Digital Backers - 25 May 2018
almost 6 years ago – Fri, May 25, 2018 at 07:38:41 PM

Good Evening

I noted a good many of you have created accounts at 77worlds.com

Well Done. We are uploading the first batch of PDFs and plan to upload the initial backer groups tomorrow morning assuming all goes well. We will email a few of you to try your downloads to validate the system. Tomorrow is a short day and Monday is a holiday here in the United States so it may be Tuesday evening before some of you see PDF's to download. However, I am hoping that we can have at least a handful of adventures available for you tomorrow. AS3  Earth Prime - "The Blasted Earth" will be Tuesday before it is uploaded to the site as there are a few adjustments we need to make in order to optimize a book of that size.

The Encounter Encyclopedia will be split from the AS3 for digital downloads.

 Once the PDF's are all uploaded we will begin working to put the Beta Cross Worlds Apps online and begin converting Anthologies and core books to Kindle format.

May 24 2018 - Phase 1 Shipment Complete
almost 6 years ago – Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:19:03 PM

Good Evening

The first phase of shipping has been completed. The last 9 boxes are packed and will be mailed tomorrow morning. About half the backers will receive every rewards in the next week. The rest of you will note a few missing items all highlighted in yellow. These will ship in the second or third phase. If you are missing an item not highlighted, please let me know.

Second Phase Shipping

Second phase shipping will include the remaining rewards on your list along with any orders placed on the store or on the Dragonscales or Forgotten Dungeon Kickstarter. These include:

• Physical Print Edition of the first Newsletter
• BEAS11 Rise of Phoenix Blackhand
• BEAS10 Ruins of Cairo
• BEAS08 Ruins of Tokyo
• Apocalyptic Weather System (A free gift for you)

Third Phase Shipping

Physical Copy of the Second Edition of the Newsletter, All future version will be PDFs on the website unless you have a subscription for the physical edition.

• Blasted Earth Card Deck
• Mutant Card Deck
  
• Androids and Robots Card Deck
  
• Pulp Fiction Card Deck
• CA1 Dragon Hunt
• LS1 Ancient Astronauts
• BE1 Landing Zone
• BE3 Ruins of Cincinnati
• BEAS07 Ruins of Madrid
• BEAS09 Ruins of Melbourne
• Mutations PDF - Expanding the list of random Mutations and side effects

*Adventures that are ready to ship when Phase two is read will be moved up to ship in phase two.

Happy Adventuring

Please share the fun moments you and your group have on our forums. New releases will be available in August. This includes new Lunar Resort Adventures, New Blasted Earth Adventures, Lunar Surface Adventures, and at least one Space Adventure in the NEO Series.

Digital Backers and Lootbox Backers
almost 6 years ago – Tue, May 22, 2018 at 08:29:15 PM

Good Evening across the 77 Worlds

All softback editions have been mailed to backers. This includes all loot boxes that do not contain a hardback edition. You should see these within the week. In fact, we have already seen great feedback from a handful of backers who received their boxes in the last few days.

Digital Backers of all levels. We had targeted having the PDF's online for you to download this week. Due to a production line issue that diverted resources we had a four-day delay. We are a small company with only two part-time people. So we might still make this week but it will be Friday or Saturday if we do. Right now the schedule shows hardback editions completing on Thursday and then PDF's conversions for AS3 and AS1 to be completed on Friday. The first half of the BEAS2017 series has already been converted. Once complete then we will start adding backers to the PDF groups the following day. This also applies to those of you with PDF and Physical rewards.

All loot box backers who are getting hardback editions

your loot boxes have either been mailed (about 15% of you) or will be packed Thursday/Friday and mailed by Saturday morning.

In all cases, "The Future is Digital" and Lootbox backers will have the first delivery of products by the end of next week. USPS shows 2 to 9 days for delivery so don't panic if your box does not arrive by May 31st, as it may take a few more days. However, I anticipate everyone except for a handful of shipments outside the US will get delivered by the end of next week.

