What Type of Dinosaurs do you Want? Fantasy or Real! - You Decide
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:37:40 AM
Just a quick update on the Spinosaurus token art. It's still not done, but I'm loving how much attitude you can sense from the body language. Also, you can see from the grid, it'll be almost 6" x 6". That's super gargantuan (by my own sizing rules). Changes to come: spikier fin, more texture, and a thinner body. As much as time allows, I hope to continue sharing art updates along with these stretch goal updates.
Congrats on smashing another stretch goal
🥳 We've unlocked 4 dinosaur lineage stat blocks with 2 different builds. What does that mean exactly? I am glad you asked!
We're going to include in the Bestiary 8 new stat blocks for generic, multi-use NPCs. These will be perfect for GMs when they need to add a town guard, shop keeper, or thieves' guild member. For all of our GM backers, we hope that you're all as excited by that as we are! 😃
Deciding the Fate of Our Next Stretch Goal!
Hear ye! Hear ye! We are calling you all once again to cast your votes to determine the outcome of our next stretch goal! 🗳️ 🦕
You will determine what type of dinosaurs and monsters are added to the bestiary! This will also add the dinosaurs and creatures as tokens when you buy the Acrylic Tokens Add-on or pledge any reward tier that includes acrylic tokens. We currently have 200 dinosaurs and creatures accounted for out of the 300 promised, and this vote will determine the direction of the next 50!
You can either vote for Fantasy—this will add dinosaurs and creatures that are magic, mutated, cybernetic, and eldritch-inspired to the bestiary!—or you can vote Real—this will add dinosaurs and creatures inspired by paleontological research. Remember to cast your vote in the comment section of the Kickstarter! When the Kickstarter launched we had approximately 140 real vs 60 fantasy dinosaurs planned out of the 300 promised. Cast your vote!
Darryl recently backed his 200th Kickstarter project and guess what it was:
We are huge fans of the work Kobold Press is doing. We even have a collaboration coming up, but I won't bore you with that here.
Monster Vault 2 contains over 300 new monsters EXACTLY AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, but also something we're calling "monster bundles." UNEXPECTED!
These bundles gather groups of related monsters that work together well (like frost giants and winter wolves). The bundles are scaled in advance: no matter what tier of play your game is in, all bundles will have something for your table!
Click here and check out Monster Vault 2. Tell them Darryl sent you!
Have Questions?
If you have any specific questions during the campaign, please contact me, Devin - Community Manager, or Darryl. Additionally, you can message us on Discord. We would love to help you all with any questions, so don't hesitate to ask! 😊
You can chat with me in the following ways:
Discord: https://discord.gg/STEnbRQasw
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Darryl & Devin
Over 200k, Forbes Article, and Introducing Our Consulting Paleontologist!
over 1 year ago
– Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 07:35:01 PM
Look at that!!! Over the weekend, we crossed the 200k mark!
That's a huge milestone that is only possible because of all of you. More importantly, you have created an amazing community! Whether it's through Kickstarter, Discord, or social media, we love engaging with you. Your comments and questions brighten our day, so please keep them coming!❤️
I thought it would be fun to show you some art progress. In the last update I decided to stick the quick underpainting of the Stegouros into the Stretch Goal graphic. Since then our artist, Ryan has finished the painting. Isn't it beautiful? I love the coloring and spirit of this little guy.
Stegouros is a very small ankylosaur. It was estimated to be between 5.9–6.6 ft long. Unlike all other known Ankylosauria, the tail is short with no more than twenty-six caudal vertebrae, the last twelve of which are covered by seven pairs of large osteoderms, the last five of which are fused together to form a flat connected structure. This unique tail is highlighted in the art above.
Once Upon A Time in the Weird West, 13th Adventure Unlocked!
As voted on by you, Once Upon A Time in the Weird West was unlocked as the 13th Adventure. The voting was so close! It came down to a margin of only 5 votes! If you're bummed that Lost Island lost, don't worry. It may come back in another stretch goal vote soon! 👀
Our awesome writer, Craig E. Sawyer, is cooking up the 13th adventure, and it will definitely liven up your game night. 🧑🍳 Your party will have to do a train heist in order to get the shards needed to try to get home! Hopefully, your party is ready to put their best cowboy boots forward!
Your Friendly/Nerdy Neighborhood Paleontologist... Joseph Deckhut
We're happy to announce that we are working with paleontologist, Joseph Deckhut for this project!
"I am very excited to be consulting for 'A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting'. This book will be a perfect mix of scientific accuracy and the 'rule of cool' to bring out the best possible product for a tabletop experience! Using knowledge from my studies, my multiple field expeditions, my research, and attending and presenting at scientific conferences, you can rest assured that these dinosaurs will be in good hands!" - Joseph Deckhut
For this project, we want to be as scientifically accurate as possible while also infusing all of our crazy ideas into the dinos! Meaning that some dinosaurs will just be the dinos that you all have become accustomed to. We're going to try our best with Joseph to get our dinosaur stat blocks to represent what that dinosaur would do. Others on the other hand will be more extreme! I mean, we do have a razor-toothed compy and an undead giganotosaurus! 😂 🦕 Even with these, we will base them off of the dinos that most closely represent them.
More Media Coverage
If you missed it, A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting was featured in an article by Rob Weiland in Forbes! That's pretty awesome. Not just because it may lead to more visitors to the Kickstarter page, but also because it significantly raises the profile of the project. Click here to read the article!
Have Questions?
If you have any specific questions during the campaign, please contact me, Devin - Community Manager, or Darryl. Additionally, you can message us on Discord. We would love to help you all with any questions, so don't hesitate to ask! 😊
You can chat with me in the following ways:
Discord: https://discord.gg/STEnbRQasw
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Darryl & Devin
