My D&D Book Raised $300K and Now Its Here! 📦 Unboxing

Late pledge here: t.ly/townsandv...
For more than 2 years I've worked on a book that helps game masters create towns, shops and NPC's in a matter of seconds. You need shop lists, side-quests or interesting shop features? Hate that most book come with fixed setups? Then Worlds at a Glance: Towns & Villages is perfect for you!
It's the most modular tool book for game masters and allows you to create any kind of shop, tavern, festival, brothel or any other kind of establishment you can encounter in a towns or village!
Thank you to all my 3000+ backers for making this possible!

[@hugosimoens5587]

The look on our DM's face when we gift his this set. It will be totally hammer!

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Hahaha I've been loving the comments so far, I'm super excited for your DM to get this! I can't wait to see reviews and such come in!

[@amandagrant1176]

We are so excited about not having to strain our brains and remember things. The book will do that for us. My husband would love a square of his own, he's started making paper sets about 6" tall.

[@DowntownYYC]

I am really excited about that DM screen and, of course, the shop cards - I am loving how many hobby clippers you have in the wall.

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Thanks! Yeah the shop cards are gonna be amazing! You can never have enough hobby clippers haha, especially if they all came in a discount pack 😅

[@imperiumlords]

Congratulations on your first unboxing! It looks really great! I’m so excited for the book and shop cards paired together, seems like an incredibly useful combo. I keep trying to cut things that are too thick with my pliers and damaging them, so your collection behind you looks extra good!

[@Lycothersus]

The micrometer in the background is very fitting to measure how little effort is needed to make a new town on the fly with Worlds at a Glance.

[@GameMasterWorlds]

hahahaha great one 😄

[@fredmajster]

I'm the most excited about the DM screen and digging into the modular chapters! Also I couldn't help but notice that you've got a ventilator mask and protective glasses on the wall behind you - so good to see you're keeping safe while having fun! :'D

[@WhoctorDo]

I am so excited to receive this! I would have to say I am most excited for the Shop Cards and the functionality they bring when used with the awesome-looking book. I'm jealous of your airbrush back there!

[@christianbeach8975]

I'm super excited for all of this I'm probably most excited for the town Ledger /posters and the shop cards I think they could really speed my sessions up and add a sense of fluidity and seems very organic!. I also really like your dragon miniature behind your head.

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Ooh well spotted the dragon minies! Those are actually for the next part in the sessions I'm running as my players have arrived on a dragonborn island! Yeah the town ledger and posters are super useful, it's sooo quick to simply display the ledger and put it back down to make notes!

[@twobrothers1877]

Im excited to help improve my playstyle with your book and add some much needed details and excitement with descriptions and details! It will really keep my towns "glued" together! We are new to DnD (only played two small campaigns). I play with my 6 year old daughter, and she has a blast with her imagination, and this book will help keep me "square" with her!

[@saibthar]

The cards and maps will help so much with quickly responding to my random players. We need a close up on those mini's.

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Oh I've made an instagram account once with pics of my minies haha! And yeah the cards and maps are awesome!

[@chrism1519]

My players tend to enjoy heading into towns and getting into mischief, always keeping me on my toes! So having more options and flavorings with the shop cards and descriptions is great to add more depth and texture to the world. Thanks for the unboxing, it looks great! That mountain top cave/temple? What a cool set piece for an encounter! That airbrush though is going to make short work of getting it ready for the table I bet!

[@stephaniesahr8685]

This is going to make my game prep so much easier and faster. I tend to get bogged down in details the PC's never look at. That's a really nice bullnose plier you've to back there.

[@lovelyleety7132]

I'm so excited for the shop cards!! Ready to give my players some epic shopping montages with those babies!! And as a miniature painting enthusiast, I'm loving seeing all the miniatures behind ya-- its making me wanna break out my paints!

