The Streets of Dunkeldorf Kickstarter
over 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:20:36 AM

Hi everybody! 

It's been quite a while since last time and it feels very nice to write a Dunkeldorf update again! 

The Streets of Dunkeldorf Kickstarter

We're getting close to the launch of the fourth Dunkeldorf campaign, which will be in early November. The campaign is called "The Streets of Dunkeldorf" and you can sign up to receive a notification once we're launching it right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kinggames/the-streets-of-dunkeldorf

If you're following our Facebook page, you may already know about the campaign. But for those of you who don't, here's a bit of information about it! 

New Campaign Format

The Kickstarter will be smaller than our previous campaigns, so things will be a bit different than usual. You'll be saving more on the initial pledge price, but there'll of course still be freebie Stretch Goals! 

Instead of one big massive campaign this time, our goal is to launch another campaign in 2023 a bit quicker than the time that passed between The Kingpin and The Streets of Dunkeldorf campaigns. 

We decided to do this, as the last campaign had gotten quite big for our little company, and Nana and myself were finding it harder than usual to manage The Kingpin of Dunkeldorf campaign (The Dunkeldorf range has grown pretty damn big!), and we feel that a change of pace and a new format would be a welcome, and fun change. 

As usual though, we will probably end up getting slightly carried away and add more than initially planned, but we'll try to show some restraint this time! 

The campaign will feature characters that you're likely to encounter on the streets of Dunkeldorf, as well as scenery that fits into the streets. The "Starting lineup" will consist of 8 miniatures instead of 12, with more miniatures being added for free to the pledges along with more to choose from, through daily unlocks/stretch goals. 

Everything from the past Dunkeldorf campaigns will be available as Add-ons in the Pledge Manager, and we'll be creating some new sets as well. 

For those of you who play RPGs and perhaps are interested in the Dunkeldorf RPG Sourcebook/Setting too, we're planning on including a map of the Dunkeldorf marketplace (The Mondplatz) as it looks during the busy Mond Festival. 

You can also expect to see more artwork portraits that were introduced in the Kingpin of Dunkeldorf Kickstarter. The first of those will be of Ghartek Geldmann and is included in the 2 main pledges. 

The campaign will run for a shorter duration than the previous Kickstarters, but we will make sure to make it extra exciting with Stretch Goals & Events for most days. We especially can't wait for the part that has now become a Dunkeldorf tradition, the Community Miniature! :D  

The Streets of Dunkeldorf campaign will include remakes of the Street Signs and Notice Board from the first Dunkeldorf Kickstarter, and in addition to these remakes, we're also including a Street Lantern set to light up the dark streets of Dunkeldorf. 

We're very excited about the new campaign and we can't wait to get it launched soon!

Once again, the campaign launches in early November, and you can sign up to receive a notification right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kinggames/the-streets-of-dunkeldorf 

We hope to see you back in Dunkeldorf soon :D 

- Nana & Nicki

Map of Sven's Brewery
about 2 years ago – Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:54:56 PM

Hi everybody! 

It has taken a bit longer than planned, but the map of Sven's Brewery is finally ready with the finishing touches included! You might want to sit down for this update as it's one of the longer ones from us!

Sven's Brewery

In case you have missed it in a past update, this magnificent map is made by the talented Jérôme Huguenin and you can't help but appreciate the attention to details he adds to his maps. We've already talked with Jérôme about working on more Dunkeldorf maps in the future so hopefully you're as excited about that as we are! 

We wanted to include a bit of information about some of the areas of the brewery and the characters you can find there . Those of you who play RPGs, and are considering using Sven's Brewery in a session might find this useful. All of this will be covered in much more detail in our planned RPG Source Book (More on that further down), but this should give you a good idea about what's going on in the brewery. 

Click here to view the map in full resolution where you can easily save it as well, and you can find the BW version by clicking here. 

Ground Floor (1-3): 

1. The Storage Room is where all the kegs of Sven's Bitter is stored, it's a bit of a messy room with a ladder leading directly to area 4. 

2. Bodo's Room. When Bodo is at the Brewery, he tends to sneak around the premise and look for unwanted guests. Bodo generally doesn't sleep much, but when he does, he sleeps with one eye open in area 2, on something that once resembled a mattress. 

3. The "Sleeping Quarters". At this point in the Dunkeldorf story, this area isn't much of anything. It has been mostly cleared for junk, and Sven plans to turn this area into a large sleeping quarters for all the new members that he expects to recruit after unfolding his master plan. This includes the frightening ogre Martha. 

