Holy cow, we picked up a little traction here and just broke through 175!
At this goal, we unlock the Chronicler of Choice (shared in last update) and the Accuser (coming soon!) for the art print set! Anyone getting the art print set is now getting 13 prints in that set! 
Additionally, the artists involved are all getting a bonus $100, czarfunkle, Amy Smith, Sam Dow, and the Caretaker, and we're adding 10 copies to the Community Copy pool AND $100 on the Community Funds!

This is exciting as all get out for me! I considered at the start of all this trying to update the symbols myself. Then I remembered that I already did my best job as a graphic designer on the first set, and so I stepped back and asked for some help. Amy Smith has done a remarkable job on the dice so far, and I want to share some of these!
Note that these new symbols will be on the 126-face Oracle Die Face Deck.

These symbols are nearly finalized, but may be subject to change.

 

As you can see, the Fate die had a total face lift and is now more in-tune with the Gambler.  On the Autumn die, we swapped the simple wheel for a full carriage, and replaced the Blood face (with the slit throat) with the new Stores face, featuring a barrel, stocked for the winter. The Actions die also has lots of changes to it to match the Lord's art, and similar changes like these are being done throughout the dice to update them in interesting new ways. 

Excited to share more dice as we get further with the redesigns! The Elements die looks so so so good.

This strange being is heralded by a swarm of butterflies, which gather in such numbers they block all vision. Then, she emerges. She is certainly not human, strange iridescent skin and always followed by muffled screams. Her die speaks of the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, creatures she is obsessed with herself. But she herself is something altogether different. A fae omen. She comes on quivering wings, and she is here. Be wary of what you say to her.

Hello supporters! You are all lovely human beings and I am thankful for each and every one of you. Thanks for joining this journey!

Today has been a brutal day in terms of news in the US, and those in power seem to think threatening even worse things in the future is the way forward. This seems like as good a time as any for me to bring up and talk about my Community Copy and Funds programs attached to this project. More than ever, mutual aid through the arts is needed.

Community Copies
For every 100 sets of dice claimed on this project, whether they are stone or plastic, full or only the new dice in the upgrade tier, a set is being added to the community pool. The final count to determine how many community sets there are will be determined after people have a chance to get add-ons properly in the pledge manager, and after pre-orders get finished.

If you or a friend or loved one would love a set, but cannot afford it right now, no questions asked, they can fill out the google form here to sign up on the list.  Right now, there are 96 people on the list, but just barely 30 sets in the pool. This will change when we hit post-campaign and people can order extras, or outright order a community set for $35 as an add-on. Plus retailers will schew this upwards big time! : )
The signup form is here.

Those who get the sets do not have to pay a dime, not for the items not for shipping. If they are international, there may be import taxes or fees associated, but I will cover whatever I can.

Community Funds
Additionally 5% of the funds earned on this campaign after the 10% fees of Bk and card charging goes through is being set aside as a divination community fund. Right now thats a good $8000! I will be disbursing it equally among projects for the rest of the year-- indie tarot artists, oracle makers, and small presses trying to do their first divination projects. It's a small thing, but it means a lot to have strings-free financial support. I could have used it when I started, and I want to pay this forward as much as possible. 
I'll especially be looking for spots where we can help push them over their goals on crowdfunding projects, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Backerkit, etc. 

Every choice we make crafts our own history. The massive and small choices all matter, and they are represented in the biggest themes that overtake our lives. On the Majors Die, we see some of these biggest moments of change, strangeness, or adversity. Joy, fleeting as it is, is as important as loss, as the weight of a final choice.

The Chronicler of Choice knows this, and writes it all down with equal attention. The good and the bad. It is all in our history.

So one of the best ways to support this campaign right now is to share the campaign with people who might be excited about it! A piece of that is this-- please feel free to share in comments here your favorite occult, arcane, or indie book stores! Got a metaphysical shop in town you think might want a retailer set of these dice? Please let me know about them! 
Share their store website, or better, their store email if you have it on hand!
I will be sending out emails to them letting them know that one of their patrons suggested them. This is going to be one of the best and fastest ways to increase our community copy pool, and it will help get some of the Pub Gob's weirdness in your local stores! : )

Thank you all!

Tomorrow is my birthday, and this weekend is Denver Pride. I'll be there with my incredible boyfriend and maybe I'll see some of you there. Find your joy where you can, in the face of all the horrors of the world. We're here together. Take heart in that.

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It's no secret that the Alleyman's Tarot was the biggest tarot crowdfunding project of all time, and that it's been a long time coming. We have now locked in July 15th as the date when the www.AlleymanTarot.com site will open for sales. But because we have time before then, and because the pricing on the Alleyman's Tarot is going up quite a bit for the late sales, I wanted to offer sets here and now.
So you can now add-on $100 for a full set of the Alleyman's Tarot, including the deck, the guidebook, and Booster Packs 1-4, or you can add-on $120 to your order for a full set plus the sweet mahogany wooden cigar box that fits the deck in its original deckbox.

Pledge now to get access to the Alleyman's Tarot add-on.

