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The Publishing Goblin's Oracle Dice

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The Publishing Goblin's Oracle Dice Now Available!
7 months ago – Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 12:54:09 PM



Publishing Goblin's Oracle Dice Collection – Alleyman Tarot

Over on the www.AlleymanTarot.com site, where we're offering the remaining Alleyman's Tarot sets, we are now offering the Publishing Goblin's Oracle Dice in their 2nd edition! You can get the dice set, the cloth, the guide, the wooden box, the stone dice (while they last), the oracle decks, and the art prints!

Grab the set, with the 22 dice in velvet bag, the reading cloth, and the guidebook for $45 here!

It's been a while, but I'm glad to finally be able to offer the set to everyone. I'm very proud of the set, the guide, and the divination system as a whole. I hope it will become a new favorite for all of you as well.

Thanks everyone,
7DA,
your Pub Gob

Deadline Passed | The Future of the Oracle Dice | Hello!
12 months ago – Tue, May 23, 2023 at 09:59:58 AM

Hello dice goblins!

A week ago today, we hit the deadline for people to get their final information in, fix payment, etc for their orders.
As of today, 16 people never did their surveys, and 30 people never paid for their shipping.  All of them were reached out to multiple times, and I did my best to get them squared away. 12 people who did get those things taken care of had their orders handed over to New Titan, and those should be going into the mail in the next couple weeks.

Prior to this though, 3,318 backers had their orders shipped and received since we launched, and that's a much more pleasant number!

I do want to note that you can still reach out to me at [email protected] and New Titan (our manufacturer/fulfillment partner) at [email protected] if your order arrives and is damaged or missing items. The new deadline here is 45 days from today to let us know if your package went missing or if items are missing/damaged from your order.

I do want to be clear, the best way to reach us (and get a reply) is by email. Commenting on backerkit doesn't alert me in any way so I generally just don't end up seeing comments here. (On Kickstarter I get an email for every single message/comment, which is why Im so much more responsive there!) So please email!

July 7th is the deadline to let us know if your package is missing/damaged, or if items are missing or damaged from your order. After that time, this project will be considered fully put to bed.

The Future of the Oracle Dice

We will be shipping out the extra items from the www.alleymantarot.com website for sales in June I believe, as well as selling some on the Alleyway Oracles project, which is just going into its second week now. (There are 3 new dice on the project in the Tulsa add-on bag on the Alleyway Oracles, which are game-themed but will be designed by the Oracle Dice's symbol designer, and will come with a card of meanings to be read with the set!) We may manufacture some extra items as we go, or we may just sell out the remaining stock-- hard to say! But this time next year if all the items are gone, perhaps we'll look at a remanufacturing to stock back up.

I've noted (and seen others say) that the Metamorphosis die is a bit hard to read, largely because the details are much more delicate and some of it didn't get fully inked. I think that would be up first for a revision. Are there other dice, colors, or color combos that you might want to see different? Let me know as you begin working with your sets! I wouldn't be looking to do a full 3rd edition update necessarily, just some fixes and corrections here and there, and happy to hear what you all think!

The first edition had a lot to work from and fix, but this edition feels so much better. Maybe I'll change my mind after a year working with them, but this might be just about their final form. That's a nice feeling, to think the tool is fully there. I'm sure I'll want to update the guidebook in another year, but the dice are right where I want them.

Hello!


This year, I'm trying more than ever to be present at all the things I can be present at. Last year, I was invited to be a headlining guest at the Phoenix Autumn Meet pagan festival in Florida, and I'll be returning this year as a non-headlining guest. Then closer to Samhain, I will be at the Florida Pagan Gathering as a headlining guest!

In August I'll be at GenCon, running games of ZOETROPE, my timetraveling card-based RPG, as well as my Five Nights at Freddy's unofficial TTRPG system, then I'll be at Pax Unplugged to do much the same and Big Bad Con also!

If you're working at a pagan or tabletop event and can invite guests, I'm happy to go most anywhere and would love the chance to meet many of you! So where are you all going, and do you think you might see me at one of your events? Let me know! : )

Fond regards for all of you dice gremlins,

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Deadline Tonight/Tomorrow | Second Batch Orders | Alleyway Oracles
12 months ago – Tue, May 16, 2023 at 03:12:59 PM

First off, I want to let everyone know that the deadline for the 17 people who haven't done their surveys, and the 41 people with declined cards/failed to charge shipping is tonight. I will accept any emails or connections tonight or tomorrow, but on the 18th I will be exporting the last batch of orders for New Titan to fulfill.