[@tonia_gb]

I am excited about the shop cards, it will cut down on so much time for me as the DM and for my players to just be able to pick up and remind themselves without having to constantly jump to different pages and say them out loud again and again, or double checking the prices etc. The maps look so beautiful, sincerely so much love to the artists. I think the biggest excitement has to be the book, just having a new form of being able to create a cinematic place with the right feel and being quick to put together is both the dessert and the cherry on top. There's so many things that I am so chuffed to have helped back. ❤ Oooo and behind you, I would love to see a close up of that yellow fire mini with wings on the top shelf, I love the red mask, is that for painting or is it designed for a different particular activity. I know that different masks specialise in filtering different molecule stuffs in the air. x Congrats you've worked so hard on thid and it's honestly so awesome to see your reaction of the hard work yous out into this. Really wholesome to see your project to be finished and in your hands. The gold foil looks incredible! The matte with the shine is so well thought out. Including the DM screen layout. Again so many things 😂❤❤❤

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Thank you Tonia! I really appreciate the support and positivity you've shown across this entire journey! I love getting excited messages and you've really brightened my day already a couple of times over the past few months! 😄

[@RosalindTurley]

We are excited about the fun our group will have with this book. The whole group will benefit from it. I love the mini on the shelf.

[@ProdigalMonkey]

The final product turned out great, mate - well done. I can't wait to be able to use the tables in the book to be able to flesh out both the buildings in my towns but the NPCs as well. No more terrible names and personalities! I have to say as well that I'm very envious of your hobby space setup you're recording in - the storage system with the peg board for your carpenter's square, pliers, and the rest of your hardware there is *chef's kiss*

[@compgene6460]

I'm building my own homebrew world, and am excited to put this resource to good use fleshing out the many concepts I have in mind.

[@OneShotForAll]

I cannot mask my excitement for this entire kit; most excited for the shop cards for quick pricing, will help with immersion to not have to be like, hold on a minute, *shuffles pages*, *scans for what I want*, yes that'll be two silver..... Will go great with a new dice tower I have coming as well!

[@seanwalsh4224]

Amazing! Super excited about all of it! Especially love the initiative trackers, but the book looks absolutely fantastic. I originally backed it for the quick referencing of shops but everything just looks so great. Can’t wait to use it!

[@stefanmeier55]

I'm very pleased to see the final product. I'm most excited about the shop cards. I did briefly wonder what the respirator mask was for, but it was probably for painting the numerous minis on the shelf.

[@davidegrandini632]

Fantastic stuff and top quality materials. I was glue(d) to the screen till the end. Counting the days already

[@jeremyrose5664]

I'm most excited about the book and the cards as I've always struggled to give my towns and villages decent flavor. I love that large rocky building terrain piece on the shelf behind you. Wonderful job!

[@kevinbryant3291]

I love the tool wrack. Nice to see a man keeping things in order. I’m currently building my own world for our groups next campaign so this will be so handy fleshing out my towns and cities

[@Obsidian925]

My husband and I do a lot of home brew stuff so being able to make the cities with the maps and details is amazing. Also love all the miniatures you have and really want to try airbrushing with the set up behind you too. One day I will be daring enough to try it.

[@rickyfairchild9923]

Even more excited about this. Love how everything really works together. Cant wait!

[@jeffrey980]

Wauw hij ziet er echt super uit!! Kan niet wachten om deze te gaan gebruiken om een campaign te creëren. Vooral de shop cards lijken me erg handig! Met alle items uit de set kan ik een mooie campaign aan elkaar "lijmen" 😏😉. Nogmaals super gedaan!! En bedankt voor deze aanwinst!

[@domipro123]

This is SUPER !! Very well done, practical and very nice illustrations

[@torispratt1434]

I'm probably most excited about the shop cards, but in truth I think everything looks really great. Looking forward to getting and using these resources. The minis on your top shelf look great, but I also loved how you've got your pliers & other working tools organised on the wall. So glad I backed this project.

[@adamwatkins7021]

Looking forward to the whole package. It's really going to make improvising on the fly so much easier! If I had to choose one though the maps will be incredibly useful! Like that you have full safety equipment for your airbrush. Safety First!

[@scotthanwright8536]

The information pages within the map pad will be extremely useful for keeping track of merchants and services available an while your miniature collection seems good, you can always use more:)

[@jacoblucero13]

I’m so excited to use a product like this, instead of having to look up a potential town “outline” to copy off of. Respect to the miniature fig painting setup, I use something similar to the holders you have.

