Everything one needs to bring the natural earth of their fantasy world to life in one 400+ page groundbreaking tome!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
January Update - Locking addresses!
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:36:54 PM
Hello everyone, we have finally made it through 2020, and I hope you are all as happy as we are about that! So to all of you wonderful backers, Happy New Year!
So a few things as we wrap up the first full preview:
We are locking addresses and you will be given enough time to make any last-minute changes to your shipping address. Having updated and accurate addresses will save time and reduce shipping costs by preventing returned packages.
After 48 hours from this update, all addresses will automatically be locked.
If you miss the lock deadline, do not worry. I can still change your address manually.
I know we had some hiccups with moving, deaths, and just the year in general, so thank you all for being patient with us!
I really think you allwill love the content, and once we send the preview, the most important thing is to remember that it is exactly that:A PREVIEW!
What I mean is, please do not freak out when the quality is only at 150DPI and that there are errors. When we send out the preview, this is when we want you all to give us feedback, critiques, reviews, and this can be good or bad!
Deep Dungeon Games cannot get better, and I personally cannot get any better without your voice. We listen I promise, It is just me behind the answering of messages, comments, and things of that nature, and I do everything I can.
The main reason for the preview pdf is to allow us and the proofreader a copy to catch all the errors we can.
We are human, and a small team but we continue to get better, more efficient, more knowledgeable with mechanics, and as always bringing you very detailed content.
We are only 178 pages remaining for layout, and while that might seem like a lot. Our layout professional is super-efficient. With the editing complete, it will not take him long to wrap it up.
So in the next couple of weeks, we will have the full preview.
The full book is looking like it will be around 573 pages!
We will let all backers view the preview PDF for two to three weeks to help us ensure a quality book.
During this time we will have the book proofread as well, again to ensure a quality book.
After that, we just need to test print the book, and fulfillment begins!
We were almost able to keep to the predicted timeline, and that is all because of the amazing team! Thank you all for being patient with the project and when the aspects of life that we cannot get around. Give us a shout if you have any address changes or need any sort of update before we start fulfillment!
Only 24 hours are left to support the first large project for 2021 and you're not going to want to miss your chance to grab the most comprehensive collection of travel, terrain, and transportation for fantasy RPGs.
The Voyages of the Vagabond is a combination of fantasy roleplaying game supplements that can be used by any Game Master to help detail and build their fantasy worlds. In this project, these supplements will be focused on the roads of fantasy worlds and the environments that they exist in. It is a great way for a Game Master to expand their fantasy world, build upon current writings, or even pull content that fits their world the best
Alright, everyone, we will keep you updated as we get to finish up and begin the fulfillment process. Thank you everyone and let us hope that 2021 is a much better year!
Hobie Hill - Deep Dungeon Games
Editing Complete!
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:14:29 PM
Hello all you wonderful backers, I hope this update finds you well after coming off from the holidays. We did take some time to enjoy it as well, but we have still been hard at work. Thank you to all of our loyal backers, those who stayed engaged with the project, and being patient with the progress. I am excited to announce that editing for all of the content in The Mineralogy Manual is officially complete!
Now, all we have remaining to get the first full look of the content is to finish the layout and reviews the elements, minerals, rocks, ley lines, and heroes sections. Our layout expert is handling each section diligently, and working with the tweaks and changes flawlessly. So it should only be two to three more weeks before we have the first official look at the content in the book! We currently are at 403 pages that are done with layout and we are anticipating the remaining pages to be around 174 pages. This brings the total page count of the book to a whopping 577 pages, and that is just insane. We are pretty excited about the outcome and truly cannot wait to show you the preview pdf in the coming weeks.
We are 200% funded and have unlocked three stretch goals. With your support, we can unlock even more stretch goals like centaur herds, hermit NPC's, wilderness camps, and more. We're reaching out to YOU because you expressed interest in our Kickstarter, and we wanted to make sure that you pledge now.
Our latest project is in the final week and we want to give you at least one more chance to support it! You can click any of the photos to be taken to the project.
In one chapter of Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go the content will cover the fantastic and more animal-like mounts that the common races of the fantasy realms ride. These races include dwarves, elves, humans, orcs, gnomes, halflings, and more. These are animals that would require training for both the mount and rider. The mounts are not necessarily magical but are definitely fantastic. They could also be beasts of burden that are used for work and transporting goods, mounts that might need to be summoned from another plane, take a special ritual to summon, or are encountered across the different terrains across the lands.
10 methods of transportation that require a more magical or mechanical understanding to be achieved.
