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      Jason Christopher Faught on April 25

      I still think that they should have been called Convert Dice... :P

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      Tristan V Convert on April 24

      @Bill, I PMd you ;)

      ARTHUR: He is the keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each
      traveller five questions--
      KNIGHT: Three questions.
      ARTHUR: Three questions. He who answers the five questions--
      KNIGHT: Three questions.
      ARTHUR: Three questions may cross in safety.
      ROBIN: What if you get a question wrong?
      ARTHUR: Then you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.
      ROBIN: Oh, I won't go.
      KNIGHT: Who's going to answer the questions?
      ARTHUR: Sir Robin!
      ROBIN: Yes?
      ARTHUR: Brave Sir Robin, you go.
      ROBIN: Hey! I've got a great idea. Why doesn't Launcelot go?
      LAUNCELOT: Yes, let me go, my liege. I will take him single-handed.
      I shall make a feint to the north-east--
      ARTHUR: No, no, hang on, hang on, hang on! Just answer the five
      questions--
      KNIGHT: Three questions.
      ARTHUR: Three questions as best you can. And we shall watch... and
      pray.

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      Bill Kohler on April 24

      The selectable answers to your "shipping speed" question were the most obscure answers I think I have ever encountered. I have no idea what you meant by them.

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      Tristan V Convert on April 23

      I understand your point of view and I am sorry it takes so long.
      It's 15000 dice with extremely intricate shapes,
      10 months of adventures,
      and 4 manufacturers.
      But this month, we are finally starting to send the rewards.
      If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to contact me directly.

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      Mark Russell on April 23

      10 months and counting. I imagine you're running out of excuses, but what's this month's?

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      Tristan V Convert on November 20, 2011

      @Robert, No, I am very sorry, but it seems we won't be ready for Christmas. I really would have liked to and I did my best, but we are getting short on time. Every reward will be sent at the same time, but probably not for Christmas, so I suggest to prepare a backup plan.
      P.S: Proxies are for sale at the shop, but they are handmade and there may be a rush so I cannot guarantee any order after the 10th of December to be fulfilled for the 25th. Any orders that cannot be fulfilled for Christmas on the Shop will have a warning in their description. Thank you for understanding.

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      Robert Blake on November 20, 2011

      Just to confirm: Are any rewards at the $50 or lower are going to be shipped by Christmas?

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      Tristan V Convert on October 6, 2011

      I received the first plastic injection runs and some were not made to my specifications. Some molds have to be redone. We will get there, but I have no shipping date yet. It seems they could be shipped for Christmas, but I cannot be firm.

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      Tyler Cushing on October 6, 2011

      Any updates regarding shipping date outlook? Just checking in.

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      Tristan V Convert on July 30, 2011

      @ Alissa Simon, please tell your coworker I'll sure be following up after Gencon, around the 12th of August.

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      Alissa Simon on July 30, 2011

      I got one of my bosses at the game store to watch your video, Tristan. She wants to know if you have a retailer kit. She also asked if you have a website. She said any information you have for her send to Susan@recess.net.

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      Tristan V Convert on July 28, 2011

      The Chinese handmade dice masters proofs are boarding: UPS 1Z9FX0350473685663

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      Tristan V Convert on June 27, 2011

      That's a lot! We are Legions. So the red dice are about to be confirmed all - sorry I just love the red dice -. I'll post an update with the master's pictures once it's all set. We decided the mold making will start in advance, while the remaining masters are being made. So the first steel mold ever will be the red one. The dice should be made in polymethyl methacrylate - as one of the manufacturer said, that's a mouthful!

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      Devin Dinkins on June 23, 2011

      That's a lot of dice!

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      HPLustcraft on June 21, 2011

      I'm not sure I can roll that many! I mean, I have big hands, but...

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      Tristan V Convert on June 21, 2011

      The breakdown shows we'll have to build 14257 dice only for you backers!

