Eight publishers are simultaneously crowdfunding TTRPG supplements in the same fantastic setting! The Purple Planet: Where mighty death worms rule the wastes, beastling tribes wage an endless war, befouled winds whistle through ancient crypts, and fungal forests flourish in the weirdling light. Where ancient technologies offer life... or a quick death. Will you and your companions stand as conquerors atop this alien land? Or will you fall beneath the blast of an ink black death ray, just another corpse left to litter the wastes of the Purple Planet?
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Get to the top of the multi project backer leaderboard, or just get lucky, to have an anagram of your name appear as an NPC!
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As of yesterday, 232 packages were out the door with tracking uploaded. More packages will be going out daily. We'll be uploading tracking numbers steadily as they go out.
As a reminder, if you backed more than one Purple Planet project, your box will contain rewards from multiple crowdfundings. There are 7 projects being fulfilled in one process here. As backers you'll pay less for shipping them all in one box than you would have for shipping them all together. Our fulfillment partner, CRWN, has done a fantastic job of developing a process that is, as far as I know, completely unprecedented in the history of crowdfunding. The BackerKit team did a lot of work behind the scenes to make the pledge manager tech work to accommodate this. And the many publishers involved have been incredibly flexible and patient in helping us figure this out. You, backers, are ultimately the beneficiary of this. Let us know how things look when they arrive - and if you are one of the backers who receives multiple pledges in one box, tell the world about it! Here at Goodman Games we are proud to be on the cutting edge of crowdfunding fulfillment processes.
For international backers, the bulk shipments to our international fulfillment partners are en route. Those orders will start flowing in "a month or more" depending on destination and when the bulk shipment arrives.
Let us know in the comments when you receive your package!
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to wrap this project up for good. Based on your feedback, we’ve upgraded three of the DCC RPG Roll20 modules with the existing VTT maps and tokens. DCC #66.5 Doom of the Savage Kings, DCC #67 Sailors of the Starless Sea, and DCC #68 People of the Pit are all updated on the Roll20 Marketplace and DriveThruRPG. Finally, the last bug fixes and requested feature updates submitted to Metamorphic were made and are now live. This concludes the Roll20 for DCC crowdfunding project.
The link to submit bugs and suggestions for feature improvements to Metamorphic remains live should you discover anything that was overlooked during the bug-stomping and upgrading period. That link is: https://support.metamorphic-digital.com/
In closing, we’d like to thank you once more for your support and we’re already planning on how to provide further Roll20 support for the DCC RPG line in the future. We look forward to a continued relationship with Metamorphic in that capacity.
Hello, all you high-rollers! It's May and we've received more news from our friends over at Metamorphic Digital Studio about progress on the Roll20 For DCC project. Right now all the core rulebook's images are loaded onto Roll20's servers, which is going to speed up the creation of the compendium once the cascading style sheets are loaded onto the platform as well. This will hopefully be done before the end of May and then things can really get chugging along. Then it's time to start tackling adventures!
Speaking of sheets, the devs have been adding flavor and decorative elements to the character sheets while this is all underway. When you choose your class, the character sheet style will change as well. Here are some examples of the decorated character sheets that Metamorphic shared with us. Anyone who knows the great artwork that goes into DCC products will be happy to see that the Roll20 version isn't skimping on these!
You can tell this is the Thief character sheet thanks to the highly-useful rope and grappling hook.
When you're a Dwarf with a hammer (or an axe), all your problems start looking like nails (or necks).
The handy pull-down menu allows you to quickly customize the character sheet to your PC's chosen class.
Two staves, no waiting, for this Wizard!
We here at Goodman Games are quite pleased with Metamorphic's progress and we'll continue to keep you fine backers updated as we receive regular status reports from their DCC Roll20 team. We're all looking forward to the day people around the globe can hop onto Roll20 for a new DCC RPG campaign without a ton of work needed. More to come when we hear it!
And for those who might have missed it, Roll20 recently announced that Roll20 will be coming to Discord as an Activity. Yes, you can now have you Roll20 peanut butter in your Discord chocolate! You can read about that here.
