Publishing Goblin
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5 days ago
Project Update: The Third Edition Oracle Dice
Hello my dear friends,
The Oracle Dice's 3rd edition is around the corner! The linked page is a placeholder, but still works for grabbing interested folks!
In May, the 3rd edition, almost 3 years to the day, will go live on crowdfunding! (We launched and funded June 2022!) This will be the final edition of the dice set and guidebook. If future campaigns bring extra dice, they will come with either pages to add to our new trapper/guidebook, or a small booklet to explain them, there won't be an updated guidebook or core-set ever.
This doesn't mean it will be the last manufacturing/printing, just that this 3rd ed is the definitive edition and will be carried on in reprints as-is.
I am planning:
A Standard Set!
The standard set will include the 22-dice set in bag, both reading cloths, and a small guidebook with color coding, generally like the 2nd edition guidebook but smaller and cleaned up a little. This will come in a box to store the core items (book included), lined with felt so you can roll small readings in the box itself.
A Deluxe Set!
The deluxe set will include the above listed items minus the box, instead being in the Chest. The chest will have a flip open top that holds the dice sets in its compartment, either in foam that is inset, or if the foam is taken out, will fit your wooden boxes for the dice sets.
In addition, it will have drawers to store the reading cloths, journals, tarot decks, etc!
And at the bottom, a large slot that will fit our new Binder Guidebook.
At the moment this is planned to be a heavy durable coated/wrapped cardstock kind of box, but we will see what works best. Maybe it will be plastic...? I would love to do wood but the weight would be brutal, and a recent forray into a big fancy wood box didn't go as well with our manufacturer, so we'll see!
The Chest is a huge part of the final version of things. It will have space for you to fit all the Oracle Dice items and is future proofed with room for extra dice and items, in case I add things (who, me?)
New Items:
- The Chest, of course!
- The trapper/binder Guidebook, made to be easy to use, reorganize, and with tabs and easy to find tools to make it more usable than ever for learning! It will also come with Reference Cards, like the ones that came with the 3 dice in the Alleyway Oracles project, giving you tarot-sized cards with shorthand meanings for each dice symbol, colormatched to the dice color and its ink.
- Second two-sided reading cloth, with two new grids for reading with.
- Hot Housewives and Misery Tarot dice sets. These are 5 dice in each set as glow in the dark dice with one uniform color+theme. The individual dice bring new themes to the Oracle Dice set and can be used singularly as the oracle dice are, or they can be used as an Overlay Grid, being a set of five dice that work together to create additional zones in the reading.
- Expansion Oracle Die Face Oracle cards, giving you all the new dice's die faces as oracle cards.
- New Lords! There will be a lord for each the Misery Tarot and Hot Housewives Tarot dice sets, and there's another in the works. Or two!
- New wood box that is rectangular to flank the round one in the chest for holding expansion dice.
At the moment one idea is to expand the 3 dice from the Alleyway Oracles set to 5 for a Lord of Games to bring to the set. There will be more Lord Oracle Cards of course for these new ones, and it has been requested of me to consider offering the 1st edition here, or at least the neoprene mat for readings. So we'll see what other goodies might be on offer!
I want to know what you all think of all this. I listened to your feedback from the previous update in my plans, and hope to hear that you're all interested in the changes/new pieces! Let me know if there are needs you have for your current sets and their usage that you feel isn't being met here! I want to make sure this is the definitive, best version of things.
Thanks all!
7DA
your pub gob
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