[@danielnijman5006]

I’m actually most excited for the DM screen! I’m somewhat of a collector of those and this one seems EXTRA useful. Nice set of pliers you got there btw!

[@rfloerchinger]

Excited to see the NPC's and use the shop cards. Love all your minis and models on the shelf!

[@Darken009]

The thing I most excited about are the shop cards and the maps + stickers. I'm terrible at making towns. When I make my monsters I use glue to have a picture on the back for my players. It doesn't reveal anything about it to much.

[@anette9397]

im so excited for this book!! honestly im just most excited to have a book i can take in my hands at the table and get the info and inspiration i need instead of giving a long "uhhh" at my player while trying to throw in an unplanned shop from the top of my head. also is that a mini fan behind u on the shelf because im a huge fan of this project!

[@wojtek9206]

So incredibly excited to have something to help me out when my mind blanks as my players decide to go somewhere I totally did not expect and to make things feel a lot more measured out and make it look like there is a bit of a nicer coat of paint to everything rather than it being apparent how unprepared for their actions I was XD Will also be very nice to have some physical stuff to use even if I play online and don't get to use things like the nice minis on your shelf

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Having the book in front of you is really way more useful than having it open as a PDF! I can really vouch for that since it uses the entire real estate of your screen (Unlike most books that work page per page) Worlds at a Glance uses both pages for descriptions so it's super useful to have open in front of you! But I'm gonna share spreads of the PDF so you'll be able to use them full screen 😅

[@reyskywalker3039]

I am certainly most excited about the shop cards, especially all the items that will be on them as it can be so hard to give my players more creative items on the fly. I also like my idea of using the Purple Tape behind you to cover up creature names, so when my players figure out what a creature is through investigation or nature checks, I can confirm it with a big reveal!

[@ben-weyland]

I am most excited about the simplified world building enclosed in this box. Going to be a game changer. Love a nice set of calipers. Measuring the most precise things.

[@DonHoomerThe]

finally i can have a clean overlook of what the shop is ment to have/be. Also i love the shiny cover. Nice collection of miniature figures you have there, cant wait to get my own, lol

[@fabioferket7125]

I'm so excited about literally every single item in the box (and the box itself, it looks amazing!). I'm pretty sure my players will be glued to their seats as i take them on an even more detailed story. I can't help but think the contents of this box are a toolkit not unlike the one behind you. Grabbing on to your players, meauring them up and finally giving the game a nice bit of depth and colour like with the airbrush behind you 😉

[@ricktopping9215]

I can't wait to get my copy! Im most excited for the shop cards, can't wait to use those in my games. Also you have quite the impressive collection of pliers on the wall back there!

[@ellies1471]

I cannot wait to use those shop cards! Especially since I feel there will be more items my party can have fun browsing and purchasing as they play and explore shops!

[@ADDWING]

I'm so excited for the shop cards! I love this kind of detail but lack the creativity. This will save me so much time! I like the rock building you have on the second shelf behind you!

[@JonasBauwens]

Gone are the days of coming across Rough Terrain or having a feeling of traversing Desert Sand as those Ground Textures are smoothed out with those very handy Initiative Trackers. Can't wait to use those.

[@andreas46362]

I am so excited to use this book and lead my playgroup into the shops with all the nice hammers, tongs and side cutters ... 😃

[@oibaf1420]

This will be a great addition to my DM collection. It will glue my stories together with better town maps where I can display all my minitures and all the cool shops. It will rock the games like a solid hammer ;)

[@Zhar_lock]

You'll need those callipers to measure how large my eyes got when I saw you unpack the boxed set. As a backer on Kickstarter from the start, I already upgraded my pledge to the box set and I am glad that I did! What an absolute gorgeous book, and I can't wait to use the Town Ledger and the stickers to give more depth to my campaigns towns. Looking forward to receiving the box, you really hit the nail on the head with this one.