Backers might be interested to know that signups for advance notification of Goodman Games' next crowdfunding project are now live. Coming in less than two months will be Caverns of Thracia for both DCC RPG and 5e. This legendary adventure is jam-packed with more than 100 new monsters, a five-level dungeon, a ruined city, an island archipelago, plus new magic and spells, and offers a year or more of adventure around the table. Suitable for levels 1-10 (5e) or 1-5 (DCC), Caverns of Thracia makes for the perfect next installment in Goodman Games' ongoing OAR line of adventures. Please stop by the Caverns of Thracia landing page and sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live. Don't miss out on this one!
We're happy to report that Metamorphic is hard at work converting the DCC RPG rules over to Roll20. As you can imagine, with so many tables and charts, this isn't an easy or quick job, but the fine folks at Metamorphic are proving to be up to the challenge.
Just recently, they shared with us some details of the work in progress. We're greatly pleased with how things are going in just the short time they've been at work. Here are some screenshots of what they’re working on! . Check these out!
DCC fans will recognize that border pattern from the character sheets, now in digital format.
Anyone need a cleric? Maybe not with that much disapproval!
Heeliu, what do your keen elvish eyes see?!!
No dungeon party is complete without a thief!
That ape-man has magic missile! With a +12 modifier! Run!!!
And of course we'll need a way to keep track of all our loot.
The text/math on these graphics are just placeholders for now, so don't worry if thing looks a little wonky. We want to make sure the big picture is working properly before we get down into the nitty gritty details. Bear in mind, too, that everything is still in the early stages and what you see here might not reflect where things end up.
Once we get the majority of the DCC rulebook ported over to Roll20, work can begin converting the modules too. In the meantime, we here at Goodman Games haven't been idle. We're already at work on the cool art assets for the tokens and reviewing the module maps to see how best to convert them over to Roll20. This is going to be awesome!
We'll have more to report as Metamorphic sends us status updates and we'll share the news with you as we get it. Keep an eye our for more as we receive it!
Thank you all for supporting the Roll20 for DCC Backerkit campaign. We said at the start of this campaign that it would be up to the fans to determine if there was a desire to bring DCC RPG to Roll20 and you showed us without a doubt that there was. Your belief in this project was 100% responsible for it becoming a reality and we can’t thank you enough.
We ended last night a mere $140 short of the final stretch goal to add a seventh DCC module to the planned six Metamorphic is converting to Roll20. So, although we can’t thank you enough, we can say “close enough” and call that last stretch goal achieved! Those of you who backed at the DCC Core Rules + First 6 Adventures tier will receive a seventh adventure as well (title to be determined). The converted seventh adventure will ultimately be available for purchase separately via Goodman Games and Roll20 for those of you who chose to back at a lower tier.
Now comes the hard part: the waiting. We’ll be making the final arrangements with Metamorphic to start converting DCC RPG and the adventures over to Roll20 and will update you once we have more information about that process. Metamorphic has an established track record of creating stellar products for Roll20 and we know were in good hands. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a long history of making DCC RPG and other Goodman Games’ products available for Roll20. Thank you again for supporting this Backerkit project and believing in DCC RPG for Roll20.
May your (virtual) dice always roll in your favor!
Congratulations, you're getting a charactermancer!
We're here at GAMA Expo this week. I had a chance to sit down with the Metamorphic team for breakfast. Metamorphic (formerly known as Sigil) has coded some of the best Roll20 conversions out there, and they're the ones who will handle DCC on Roll20.
Here we are, plotting world domination...and also talking charactermancers! We're able to make the charactermancer work at $29k so we are going to call that stretch goal CLEARED. Congratulations everyone, you're getting a charactermancer!
Goodman Games x Metamorphic: Joe Goodman on the left, Jan and Amy of Metamorphic on the right
With that in mind, we've set up one more stretch goal. Help us clear $32k and we can throw another DCC adventure into the mix. Fair warning: it will be a "skinny module" not a huge hardcover. We had some great suggestions in our recent poll so we will definitely consider the results of that poll in the selection.
Today is the last day for this crowdfunding. Really only half a day remains. Please tell your friends and let's bring DCC to Roll20 in the best possible way!
Again, thanks to all our amazing backers who have come out to support the Horde is startling fashion! We’ve knocked off two more stretch goals: Sandbox Notes for the regions around the Orb, and the Bestiary! Now onto tech loot and another mini-adventure, The Rift that Breaths!
