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.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

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.

Is this a wife thing, cos mine does the same...

"Umm that letter says it's from your specialist," I say.
"Oh yeah, whatever..." Comes the response.
4 days later...
"Oh I've missed an appointment block," complains said wife who then rants about specialists being hard to see.
Me dying in the corner...

 

[Clint_L]

These are my actual quotes from the discussion thread on the Forged: A Massive Miniature Collection 2022 Kickstarter (now completely MIA), over on the Minisgallery forums:

by Clint » Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:41 pm

Gonna keep an eye on this one. I like the 3 piece squads so that you don't get multiples of on sculpt, and I agree that the hero miniatures look really good. On the other hand, I don't generally back KSs without a proven track record. So, I'm gonna wait and see how well funded it gets.

by Clint » Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:18 pm

I'm keeping an eye on it - it certainly looks like a better and better deal. I wish they had a more established track record.

by Clint » Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:35 pm

I'm probably going to wind up buying into this, aren't I?

K, straight talk: how much do we trust this company to deliver? They seem like they are currently a boutique outfit and this offer is starting to head towards "too good to be true" territory. I'd actually feel more confident buying in if they didn't do all the multiples and just had one of each sculpt.

by Clint » Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:36 am

Well, I'm in. Ultimately, it's a risk reward issue, and the reward here is significant, the risk acceptable. I don't need a lot here, but I love getting new sculpts, and in any event I am toying with the idea of gifting it to a friend who is interested in getting into miniatures, as this would be an excellent collection to get started with.

That $100 was the last time I backed a KS from a company without much of a track record. So, lesson learned. I shoulda listened to that guy from the first few posts.

Latest news on that one is that there will be no miniatures but they are maybe sorta kinda offering some STLs to folks with 3d printers or something.

 

[Clint_L]

Also, I backed the last C'Mon Games Cthulhu Death May Die KS, but I had backed them before and they delivered an excellent product. This is just one where the company got into trouble, then tariffs hit, and I think they're probably done. I don't really have hard feelings about it.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Welp, I've always prided myself on getting rewards out within a month of the KS ending. That streak ended. In my most recent B&B 2e KS, I had an option of a boxed set. It took 3 months to manufacture them, so I planned the order before the KS even ended to make it quick. They were delivered to my house at 4:30 pm. By 6pm, someone stole them off my porch. So I had to do a re-order, which means a 3-4 month delay.

I feel bad for those backers. Every backer is so important to me, so for those of you who may have backed, I am truly sorry for this delay.

 

[Staffan]

If we're doing RPG-adjacent Kickstarters, Lasting Tales/Fantasy Series 2 was supposed to deliver in May 2022 and still haven't. Last sign of life was a post in February about getting red wax versions of some more of the minis. It appears the creator had been pyramid gaming Kickstarters (filling the holes in the previous Kickstarter with the money from the new one) and when the world went nuts around Covid, the pyramid of cards fell over.

This appears to be coming up on an, if not happy, at least somewhat satisfactory ending. In late 2024, the rights to Fantasy Series 1 and 2 were acquired by a different company, Wildspire Miniatures. We original backers got access to STLs of the various miniatures, and were offered sweetheart deals on physical fulfillment – about $50 for each of the two original near-200 mini sets. It pained me a bit, but I figured the original $225 I paid was gone either way, so $100 (+shipping and such) for almost 400 minis was a pretty good new deal. It's a somewhat smaller package than the original offer was – the original had 5 minis each of a number of minis that often show up in large numbers of mostly identical opponents (e.g. "goblin archers"), and this has reduced those to 4. But in the words of Lord Farquaad: "That's a price I am willing to pay."

And yesterday, I got a message from DHL about imminent delivery, and I asked them to redirect it to a more convenient pickup point. Unfortunately I'm going to my parents for a week or so over Christmas, so I won't be getting the package until I get back. But once i do, I will be happy to put this behind me.

 

[Bae'zel]

I have only one more crowdfunded product left, which is the latest Shadowdark one. No complaints, the delays were understandable.

But I'm utterly done with crowdfunding now. Hell, they even relaunched one of Mythic Games' failed campaings (Anastyr, which I had been desperately excited for) and I've got zero interest anymore.

It's nice to support little indie projects, but most of these things are now available at my local shops anyway, often sooner than backers get their's.

Plus it doesn't help that shipping costs to Canada are often at least 50% of the cost of the actual product itself so... yeah I'm done.

edit: I also have about 50$ in a CMON campaign for 2 new characters for their Masters of the Universe game, but those will likely never get produced. Bummer, but I've met people who've lost a LOT more.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I just realized I do have one I'm starting to look a little askance at: The D6 System 2e project. They haven't vanished or are not updating, but when they haven't managed even the PDF and were originally aiming it at February of this year...

 

[Clint_L]

I'll still crowdfund but am being much more selective now. I will only back companies that I really trust, and that aren't American (I'm Canadian, it's a standing up for our freedom thing - nothing against you Americans personally, just your current government's persistent attacks on our autonomy). I just backed Morrus's latest KS (it looks really cool; I recommend!).

 

[Velderan]

Every so often I see updates from the Pixels light up dice project that I backed on impulse. I only pledged for a single d20, which I received in early 2024. That was already something like 2 years late, but apparently there's been a lot of problems with the project and the current tariffs seems to have made it impossible for them to fulfill (including outside the US for some reason that probably makes sense, but I am ignorant to why). I remember them initially being caught off guard by the project blowing up the way it did and needing to find alternate sources for the increased number of components which probably led to higher costs. Fast forward a couple years and with all the increased chip shortages, I don't imagine their margin has gotten any better so I can see how tariffs would be a risk to destroy them.

I feel bad for people that went all in on an entire set given how expensive they were.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

Every so often I see updates from the Pixels light up dice project that I backed on impulse. I only pledged for a single d20, which I received in early 2024. That was already something like 2 years late, but apparently there's been a lot of problems with the project and the current tariffs seems to have made it impossible for them to fulfill (including outside the US for some reason that probably makes sense, but I am ignorant to why). I remember them initially being caught off guard by the project blowing up the way it did and needing to find alternate sources for the increased number of components which probably led to higher costs. Fast forward a couple years and with all the increased chip shortages, I don't imagine their margin has gotten any better so I can see how tariffs would be a risk to destroy them.

I feel bad for people that went all in on an entire set given how expensive they were.

Yeah I’m waiting on a set but I did also order a second d20 which I got a while ago… which doesn’t work… not sending it back, it sits in the display case…