By now many of you are probably chomping at the bit to get your hands on that beautiful rulebook. So the question is where are we? The short answer is close, but not yet there. The majority of the books have arrived at HQ. We are still waiting on the shipment to hit Australian shores. This is purely in the publisher’s hands, but I hope it is soon. Even if I had all the books in hand, we are still not quite ready to ship. Multiple casters are currently working around the clock to make thousands of miniatures. I am hoping this will be completed in the next two weeks. Once the miniatures are in hand, I and others will begin the process of sorting and packing the orders of our European, UK, Australian, and New Zealand customers first. They are given priority since their materials have to be mailed to our internal distributors before being sent to the backers themselves. Once those are sorted, we will start packing and sorting our US, Canadian, and South American orders. Once everything is sorted and packed, we will start shipping.

So timeframes. I am still hopeful that we will begin shipping before September’s end, but we will be cutting it close. I also do not want to over promise, so there is a chance we may bump into early October. As usual, I want to thank everyone who offered up their hard-earned caps to go on this little wasteland adventure with me.

It’s been admittedly a little quiet on our end, but we now have enough information to give more definite details of how we will handle shipping. First, the bad news. Sorry to say we are still waiting for some components to be delivered. As a result we cannot ship to our fulfillers in the UK/Europe and Australia/NZ until those components are received. This also will affect backers stateside whose orders contain those components. Now for the sort of good news. Rather than hold up shipping to all backers, we have decided to begin shipping in waves. Wave 1 will be to our backers in the US who did not order the delayed components. Shipping for them will start this weekend and continue for the next two weeks. Simultaneously, we will be prepacking everyone else’s orders, so the moment we get the missing components, those babies are going out. Please be assured that we are working hard to get you your shineys!

Work also continues on the digital products. Eat, Live, Prey is almost done and looks and reads beautifully. The Kickstarter Pack is in lay out. As a teaser, here is a piece of artwork by Zack Dolan. I love the pulp feel of this piece which shows the Grizzly Snake, a monster inspired by a certain post-apocalyptic cartoon.



Finally, the updated TNT PDF should have went out last week via an email blast. All backers who added the PDF to their pledge, or bought a pledge that included it, should have gotten an email with a coupon code for it. All you need to do is go to worldsendpublishing.com, put the TNT PDF into your shopping cart, and then enter the code at checkout to receive a free copy.

That's all for now. As always you make contact me on Facebook or at joey@worldsendpublishing.com if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you.

 deathwing wrote:
BrookM Thanks for posting the update. I appreciate the legwork. If anyone here who has previously bought the PDF in any context, and has not received an email or other notification about the update, please email at joey@worldsendpublishing.com and I will get your sorted.

Thanks.

Shipping Update

Good news everyone!

The nightmare of packing is mostly over. The majority of US orders have been packed into boxes and are going to the post office on Tuesday morning. In fact most of our US backers will have their items in hand by the end of the week.



Wave 2 has been packed and is on its way to Australia in the morning as well. Though our friends in the south should not get too excited just yet. Vivek Chandra at the Knights of Dice has kindly offered to fulfill for our backers in Australia and New Zealand and the big box pictured below has to go to him. He and his great team will then send things out individually. He needs time to sort through things, so please be patient.



Wave 3 is currently being packed and should be headed to the UK within the next couple of days. Rhys Knight is our man with the plan over there and he will be shipping to our backers in the UK and Europe. Again I ask for your patience as Rhys is handling a bigger box and he’s just one man. You can see the orders piling up below. Wave 4 is also being packed and will be going out by the end of the week. This is Asia, South America, Canada, and Africa. We are handling things stateside so should go be pretty go out pretty quickly.



That’s all I have for now. I would like to take the time to personally thank Paul, Jonathan, Chad, Tina, their children, Melissa, and Adam for packing up orders. They bravely gave up part of their weekend to help us out. With their help, we got at least a week’s worth of work done in two days. Huzzah for them!



As always you may send your feedback and questions to me at joey@worldsendpublishing.com. Joey McGuire

Eat Live Prey

On top of shipping, here is another fun bit of news. Eat Live Prey is going live tonight. Written by World's End Publishing's Chief Enthusiast Chris Layfield, this PDF features three rather deadly scenarios to murder your warbands with. You've been warned!


The Wasteland's Answer to Overpopulation!

All backers who purchased the download for the ludicrously low price of a dollar, should be getting emails tonight. Truly a smart buy.

Thanks.

Kickstart the Wasteland Coming!

Greetings wastelanders.

First, a bit of business. We have shipped out packages to the majority of our US backers. The boxes going to our fulfillment folks in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the UK have also all gone out. We will start shipping next week to our friends in Canada and the rest of the world.

Second, Kickstart the Wasteland will be released within the next 24 hours. This is almost 30 pages of great material with new art and more of everything. Critters, freelancers, scenarios, and lots more. This is a big thanks to you folks for making it happen.

Digital Downloads

We seem to have problems with folks not getting their emails from Backerkit. To circumvent that, you can retrieve your downloads through your survey via the following link:

https://this-is-not-a-test-post-apocalyptic-skimirsh-ruleb.backerkit.com/

From there you can download Kickstart the Wasteland and Eat Live Prey, assuming you purchased the latter. It goes without saying, that you will not be able to download either if there is balance due on your pledge.

Also, here is a helpful tip from Joshua Pinder:

If anyone is having trouble accessing your Backer Survey or did not receive a direct email from Backer Kit with a link to it, you can prompt the site to send you the email by going...

Login > Find Your Backer Survey > search for This is Not a Test > enter the email address you used when you fulfilled the Survey.

I've just done this a few minutes ago. I never made an account at the time, so recovering my account (Lost Password) did not work, because the account does not exist. I was able to get a link emailed to me.

All the best.

Joey

As some of you may have noticed, we accidentally forgot to include the required chits for the Rad Zombies Must Die Again scenario in Kickstart the Wasteland. We have since uploaded two new downloads to Backerkit to fix this issue. First, is a reupload of the whole document with the chits included. The second is just the chits by themselves. The chits would have been the last page of the book, so if printed out the PDF already, you can add that last page no problem. We have made no other changes to the PDF.

Sorry for the trouble.

Just a quick update to bring everyone up to speed.

Almost all orders in the US have shipped and should be in good hands by now.

The package to Australia has arrived and orders should be going out this week. Shout out to Vik and crew at Knights of Dice for being on top of the things.

Most orders to Canada, South America, Asia, and Africa have also shipped. There are a few stragglers, but these will go in the mail on Saturday.

Sorrowful news though for our friends in the UK and Europe. UK Customs officials have been quite diligent in their duties and as a result we have hit a shipping snag with the box containing your goodies. This will take a little bit of processing time to get through and much paperwork for me to sort out from across the pond. I do not know how long the delay will be as a result, but I appreciate your patience.

As always you can contact me with questions or concerns.

Thanks all.

Joey