Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

[TiQuinn]

It's fine. Maps are strong. Background lore is strong. Dungeon is fine. Pretty extensive and it would take a long time to get through all this content. It doesn't blow me away but thought was put into it and it's fine.

Fine definitely sounds here like a four letter word beginning with F.

 

[Mistwell]

Fine definitely sounds here like a four letter word beginning with F.

I am currently playing through Dungeon of the Mad Mage and our DM has made it great, but if you read through the book it reads just fine. Megadungeons don't generally read as stunning.

 

[jdrakeh]

I am currently playing through Dungeon of the Mad Mage and our DM has made it great, but if you read through the book it reads just fine. Megadungeons don't generally read as stunning.

There are some great megadungeons out there, though (e.g. Eyes of the Stone Thief, Stonehell, many of Greg Gilllespie's books, etc). Or at least megadungeons that receive almost nothing but great praise. Dungeon of the Mad Mage isn't an example of a great megadungeon. At least I've never heard anybody refer to it as such. As you say, it's "fine" (which isn't the superlative you seem to think it is).

 

[TiQuinn]

I am currently playing through Dungeon of the Mad Mage and our DM has made it great, but if you read through the book it reads just fine. Megadungeons don't generally read as stunning.

I agree with that. Our DM put a good amount of work into Mad Mage’s later levels and it ended up outstanding. One of my favorite campaigns. But it took a big effort to make those levels work.

 

[Black Dougal]

Ernest Gary Gygax Jr.'s Marmoreal Tomb Campaign Starter. THIS HAS NOW DELIVERED. However, it was funded in mid 2015. It was supposed to deliver in March of 2016 and we were told in the Kickstarter that most of it had been written. That...was not accurate. It didn't complete and ship until mid 2023, and even that only happened because a professional company bailed them out. And ,they never delivered on all of their goals, most importantly they never provided a 5e conversion of the game. As far as I can tell, they lost interest in delivering on that goal, as they never even reached out to the many people who volunteered to convert it to 5e so they could fulfill on that goal.

This...

I would say Ernie lost interest and Benoist was terrible at managing his time which he often wasted trolling half the supporters with his s***posting

 

[R_J_K75]

I am currently playing through Dungeon of the Mad Mage and our DM has made it great, but if you read through the book it reads just fine. Megadungeons don't generally read as stunning.

I agree with that. Our DM put a good amount of work into Mad Mage’s later levels and it ended up outstanding. One of my favorite campaigns. But it took a big effort to make those levels work.

DotMM was one of the only 5E adventures I was looking forward to reading and running for my group, but I was very disappointed after reading the intro and the first level or two. Then a few days before we were supposed to play, I sat down to prep, (and even though Undermountain or any large dungeon takes more prep than normal) it became readily apparent that this was going to take more effort than I was willing to do to make it usable. I used very little of the adventure as written and mostly wrote my own stuff. So, I applaud anyone who actually ran this to competition. We moved on to a Waterdeep campaign pretty quickly.

 

[Kromanjon]

Anyone with the nickname "Cheapshot" should've been the first sign...

Yeah. I just thought is was a cute little name.

 

[John Dallman]

Game Night Life mats. Nice product idea, failure of execution. A small number of mats were produced and shipped, but most of the options for colours and shapes never happened. Funded spring 2015, last update spring 2019.

 

[Dumnbunny]

It's a similar situation with their previous Kickstarter, Ryuutama. We got the main book, but the last time we heard about the promised supplement material was a March 3 2020 update where they said they were about a week away from releasing a form of it to backers.

It’s just a sad situation. He spent so many years building up good will in the community, then spent the next several years just lighting it on fire.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Because of all these stories, I now only back crowdfunding projects that are basically preorders: i.e., the writing and art are complete and we’re just waiting for expensive paper to be milled and slow boats from wherever.

Which defeats the purpose of crowdfunding, but all the bad apples ruined the barrel for me at least.