[@wimdetroyer8532]

I'm most excited for the shopping aspect. One less thing to worry about when my players decide to spend their hard earned gold. I do not longer have to look for the price of say a purple cloak, six bottles of wine, some magic candles and a +1 sword.

[@luca0526]

Super excited for the DM screen, glad you decided on a taller format. Hopefully there hasn't been any need to use that hammer in the background when designing it😅

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Hahahaha Yeaaaah luckily not!

[@juanantoniobecerrilnistal1193]

I'm really excited to use this book to take our dear Tehuelm village to the next level in our adventure! I love the minis on the shelf!

[@theminionlord]

Those maps and shopcards are so cooool I really look forward to use them. It will really glue all the elements of my campaign together and really screw and drive my players insane! Amazing

[@aaronborkgren1287]

Can't wait to try out these shop cards! Everything looks great! (including the hammer behind you)

[@Piejue]

I'm most excited to use this beautiful book when my players go into a random building. I can just whip this out and describe cool details and all that like a DM that seems to know what they are doing haha

[@brykhousegames2189]

Was going to say a bit into the book that all it's missing is the ribbons, and then they appeared! Looks Great!

[@acobarphone]

The shops will make things very easy. The sections in the book will also make out easy to find the one thing I need in the fly. Great product. I’m looking forward to using it. Looks like you use pliers a lot.

[@KennyLoiacano]

Super excited to see this project roll out and to be able to see this unboxing video. One of my favorite kickstarters I've done. The cards are my favorite and the entirety of this project really. It's going to make the game transition much smoother. Are all the tools on the wall to help craft your own minis? I love the minis on the shelf!

[@Fred_Walson]

Weel done! Can't wait to receive mine to complete the world build-up i've started few months ago.

[@alexvanheumen2881]

I am very excited about the whole project and am looking forward to the town maps, especially the big ones and the town ledger. Personally, I'm not that great at imagining things on the spot, so this will help immensely!

[@michi444624]

can't wait to read the book and discover all those additions to my games (yea yea, PDFs... bah! books are real treasure) :) and your hobby items? ofc that's miniatures :) and quite a lot of pliers :D

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Lovee the support! 😀 The book is really awesome, the gold foil is the prettiest I've seen!

[@NotADoctor828]

Ever since Forbidden Lands, I’ve become a huge fan of stickers on maps. I’m looking forward to personalizing the included maps with some of those 108 stickers! Also, those are some cool-looking minis on those shelves behind you.

[@trivium2]

I'm excited to start rolling some locations and use that to start inspiring storylines for my players. Also love those beefy calipers you've got on the wall behind.

[@hannelorev]

As a new DM, I'm just really excited about the book, and I hope this will help me with my improvisation. I hope it will really help "glue" my story together! 😂

[@JacobMcLean-w9b]

Those shop cards look so amazing! Is that a dragon mini in the background? Looks like the channel logo a little bit! Super pumped about the book, it looks great!

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Actually that's my "wall of shame" most of the minies on there haven't been painted yet haha, thanks for the support!

[@rachelbooth3724]

It was so wonderful to see the finished product! I'm most excited for the town ledger, it's so much cooler than I had pictured and can't wait to fill it out! The winged miniature on the top shelf looks great ;) Congrats on unboxing your first product, wonderful to see all your hard work paying off ☺️

[@walnusskurumi741]

Aside from the book itself I'm most excited for the shop cards. I really hope they'll improve shopping sessions and help players to get more creative with items. And off topic but I have no idea what names all the tools in the background have. I really only know the hammer 😂

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Yeah the shop cards are game changers! Especially with the box set as they basically act as your "Table of content" with the page numbers for the book chapters on them!

[@armoredsnail]

Can’t wait to quickly describe towns, I struggle to come up with good descriptions on the fly. Love the big minis up on the shelf!

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Then you're really gonna love WaaG! Yeah I have a ton of minies for my players, painting them is the most relaxing thing in the world!