In case anyone enters this area during the night, it's very likely that Bodo will be awake and skulking around. He'll be very stealthy and will likely take one or more characters by surprise. Depending on the situation he'll either scream out a warning for the rest of Sven's gang, or perhaps more likely, attempt to stab the first character he spots. 

First Floor (4-5)

4. The Brewhouse. This is where the bitter magic happens, as Sven's Bitter Brew is produced right here. Most of the gang helps out with the production, which also explains why Sven's Bitter has a tendency to taste quite different depending on which batch you drink. Not everyone follows Sven's instructions and recipe equally well. Agnes in particular seems to struggle with this. 

5. The Taproom. The bitter fruits of labour is consumed here. Whenever a new batch of Sven's Bitter is ready, a meeting will be held and the gang will get up to speed on Sven's most recent plans and schemes, while tasting the latest Bitter batch. 

While many members tend to only take a sip or two of their bottle (Unless on rare occassions where it's actually a decent brew), Agnes and Lenny will be quick to scurry around the table and gulp down any content left in the bottles once the meeting is over. 

Second Floor

The entire second floor is dedicated to sleeping quarters for all of the regular members of the gang, Bodo being the only exception. We won't cover every one of the rooms in this update, as mentioned, Sven's Brewery will be explored in more details in the book. We'll mention a few rooms though! 

8. Sven's Room. The grand room of them all. Sven spends a lot of his time in a chair next to the cozy fireplace, with papers scattered over his table. Being one of the very few members of the gang with the ability to read and write, he makes sure not to hide this fact. 

Sven's master plan isn't a simple one, and as there's been many drafts on how to take over the underworld of Dunkeldorf, he occassionaly runs into trouble finding the right papers, and quickly sets the entire house in an uproar to find the culprit who messed around with his important papers.  

9. Lenny's Room. Lenny is Sven's right hand man, and he'll do whatever he can to earn the respect of his boss. He takes pride in being right next to Sven's room and being the one chosen to protect him at his most vulnerable, while sleeping . Though it has been pointed out that anyone coming up the stairs would also need to get past Marik, Barik and Arnold's rooms first, and also that Lenny is quite the heavy sleeper. 

15. Mannfred's Room. It's no secret in the house that Mannfred and Lenny can't stand each other. Sven noticed that the two even goes as far as to compete against each other in pleasing him the most. Seeing an opportunity in their rivalry, Sven gifted Mannfred with the second largest room on the floor, and gave Lenny the smallest room that on the other hand was right next to his own. During the Mond Festival, Mannfred isn't spending a lot of time in the house as he and Karla are on a stakeout mission at The Prancing Peacock Inn. 

The Attic

The attic might look like a big mess, but a lot of the gang's valuables are actually stored here together with a whole lot of useless junk. Several members of the gang, who tend to be a bit on the heavy side, are not allowed up here due to past accidents with rotten floorboards and bad construction. Andreas "Zahnfee", the slow-minded almost ogre-sized man is being reminded of his ban severals times a day. 

6. Jenny's Room. Lenny's daughter has forbidden anyone of entering her room, she has even gone as far as to booby trap the ladder leading up to it. The third step from the top is loose and anyone putting a firm footing on it will struggle to not fall flat down on the rotten floorboards below. Jenny's worst fear is that anyone finds her very secret stuffed toy rabbit. She'd never hear the end of it... 

7.  Claudia's Room. Claudia made sure that she was put in charge of organizing and keeping a close eye on the gang's valuables stored away safely in the attic. With the exception of Claudia, no one, not even Sven knows the real extent of their "riches" and Claudia has a tendency to give satisfying, but very vague answers every time the matter is brought up. 

Being an expert marksman and owning several crossbows, including a very expensive, high quality crossbow fit for a foppish nobleman, Claudia will be able to hold her ground in the attic if anyone is dumb enough to venture out on the rotten floorboards in search of the gang's wealth. 

Lenny & Helmut by Ivan

A lot of you probably know about, or at the very least have noticed some of the awesome buildings that we use in many of the diorama pictures in our campaigns. These are from Tabletop-World, and Ivan from the TTW team is not only great at making buildings, but is also pretty damned great with a brush! He recently painted up Lenny and placed him next to a certain drinking buddy he had previously painted. 

Click here to check out Ivan's Instagram account for more pictures! 