On the 18th, anyone who has not reached out who still has a survey or order outstanding with shipping fees, etc, will have their order forfeit.

Second Batch Orders

I've had a few emails from people who were asking after orders that came in late-- either they did the survey after the first batch was sent or paid shipping late-- whatever the case may be. As I understand it, this 'second batch' has been going out but has been a bit slow. Notably, US and Canadian orders are still coming overseas, but I just heard that a ship was arriving so that should be taken care of soon.

If you're uncertain about the state of your order, an item is missing, or your package gets lost in the mail, please email [email protected]. I'm sorry about last update where I originally typed the email incorrectly. I updated it and fixed it, but the email that went out with the update still had the wrong email. My apologies!

If you want to connect with me for any reason, you can drop me an email at [email protected]. Please be a little patient with me as I'm now inundated with emails from the new project, spam people claiming they can promote me, etc. But I will get to you! :>

The Oracles


The Alleyway Oracles has been live for just 8 hours and it's already made 200,000+. The biggest day for the Alleyman's Tarot was $107k or so. So this might be another massive one. But we have lots of stretch goals and items to unlock and have revealed, so please if you are so inclined, go take a look! 

If you're still waiting on your dice in the first or second batch of orders, there are no hard feelings if you'd rather sit this new project out until your items arrive. I understand and appreciate having had your support on the dice!

Thanks everyone, excited to put this project to bed in a couple days-- and ALL the more excited to have you all get the dice sets in hand already and into the coming weeks. These dice really have been so special for me. I enjoy the tarot decks, but the dice were entirely my own thing, my design, my concept, my guidance. I hope it serves you well for many years to come, and you can rest knowing that this set will stand for years yet. If I remanufacture, I will just fix typos in the book. The set is just as it should be.

My thanks,

7DA,
your pub gob


Deadline Approaching | Shipping Updates | The PDF Guidebook!
12 months ago – Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:30:13 PM

Hello everyone!

First off, some people have been asking after the PDF of the guidebook. Let me square that away right now.
THE PDF GUIDEBOOK
Click there, and you can download the book!

Secondly, I know some people (66) had their orders split into two packages because there were slightly too many items. For those, as I understand, the books (Dice Guide, Alleyman's Guide) were removed and sent separately in Media Mail packages. Apologies, if I had known ahead of time I would have warned you.

Finally, if you have any issues with your packages-- if an item is missing, or your dice set is incomplete (three people have had a single die missing or a duplicate of one die which replaced another, so please check your sets), PLEASE reach out to [email protected]. We will get you taken care of, no worries! And we will take care of issues with orders for a fair bit longer than the below deadline-- that's just for people to get their things in to receive their package at all. I will announce when we're reaching the deadline to inform us of any missing or damaged items though, so try to reach out sooner than later.

Extra items will be made available on the www.alleymantarot.com website store late this month for sale, if you're curious!

THE DEADLINE

A reminder for everyone that surveys (21 people) and fixing not-charging cards (39 people) must be done by the 16th this month to be fulfilled. After that date, officially I won't be fulfilling any late people. I sent emails to all these 60 people, and many have already fixed the issues. I can be flexible if people contact me before the cutoff on the 16th, but I need to be talked to before that time.

At that time, remaining orders will be considered forfeit, and no refunds will be given. The warning has been given!

SHIPPING UPDATES

Everything has been sent, with very few exceptions. I was told that this week the remaining Alleyman Tarot-only orders are going out, and by the point I post this, either all of them should be out or 3/4ths of them. In either case, the others will go out tomorrow. If you haven't received your package or a tracking number, check in with your email, or email New Titan at the email shared at the top of the update. But this project is, with the exception of some late survey-finishers or card-fixers, fulfilled!

I have received so many excited images on social media, emails, DMs, and elsewhere, and Im so happy to see the dice in the world. This is a truly fantastic project with a gorgeous product. It took 11 months with a few hiccups with manufacturing, but it was well worth it and the set is truly amazing. Please continue to share them online and tag me in your pictures! @PublishingGoblin on Instagram, @PublishGoblin or @DaneAsmund on Twitter, and @PublishingGoblin on Tumblr. Y'all are amazing!

WHAT IS "IN SHADOW"?

