Eldritch Foundry: Create your Dream Miniature

Eldritch Foundry- correcting a mistake
almost 5 years ago – Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:59:54 PM

This is an update to just our Dragon's Hoard retailer tier, so everyone else can disregard. Yasaf will be sending out an actual cool and interesting update soon(tm).

After talking with the guys at Kickstarter, I've been told that the only way to make sure that the Dragon's Hoard tier shows the correct amount of vouchers (200, not 50), is to limit it, ask you guys to switch over to the correct, new tier (same as the old one, just... you know. Correct.) and then deleting this tier and pretending it never existed.

So... I apologize for the hassle, and humbly ask that you switch over to the new Dragon's Hoard tier.

Thank you!

Mat

500% Funded! Mounts! and some Concept Art to feast your eyes!
almost 5 years ago – Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:59:41 PM

Hi All,

First of all, thank you everyone for supporting us, 500% in less than two days is huge. We are constantly blown away by the love and positivity shown to us by this community.

Mounts:

• We'll discuss mounts next update, getting here so quickly was unforeseen. I have a preliminary list in mind, but please feel free to put in requests. I only beg for single comment thread, so things don't get lost.

Requests for items:

• We keep getting requests for items and options, to that we say "Thank you, keep them coming". Your feedback is invaluable in helping us see things we might have glossed over as unimportant, too niche or simply did not come to mind for whatever reason. 
• We cannot promise every single thing will be ready for launch, but know that everything is discussed and prioritized and nothing goes ignored. 
• Once we finish the campaign we'll get to work on defining a launch packet. And, ideally, once we launch we'll have a live release schedule. This way everyone can see when their long desired item/pose/race is due, and plan accordingly.
• It is also worth noting for those super specific requests, the top "Inner Sanctum" tiers are there for just such needs

Races: 

• These are the races unlocked so far. Two exceptions are the gnomes which are missing due to some silly filing error on my part and half-orcs which we've shared in a previous update.
• An important design note, we work hard to ensure that different races actually look and feel different. Each race has their own unique anatomy and proportions. 
• We strive to avoid that whole people with ears thing (I'm looking at you Romulans & Vulcans); however, if that's what you as a user want, you can have it still.

Thank you for bearing my ramblings,

Yasaf 

Our Eldritch Vaults!
almost 5 years ago – Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:59:05 PM

Hey Eldritch Backers! Short update: we're already up to over 165,000$, well over 550% and moving strong towards our next stretch goal (tiny races! Pixies, Imps, Goblins and... possibly Kobolds.) So get your friends on the Eldritch Train, and let's get this ball rolling even faster!

We've also gotten a lot of questions on Firbolgs (thank you Mr. Clay)- those will be part of our animal-kin races.

I'd like to highlight a little something I'm excited about and hasn't received enough attention thus far- our boxes, the Eldritch Vaults!

The Eldritch Vault (or "box the mini comes in" if you insist) is a metal, 3x3x1.5 inch box, with inlaid foam- so you can carry your minis around safely and comfortably. It fits quite a few minis snugly- my personal best is 5, but YMMV - or just the one and a dice set. We've been smashing our boxes around to make sure everything inside stays nice and warm, and thus far- we have failed miserably to break anything, which is a success in my book!

And did we mention each mini comes with it's own Eldritch Vault? Because each one comes with its own Vault. 

Our next update will cover our races, new and old, as well as mounts, so stay tuned!

-Mat

300%! Cyber Punk! And also actual updates
almost 5 years ago – Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:03:00 PM

Thank you all, this has been a wild (look at the clock) not even a day?! 

We're overwhelmed by all the love you've shown us.

We're now 300% funded and well past our third(?!) stretch goal- Cyber Punk! Time for some neon mohawk-toting decker deoths (dwarves) to take the stage!

I'll take this opportunity to go over a few points that we've seen raised- we see you guys, and we're working very hard to make sure all your questions and comments get answered. 

Minor issues:

• Various typos- we're fixing as fast as we can! If you catch any, please let us know.
• We print at 32 microns
• Shipping is free in the US, 10$ otherwise
• Of course we'll have capes! (We were trying to sneak in an Incredibles joke, badly, it would seem)

Tier levels:

• Our high-level retailer tier mistakenly shows 50 minis instead of 200 (the correct amount shown in our graphics). We can't fix it on our end now, so we've reached out to Kickstarter to correct it.
• The Barracks level (49$) tier does not include our conditional marker bases, for that you'll need the Trapdoor tier.
• Add-ons and changing things post-pledge: first and foremost- once the backer kit goes live you can change things around. So if you took the Courtyard (39$) tier but don't want a conditional marker, you could assign the remainder to other things. Our backer-kit will have all sorts of additional things that just didn't fit in well on the mainline page (shirts, our miniaturized Squish logo, decals, etc.).

The product:

• Our baseline models are 34mm (1 inch base)
• We will have enlarged models (twice the size, 2 inch base)
• We haven't considered 25mm scale until now, we're looking into how difficult it will be to implement in our system.
• STLs! We are most definitely going to offer STLs! It's a feature we'll be implementing not long after launch. It's not a massively difficult feature, we're just very, very, very focused on getting our system up and running first and foremost.

I think that's it for now?

Thank you,

Mat

PS

This is like... the craziest, weirdest timeline for us. Thank you one and all (and thank you critters, we love you!)