First Physical Copies (and T-Shirt sneak peek)
14 days ago
– Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 02:57:43 AM
Heya folks!
I had quite the epic moment this morning receiving the first EVER printed copies of the finished books 😱
They look AMAZING 😍 I couldn’t be happier 🥰
Thank you all so so much for all of your patience and support with this project so far. All printed books will be shipped out tomorrow to our distributer, CRWN Studios who will be sending them out ASAP once they get them! 😁
Also~ here’s a lil sneak peek at the t-shirt design I’ve worked on for those who have ordered t-shirts 😍
This design will be on the back of the t-shirts with this lil guy iver the front pocket…
I think is such and awesome design heheh (if I do say so myself) 😂
Designed by yours truly uwu
If you do still want to grab a t-shirt you can do so over on Kickstarter still using the shop button, or possibly still on Backerkit :D but act fast!!!
Much love to you all…
The Ugly Goblin 🥰
Received the first print
about 1 month ago
– Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 07:45:07 AM
Heya folks n_n I'm so excited to tell you that the first sample print came in the mail for me to approve and it looks SO good!!!
Everything is getting the thumbs up for me, and printing will begin ASAP!!
Check out these shots!
A month of Printing Prep is over
2 months ago
– Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 01:02:06 AM
Hello folks!
(I have good news!)
I'm sorry I've been a little quiet, but sadly I haven't had much to share until now.
For the last month and a bit, I've been going back and forth with printers, tweaking and fixing minor issues that came up with the book. We've been meticulous to ensure everything in this book prints correctly, and it's been a significant learning curve for me.
MEGA TIP! to all aspiring book makers:
Don't build your entire book in Canva xD
It's been quite the task converting everything over to Affinity but I'm hoping that it will all have been worth it in the end.
I am writing this moments after giving the final go-ahead to start the printing process. I am so sorry that this has taken much longer than expected. Yet again, I've had to do a lot of learning here, but it's been an amazing experience.
I feel like all future Kickstarter projects will be a fraction as stressful thanks to the groundwork I have laid with this one.
Again, I thank you so much for your patience!
Much love,
The Ugly Goblin (Gabriel)
The Official PDF for "The Ugly Goblin's Cookbook"
3 months ago
– Mon, May 11, 2026 at 05:10:07 AM
You should all be receiving Backerkit emails today!
Heya folks!
I have just sent out the Official PDFs (both a Compressed & Uncompressed versions) out to you all via Backerkit.
You'll most likely get a link to a space where you can download your files n_n
Hope it all goes smoothly for you all.
This is the version of the book that is sent off to the printers!
So everything in this PDF will be in the physical book.
Reminder!
38 backers have yet to fill out their details over on BackerKit.
I have sent out emails to each of you, just in case previous emails got lost.
Do make sure to get all of your details submitted as soon as you can.
Thank you!!
Much love to you all,
Gabriel (The Ugly Goblin)
Printing Prep is underway!
4 months ago
– Mon, May 04, 2026 at 05:10:59 AM
Sending everything to the Printers!
Hello folks!
Sorry for the bit of radio silence for the last while, I've had a lot of events on back to back for the last while and was waiting to hear back from several printers etc.
But I can now confidently share that...
1/ Everything will be sent off to the printers this week.
- I have just finished up the layouts for the page wraps.
- I am just about finished with going over last minute edits. (All of your comments have been super helpful in this regard).
Why did this take so long?
The Publisher/Distributer I have been working with (CRWN Studios) has been Excellent and put me in touch with a LOT of different printing companies.
Over the last several weeks I have been going back and forth with all of them (while also fighting with time differences, due to me living in Europe). I've been trying to work out the best deals for the best quality product. So comparing prices, going back and forth sending the specs of the book etc.
In the end I have finally decided on a printer and so the next process was sending them a lot of tax and payment details etc so they can log me into their system, as well as making up the PDFs for these case wrappings (see above). It's just taken a long time, while also juggling my other job and life events all getting in the way.
But I am so relieved and delighted to announce that everything should be a little more hands-free from my end as the printers and distributors take over xD
2/ Everything should be ready to ship out this summer
We've made a timeline, and I'm already a week ahead of it and it looks like we're in a great place for getting everything to you folks this summer.
3/ Thank you for your patience and feedback
Thanks to so many of you, you caught So many things that slipped through the cracks, even after sending out copies of my manuscripts to over half a dozen individuals for review and corrections. And so for the past while I've also been scanning over the entire book to make sure NOTHING else has been missed.
(Inevitably, there will be SOME sort of error in the final copy T_T but I'm pretty confident now we've caught almost everything).
4/ Playtesting has been going really well
I wanted to give this book a bunch of field testing and I have to say I am SO happy with the results. This book has genuinely been so much fun to use in my own home games and I cannot wait to get it out to all of you.
Thank you all so much again for your patience
This is my very first Kickstarter and I'm learning so so much and I've made so many incredible contacts too.
But I can tell you now that this summer you will finally be able to...
Much love
Gabriel (The Ugly Goblin)
