Marmoreal Tomb Kickstarter Update
about 5 years ago
– Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 08:55:30 PM
Greetings from the Dens,
A quick update here. After a long discussion with Ernie, we've settled on Marmoreal Tomb going into the TLG stables. This doesn't mean anything for any of you, but does impact the packaging of the product. It will sport a TLG stock code, ISBN and pricing, and this will allow us to sell the box set in distribution ( AFTER IT GOES TO YOU GUYS -- to repeat -- AFTER it goes to backers).
Now the immediate impact this is going to have is that the box trade dress will be vaguely similar to those we put out, which is essentially a full wrap-around art. You'll love it.
Concerning the stock code. This isn't that big of a deal for Kickstarter backers, but is for us as it has to fit in the publishing library, etc. As many of you know TLG published Gary Gygax for many years. Back in those days, we designated the 3000 numbers for Gygax books. TLG 3001 The Canting Crew was our first Gygax book. I have preserved the 3000 numbers for Gygax, moving all our other lines to other numbers. With that in mind, I have given MarMar a Stock Code in the 3000 number. It will be TLG 3051 The Marmoreal Tomb Box set. This box set includes the main adventure module and the maps.
This will be followed by TLG 3052 The Marmoreal Tomb Underworld Expansion and TLG 3053 The Marmoreal Tomb Wilderness Expansion. Both of these will fit easily in the box, so no fears there.
Now with all that settled. I have sent the box to the printers. We'll finalize the cover and the main module next week and send them to the printer. That printer will probably be us as TLG owns its own print shop, though I have not decided on that yet.
SHIPPING: This project is in backerkit (though surveys have NOT been sent out yet) and as soon as we get these printed books and boxes in hand we are going to give you the choice of split shipping. If you want us to ship you the box and main books with maps, we'll do so. There will be a small extra shipping for when the rest is done and released. If you want us to sit on it, we'll sit on it until the whole thing is complete. This way everyone wins except Pete and Wilson who have to pack boxes (but hey, they live like kings in the mail room, they can suffer a little... seriously we don't mind split shipping this, we've done it many times before.
Thank you all and have a great weekend. In the meantime check out our Patreon account and join me this afternoon at 4pm on Twitch (you can yell at me there) as we do another GMs Tricks of the Trade!
Oh and one final thing... if you are a fan of VTTs, there is a great Kickstarter going on now, the 5E Shard Tabletop VTT. Our world of Aihrde is part of it and our 5E stuff and there is even an Aihrde level. Check it out HERE!
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