Hi backers!
I'm excited to celebrate a phenomenal day 2 of the campaign with you! Here's what we cover in today's update:
- Stretch goal progress
- Expanded FAQ
- Updated expansion sneak peek
- Storage update
- Meet the guest writers from our next stretch goal!
Let's get into it!
Stretch Goal Progress
We've just smashed through the $200,000 stretch goal, adding 16 cards to Lore Master's Deck for a total of 284 cards.
Next up: we're full steam ahead toward adding 3 guest writers to the project to bring a wider range of interesting, evocative, imaginative cues to the deck! You can learn more about their work at the end of this update!
We're also thrilled to share that the pledge reached a campaign high of 1200 last night, and as promised, we hosted a livestream demo-ing the deck with a twist: wine pairings! The Story Engine's CEO Miroki Tong is a wine expert who runs an Instagram account called
@9ouncesplease.
We created a faction, a pair of edible creatures, and a vineyard location, and Miroki paired wines for each of them. We talked about how food and drink are essential components of lore and culture, with threads to climate, industry, lifestyle, and more.
Want to know what kind of wine to pair with an iridescent-scaled crocodile garnished with a rare flaming-hot seaweed that grows every 100 years and seeds itself through salt crystals? You can catch the
livestream recording.
Follow us on YouTube to catch future livestreams!
Expanded FAQ
We've been expanding our FAQ as your questions roll in! For now, you can learn more about storage, delivery timelines, and our decision to make a digital version of the early bird promo pack cards available as a PDF. If you have any questions you'd like us to add, let us know in the comments!
Updated expansion sneak peek
I've added a little more material about the expansions to the campaign page! Check out the
Expansions section of our campaign page to take a look! For now, here's a look at a sample drawing using the
Master of Names: Namesakes Expansion.
These card types operate in the same way Wildcards from the main Lore Master's Deck do, but instead are paired with the primary cue to create a unique nickname.
Example: The Faction on the left is named the Chantry of the Sheathed Blade. Perhaps they are pacifists or mages who only resort to steel as a last resort? The creature on the right is named the Frost Raptor. Perhaps it is an arctic hawk or a dinosaur capable of surviving cold climates or ice ages.
Storage update
We've received a lot of helpful feedback about storage solutions, especially from our fans who own the complete
Story Engine and
Deck of Worlds deck systems and adding the new Lore Master's Deck cards to their collection.
We are currently preparing designs for a new stretch goal featuring a new storage box design intended for larger collections. It likely won't be a one-box-to-hold-them-all design, because we wouldn't want to render it obsolete as we continue to release decks, but it will be much better suited to holding large collections (including sleeved cards). We'll release those details as we confirm them.
For now, here are some updates about storage:
- We've updated our collection size calculator: https://calculator.storyenginedeck.com/
- We've also released a storage calculator: https://calculator.storyenginedeck.com/storage.html
- We've updated our add-ons to indicate how many cards each box holds.
- We've renamed our "Collector's Storage Box" so it's now called the "Tray Storage Box." We acknowledge the original name was confusing for folks who thought it could hold the whole collection.
- We've added our basic Folding Storage Boxes to the pledge manager, and also updated the capacity estimate to 540 cards as this is a more comfortable fit when you account for the included card dividers and saving wiggle room for easily getting cards in and out.
If you're new to the card system and you're just picking up the Lore Master's Deck and/or The Story Engine/Deck of Worlds main decks, don't worry—you don't need any storage boxes. The main deck boxes each have some extra room. Even enough to fit sleeved cards.
If you're also picking up the Lore Mastery expansions, you can keep the extra cards in their tuck boxes or get the optional Lore Mastery Expansion Collector's Box. If you're also getting the Bridge Expansions, keep in mind those expansions only feature cards of existing card types, so they can easily be stored in with those matching card types.
Meet the 3 guest writers from our next stretch goal
We're thrilled to be approaching our first contributors' stretch goal: bringing in 3 writers to punch up the deck with a range of additional imaginative and creative prompts. We worked with many of these writers on
Deck of Worlds and their contributions were phenomenal!
Find Brendon at
https://www.brendonalekseii.me
Find A.Z Louise at
https://www.azlouise.com and preorder their new novella OFF-TIME JIVE
here
Find Jordan at
https://www.jordanshiveley.com
That's all for now!
You continue to inspire us with your enthusiasm and suggestions for the campaign! Thanks for all your helping in making this project happen!
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