A few people have reached out to ask me what it means in the guidebook for a die to be 'in shadow'.  I apologize, I wasn't meaning to be obtuse! For me, tarot cards, oracle cards, and the dice, have "At their best, they mean __. At their worst, or inverse, they mean ___." They have a range of meanings. The Queen of Swords to me is at her best in her power and the final judge of things brought before her. At her worst though, she can be too quick to make decisions, and her cuts with her blade cannot be undone once made, meaning her haste can make it impossible to fix the issue. I don't always look for her to be in reverse to read this 'inverse' meaning, sometimes the rest of the reading lets me know it is her haste and mistakes that are being looked at here.

The dice are the same to me. At its best, it might mean ___. At its worst, it might mean ___. Shadow is that second piece, the understanding of the other side of the coin to its message, so to speak. Shadow can be read in many situations, but for me it's always intuitively. If two dice are at odds with one another, their Shadow aspects might be speaking to one another more than their more traditional meaning. A seasonal die in the wrong season might be speaking to its Shadow. Sometimes, a die on its own simply due to the rest of the reading feels more in Shadow. 

I'd consider it very similar to Tarot, where some readers simply ignore reverse cards and always read them right side up. If you feel the Shadow intentions of the dice are too vague or hard to draw a line on when they enter a reading, you can eschew that piece of the die's meaning. The dice should serve your uses, after all, and if they don't-- throw away what doesn't work!

THE ALLEYWAY ORACLES

And as you might have expected, I have to mention that the Alleyway Oracles, the sequel to the Alleyman's Tarot, is launching in just a week! May 16th! Things are coming together now for the last-minute push. If you love your dice, if you adored your Alleyman's, please consider pledging at least a $1 even if you don't need another deck (or three!) Every backer counts massively, and I appreciate all of your support.
You can click through here to sign up to be notified for launch!

And that's all for now my friends! I'm so glad we've got this project finished and in people's hands. For those of you whose packages are still on the way, I hope it's a joyous day when it arrives. I only finally got my own package recently as well haha, but it's all as lovely as I wished the first edition could have been. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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US and Canada Orders About to Send! | International Orders Sent! | The Final Deadline
about 1 year ago – Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 12:40:40 PM

Hello dice goblins!

As of today, the vessel with the US and Canadian orders has landed in the states. We don't have our shipping container just yet, but likely should this week, next week at the latest if there are customs issues with the ship. That means you should be receiving shipping notices this week into next week for those orders.

International orders were all already sent out, shipping notices are going to people in ongoing batches as things reach their checkpoints. This would be all the orders that were completed in time for me sending things over to the fulfillment center.

Late Surveys and Shipping Payments

I know many people were worried about if they were one of the people who didn't pay shipping or who didn't do their surveys. But they didn't know how to get there!

From backer MariexLupin on the previous update:
  • This was a pain for me to find too. At the top of the site, if you click your profile pic, it will open a menu. Click "Your Pledges and Surveys". It will take you to the "Your Pledges on Backerkit" page. You have to click the "Your Surveys" option near the top of the page, and that will let you click through to your order review page.

This should get you clear access to your pledge to see if your stuff is all up to date. Thanks Marie!

Just now, I went in and added shipping costs to 38 people who got their surveys in late. Or rather-- I sent it to my Backerkit representative who is now putting it onto those 38 people. I can't do it myself, it's all on their backend. Once those are through, I will charge those people.

On Friday the 28th this month, I will be putting the 100~ or so people who have their things in late (surveys or shipping charges) into a sheet to give to the fulfillment center to send packages out.

As of today, we have 23 people who haven't filled out their surveys (I just emailed all of them), 25 people whose cards have failed to charge that need to clear things with their banks or update the card on file to be charged, and 66 people who are set to go that will be sent in the batch of late orders on Friday.

The Final Deadline

A reminder of last update's Final Deadline.

For the 100 people still fixing shipping costs and surveys, you have until May 16th to get it done, or to reach out to Backerkit support/me for any assistance you need to get things set in place. Up to and about a week after that time, I will put orders through with New Titan to fulfill them.

After that time (May 16th, 2023), any unclaimed rewards will be forfeit. I have a difficult time the larger these projects get maintaining late surveys and shipping orders. There are still 200 people on the Alleyman's Tarot who never filled out their surveys. Here and now, and into the future, I'm putting some limits on all future projects for how long after we fulfill I'll accept and handle late orders.

If you talk to me now I can always be flexible for things I am made aware of! But there does need to be a final deadline in place, or else sometimes I find people expect me to fulfill 1, 2, even 4 years later, when I no longer have the product! (That just happened!)

After May 16th, any pledges left unclaimed, either because surveys were left undone, or shipping left unpaid, will consider the pledge rewards forfeit. I will not be doing refunds on those, with the funds paid-in considered support for the project.

Thanks all!

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