Mini Adventure Update Speaking of mini-adventures, we made a mistake with the free mini-adventure available to those who back within the first 48 hours. The original plan was to add Caves of the Orb Thralls as a $2 add-on after the first 48 hours had passed.. but we accidentally set the date incorrectly so the add-on was available from the very beginning. Unfortunately , once someone adds that add-on (and 25 of you did), we can’t delete it.
So the updated plan is we’re now creating another mini-adventure called Death Sentries of the Orb Shadow, which is now the free mini-adventure offered to all you wonderful backers who have backed the campaign in the first 48 hours. It will become available as an add-on after the free period passes. This also means that Caves of the Orb Thralls will remain up as an add-on that all who are interested can add to their pledge. Sorry for the confusion: and thanks for your incredible support!
There hasn't been an update in over 11 months and so far Ive received all other backed PP project PDFs and Goodman Games has started shipping physical copies. Any update with this project? Thanks
Good news. In last month's update, we told you fulfillment would begin in early January, and we are on track for that to happen!
Our US fulfillment partner tells us that Purple Planet is next in their queue. They have started sorting inventory and arranging the pick lines. They anticipate the first boxes to be packed and out the door sometime next week. After that point it will be a week or two to get all the US orders packed.
International shipments will come from the local market fulfillment partners. We're waiting on the bulk shipments to arrive, so our local partners can then pick and pack individual orders from within the markets. As soon as we hear updates on the freight shipments we will let you know.
In the meantime, we are looking forward to fulfillment starting soon - as I am sure many of you are too! We hope to have some tracking numbers to share next week.
Coming Tuesday: Terror From The UnderDeep
Our next crowdfunding launches Tuesday for the 5E rules set. While the DCC team was developing Purple Planet, the 5E team was working on Terror From The UnderDeep! This is a huge 5E boxed packed full of adventure. You can see more on the teaser page here. First-48-hour backers get a bonus UnderDeep delve and D24!
Before I get to the meat of this update, I wanted to remind everyone to check their e-mail boxes and DriveThruRPG libraries to make sure that you have received and downloaded you Random Acts of Violet PDF content. These download links were sent back at the beginning of November. After posting my last update, I have heard from a handful of people that they had a problem with receipt of their digital content. Also, from looking at my DTRPG download counts, there are still a number of people who haven't accessed their RAoV content. Please reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any issues regarding your PDF's.
For this update I wanted to share a behind the scenes look at how the printing process works and how it was executed for my Random Acts of Violet campaign. As a total process geek, I find this stuff really interesting and I am sure there are others out there who will feel the same way. This post is for you. If your only interest is in the fun gaming content, that is cool too. If that is you, then the rest of this particular update may not be your cup of tea, so feel free to skip to the end.
First, I wanted to show you the final printed product, and what everyone who backed Random Acts of Violet at the physical content level will be getting. Your content will show up as a 48 page, saddle stitched (staple) book, along with a shrink wrapped package of 5 individual, full color, cardstock stretch goal adventures/content. All of this is in a full 8.5" x 11" format. One of the things I really enjoyed about this project was that my local printer let me come into their workshop to see the entire printing process, front to back. It was really cool to see how my digital files came to life on their printer machines. Here is the finished print job on a pallet, just before it was shipped to our fulfillment partners. For this project, the interior pages were printed on massive sheets, of 8 pages each, using a Heidelberg press. These pages were in black & white, so it was a fairly straightforward print job. Here is the actual press that printed these pages.
I was unaware of how many times the printer needed to make test runs, just to ensure everything was lined up and laid out correctly. This step was done using recycled scrap paper so as to minimize waste. As you can see in the picture below, the printer would run 3-4 test prints over the same sheets of paper, focusing on the print marks and margins to make sure everything was square and that all of the bleeds (pictures going off the edge of the page) were correct. Here are some of the finished print sheets for the interior pages before they were cut to size. For a size comparison, I placed one of the finished 8.5" x 11" books on top. The book's color cover was made with a completely different printer. This was due to the fact that it was a 4 color print job with a special coating and thicker stock of paper. Here is the printer that created the covers.
Overall, I had a ton of fun seeing how my books and content were physically produced. If you made it this far in the update, I hope that you found this peek behind the scenes interesting as well.
Thanks again for all of your support. I can't wait to hear that the fulfillment is complete so that I know everyone has received all of the awesome Purple Planet adventuring content created by Goodman Games and all of the Horde creators. I know I can't wait to start running players through the trials and tribulations found on this alien world.
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