$20K stretch goal broken!
about 5 years ago – Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 02:49:06 AM

We did it! $20,000 stretch goal UNLOCKED!

Since we hit $20k we'll be able to get some professional quality art done on 4 new monsters for use in your games! Each monster page will feature custom art, custom stat blocks and custom story to weave them into your world with ease. We don't have any of the art yet, we know you'd love to see some and frankly SO WOULD WE but we are still debating between a few different artists to provide us with the quality we're seeking. We don't want to give you anything that you wouldn't see in an official release book by a larger company so we're not compromising here!

As a short idea of what direction we're leaning with them we can say that some of our items already hint at great beasts from which they originate (so you might find some lore sprinkled in the story if you already have the cards.) 

We'll be breaking the creatures down into Tiers of power, just like we did the cards themselves.

The first monster is going to be somewhere around CR 4 or 5, we're gunning for a type of creature that nullifies magic in a radius around it. Nothing that permanently destroys items but something that both suppresses the parties magic items AND protects it from spells and such. Just to push your players who rely on a heavy hitting mage or a Barbarian buffing cleric to fall back on their raw equipment without any of the extra features. And DON'T WORRY! We've got some tricks up our sleeve to make sure this doesn't turn into a slug fest between your great sword and maul wielding party members while the rest have to sit out... oh no, where would the fun be in that?

The second monster will be around CR 9 or 10, something that hunts magic items... maybe even something that jumps out and grabs items and will teleport away forcing characters to chase them and defeat them to retrieve their gear but also possibly offering up the chance of finding some other unlucky persons equipment! We plan on making this more of a different encounter than a full on combat encounter where players have to chase down a plane hopping bandit :)

The third monster will be around CR 14 or 15 and is truly a dreaded beast. Something like a tank with a deadly purpose and razor sharp focus. Something that you can't persuade and won't back down from a few cuts or fire balls. Something that devours or destroys magic items without regard. This one is going to be a nightmare that your party won't forget for the rest of the campaign.

The fourth monster will be a CR of 20 and leaves a lot more room for the DM to have fun. We're tossing ideas still but landing on something that maybe creates a mirror dimension that reverses all magic to do the opposite or a random magic effect at frequent intervals. Things that will just plain throw your group for a loop and be an awesome and fun encounter, if they survive.

I know, I know! That's not a lot of detail and you didn't get any new art but we're working on it ;) 

New $30,000 funding goal

We're adding a new stretch goal at $30,000 that will allow us to produce a "lost pages" manuscript in PDF format that will never be sent to a printer officially (but you can print if you'd like on your own printer of course) which will contain all of the exclusive magic items released through our last 4 Kickstarters with each Tier of the Deck of Magical Mystery. To give you a total number, that's 9 additional pages, or 18 additional magic items, for every backer for free if we pass $30,000. This document will be in the same layout as our other items in the Tome of Magical Mystery and will not be released again!

5 more days and a few extra big pushes from some friendly companies are still coming our way, we can do this now and we have before!

-Levi and Hobie

CROSS PROMOTION WITH FREE GAMES!

Last but not least Hobie and Deep Dungeon Games have a new project that's funded, he's offering EVERYONE that sees this message 3 free games from his original Diception book! Below are 3 games out of 30 from his first book, help support his second book Diception: Carnival Conquest by sharing the word or stopping by and grabbing a full PDF copy for only $5!

Enjoy and help share his project!

$20,000, Y SO STALLED?!
about 5 years ago – Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:58:35 PM

We're so close to $20,000 that we'v decided to go ahead and show off our next update, we'll cross it soon enough as the last 6 days close in!

This is a short one, just a little boost to see if we can push us over the limit...

Tome of Magical Mystery, Kickstarter Exclusive Cover! We made it to match the 5e limited edition covers (you can google them) and we think it looks AWESOME! Let us know what you think! This will be the only time we'll ever produce these covers, they will NOT be available again after the Kickstarter is over!

More to come, when we cross $20,000 we'll have announcements about the new monsters and new $30,000 last week stretch goal!

-Levi and Hobie

We're well on our way to the next Stretch Goal!
about 5 years ago – Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:16:29 AM

We're at almost $18,000 right now and that's CRAZY AWESOME!

So, three things we want to bring to your attention at this moment... 

