TG Kickstarter Thread II - Son of the Stretch Goal

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clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

When I was at Gen Con, I ran into Sandy Petersen and got an update about Cthulhu Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOcBGQvXpY

# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 17:17

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 14:23

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

thiswayliesmadness posted:

People will throw Slenderman into almost anything won't they?

Slenderman is also copyrighted by the guy who posted the original photoshop image and text description on these forums. Films about Slender Man have been removed from Youtube and at least one game was kept off of Steam for a while because of this.

Of course, copyright is a complex issue and there are ways around it by making the character suitably different than the original version but it still risks a lawsuit from the copyright holder.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man#film

http://theslenderman.wikia.com/wiki/Victor_Surge

http://kotaku.com/5960579/valve-blocks-slenderman-indie-game-from-steam-due-to-copyright-concerns

# ¿ Sep 26, 2013 07:06

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

I shipped all copies of Base Raiders to backers. I'll make it available for general sale this week.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2013 04:16

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

moths posted:

Is anybody following the AvP game? It looks cool, but I've got some reservations.

female predators? Is that even a thing outside of rule 34?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 01:48

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Thedandmom posted:

I've made some changes to the card layout for Deck of Legends.

I think putting art with landscape orientation is a mistake for a playing card.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 08:42

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Just saw this via Twitter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1787661128/feed-the-vampire-mythos-rpg

Build your own vampire mythos RPG looks interesting. The lack of a print book option seems odd though.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 00:03

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

That is the definition of chutzpah

# ¿ Dec 8, 2013 05:03

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

There's a great documentary on Netflix called the Last Train Home that goes into Chinese New Year in detail. It's the largest human migration in history - over 130 million traveling great distances to see their families.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 05:47

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

not a TG Kickstarter, but I thought you guys would appreciate this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ilex-press/kickstarter-succeed-first-time-a-guide-to-crowdfun

# ¿ Feb 20, 2014 22:51

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Peas and Rice posted:

You looking for any writers? I have a portfolio I can send, and I was planning on entering the One Page Dungeon contest this year anyway.

I'd be happy to write some new dungeons up. I also have a portfolio.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 01:35

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

This is an interesting project: making board games accessible to the blind https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64ouncegames/board-games-now-blind-accessible

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 04:13

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Interesting article by Fred Hicks about FATE conversion stretch goals: https://www.deadlyfredly.com/2014/04/just-add-fate-maybe-not/

# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 19:53

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Evil Mastermind posted:

Interestingly, Far West is even later than that. Should be interesting how that pans out will end up affecting other projects.

Didn't GMS get sick recently? Far West has become the Duke Nukem of tabletop games.

# ¿ May 3, 2014 01:23

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

the thing is, you can't squeeze blood from a stone. Not many lawyers or AGs are going to go after 5 figure Kickstarters when they realize the money is gone and not that many people are affected. I can see it happening for 6 and 7 figure campaigns though. The Robotech KS might be the needle that breaks Palladium's back if they can't send out the figures after a certain point. $800k is nothing to sneeze at and Palladium's IPs might be worth something on the open market.

# ¿ May 3, 2014 02:13

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

malkav11 posted:

Caleb Stokes is a mad genius and the prospect of getting a fully fleshed out campaign of his to play with makes me quiver in anticipation.

And you should! Having played the campaign, it is well worth quivering for. If you have any questions about No Soul Left Behind, I am happy to answer them!

# ¿ Jul 26, 2014 04:29

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

MArk Rein Hagen's AMA on Reddit drew some heat because of his delayed KS projects: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2boyia/i_am_mark_reinhagen_world_creator_and_game/

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 01:56

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

No Soul Left Behind met its goal and has revealed its stretch goals: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/no-soul-left-behind/posts/933268

quote:

AT $8,000: STRANGE FATE. A downloadable conversion guide to run No Soul Left Behind with the Strange Fate rules from The Kerberos Club (Fate Edition) and Base Raiders.

AT $10,000: SCENARIO SEEDS. An appendix with new Scenario Seeds to continue the campaign beyond the main scenarios of No Soul Left Behind.

AT $12,000: FULL COLOR HARDBACK! Every backer who picked a print copy as a reward gets a color hardback instead of a black-and-white paperback.

