We did it! Next steps
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:35:45 PM

OK, so we ended in a good position. Nearly 12,500 raised from about 170 backers. I was hoping for 200 backers, but 170 ain't bad at all. So here is what to expect:

Kickstarter is going to start charging your cards. If you get a message from them that there is a problem, please take care of it as soon as possible. In about 2 weeks, they will cancel backers who haven't had their payments clear and nobody wants that.

I'm in the process of building the Backerkit survey. It will be here that you will go to answer specific questions about your pledge and add on anything else you might want. I will have that sent out as soon as Kickstarter gives me the all-clear.

There is one exception to this. If you backed at the early-bird level, I am going to be in contact with you over the weekend. I will be handling your early-bird orders separately so I can get a good start on them. I may have to make some adjustments in Backerkit for the survey; it turns out that I didn't set that tier up quite right, so I think if I just reach out to those backers privately, I can sort things out pretty easily. You will still have the opportunity to add more things on if you want, but by doing it this way, I can get to work on this tier early.

I may also be in touch with international backers for a similar reason...I just didn't set things up quite right for backerkit to work seamlessly. But there is a chance I can get that one to work; I'll know more over the weekend.

Again, thanks to everyone who backed this. I'll be in touch soon with more information.

John

Picture of Hit Point card
almost 4 years ago – Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 03:12:03 PM

I wanted to get a picture up of the Hit Point counter. Please note, however, that this was done on a scrap piece of cherry, and it does not have a finish or black fill in the lettering. In short, the finished version of this will look much better than this.

Final Days, New Cards, New Deal
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:41:18 PM

Final Days! This is it!

This is the final week; the final 4 days, actually. The project ends on Thursday and I'd like to see it really take off. I've put in two ad buys on facebook and have one going on RPGGeek. I have daily posts going up on FB and Instagram, and will be looking for specific pages to post the project on as well. I've had projects double in size in the last week of a KS in the past and would love to see that happen again. But regardless of how much money I spend or how many posts I make, nothing substitutes for backers helping to spread the word. So I'm here to ask that everyone chip in just a little bit. Post it on a FB page you follow, Tweet about it, Pin it, or put it on whatever social media sites you frequent. Every little bit helps. Please take a second to help spread the word.

New Cards

I spent the morning tweeking and making a few more cards. Here are pics of the Cleric, Bard, Beastmaster, Artificer, all the Bloodhunters and a new Hit Point Tracker. The Cleric and Bard have been back-filled, but the rest haven't (yet), so the finished product will have a black backfill in the text and image areas. But I wanted to get these pictures out because I think they look good; especially the Bloodhunter classes which are all done in Bloodwood.

Note: I just noticed on the HP Tracker that I'm going to need to center that top row. This will be fixed.

New Deal

The Hit Point Tracker (above) is something that will be offered to everyone who backs this project at the $15 pledge level and higher at a reduced cost. If you pledge at least $15, you can add on a HP Tracker for only $10 for the Domestic woods and $17 for the exotic woods. Keep one Class tracker down at the table for your specific class and the HP tracker to track your HPs and any non-covered class ability.

Note: You MUST pledge at the $15 or higher to receive the discounted price on this.

Thanks again

Thank you for backing this project. I plan on a fast turn-around, so as soon as people start turning in their surveys, I will start making and fulfilling the project. Speaking of the survey, I will be using Backerkit as my survey tool and you will be able to add on many of the other Hrothgar's Hoard products including dice towers, dice trays, dice cases and miniature cases. Adding on items should not effect the delivery date of your Character Cards.

Now, please go share this project with all your friends.

HP counter and other news.
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:11:28 PM

I'm about to run out the door, so I gotta make this quick.

I just edited the project page so you can see the new design of the HP tracker. It now has 3 slots for HP and 2 for temp HP. Shoot me a  message or leave a comment if you have thoughts on the new design. I don't have one cut yet, but hope to get a picture of an unfinished one up tonight.

I doubt if this is the right place to ask this, but there have been a significant number of cancelled pledges lately. If there is a reason why people have dropped out, I'd love to hear them. I want to make this a great project and it is disheartening to see people drop out without knowing the reason why. If you see this message and have dropped out, please send me a message letting me know why. 

Lastly, in the past 24 hours, This project has gotten shout-outs from Luke Gygax, Cosmo Joe from Studio 6d6, and Beadle & Grimms Pandemonium Warehouse, so maybe this will give us some traction in the last days. We are also getting some good responses from the facebook ad buys that I put out the other day. Finally, there are about 500 people who are following this project on Kickstarter and the emails to them from KS will go out in the next day. With all this going on, I'm hopeful that we'll have a strong finish.

Thanks to everyone who has backed this so far. I ask one more time for you to help spread the word.

John

Introducing the Hit Point Tracker
almost 4 years ago – Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 04:34:19 PM

I've received a couple requests for a card that is a little more generic. One that tracks Hit Points and maybe something that can be used for multiple classes. This is a kind of tough order because many classes have actions that don't fit well with a tracker card. That said, I thought that a hit point tracking card might be useful and if there are just a few extra slots on it to hold dice that can track other things (so long as you remember what is being tracked), then it could be used for things like Barbarian Rage or Monk Ki, etc.

So, I'm putting this up for feedback. Take a look and give me your comments.