1st, Awesome Projects!

Two freaking sweet things we've had our eyes on this weekend are both super cool and useful ideas, we figured you might be blown away at the very least and would want to see this stuff! Easy to use and excellent looking maps MADE OUT OF THE BOX and some totally amazing ACTUAL SPELL SCROLL PROPS!

Tenfold Dungeon speaks for itself, click the image below to see more about their amazing project :)

And Arcane Scrollworks 3 is in their third Kickstarter based on this line of truly awesome realistic looking scrolls that you can bring to your table to add to the mystery of an adventure and bring your players deeper into the world and lore!

2nd, New $30,000 stretch goal!

We've been asked several times if we're going to be including the EXCLUSIVE magic items that were added into the Tier 1-4 decks during our earlier projects and the answer is YES and NO at the same time, instead of just NO :) 

There are 52 magic items in every standard deck.

Tier 1 had 2 extra cards. Tier 2 had 4 extra cards. Tier 3 had 4 extra cards. Tier 4 had 8 extra cards.

If you're keeping count then how do you get your hands on those 18 extra magic items?!?! Well you see...

NO we can't add all of the exclusive items to the book due to the cost of removing the items in later prints and reprinting multiple copies, we DO want something to be given in print form to the backers who've been  on board with our cards since the beginning and YOU WILL RECEIVE THE EXCLUSIVE CARDS BY PURCHASING THE PHYSICAL DECKS THEMSELVES IN THIS CAMPAIGN!

But for our new stretch goal and to make sure everyone has a chance to see all of the items in one form or another...

YES we're adding a new stretch goal at $30,000 that will allow us to produce a "lost pages" manuscript in PDF format that will never be sent to a printer officially (but you can print if you'd like on your own printer of course) which will contain all of the previously mentioned exclusive magic items in the same layout as our other items in the Tome of Magical Mystery.

This unlock will be a PDF that all backers on the Tome of Magical Mystery Kickstarter Project will have access to for no additional fee!

3rd, You guys are AMAZING!

That's it, for real. You are all amazing people and we just like to pat you on the back and shake your hand and tell you funny jokes so that you'll understand how much we really do care about you. 

Keep being amazing!

-Levi and Hobie

Past $16,000!
about 5 years ago – Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 05:29:23 PM

We're always working around here and as we head steadily towards our $20,000 stretch goal to unlock monsters tuned for especially dastardly magic item manipulation nothing is changed! We'll be saving more for our next update about the stretch goal rewards, for this update we'll be talking about our future projects and a more accurate time frame for our estimated TOME of Magical Mystery delivery time frame!

Future Project through DDG

This one will be short and simple, you can always check out our store over at Deep Dungeon Games using the link below to pick up anything that's currently available or on pre-order. The big thing coming next from Deep Dungeon Games and Session Zero is another joint project follow up on our recently successful Diception project, it's Diception: Carnival Conquest!

A collection of mini games for use in any and all other Table Top Role Playing Games! You can currently get a copy of Diception through DriveThruRPG and get a softcover or hardback print delivered to your door within a week. Part 2, Carnival Conquest will offer 30 more brand new games that are easy to learn and fun to play along with custom story and art for each game if we hit all the stretch goals that Deep Dungeon Games will be shooting for! Extra rules in this set will include arena based gladiatorial games, a full blown adventure in a horror carnival and other fun additions to your games! We'll let you all know when that launches just in case you're wanting to get your hands on it, for now it's in the construction phases!

Estimated Time Frame for Tome Delivery

Project Close: 10:00PM CST, Wednesday, February 20th 2019

What happens then? Kickstarter charges all backers and gives failed charged cards a chance to be fixed and charges made within the next 14 days. During this period we'll be building the BackerKit so that all of you backers can double check your pledge, confirm your shipping address and add anything else you might have missed or wanted to add later. Your address can be changed up until we lock orders which won't be until we're a few weeks out from shipping orders.

Funds Received by Session Zero: Early Morning Wednesday, March 6th-8th 2019

What happens then? We start sending out payments as soon as the funds have reached our bank to our editor and layout artist who estimated 14-16 days to have our book fully designed, laid out, edited and ready for review. We expect no more than an additional 7 days for reviews and possible changes if any so we'll be tentative here with a "21 day" time frame before sending things off to the printer. At this point we will be launching our BackerKit and you should have access to it, you can then begin changing/confirming your order and your shipping address. 

