Return to Norðlond with this detailed Norse-flavored setting for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
Woo hoo! I love making shields, and the first person pledged at the shield-guard level in this campaign!
Once the main book is done, and the weather turns a bit (plus, my family is moving so I need to set up the new workshop!), I'll be building a minimum of four.
We just pillaged the $20,000 stretch goal for 128 pages. This makes me happy. Not the least reason for which is the unfinished draft lays out at 115 pages on a 112-page budget. So . . . I don't have to cut anything. Thank you all for making this my strongest Kickstarter ever.
As both Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 and The Citadel at Nordvorn enter their final hours (fewer than 12 for DFM2, about 60 as I type this for Nordvorn), it's time to check and see if what you've got listed is really what you want, and (if it's not) push the proejct to the offset print run by adding what you want NOW rather than in Backerkit.
Make sure you're at the most efficient levels. If you're interested in both print and PDF of both Citadel and Hall of Judgment, the Viking Raider and Retail Viking levels make more sense. If you're interested in being a sponsor and want both books, you'll pick you'll pick one of the sponsor levels, and then plus-up with add-ons.
This is especially important for Fantastic Dungeon Grappling. At least one person has said they want that booklet and nothing else. The best way to make that happen is to pledge at the No Reward level, and make your pledge $4 for PDF, $7 for Print, and $9 for both.
The process for purchasing add-ons is one of adding sufficient "credit" to your pledge to cover your purchases once the Backerkit pledge manager phase goes online - shortly after the KS closes and cards are charged.
Once there, you'll find your reward level already in your cart, and an option to buy add-ons. Add what you want just like you would on any on-line shopping experience. Shipping (if any) will be applied, and then your credit subtracted and then any balance can be paid with your credit card or other payment scheme accepted by Backerkit.
Plenty of folks want PDF for games because they're searchable and don't take up shelf space. Those are great reasons.
But for those who would love to have a physical book, but are nervous about international shipping, I'll remind you that I do two print runs for non-offset books. One here in the USA, and another in the UK or EU. In fact, even if we DO an offset run, one of the printing locations for quality offset print is in the EU. So we'll see!
So if shipping makes you nervous about physical goods . . . Hall of Judgment was $6 to the UK, $9 to the EU, and $12 to everywhere else. These costs are unpredictable, but avoiding the "ship it out of the USA" step helps a ton.
So consider print!
If you missed the Hall of Judgment Kickstarter, and want all the Dungeon Fantasy RPG that Gaming Ballistic has to offer, you're looking at getting:
So if you want everything, select Viking Raider ($65), and then pledge $77 (one bookmark) to $109 (25 bookmarks)
Four copies each of Hall of Judgment and Citadel at Nordvorn. Combined with a Retail pledge over on Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2, and you've got months of entertainment in a box, with more on the way later this year from Gaming Ballistic!
Bring that to the attention of your Favorite Local Game Store (but do it fast! DFM2 ends at just after 5pm Central Time!
You can always buy stuff without adding money here in Backerkit. But if you add now, you help achieve stretch goals.
You will have the options to add the following cool stuff in Backerkit:
The last goal that's within reach (unless we add $10,000 in the next three days!) is the offset print run. Based on past Kickstarter performance . . . it's not crazy. However, it's a LOT of books, so the best way to get this done is to ensure lots of physical copies of Citadel are on the list. At some point, stretch goal or no, it's just cheaper to go for the nicer printing . . . but I need to be ordering well over 600 books to make that work.
But it's not crazy. 150 folks are PDF only. Nearly 380 people are following the campaign but have not yet backed. That's an "actual plus latent" amount of nearly $35,000. So even that last stretch goal of 144 pages is not out of reach.
Wouldn't that be something?
And now on to $20,000 and 128 pages for Norðvörn!
I must be happy. I'm using all the ALT codes.
And I'm also exhausted - yesterday was quite a ride - so I'mma just gonna steal their banner:
Phil noted that later today, 665 folks will get a note reminding them that the DFM2 project ends in 48 hours. For us, that's 475 folks, 98 of which are already on board. My best-ever conversion percentage was Hall of Judgment (GURPS folks are great) at 41%. That would be 195 people . . . so 97 more, unless of course we break more records for success. This is already the best-funded project I've ever run (thanks again!); we're 41 backers from surpassing Hall of Judgment in backer numbers as well.
