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This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.
I am sitting here staring at a text box... looking for words to express the overwhelming gratitude I feel... I've cried publicly (and privately) multiple times, and that is tears of joy, relief, appreciation, and excitement for what is to come! I genuinely hope yall see and feel the appreciation, both with my words and actions of how much value this project packed into each tier! This community is truly amazing and unstoppable! We did it!!
Thank you for bringing this game to life in a way that I had NEVER thought possible... what started off with me typing out rules alone on a borrowed school laptop... has now turned into a Multi-Million Dollar TTRPG... Thank you!!
Here is how the digital fulfillment works:
This link here will be important in the future, (pin it / save it somewhere) but it will take your to the EXACT inbox that your Digital Rewards will be at (once they are there).
This will have NOTHING in there right now: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/account_notification_inbox.php
TLDR: You get your PDFs emailed to you automatically once they are available
So each reward will have its own development timeline that can all get started now! Each resource will be ready at different times and sent out as soon as they are ready (see above). Here are general estimates for how this will look for each resource:
Everything revolves around the completion of the Core Rules of DC20. I have not said a release date (kickstarter forces me to... but thats it lol). BUT DC20 will be done... "as soon as it is ready", I will only finalize the game once I feel like it is truly complete and "done". I dont want to rush out the CORE RULES of a game system, and at the same time I won't be a perfectionist and have some wild 2 year development. So my GOAL is to finish the Core Rules 1 year from now, send out the "Final" PDF and then let the community play with it for 1-2 months, find any errors / typos / issues / try and break the game / etc, THEN fix those things and THEN print the books. You will be kept up to date along this process monthly (see Updates section).
So with that also come the Physical Fulfillment of ALL Physical rewards. So the dice, action trackers, etc will all be shipped TOGETHER at ONE time, there will not be multiple shipping runs where you get sent things one at a time. You will get ALL physical rewards in ONE box at the same time. So will it be painful to wait for the dice and action trackers? YES, but that also gives me time to dial in the designs, colors, look, materials, etc of each one! This is also true for Alkanders Almanac, yes that book is completed, but I am doing print runs at the same time as the DC20 book, and also will need to be packaged together physically like I said above.
These will largely depend on the companies themselves and the developers that are working on the systems. Now that everything is official and all the stretch goals are unlocked, I can begin to have more specific talks with each of these companies and developers to See what the timeline is looking like. I will give my best estimate below for each one, but please keep in mind that this is an estimate, and this one specifically will be probably the least accurate since I have the least amount of information since all this just happened.
Receiving VTT Rewards: You will be emailed a code to be able to redeem on your account. You do not need an account RIGHT NOW, but you will be able to either get your 50% off code or the FREE Code depending on how you backed. Remember, ALL Backers get 50% for Alchemy and Foudnry, and $95 Tier Backers and above get them for free.
This is something that you do not have to worry about yet. Like I described in the last update, you will be able to add PHYSICAL rewards in Backerkit but NOT digital ones or VTTs. Digital products will be available on the dc20.com website once they become available if you want to add on anything that you were not able to get during the Kickstarter. These survey need to be completed, but there is no rush right now, I will send out more information on Surveys at a later time.
From this point on, I will be sending out MONTHLY updates to all Kickstarter backers to keep yall informed along the way. Each of these updates will have all the info you need to stay informed on the progress of the campaign. If you want even more updates then make sure to check out the Discord and Patreon communities to get the news as it happens. Either way, backers will always be in the loop with where the game is at and be given heads up on what comes next and exactly where the game is at!
Here is what is planned for each beta release. These are the BIG pieces that will be added at each phase, but for every single phase, there will be a sprinkling of rule changes, tweaks updates, and fixes. In these updates, I will also keep this concept updated as we add things to this list and can better see when each piece will be released.
The DC20 Magazine is a monthly PDF of DC20 Content that is available for Patrons (along with other rewards they get). These magazines are a GREAT place for me to have a way to give the community content that fills in gaps and gives early access to things we might not see for months or even years (depending on releases of expansions etc).
FIRST Issue is the Psion Class + Psyborn Ancestry (both shown in the image). This is a perfect example of what you can look forward to with DC20 Magazine because I genuinely don't know when the Psion will be released in a Hardcover book... BUT I can release it to yall NOW to get your hands on it, play it, give feedback, etc!
This is just one of MANY rewards that Patrons get for making it possible for DC20 to do bigger and better things on a monthly basis!
There are a few places where you can go to get even more connected to this community than you already are!
Click each Image to learn more!
I feel like I am annoying yall with these updates at this point... BUT WOW YALL!!! We broke through the last (real) Stretch Goal and with that you have WON the DC20 Kickstarter, you did it ALL! I will now be able to deliver DC20 to you all in the exact way that I would have ever DREAMED!
