What was the best Kickstarter project I backed this year?
For starters I backed far too many projects. This year I have vowed to cut back and/or eliminate backing anything. That being said, Kickstarter projects are usually more reasonable about overseas shipping and handling than Amazon and the like. Sometimes having material shipped to the UAE from the States costs as much as the item itsself.
The projects that I backed were good for the most part, and in the long run none of them ripped me off, but there is only so much one can play even when the projects are interesting and deliver as they promised. Mutant Crawl Classics, Journey to Ragnarok (5E supplement) and Bedlam Hall are pending and well on the way to production. Two games I purchased after their kickstarter campaigns were over: Ryuutama (English translation) and Fragged Empire have yet to be played substantially, but show potential. The first RPG (related) project I ever backed was Dungeon Saga by Mantic Games...it took so long to finally be delievered that I lost interest, looked the whole thing over and stored it in the closet. I had a very postitive experience backing the campaign to Bring Back MST3K, but that isnt RPG related as such. If you have read any of my previous responses this year, you should be able to guess the best run Kickstarter came from John Wick and 7th Sea 2nd edition. To date this project has raised more money than any other RPG project.
You can easily look on the completed campaign page over @ Kickstarter to see what kind of reward levels were offered, but in my opinion they gave away the store. I got a print copy of the core rulebook, soft copies of all 2nd edition material as they are released as well as all previously released 1st edition PDFs. Higher level backers recieved more rewards such as addtional hard copies of source books and loot. So far all materials have released on schedule and have been of high quality.
Side Notes: a promising new campaign setting based on Asian nations was anounced at Gen*Con and will be on kickstarter very soon. Although it has been off to a clunky start there is a boardgame based on the material soon to be relaunched on kickstarter, and--in the interest of showing that nobody is perfect--a videogame based on the material recently failed to recieve the backing that it needed to move forward, and looks never to resurface. So is the harsh reality of crowdfunding.
#RPGaDay2017
For starters I backed far too many projects. This year I have vowed to cut back and/or eliminate backing anything. That being said, Kickstarter projects are usually more reasonable about overseas shipping and handling than Amazon and the like. Sometimes having material shipped to the UAE from the States costs as much as the item itsself.
The projects that I backed were good for the most part, and in the long run none of them ripped me off, but there is only so much one can play even when the projects are interesting and deliver as they promised. Mutant Crawl Classics, Journey to Ragnarok (5E supplement) and Bedlam Hall are pending and well on the way to production. Two games I purchased after their kickstarter campaigns were over: Ryuutama (English translation) and Fragged Empire have yet to be played substantially, but show potential. The first RPG (related) project I ever backed was Dungeon Saga by Mantic Games...it took so long to finally be delievered that I lost interest, looked the whole thing over and stored it in the closet. I had a very postitive experience backing the campaign to Bring Back MST3K, but that isnt RPG related as such. If you have read any of my previous responses this year, you should be able to guess the best run Kickstarter came from John Wick and 7th Sea 2nd edition. To date this project has raised more money than any other RPG project.
You can easily look on the completed campaign page over @ Kickstarter to see what kind of reward levels were offered, but in my opinion they gave away the store. I got a print copy of the core rulebook, soft copies of all 2nd edition material as they are released as well as all previously released 1st edition PDFs. Higher level backers recieved more rewards such as addtional hard copies of source books and loot. So far all materials have released on schedule and have been of high quality.
Side Notes: a promising new campaign setting based on Asian nations was anounced at Gen*Con and will be on kickstarter very soon. Although it has been off to a clunky start there is a boardgame based on the material soon to be relaunched on kickstarter, and--in the interest of showing that nobody is perfect--a videogame based on the material recently failed to recieve the backing that it needed to move forward, and looks never to resurface. So is the harsh reality of crowdfunding.
#RPGaDay2017
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