Hello backers!

We're checking in to outline the next steps for the campaign, and to say thank you to everyone who stopped by to visit us at Gen Con last weekend!

We got the chance to meet some of you in person, and the pleasure was all ours! Your enthusiasm lets us know we're doing something right. We're grateful to have the support of such an amazing and creative community!



In the meantime, BackerKit has finished charging cards and we're planning out the reward surveys and pledge manager, which we're expecting to release in September. If there was an issue with your payment, you will have a chance to update your payment info while filling out your reward survey in the pledge manager, so you don’t need to worry about losing your pledge tier or the rewards that go with it. During the pledge manager/reward survey, you'll also be able to add items to your pledge and see the expected shipping charges and taxes for your region (if any). If you missed the campaign, we'll also be opening a preorder page around the same time.

We've also been talking about beginning weekly livestreams in the fall. We had a blast livestreaming during the campaign, and it's something we'd like to keep doing in the future. We just want to make sure we're giving you something you'd tune in to watch. Do you want to hang out with us and create more prompts with our various decks? Or would you rather see us play more D&D one-shots (with settings created with our various decks)?

We could also do deep dives with our expansions, talk about writing craft and process, or pursue some other option that we haven't even thought of. You can leave us a comment, tag us on social media, or respond to our BackerKit poll know what you want to see. We'll collect the feedback to make sure we bring you something awesome when we get back on the air!

As always, thanks so much for your support, and let us know if you have any questions about the process going forward!

A huge thank you to all 3741 of the writers, artists, storytellers, and creatives that backed our campaign! We funded at 675% of our initial goal with a total of $506,282 and unlocked a slew of amazing stretch goals along the way! The finished Lore Master’s Deck will have 300 cards, a set of Link Tokens, and is being released alongside 3 Lore Mastery Expansions, 3 Bridge Expansions, and a Lore Master’s Journal. We’ll also be planting 3,000 trees, giving away 30 decks to educators, and bringing on 6 guest writers to polish up our lore prompts before we send them to you!

 

Each and every one of you helped make that happen, and so we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

 

Whatever payment method you submitted will be charged today (and may have already been charged in some cases). Once it’s processed, you’ll receive a confirmation email that lets you know your pledge has gone through. You'll have a chance to update payment info if there are any issues, so you don’t need to worry about losing your pledge tier and the rewards that go with it. We’ll spend the next two weeks making sure everyone gets squared away.

 

Once we’re done with that, sometime within the next 8 weeks we’ll send out a backer reward survey that you’ll need to fill out to select the exact options that you want, and to tell us where we should send your rewards during fulfillment. You can also add items to your pledge and pay for shipping (and applicable taxes in your region, if any) at that time. We’ll announce that survey on our social channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) so you can keep an eye out for it in your inbox. You will be able to request another survey through our BackerKit project page if you lose your survey link, and you'll be able to continue to add-on items or update shipping info until we deliver pledges. Our current schedule is to deliver digital rewards by March, and physical reward in October-December 2024.

 

For now, however, we’re going to raise a toast take a much-needed long rest. Then we’re going to get back to work. This campaign has been a whirlwind, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve created together!

Today is the last day of the Lore Master’s Deck campaign!

Here are the headlines!

At midnight, we draw blades! ⚔️

 

It may be the end – but we have no intention of going quietly! We’ll be counting down to midnight right here with one final livestream/wrap party that kicks off at 9pm ET.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W4Pd5sVgQM

We’ve lined up an entire evening of party games and party tricks, including card magic from Peter (you can try this at home) and a sparkling wine sabring demonstration from Miroki. (Please don’t try this at home. You’re welcome to open your own bottle of bubbly, but leave the swords to the professionals.)

 

Along the way, we’ll run a giveaway (details on the livestream), and host a pun contest, where you’ll have the opportunity to bombard us with your worst (best) puns based on lore we create together! We’ll be going right up until midnight (and beyond), so drop in at any point this evening!

 

We blew past $450,000 overnight – and supercharged Lore Master’s Deck along the way! As a "token" of our appreciation, every copy of the main deck includes a set of link token, in addition to 300 cards, allowing you to start tracking connections as your world and lore come together!