A one of a kind transportation tavern filled with unique characters and menu items.
150 detailed traveling non-player characters to bring roads a bit of personality.
A caravan generator filled with wagons, cargo, roles, resources, and more.
100 myths and legends from tomes to tell around the fireside
We really could use your support for both books included in Voyages of the Vagabond. We understand that your gaming budget is valuable and, during the holiday season, it gets exceptionally tight. We appreciate every one of our backers, and would rather provide our backers with rewards that make it affordable and worthwhile. The year 2020 took a hit content creators extremely hard by taking away conventions and events many of us depend on to bring in income. For us, it was either fold the card or dig deep and focus on writing during the utter chaos that the world is in. This is why we are creating more than usual and you gain the benefit of this by having access to extreme discounts for this project.
By supporting this Kickstarter and the content within it you are directly impacting the livelihood of our team members. The successful funding of this project will allow them to continue their work on this project and to finish the production of these books.
Every backer directly impacts creators and the work of:
Writers
Artists
Graphic Designers
Editors
printers and more!
You are also supporting us and saying you love our content. We are providing extreme discounts for those who back our projects, share, follow our social media, and lift us up. A few more reasons to support this project are:
You wish to enhance the traveling of your games, instead of skipping over it.
You wish to have a more detailed understanding of terrains, travel, and the interaction of how magic can affect these concepts.
You want system neutral content that can outlast any edition or chosen system you use.
You are tired of unrealistic material that uses magic as a bandaid instead of accounting for a world's natural laws and how it interacts logically with magic.
Youlove supporting 3rd party content from creators like Deep Dungeon Games.
Youlove collecting RPG books, supplements, and content for yournerd shelf.
If you are unable to back this project, you can take part in its success by sharing and discussing it everywhere you can. Our aim has always been to create useful content that is more than a paragraph and a piece of art. We hope that you will join this journey of fantasy terrains, travels, and troubles to make games both fantastic and realistic.
Your pledge will help us end strong in this final week! 2020 is almost over and the new year will start with creativity and new travels! I will update again soon with information about fulfillment and how it will all work!
Regards
Hobie Hill - Deep Dungeon Games
December Update - The end is in sight & Voyages Official Launch!
over 3 years ago
– Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 03:10:29 PM
Hey everyone, everything is going great thus far! We are through 291 with another 84 pages coming in the next week or so. This is incredible progress, despite us being a little behind schedule, the content for the book is coming along amazingly. if you missed update #26, it had new links and preview content for backers.
So to give you a bit of the content that is completed and things left to do check out the list below:
Below is content that is complete:
4 Dwarven Cities - 39 Pages
4 Dwarf Clans - 20 Pages
Crafting Metals - 11 Pages
Crafting Gemstones - 11 Pages
Crafting Ores - 11 Pages
Crafting Crystals - 11 Pages
Return to Mullodar Dungeon - 33 Pages
Pit of Gnawed Bones Dungeon - 24 Pages
Mesmerizing Ice Vault Dungeon - 20 Pages
Qannesdam - 32 Pages
Skyfall Tradition - 28 Pages
Soils - 3 Pages
Fossils - 5 pages
Dwarven Language - 31 pages
Book Introduction & Content Pages - 9 pages
Chapter One Introduction - 1 Page
Chapter TwoIntroduction - 1 Page
Chapter Three Introduction - 1 page
Chapter Four Introduction - 1 page
Below the content that is in the final updates/layout
Crafting Tables - Approximately 20 to 30 pages
Ley Lines - Approximately 32 pages
Mines - Approximately 23 pages
Below the content that is ready to be reviewed after initial editing:
Fantastic Locations - Approximately 22 pages
Mine NPC's - Approximately 37 pages
Below is the content that is currently in the first round of editing
Elements - Approximately 41 pages
Minerals - Approximately 29 pages
Rocks - Approximately 22 pages
Earthen Heroes - Approximately 10 pages
The Table of Contents and Appendix will be finalized after the rest of the content for the book is complete. Finalized After All Other Content Is Finished. The majority of the content that is left for editing/layout below is more content and lore-based content and will not take as long to complete. We are hoping that editing and layout will be done by the mid to the end of December with the PDF be ready shortly after final editing.
We are excited to announce the official launch of Voyages of the Vagabond! This project will only be available to backers until January 1, 2021, and it is slam packed with content, art, and creativity.
The Voyages of the Vagabond is a combination of fantasy roleplaying game supplements that can be used by any Game Master to help detail and build their fantasy worlds. In this project, these supplements will be focused on the roads of fantasy worlds and the environments that they exist in. It is a great way for a Game Master to expand their fantasy world, build upon current writings, or even pull content that fits their world the best.