This is a $28 savings from the pricing we'll offer on the shop when it opens in July, so it's a good time to get it while you can. This will only be available for people who back this campaign, it will not be an available add-on for people who place pre-orders after this campaign ends. So you can increase your pledge by $100 or $120 now to set that money aside early, or you will be able to add it to your pledge in the pledge manager after the campaign, alongside your pledge tier.

A reminder that every backer on this project will get to use the pledge manager-- it's an innate part of making a pledge. You don't have to pick any specific tier to get access to it after the campaign to add items! :)

I've seen a bit of confusion about add-ons and pledge tiers. Pledge Tiers are the thing you select to make a pledge, and they include only what is listed at that tier. Add-Ons are extra items you can add to your pledge after you've picked a Pledge Tier.
 
On this campaign, to claim an add-on, that will actually come after the project, when we go to the pledge manager (and anyone who pledged on this campaign will get into the pledge manager, regardless of pledge tier). This happens about a week or so after the campaign ends, and you'll all be able to go into your pledge and pick individual items to add to your cart from the Add-Ons list. Because it doesn't happen until the campaign is done, you are not required to do anything right now to claim add-ons. However, if you adjust your pledge and add the amount of $$ that the add-ons you want will cost now before the campaign ends, that will do two things:

1) You'll help increase the funds earned on the campaign right now, while we're still trying to hit stretch goals.
2) You'll pre-emptively set aside the funds you want to spend on add-ons, which when we get to the Pledge Manager, becomes account credit you can then assign to the add-ons you want! This will be very helpful if you want to make sure you keep an eye on how much you spend on this project, as it makes sure everything but shipping is coming out with your pledge.

I heard people wanting just the plastic set of dice or just the book or just the cloth for various reasons, so I'm also including the components of a basic pledge as add-ons starting today.

And so many of you have waited patiently for this, so I'm happy to announce the stone choices for the Stone Dice Set! I am working with a stone dice manufacturer to make this happen, and worked within their catalogue of available stones. Here were my choices.

Actions Die (Pink w black) Natural light amethyst with black ink

Obstacle Die (Red with black) Natural Red Stone with black ink

Element Die (Beige with black) Natural Flower Green with black ink

Relations (White with black) Natural White Jade with black ink

Suits (Gray with black) Natural Cardinals with gray ink

Majors (Black with red) Natural Obsidian with red ink

Winter (blue with white) Natural Snow Stone with light blue ink

Spring (green with yellow) Natural Indian Agate with Yellow ink

Summer (yellow with red) Natural Yellow Jade with Red ink

Autumn (Orange with black) Natural Tiger Eye Color with grey ink

Metamorphosis (Purple with orange) Synthetic Wood Grain Stone with Purple ink

Alchemist (dark blue with white/green) Natural Amethyst with very light green ink

Mariner's (Teal with white) Natural Lazurite with teal ink

Fate (Bone with Purple) Natural Wood Grain Stone with metallic purple or red ink

Wounds Natural Colored Fluorite with red ink

Kindness Natural Opal with gold ink

Attention Natural Flash light stone with silver ink

Longings Aventurine Jade with purple ink

Goblin Natural Hematite with dark green ink

Alleyman Natural Picture Jasper with bronze metallic ink

Influences Finch Stone with off-white ink

Here I have each die listed, with their original color combination in parentheses, then the stone and ink combinations I'm choosing for each. I stayed with natural stones in most every case, but exhausted their catalogue in a couple spots, such as with the Metamorphosis die where I liked the synthetic wood grain for that die. I left the Rainbow Stone aside to use on the 22nd die I think, but we'll see how that comes to pass. At this time the guidebook will be intended to include a picture of the stone die in their dice sections, but there will be nothing in the book that talks much about the stone collection, nor will it go into detail about the stone's properties. All tiers that get a book will get the same book. (Someone asked so I wanted to be clear!)

We are nearing completion of the updates to the original dice set's symbols, and when that happens, I will be sending those in to have a set made ahead of time and will of course share as soon as I have pictures to! And of course-- I will do an update just about the updated symbols of the original dice!

Thank you,

7DA, 
your Pub Gob

Now that I have a pretty good idea of what the project is doing, I think that the new stretch goals will get us where we need to go!

And a side note from a chat with the CEO of Backerkit (whaaat am I famous or something? No, backerkit is just really cool) we're in the top 5 crowdfunding projects live right now on any website! So we're still doing something right, even if we slowed down a bit! :) 

Part of setting them up was shifting some to price points we've already passed retroactively, which is a weird choice, but it allowed me to bring in all the artist pay bumps to the front of the campaign and get them unlocked! You can see them on the campaign, but here they are for your perusal:

50,000 - Funded!
75,000 - The Nameless Mariner ... and a bonus $1000 goes to Sam Dow for designing the Mariner's Die!
100,000 - The Heir of Earth - And czarfunkle gets a bonus $2000 for their work on the Lords!
125,000 - The Quivering Monarch ... and a bonus $3,000 goes to Amy Smith for their work redesigning the dice symbols and designing the Monarch's Die!
150,000 - The Gambler - And a bonus $1000 goes to Caretaker for designing the Caretaker's Die!

