Voyages of the Vagabond

Quick Update
over 4 years ago – Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 04:42:10 AM

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to send a super quick update on behalf of Hobie.

Things are traveling with the books (the old ‘no news is good news’), if just a bit slow unfortunately. Hobie is finalizing an interstate move and its understandably caused some slight delays.

The Voyages books are currently still going through the editing/design phase. I can’t give an exact date for finishing atm but each week we are making progress which is good.

For the Mineralogy Manual we are still at the printing stage, nothings been shipped just yet.

Thanks for the patience, its been a crazy 12 months. 

Take care and hopefully we can get something in your hands soon.

Cheers,

Daniel.

Everything is going smoothly!
almost 5 years ago – Sat, May 22, 2021 at 01:15:53 AM

Hello everyone, I hope every one of you is healthy and happy!

I know many of you have been curious about the progress with the books. There has been steady progress, and not much reason to update everyone, and that allowed me to focus on the final edits, print formating, and beginning fulfillment for a few other projects. 

That being said, I have been wanting to update for a while, but I was trying to wait for The Mineralogy Manual to be finalized and sent off for test printing.  I know a few of you have been wondering about addon files in Backerkit, and digital PDFs of products, and this is the only part about being the only person behind the screen that is taxing. I was wanting to upload all but the digital content for this project all at one time, that way I would be able to focus and knock it all out at once. Either way, I will be starting the process tonight, of uploading and prepping all the digital content available for those who purchased them as add-ons.  I am doing end-of-school year things with my kiddos, and I gotta say, I love spending every moment I can with my two.

Writing - There are only minor touch-up writings, and to polish up a paragraph here or there.  Dan and I both will be present through the entire process, to flush out, edit, or change writings to better fit the narrative of the books as we progress through the content. Overall, the writing is 99% done, and we have begun writing on the next book.on

Artwork - I cannot speak more highly of our wonderful artists, we were so happy to work with two artists that have had a major amount of work from us. In addition, we also found another incredible artist, and we hope to keep them all as busy as we can far into the future.

•  Check out our long-time artist Teresa Guido on Instagram here! Always a pleasure to work with her, even from the beginning. 
•  Check out Paul Benford on Instagram here. 
•  Check out Andrew Caputo on Instagram here. 

Editing - The only thing we are a bit slow on at the moment is the editing process. It has now begun to pick up steam, as the editor is becoming more familiar with our wants, and the material. However, we are wanting to add another editor to work on the second book of this project. If this is something that interests you, then please watch the website for when we publish the form for potential editors to fill out and become part of the DDG Crew! As soon as we get far enough along with the editing, we can begin the layout process. We have started the process with the various decks for this project, and those will most likely submerge for the backer first. 

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dansdungeons/terrors-treasures-tyrants-and-towns?ref=24ski4 

Our good friend Dan over at Dan's Dungeons is down to his final week for his very first project! He is funded and they are now making a 5th edition supplement of treacherous terrors, tantalizing treasures, terrorizing tyrants & twisting towns even more fantastic! If you can go check out his project, show him some love, and support him in any way that you can. We are one of the best communities in the world, and I personally am glad to call him my friend.

 CLICK THIS HYPERLINK TO CHECK OUT TERRORS, TREASURES, TYRANTS, AND TOWNS! 

Thank you, everyone, for supporting Dan and his first project! It is no small feat to even fund when starting out.  Anyways, I am going back to updating the website, campaign setting, and exporting endless amounts of files. I believe I got to everyone's questions, but feel free to email, message me on any social media, or poke me until I get the right moment to get back to you. 

Stay safe everyone, 

Hobie Hill - Deep Dungeon Games

March Update - First rounds of locking orders!
about 5 years ago – Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:56:26 AM

Hello everyone, 

I hope everyone is doing well and we wanted to just bring you an update on the content and the progress we have made so far. 

Writing

So just about all of the writing of the planned content of the books is complete. We are just wrapping up some NPC's and other minor details. The only writing that remains for the books is in the form of stretch goals. 

The remaining writing left to knock out is:

• Caravan Camps
• Hag Covens
• Hag Contracts

This will not take very long to complete and we are currently working on the above every day.