[@SJCtech]

I'm most excited about the shop cards; I've always spent way too much time looking up prices for items both in the core books and in D&D Beyond. These will make it super simple. My favourite colour is purple so, of course, I noticed some purple tape behind you! Got to make the DIYs pretty! Thank you for the update! Backer Number: 91 💜

[@jeffw4464]

​​I really like the tray and the idea of not just setting the box aside during play. Great idea. Curious about all of those pliers in the background though. :-)

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Haha yeah the box is super useful! The pliers are for removing supports from 3D prints 😅

[@guczoghyyamawaki]

Excited for everything, especially the maps. I really like the 3D prints (I’m assuming?) behind you. Wouldn’t mind getting a large format printer and a 3D printer, and start printing stuff for friends

[@GuruGinger]

I can wait to check out the book. It’s going to make my world building sooooo much easier! And not often you see a vernier in a video lol

[@TheOnlyMigean]

the shop cards are what I really look forward to. Fantastic to see a winkelhaak hanging. Wonder how many people that actually use

[@TehGecko]

I'm really looking forward to the shop cards. Probably the ability to sort them and have them organized in the tray the most. I'd love to see some of the airbrushing that you're doing. That's still something on my list of things to get.

[@confusedduck5111]

I absolutely love the whole thing but especially the DM's screen and the book, and the bookmarks pair nicely with the pink(ish) Poska marker atop the ventilation mask! Guessing they're different hobbies though. -Valamorde

[@nayamek]

I am most excited about the book itself, going to love to use these ideas and work them into one of my campaigns. Also curious about your facial mask, planning to do some airbrushing on terrain and/ or miniatures, or are you into more larger projects (seeing also a hammer and block-Hook). Keep us updated

[@kekskev]

I'm most excited about the book. As a beginner DM I've still lots to explore. The shop cards and book will help a lot to give more dept to the villagers. I like that your tools are nicely hung. Also interesting to see minions on a pedistal. What is the advantage of the pedistal? Thx for the video! Keep up the great work. 😁

[@MultiTaraka]

I am super stoked about the man Posters with the little stickers 😍 on a different note, those are a whole lot if clippers there behind you o.O

[@ioNetrunner]

Excited to quickly describe new towns in my world with these tools. The big minis up on the shelf look great!

[@MrUks]

I'm super excited for everything, especially the book, cause we've been hearing that we need to look at the book and soon I can look at at the book FR :D Btw, cool tower you've got, is that a dice-tower or a box of doom?

[@GameMasterWorlds]

Dice tower! And thanks for all the support MrUks! You've sent one of the most memorable snackchanges last edition! haha

[@xxTerraPrimexx]

Looks awesome, really looking forward to it

[@jeremymoulin1283]

Really looking forward to enhancing the games with more responsive NPC creation and shop generation! Also, the flip book for maps blew me away! Sounds like the fumes from your factory fresh funbox didn't bother you. Don't think I didn't see that gasmask there! 😜

[@jppendleton]

This looks fantastic! I can't wait to incorporate this into the world that my kids and I have created. I'm really looking forward to that first crack of the book, and that new book smell as I peruse the pages. Also, hat tip for the array of pliers and cutters in the back - good for cleaning the supports off of 3D prints! Congratulations on this project coming to life.

[@JayAndre562]

I am excited to have additional tools available when I’m getting writers or creativity block. A pair of pliers one could say to help me hold together my world.

[@cschwally]

I thought I was big "fan" before-- but now I wish I'd gotten a higher tier. The maps with the stickers in the stand up book look fabulous and would be so useful.

[@stinestavnskrkirknielsen6436]

I'm looking forward to the different shops. It'll be like I've checked everything with a vernier caliper! 😊

[@ChaxMix]

I'm excited about the maps and to see the art in the book! Though most excited for the shop cards and the quick grab system with the items! They're so well thought out. No more "on the spot" items per shop or remembering what that shop had! TnT It's going to help soooooo much with my campaigns. Also, is the airbrush for minis or crafts (ex. cosplay)? Also, I must say that your organization system is top tier.

[@Heatseeker96studios]

Nice video, I'm really looking forward to use the book and shop cards to flesh out my D&D games! (And fun to see that you're a fellow AK Interactive terrain paste enjoyer.)

