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IRON KINGDOMS: BORDERLANDS AND BEYOND

Created by Privateer Press

A 5E Roleplaying Game expansion for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem campaign setting.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

IRON KINGDOMS: REQUIEM — Second Printing
over 1 year ago – Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 12:40:04 PM

Greetings Borderlands and Beyond Backers!

We know many of you missed the original Iron Kingdoms: Requiem Kickstarter campaign and had inquired about acquiring the Requiem core setting book. If you missed the opportunity to get hold of it before it sold out, we have good news: Iron Kingdoms: Requiem will be embarking on its second printing alongside our most recent project, Nightmare Empire. There's still time to pre-order it through the Backerkit Pre-Order store, but only until this Friday, September 30th. And if you pre-order by Friday, we'll send you a download link for the PDF next week after the pre-order store closes.

PRE-ORDER IRON KINGDOMS: REQUIEM NOW

Thanks!

PREVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
over 1 year ago – Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 08:17:03 AM

Greetings Adventurers!

As we cruise into the final week of the Iron Kingdoms: Nightmare Empire Kickstarer campaign, we've got some new preview pages to give you a taste of what will be included in the forthcoming expansion books.

First up is a pair of backgrounds, perfectly suited for the seedy ports and backwaters of the Scharde Islands...

Next, a little taste of Cryx's unique flavor of magic, and a look at the spell lists included in the Nightmare Empire.

One of our favorite things about using Kickstarter to launch new content for the IKRPG setting is the opportunity to discover and connect with other creators. This week, we came across a fantastic new 5E/Old School Essentials project that details out a host of exciting new monsters inspired by exotic and obscure folklore from all over the world.  Brought to Kickstarter by the talented publishers of KNOCK! magazine, A Folklore Bestiary is chock full of creatures accompanied by material GMs can put right to use in their campaigns, like adventure hooks, new magical items, dungeons and more. The book has a wonderfully old-school feel with top notch art and design, and we'll be looking forward to putting it on our shelf and in our games soon! Check it out today!

Stay tuned for more updates as we close in on the next stretch goal — the Blighted Trollkin Pirate miniature! Keep sharing the project and we'll be unlocking this unsavory scallywag soon!

Thank you for your continued support!

UK/EU UPDATE: AN EPIC TALE OF LOST AND FOUND
over 1 year ago – Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 10:56:31 PM

Greetings to our UK and EU Backers,

Your Borderlands rewards are shipping soon! We know you've heard that one before, because so have we. We apologize for the frustrating delay and unexpectedly false starts. We have a story to tell, and I assure you, it has a happy ending. But it's worth knowing exactly how things have transpired.

The Borderlands books and cloth maps have been in the UK since the first of June, right on time. Due to this being a busy fulfillment season for our fulfillment partner, Spiral Galaxy, the Borderlands rewards were placed in a queue with the expectation of shipping by the middle of the month. This timing was working out perfectly with the shipment of Shadow of the Seeker miniatures, shipped directly from the manufacturer and due to arrive on June 15th. But you know what they say about the best laid plans...

June 15th came and went with no news of delivery. Then on June 16th, we were informed the shipment would arrive the next day, which we reported on the 16th. However, the following Monday we learned that the shipping paperwork had been mislabeled when it was shipped, directing it to a different recipient instead of Spiral Galaxy where it was intended to deliver. This caused a kerfuffle with UK customs, which surely expected us to be pulling a fast one, but it was an innocent mistake, and one that seemed easy enough to correct. By the end of the day on June 20th, we were informed that everything had cleared and the shipment was ready for pickup. Only, it wasn't.

The details of what followed are murky, but can be summed up as a two-week ordeal where Spiral Galaxy valiantly struggled with customs to finally get the shipment released to their possession. And on July 1st, we learned that it was truly cleared and would be arriving to Spiral Galaxy on Monday, July 5th.

On July 5th, a shipment with Privateer's label on it did arrive at Spiral Galaxy. And this is what they received:

Our best guess is that it's some sort of chair for use in a medical office. What it wasn't was the Shadow of the Seeker miniatures. If you've ever opened up an email and felt like it reached out of the screen and punched you in the gut, you'll have an idea of what we were feeling that morning. 

