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Dragon Bagons; CR10 dragon dicebags

Created by Bridget Hughes

These CR10 dragon dicebags would love to guard your dice hoard. Also available are Dragon dice, Bagthulhus, and Bagthulhu dice.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Smallish update
over 5 years ago – Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:27:59 PM

Ok, I have some small pieces of progress to report.

Dice

I've been given a rough estimate of the importing timeframe for the dice. They're supposed to reach the fulfillment centres in January. I really don't want to guarentee it because there's always the possibility of something unforseen happening. To be honest I'm really hoping it will be sooner, but again, I don't want to promise anything. The safety lab reccomended a couple of basic safety tests, which I've paid for, they should be in testing at the moment.

To try and use up the incomplete sets from the original sales of individual D20s and D6s, I'm slowly adding other individual dice to backerkit - there's currently D10s and D4s, I can add D12s and D8s as well if anyone is interested.

Custom colour Dragons

We are finishing up the first wave of Elder Dragon Bagons today. The next lot of cutting has not arrived yet so we'll move on to the second and third waves while we wait. The second and third waves combined do not make up the numbers for a full batch (we've worked out the ideal amount to get the most efficient process) so I've made up to 8 slots for custom colour Elder Dragon Bagons available to fill in the gaps. I'm offering those to the public at $220 NZD each, but if any backers want to add a last minute Elder Dragon Bagon to their order I'm happy to do that at the original KS price of $120, but I will need to know ASAP so we can get started.

I'll also be working the standard size custom colour Dragon Bagons in a similar fashion, filling gaps in the later batches, so it's hopefully limiting any impact on orders for backers.

Custom dragons

The scales I needed finally arrived! The courier company shipping them has had strikes, but even taking that into account it was a very long delay. In any case I should have enough metal scales to finish at least the first few custom dragons that have been sitting in pieces and staring at me.

Manufactured Dragon Bagons

I'm sending more photos and feedback to the manufacturer today. I'm hoping they can adjust the pattern while they look for new fabrics. The feedback I've had thus far seems to be that if they can't find a better fabric, then we should go for a soft felt (if possible), which I think is a sensible way to go.

Rainbow Dragons

I still can't talk about the details, but I'm sending a few secret parcels soon and I'm hoping to have an announcement within a month. I realise it's taking forever and I'm really sorry about it, I just really don't want to let all you rainbow fans down.

Samples and feedback
over 5 years ago – Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:47:42 PM

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Dice and Custom orders
over 5 years ago – Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:47:37 AM

Ok, I've approved the multiset and sent the deposit. This version of the dice is a lot more than I was originally quoted (by different manufacturers who later fell through), so it's eaten up the contingencies I worked into the budget and then some. 

Money is very tight at the moment, partly through delays and partly through stuff like the dice and needing to change manufacturers (meaning higher production costs). I'll be covering as much of the extra costs out of my own money as possible, but I'll need to reopen some custom order slots to help keep the lights on so to speak. I'm hoping the christmas rush will help clear out some spare stock we have, and bring in some more funds to keep us going. So if you see some of my pieces available please please please don't think I've forgotten you. We're still working on the campaign rewards, I'm just doing extra on top to try and ease the funds a bit. 

Any new custom orders I take on will be at a higher price, the lower kickstarter prices were exclusive to the campaign (except the rainbows, which are exclusive to the campaign and the preorders), so others aren't getting a better deal than you lovely folks.

I really didn't want to reopen custom orders just yet, but at this point I feel like it's the best choice. I'm committed to finishing this project and making sure you lovely folks get your little beasties as soon as possible.

Remember, if you want to switch to a multiset, the sooner you let me know the better. Via kickstarter message or backerkit support is best for security.

Dice samples
over 5 years ago – Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:46:27 PM

THE DICE SAMPLES ARE HERE AND THEY'RE GORGEOUS. *SQUEE*

...ahem.

They look even better in your hand than in the photos.

I did notice some of the inking is a bit light, I'm going to address that with the manufacturer, but apart from that I think we'll be going ahead with the multisets.

In terms of price, here's what I'm thinking:

$20 NZD for a multiset (for preorders after today)

$17 NZD for a multiset (for existing backers)

In terms of shipping fees, I'll need to finetune them a bit, but this is roughly what I have in mind.

One multiset as an add on (prices in NZD)- 

NZ - 2.00

AU - 3.00

US/CA - 3.00

EU - 5.00

Everywhere else - 5.00

One multiset on it's own

NZ - $12.00

AU - $15.00

US, CA - 18.00

EU - $20.00

Everywhere else - $20.00

The shipping rates are a bit different to the sets of D20s or D6s because the multisets are classed as one item so the processing fees are different. With a set of 6 D6s, they charge for each D6 they have to pick up and count, but if the multisets come prepacked it's only one 'item' they have to pick and pack, which hopefully means slightly cheaper shipping costs. Again, if you want several multisets or you have a big bundle already, get in touch and I can try to work out a cheaper shipping cost.

To get the lower price, I will need people to contact me via kickstarter or backerkit support, and I will manually update any orders that were in before today. If you want to switch from an existing dragon dice reward to this new one, the money you have already paid will of course count towards it.

Samples
over 5 years ago – Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 05:40:53 PM

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