cards), and that will come towards the end of the month or beginning of March.

We are still on track to send everything over to print in March, and so long as that goes smoothly we should be shipping out in April! If there is any delay on that end I will let everyone know immediately. When we do start shipping, we will also be releasing ALL digital content out as well, so that should be coming to you all next month right after we send the book to print!

After we send Digital PDFs, STLs, and maps & tokens out, we will be starting up the VTT conversions! Those will likely take another month or two to create, and we are anticipating in the May-June range (but could be sooner, we have already gotten a little head start on them, so I'm hoping for the sooner timeline) for Roll20, Foundry, and Shard! We will keep giving updates on that portion as they are a huge part of this project! 

So what’s next?

Well for starters, as some of you may know, I have brought on a couple of writers to help with Tome of Dungeons! MykeMyke, Abio, Talmanah, and Ninetoes to be specific! They each helped bring Tome of Dungeons to life and were all a pleasure to work with!

Tim (Ninetoes) especially clicked really well with me and we really fed off of each other’s creativity tremendously! So much that we decided to run a Zinequest project together this month! This one is Tim's baby and its only fitting that we use his "name" as part of the book!

Ninetoes Guide to Monster Hunting

Introducing Ninetoes Guide to Monster Hunting! This will be a Zinequest project that will include a Hex Crawl Regional Guide and a small Bestiary of Legendary Monsters to hunt! All complete with lore, characteristics, and even a crafting section so you can make some sweet magical items once you defeat them!

Together, Tim and I have put some ideas together and we will be creating somewhere between 35-50 pages worth of content for this one! Tim is doing all of the writing, and of course I am creating Lair Maps and Illustrations for everything! Additionally we are making 3d Printable STL files for all of the legendary monsters in the book!

We are starting up with 4 Legendary Hunts and are planning to unlock another 4-6 hunts with stretch goals should this zine peak enough interest! It is also going live Tomorrow, so sign up to be notified if you are interested!

Ninetoes Guide will include options for PDF, VTT, and Print!

There are a lot of other amazing Zinequest projects going on as well, and we want to point to a few of those as well!

The Goddess and the Fox

Our friend Rughalt over at Dragonshorn Studios is Kickstarting a new, epic, 5th edition and Pathfinder compatible adventure, The Goddess and the Fox, as a part of Zinequest 2023!

Designed for characters of levels 5 to 8 (with an optional scaling for characters at levels 9 to 10), the adventure will bring your players to the ancient woods of Aeyx, where they will discover its dark secrets, learn about the forgotten stories of the past and have a chance of stopping the evil that has awoken deep inside the forest. Inside The Goddess and the Fox you will find:

• An epic story spanning 4 acts, worth 4 to 8 sessions of gameplay, where adventurers have a chance to save the ancient woods of Aeyx from a terrible fate.
• Over 50 pages of adventure, full of beautiful art, maps, and more!
• Multiple new monsters and magical items!
• Custom token art and maps for VTT use!

The adventure will also be available as a PDF, interactive book (think D&D Beyond-like website!) and in the form of premium modules for Foundry VTT, Roll20, and Shard Tabletop!

Will you uncover the dark secret of the ancient woods of Aeyx and stop the evil from rising again in the story of The Goddess and the Fox?

THIS PROJECT IS ALREADY LIVE AND FULLY FUNDED IN LESS THAN THREE HOURS, but you can help Rughalt unlock more stretch goals and additional content right now!

AMMU: A Whimdark Adventure

Take the eye of an eldritch god on an adventure through its own corpse in this system neutral one-shot by Direquest! AMMU goes live tomorrow on Kickstarter, but you can sign up to follow the project now!!!

Befriend a dying god, traverse its rotting digestive tract, and battle a swarm of insectoid abominations! Eldritch horrors have never been so much fun! Explore the rotting corpse of a god in this system neutral adventure by Direquest!

Check it out now on  Kickstarter! 

Tome of Dungeons January Update!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:30:29 AM

First and Foremost, Happy New Years! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! 

Second, I am sorry I didn't post an update last month, December is crazy! BUT I have a lot of awesome news for everyone, and we are fast approaching the final bits of Playtesting! 

The last two months we focussed heavy on writing for all of the dungeons,  and we sent out 5 Playtest Dungeons between November and December, and we have 2 more coming out THIS WEEK! That alone is half of the book in itself! 

