project-image

Overclock: A Steam-Powered Campaign Guide

Created by Mage Armoire

Overclock: A Steam-Powered Campaign Guide introduces Aela, a skybound metropolis alive with steam-driven wonders, for Fifth Edition play, adding rules for airships, clockwork pets, and mechanical upgrades that fuel new adventures in the heart of industry

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Charging this week, then dropping first major chunk of the book for your review
11 months ago – Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 06:56:27 AM

Hey everyone,

I'm just letting you know that we're charging cards for shipping this week. This will allow us to start sending digital rewards while we're printing the books. There is no timeline yet on when the books will ship, but hopefully, we'll have them printed and at our fulfillment center before the year's end. All the add-ons are already at the location, so it's just book printing at this point. Dave had another book printed with the printer we're using, and it turned out great, so hopefully lightning strikes twice!

As soon as everything is charged, we can release the PDFs. We'll start with the first six chapters, covering the bulk of the book's lore and new mechanics. This will give you all a chance to review, find anything weird (we didn't see with our proofing), and help us make the requisite fixes. 

Shortly after, we'll release the last two parts, the big adventure from DMDave, and the appendix, which includes the new spells, monsters, and other details. 

If you have any questions or need to change anything with your order, make sure to reach out to Aubrey at [email protected]

Thanks, everyone!

 - Mage Armoire and Dave

Backerkit Closing Early Next Week... Shooting for First Pass PDF at the end of the week (proofing pending)
about 1 year ago – Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 07:39:58 AM

Hey friends,

Just a heads-up! With most (if not all) of the shipping issues corrected, we'll lock orders early next week and charge shortly after that. Once we've charged on the back end, we can start delivering the PDFs. 

The first PDF will be a "first pass" PDF. This will be sort of a penultimate draft that we've already edited and proofed, and we want to get additional eyes on it. After a couple of weeks of having that, we'll make any corrections based on your comments and suggestions, and then send the final version. At the same time, we'll send that final version to the printer. From there, we're unsure how long it will take to fulfill. The trade issues still have things backed up pretty badly, but either way, we'll keep you posted. Fortunately, all the dice and pendants are in-house, so we must wait on the one book.

If you have any additional issues with anything, make sure to reach out to us before Monday so we can correct them before clicking the lock and charge buttons. Bree, our wonderful CS rep, can be reached at [email protected]

Thanks again, everyone! We look forward to showing you this fantastic book that Chase and Kes worked so hard on.

Dave and Mage Armoire

You should all see some prices go down for shipping (fixed an error)...
about 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 12:26:15 PM

Turns out that Backerkit's system uses ounces instead of pounds. So I had all the shipping prices set for 5 oz and under instead of 5 pounds (or 80 ounces). This should significantly reduce many of the shipping prices across the board.

Give it a couple days. If it still looks relatively high by Monday, hit us up at [email protected].

Sorry for the mistake!

 - Dave

Pledge Manager, Locked Orders, and EU Shipping
about 1 year ago – Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 08:32:15 AM

Hey everyone!

Just giving an update on everything real quick.

Locked Orders are due soon, but we'll probably hold off a week or two for a few folks who are ironing out their shipping details. Even when it locks, nothing will charge yet. However, we are still looking to charge probably sometime in mid-August.

EU Shipping is... grim. I've looked everywhere for better rates, and unfortunately, with the trade squabble between the US and the EU, it's not ideal. If you are in the EU and you wish to switch to digital only, contact Aubrey at [email protected] with your Backerkit information and we'll switch you. 

Finally, one piece of good news—we commissioned 10-15 additional pieces of art to go into the book created by our friends, Matias and Nacho Lazaro. Kestrel is also creating some new art for the book, too, so it should like nice and bright and shiny once we release the PDF.

For those wondering about PDFs, PDFs will be released after we do the charges in mid-August.

If you need anything else, don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]

Thanks!

 - Dave

International Shipping Prices have been updated
about 1 year ago – Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 11:18:48 AM

Hey friends,

Just a quick heads-up: international shipping prices have been updated. I used Easy Ship to look through all the rates and tried to get the best ones where I could. Domestic stayed the same.

UK and Canada went down significantly, as did Australia. EU, unfortunately, is still skewing a bit high due to trade war stuff. 

If you're in a country that's not UK, EU, Canada, Australia, or Domestic and want to see if we can get a better rate, hit us up at [email protected] and we'll take a look at it.

If your shipping charges didn't automatically update, hit us up and we'll see what's wrong. Backerkit said they should adjust automatically, but you never know.

Thanks for your patience, friends!

 - Dave