Hail and well met Wanderers,

Our campaign for Faerie is over, twas a battle well fought and a victory well earned! Thank you all for raising your banner amongst our own, and making this our most successful project to date! If you’re reading this and didn’t have chance to back, our pre-order store is now open too, and will remain so until we lock orders for manufacture and fulfilment next year.

Now onto the final business for this week, including a round up of loose ends and a key dates roadmap of what you can expect from us and when!

If you’ve not already, go check out our final update on Willow to learn her fate, and find out what awesome rewards you have all unlocked as a result of your choices and rolls! The final roll was done live on stream, and thanks to my sleep deprivation and the efforts of your fellow backers, something pretty wild happened…

Expect to receive your post campaign surveys in one weeks time, August 30th. Once they’ve been sent out you will have until September 30th to complete them. If your surveys are not complete by the deadline we cannot guarantee you will receive your rewards, so please do make sure to get them filled in when they arrive.

Our first playtest survey will also be released on August 30th, to collect your feedback on the preview PDF content such as the Fetch Rogue and Witch class (we will release the full class soon, and collect more thorough feedback later once all features and spells have been made available). We will also be releasing our first official playtest document on August 30th. Which will contain the Witch Knight Fighter subclass, the Circle of Blight Druid subclass, spells & more! We will release a survey the following month for you to post your feedback, alongside the next playtest document. This will continue monthly until we finalise the book ready for fulfilment!

You can expect to hear from us here on Backerkit fortnightly (every 2 weeks) with an official update that will detail progress on the book, the art, and the various rewards! As for streaming, I don’t yet know when we will be hopping on again, but rest assured it will happen and you will be notified plenty in advance. Last nights stream was a tonne of fun, we designed two new monsters and even rolled Willows final roll live! If you missed it, the VoD is available on YouTube HERE.

We are penned for a June 2025 fulfilment date, digital goods will likely go out some time prior but this is the deadline we have for everything so expect notifications about receiving rewards no later than May 2025. Returning backers from Tempest can expect your exclusive “Guide to the Wyldsea” expansion to be with you sometime in the next couple months, and any purchases of the Tempest PDF or Dragons Vault Digital Collection will be sent out in a similar timescale once we’ve finished all of our backend work for Faerie.

That’s all of the important dates going forward! If there’s any amendments, changes or delays we will be sure to make you aware as far in advance as possible.

And as a final note, I’d like to say a personal thank you to every single one of you who joined us on this campaign. Because of you me and Aston get to work our dream jobs, I can’t emphasise enough how grateful we are! And if you are returning from Tempest, a special thank you for sticking with us as we continue to grow and develop! Aston will be handling surveys and content for the next week or so while I take a short holiday after working pretty relentlessly the last couple of months, I’ll still be  active in our discord if you have any questions or want to talk about Faerie!

Thanks!
- Conor

Hail and well met wanderers,

I arrive to herald good news, along with the release of our third playtest! This week and in the weeks following many of you will start receiving some rewards, namely those involving digital goods from our previous book Tempest. The rewards beginning distribution are:

The errata of our last book Tempest: A Seafarer’s Sourcebook has been completed, and is now ready for distribution! We are currently finalising it for upload, so keep an eye on your inbox for instructions on how to claim your copy! Any returning backers from Tempest check your DriveThruRPG account and you will have the new errata version of Tempest available for immediate download!

Anyone who ordered Tempest at any point during or post-campaign you will need to get in touch with Aston via [email protected] so that he can charge your post-campaign purchases individually and give you access to Tempest (this will include shipping & any other add-ons you purchased). Unfortunately we can’t distribute goods individually other way without charging everyone’s cards, and we would like to hold fire there for a little while longer to give you all ample warning! Anyone that chose not to add additional extras post campaign and have a 0 balance on the survey will have immediate access via their Backerkit account!

If anyone has yet to grab a copy of our 220+ page swashbuckling setting for 5e, its companion adventure Escape from Dimshore, or wants to learn more, you can head over to our STORE

For those of you that purchased the Vault Digital Collection, you will be receiving your copy of Tempest this week along with other backers, but the remainder of your digital goods from the collection will be sent out in two weeks. This is just so that we can stagger distribution and also make sure we are all set up for any who wish to order a physical copy of Tempest using their discount codes!

Our exclusive cross project digital guidebook also releases this week, Guide to the Wyldsea. This guide presents a detailed look at the Wyldsea, where the swashbuckling sorcerery of Tempest meets the feudal fey realm of Faerie! Guide to the Wyldsea is exclusive to backers who supported both Tempest & Faerie during their live campaigns; If that means you, please check your Backerkit account (where you completed your survey) and you will find your digital download access to Wyldsea.

Not to fret those without reward this week, for we bring you our third playtest release for Faerie! This document details the Oath of Mortals Paladin subclass, and the College of Hysteria Bard subclass. As always enjoy reading, playing, and breaking our hard crafted game design so that you are ready to fill in the feedback form next month! The full playtest is available in the Backer only section below, or in our discord channel.