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      Tristan V Convert on June 20, 2011

      I've been told that today my mission is to moonwalk on Sunset.

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      Zoondo on June 20, 2011

      Presque 14000 dés à créer rien que pour les backers.
      Bon courage Tristan! Tu auras fini ce soir tu penses??? :D

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      Devin Dinkins on June 20, 2011

      I'm really excited for this game, and I'm glad I was able to jump on board before it was too late!

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      Lurwah on June 20, 2011

      Congratulations, I'm looking forward to playing the game!

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      Chad Krizan on June 20, 2011

      Wow... great run Tristan! Looking forward to the dice!

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      Alex Strang on June 20, 2011

      Almost over!

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      Tristan V Convert on June 20, 2011

      Last Orders Brass Bell!

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      Giovanni Medina on June 19, 2011

      how bout a 30,000 sided die? XD

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      Tristan V Convert on June 19, 2011

      @ Nguyen
      - I didn't plan to send multiple Olympus dice, but I'll try do make it happen, since we overshot the 30 current number, anything goes.
      - No, the proxy sets are not made already. I had to send or sell some to promote this kickstarter and they take a long time to prepare. I can't tell for sure if I will send them apart from the rest, but I think it would be in the interest of the game, so I'll try.

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      M. D. Nguyen on June 19, 2011

      also, im assuming proxy sets have already been made. will people who order them receive them right away?

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      M. D. Nguyen on June 19, 2011

      if we're ordering multiple sets, will we receive multiple olympus dice?

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      David + Katie Schumm on June 19, 2011

      15 more to go to get 500!

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      allisonnnn on June 18, 2011

      Olympus Mons = crushed :D

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      Quentin Schiavone on June 18, 2011

      Zoondo, tu dois mettre 65 dollars en "pledge" et choisir la récompense de 50 dollars. Comme ça tu as payé pour les frais de port ^^

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      Tristan V Convert on June 18, 2011

      The amount you decide to pledge is not directly related to the reward you claim, that's certainly why. Please take a look at the last Update. (PM'd)

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      Zoondo on June 18, 2011

      I don't understand. I'm french and I have taken the 50$ pledge. I have created an amazon session but no talking about 15$ shipping. How can I do for pay that?

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      Tristan V Convert on June 18, 2011

      Well if we reach 30000, what a surprise anyway!
      Let me think of something...

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      Giovanni Medina on June 18, 2011

      Any surprises if you reach $30,000?

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      Sébastien Bisoeil on June 17, 2011

      Having the privilege to be one of the few who has known those dice since the 20th century and knowing how hard it was to convince people to finance the game back them, it's an achievement to see that it will live at last and that so many people are impatient to get there set. I remember the smell of resin in the morning, on my balcony where i was making dice (green if i think) to achieve the goal of 50 sets. I remember running offices after offices with Tristan to try to make a product out of this artistic crazy nothing like that seen before game. And i remember we understood the world was not ready. Now it is ready. You pledgers, you barely yet imagine the pleasure you'll have to play this game.

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      Otter on June 17, 2011

      Freaky Friday challenge to all the other aleators: I have just doubled my pledge to try to help push the pledge total over the $30k mark - do the same!

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      Tristan V Convert on June 17, 2011

      The Olympus Die will be Yellow. It will not quite unbalance the color, you will just have one extra die in that color. I won't introduce a new color until next extension. As for now, we keep it 5 colors. All this is not a secret, but the shape of Olympus Mons will remain concealed until you open the package the guy from USPS drops at your door (as if it was red hot).

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      Lucas Jung on June 17, 2011

      Very interesting!

      So what color will the Olympus Mons die be? Will you unbalance the four colors by adding a sixth die to one color? Will you add a fourth white die? Will you introduce a new color? Or are you going to keep it a secret and make us wait until we get them in the mail?

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      Tristan V Convert on June 17, 2011

      It was proposed that you would have 5 dice of each color and 3 white dice. Why three? The white are, as you know, a mystery! And we wanted to give a prospective on the following series.

