Later this year in July, we will be welcoming in the Goblin's Tarot. This 78 card tarot deck is an actual, standard tarot deck. The art follows the Publishing Goblin's journey through Ajurea, the world of our game Confluence! Sam Dow is doing an incredible job with the art on the project!
From this deck has come this set of pins, and our new best friend, Glammy, the glamordillo.
2025 marks the growth of Publishing Goblin into three facets! And today, we are saying hello to Publishing Goblin Trinkets. Publishing Goblin will continue to put out beautiful and innovative divination projects, books of poetry, and stories. But now, enamel pins, plushies, apparel, and all the extras will be coming in their own projects under Pub Gob Trinkets, starting today! Don't worry if you love games, Pub Gob Games will be here in a couple months to continue publishing those awesome card games, board games, and TTRPGs!
Say hello to some new friends for your corkboard pin collection, your battle jacket, or your favorite Ita bag! At the start of the Goblin's journey, they are a divine being known as a Fallen God. One whose power, and divinity, has been waning for some time. Traveling around in their Workshop, our Publishing Goblin has created strange works of poetry, fiction, games, divination tools, and more! But with their power ever fading, the Pub Gob must make a choice. Fade out, separate from the world, or to find companionship and a sense of home in the world of Ajurea that they have found themselves in.
This $25 4-pin set features the Divine form Publishing Goblin, our good friend Workshop, and the Pub Gob's first pet, found on the journey, Glammy the Glamordillo! Glamordillos hail from another world entirely, armadillos with glass-like shells in a rainbow of colors.
The Divine Pub Gob is 1.75" tall.
Workshop is 1.75" tall.
Glammy side profile is 1.5" wide and 1" tall.
Curled Glammy is 1.5" tall.
All pins are soft enamel with an epoxy fill on gold metal.
On the Goblin's journey, they come across many opportunities to experience new jobs, new sights, and new experiences. In our Goblin pin set, we have The Gun (?!) Goblin, The Baking Goblin, The Knight Goblin, The Tarot Goblin, and The Sun Goblin! We also get a great look at the changing of the symbiotic moss on the Goblin throughout different areas with the weather.
This $35 5-pin set features the Publishing Goblin with a Gun, as a Baker, as a Knight, reading Tarot, and with the Sun and Skywhale.
Gun Gob is 1.27" tall.
Baking Gob is 1.69" tall, 1.41" wide.
Knight Gob is 1.56" tall and 1.2" wide.
Tarot Gob is 1.33" tall and wide.
Sun Gob is 2.25" tall and 2.05" wide.
All pins are soft enamel with an epoxy fill on gold metal.
Say hello to your new best friend, Glammy. This glamordillo comes in at a whopping 10" in height and length, and wants nothing more than to be in your arms for an adventure. Their body is in a soft plush fabric, while the shell elements are in a metallic fabric!
This fun ita bag is a backpack that lets you wear a glamordillo on your back! The bag is 15" tall and 10" wide, and while the above is the first sample, the redesign plan is below! Before our campaign ends, we will see the final version here! Expect a better head, proper sized window and insert, and for the arms to wrap around on the backpack bands!
The insert features the colored bands of a glamordillo's shell, giving you color strips to match your pins to, if you have enough of each color! Or use the bands to make a statement by having pin colors complement the band!
💖 WELCOME TO PINTOPIA — a celebration of creativity and collaboration from a diverse group of over 175 creators collectively launching their pin and/or plushie project on BackerKit from January 23rd - February 13.
Be on the lookout for projects that have paired up to be Cross-Collab partners — this means that if you back BOTH projects in the pair (for a physical reward), you will get a limited FREE pin from EACH creator. The more pairs you support, the more FREE pins you earn ✨
Here on this project, you can join me and Aimee Cozza for our joint pin set! Back at a physical pledge tier on this project, and on a collab-friendly tier on Aimee's and you'll get this awesome two-pin set for free with your order from Pub Gob!
And for all you pin-collectors out there, we want to reward your achievements with a limited Gold Pintopia 2025 pin once you support 6 or more Cross-Collab pairs (this reward will be surveyed and shipped by the BackerKit team).
⚔️ 2 FREE Cross Collaborative Freebies for every cross-collab pair you back (one from each creator) 🏆 1 FREE Exclusive Gold Pintopia 2025 Pin if you back 10 participating projects or more
⭐️ PRO TIP: Get the MOST freebies by backing 5 Cross-Collab Pairs!