While all creators are wonderful and unique, we feel we are quite different than many other content creators out there. We always strive to bring quality concepts and new ideas with the material we create and aim to save our backers every dollar possible. The best part is that through our experiences we have been able to grow into a content creator that provides creative concepts and functional ideas. We have learned to adapt to the high printing costs of large books by making the content of this project completed in two books, instead of one. One thing that we will never change is that we have always sought to improve our content and the fulfillment process by listening to the backer’s views and perspectives. Above all else always put our customers first. This Kickstarter's goal is to fund the development of the first two books in our new Expedition Series, which is a series of four books in all, to inspire your mind and bring the roads and travels of your realms to full fruition.
We understand that your gaming budget is valuable, and, during the holiday season, it gets exceptionally tight. We appreciate every one of our backers and would like to provide them with rewards that are affordable and worthwhile. The year 2020, combined with the holiday season, can only create utter chaos at the best of times. Therefore, we are providing extreme discounts for those who follow us, back our projects, and lift us up in the craziest of times.
You wish to enhance the traveling of your games, instead of skipping over it.
You wish to have a more detailed understanding of terrains, travel, and the interaction of how magic can affect these concepts.
You want system neutral content that can outlast any edition or chosen TTRPG system you use.
You are tired of unrealistic material that uses magic as a bandaid instead of accounting for a world's natural laws and how it interacts logically with magic.
Youlove supporting 3rd party content from creators like Deep Dungeon Games.
Youlove collecting RPG books, supplements, and content for yournerd shelf.
If you are unable to back this project, you can take part in its success by sharing and discussing it everywhere you can. Our aim has always been to create useful content that is more than a paragraph and a piece of art. We hope that you will join this journey of fantasy terrains, travels, and troubles to make games both fantastic and realistic.
Please share this link when posting about Voyages of the Vagabond, and do not forget to tag us so we can say thank you:https://linktr.ee/deepdungeongames
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - Will contain 100 fantastic more animal-like mounts, 10 unique ways of travel, traveling caravans filled with 150 non-player characters, a caravan generator detailed with mechanics for running caravans, wonderous wagons, and everything you could fit in them, 100 myths and legends to tell beside a fireside, and so much more!
Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travel - Will contain the 10 ambushing bandit groups with 50 unique bandits to fill them with, 10 roaming nomad clans with 50 creative nomads to fill them with, 10 completely new hags and their homes, a detailed look into 10 terrific terrains and traveling in them, a one of a kind language that vagabonds use to communicate in many different forms, and so much more!
We have amazing but limited swag items and addons that are items that will be Kickstarter Exclusive items. These items include t-shirts, fabric banners, enamel pins, Kickstarter exclusive covers, and so much more. The exclusive items and add-ons will only be available to backers of the Kickstarter at a price that only you as a backer can earn.
As a thank you to every backer, we are offering many free rewards during the duration of the funding of the project. This is one small way we can give back to our backers, followers, and members of our community.
Be sure to follow the project and keep up to date for the latest release dates and links to free rewards.
As a collection, the books have 500+ pages of written content ready for the editing process. To say thank you to backers of this project, several practical stretch goals are outlined and ready to be written. These goals will be merged with the appropriate book and expand upon the detailed writings.
Join this project to help the Voyages of the Vagabond bring more to your tabletop games, fantasy worlds, and the roads your travelers’ roam.
Thank you for your support! - Hobie Hill
Free Holiday Fun & Games
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 08:35:03 PM
Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a fantastic week! We always love giving back to you all, even if it is in the form of digital content! I personally never might be able to give back to each of, but I am sure going to try.
The end of the year is upon us and that means a ton of holiday shenanigans. This can take the form of good food, friends, family, and hopefully fun. This year has been heavy on us all, and hopefully, you all are able to do the things you want to for the holiday season. Just remember to be safe and remember that we are all in this together. So, this year's chaos has allowed me to get way more focused on the back end of things when in a normal year I would let it slide. This is because I normally do 2 to 3 conventions every month, with mixed results depending on a plethora of things. The greatest loss to me is that I do not get to meet followers, backers, and customers of Deep Dungeon Games.
So I have put together a few Print & Play PDFs of a few games we have made over the past few years. I believe these three games will provide you a ton of fun, with some games being fun for all and others being for only adults. Below are the games that are available in their digital format, and I hope this helps you make it through the holidays even if you do not get to spend it with those you wish!