I also thought this update would be a good opportunity to mention that Tabletop-World is releasing an actual brewery building later this year on Kickstarter! So if you're on the lookout for what will undoubtedly be another awesome building,  go and follow Tabletop-World's Facebook page so you don't miss out on their announcement :) 

Martha by Magnus

And here's another treat! Magnus recently painted Martha the Mercenary, and not only did he do an incredible job painting her, he even recorded the entire process and with a bit of tech savvy made it available for all of us to enjoy. 

Below you can see the video of Magnus painting Martha, and we also encourage you to jump straight to Magnus' YouTube channel and subscribe so you won't miss out on future videos! 

Longer update than expected!

I had planned on posting this update yesterday, but after working on the update most of the day, I decided to wait until today to read through it with fresh eyes and write this final section. 

The original plan was to include some information about what's next for Dunkeldorf in 2022, but this is already turning out to be a long update, so this part will be brief for now. 

Since this update includes a lot of the "Fluff side" of Dunkeldorf, it makes sense to mention that the Dunkeldorf RPG Source Book is still planned! Admittedly, it's going slower than we had originally thought, but at the same time, we feel that we have a much better grip on the story and the characters too, now that we have worked on Dunkeldorf for.. Gosh, over three years now! We want to make something we can be proud of and that means that it'll take us some time to figure out how to learn it all from the bottom and also finding the right people to work together with us on it. 

Before ending this update, we do want to include just a little bit of what's included in the next Dunkeldorf campaign, and the character below is actually related to this campaign as the two sets of flowers were created for this character.

We'll tell more about this guy in the future, but for now, meet Max the Florist, a former high ranking officer and engineer who was both severely burned and lost a hand in battle. Afterwards he swore never to fight again and has since found his passion, working with plants and flowers and creating beautiful bouquets which he sells in the busy streets of Dunkeldorf. 

In the next update we'll have a lot more to show of what's to come!

Have a wonderful day and stay safe. 

- Nana & Nicki

News from Dunkeldorf
about 2 years ago – Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 01:12:44 AM

Hi everybody! 

Time for a quick update from Dunkeldorf. The last few remaining pledges were shipped out about a week ago, and we're officially done with the shipping part! (Almost). I say almost because we still have 5 pledges left that were facing some minor issues, these have been overcome and the packages will be on their way tomorrow!  

If you haven't received tracking information (From PostNord) and you start getting worried about your parcel, do feel free to write to us (We'll get back with the tracking number as fast as possible). We've experienced that sometimes a note isn't left when a parcel can't be delivered, which means that if you don't know where the parcel is, you can't pick it up and it'll eventually be returned to us. 

Wonders from the Community!

We wanted to share a few more pictures from the Dunkeldorf Community on Facebook. This time it's of painted miniatures from this Kickstarter campaign, by some of the wonderful painters in the group. 

Thanks to all of you for sharing the pictures with us, it's so great to see your take on the characters! 

One Thing Missing

I had wanted to include the map in this update, but unfortunately there's still a few minor adjustments left to make on it, and I didn't want to postpone this update any further. The next update will include the map of Sven's Brewery (Both coloured and black & white versions), and we'll also tell about the plans for Dunkeldorf in 2022!

To finish off the update with, we'd like to thank all of you for the incredible feedback we have gotten from you, it's so great to see your nice comments and it means so much to us! ❤️

- Nicki & Nana

Happy New Year!
over 2 years ago – Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 01:17:02 AM

Hi everybody!

We hope you all had a great New Year's Eve and got safe and sound into 2022! Nana and I have recharged and we're ready to power through to make sure that the remaining pledges are shipped out swiftly!

This update is to keep all of you informed about the current shipping status, but it also includes a couple of points that we want to mention that may be useful to know. 

We don't have any "Fresh" pictures to show in this update, and we'll instead continue with some of the great unboxing pictures from the Dunkeldorf Community. 

Shipping Status

•  Where we are? We have JUST caught up with all regular work after our vacation and tomorrow we'll get cracking again with Dunkeldorf pledges. We're highly motivated and aim to get the last ones out as fast as possible, while still doing quality control and double checking content to avoid mistakes. 
•  What's left? We have a little more than 1/3 of all pledges to to go, which is around 250. 

A Few Points

We have received so much great feedback and we're so happy to hear that you all like the miniatures so much. We hope the last of you who haven't received your pledges yet will be happy, and that you don't mind having waited a bit longer than others. 