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      Lucas Jung on June 17, 2011

      I'm curious: why 23 dice in the initial set? Does the number 23 have some sort of significance, or was it a decision based on production considerations (i.e. time & cost to design & manufacture)?

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      David + Katie Schumm on June 17, 2011

      I think that 500 backers is going to happen. It would take a big run the last two days but ~40 were added in the last 36 hours since I jumped on.

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      Nicholas W. Peddicord on June 17, 2011

      Well now that we at less than three days, tell the end of this kick starter run. it looking like the top estamint of Olympus Mons might be reached and i wouldn't be surprised if you get past 300% of the original goal. May this be gist the beginning of a successful game run, with many attempted knock offs, rabid fans with crazed edition fights and all the other insane stuff that comes with a grate game idea.

      For every goal you set, for every problem that arises, and for ever time you think you might gust call it quits. let the dice teach you one thing. "Roll on!"

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      Andre McInnis on June 16, 2011

      I am waiting to post the 666th comment. ;-)

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      Tristan V Convert on June 16, 2011

      What a 100th comment!

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      Nicholas Witchey on June 16, 2011

      Let's hope we break $30K!

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      Tristan V Convert on June 16, 2011

      Hi David,
      YOU are my support so far! :-)
      Will you be at Origins this year? If so, maybe you would be willing to help drumming up? (PM'd)
      This fundraising should allow me to be at Gencon, IN and PAX, WA.

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      David + Katie Schumm on June 16, 2011

      Finally pulled the trigger. I just couldn't resist this. Well done Tristan. I look forward to recieveing my set. Any chance you will be at Origins this year? It's almsot too bad this fundraising finsihes befor the two big game shows of the summer, otherwise you could drum up a lot more support.

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      HPLustcraft on June 16, 2011

      Oh, I'm hoping you don't HAVE to use Kickstarter again...Just wondering if you will do so to keep customers in the loop and to give people a larger measure of participation in the product. Also, you can always set the next goal lower if you make enough from this one, and if you should happen to have another slam-bang success like this one, it goes into Series 3...and 4...etc.

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      Tristan V Convert on June 15, 2011

      Our goal is reached up to Wikipedia's description.

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      Tristan V Convert on June 15, 2011

      I am wandering the same as HPLustcraft, and I see it the same way as Andre!

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FUN REGISTRATION. One dollar is one more step to the game being at your retailer soon, but it is also the fun registration reward! You will be registered as an Initiate of the game at our tournaments, even without having played a single game! But you know the game. You were here before anybody else and you decided to be in.

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MAXWELL'S REWARD. Cheap functional art. For a mere $7 pledge you are pre-ordering and will receive two different Dice Age dice. Let's be honest, you don't play many games yourself, but you want to support this game because you think it's a great idea and would love to see these beautiful mini sculptures exist in the world. (Or maybe you're just a collector of fine art under one inch in height.) Your pledge will put us that much closer to making this game a reality, and you'll be rewarded with receiving two different dice chosen at random. You can keep one and gift one to a friend! Or maybe you can create your own dice mini-game that uses your two unique dice. Let me know what you create and I may add it to the growing list of games used with the Dice Age dice. Includes shipping within the USA. (Shipping to Canada add $5, International add $10 to pledge amount.)

