And We're Done | The Oracle Dice's Final Edition
5 months ago
– Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 06:02:39 PM
Hello all,
That was a lively final hour livestream, thanks for keeping me making random cheap add-ons and for keeping me company while Tom Bombadil slept on the reading cloth, stopping me from doing any readings. Such is the way of cats.
First off, we crushed the goal to produce the new Helper Dice raising $77,995 (goal of $10,000!) with 779 of y'all joining me! I don't know yet how many of you were from the 1000 people from the May campaign, but we'll know for sure when we get to the pledge manager.
After platform fees, marketing fees, and all that nonsense, Publishing Goblin will be receiving $56,786.15, assuming everyone's cards go through. There are always some that don't, and that's alright.
THE ITEMS!
Across the two campaigns, we have an incredible array of items claimed!
- The Seasons Dice Set | 652
- The Key Keepers Dice Set | 978
- The Helper Dice Set | 706
- Dice Chests | 663
- Wooden Boxes | 682
- Seasons Oracle Deck | 212
- Keys Oracle Deck | 261
- Season Journal | 98
- Keys Journal | 124
- Goblin Coin | 230
- Jack O Gob Pin | 33
- Dice Goblin Pin | 204
- Seasons Art Prints | 43
- Keys Art Prints | 462
- Seasons Neoprene Mat | 98
- Time Neoprene Mat | 71
- Sun/Moon Neoprene Mat | 72
- Energy Neoprene Mat | 73
- Helpers Stone Set | 57
- Seasons Stone Set | 42
- Keys Stone Set | 81
This is enough for me to solidly have an additional 300 or so of each set made to offer when I vend or sell to other places. Based on what we moved over two campaigns, I imagine that will take care of sales on the oracle dice for a couple years before I'd consider a reprint.
We did not break any other stretch goals set for this campaign though, beyond foiling the Helper Dice Set's title. I wanted to do that anyway in my heart of hearts, so it's great that we made the goal. I was looking at what it might take to do a 3rd color for the chests, but the manufacturer won't let me do fewer than 300 of each color I choose, so I will have to stick to my guns and stay to two colors for now.
What Now?
Now, we wait a little bit. I have print samples of the sets arriving tomorrow night (I know, that's ridiculous timing), but I still have work to do on the guidebooks to get them finished. They are already fairly close, but I want to make sure these are solid and as error-free as possible, when I'm my own editor, and I'm only finally getting a real set of Key Keeper dice to roll with and a real grid and all, so I will want a couple weeks to work on that and have good things to tell people about the new reading grids.
Bee is still getting the Helper Dice Sets finished, between dice symbols and then the box design, then I'll have to ask Ezra to make the die-face-oracle cards so they all match the other ones. Or maybe Bee will want to do that, too, hard to say!
Right now it looks like I will have my work done and final print files/manufacturing stuff back to the manu by the end of November, they'll be in holiday season and get started making stuff maybe in December? Probably more likely January. Then those go to the fulfillment folks and I charge you shipping and we ship out in Feb/March.
At the same time, New Titan will be shooting out Misery Tarot and Hot Housewives Tarots Feb/March, and then with any luck we will have a couple months downtime before the Goblin's Tarot in May.
And that's it for now! Let me know any questions you have! Sit tight and I'll have the pledge manager set up for this project in the next few days.
Talk again shortly,
7DA
Your Publishing Goblin
The Complete Helper Set!
5 months ago
– Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 10:04:16 AM
Here's your reminder that we will be live over on Youtube at 5pm MST, just about 6 hours after this update! So join us for the final hour livestream where I have a tendency to get a bit wild and add cheap tiers and add-ons on request! : )
So let's take a look at our completed Helper Set-- these are the Lords cards. The borders and names and a few fun details will be a holographic rainbow foil, so no worries about the differences in colors between them or legibility, it'll be real clear on the printed cards.
**Additionally, for 80I, Tombus, Workshop, and Glammy the dice symbols are their sketches, not the final vector forms. They will be a little more clear still.
