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Architects of the Deep: Book of Monsters

Created by Dren Productions LLC

A collection of 60 new monsters, and variants on familiar ones, for you to use during your next 5e campaign.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Suveys!
over 3 years ago – Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:53:17 PM

Just a reminder. Surveys fully launched over the weekend. If you haven't already filled it out yet, try and get it done ASAP. We are setting up our digital rewards to go out next week. But we need those surveys filled out first! 

The books and cards, as we said, are all ordered, so everything is on track to be coming to you soon!

That's all I have for this update. Sorry it wasn't more exciting.

Until next time... GAME ON!!

Survey Process Beginning
over 3 years ago – Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 12:57:07 AM

Nothing like waiting until the last minute. I got approval for the surveys about 15 minutes ago. I thought we were going to have to wait until Monday, but I'm glad we were able to launch it earlier. 

Anyway, we just started the smoke test. What is the smoke test you ask? For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, it's when we test out that everything is okay with the surveys by sending them out to a few people at each pledge level. The emails should have gone out a couple of minutes ago, so if you see an email from Backerkit about your survey for our project tonight, please do us a favor and fill it out. We need to see if anything is wrong with it (which we pray there isn't). 

As long as everything goes well, then by tomorrow night, we will send out the surveys to everyone else. 

Thanks all! You are awesome!

Until next update... GAME ON!!! 

Books are Ordered - Surveys Coming Soon
over 3 years ago – Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:51:41 PM

The first order of news is that we placed the orders for the books this afternoon. Because these are printed in the U.S. these should be here in a few weeks. We also placed our orders for the decks of cards, which are being taken care of by PrintNinja. We were going to place a smaller order with a U.S. company for these, but it was essentially going to costs us the exact same amount (within like $20 anyway) to place the smaller order here, and to place the much larger order with PrintNinja. So, we had no choice to go with PrintNinja. The only thing with that is that it is going to take a little bit longer to get those. So, while we will be able to send out the digital rewards in a few weeks with no problem, and we can start sending out book orders to anyone who isn't getting a deck of cards as soon as the books arrive, those who are getting the decks will have to wait a couple extra weeks. 


That being said. Suveys are going to come out soon. We are hoping by Friday, but it will more likely be Monday. Either way, look out for that survey from Backerkit! 


Nothing else to tell today I'm afraid. But it's exciting that the physical rewards have been ordered! So, they will be here soon! 


Until next time... GAME ON!

Thanks all!
over 3 years ago – Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 04:35:52 PM

I'm overjoyed that all of you came out to support our project! You guys are truly great. 


I neglected to post that we passed one more stretch goal, yesterday. We will all be getting those new Spider Monsters as well. So, don't worry . We've got you. 


So, now you may ask, what's next? Well, first we're going to catch our breath. Kickstarter is going to collect your pledges, if they haven't already. And we are going to work on the finishing touches to the books, and our surveys. The surveys, should hopefully launch in about 2 weeks. Our target date for that right now is November 18, but that could change, depending on how quickly we get things together, and how quickly the survey gets approval through Backerkit. We'll run the surveys for a couple of weeks, get our final number counts, and then we will start shipping those. We should definitely get the digital stuff in your hands come December sometime, and the physical books will hopefully begin to ship in December, with a target of everyone getting them sometime in January. Fingers crossed that all goes well enough to allow that to happen. 


Again, thanks all! We appreciate you! 

GAME ON!

Round 2 In The Books... Literally!
over 3 years ago – Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 12:41:41 AM

And just like that... we hit the last stretch goal for Round 2. Let's keep it going and unlock a few more for Round 3! Thanks all!

So, our next supplement is for some Giant Spiders... and I know... what else can you do with a Giant Spider? Well, what if it was a Giant Black Widow, or a Giant Tarantula?? These are what we're talking about with the Giant Spiders. The size of a horse cart, and as deadly as... well... a Giant Black Widow!!

On a side note, we know that everyone likes getting dungeons done more easily. We put out a couple decks of cards to help you do just that. When we saw this one though, even we had to back it. It's another random dungeon generator that looks pretty awesome. You should check out the Dungeonerator. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rollinkunz/the-dungenerator


Thanks again all!

GAME ON!