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Heroic Beginnings: Fighter & Wizard Owlbear Accessories

Created by Baby Bestiary

Equip your Owlbear Plush with epic fighter and wizard gear.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Prepping for the inevitable Purple
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 12:53:28 AM

Hey Caretakers!!
As of posting we're just about $3500 from 100k! On Friday we raised 7k (with the two days prior being ~4k/day). This ultimately means we're going to inevitably unlock the purple owlbear so that we can have a stronger final push.
To be ready, I've added the fishing kits as well as the purple owlbear to the Add-Ons section, and have updated the page for the final announcement when it inevitably hits.


Some notes,
Fishing kit. is still in a bit of flux in terms of figuring out pricing. Ideally id want it to be less than the class kit (hoping $15 or $20) , but i need to get the final manufactures estimate to really nail that down, so for the time being it will be the higher one.
 
Purple. Any pledge that lets you pick an owlbear, you'll be able to select purple as well (in the pledge manager when that time comes). 

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Anyways campaign ends at Ends on 4:00pm PDT, and I would really appreciate it you could share this campaign around to your socials and/or campaign groups to see if we can find more owlbear caretakers.

Its been a crazy journey seeing how the vision of doing a plush for the Baby Bestiary 9 years ago and having it be realized as the most popular D&D plush out there.
Thank you again for all the support,

Caretaker Andreas and a ruffle of owlbears
(speaking of which i should probably get an image illustrated that's like Yoshi's island, with all the different colors of owlbear playing around)

Hows the purple?
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 01:58:21 PM

 

Hey all!
Loved all the spellbook suggestions (i think we have to turn that into some sort of comic book) of owlbear casting various spells. 

Anyways, we're slowly trucking our way to 100k, and it looks inevitable (artist is on vacation so i don't have any fishing images yet), but its something I'm looking to get situated really soon.  
Also i know it would probably boost us all the way up, but I'm holding off making it available (until backerkit) when everything about the fishing kit is finalized (so you're informed). 

Anyways, i had no pictures to show off of purple owlbear (and we wont know the true color until we see the swatches, but i did a quick edit of one of my existing owlbear photos to showcase what a purple could look like. What do you think? lighter? darker? just right?

Caretaker Andreas 

Whats in the Spellbook
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 06:34:37 AM

As we begin to wrap up our crowdfunding journey (still have a week to go, as we forge ahead towards, hopefully, a purple owlbear).The most pressing question is at hand.

What spells does owlbear wizard have prepared? 

Owlbear Accessories and the Road to 100k
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 09:13:55 PM

Wow, 60k!!
I'm glad that people are loving their owlbears and the cool accessories that I've been working on. The process for prototyping takes while, but seeing everyones enthusiasm and excitement for them is reinvigorating and validating that I'm doing something right.

Since we have 11 days left in the campaign (meaning we have time). 

If we reach 100k we'll add a purple owlbear to the seasonal lineup 


(also if you're international, this is the best way to get ahold of the seasonal colors, since we originally produced and shipped them to the US, this will be a new production run of owlbears) 


Recap of campaign rewards:
Since theres a lot going on, here is everyhting we've got going on in this campaign so far:
  1.  Owlbear Gear Class Sets (Fighter & Wizard)
  2.  Owlbear Profession Kit (Fisherman)
  3.  Owlbear Wizard and Fighter Enamel Pins (and other enamel pins in pledge manager)
  4. Access to the classic owlbear colors (Brown & Snowy)
  5. Access to the seasonal owlbear plush colors (Mossy & Charcoal)
  6. prototype for future campaign (class kits for Bard, Rogue, Druid), (gelatinous cube)


The Fishing Set
Since I have you, what sort of items should go with the fishing set?
Of course we'll do the fishing pole (and give it a magnetic hook too if we can. But with it, if we were to do 4-5 little plushes, what would those things be...?
  • clam/shell
  • trout
  • crab
  • little treasure chest
all magnetic of course (but if you have other ideas let me know!)

Welcome again caretakers new and old, and thank you again for your voices and your support
Caretaker Andreas

Past 50k!!
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 03:38:21 PM

oh wow!
you guys still continue to surprise me and things are moving so fast, we've already surpassed 50k!

So, this week I'm planning on having a call with the manufacturer to see what things are looking like in terms of timing.
Schedule: Right now, with how our other production run ran with them it was a total time of 6 months, but at this point we're prolly looking at 4 months of production and global freight to get everything situated (and also because we've gone through a few months of development as well).
Other Stuff: So, a few ideas have gone around, (1) new colors (lot of purple requests, i assume thats a deep purple, (2) new class sets, bard, rogue, druid (with mention of paladin), (3) new pins of the bard rogue and druid (that i had quickly illustrated), (4) professions gear (mostly discussed fishing, but could maybe include mining).

For this project, I am going to 
  1. add the pins for the druid, rogue, and druid,  and 
  2. talk to the manufacturer about creating a fishing set (fishing pole, fishes, crab, maybe one other thing?)
  3. see what we can do in regards to an owlbear bag (for accessories and for the plush itself).
  4. Ask about timing for a purple owlbear (no promises on this one for this project, if so that'd be great, if not then it'll be the next seasonal color we produce)

In addition, i am going to have the manufacturer start working on the other classes, since if it took a few months to get to this point, the time to que them up is now. 

Just a quick update for now, also, I took a few pictures of the pins (since i had already produced them