Books Exist (PICTURES INSIDE) - Fulfilment Update
over 2 years ago – Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 04:41:34 AM

Hi all, 

Been getting a lot of requests for updates. Things are delayed, but good progress has been made. Battles have continued with the printers and importers to move books around the world. 

As of this morning, I now have photographic evidence of the physical copies existing in the world. They were sent from Estonia to the UK yesterday, and (pending issues with the border) should arrive in our UK warehouse in the 1st week of August. They'll be sent out to UK/EU/RoW backers within few days after this, and should be heading over to the US at roughly the same time. 

Moving 2000 books by air (a 1 tonne pallet roughly) would cost us over £10,000 (more than the entire cost raised for shipping by all backers combined), so the books are heading over by boat, which should take a few weeks. 

I estimate we should get these books to US backers by late August/early September. 

I am now locking addresses on BackerKit, now fulfillment is in sight. You have 48 hours to amend your details at they will appear: MID AUGUST for UK/EU. Late August/early September for US. Might be safest for LATE AUGUST if you life somewhere like New Zealand or Australia. 

Apologies for the continued delays. Corona and Brexit are generally making things a nightmare right now to make books (or anything to be honest). The end is in sight. 

Drop us an email to [email protected] if you have any questions. 

Here's what you've all been waiting for:

Speak to you all soon for more good news. 

Thanks 

Zach

PS: Check out Orbital Blues our new Lo-Fi Space Western RPG that released yesterday. It's rite good, honest. 

Fulfilment Update
almost 3 years ago – Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 05:59:39 PM

Hello everyone,

Apologies for the delay with last update. I have spent most of the last 4 works doing multiple iterations of final print files, combining the various books into the Deeper Hardcover, including having to add certain pages to remove printing. 

We've made the decision to do the print runs entirely with our offset printer in Estonia, rather than our digital printers in America and the UK. This means the books will cost less and be in higher quality, due to the different techniques of offset printing, but has made fulfillment and print setup more difficult and time consuming. 

Here are revised timescales:

• I'm expecting books to reach the UK and be fulfilled to UK, EU and ROW customers in the next 4 weeks from now. 
• We need to get the books to the US, which will take slightly longer, likely 6-8 weeks from now. 

Please update any addresses in BackerKit to reflect this new distribution times and ontact [email protected] with any questions. 

Thank you for your patience while I complete the final steps necessary to bring these books to live. Completing 7 different books as part of the same KS through different printers, sizes and builds has been demanding, even for an experienced publisher like myself. The lump the hard work, however, has now passed. 

The BackerKit will closed in 60 hours, at 11:59 PM GMT on Sunday 20th June. 

After this, any customers will need to purchase books from the SoulMuppet store, or contact us directly to manage their pledge. 

Thanks 

Zach

BackerKit and Orbital Blues
about 3 years ago – Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 07:23:20 PM

Hi everyone,

Two equally exciting updates today. 

BackerKit

Surveys will be going out momentarily for the Best Let Buried Backerkit. 

This will allow you to pay for shipping, modify your pledge, and pick up any add-ons you would like. 

Head here if you're not a backer and want to get in on the fun. 

Thanks for your support on this project. We know shipping is looking at a little steep at the moment, but we're doing the best we can to keep everything as cheap as possible, while still providing tracking for orders and pre-paying any pesky import charges you might be landed with if you're in Europe. We've started printing already, so hoping to get books to backers by the end of May! 

Orbital Blues

If you want to see more SoulMuppet Products, check out our new Kickstarter for Orbital Blues, an RPG which using to the same engine as Best Left Buried, but takes players off to the stars as they tell stories about sad space cowboys in a lo-fi space western.

We're 350% funded, having already surpassed the value of this Kickstarter, and smashed through three stretch goal adventures zines, as well as creating an art book and a custom printed cassette EP.

Let us know about your experiences with the store, and email [email protected] with any questions, 

Thanks 

Zach

Stretch Goal PDFs, Character Generator and Typohunters
about 3 years ago – Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 02:34:50 AM

Hi all, 

Earlier this week we released the PDFs for the three stretch goals: Ancestries, Consequences and Heroic adventures. This 132 new pages of content essentially makes up a fourth part to the Best Left Buried: Deeper experience, and was laid out by the fantastic Lone Archivist, with writing contributions from Nick Spence and Brian Yaksha. 

If you backed the Kickstarter above £25, you should have received and email already. If you haven't had a chance, you can grab 'em here.

This means all the PDF content is now available, and we're about to move to printing and physical distribtion. The BackerKit will be coming as soon as we have finalised shipping figures.

We're beginning to ready the files to print, and collect the composite books into the large 'Deeper' hardcover.

I'm opening up a '#typohunters' channel on our official SoulMuppet discord, in case there are a few things we missed. Come on over to chat with us, or bop an email to [email protected] if you notice anything! We're closing the chat in about 72 hours, so get those recommendations in fast if you've spotted anything. 

A final exciting note, all of these new character options are including in the NEW Best Left Buried character generator at https://www.technicalgrimoire.com/leftburiedgenerator courtesy of tech wizard David Schirduan. It generates all the details of a character (Archetype, Advancements, Equipment, Stats, and everything), with options to use the Ancestries from the new Ancestries Guide or just create fully human parties. . 

In addition, when each character is generated is creates their own URL, so you can always save it. Check out Gesine the Physiker, Yarold the Outcast or Andras the Small Folk, perfect for saving that character if you can't write it all down. 

Stay with us, and we'll get you physical books soon. 

Thanks, 

Zach

Doomsayer's Release
about 3 years ago – Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:53:40 PM

You should have all received an email update via DriveThruRPG to let  you know we've updated the Doomsayer's Guide with the new version from  the Deeper Kickstarter! Hurrah!

Now the three books are ready, we're about to start processing the print files and get these books sent to the printers.

We're working on getting a BackerKit to you soon, and we should have this ready in the next few weeks. 

Part of this book is the new dungeon we offered as the £1 pledge level, Beware the Bone Emperor. Check it out here: 

The last digital components of the book are the three stretch goal zines: Ancestries, Heroic and Consequences. The material is towards the end of the proofing process, and we'll get it to you soon. 

We hope you enjoy the books you've seen so far, and we'll be back soon with physical copies and the BackerKit site. 

Thanks,

Zach