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.

 

[Scribe]

I am not too put of out of it with regards to the overdue Kickstarter products. Backing a Kickstarter is going to be something of a gamble for anyone who decides to back one. Of the three, my favorite has to be Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms by Loot Tavern.

This just arrived for me!

 

[humble minion]

A few months back I had hope it'd arrive in time for me to read it over the christmas break, but alas no sign of a shipping notification yet. Probably another month or so off...

 

[djotaku]

I have 2 that meet the original Criteria:

• Blood and Glory - a horror-themed 5e module. Last update Jan of this year https://www.kickstarter.com/project...glory-2-pledge-for-5-adventures/posts/4290394 . It funded in 2023 and doesn't seem like it should be 2 years later level of complicated.
• Gobber's Guide to Hearth and Home - A base building module that I was more excited about when I backed it. But D&D 2024's bastions and Tales of the Valant's upcoming base-building rules in the Player's Guide 2 kinda make me not care, other than the fact that I did pay for it. They've had a bunch of stuff happen with their artist or something https://www.kickstarter.com/project...obbers-guide-to-hearth-and-home/posts/4553337
  
  Also, typical for a KS, they really effed up their numbers somewhere because they're going into debt for the physical items. I could be having a bad memory, but I don't remember their updates blaming it on tariffs. So maybe they went overboard on add-ons or something?

Overdue kickstarters that do not meet the one year criteria:

• The only one that's truly late is delivery of the digital version of Humblewood 2
• Kobold Press Monster Vault 2 still owes us the Foundry module
• A kickstarter with a bunch of 5e modules based on 1980s movies (it has an awesome aesthetic; I may be looking for some players in 2026) still hasn't delivered physical rewards.

Most on time ever was the Cosmere TTRPG. IF it was delayed, it was maybe a month and that was 100% due to the tariff issues. All (or most) of the USA physical rewards have been delivered.

Overall I've been pretty lucky with kickstarters. I mostly stay away from people trying to create new hardware because that has a much higher failure rate. I also try to stick to creators with a track record or companies like Kobold Press or MCDM.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Also, typical for a KS, they really effed up their numbers somewhere because they're going into debt for the physical items. I could be having a bad memory, but I don't remember their updates blaming it on tariffs. So maybe they went overboard on add-ons or something?

Often people just don't end up having a clear idea on physical production costs and cycles when they do those. Its a common problem.

 

[djotaku]

Often people just don't end up having a clear idea on physical production costs and cycles when they do those. Its a common problem.

Yeah, assuming I didn't forget an update that mentioned increased costs due to shortages/tariffs/etc that's my guess. It's part of the reason that if a smaller creator doesn't just use RPGDriveThru on-demand printing for their physical books, I stick to digital rewards.

 

[humble minion]

I’ve backed a couple of duds. Vagabond’s Guide to Dalriada ended up being vapourware run by a guy with a long record of serial Kickstarter failures under different company/account names. No chance that one will ever materialise. Tales from Sina Una is I think dead too. It was an adventure follow-up to the Filipino-inspired Islands of Sina Una, but there was some sort of breakdown among the team, the main creative is no longer part of the project, and the leftover just doesnt seem to be up to the job or trying very hard. Last update was in March, explaining that the reason there’d been no updates since the previous November was the death of a pet. I wrote this one off a long time ago.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I’ve backed a couple of duds. Vagabond’s Guide to Dalriada ended up being vapourware run by a guy with a long record of serial Kickstarter failures under different company/account names. No chance that one will ever materialise. Tales from Sina Una is I think dead too. It was an adventure follow-up to the Filipino-inspired Islands of Sina Una, but there was some sort of breakdown among the team, the main creative is no longer part of the project, and the leftover just doesnt seem to be up to the job or trying very hard. Last update was in March, explaining that the reason there’d been no updates since the previous November was the death of a pet. I wrote this one off a long time ago.

Sina Una II not having anything to do with Hit Point Press was a red flag to me. I didn't realize it went completely kablooey, though.

And the Dalriada book looked great -- I think we even had a front page article on it here. I don't get putting in that much work for a fake project.

 

[humble minion]

Sina Una II not having anything to do with Hit Point Press was a red flag to me. I didn't realize it went completely kablooey, though.

And the Dalriada book looked great -- I think we even had a front page article on it here. I don't get putting in that much work for a fake project.

Dalriada also had a breakdown in its creative team - reading between the lines, the creative person walked out on the kickstarter campaign guy for some reason or other, there was all sort of nonspecific passive-aggressive not-statements about it flying around.

Kickstarter guy then kept the zombie project shambling along for a while, starting a couple of others in the process, and selling seminars at which he touted his expertise in crowdfunding. Eventually enough people complained that Kickstarter put him on the naughty list. Doesn’t change the fact that he got my 60 bucks for nothing though.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Dalriada also had a breakdown in its creative team - reading between the lines, the creative person walked out on the kickstarter campaign guy for some reason or other, there was all sort of nonspecific passive-aggressive not-statements about it flying around.

Kickstarter guy then kept the zombie project shambling along for a while, starting a couple of others in the process, and selling seminars at which he touted his expertise in crowdfunding. Eventually enough people complained that Kickstarter put him on the naughty list. Doesn’t change the fact that he got my 60 bucks for nothing though.

That sucks. I think I'm left holding the bag on a project I backed last year by someone who got very excited about a (relatively modest) project and seems to have discovered that all the stuff he wants to do is hard. There's a 75% done PDF floating around, but he's gone radio silent for a while and I don't think he's going to be able to produce the hard copy book.

There's no sign of malice or duplicity, though, just a very enthusiastic fan who didn't know what he was getting into ahead of time, which is probably true of most first-time crowdfunders.

 

[MGibster]

My Deadlands Kickstarter started shipping out a few weeks ago and I've been patiently waiting for it to arrive. I found it in my office today and my wife told me it had been delivered two weeks ago. She thought it was hers, and she's the type of person who will wait days or weeks to open a package, and didn't figure out until today it was mine. That's my horrible late Kickstarter arrival story.