Battle for Oz: Pirates

Update on shipping
12 days ago – Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 05:56:51 AM

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The PROOFs are in!!
16 days ago – Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 06:30:12 AM

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Proofs on the way
about 2 months ago – Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 05:40:14 AM

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SHIPPING CHARGES
5 months ago – Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 07:05:03 AM

IF YOU ARE A DIGITAL ONLY BACKER, YOU CAN IGNORE THIS UPDATE. 

PHYSICAL BACKERS (books and add-ons),

Both versions of the CORE BOOK are complete ( the Full color cover version and the alternate special edition Kickstarter only sketch cover version) and ready to be uploaded and printed through drivethrurpg.

The GM Handbook is almost complete and I expect to have a complete book ready to be uploaded to drivethrurpg this week.

Over this past weekend, I completed and uploaded the new Battle for Oz: Pirates Action Deck to drivethrurpg. I ordered a proof copy. As soon as I receive it and sign off on it, the Action Deck will be ready to be ordered and shipped from drivethrurpg to ALL BACKERS THAT PLEDGED AT A PHYSICAL BOOK LEVEL, and anyone that pre-orderd an action deck or extra  action deck will receive an action deck through drivetrurpg. I am covering the cost of the action deck printing for each physical backer (as I promised in the first stretch goal), but each backer is responsible for the shipping costs for the action deck and their physical book(s).

I have ordered the Battle for Oz: Pirates bennies to cover all add on orders and they should arrive within the next week. That particulat stretch goalwas not met in the Kickstarter campaign, but I opened them up to pre-orders. 

I have all of the Oz Dice in my office, ready to be shipped, another completed stretch goal that I am covering but the backers are responsible for shipping.

For all Contributor Backers (backers that backed at a level that allowed them to create an NPC) all of the Battle for Oz dice rollers are printed and ready to go. 

So lets talk about shipping.

Everyone that is receiving a physical book, or action deck, will be recieving those items directly shipped from drivethrurpg. Everyone that is receiving a physical add-on, such as dice, bennies, a dice roller, or ship tokens; those items will be packaged and shipped by me. 

That being said, I have started to audit the shipping charges that I TRIED to create in Backerkit but it looks my efforts were in vain. I blame myself because I think trying to pre-charge for shipping was a mistake and the shipping add-ons I created in Backerkit were kind of confusing. Some backers prepaid for shipping charges, but most did not. 

I obviously can not cover everyone's shipping charges, just the action deck alone would be in the neighborhood of $400 plus in shipping. 

So what I am going to have to do is audit each order as I package them, both at home and through drivethrurpg. If you are a backer that prepaid for some shipping charges, you will get credit of corse. I will create a spreadsheet and notify each backer if their pre order has not covered shipping charges after I estimate what those charges will be, and that backer will be responsible for those shipping charges. I will invoice any backer that has not paid, or has a balance after some credit, for shipping charges. 

As an example, the proof I ordered from drivethrurpg for the Action Deck was $4.84 for shipping to my home in North Carolina. All my physical order book backers, I will be able to bundle the shipping charge for your book and action deck together to save on shipping costs from drivetrurpg, but the shipping cost for the physical add-ons like dice or bennies will be separate because I will be physically mailing them myself at the local UPS store.

I apologize in advance for any confusion, I've really just created more work for myself but thats ok. I will slowly work through each order, calculate the TOTAL shipping cost between both drivethrurpg and the UPS store and invoice each backer. I will only ship a backers order AFTER all shipping charges (if invoiced for one) are paid. The shipping charges will likely be done through Backerkit, but I will work with each backer individually. Pirate Press has a Paypall account so I will be able to accept shipping charge payments through Paypall at, [email protected] 

Let me know if you have any questions.  I am very excited to finally get the physical books and add-on goodies in your hands. It represents three years of hard work and a lot of support and patience from an awesome group of loyal gamers and backers. 

I will create an update soon with some proof images of the action deck and bennies, they both turned out great!

Thank you,

Dan

It’s about that time!
5 months ago – Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 06:32:29 AM

BOOKS: A few updates have been made to the Core Book over the past two months while you guys have been reviewing the PDF. The final versions of both, the full color cover core book and the alternate sketch cover Kickstarter core book are finalized and ready to be uploaded to drivethruRPG. My layout artist is adding the last few completed images to the Gamemaster Handbook this week. That said, as soon as the GM Handbook is ready to be uploaded to drivethru, I will begin shipping books. Battle for Oz: Pirates for the holidays!! 

PHYSICAL STRETCH GOALS: Ive already got the Oz dice ready to ship. I will be ordering the cards and bennies this month. It’s my hope that I can have all of the physical stretch goals out by the end of January but that will be a fluid process as I will be packaging all of the those goodies and shipping them out all by myself. 

A few final art adds for the GM Handbook.