Files sent to Printer: End of Day Friday, March 29th 2019.

What happens then? Our printing company Print Ninja takes 8 weeks to print everything we need, we're ordering everything all at once including re-prints of our most recent edits of the Decks of Magical Mystery Tier 1-4, all of this should be printed back to back or simultaneously to reduce wait times on our end. Once printing is complete we'll have everything shipped directly to our new warehousing and distribution company Nord Games, the expected shipping time is generally 2-3 weeks on a shipment this large, to err on the side of caution we'll estimate that this entire process will end with product in hand at Nord Games in an 11 week period. During this time we'll be working on other projects to bring to life while we are stuck in "official wait mode" for the Tome. It's generally in this stage that we launch new projects on Kickstarter, so keep an eye open for new stuff in late March or Early April!

!!SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT BACKERKIT!! We will be locking BackerKit changes sometime around the middle of March, as we near delivery of product we have to start locking down Backerkit Address' so that Nord Games can begin printing shipping labels as soon as product is in hand!

Product Arrives at Nord Games: End of Day Saturday, June 1st, 2019

What happens then? Our distribution company Nord Games will begin counting everything to make sure we have the products we ordered and nothing was damaged during shipping. Once it's all checked in they'll immediately begin going through the BackerKit list and printing shipping labels in batches as they pack out goods to you! For all U.S.A. addresses you should see your package within a week in most cases, for other North American packages within 2 weeks, once all this is done the remaining International (EU and other countries that are not North America) will be boxed and shipped out from Nord Games to our EU Friendly shipper in the UK, Spiral Galaxy Games. 

All North American Product Delivered: Mid to Late June, 2019

What happens then? Everything on our end will be done and any remaining product not shipped out to the UK for distribution (which will take another 4-8 weeks for delivery to remaining backers) will become inventory at the warehouse where advertisement can begin and our products start going out into the retail world for the first time! SO EXCITING!

All International Product Delivered:  Mid July to Mid August 2019

What happens then? We close the project, everything at this point should be done for everyone in the world! 

Remember, this is all close estimates based on previous projects and the time frames we know of, if we have any major hiccups you'll all know as soon as we do and when we get it fixed!

I know that was a long one but every time we make something from the ground up there is a lot of process beyond the Kickstarter and we're just at the beginning of this one :) Thanks for backing us and please remember to share out project with other people through your social media using the link below! More updates coming as we move forward!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sessionzero/the-tome-of-magical-mystery-5e-compatible?ref=8sq8fj

-Levi and Hobie

Share the Love Saturday!
about 5 years ago – Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 11:08:38 PM

If you've ever backed us before on our previous projects you'll know that most weekends we'll post a special project or two that we're wanting to see succeed because Kickstarter has made us successful so here's us trying to give back a little love! If it's awesome to us then you're going to see it!

A quick update on our side is that we're over $13,000 which puts us that much closer to our first stretch goal! If you've got some time on Monday afternoon feel free to check out our friends over at Nerdarchy here on YouTube and keep an eye out for their video showcasing our magic items! With that to the side for next week, let us introduce you to some excellent new additions to add to your collection!

Windmill Slam Games 

is an ambitious crew that goes big! They've already made the content for their new book named "Monsters & Magic: a 5e bestiary and treasury" which is wild considering how it's got over a hundred monsters AND a hundred magic items based on European legends. Too much fun to pass up in a $17 PDF!

John Scott & Terry Herc

Professor Humbert Drumsley: 5e Adventure Codex is a collection of short adventures compatible with the latest edition of the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying system. Not only are these adventures ideal for low level characters, they're designed to be fun, fast-paced, and light-hearted. If you're ever short on prep work or your party seems to be getting bored you can simply call in a bumbling wizard who's always causing problems on accident! Or cleverly and mischievously on purpose!

So have fun everyone checking out the new projects we've shared and please give those creators some attention, every share for every project here on Kickstarter goes a long way for us! 

Keep being awesome and we'll all keep making awesome things for you!

-Levi and Hobie (AND Windmill Slam Games AND John Scott & Terry Herc)