Now here are some answers to the most popular questions:
I have seen a lot of questions about Backerkit and how upgrading pledges / addons will work. I have talked with Backerkit and I now have all the answers (I will talk more in the livestream tonight too if you have more questions still). The best way for me to answer the questions is to just explain clearly how things will work... I have Good News and Bad News...
The Bad News: Today (July 1st) 11:00pm CST is your last chance to change your Reward Tier. Once the KS ends, you are LOCKED IN at that reward tier, you will NOT be able to change your TIER.
- Example: If you are at the $30 Tier, you will NOT be able to upgrade to the $95 Tier at a later date. You will not be able to upgrade to something like the Legendary Tier either. All Tiers are LOCKED.
When the Kickstarter Ends your card will be charged automatically for the current pledge level you have selected and your tier will be locked. If you want to add on additional items through Backerkit it will only be possible to add on the following PHYSICAL Items:
These will NOT come with any digital PDF rewards like they do in the Kickstarter, they are only the physical product. They will still be at the lower/ reduced prices like they are in the Kickstarter. There will be ZERO Digital Addons for DC20 on Backerkit.
VTT Stuff
The Good News: I have talked with Alchemy and Foundry VTTs and they both agreed to give out a 50% discount code to ALL backers that they can use after the KS ends. So now instead of being "screwed" from not being able to get the VTT stuff at all, and having to pay full price... it will now be 50% off for ALL Backers. It is still free for all Tiers at and above the $95 Tier, but now people who cant upgrade now will still have a reward to reduce the price of those VTT Integrations.
PDFs
ALL PDFs will be available on my website (dc20.com) after the Backers get access to them. So once the Backers get sent the PDFs that they got as part of their pledge, I will also add that PDF to my website. It might be an early access "Beta" version of the PDF, or the complete and full PDF. Either way it will be available to purchase on the website. Whatever PDFs you purchase will be updated for free along their development.
- Example: So if you really want to pick up the Monster Collection PDF a few months down the road when you see it is available and was sent out to backers... you can get it from the website at that point.
Why do I have to do it this way?
With 20,000 Backers now... anything that is done manually becomes an absolute NIGHTMARE, and that is how things would have to work through backerkit. They are working on integrations to be able to charge people automatically during the late pledges, but that is not in place right now. And I just don't have the team or customer support staff enough to be able to handle this type of task, so instead I was able to get a 50% discount code for yall instead so that you can still pickup a great deal on the VTTs.
This is a mistake I made when creating the PDF Tier and the Digital Only Tier... if you have EITHER of those tiers... then you are NOT allowed to add ANY physical products... that is a MISTAKE.
Solution: You will be able to add in physical items through Backerkiet (as shown above). You cant add anything physical through Kickstarter (because they dont allow it)... but you CAN add on extra physical products (hardcovers, dice, action trackers) once the Kickstarter moves over the Backerkit. AND you can even wait months before you add in physical items, you add them whenever you want and you only pay for them at the END of the late pledge window (like 1 year from now).
Once the KS closes your cards will be charged for your CURRENT pledge and your tier will be locked... then you can add PHYSICAL items if you want... but NOT digital. If you DO want digital items, then go to my website or the respective VTT to do so!
The next update I send out will be more logistical and give specific instructions on the following things:
Now I get to make this Stretch Goal just for FUN! I purposefully set it at a WILD amount and just did a GOOFY Stretch Goal of making Penguin-born because of all the inside joke stuff that has came from the Livestreams... so that is this crazy communities fault there!
BIGGEST Announcement YET! I have been hard at work behind the scenes. Yall have BLOWN this entire Kickstarter out of the water... (im tearing up as I type this...) BUT to give back to yall and thank YOU for the love and support you have given DC20... I have bundled ALL VTT Stretch Goals together at the 2.1M mark!
HUGE thank you and props to Alchemy, Foundry, dScryb, Demiplane, Roll20, and DriveThruRPG for coming on and working with me on this to bring this all to life in RECORD time. So really show them some love too because if they didn't step up to the plate here, then we wouldn't have been able to get things done so fast! I feel like Captain America (Fighter that uses a "Shield" Weapon with the returning property) that stepped out and said "VTTs... ASSEMBLE!!!" and they did! So again, a big thank you to each of them!
I made a video specifically for VTT Confusion! I also am looking into Backerkit Pledge Manager Questions and trying to see what options I have for yall there as well, I will post another update about that specifically too!
Lets CELEBRATE together!
I already was hit with a WALL OF EMOTIONS about 10 minutes ago when I started writing this, so I stopped to film a thank you video... BUT... You all have changed my life... and you have changed the landscape of TTRPGs as we know it! So again, thank you!