Ultimate Treasury: 1001 DnD 5E treasures, monsters, & magic

First 40 books packed and heading to the post office!
about 2 years ago – Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 01:00:44 AM

We got the first delivery of 10 pallets of books Thursday morning and picked up our shipping boxes, and we have got the first carload of shipments packed up and ready to go! Backers like Naylor, Curtis, Brooks, Whitehurst, Herbert, Bradshaw, Michaels, Green, Obendorf, Houtchens, Monroe, and so many more - get ready because your books are on their way! 

We'll be packing and shipping more books over the coming weeks for Ultimate Treasury (and Ultimate Faeries and our other KS projects), but we wanted to celebrate the first wave of books finally on their way to you! 

With these books on their way, we are delighted to invite you to check out our NEXT Quick-Starter project, Mechanical Monsters II! For our 5E fans who missed last January's original Mechanical Monsters Quick-Starter, this is another chance to jump aboard, now with expanded VTT options and a much faster turnaround, as those books are scheduled to arrive in along with our Mediterranean Monsters books in February. In addition, we now can offer Mechanical Monsters for both Pathfinder RPG and Pathfinder Second Edition, plus a fantastic bonus book for PF2, Mechanical Heroes, jam-packed with cybernetic, clockwork, and technological options for player characters like spells, feats, archetypes, gear, class options, and so much more! 

We launch next Tuesday, with immediate fulfillment of PDFs as soon as the Kickstarter ends and a fast turnaround on print books for this project! Sign up today and we hope you love it!

Books arriving in port next week, and card deck samples are here!
about 2 years ago – Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 12:08:13 AM

Hi all,

Hope everyone has had a very merry Christmas! We are looking forward to a very happy new year, because the ship carrying the Ultimate Treasury books is arriving Monday, January 1st! Exactly how long port processing will take is never certain, but our printer's estimate is that we should be able to arrange truck delivery on or around January 12th! Once the pallets are broken down stored, we can start getting these books headed your way! 

We also got an early Christmas present when we received our pre-press card decks for our Legendary Loot cards! It took longer than expected, but we are very happy with how the card boxes finally came out and we hope you love them too! We only got a small batch of each deck, but we'll send out these books to lucky backers once the books arrive. The full print runs of the cards are shipping separately, with that shipment currently due to leave Hong Kong on January 23, so hopefully by late February or early March we'll have those in hand as well to complete fulfillment for folks getting the card decks! 

We hope your 2024 will become a year we hope you always treasure, and we thank you for your support of this project! 

Shipping dates confirmed!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:32:27 PM

Hi there,

A quick followup on the last update. We have received confirmation that our books are now ready to load onto their ship on November 30, with departure on December 9 and a scheduled arrival date at the Port of Tacoma of January 1. The customs estimate is currently two weeks (which would give a delivery date on or around January 15), and that tracks with how long it usually takes to process loads, but that is an estimate. We've had customs processing take as short as a few days, but in one case it was more like 7 or 8 weeks. It all depends on how busy the port is when the load arrives. About 2 weeks, sometimes 3 has definitely been the most common time for customs processing.

Once customs are cleared, we're only located about 5 miles from the port, so we can usually get truck delivery within a day or two, and when the pallets are delivered, we'll be able to break them down and start shipping within a few days after that!

Thanks for your amazing support and looking forward to getting your books on the way! 

A shipping date at last for our books!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 01:06:43 AM

What a long, crazy wait it's been, but we've just been informed that our slot in the shipping queue is here at last. Our printer has let us know that November 28th is our tentative RTS (Ready to Ship) date! Once they finalize the ship booking, we'll receive a projected ocean shipping schedule that will let us know how long the shipment will take to arrive. Past experience with the actual ocean freight part of things is that it's usually around a 5 to 6-week sail from Hong Kong to Seattle/Tacoma. We're only a few miles away from the Port of Tacoma, but once the shipment arrives there is still the wait for local customs clearance, which can vary quite a bit from days to weeks, depending on how busy the port is, but once it's cleared it's a pretty quick process to arrange local truck delivery from the port to us.

We'll see if the schedule tracks with past experience (the wait to get *on* the ship certainly hasn't, but fingers crossed that now that we've got our ship things will get back on track), that would probably put the shipment as arriving here stateside in mid-January, and if customs moves along at a decent speed we can have books in hand and ready to start shipping by the end of January!

Thanks for your patience with the process. We apologize for the delay but have been doing what we could to poke and prod our partners along. We are excited to get these books on their way to you!

P.S. Today is the FINAL DAY for the Templars & Tyrants Quick-Starter, featuring an awesome 80-page expansion for paladins of pure good and ultimate evil, including new oaths, spells, magic items, feats, class features, archetypes, and so much more! Plus over 1000 pages of bonus material for campaigns of crusaders and corruption!  

We are ready to send out all PDFs right after the KS ends. Barring a sudden surge in print pledges, this one will be fulfilled via domestic print-on-demand rather than doing an overseas print run, so we'll be able to start shipping as soon as our Backerkit survey is finalized. It all ends tonight so we hope you'll check it out!

Card Boxes have been so much more trouble than I would have thought!
over 2 years ago – Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 03:56:24 PM

We've gone back and forth several times with the printer, but tiny little things here and there keep kicking them back. This week we are sending back the latest adjustments to make sure everything fits the way it is supposed to. We've done card decks before but this is our first time designing the card boxes, and I've definitely learned it's a much more fine-tuned process than I would have thought. 

In any case, fingers crossed that we've finally got everything sorted and ready to push print! 

As we get these card decks finalized with the printer, we're also excited to announce our latest project: Templars & Tyrants, an awesome 80-page class expansion for paladins of pure good and antipaladins of ultimate evil! This one is a true QUICK-starter, with the PDF complete and ready for release as soon as this short 20-day KS ends!

This fabulous class book includes over 40 feats and class abilities and nearly 20 new oaths, backgrounds, and alternate classes for paladins and antipaladins. Champions of purity wield new class features like divine scourges and repel evil, new sacred oaths like the celestial centurion, auroran, grail knight, and oath of zeal, in addition to options for blending other classes with the chivalric ideal like the barbarian angel of wrath and warlock saint patron, plus the versatile paraclete subclass for the pure in heart of every class from bard to wizard! Dastardly antipaladins unleash class features like tainted blade, infernal defiance, aura of terror, and sacrifice minion, or specialize with the oath of the dark deacon or oath of the black knight or feats like Piercing Corruption, Face of True Fear, and Bound to Blackest Witchcraft.

In addition, you’ll find nearly 40 sacred and profane magic items from the crusader aegis and holy purifier to the midnight beacon and unholy reaver. You’ll also find over 100 new spells from angelic aspect and blaze of glory to ruthless beating and word of pain to make your spellcasting truly shine, including unique paladin and antipaladin-only spells and lists for every 5E casting class! Sign up now to get notified when we launch November 1st!