We immediately began to scramble for a solution. Was the shipment lost? Do we have enough overages of the miniatures at PPHQ to cover the backers? Do we get the books shipped and send the miniatures late from the U.S.? As we reviewed every contingency plan we could think of, Spiral Galaxy had our back. Within 48 hours, they had the issue sorted, backtracking the labeling mixup of the pallets back to the customs holding warehouse, and locating the actual miniatures shipment. And just this morning, they confirmed for us that the Shadow of the Seeker miniatures shipment was in their possession.

As of this morning, Spiral Galaxy has emailed address confirmations to backers, so be on the lookout for that. They have said that rewards could ship as early as the end of next week, but currently short-staffed, it's more likely that everything will go out the week of July 18th. We apologize for this continued delay, but everything is finally in one place and will be on its way soon.

Handling fulfillment across the globe is a business fraught with variables and unexpected perils. When something goes wrong on our home turf, we can get our hands around it and find a solution quickly. But when it's a situation occurring on the other side of the planet and entirely out of our control, it's easy to feel completely helpless. And so I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the fine people at Spiral Galaxy who helped fight through a completely random series of events that could have ended catastrophically, but instead, found a happy ending thanks to their tireless help. We are very thankful to be able to partner with Spiral Galaxy for our UK and EU fulfillment and have so much appreciation for how they have taken care of your rewards.

We hope this comes as good news and lifts your spirits this weekend! We're going to sleep just a little bit better tonight.

Thank you for your patience and your continued support!

SHIPPING UPDATE
over 1 year ago – Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 12:56:32 PM

Greetings Adventurers!

We're at the tail end of fulfillment on all of the Borderlands rewards. Here's a quick update on where things stand:

Australia/New Zealand/Rest of World — Everything has been shipped and delivered.

Canada — Everything has been shipped and delivered. 

Domestic U.S. — The last of the miniatures and maps are due to ship this week. We did come up short on our cloth map order, however, so a few of those are going to arrive behind the miniatures shipments as we have had to place a new order for the missing maps. If your map is delayed, you'll be contacted via email. Apologies for this inconvenience.

UK/EU — Due to a significant error on the shipping paperwork (it was addressed to the wrong recipient) the Shadow of the Seeker miniatures were held up in UK customs for a week while the issue was sorted out. They were finally released and should have arrived at Spiral Galaxy yesterday. We're just waiting on confirmation that packing and shipping has commenced and will update you here as soon as we know. Spiral Galaxy now has all of the rewards so it should not be long before our UK and EU backers receive them. We apologize for this delay. This particular shipment was fraught with trouble and we are grateful for Spiral Galaxy's help in sorting everything out.

If for any reason you have contacted us for a replacement item, those go out daily and should be on the way shortly if they are not already.

And as one project closes, another is about to begin! Get ready for the Nightmare Empire Kickstarter campaign, and be sure to sign up for notifications so you don't miss the launch! 

Thank you!

MAKE SOME ROOM ON THAT BOOKSHELF! SHIPPING UPDATE!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 03:42:50 PM

Greetings Adventurers!

Rewards are shipping! 

Aetherworks has completed shipping of all rewards for Australia and New Zealand. As the miniatures had the shortest voyage to reach Australia, they were able to meet up in time to be shipped together.

In the U.S., books began shipping earlier this week. They'll be coming media mail, which takes a few days longer on average than normal post. We have received word from the manufacturer that the miniatures shipment headed to our warehouse will make port today, so we're hoping that they'll arrive in our warehouse soon and will dispatch them ASAP along with any cloth maps that were ordered. Rest-of-World orders will go out with books and miniatures together once we have the minis here.

The miniatures are due to arrive port in the UK tomorrow, and with any luck will make it to Spiral Galaxy next week where they're standing by to ship them together with the waiting books and cloth maps.

In Canada, Lion Rampant expects to have all books shipped by next week. The miniatures for Canadian backers are included in the shipment arriving in the U.S. today and will either be shipped directly from here or forwarded on immediately to Lion Rampant for fulfillment, so they're going to be trailing a bit behind the books and maps. 

So, make a little room on your bookshelf for the Borderlands and Beyond expansion! It won't be long now.

Thanks!