Sayuri's Chest of Wonders - Silk Road D&D 5e!

As we draw near to the end of this campaign, I want to draw your attention to our art tiers.

These are pretty special because you get to work with our team to create an awesome piece of content AND art that will be featured in the digital copy of the book and the physical if and when we do a print run.

BUT if you create art with us, we'll send you a physical copy so you can show your friends and players at your table.

We haven't included a hardcover tier simply because we don't want to commit to a print run until our other print runs are done and dusted. Those who passed their perception checks will know that this has been the case with all of our campaigns on Backerkit to date.

There's a big difference between printing 30 copies for higher tiers and 300 copied for a general hardcover tier.

The top tier even features a 3 slots where you can get your full party art and physical prints and a hard copy of the book at a steal. We've done this a few times in the past and it has always turned out to be a great experience to work with someone to create such a big art piece. You can see an example of one we did before on the tier graphics.

Also, a new stretch goal has been unlocked!

This means we'll add an additional area to the Ghost of Doroboshi adventure which will lend really well to connecting the 3 small adventures to make 1 longer adventure. I doubt we'll hit the stretch goal that connects them all together that way, but you never know what might happens!

In addition, the new stretch goal also unlocks the magic item, Shahnameh's Script (as previously stated, names may or may not be changed in the actual book).

We just got a great piece of art through from our art director, Darren Millar.

Feast your eyes on the Kabuto of the Spirit Crane.



Who needs a plague doctor mask when you can have this?

This is the level of quality you can expect when making a magic item with us...or any art for that matter.

Hopefully we'll hit a few much stretch goals in the last 24 hours!

Chat again soon!

Cheers,
Paddy & Team Penny Dragon

Congrats on making this campaign a great success!

To celebrate we've added a little something to the campaign as outlined at the bottom of this update :)

We're excited to watching Sayuri's take shape, and we're currently working on creating the additional content already unlocked by the stretch goals (thank you again for making that happen!).

As you know, Sake's Hoard is a small taster of additional magic items that Sake, the little luck dragon, has managed to collect on his own time. The PDF has turned out to be as cute as he is. As a backer, you'll find a link below, in the backer only section of this update.

We've passed the midway point for this campaign and we still have so many stretch goals to unlock.

We've already unlocked a LOAD of additional new magic items and we're only a few $100 from unlocking a new location for the adventure section of the book. In fact, if we keep going like this, Sayuri's might have over 200 magic items in it!

So, please, share with your gaming friend on Discord and let's unlock more stretch goals!

As you already likely know, Aizendore's Vault and Gizcog's Wandering Emporium are already published, so you'll receive these a couple of weeks after the campaign ends and Backerkit payments clear. Sayuri's will take a little longer as per the deadline in each tier.

We've also added something special to the add-ons.

Since Whispers Upon the Waves is almost over the line (will be fulfilled next week after final tweaks to layout), we've added that into the mix. 

It's an adventure for 4 - 6 characters at level 5. Well, that's how it started anyway, but it turned into a much bigger adventure than was originally intended, meaning it can work for a party at level 3 and see them climb to level 6.

This cray not-so-little adventure sees the party investigate the mystery of the Seaheart Gem and the Curse of Captain Grimsbeard as he and his phantom crew haunt the seaport city of Vandermire. It has tons of information on setting, lore, deities, peoples and features several maps. These include a labelled map of the small city, a map of the secret smuggler catacombs under the city, and two battle maps (one for the ghost ship and one for combat on the city's cobbled streets).

If pirates and cursed ships are your jam, consider updating your add-ons to include it. That way, you'll get it before it goes live on our website at the end of June.

Otherwise, we want to wish you all a great start to your summer. 

Have a great weekend.

And remember to always...Game like a dragon!

Cheers,
Paddy & Team Penny Dragon

Congrats on unlocking 2 more stretch goals since we last published an update!

That adds 10 new magic items to those already planned...not to mentioned the specific items unlocked by the goals which means 12 new magic items unlocked by these 2 stretch goals alone!

AND a magic item cards PDF so you can print those for your table for some practicality and immersion.

Next up, as you can probably guess, is an additional new area for one of the adventures which will expand The Ghosts of Doroboshi from 3 to 4 locations thus giving players more areas to explore.

And we aren't too far off that stretch goal.

I wonder if we can hit it by the end of the third day?

I guess time will tell :)

Thank you again for your support.

Cheers,
Paddy & Team Penny Dragon

P.S. The poll is closing soon. Be sure to cast your vote while it's still open! :)

Congratulations on unlocking a 6th stretch goal.

You will now receive the Haenyeo's Grace magic item (bringing total number of additional new magic items unlocked to 11) and a digital map pack to include all the maps in the book unlabelled and ready for printing for your table...if that's your jam.

Don't tell anyone I revealed this because I don't know if we can get anywhere near it, but there IS a stretch goal around the $50,000 mark where we add a silly number of additional new magic items to the book...which would significantly increase the number of pages. And when I say significant...think 20+ pages.

I don't think anything short of a share by a few heavy hitters in the D&D arena will get us there...but you never know :)

Speaking of more magic items, we're so close to the next stretch goal which will add a bunch more!

Also, in case you haven't noticed. You CAN get a physical copy of Sayuri's Chest of Wonders on this campaign, but they are exclusive to the art tiers to keep it to just a few copies which means these will be SUPER expensive to produce since it'll be a per-person basis rather than an offset print run.

The Merchant tier seems to be getting a lot of love today for that reason.

I'll write a proper update about those art tiers later today because I don't think we've communicated just how cool they are.

And hopefully we'll have a solid update about PoD later in the week.

Until then, remember to always...

Game like a dragon!

Cheers,
Paddy & Team Penny Dragon

We've done it!

We've unlocked the grayscale version of Sayuri's Chest of Wonders for all those who like to print their PDFs at home.

Also...we're now adding the Matryoshka of the Endless to the book. Each stretch goal unlocks new content PLUS an additional new magic item.

Because that's how a Penny Dragon do.

Also, please don't forget to vote in the poll re Print on Demand.

I can reveal that the next stretch goal will unlock a digital map pack to include the maps from the adventures without labels in case you want to print those for your table.

I love printing maps on vinyl for conventions and other events.

But what magic items will we unlock next, you ask?

I guess there's only one way to find out.

Until next time...remember to always...Game like a dragon!

Cheers,
Paddy & Team Penny Dragon