Newsletters and the remaining adventures

We will send your second shipments in a few weeks along with a physical copy of the first edition of the newsletter. The Ruins of Cincinattie adventure will be available as a PDF for everyone once completed and optionally as a physical product. We will do the same for the Apocalyptic Weather accessory and the Beta mutation guide for gamemasters. Last, we plan to convert all the poster and illustration booklets into backgrounds for your PC.

How do I get my PDF's?

As a reminder, you will need to create an account at http://77worlds.com to access your PDF rewards which should be available in the next 7 days. When you login after the PDF's have been uploaded they will be available as free downloads in the store. You should create your account with the same email you used in the kickstarter or send us a message so we can link the email you used to create an account on our site with your backer ID. We will send out emails when downloads are available and you are welcome to just login and check this weekend.

Lootbox Shipping to begin shortly
almost 6 years ago – Sat, May 05, 2018 at 01:17:59 PM

Greetings from the Apocalypse!

:) Some days it feels like an Apocalypse. Then a silver lining can be seen among the clouds whereupon the harvest begins. The first loot boxes were delayed. The hardback production run managed to cut in line before the most recent adventures. Here is the first hardback.

The good news, both loot box 80 and 100 will ship together this week as we will have the adventures and hardbacks. The softbacks are sitting around waiting for the next set of adventures. This also means those of you who ordered just the hardback will be getting them a week or so earlier than scheduled.

More good news, I mentioned the Brainchip booklet would not make it into loot boxes. Well, it seems I sent a file to the print shop a while back and promptly erased it from memory. You might have noticed it in the picture with the hardback above. So, Brainchip booklets will be in all loot boxes are originally promised.

Posters! The first run of mini posters on heavy stock arrived. They look fairly good for add-ons. If you have an image you would love to see as a poster let me know. These are 11x17 not 8.5x11.

Lastly, the Leather editions are in production. They take about a week and the covers were in backing today. The foil stamping will most likely happen on Tuesday so we may see them in 8 days. Here is a photo of the leather books we did for Iron Crown back in 2003-2006.

Enjoy your weekend.

May 1 - Update 22% Shipped
about 6 years ago – Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:40:11 PM

Greetings from the Apocalyptic Future

The last week of April and the now into the first day of May we have shipped international orders for the softcover book and about 22% of US backers. The next set to ship will be the loot boxes with softcover books and next week the hardcover editions should be here.

Funding goals for some of the booklets we had planned for all loot boxes were not reached during the campaign. I still plan to produce them but we are likely to provide them as PDF's rather than incur the print cost for items not funded. I did include the Brain Chips booklet and the Encounter Encyclopedia in the AS3 Book so that is a done deal and everyone will get those items in print as part of the book. Also, the AS3 is right at 200 pages. Well, cover the 80-150 pages we had projected and larger than we funded.

I will be printing the illustration booklet for the loot boxes as that item needs to be physical so that one is on me as a gift to you for your support of this project. We will include many of the items that did not fund as part of our Apocalyptic Mars Kickstarter and the Jupiter shipyards kickstarter.

The Blasted Earth Encounter Encyclopedia is larger than projected so you have many new monsters, aliens, and mutants to add to your world. We expanded the Societies from 7 to 10 and included some details for each of their leaders. The Blasted Earth had three main ecologies Volcanic, Desert, and Forest that were detailed in the original draft. We have added Ruins, Water Ways, and Subterranean each section now sports a wondering encounter table and a full page illustration of some of the creatures. A small random mutation section caused by exposure to some of the mutant and alien fauna has been included along with some Mutant Character Types which can have a range of specific mutations. I will publish a PDF with expanded mutations and their side effects for use when encountering some of the Bio-Agents, Retro-Viruses, Radiation, and Alien Xenoforming Microbes.

Lastly, all items will be in the store and the PDF's for all our digital backers within the week. I hope you will join us in our Dragonscales Kickstarter (which also uses the ward card system) and/or the Apocalyptic Mars KS later in the month.

Cheers,

Stephen A. Lee

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