Artwork

The artwork is of course in full swing and we have made some serious progress on the artwork thus far, we have several artists working on the art for these books. They are bringing some incredible art to the table, and we know it is going to look beautiful.

The remaining writing left to knock out is:

• Traveling NPC's (Merchants, Travelers, and Hirelings)
• Terrain Hags - 6 images remaining
• Nomad Group Leaders
• Bandit Group Leaders 
• Mounts

There may be more that gets added as we find the need, but overall everything is going well.

Ok, that is all I have for now and I will share some more in April if not sooner than that! 

Regards 

Deep Dungeon Games

Surveys out & PDF shipping issue fixed
about 5 years ago – Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:26:26 PM

Hello everyone, sorry about the delays of conversation and answers. Texas got hit with a nice little cold front. I have been keeping kids entertained, dealing with power outages, and also water lines bursting.

So my hope with the PDFs and the survey was to keep the number of items on the survey down to a smaller amount than older surveys. I now know that you have to have multiple items for digital and physical items if you are not going to be charging for shipping or separate shipping charges. So, if you wanted to add on digital items, please go back to your survey and find the PDF or Digital equivalent and add that item. Also, note that all physical copies receive the digital equivalent. 

I really was hoping to have all these files separate, but I am limited to the platform that I am on. So, I apologize for that everyone! I was not aware that, that would be an issue. I also thought that making an item unshippable would not allow shipping charges to be.

Timeline for Backerkit surveys:

• Soft Cap - February 28, 2021 - When we would like the majority of the surveys to be complete.
• Hard Cap - April 29, 2021 - When we would like all surveys to be complete.
• Digital Cap - April 30, 2021 - Digital add-on files sent out.
• Preorder Cap - May 1, 2021 - Backerkit preview store closed.
• Shipping Cap - May 1, 2021 - Final notice before address lock.
• Final Cap- May 20, 2021- Incomplete surveys refunded and shipping preparation.

Ok, now that is a nice timeline, but just give us a shout if you got something going on or need more time. This is more of a general timeline and hard times that we would really like to stick to.

• Softcap - This is important because this will help us finalize our international shipping costs and finalize those numbers.
• Hard Cap - This is important because this should allow us to update our inventory for both Kickstarter products, add-ons, and exclusives.
• Shipping Cap - This is important because you will be able to easily change your address at any time up to this point through the Backerkit Survey. You do not have to message us or let us know, but simply change it as you need to.
• Final Cap - This is an important date due to the fact that if you have not let us know about any issues you will be refunded and will not get your reward for supporting this awesome book.

If your an experienced supporting of Kickstarters, then you know that dates are somewhat fluid but as we progress we will update you. If anything gets pushed back or forward, we will let you know asap but other than that we will more than likely only be updating once a month or as needed.

We will update again in March on where we are in progress and content! IF YOU WANTED DIGITAL ADD-ONS PLEASE REMEMBER TO GO BACK AND ADD THOSE ON AGAIN!

Deep Dungeon Games

Smoke Test Live!
about 5 years ago – Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:28:47 AM

Hey everyone, I know the surveys took a bit of time with this project, but I really wanted to make sure I got everything right that I could. Shipping is a hated passion for me, especially to backers across the various oceans and borders. I am trying something different with the addons, and the 5% of backers who receive the smoke test survey are so very important!

Your help by randomly receiving the smoke test survey through backerkit is imperative because it will allow us to:

• Put out fires & issues before they are major.
• Allow us to get real feedback on what we are doing and what we could be doing better.
• Give us the things that we should double and triple check to ensure they are correct.
• Help ease the process overall for your fellow backers.

Just in case you are wondering, why you do not have a survey or what a smoke test is:

• A smoke test sends surveys to 5% of backers from each pledge level in your campaign.
• It’s a simple way to catch any errors in the survey and make sure everything runs smoothly.
• Once your smoke test has been completed, we can send surveys to the rest of you amazing people.

So, if you are randomly selected for the smoke test and find errors, the PLEASE POST ANY COMMENTS OR CONCERNS RELATIVE TO THE SMOKE TEST ON THIS UPDATE.

Seriously, your feedback is very important and you are our favorite lab rats! MUAHAHAHAHA Ok, that is all for now, but we will update again when we send the full survey out to everyone.

Deep Dungeon Games