BEYOND THAT: New scenarios, new villains and heroes, conversions for Mutants and Masterminds, Wild Talents, Savage Worlds, and more.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 01:29

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Kai Tave posted:

At $8,000 we'll convert our adventure to Strange Fate!

At $16,000 we'll convert our adventure to a better version of Fate!

I like Strange Fate. I also haven't seen any good Fate Core implementations of super power creation yet. The standard 'make your skills and stuns better!' is too vague for my liking.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 05:05

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460966263/horrors-of-war-a-convenant-with-death

quote:

A collection of scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, set during the nightmare of the Great War, 1914-1918.

Pagan Publishing is a small, award-winning publisher of role-playing games, specializing in books and supplements for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

Through this Kickstarter we intend bring a new series of Call of Cthulhu role-playing game books to life- Horrors of War!

No PDF option unfortunately, because John Crowe is a luddite who fears piracy.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 18:45

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

The PDF is 117 megs BTW :O

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 22:21

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

3 days left on No Soul Left Behind: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/no-soul-left-behind

If 87 people back at the $30 level, everyone gets a full color hardcover book. Do it for the keeeddsss!

# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 17:44

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

No Soul Left Behind is only $150 away from full color hardcover books, which is a steal at $30 for a highly original campaign that can easily be ported to any superhero system. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/no-soul-left-behind

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 00:26

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

I've launched a Kickstarter for Boiling Point, an adventure for my superhero RPG, Base Raiders.

Boiling Point is essentially an investigation scenario and dungeon crawl in a superhero setting. Find the base and then explore it, avoiding traps, monsters, and other dangers.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 18:44

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Leperflesh posted:

Capital raised for a business venture is not income and is not taxed as income. Filing as a C corp is fairly trivial as well. If anyone raises a pile of cash for a kickstarter and then treats it as ordinary income, they are being extremely stupid.

(That doesn't mean there's no tax - if you make a profit and "pay yourself" with it, then that pay is ordinary self-employment income. But the full balance of the capital raised? No.)

Even if you don't do that, I would hope that most project creators deduct their expenses correctly. I always wonder at the people who run projects and then complain about taxes - what did you do with all that money? Shouldn't you have spent most of it for the project? I understand that sometimes timing is an issue (get the money in 1 year, but spend in the next year) but that can be worked around.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 20:01

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Add my game, Base Raiders, to the list of completed RPGs launched after Far West. Speaking of which, be sure to check out my current Kickstarter for a Base Raiders adventure.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2014 18:52

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

My Kickstarter, Boiling Point, is about halfway done, but I've recently added a reward level for new players. For $25 you get every Base Raiders PDF, including the core game. It's a Fate system game, and we have conversion guides for Mutants and Masterminds, Savage Worlds, and Wild Talents, so it is easy to run it in other systems.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 19:30

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

6 hours left on the Horrors of War - PDF option now enabled https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460966263/horrors-of-war-a-convenant-with-death

Get your WW1 Cthulhu horrors scenarios now. If, by some miracle, it reaches $32k, everyone gets 2 books for the price of 1.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 03:28

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

This is pretty amazing https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1430411066/654422435?token=7d060861

quote:

Add Ons
+$50 Aspiring Game Designer. Add your character to the game. He's gotta be the most awesome character ever, so no chicks.
+$50 Aspiring Game Designer 2. Add a class to the game. Stuff like Shadow Assassin or Were-Dancer would be cool. We don't have those yet.
+$50 Aspiring Game Designer 3. Add a race to the game. We already have THE Darkest Elves. So we don�t need those.
+$50 monstrous mastery: give us your awesomely awesome monster and we'll put it in the book
+$50: World Builder: Add your kingdom to the Seven Kingdoms. Go back to your game notes from 1984. Send us one. We'll print it.
+$50 Your so vain: we will use your name in the book. Promise!
+$50 You get a "handful of dice." I have to get rid of that bag o' dice from GenCon anyway.
+$500 Expert Dungeoneer. You get to design an entire level of the tomb of the tomb lord, to be included in the finished game. You have one month after the project funds.
+$5000 savior of the world. Name on the cover and we won�t send you a copy of this game.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2014 02:20

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

I talked to the author of Boiling Point in this podcast: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2014/10/interview/game-designers-workshop-interview-with-peter-nielsen/ - Peter is a first time author and I'm a first time publisher so this goes into the process behind it.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 22:17

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Some people ran the mathiness of crowdfunding and types of investors

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/data-mining-reveals-the-secret-sauce-in-matching-investors-to-crowdfunding-projects-6053e779b31

People who back Kickstarter projects are not investors. They do not have a financial investment in the project.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2014 07:42

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

My current Kickstarter, Boiling Point, just went over 100%, so I've posted stretch goals for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosspayton/boiling-point-a-superheroic-adventure/posts/1017961

Only 5 days left!

