Important BackerKit Update!
over 8 years ago – Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:59:07 PM

Happy Tuesday, cabal!

So far, over 2,350 of you have completed your surveys from BackerKit.

That's a really amazing number of people given the relatively short space of time that it's been live, and we really appreciate that.

In order to process your pledges swiftly and get those of you who have purchased digital downloads your rewards (except for the UA3 books, since those aren't completed yet - I'm talking crazy packs and the like) we need to lockdown completed surveys and charge your credit cards for additional funds. 

Our plan is to lockdown all answered surveys this Friday evening, July 8, 2016. When this happens, the following will occur:

• Your survey can't be changed, except to update your shipping address & info
• Your credit card will be processed through Stripe to cover any additional costs from add-ons
• Your Digital Downloads folder should be populated with all available PDFs

If you have NOT YET filled out your BackerKit survey

...and that's around 430 of you, your lockdown date remains as August 31st, 2016. That's the absolute deadline for answering your pledge surveys and requesting additional items or spending credit. We won't be locking down any unanswered pledges this Friday.

Please ensure that you have made all of the changes, updates, and orders that you want before Friday if you've already completed your survey.

If you have specific questions or concerns

...email me directly at crowdfund AT atlas-games DOT com, or drop me a message through the Kickstarter system. We will do our very best to respond to you promptly or, if we're all sleeping or being possessed by demons, within 24 hours at the latest.

Thanks once again,

Cam and the UA3 production team

BackerKit Surveys are out; Pre-Orders are live!
over 8 years ago – Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:01:13 PM

Beloved Cabal!

You should all have received in your email inboxes a survey from BackerKit wherein you may affirm your pledged items and get a chance to add on more goodies. 

If you missed out on the Kickstarter project, we've opened up Unknown Armies 3 for pre-orders, too. That link is here: https://unknown-armies-third-edition-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Thank you for all of your patience while we worked with shipping estimates and the folks at BackerKit who were extremely supportive of us and the transition process. We hope you won't run into any problems, but if you do, don't forget you can always contact us at our crowdfund AT atlas-games DOT com address or sign in to your BackerKit account once you've completed your survey.

Be well and keep your eyes open!

--Cam and the UA3 production crew

We Spoke Too Soon
over 8 years ago – Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:03:29 PM

Dear UA3 backers,

Well, we spoke too soon. When project manager Cam Banks sent out the last update we were about to submit the BackerKit set-up and survey for final approval and distribution. That turned out to take longer than we'd hoped and it raised a couple of questions that need to be resolved first, in the midst of the Origins game fair last week. Cam flew directly overseas from Origins, on a trip that has him out of the country and the office until sometime next week

End result: We do not expect we'll have Backerkit finalized and surveys out to folks until Cam is back in the office next week, so we want to make sure everyone knows and reassure folks who worry something they should have gotten by e-mail vanished to a spam filter or something.

We're very sorry for this inconvenience. If you have specific concerns, you can reach us at [email protected]. Others of us will be monitoring that mailbox in Cam's absence.

-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games

BackerKit Update!
over 8 years ago – Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 05:57:03 PM

Beloved cabal,

The time has come. Your accounts have all been added to our BackerKit project for Unknown Armies 3, and there’s nothing you need to do with that except wait for the email that gives you a survey link—hopefully in the next 24 hours! Once you click on that, you’ll be guided through the process of selecting your items, adding on any additional products or items you want, and then confirming your shipping address.

For some of you non-US international customers, we have worked out a plan for lower shipping costs to Europe for core book sets. This includes the set that comes with the $99 Checker level, and the Deluxe Set from the Charger level. When you go to your BackerKit survey, you may notice that you’ve got a credit on your account, which you can use in the BackerKit store. Those of you who have held back on pledging to get physical books because of shipping costs might find this new reduced international shipping appealing. Besides the lower direct shipping cost, our understanding is that using UK fulfillment will also mean the UK's zero VAT rate on books should apply.

We haven’t been able to reduce the shipment across the board (we expect that dice will ship separately from the US for example), but we hope that this presents a pleasant surprise to many of you who wished you could pledge higher but simply couldn’t.

One other note: we’ve included many other items that weren’t even on the Kickstarter as add-ons. Feng Shui 2 products are included for those of you who wished to look into our blockbuster action movie RPG but didn’t. All PDFs are supplied through BackerKit’s digital library. Check them out!

--Cam and the UA3 Production Team

Unknown Armies 3: Cabal Check-In
over 8 years ago – Mon, May 30, 2016 at 10:24:48 PM

Greetings, beloved cabal!

In the USA we are enjoying/enduring/working during Memorial Day weekend, the perfect time to stop and take a breather to update all of you on the progress of the UA3 Kickstarter project.

Here's where we are at right now:

• All backers migrated into BackerKit
• BackerKit inventory completed
• BackerKit surveys almost ready to launch
• Book One, Book Two, and Book Three in final edits (due July)
• Book Four in outline (with Greg)
• Book Five writers contracted and in outline stage
• Campaign Starter Kit template complete and ready for contracts
• Art almost entirely complete (due end of June)

Our biggest remaining hurdle with BackerKit that keeps us from sending out the surveys and getting pre-orders ready (for people who didn't or couldn't back the KS) is finalizing how the shipping costs are going to work. We've been in talks with a number of companies including even UPS and FedEx about our options. I hope to share that information with all of you soon - and get those BackerKit surveys sent out and done!

Thanks once again to everyone who has responded to specific backer Qs when we've needed them, to everyone who sent along their playtest feedback, and for your patience as we turn the wheel of production toward a really gorgeous set of truly disturbing books.

--Cam and the Unknown Armies production team