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Dale of Merchants 3

Created by Sami Laakso

Competitive deck building card game featuring charming animals and artwork By placing a pre-order, you consent on being added to our email newsletter. You may unsubscribe at any time.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Mission accomplished with flying colours!
almost 4 years ago – Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:07:06 PM

The campaign is now finished, and it was a great success! We reached the 100 000 euro mark and also smashed our previous backer record by over 1000 backers! I want to thank each and every one of you for your support, your activity and enthusiasm, and the awesome games I played with you on Tabletop Simulator! But the journey isn’t over yet, and we will now turn our attention to getting the games into your hands.

Campaign progress and pledge manager

I’ve made a tradition of visualising the progress of the different tasks of the project in every update from the end of the funding period to until the games have been delivered.

As you can see, Dale of Merchants 3 is fully done, save for finalising the market board. Then it's time to begin the manufacturing.

I plan to open the pledge manager within the next week. When I do, I’ll post a separate update where I’ll explain how it works in detail.

After that, the pace of the updates will slow down. I’ll post an update roughly once a month where I’ll inform you about the project progress and new developments.

Payment failures

Some of you may receive, or have already received, an email from Kickstarter saying that your chosen payment method has issues. The same message has instructions on how to fix the problem, and you’ll have one week to do it.

Be sure to handle it in that timeframe, or your pledge will be automatically cancelled. If that happens, please contact [email protected] and we’ll figure something out.

Previous updates

If you didn’t join us right from the start, you might have missed some of the important updates like the animalfolk deck introductions. I’ve collected links to the most notable updates below.

Also, you can join our community Discord server to talk about board games or anything else you want.

Thank you from me and my assistant

Again, thank you everyone for making this campaign such a great success.

Sincerely,

Sami Laakso

Mammal winner stream starts in 1 hour
almost 4 years ago – Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:37:07 PM

The mammal poll is now closed, and the clear winner is the quokka with 298 votes! There were a total of nearly 700 voters. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Winner: Quokka

This time the competition wasn’t quite as fierce. Over 40 % of all voters voted for quokka with capybara at second place with less than 30 % of voters behind them.

Congratulations to the cute winner!

I will do a live stream as I draw the winner on the game’s market board. The stream begins in less than an hour at 20:00 UTC+3. Drop in the stream and say if you have time!

Join the stream!

Sincerely,

Sami Laakso

Custom card sleeves and playmats
almost 4 years ago – Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:37:01 PM

We have entered the exciting last 24 hours of the campaign. In this update, I want to take a little bit of time and introduce our optional accessories if you wish to enhance your gameplay.

Accessories

You can watch a video about the custom card sleeves and playmats below. I show how I like to use the playmat to organise my playing area, the custom printing on the card sleeves, their non-glare finish, and how the sleeved cards fit in the Collection box.

You can add any accessories to your pledge by either adjusting your pledge during these final hours on Kickstarter or in the pledge manager after the campaign has ended. Either way, you’ll be able to pick and choose the add-ons in the pledge manager.

If you have any questions about the sleeves or playmats, don’t hesitate to ask them in the comments. I’ll explain the pledge manager in more detail after the campaign has ended.

My assistant Eddie sleeping during work

We’re nearing 100k euros at the moment. A huge thank you to everyone for that! It seems like we can even break our previous record of 102 687 € which we achieved with Dale of Merchants Collection!

Sincerely,

Sami Laakso

Scheming Green Magpies
almost 4 years ago – Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:25:24 PM

The sixth and last animalfolk deck introduction is here. This time the spotlight shines on Scheming Green Magpies!

Green Magpies

Magpies aim to be international influencers and diplomats. While they want to give the impression of supporting the common good, magpies rarely do anything without selfish reasons. The intellect of magpies cannot be denied – and they know it as well. A well prepared and determined magpie is not something you want to be put against!

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Playing with green magpies rewards attentive players. Their stealing cards require a correct guess about the card you’re trying to snatch, be it its value or name. If you’re not paying attention to your opponent, utilising the magpies can seem fruitless. On the other hand, a successful burglary by a magpie can leave the opponent empty handed.

Custom card sleeves

Here’s a sneak peek photo of the custom card sleeves from the factory. Based on the photos I’ve received, the sleeves are turning out great! I should receive the samples later this week. As soon as I do, I will film a video to show how the cards fit in the Collection box sleeved.

Custom card sleeve samples

I would greatly appreciate if you could fill in this short form about how many playmats and sleeves you plan to purchase in the pledge manager. We aim to start the production before locking in the pledge manager in order to fulfil all your games and accessories as early as possible. Your answers help us make enough sleeves and playmats for everyone. Please answer to the form even if you’re planning to purchase neither. That’s extremely valuable as well.

With all the animalfolk decks introduced, which one do you wait the most?

Sincerely,

Sami Laakso

Mammal poll is now open
almost 4 years ago – Sun, May 24, 2020 at 01:29:42 AM

The fourth and final poll has been started! Now you get to decide which mammal makes an appearance on the game’s market board.

Furfolk poll

We received 218 suggestions for mammals with 126 unique entries. Here’s the top 10 candidates we selected. Go vote for your favourites here!

Click here to vote!

The poll will close on the 29th of May, and until then you’re more than welcome to share the poll with your friends! I will livestream drawing the winner the same day.

Sincerely,

Sami Laakso