On the highway to half a million, we’re less than $11,000 away from our double stretch goal at $500,000. That includes the free PDF deck of Quickstart Prompts that you can use right out of the box (no assembly required), and another 10 educator decks to bring our total to 30.

The sample prompts are great when you just want to do a quick writing exercise, or if you need some last-minute inspiration for your next RPG session!

Also, for those backers who haven't yet, if you open our "500 backers share" Community Achievement page and click the button to share the campaign, you can help us unlock a free bonus PDF Outtakes Expansion!

When we launched this project, many of our add-ons and pledge tiers were stretch goals that hadn't been made available yet. We released the add-ons first, and later the bundle pledge levels. During our opening livestream, we mentioned that before the campaign ends, the BackerKit dev team would be able to identify backers who had individually added-on items that would later be featured together in a bundle pledge level. Today, the BackerKit team is taking those qualifying early backers and consolidating their pledge+add-ons so they have the best pledge level bundle pricing available for their add-ons. You may see our funding level dip slightly at some point today when these changes are processed.

If you have any questions about your pledge or add-ons, don't hesitate to reach out!

We're so excited to celebrate the final hours with you all!

We'll be going live from our YouTube channel and the BackerKit campaign page.

Hi backers!

30 HOURS REMAIN for the Lore Master's Deck on BackerKit and we are excited to see so much progress in the final hours! Here are the latest headlines!

Let's get into the details!

We're on track to unlock the $450,000 goal of link tokens, which will be included in every copy of the main deck!

If we reach $500,000 by midnight ET tomorrow, we'll release a printable PDF deck free of 12 tarot-sized ready-to-use prompts for characters, magic items, locations, creatures, and story hooks featuring our favorite prompts from our livestreams and demos.

Use them as examples, or as writing prompts, or templates for NPCs, monsters, and encounters for your home tabletop RPG game. The PDF will be distributed to every backer receiving a physical or digital copy of the main deck.

Also, please remember our OTHER bonus stretch goal! If 500 different backers share the campaign page and log their share from our Community Achievement page, we'll release a free PDF: the Master of Lost Lore: Outtakes Expansion featuring our favourite outtakes from the main deck!

There's no livestream today, but that's only because we're preparing for a MEGA LIVESTREAM WRAP PARTY that kicks off at 9pm ET tomorrow! Click the link to follow our YouTube channel and sign up for notifications for the live.


 
We'll count down the last few hours of the campaign together, and we've got a full evening of festivities planned to make it an evening to remember! 

Tune in live on our campaign page to make some lore, and to celebrate the end of a successful BackerKit campaign!

We're making a list. We know it can be tough to keep track of all the different add-ons and expansions--especially now that we've added our massive CONJURE and DEVOUR pledge levels for the Lore Master that wants it all.

That's why we've created a checklist (also posted on our pledge page) that shows you exactly what you'll be getting with our biggest bundles. We want you to get everything you want, with minimal fuss and minimal confusion. Just follow the guide to find the pledge level that makes sense for you!

Later tonight we'll be uploading our updated shipping estimates tables to include our two new pledge tiers (CONJURE and DEVOUR) and reflect the updated stretch goal unlocks at the All Lore and All Old + New Decks pledge levels. The changes are minimal, and limited to certain destinations  within certain regions in those tiers. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about shipping!

Ruins are the granola of buildings. Or so we learned during yesterday's delightful live drawing livestream with Megan McKay (Doodle for Food), who drew a series of adorable sketches based on Lore Master's prompts.

Megan was kind enough to let us give away digital sketch cards of the four illustrations we did! You could win one by answering the writing prompts we posted in our discussion board!

We originally set today as the deadline for entries, but we are extending the contest until the campaign ends tomorrow!

Here's a look at our NPC, a hyena messenger for the gods who is swole, smol, and overly trusting!
  

Lore Master's prompts are just as much fun for visual artists as they are for writers, so check out the stream to see the finished drawings!

You can still catch replays of all of our prior livestreams on YouTube!

Thank you so much for everything you've done to keep the momentum on the campaign going! Excited to celebrate the closing hours with you!