In the box that contains these cards and 6 dice, which will be a variety of colors beyond what you see here, you'll also get the 6 cheat sheets for the dice, as well as 36 die-face oracle cards, which are the 36 die faces as oracle sized cards.
So if you haven't grabbed your Helper Dice Set yet, now is the time! Bee Ho did such a great job with all of this, I can't wait to see these dice in person!
See many of you soon!
7DA
your pub gob
The Final 24 Hours! | Tricks and Treats Abound! | End of Project Party!
5 months ago
– Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 02:12:17 PM
Well well well my friends. We're here. It's the final 24 hours after all.
First off, thank you for joining me here. I wasn't sure how this might work, being a followup campaign to one that wasn't manufactured yet, but the Helper Dice were the perfect capstone to the project, and a way to lock in some additional pre-orders for the larger sets. It makes me tear up a little to be honest to think of this project as completing for good. The Oracle Dice may be reprinted in the future, but I won't be expanding them or rewriting things.
But there are stranger things on the horizon for the Publishing Goblin. Certainly, stranger things await. But! Let's see what we've got here for our final 24 hours.
First off, the Complete 50 Pledge Tier (to get the three dice sets together for $150) is an add-on now as well. If you wanted to get multiple full sets, you can do so now with that add-on. And the Trick and Treat add-ons are back to the close of the campaign.
And if you are so inclined, there will be an end of campaign livestream on Youtube tomorrow night for our final hour. That's 5pm MST. I'll send out an update when we go live, and it will herald the close of the campaign. I always have some random fun tiers and add-ons that come and go at the end for people to grab that can save you some money. So stay tuned!
We also have our final Lord in for the Helper dice set, but I'll reveal 80-I tomorrow with the update that gives us our final hour. So get ready!
See you in 24 hours!
7DA
Your Pub Gob
Happy Halloween | Givewaway Winners, Trick 'r Treat Add-Ons
5 months ago
– Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 03:28:03 PM
It's about time we see some good and delightful treats in this place, what do you think? First off, let's take a look at the giveaway winners-- that's four different $800 tiers going out for free! I may live to regret this one when I find out the shipping cost to everyone! :)
For Facebook, our winner is:
Laura Norman!
For Instagram, our winner is:
mike.marples!
For Bluesky, our winner is:
blueberryraine!
For Tumblr, our winner is:
theturningray!
Thank you for taking part if you did! (I'll reach out to winners directly soon.) I like doing giveaways or community pools for projects, just something to give back if I can. I'll admit, community copies unfortunately were going to be too much for this project. But just four (big) packages felt possible. Starting next year, I'll be returning to Community Copy pools for projects.
TRICK 'R TREAT!
First, happy best birthday in the world to my mother! Love you mom!
Now, I'll be at Frankenstein in theaters for my evening... but it seems like people deserve something fun for the evening over here. Those who check every now and then might notice that some Early Birds have been bumped up again, AND we've got some odd new add-ons out there since last night, as many places have beggars night the night before Halloween!
... Trick or Treat!
See you in November! : )
7DA
your pub gob
The Final Week of The Oracle Dice | The Giveaway Draws Halloween Night!
5 months ago
– Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:36:15 AM
With just one week left, the Oracle Dice enter their final forms. In no time, we'll see the dice in the world. If you haven't grabbed your dice set, dice chest, or extras, now is your time.
With 675 backers, $65,555, and 7 days to go, it's clearly fated. By the time we reach that final day, perhaps we will see a pleasing $100,000 with 1,000 backers in that final 1 minute to go. One can dream!
And don't forget the giveaway!
Enter the Great Goblin Giveaway by Liking the giveaway post, Commenting on the giveaway post, and Following the account. You can take part in four places, all linked below. I'm drawing a winner from each platform Halloween night, so very soon.
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
BLUESKY
TUMBLR
Otherwise, life is good my friends. Be sure to stay on the lookout for increased slots in the Early Bird tiers, which come and go as days pass. Otherwise, we will have a nice and clean end in just 7 days, with an end of campaign stream party!
Talk to you all in a few days more for the Halloween drawing!
7DA
your pub gob