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ONE SET TO RULE THEM ALL. For a $25 pledge you are pre-ordering and will receive one Alpha set of 10 different dice, including pouch and rulebook, (everything it takes), exactly as it will be released on the market. The dice are chosen randomly, but you will have at least two dice of each color. You will be able to play in Duel (which is my favorite way to play), start a collection, or build your own army. Includes shipping within the USA. (Shipping to Canada add $10, International add $15 to pledge amount)

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THE FULL ALPHA CASTING. For a $50 pledge you are pre-ordering and will receive one complete Alpha collection of 23 different dice, including one pouch and one rulebook. This exhaustive full set will not be sold at your retailer. You can play up to 4 players and no die will be a mystery to you. Includes shipping within the USA. (Shipping to Canada add $10, International add $15 to pledge amount)

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TWO FULL CASTINGS OF 23 DICE. For a $100 pledge you are pre-ordering and will receive two full Alpha collections of 23 different dice, including two pouches and two rulebooks. As a partisan of the fullsome, I can tell you it is not too much. You and your friends will be able to build your own armies of dice with doubles: thus, play bigger battles and discover the game's most advanced strategies. You can also give the second set as a present. Includes shipping within the USA. (Shipping to Canada add $10, International add $15 to pledge amount)

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ADOPT A DIE OPERATION. For those who really care! For a $150 pledge, you will receive one full Alpha collection of the 23 different dice, and become the godfather of a new die. Every die has the right to just be. For the 23 Dice Age dice that are released now, a hundred of others are still waiting in the laboratory to be reshaped and heralded to the Alpha master level. By adopting a die, you choose a die-to-be that will be redesigned. You will receive a polyurethane unique unpainted casting of the master: what we use to confirm the master before it is carved into the steel mold. Furthermore, when the master appears in the next Dice Age Compendium rulebook issue, your name will be marked as the godfather of this die. Contact us for choosing the die you want to adopt. (Shipping to Canada add $10, International add $15 to pledge amount)

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ADOPT A DIE WITH EXTRA FULL ALPHA CASTING. For a $175 pledge, you will receive two full Alpha collections of the 23 different dice, and become the godfather of a new die: Same as above, plus one extra Full casting of the 23 alpha dice. (Shipping to Canada add $10, International add $15 to pledge amount)

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DIPLOMATIC POUCH. For a $500 pledge, you will receive: - One draft PROXY ultra-limited set of the first 16 different dice, - Eight sets of the alpha edition, in deluxe leather pouches: a huge 184 Alpha dice. - A lifetime scoop shipping of one copy of each adopted die PU prototype (see adopt-a-die operation, There are three as of today, may the 30th 2011). - Tournament Expert level promotion and Official Dice Age referee's Orange necktie. With this unbeatable lot, shipped for free anywhere in the US (shipping to Canada add $15, International add $25 to pledge amount), you become an Ambassador of the game. You have all it takes to discover the game, have others discover it, and even make discoveries as a part of the Research and Development. You will be, for years to come, one of the pillars of the growing player's community and specialist of the game with first access to its developments. The PROXY set is handmade and hand painted for you by the designer (yours truly). This is a piece of art and it comes with a signed serialized certificate. Those sets are cast in the silicone mold, therefore there can be only a very limited series. After all, this project sounds the death knell and will end the limited era of the handmade sets. They are closer to the art that inspired this game. The crazy diplomatic pack of eight full Alpha collections of the 23 different Alpha edition dice, including deluxe leather pouches, is for you to have others around you discover the dice. You can hoard them up, make gifts, give dice away one by one as a unique souvenir or reward, as you will have anything it takes to organize your own tournaments: You will also receive the tournament organization kit and the official Dice Age referee's necktie, used at every Dice Age tournament since 1997: - http://jeuxsoc.fr/article/bes_2002/gellule.jpg - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150100677194039&set=t.747449038&type=1&theater. Each time a Dice Age die is adopted, you will receive a scoop copy (physical die) of the prototype. Now and forever. Furthermore, you will really help the game in its history and we thank you for pushing forward new game concepts like this one!

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Tristan Convert grew between science-fiction comics and fighting fantasy books in Lille, in the north of France, where it is always raining. He is the inventor of improbable board games, photographer and director of peculiar movies. He edited the Imhotep game with Hasbro in 2002 and he lives today in Los Angeles, among the Sun and the palm trees... But horror, destruction, cruel dungeons and deadly women, this is what thrills him.

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