*See individual project pages for freebie unlock requirements **To unlock the Trophy Pin, you must support each project for a physical item
There are many awesome people running projects right now in Pintopia, so I wanted to share some of their banners so you can take a look if you see something you like! Starting with our partner project!
Current plan is to begin manufacturing shortly after the project ends. Knowing that this is uncharted territory for Pub Gob, we will allot 2 months to the manufacturing process and assume we have items in hand around May. If this comes to pass, we will aim to be shipping by late May or early June.
Shipping is not currently included on orders! You will be charged shipping closer to the actual shipping date during the pledge manager. Bear in mind shipping on items like the pins will be cheaper than the shipping on the plush, and both of those will be cheaper to ship than the ita bags.
No shipping estimates available at this time, but they will come as the project continues. Thank you for your patience.
Publishing Goblin + Pub Gob Trinkets Publishing Goblin is sharing this project with the newly formed Pub Gob Trinkets! Pub Gob Trinkets is still the same Publishing Goblin you know, but an account focused just on trinkets, pins, apparel, keychains, and the like! You can look forward to one or two Pub Gob Trinkets projects a year, offering all kinds of new things that Publishing Goblin hasn't even attempted!
Seven Dane Asmund
I'm Seven Dane Asmund, also known as the Publishing Goblin. I'm a maker of many things, from poetry to tarot to video games to role playing games and more. I set up Publishing Goblin in 2021 after the success of the Alleyman's Tarot, but have been self publishing since 2010. I'm excited to create my 44th product(s), and run my 26th crowdfunding project!
I live south of Denver with two friends and my sweet baby boy furbaby, Tom Bombadil.
Sam Dow
Sam Dow is an incredible artist who I met when I began work on one of my early projects, Furiously Prognosticating. Sam did all the art for that book. When we later went on to make the Normal Tarot, the Caretaker decided to go forward with another artist, but I always wanted Sam to do it. When we did the second edition, Sam got that chance and did an incredible gold foil tarot deck. Later on, Sam did most of the work for the core What We Possess ghost story telling game, and now Sam is illustrating the incredible Goblin's Tarot for me! And from that tarot deck, we get this incredible pin set.
Sam sails historic wooden schooners and is just an amazing person.
Refunds I will refund any pledges within 30 days of the campaign's finish date no questions asked, from February 13th to March 13th 2025. After that time, no refunds will be granted for any reason, and if you choose not to fill out your survey or pay shipping on time, your pledged amount will be considered a donation towards the project.
Shippingand Fulfillment We will be charging shipping costs closer to actual fulfillment. On this project, that means it could well be a year or a year and a half away. That means you are not being charged for it now, or for VAT or IOSS or any other taxes or fees unique to your country. That will be done closer to the shipping date. You will not receive your items if you do not pay shipping and any other relevant taxes or fees, and you will not receive a refund for your original pledge if you choose not to pay the shipping costs. This notice is here from day 1 of the campaign.
Because of the EU's new restrictions, I am not shipping to the EU at this time.
Fulfillmentand Survey Deadline Once the first wave of backer items has been sent out around the world for people who get their surveys and shipping charges in on time*, remaining backers will have 30 moredays to complete surveys to then receive their rewards. Any who do not dosoin that time forfeit their rewards, and funds they paid into the project are considered donations to the project. As noted in refunds, no refunds will be made at thattime for people who do not get their surveys in.
*Thiswill be made clear in updates when we know for sure that we're moving to shipping, and will be clarified in multiple updates prior to starting the 30 day final reward claim timer.
Damagedor Missing Items, Lost or Misdelivered Packages You will have 30 days after your package arrivesto you to report to [email protected] if you need replacement items or have missing items in your order. For packages that go missing, you will have 45 days after the item is sent (60 for international packages) to report lost or misdelivered packages to have us resend or follow up on the items.
Backersare responsible for providing proper and up to date email addresses on Backerkit, and for reading updates as they come out to inform them of this information and the deadline dates. Tracking info will be automatically sent to provided email addresses, and it is the backer's responsibility to followup on their packages should problems arise.
Backing this project is a pledge of support to the project itself, it is not the purchasing of items. I will be doing everything I can to deliver all pledged items as part of fulfilling this project with your help, and have a track record of a dozen plus projects of doing so, but there is no 100% guarantee that you'll receive your items with crowdfunding. By pledging you are recognizing this and agreeing to it.