We'll jump straight to a few points that cover some questions some of you may have. 

1. Bases! We have realized that we didn't do a proper job at letting you know that there are no Plastic "Slotta" bases included with the miniatures. We made this decision with our last campaign, as we knew that many backers wouldn't be using them. Instead we decided to use the costs of bases for Stretch Goals that all backers could use. The plastic bases could then be purchased as an Add-on in the Pledge Manager. This was the same approach this time. 

In our last campaign we made a big deal out of informing everyone about this, and for some reason I was absolutely sure that we had of course done the same during this campaign. Unfortunately that was not the case, and I only mentioned it in the comments section. 

We just wanted to let you know, that if you're one of the backers who wasn't aware of this and you don't have a selection of your own preferred bases ready at hand, then send us a message and we'll figure out a solution :) 

2. The Mutated Piglet and Puppy. We ended up getting a few more than we had mentioned here on Kickstarter, but we didn't want to promise anything as we weren't sure all of them would be delivered in time. They were! Which means that many more of you are getting one as a bonus, and a few lucky ones are even getting both, this is not a mistake, but just an extra surprise. 

For those who weren't lucky to get one, we'll of course make them available in the next Dunkeldorf campaign. 

3. Issues? We're doing our best to double check all orders (Which is why packing is so time consuming), we're also doing quality control, but with over 20.000 miniatures (Without accounting for scenery, pets & accessories!) being shipped out, a few mistakes are bound to happen. 

Should you encounter one of those, send us a message and we'll get it sorted out! We do ask a bit of patience in these cases though, as we want to prioritize getting all remaining pledges shipped out first. 

4. Engel's dog, Old Traud. We haven't heard any feedback about this, but I thought I would mention it nonetheless. Some of the Traud casts have a bit of flash around the left ear. Casting the old mutt wasn't an easy task and it was either a bit of flash or changing the miniature design. If you notice that the "Gap" is filled out, then you can either leave it as it is and paint it black or (What we recommend) remove the flash carefully with a knife. With a bit of sanding around the edges, it shouldn't be noticeable! 

5. Tracking Information. Once your pledge has been shipped, you should receive a tracking email from the Danish courier PostNord. Once the parcel reaches the destination country, you can then use the code to track it with the official Postal Service in your country. 

If you don't receive a tracking email, it's most likely due to an error in the system (Perhaps it wasn't scanned initially) OR I have messed up and not clicked on the email notification box. It doesn't mean that your pledge hasn't been shipped. 

6. The Map of Sven's Brewery. We haven't forgotten about it! - Once all pledges have been shipped out, the final details on the map will be added, and then we'll include it in an update :) 

That's it for this time! We'll be back with another update later in January. Thanks again for all the wonderful feedback, and we'll do our best to make sure that those of you who are waiting won't have to wait long :) 

- Nana & Nicki

Shipping has Begun!
over 2 years ago – Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 03:10:31 AM

Hi everybody! This will be the shortest update of the campaign so far, we're very busy packing pledges, but we wanted to quickly update you on where we are with everything :)

We started shipping out pledges earlier this week, and it's clear to us that packing them are more time consuming than the previous campaigns, primarily due to having everything available from all three Kickstarters. 

Despite of that, and the fact that this is our busy season with our regular webshop work, we have still managed to pack close to 200 Dunkeldorf pledges this week, all of these are Kingpin and All-in pledges (The largest and slowest ones to pack)

Nana and myself will be closing down for the holidays on December 22nd, we always try to wind down around that time and take it easy. We'll do our best to get as many pledges as possible out before then. The goal is that we'll reach a total of around 450 pledges shipped out before closing down. 

After that, we don't expect to be packing more pledges until 2022, but we promise that the remaining ones will be shipped out as fast as possible in early January. 

Below you can see one of the "Unpacking" pictures that have been shared in the Dunkeldorf Community, this one was taken by Garrett Sheehan. It's so nice to see everything presented like this and it means a lot to us to hear all of your nice comments, here and in the community! It's especially motivating when we're in the middle of shipping out pledges :)

In case we don't post another update before 2022, we want to wish you all happy holidays and thank you once again for the tremendous support that made this campaign possible. We're so proud of this Kickstarter, and we personally feel that this is the best of the three Dunkeldorf campaigns. Everything just came together for this one, and we hope all of you will be happy with, and enjoy the miniatures once you get them. Thank you❤️

- The Dunkeldorf Team