Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

We're putting together a potential article on overdue (or failed!) crowdfunding projects.

So, tell us your story. Which crowdfunders are overdue, and by how much? What was the original estimated delivery date? We've set up a survey with which you can provide us information, and we'll be using that survey to put together an article in early 2026.

We have set a 1-year limit on this--to keep this down to a reasonable list, only crowdfunders which are a year or more overdue, please! That's a year or more past the estimated delivery date listed on the crowdfunding page.

Also, please note that this is for tabletop roleplaying game projects only.

Use the link below to fill out the short survey. It should only take a couple of minutes. Please note that if you include anything in the additional comments box, you may be quoted in the article.

Overdue Crowdfunder Survey

Please tell us about your overdue crowdfunder. Note that for the purposes of this survey, a crowdfunder's fulfillment must be at least a full year overdue.

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Note--this thread was originally started in late 2024, but the survey has been created as of 20 December 2025 for an article due to be published in early 2026.

 

[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.

 

[aramis erak]

I've only two overdue KS elements...
the Kanji version of a map of historical Japan optimized for FRPGing... (The english versions in PDF arrived in a timely manner.)
The Traveller 5 kickstarter is still yet to deliver certain stretch goals, but those don't actually affect me... I backed at the moral support level.