Piratecat's "TimeWatch" kickstarter is 1090% funded and mentioned on Boing Boing. Woot!

[Henry]

Looks like over 1 kilobackers as of today.

 

[Kaodi]

I am really happy to see your Kickstarter is going so well, PirateCat. I do not think I can see myself ever getting this though. The philosophical issues surrounding time travel have really turned me off the device in the last few years. Basically, I am inclined to think that time travel is evil. Well, backwards time travel. Travel forward as much as you like, .

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Eventually hassle your local game store for it. Thanks for supporting it in PDF!

Funny joke from a recent podcast, except it's true: "Even at $30/book shipping, Pelgrane loses money on every book we ship to Australia and New Zealand. So if you live there and hate Pelgrane Press, buy lots of our books!"

Heh heh.

That reminds me of Gaming Paper when it first came out. Bear in mind that this was several years ago, but postage still wasn't cheap.

I ordered a roll to see what it was like and when it arrived I discovered that the cost to post me this one roll was more than I paid for the product and postage combined. So I emailed them to give them the heads up and they increased the shipping cost to more reasonable levels.

Living in Australia, I'm used to the high shipping costs to some extent, but it is still annoying at how much more expensive it makes buying things.

 

[Piratecat]

I am really happy to see your Kickstarter is going so well, PirateCat. I do not think I can see myself ever getting this though. The philosophical issues surrounding time travel have really turned me off the device in the last few years. Basically, I am inclined to think that time travel is evil. Well, backwards time travel. Travel forward as much as you like, .

Clearly, you need the Rebellion campaign, where you're making the world a better place!

Heh, it may not be your game. It's fun to read, though, and I'm usually super-critical of my own writing.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

(snip) Living in Australia, I'm used to the high shipping costs to some extent, but it is still annoying at how much more expensive it makes buying things.

Try being an Australian living in the Philippines.

Post? Doesn't work. Your items *will* be stolen.

Courier? Does work most of the time. However, be prepared for a randomly determined customs duty plus delivery fee plus storage fee (I kid you not on the last one) ranging from 50% to 100%+ of the value of the goods plus the cost of freight.

 

[Morrus]

Try being an Australian living in the Philippines.

That's not an easy thing to try, even with time travel!

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

That's not an easy thing to try, even with time travel!

Well, it's not as difficult for me as it is for the alcoholic sex tourists who give those of us with legitimate family and business interests here a bad name....

 

[Mallus]

As a general rule I'm somewhere between "skeptical" and "Luddite" when it comes to Kickstarter, but for [MENTION=2]Piratecat[/MENTION], I just made an exception! Here, have $40 of my money!

 

[Truename]

Congratulations, Piratecat! Backed (and tweeted!) solely on the strength of your contributions here.

 

[Piratecat]

I'm flattered and honored. Flonored? Something like that. Welcome aboard, tell friends, read and hack the game! You can grab your immediate copy in the 1st Kickstarter update; tell me if you don't find it.

Here's a rundown of how many stretch goals we've already unlocked. Good lord.

https://plus.google.com/+TimeWatchRPG/posts/coDW5i7c14c

- An additional TW postcard for $50 pledge levels and up
- A TimeWatch musical theme by James Semple
- Hardback book
- Low-art tablet edition (with 3Pub & mobi)
- Self-calculating PDF character sheets by Hypersmurf
- Expanded race section
- Historical NPCs
- Crossover rules with TimeWatch and other GUMSHOE books
- Campaign style expansion: Pulp action
- Campaign style expansion: A Single Leap (1-2 players)
- Campaign style expansion: Rebellion
- Campaign style expansion: Time Tourist, by Rose Bailey
- Campaign style expansion: Conspiracy
- Mission hook by Kenneth Hite
- Mission hook by Heather Albano
- Mission hook (Pulp) by Barsooncore
- Mission hook (Time Tourist) by John Adamus
- Mission hook (Conspiracy) by The Universe