[@emilystevens5488]

I love the posters and stickers and can't wait to use them with my players! Is that a stone tomb entrance on the shelf? Very cool.

[@ChrisWCorp]

Looks awesome! Everyone in my D&D group had DM'd a session for us except for me. I'm hoping this book and shop cards will help me easily create a short campaign for us for my first ever time DM'ing. It looks like you paint miniatures from the tools behind you? I wish I had the time and patience for that for our group. I just rely on tokens or digital assets 😅. Can't wait!

[@wilbymilstone]

I'm most excited about the shop cards. Too often my players ask what's in this shop or are there any black market items. I'll be able to hand them the appropriate shop card so that they can browse at their own pace. The book looks amazing and I cannot wait to get my copy. Building towns and villages will be so much easier and faster. Thank you for creating such a great product, can't wait to see what comes next! I'm not sure what it is in the box on the shelf behind you, but it look like a Godzilla model. The respirator on the other side makes me wonder what your painting besides models and miniatures.

[@ErisBat]

Im so excited to be able to just fill in gaps in the world on the fly. Now i only have 4 hours of planning instead of 6! Lol. Also if that is a mask behind you... Thank you for actually being safe with hobbies! So many people lack gloves, masks, eye protection in videos while making things that makes me so concerned for their health

[@tsartori86]

Super excited for the book, can't wait to use it to help free up my time So i can design the perfect monster to destroy my party. Maybe a SET SQUARE wielding disgruntled arcane engineer who mentally snapped and needs to rid the world of rounded objects.... or something, I don't know. Love the project, keep up the good work.

[@wesleydecock4263]

Oh boy, I cannot wait to use this in my own campaign. I've already introduced a random butcher's, but it's so hard to come up with names, characters, ... of semi to fully random NPCs. So yeah, some NPC creation help will go a long way, as well as the shops. That butcher's still doesn't have any "body". Looks like the hammer, screwdriver and whatsitnot were not required to make this pretty content :D

[@smbtd820]

Yo, look at the tools, so neat, so fly, With the shelves in the back, reaching for the sky. Pliers and hammers, they hang just right, Craftin' all day, keepin' it tight. Can't touch this! Doo doo doo doo Yeah, you know I got the dice too, A shirt so cool with that tabletop crew! I’m really excited for the book, no lie, And those shop cards, man, I can’t deny! Craftin' it up, feelin' that vibe, With the workshop lookin' oh-so-alive! Can't touch this! 😁

[@DucTran-qp5zv]

Really excited about the book!! It’ll be an awesome resource to add additional flavor to the towns my players visit!! You must be a dwarf artificer, cause what dwarf would you be without a hammer close by? (Like the one on the wall haha)

[@Sabrinaaggh]

I'm excited about the town ledger, that's going to help me keep track of how I planned out the town so if my players go back, I'll have something to reference. For the minis behind you, did you paint them?

[@AruthaConDoin88]

Love the looks of the product! I am looking forward to having something that I can easily use when my chaos monkeys of a group decide to go somewhere totally unexpected and wreak havoc. I can totally see the group barbarian adopt an regular hammer as their new side piece of a weapon 😂 the book itself is probably what I am most excited about though ❤

[@Golden_Spider666]

Im the most excited for a simple easy way to flesh out my worldbuilding for cities and towns, my worldbuilding strength is always the large scale, nations and politics and such and it leaves my smaller scale areas like towns and cities to feel empty, So im hoping this will help a lot. I really like the little cave dice tower looking thing you have there

[@anthonywinter8966]

So excited about the beautiful book and the accompanying cards. It should be very helpful in games. What’s your hobbies? That’s a pretty mean hammer in the background there. 😜

[@orkin2913]

I cant wait to convert the core book into my favourite Mörk Borg system! I hope that it will not need too much GLUEing to make it work :)

[@Xeweros]

Creating easy, fast and amazing location inside a city/town/village and let it fit a theme or mix between them. The shop and the shopkeeper might not align, to indicate something fishy ;) Also you got the right tools in the background to not just use maps, but create the town for real, loving it! :D :D The hammer could be used by the players, if the choose to f* up the town!