If you’ve not received either Tempest or Wyldsea by 20:00GMT Monday the 4th of November please get in touch with us via [email protected]. Please don’t get in touch about this before then, and double check which rewards you purchased before contacting us to be sure you’re owed those discussed.

Thats all from me today! If you want to discuss Faerie, Tempest, or any of our other projects with us or the community please head over to our Discord and get involved!

I’ll see you all again in a couple of weeks when we return with out bimonthly update!

- Conor

Hail Wanderers!

First of all I wanted to thank everyone who completed their Pledge Manager surveys in time, hitting these deadlines is vital for us to maintain a good tempo with distribution and the like when we get closer to crunch time. 

Next I want to touch on the topic of communication and updates. After we locked orders we had quite a few emails asking questions and making comments unaware of information or news that we had previously made available in prior updates well ahead of orders locking. In light of that I just want to reiterate that it’s very important you check out these updates every couple of weeks. It gives you plenty of time to ask questions if you’re unsure, and us plenty of time to respond or resolve any issues that may arise. We’ve got a bit of flexibility in these early stages when it comes to deadlines, but when we move into the more final stages of production and fulfilment it will be even more vital that you are aware of what’s going on and what we need from you.

Failure to do so could seriously delay, or in some cases risk not receiving, your end product. 

Going forward we will also be making greater use of our Discord to disseminate any particularly important information as well as these bi-weekly updates so if that is more your deal feel free to join us there! 

After we locked orders we still have a single Duke tier for which we have not received pledge payment or shipping info, so since we had a lot of interest we decided to open up the last slot back to you guys! 

If you are interested in getting yourself involved in monster creation for a beast to roam the lands of Faerie then this is your chance! Alongside working on the actual monster for the book you will get the original hand painted piece of art that will be a part of the final book! 

Want to get your hands on the final pack? Drop me an email ([email protected]), it is first come first serve. So once the first person emails me after this update goes live, we will work on getting the back end changed over but there are a couple of things to note:

May the odds be in your favour, I will await your emails!

Thank you to everyone that filled in the survey on the Preview PDF content, it was really enjoyable to read through and enlightening to see the different opinions and takes on everything presented. I’m happy to say that overall feedback was very positive! It appears the vast majority of those that responded to the survey were satisfied with the game design and content that was presented in the Preview PDF. There really didn’t seem to be any features in the Hagborn lineage, Fetch Rogue subclass, or Witch class that stood out as divisive or needing any significant changes.
   We will do another internal review before publishing but it’s been incredibly helpful getting so much feedback, and very heart warming to see so many of you enjoying the hard work that was put into those elements. If you have any questions about the content in the Preview PDF, or want to join the ongoing discussion about the stuff we release, join our community on Discord!

Onto the next survey! Hereyou will find our feedback survey for our first official playtest packet with a full class breakdown on the Fighter and Monk subclasses, as well as the new spells introduced! It does also include a feedback section for the Witch Spell List provided in the pdf but please do be aware that it was very much intended as a work in progress list to get the class up and playable for people interested in playing the Witch itself!


Phew, that's everything from me this week! Thank you so much for sticking with me till the end!
I'll be back in a couple of weeks on the 28th with your next playtest packet and the release of the Guide to Wyldsea & Tempest: A Seafarer’s Sourcebook Errata!

Have a wonderful couple of weeks,
Aston

Hail Adventurers!

We're a tad late this week due to some internal technical issues, but we arrive with two new flavours of hero for your journey into the realm of Faerie! And also one final update on the Post Campaign Surveys!

Firstly, thank you so much to those of you that managed to fill in your surveys in a timely manner, fufilling a crowdfunding campaign of this size can only be made possible by organisation and the meeting of deadlines (both internally for myself and Conor, and for you the backers!). As it stands right now 295 of you have yet to complete the survey, since we were unable to get the final reminder out on Monday we're going to extend the deadline slightly: If you have not completed the survey by end of day on Wednesday the 2nd of October we cannot guarantee delivery of your physical goods. Accomodations may be made for certain situations but you must get in touch with us ASAP at [email protected]! 

For those that have completed the survey: we can make minor tweaks to address' and other delivery details up until we lock those in (pre warning for that in a future update) so again, just drop us an email!

This months playtest packet contains two more subclasses: The Way of the Wild Hunt monk subclass, a companion based subclass built around fighting alongside a Hound of the Hunt after you have joined their infamous ranks. The Warlock Pact of the Coven subclass represents power by committee, a pact sworn to a collective of fickle spellcasters rather than a powerful indiviudal. Their powers will fluctuate based on the whims of the multiple indivudals that hold equal sway over your pact.

Grab Playtest 02 in the Backer only section below, or check it out in our Discord!

We have made the decision going forward to move the feedback surveys to the monthly updates that do not contain a playtest drop, extending the feedback cycle to six weeks rather than four, this means that the feedback for the last playtest packet will drop on the 14th of October!

Finally just another note about our Discord, it is a place for you to join conversations about our content, chat with myself and Conor, and even potentially get a say on what makes it into the next playtest packet! join us over in the discord with this link!


Thats everything from me for this week, I hope the beginning of the spooky season is treating you all well and I'll be back again on the 14th!

Aston