And our 48-hour reminder will come right as peak excitement is reached on DFM2, in the campaigns last five hours.
This is going to be fun.
As always, Matt's a great host. He's running a series asking folks for their Top 5 DM Tips, and invited me to participate. I hit my list, and we talked a lot about RPGing in general, including D&D, OSR, lots of GURPS and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG, and how Dragon Heresy is what happens when 5e and GURPS get drunk at a con and have a tryst.
In any case, we had a wonderful chat. It runs about an hour, and it was a real hoot.
This week brings to a close the week of extreme marketing for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG Kickstarters. Both Citadel at Nordvorn and the Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 and Boxed Set Reprint campaigns end this weekend, with DFM2 closing tomorrow (Friday), and Citadel coming to an end on Sunday. Both funded and passed at least one stretch goal, and Citadel – which had fewer to begin with – is on the cusp of passing another.
The DFM2 campaign is currently past $50,000, and since one can see an additional 20-25% funding in the last two days of a campaign, it’s not over yet to get the $60,000 stretch goal. If you’re a backer, you can also answer Phil Reed’s question “What next?” by commenting on Update 14.
The Citadel at Nordvorn turned from “gee, that’s worrisome” at the beginning to “Gaming Ballistic’s Best Kickstarter Ever.” It is already the best funded by several thousand dollars, and has 515 backers, which is 10 fewer than Hall of Judgment ended with, and 100 more than Hall of Judgment was three days before it ended. It’s already at 112 pages, Fantastic Dungeon Grappling will be inside the boxed set, and we’re $500 from making it 128 pages. From this point in HoJ to close, it picked up 26% additional funding. If we do that from here, the campaign will hit $24,570 . . . just $430 short of the offset print run. Of course, to do that, we’ll need 144 more backers at the current average pledge level. That last goal is going to be close!
Please jump on! Tell your friends to jump on! I know Phil's said it, and I'll repeat it: you cannot really imagine how valuable those shares are. The right one, to the right network is all it takes sometimes to meet a new stretch goal!
We have a new blog this week! Three Hundred and Thirty Three, by Michael Keenan, who has started off strong with ten posts this week!
GURPSDay is starting its sixth – GURPSDay started in February 2013, a year after I started Gaming Ballistic. Things have slowed down a bit, and I’ll be considering how to revitalize this weekly activity. I’d like to see an average of 100 posts here per week – one per blog, ish – so we’ll see what we can do to get creative juiced flowing.
If you just started a GURPS blog – and I know that some of you have – email me and get on the list! With the advent of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG, Powered by GURPS, there’s even more reason to write.
How? Two action items: post more, recruit more. It’s really that simple. More posters is more posts, and more interest in GURPS.
Below you can find the blog activity for the last week. There’s a whole lotta awesome GURPS going on. Read all the posts.
Not every blog posts about GURPS every week, but some are ridiculously prolific! The list is randomized, so different bloggers will be highlighted at the top of the post each week.
As always, if you’re interested in having your blog consolidated here, navigate over to The Instructions Page and drop me a line. Take special note of the RSS Settings Fix if you’re on WordPress.
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Three Hundred and Thirty-Three (Michael Keenan)
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Gaming Ballistic (Douglas Cole)
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Bat in the Attic (Rob Conley)
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Octopus Carnival (Ubiratan Pires Alberton)
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Dark Paths and Wandered Roads (Jason Woollard)
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Dungeon Fantastic (Peter Dell’Orto)
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Frak Frel and Other F Words (Rigil Kent)
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Mailanka’s Musings (Daniel Dover)
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Testsujin no Llama (Matt Riggsby)
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GURPS Mega Dungeon (John Morrison)
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The Collaborative Gamer (Joseph Linden)
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Generic Universal Eggplant (Enraged Eggplant)
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T Bone’s GURPS Diner (T Bone)
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Game Geekery (“Warren “”Mook”” Wilson”)
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The Gaming Musings of a Mad GM (Ken DeLyzer)
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Ravens N’ Pennies (Christopher R. Rice)
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DF Whiterock (dripton)