A 5th edition campaign setting based on the hit Youtube series by Dingo Doodles and Felix Irnich.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
April Update - Minis, Shirts, + Quest Haven!
almost 2 years ago
– Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:11:19 AM
Hey backers! We have some exciting things to share with you this month, check it out!
Minis - Ultimate Threats Collection
First up, we have some new minis previews! The STL files are not quite ready to be released out into the wild just yet, but we’re loving how they’re looking so far and needed to share them with all of you!
The Ultimate Threats!
Doom Duck
Magmonkey
Hooded Reaper
Xardi
Amalgahound
Holy Shirt! 🦆
New Fool’s Gold shirts are available for preorder! The Fool’s Gold Crew and Selling Crime designs look so good it should be illegal. 😎
Fool’s Gold is teaming up with Quest Haven!
HEY SO, You want Fool's Gold in VR??? NO?!! WELL we're doing it anyway.
Felix and I are excited to collab with Quest Haven, a new VR table top program that is doing a custom starter adventure based off of Fool's Gold.
February Update + Designing a Tarrasque with Avery Howett!
almost 2 years ago
– Sun, May 22, 2022 at 04:33:41 PM
Hey backers! Happy February! We’re here with an update you’re sure to love. Find out where we are in the writing process of the campaign and stick around to hear the ins and outs of designing the Tarrasque mini from Avery Howett! We also have a Big Bad Valentine's treat for you at the bottom of the update. ❤
Writing and Minis Update
The first draft for many of the writing sections of the book is set to be complete within the next week or so! Two sections are getting a little more attention; the races, and the campaign itself, which the team estimates will reach first draft status sometime in March.
Miniatures are being prepped as we speak by our manufacturing partners for production! We're so excited to show off the production samples as they arrive.
Designing a Tarrasque with Avery Howett
When I took on designing the look of the brand new Dire Tarrasque for the campaign, of course, it struck me as a huge, towering task. After all, the Tarrasque is about as iconic of a beastie as it gets. It’s tabletop’s answer to Godzilla, the ultimate table-clearer and mini-destroyer, the condensed fury of a GM who’s finally decided to hit the nuke button on their table of cocky players.
IT’S. THE. Q@ACKING. TARRASQUE!
Not only that, it had to be more! It had to be DIRE! Thankfully, as someone who plays way too many tabletop games in my free time, I was used to taking on huge, daunting, and impossible tasks. Just like taking on an ACTUAL Tarrasque, it was going to be hard, but it was going to be a lot of FUN too!
So, first things first: You gotta pick out what makes the Tarrasque iconic and start from there. We gotta add a big maw full of NOPE, horns that could poke the gods themselves in the eyes in defiance, and way too many spikes.
Check! What comes next, then, is figuring out what to add. For that, I looked at that tail first: the O.G. Tarrasque has a whip-like tail, but as Felix and I played a lot of Monster Hunter, we were very familiar with how a hefty tail could be used to deal one HUGE dose of a reality check. So we decided to upgrade the tail to a big honking club.
The finishing touch was adding in all those spikes to really give it the appearance that it could sweep an entire skyline off the map in one motion. And while we are talking influence and nods to things we like: Felix is also a big Bowser fan (who he uses to pummel me into guard-rails whenever we play Mario Kart), so I added a bit of a Bowser-esque look to the Tarrasque’s face and prominent back spikes.
Lastly, are those details you get from the lore of the creature—probably my favorite part! The Tarrasque is a force of nature, an unstoppable monster of pure hunger with the ability to constantly regenerate any damage it takes (thanks for bringing that feature back, Felix). So, even its own exhaustion and the damage it causes to itself aren’t enough to stop its rampage! As such, the Dire Tarrasque is gnarly and mangled—as if it’s mutated into an even more terrifying form after millennia.
This behemoth has lost and regrown back spikes so often they have grown out twisted and uneven, and its teeth have been torn out and replaced so quickly they’ve started to bend outwards and grow through its skin! Yikes! Add in some rows of shark teeth and that ravenous vacant glare, and voila! We’ve got something that’ll send a shiver down the spines of even the most battle-hardened warriors. All that’s left is to draw the big bad beast in his chosen pose—the conqueror of carnage letting out a city-quaking roar—and hand it off to Thomas Choux, the amazing sculptor on the project!
There you have it, the new and improved Lord of Destruction, Terror of the Terra, the Dire Tarrasque! From our twisted minds to your table.
Check out what theMadMaker has been up to with the Tarrasque STL files! Through experimenting with 3D printing, he's been able to welcome (amass an army of?) several Tarrasques into his family.
If you love big baddies like the Tarrasque, you may also find our Big Bad series to die for! Every year we celebrate Valentine's Day with mushy messages from some of our most uh, lovingBig Bads.
Send some big love this Valentine's Day with these free downloads!
March Update - Writing + Mini Renders
almost 2 years ago
– Tue, May 17, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM
Hey backers!
Here’s a quick peek at what we’ve been working on since the last update!
Writing
The writing for the book is on track and what's been completed so far is undergoing editing and review! The editors are having a *great* time balancing Felix' creative genius. We’re still in the early stages, but we look forward to offering playtest materials for you to enjoy in the future—stay tuned!
Minis
Feisty Creatures (Miniature Pack #5) has been fully sculpted by the talented Thomas Choux and the pack has been sent along to our manufacturing partners to join the other sculpted miniatures for manufacturing. Check out some of the renders below! Look at them all! Don't you just want to pet them?
Surveys, STL + Art Previews, oh my!
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 04:19:51 AM
Happy New Year, backers!
We hope you had a relaxing holiday season and stayed safe! As the team ramps back up after the holidays, we’re hard at work gearing up for the new year and diving back into the depths of The Bellowing Wilds.
STL Distribution and Art Preview
Wow! Over the holidays we managed to collect survey responses from 83% of backers–nice work! As promised, we’re preparing the first 4 sets of STLs to distribute via BackerKit. We expect them to be distributed within the next week or so, so keep an eye on your inbox!
In the meantime, the art team has been hard at work! Here’s a look at what’s (more like who's) coming up in Phase 2 of building minis.
Never fear! Hooded Reaper is here...to reap some FUN! That's the face of someone screaming from excitement! Yay! Art by Avery Howett
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Surveys are on the way!
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:07:52 PM
Hey backers! Good news--the smoke tests have gone off without a hitch! This means we can now release surveys to everyone!
Because there are so many amazing backers supporting the project, it may take a little extra time for surveys to reach everyone, so we recommend waiting a couple of days for BackerKit to process sending them all. If you don’t receive your survey immediately, that’s completely normal! Thank you for your patience!
When you receive your survey, we ask that you complete them as soon as possible so we can make our orders with the production facility. The longer this step takes the longer we have to wait for the product! We’re looking to get 80% of the surveys filled before production starts so we can ensure we have enough for everyone. Once we receive 80% completed surveys, we’ll celebrate by releasing the first four sets of STL minis!
In the meantime, here are some common reasons why your survey may not have reached you!
1) Confirm what email address you used to pledge on Kickstarter! The survey will be emailed to that address. If you used a private relay Apple ID to pledge on Kickstarter, you'll need to contact the support team to update your email address with BackerKit.
Please be sure to include your Apple ID email or, if failing that, the name associated with your Kickstarter account in your message to support.
2) Double check your junk/spam folder. Sometimes the filters sweep up our precious survey emails 😠
If after completing all of these steps you're still unable to locate your survey and you’ve waited a few days for it to come in, reach out to support at [email protected].
If you don’t receive your survey immediately, that’s completely normal! Thank you for your patience!
