Digital PDFs and Maps released - Print Proofs are In!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:35:59 AM

Greetings Humans!

We're so feaking pumped to post this update! Tome of Dungeons has been over a year in the making since we started planning everything so it is really exciting to be in the final stages of it all and getting everything into your hands and onto your physical and digital bookshelves!

On Wednesday we sent out all the Digital PDFs, Maps, Tokens, STL Files, and Seventh Moon Adventures (for those who bought them as add-ons) to everyone who ordered them, so check your inboxes if you haven't already! We hope you love the digital content as much as we do. 

If you did not get an email from Backerkit with all of your digital content, reach out to us and we will get it sorted out!

The book is one giant zip file, and then we also sent you 15 more zip files, one for each dungeon! Those zips have a PDF for JUST that dungeon (so you don't have to sift through a 256 book to run just one dungeon) and all of the maps (both VTT ready and 300dpi) are in there. We also included disk tokens for everyone, including both our original creatures, as well as all of the other creatures you will need for each adventure! Big thanks and a shout out to MZ4250 for letting us use his 3d models for our reference for the tokens for the SRD creatures! If you haven't checked out MZ already, you need to! He has pretty much every monster from the official books available as STL files that you can 3d print at home!  The other tokens we made were based off of our own 3d model STLs that we made!

The STL Files came in 5 zip files as well. One for Pre-supported with bases, one with Pre-supported without bases, one with no supports with bases, and one with no supports and no bases. The 5th zip is just the bases. 

NOTE: We did not make a pre-supported version of the Notheldur or Chronos' Dragon Form with the base.  It was too large to fit on a Saturn 2 printer (which we used to test print all of the models on) with the bases on them. There is a Pre-supported version of each without its base, however, it may not fit on smaller printers. If you are using a smaller printer, you may need to cut the file down in your slicer.  If anyone needs help with that hit me up in Discord! 

VTT Edition

Now, let's talk about VTT conversions! We have already started working on the virtual tabletop conversions. The Roll20 version is expected to be the first to be fulfilled, and we are about 1/3 of the way finished with converting it! That will likely come out in late May. 

Following that, we'll be completing the FVTT and Shard versions, with an estimated completion date in June. If we have any delays on any of these, we will let you all know ASAP! 

Printed Books

Great news on the printed book front too! We've just received the proof copy of our standard edition book from DTRPG, and it looks absolutely fantastic (pictures below). We're now in the process of downloading all the addresses for the standard book orders and will be getting those printed and shipped soon. Please allow 3-6 weeks for your copy of the standard book to arrive if you ordered one.

Here is another picture of it next to a few other books for scale! This behemoth is 256 pages and dwarfs the Tales from the Yawning Portal book! We also put our Kobold Press bestiary books in here for reference. If anyone owns one of those books, you know just how massive they are! Ours is right there in between the two in size! 

Here's another sneak peak at the interior of the book! We're really happy with how everything turned out!

Deluxe Book and Card Deck

As for the deluxe book and the card deck, we're still waiting for their proof copies to come in. Once we receive and approve them, full production for printing will begin immediately! 

• For our US-based backers who ordered the just card deck or the card deck + the standard edition book, they will be shipped directly to you from the printer. 
• If you ordered the Deluxe + Deck within the US, they will be shipped together.
• For our international backers who ordered the Deluxe + Deck, they also will be shipped together once they arrive at our office.
• Zine orders are also in progress! Currently, all of the Seventh Moon Adventure zines are printed and ready to ship, and the Tome of Dungeon zines are being printed right now and will be shipped this month. If you ordered any zines and a deluxe book, they will ship together. However, if you ordered a standard book plus any zines, they will ship separately.

Please note that we have locked addresses, but if you have moved recently or are planning to move in May or June (in the event that it takes closer to 6 weeks to get these printed and shipped), make sure to reach out to us via email so we can manually adjust your shipping address ASAP! If you are planning to move in this time but don't know your next address yet, let us know!, w We can just have your copies shipped to us (for standard) and once you have your new address, we will ship it to ya! But if we don't know about a change of address, there is not much of anything we can do! Either reach out on discord or send me an email at -->> 44meditatingmunky44 at gmail dot com <<--  and we can work it all out! 

We want to thank you once again for your incredible support and patience during this process. We're thrilled to be getting closer to delivering Tome of Dungeons to you, and we can't wait for you to enjoy them!

Ninetoes Guide to Monster Hunting

In case anyone missed out on Ninetoes Guide to Monster Hunting, which we ran in February for Zinequest, its not to late to preorder a copy now on Backerkit! Tim just started writing on it, and once I am finished with the VTT conversions for ToD, I'll be working on the maps for it! That one will probably be coming out in late summer, and you can get it as a PDF, or a printed zine, or you can get it on your favorite VTT (not Fantasy Grounds, sorry folks, I've tried, I give up with them). 

After that zine, I will likely run another small Kickstarter some time later this year. We were talking about it, and we think we want to do some smaller scale things, similar to Tome of Dungeons, but instead of pushing all for the entire book all at one time, we are thinking of doing one dungeon at a time as mini-kickstarters for digital and zine editions and then once we have enough content for a full book, we will run a big Kickstarter for the full book (and get some sweet stretch goals in there to make it even bigger). We are also tossing around an idea for a Setting Guide book for the Seventh Moon (which I have been slowly writing and piling together for years now one little section at a time). But more on that later once we are closer to doing those. For now, we are wrapping up this book and Ninetoes first (but I always like to look ahead, and if you are interested in any of our future stuff, this is what there is to look forward to).

Thanks again to everyone who backed us, and believed in us! This is an exciting time to be entering the final stages of this behemoth of a book!

It's Happening!!!!
over 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!!!
over 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!
almost 2 years 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!
almost 2 years 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!