Surveys releasing Wednesday, Playtest may be delayed until next week
over 1 year ago
– Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 04:19:44 PM
Hi everyone!
Thank you for your patience. We've begun sending out surveys, with all surveys being sent out by this Wednesday (assuming there are no errors with our current survey).
We're aiming to have our first Playtest on the Io Publishing discord (link in your survey) this weekend. However, for those that don't know - Hurricane Milton is poised to hit Florida pretty hard. I am uncertain if I will have power, or what damage may be sustained - which may delay things. I do want to let you know that we are currently proofreading through our first playtest packet - which includes Crafting, Carving, and the Dretch Duke (An Elite CR 4). We may also include a ruleset for Phase Combat, but believe the stat block itself will be enough of a primer for this first playtest. Ultimately depends on how the aftermath of the hurricane this weekend. Apologies for any delays!
Thank you for your support during this crowdfunding. We'll be going full speed ahead with all of our playtests soon!
Brett
Survey/Preorder Shop releasing Next Week!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 11:27:31 AM
Hi everyone!
I was hoping to have the surveys sent out to you this week so we could begin planning for our first playtests. However, due to some issues with Backerkit's backend, we're more than likely going to have to hold off releasing that survey. Since it is Friday, I won't likely get a fix for this until Monday when business starts up again for Backerkit. I apologize for the delay!
I will let you know we are already hard at work and have gotten a lot done in September. I'm excited to show you what we've been working on. Thank you for your patience!
Brett
Fiendish Forge : Moving Forward!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 06:40:49 AM
Hi all! Now that we've wrapped up our crowdfunding, I wanted to give you a time table of what we are looking at.
- We have started collecting funding and will continue to do so over the next couple of days. Please make sure your payment information is updated!
- On October 3rd, we'll be sending out surveys. These surveys will get you access to the playtest role by inputting your Discord name.
- On October 10th, we will begin our playtest. We'll release our gathering/crafting rulesets and creatures weekly for you to playtest!
- We'd like to know your player comp and levels when giving feedback. We recommend a comp of 4 to 5 players for most of these creatures since they are mostly solo encounters.
If you'd like to start joining the Io Publishing Discord now, we'd like to see you! Feel free to introduce yourself to our growing community.
https://discord.gg/YXRwHszY
Once again, thank you for your support, and I look forward to taking our next steps!
Thank you for reading,
Brett
That's a wrap!!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 11:07:11 AM
We've JUST wrapped up our crowdfunding for Fiendish Forge - AND we broke our last crowdfunding record! Thank you to everyone who supported! We'll have a Pledge Manager page up an running soon, and will start collecting funding from everyone over the next week.
After all funding has been collected, we'll invite folks over to our Publishing Discord, and begin onboarding people for playtesting - which will begin immediately!
Because we had a Forgemaster back out within the last 2 hours of the campaign, it didn't feel right to not give folks the opportunity to still back this if they wanted to - so we'll have an item open for a limited about of time where you can get the benefits of the Forgemaster (pitching your own creature). We'll limit it to only 1, and have it available for the rest of the month, before locking it down.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. This is a dream job of mine, and because of contributions such as this, it allows me the opportunity to fulfill that dream.
Thank you,
Brett
Fiendish Forge : THE FINAL DAY!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 10:10:23 AM
Hi everyone!
As a heads up, we have arrived at our final day! If there are any updates you'd like to make to your pledge, now is the time to do so!
We are VERY CLOSE to our next stretch goal - and are try to raise more than $128k to break our last crowdfunding record!
Thank you for reading and supporting! No matter what you gave (even if you couldn't give at all) - I really appreciate you following along with this project!
Brett