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.

 

[The Soloist]

Luckily I've had only a few KS RPGs that were delayed, and I've gotten them all within a few months of the time estimated. The disappointments I've had have been boardgames with a lot of miniatures. It looks like 2-3 of those won't fulfill. All from the same company.

Which company?

 

[Retreater]

Which company?

Blacklist Games

 

[Mannahnin]

Everyone's favorite edgy boi Raggi is over a decade late on the LotFP Referee book.

Yuuup. I remember reading some of the text a while back, and thinking it looked pretty good.

Not so inclined to give them any more money nowadays, though.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Hunter's Mark: Long Live the Hunt is especially egregious as the creator did not one but TWO Kickstarter campaigns for the same project (the second was vaguely framed as a retailer's package, I believe), and then ghosted everyone. They opened a Patreon for print and play paper minis a while later, but that died off too.

Argh, yeah, Hunter's Mark got me too. Sold as adding Bloodborne meets Monster Hunter to D&D, that was up my alley.

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.

I strongly suspect that it would still be outstanding if Troll Lord Games hadn't stepped in.

I'm also led to believe that the finished product was not great. I'm a member of a lot of buy/sell communities online. There are many of these on secondhand offer right now (being sold on by disappointed backers/buyers) and almost none of them are selling.

I was not impressed by the finished product.

 

[R_J_K75]

We are in a combined Waterdeep campaign. Mostly in the dungeon but we return to the city here and there as a home base. Our overarching quest includes finding something in the dungeon to help the city.

Kind of what we did too but just never went back to Undermountain as there were bigger problems in the city above. My problem wasn't so much that DotMM was poorly written just sparse in spots and I haven't been a fan of how adventures have been laid out since 3.x, they're clunky to reference and run at the table for me. that's been the main reason I rarely if ever use them anymore.

 

[Xamnam]

Relic by the now-defunct Bandit Camp is a failed Kickstarter; its creator has left the gaming space after some personal issues.

I just went and looked this up a month or so ago to see if there had been any progress. I'm still pretty disappointed, but honestly, more so about the idea not coming to fruition than about a good chunk of my money going into the ether.

 

[JEB]

Axes and Anvils, one of the first Kickstarters I ever backed, intended as a gift for my brother (a big dwarf fan). After years of delays and excuses, it was finally released in PDF form in 2019... after being taken over by another designer, and well after I'd given up on it.

The other most disastrous RPG-adjacent Kickstarter I backed was the Knights of the Dinner Table Live Action Series. We've gotten an incomplete version thanks to Zombie Orpheus Entertainment stepping in, but still haven't gotten the full thing.

 

[bedir than]

I'm one of the people who back the grift known as Swordsfall.
There were many many months when they'd launch a new sales project to fund the previously funded project to fund the previous project because they were just a bit short -- it was very much a con.

Supposedly there was a partial fulfillment, but I never got that. And since I had the audacity to complain about a many years late project I expect I've been blocked on most communication methods

 

[John R Davis]

Distant Realms by Stygian Fox
8 years overdue iirc

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Broken World by James "Cheapshot" Claus-Nesbitt.

Funded 2 Oct 2014.
Estimated delivery April 2015
Last Update 30 March 2018

Same! My first and oldest bunko ttrpg kickstarter (but not my only).

Sadly, 3 kickstarters by people I know personally all never delivered - but also not TTRPGs, so outside the scope of this thread.