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Originally Posted by jaerdaph  I would expect someone asking for that much money in an open design project to be able to spell "experience", but perhaps that's just me.  |
I'd also hope they could spell signature, and that they spell their own username right in the signature block attached to their posts
More seriously, on Open Design (which I've been a member of since Empire of the Ghouls) and patronage projects in general. I think they are a very good idea and a very positive way of funding new works, especially for niche or specialist products at a time where some RPG products are produced and selling (anecdotally) in very small numbers.
That said, I only signed up for OD because I knew the quality of WBs work - from numerous recent Dungeon adventures, and from D&D products going back to Assassin Mountain for Al-Qadim (mid 1990's ?)
A new OD or patronage project needs to impress people if it is going to attract fee-paying patrons. I wish you good luck with your project - but you're going to need to market it to people with some 'wow' factor that you can actually deliver on in order to actually extract money from them. That is why things like spellings in message board posts are important, as spelling mistakes for example create a less than impressive first impression for potential patrons.
Ultimately - any future projects you have planned will sink or swim based on feedback and word of mouth from patrons of your first project.
Good luck.