175,000 - The Chronicler of Choice, The Accuser ... and the artists each get a bonus $100 to their pay! +10 Community Copies and +$100 to Community funds!
200,000 - The Collector of Selves, The Tarot Keeper ... and we unlock the Goblin's Coin, a Yes/No coin that is now available as a $3 add-on.
225,000 - The Bearer of Boons, The Martyr of Wounds ... and the artists each get a bonus $100 to their pay! +10 Community Copies and +$100 to Community funds!
250,000 - The Stitch Queen, They Who Hunger ... and we unlock the Reading Journal, a 200-page workbook that is made for dice readings, now available as a $10 add-on!
275,000 - The Showman, The Alleyman ... and the artists each get a bonus $100 to their pay! +10 Community Copies and +$100 to Community funds!
300,000 - The 22nd Die is unlocked and its Lord added to the print set. We will work together through votes to determine who the Lord is, and what faces their die has!

...of note, this new list of goals means we've already added two more prints to the print set! czarfunkle has been working their butt off to get these cards illustrated with a quick turnaround, and I'm excited to share with you all right now the Heir of Earth and the Nameless Mariner! 

czarfunkle, you are wonderful. Thank you for your ongoing work, I'm so so excited to see the remaining lords, and I'm sure everyone else is, too!

On that note, I'd like to address something I've heard confusion on from a few backers regarding the oracle decks! The 21-Lords Oracle will feature just the 21 Lords, the art you've been seeing like these. The 126-Card Dice Face Oracle deck will feature the die face symbols on cards. I'll be borrowing czarfunkle's amazing borders and text to set those up so that the 6 dice of the Mariner's die for example will follow the Nameless Mariner's border and text color schemes. They will also have the same backs, so you can mix them up if you want! I have them as separate decks just because I felt people who would want one might not necessarily be the same as those who'd want the other. We'll see.

Also, the 21-Lord oracle was free to backers who pledged in the first 24 hours, from June 15th at 8am MST to June 16th at 8am MST. You can't see it anywhere in your pledge just yet, but when we get to the end of the campaign and the pledge manager opens up, you'll see it automatically in your cart. At that point, you can add on extra items to your pledge! : )

You have all spoken, and I listened! The Wood Box will now have Options when we get to the pledge manager!
You will be able to get a Goblin top engraving, a Dice Symbol top engraving, or a Blank top with no engraving.
There were some other really awesome ideas I heard, and I might try to integrate them into the Dice Symbol option. Thanks for sharing everyone!

So if you were not certain about the box because of the Goblin, or you weren't getting it because of it, feel free to swap tiers or add some funds to your pledge now to claim the box, it has options! I will draw up some thoughts on what the Dice Symbol top might look like. I'm imagining either in their slots as the inside of the box is, so it would be a kind of guide for where dice go if you wanted, or doing them on the outer rim as a border. Feel free to let me know your preference, but know only one can be picked in the end!

Thanks everyone. You rock!

I've had a few people ask me about the wood box engraving, and if they'll all for sure have the goblin head on them. At first I said yes, but now I'm accepting that for some people that might be a deal breaker on the box, and the box is so cool, so I want to make it available. So let's take a vote on alternatives we might like!

Would you like:
The Goblin Face!
A circle of 21 main faces of the dice!
A Blank top!
... or something else entirely! Let me know in the comments!

I will offer the Goblin face and another or maybe two and a blank top version. There is a logo on the bottom as a small square, which you can see here. That will be on all of them, it's a mark of pride because I designed them and I'm very proud of them! So consider it something of a maker's mark.

Now that we're past day 1, where people were getting the Lord's Oracle for free, I feel comfortable offering an Oracle tier that is just the Oracle Decks. Please note if you change to it now and your original pledge was in the first 24 hours, you're still getting the Lord's for free, so you'll just be getting two. 
This new tier offers the Lord's Oracle and the full 126-card oracle deck of the dice faces, and it will include the dice guidebook so you can read the faces and card meanings from that. I'll get images up for that on the campaign and on the pledge tier itself soon!

The seasons have come, from Spring to Summer to Autumn, and now a chill wind takes the air. In all her contemplative frosty attire, the Maiden of Winter arrives, inviting a time of introspection and memory.

The campaign is still growing, though quite a bit slower than I'd imagined after the day 1. I'd put off setting the stretch goals at first because I felt I wanted a feel for the new campaign, but I had people asking about their amounts and we'd just had an incredible day 1, so I set them around what I thought might happen. We're clearly not going to reach those upper heights at this pace, so I'm doing a couple things:
I'll be approaching 'marketing' on the project differently, and find new ways to draw people in with some fun interactive campaigns.
I'll be re-setting the stretch goals this week based on our new trajectory.


This week, I am going to share with you all some really exciting stuff about the dice set's redesign, and we'll talk the stone set's stone selection! 

Thank you all you amazing folks! Talk soon

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