# ¿ Oct 15, 2014 02:33

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Only a few hours left on my Kickstarter Boiling Point: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosspayton/boiling-point-a-superheroic-adventure - if you back at the $15 level or higher, you get a bunch of bonus PDF supplements that have been unlocked due to stretch goals.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 02:50

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

As far as mea culpas go, this one from Fairytale Games: The Battle Royale is pretty extensive: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/682539325/fairytale-games-the-battle-royale/posts/1021667

# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 05:40

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

dwarf74 posted:

I'm a very tentative backer. It would not take much to lose me, here. Only the strength of Paranoia XP is keeping me around. It looks like Mongoose is still fulfilling a kickstarter from 2011.

What Kickstarter is that?

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 18:53

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Puppetland: The Storytelling RPG of Grim Make-Believe is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/puppetland-the-storytelling-rpg-of-grim-make-belie

This was a big storytelling game in the 1990s and written by John Scott Tynes, one of the authors of Delta Green. The new version is pretty similar to the old one from what I understand and it involves some interesting concepts like games taking exactly one hour.

quote:

Puppetland is a diceless tabletop RPG in which the players take the roles of puppets in a fairy-tale paradise gone bloodily wrong. It's Punch & Judy taken to its logical extreme: Punch has killed the Maker of all puppets and transformed peaceful, magical Puppetland into his personal nightmare realm.

Created by John Scott Tynes � that's me � Puppetland trailblazed the Indie RPG movement back in 1995 when I first published it on my website. It wasn't just diceless; Puppetland sidestepped most notions of RPG game mechanics and went straight for the jugular of pure collaborative narrativism. It was reprinted in the British games magazine Arcane in 1997 and then expanded and reprinted by James Wallis's game company Hogshead in 1999.

It's now been out of print for about a decade. Punch & Judy and the Nutcrackers and Punch's Boys have been moldering, dusty and forgotten, in a shadowy attic.

It's time to bring them back to hideous life!

High end rewards include puppets and customized copies of the book.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 02:52

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Trouble in the Call of Catthulhu Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrjoel/call-of-catthulhu-deluxe/posts/1033509

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 01:43

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Last 12 hours on the Puppetland Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/puppetland-the-storytelling-rpg-of-grim-make-belie?ref=friends_backed

I'll be writing one of the adventures for it. Kenneth Hite is writing a King in Yellow themed adventure as well.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2014 03:02

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Plague of Hats posted:

"What's that? Let me volunteer that I'm years late on another project. That will shut up your complaints and draw in new customers. Ho ho, we do have fun!"

He's also palling around in the Kicksnarker thread.

the thread on rpg.net or somewhere else?

# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 00:15

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

moths posted:

Luke Crane probably has some of the worst business sense of anyone in this industry. Never reprint, never digitally distribute, and if licencing your game to Mouseguard actually yields money never do anything like that again. He reminds me a lot of musicians I knew who hated the idea of 'selling out' by getting compensated for their work.

It's interesting to contrast that with the fact that he now works at Kickstarter, dealing with tabletop games.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 08:51

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 14:23

clockworkjoe: May 31, 2000; Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?

Anyone remember the Goblins card game? It raised 177k in 2013 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336486938/goblins-alternate-realities/

Apparently the web comic creator chose a bad business partner: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1skc66s

quote:

Richard James, the head of http://evertidegames.com has folded up his small gaming company and vanished with the $183k that was raised through your site. On top of destroying my career (crowd funding / merchandising is of course no longer possible for me) and leaving me to somehow appease the thousands of backers without the funds, Richard James is still stealing money from my fans at this very moment, from here - < link removed because I don't want to promote it > . The items for "sale" (which will never be made) all with my name on them, are continuing to be promoted through the popularity of the Kickstarter campaign and he has been collecting money in this way ever since the Kickstarter page was launched. I'm still receiving emails from people who are still being scammed by him, using my name thru your site.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 04:06

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