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The pledge manager will be opening soon -- it takes a while to set up. You will be able to make late pledges or add to your existing pledge.
I'll announce when it goes live! Expect to see it in the coming days.
We did it! We funded, we smashed through the stretch goals, and we're one of the biggest TTRPG Kickstarters ever to fund without including miniatures! I'm so proud of the whole Level Up Team -- and I'm super excited to give you the game!
In your Kickstarter PM inbox you will see links to download the PDFs from your primary reward tier. That's your Kickstarter PM inbox (you might also get an email if Kickstarter is set to send you notifications, but it's definitely in your Kickstarter PM inbox).
Oh, please do review it on DTRPG if you can! It helps so much with visibility.
Spotted a typo or other mistake? We have an online form here to collect bug reports. We have about two weeks before we go to print. Please note that this is strictly for reporting errors, not design choices!
Kickstarter makes us send these out one-by-one. Oh, we wish there was a "send to everybody who selected this add-on" button! So we will send them out manually over the coming week.
This digital stretch goal will arrive in your inboxes in a month or two. We've already started work. Every backer gets a free copy of it.
Also... this is the fun bit. This is "Issue 1". We want to do an Issue 2, and an Issue 3, and so on. A monthly Level Up magazine. You've got this issue for free whatever happens, but if you'd like to see more --
Go here and subscribe to the Gate Pass Gazette for $10 per issue. That works a bit like a Kickstarter -- we won't launch anything until we get 500 subscribers. Our hope would be to launch early 2022 with a monthly digital magazine. Please do consider subscribing!
(And don't forget you get the first issue free whatever).
Over the coming week we will open up the online tools in phases. They're on a small server right now and we don't want to break it! Keep an eye out for an invitation.
We will open up the pledge manager soon. That's where you give us your shipping address. You will also be able to add any add-ons you missed, or upgrade your tier.
Note that we will be placing the print-run order for Kickstarter backers as soon as the KS funds clear (typicaly about two weeks) so don't wait too long! We like to fufill our Kickstarters quickly so we can move on to exciting new projects -- and boy do we have some Level Up stuff to talk about soon!
As a reminder, AiZ is still in layout. Expect to see that next year.
Trials & Treasures will be getting significant layout changes in the coming week or two, mainly to the Regions section (which currently is a lot of tables and not as accessible as we'd like it to be). Keep an eye out for updates to that file.
Thank you all so much for your trust in us. We hope that you enjoy Level Up, and that this is the beginning of a wonderful journey. We have plans....
Folks have been asking where is the best place to talk about Level Up, ask questions, share notes, and so on. Here's a quick list!
Many of the design team have Twitter accounts and I'll share them too if they give me permission.
These are not maintained by EN Publishing, but by awesome fans.
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.
As we pass into the final hours of the Kickstarter, I wanted to quickly touch base and do a little 'housekeeping'. There's quite a lot to get through, so thank you for your patience!
First - and most important - I want to think you all for your support. This Kickstarter has been a labour of love for our team for two years, and getting the books (well the PDFs) in your hands on Friday is both exciting and terrifying after all this time. We're sure you'll love the game as much as we do!
We've unlocked the jabberwock, and Paul Hughes is already at work creating this bonus monster. That joins the lycanthropy rules and the artificer in the Gate Pass Gazette, which all backers will get for free. Next target is the construct heritage, if we reach £600K. The Gate Pass Gazette is a free digital supplement, and will arrive in your inboxes a month or two after the initial rulebooks do.
On Friday night UK time (11pm), as all the fireworks for Guy Fawkes Night go off (what coincidental timing - not!) this Kickstarter ends. I will be pretending the fireworks are all for us!
You will *immediately* receive your primary tier digital rewards. When I say immediately, I mean immediately. You'll get DriveThruRPG download links in your Kickstarter messages inbox (we can provide other methods for those who prefer them).
Any digital add-ons will be sent to you over the following week. That's because Kickstarter makes us send them one at a time, rather than en-masse, but we'll hammer away at it as fast as we can!
Physical books, of course, take longer as we need to print and then ship them. But the printer is standing by waiting for us to pay them so they can get started!
Before the Kickstarter ends, you should check that you have added on any add-ons you want. You can do that by hitting "Manage My Pledge" at the top of the Kickstarter campaign page. You can add on any of the products included in this Kickstarter either as additional copies or to customize a tier which doesn't include everything you want. You can also add on the Narrator's Screen, the Gears of Revolution adventure path (which is 13 adventures totalling about 1500 pages, so it really is a great deal compared to buying them separately!) and more.
There will be a pledge manager after the campaign ends, but we do fulfill Kickstarters really fast. In this case, we'll be placing the print run order as soon as the KS funds clear, which typically takes just over 2 weeks.
We've got a form set up for 'bug reports', which we'll share with you once you have your PDFs. With 5,000 backers pouring over our books, we felt that you should have a way to let us know if you spotted any errors. Hopefully our own editors and proofreaders have caught everything, but no publication reaches the public unscathed! Over the two week period between getting the PDFs and us placing the print order, please do feel free to report any issues you see.
We have been working hard at the electronic tools suite throughout this Kickstarter. While they will be free, Kickstarter backers will get early access to the beta version. So far we have entered the core rules, the spells database, the maneuvers database, and the magic items database. We're still entering monsters behind the scenes (that will take a month or two) and we're gearing up to start work on the character builder (that will take months!) To use the tools suite you will need to create an account and log in. We'll send you a link to do that.