I am pleased to let our backers know that a collaborator on our project has launched a Kickstarter of his own. We are happy to introduce you to Character Keychains. The most durable and portable tabletop minis ever made. Please take a look at their Kickstarter. They are launching this week so make sure you sign up to be notified of the launch so you can take advantage of the early bird discounts before they are all gone!
The Clerics need our help! (Dice Bottles is relaunching)
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 10:46:54 AM
The Clerics need our help!
It is with great sadness that I bring to your attention a realm mirroring our own that is in dire need of the heroic efforts of pauper and duke alike. In this strange realm my magical skills and talents were unusable, and a plague like none I had seen before was ravaging their kingdoms. They have a magic of their own, but the plague was laying claim to more victims and surpassing the constitutions of the realm's considerable army of clerics. They wore a curious armour into battle with the fiend, and it was with horror that I learned why. The plague was invisible to all, and no spell would uncover it. They were forced to fight this invisible villain knowing that if it landed the smallest of blows against them they themselves would be subject to it’s devious curses. Their armor smiths were overtaxed as any armour that was even touched by the enemy became it’s weapon, and would require all armour to be destroyed if any of it were thought to have been cursed. I watched as their wise and fragile were taken, and I am moved to compassion and action on their behalf.
I am coming to you with an opportunity to help. I have found that we can direct our charges of energy into the aether and with that I am able to convert that to their coinage. They have guilds that will be able to use those funds to provide for their clerics and others suffering from the effects of this plague. In return for your magics and energy I will be providing one of my excellent potions. I only need help covering my delivery costs, as my mule gets quite hungry while I go about delivering the potions.
Extra Life - Benefiting Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
I will be relaunching my store soon for the other products, but I wanted to get the donation drive going as soon as possible.
You can help by spreading the link ( https://igg.me/at/dicebottles ) to the campaign around, following us and sharing on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), or donating directly to the charities above! Every bit helps!
New owner instructions
almost 6 years ago
– Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:33:58 PM
Healing Tokens
A Pro kit with healing tokens
Many of you got healing tokens along with your Pro kits, but it may appear they are painted all white and aren't red at all. I left the protective paper on the tokens so they are safe from scratches in transit.
Peeling off the paper on the front
Peeling off the paper on the back
The whole set with paper removed
How to assemble the Dice Tower
Inside the Pro Kit is a manilla envelope
Inside is the Dice Tower
Starting pieces
Slide the bottom shelf piece with the slot into the lowest slot on the two matching side pieces
Slide the back piece into the arms of the other side pieces and rest the curved part into the slot of the bottom shelf
Slide the small shelf into the remaining slots on the sides
Tip the tower forward over the edge of the Pro Kit's top and then rotate it under
It should rest like this
The dice tower is ready to use
Putting the tower away
Stack the parts of the tower like this and crimp the manilla envelope so its opening is large enough to fit the parts
Slide the parts in
All ready to go!
Alternatively, you could just lay them flat if you aren't concerned with them moving about while in the box
Wrapping up 2018
almost 6 years ago
– Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:38:35 PM
Shipped
A tower of packages
This tower runs deep
Just waiting on the USPS to pick up :)
I'm exhausted but glad that all the orders will be sent out by tomorrow. (16 stragglers that I needed to get some more bubble wrap for)
Tracking emails
So, I didn't realize that I needed to press a button to send out shipping notifications for the previous orders, and BackerKit didn't have a way of distinguishing newly created shipments from old, so all the old orders got shipping tracking email. Sorry if there is any confusion around an email for a product you already got.
International Orders away! 12-11-2018 update
almost 6 years ago
– Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 04:30:43 PM
Another busy weekend with friends helping out!
My poor roommate has to deal with this mess for one more week
There are boxes everywhere! I've been working non-stop getting kit's ready for mailing!
International Orders going out today
I realized I wouldn't be able to complete all the orders after this weekend so I focused on getting the orders out that would take the most time in shipping.124 international orders have been packaged up and are awaiting pickup from USPS today.
All the international orders are ready to go
I worked through the night Sunday and took Monday off from work to get those done. I'll be working on assembling the rest this week so I can focus on just shipping stuff this weekend.
And, a small mess up on my part
I ordered a while ago what I thought would be enough of each of the colors of leather. I thought I even verified that when I had to order more of the forest green leather. It's only now that I've assembled all the brown leather that I have that I realize my counts were off. Right now it looks like 12 of you will be receiving forest green instead, along with an apology in the form of a free basic kit.
Tasks left to do for domestic orders :
Finish gluing remaining forest green leather (about 250 left to go)
Kitting out about 300 dice towers
Gluing foam into 140 basic kits
Filling vials of Superior, Greater, and normal healing potions with dice