This month I am setting the goal to be finished with the next 4 dungeons and at that point there will only be the last two high level dungeons and the Mega Dungeon left! If all goes according to those plans, I should be done writing some time in February, and sending everything to print in March for an April shipping! 

Here is a list of the dungeons and where they are at in production!

• Deathmist Vault. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is finished! We will be making a few edits to the layout, changing a little bit in the opening scene (to not make it as linear) and updating the map for it. 
• Shattered Chapel. Fully Written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is finished! We will be making a minor edit to the final scene to help with balance and touching up the map making the wording on the puzzle a little more obvious (its a two room split the party type of puzzle, so we need to help let the party know its ok to split the party here).
• Prison of the Plague Palm.  Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is finished! I honestly don't think we need to do anything to this dungeon, it had stellar feedback from playtesting, and outside of proofing for typos, this one should be ready to go!
• Hellfist Monastery. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is ongoing! We have gotten some feedback already for this one, and will likely tweak the early part of the skill challenge and also will be making some minor wording changes to the two puzzles in this one. Waiting to hear back from some of our other playtesters before we make changes though.
• Lost Temple of Lazaar. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is being sent out tomorrow! 
• Sands of Decay. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, we are formatting it this week to send out to Playtest this coming weekend!
• Ancient Ruins of Xune and Zoan. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and currently in Playtest right now!
• Eye of the Magi. Fully written, Illustrated, STLs are ready, and Playtest is finished! This one looks to be good to go as well! We had some solid feedback, and it's pretty much good to go as is. We might do some minor tweaks to the final boss area and the wording of the quote box (a few groups didn't fall for the dastardly plans from the Skylord, sooooo, we want to tricks them!)
• Sunken Vault of Treasure Island. In process of being written. The illustrations are mostly finished. STLs ready to go. Will be in Playtest mid-January. 
• Frozen Abyss. In process of being written. Illustrations started. STLs ready to go. Will be in Playtest mid-January. 
• Lair of the Undying Atropal. Almost done writing. Illustrations finished. STLs ready to go. Will be in Playtest in the next few weeks!
• Illusionary Prison. Writing starting soon. Illustrations starting soon. STLs Ready. Playtest will be coming early February. 
• Pit of Eternity. Halfway finished writing. Illustrations started. STLs ready to go. Should be out in Playtest mid-January. 
• Chronos. This is the highest level dungeon in the book. We have done a fair amount of planning for it, and we will be starting the writing for it later this month! Looking to have it out for Playtest in February. 
• Mega Dungeon of Doom. We have started brainstorming this one, and I started on one of the maps for it. It will NOT be playtested. This dungeon is being designed to be broken, and good luck! Waiting to design the STL, we want to decide what our ultimate boss is first!

The goal is still to have everything finished up with the writing by the end of February, and have it sent to print in March for April shipping. We will keep you all posted if we have any set backs!

Thanks again for the patience, I am going to send updates more frequently (logging in and seeing a bunch of folks requesting an update, makes me realize I should do these more often, hahaha). So I will update each time I send out Playtest, and start posting at least once a week between now and when we ship! 

Hope everyone's holidays were great and looking forward to getting this awesome book finished up and sent out! 

November Update!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 12:17:19 PM

Greetings Humans!

We are now into November and deep into the writing phase of Tome of Dungeons! We are about a third of the way finished with the writing, and I plan to be over the halfway point this month, and the 2nd half will have a much faster pace! 

Writing and Playtesting

Last month we sent out Playtests for the Prison of the Plague Palm dungeon, and are awaiting responses from our amazing playtesters! We also finished the writing for Hellfist Monestary this past week and are in the middle of formatting it to send that one out to Playtesters this week, and Lost Temple of Lazaar is in the finishing stages of it's writing as well! 

Additionally, we wanted to increase the pace for this book to ensure we get this sent to print early 2023! We brought on an additional three writers and they are all already working on their respective sections now! 

STLs

We are just about finished up on the STL sculpts for this entire book! The only one we have left is the Final Boss in the Mega Dungeon of Doom, and we will be finished! I will be test printing the newest batch of STLs this week and getting the supports ready for them and then this entire section will be finished up!

Maps

This month will see a surge of map making from me, I will be making the next wave of dungeons in the coming weeks and getting the posters formatted up so we can go print those once we are ready as well! By the end of this month I should be well over the halfway mark on map making portion of this project!

Here is the newest map we made for the book! 

The plan is still to have everything sent to print early 2023, and hopefully get everything shipped out to backers around April! 

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