Does anyone have Kickstarter regrets?

[Muad'dib Pendragon]

Two regrets:

1. Backing at collector levels. Not sure it's worth it, especially when "collector" items arrived damaged.
2. FOMO: Backing more than a few items that, while presented as interesting and compelling, wound up being neither.

Note: 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive...

 

[cbwjm]

I have only backed maybe a dozen kickstarters and I guess the one I regret the most is kingdoms and warfare. I don't think it's a bad book but when flipping through I quickly got the feeling that the systems presented weren't ones I would end up wanting to use.

 

[Morrus]

Really sad one of the big fails was a African nations created ttrpg kinda like Coyote and Crow, that I was really looking forward to. They bailed on it

Into the Mother Lands? Yeah, I'm not clear on what's up with that one.

 

[MNblockhead]

I have only backed maybe a dozen kickstarters and I guess the one I regret the most is kingdoms and warfare. I don't think it's a bad book but when flipping through I quickly got the feeling that the systems presented weren't ones I would end up wanting to use.

Yeah, I got a LOT of use out of Strongholds & Followers and have generally liked every MCDM product I backed, but I never had any interest in using Kingdoms & Warfare once I got it. At least I only backed for digital.

 

[cbwjm]

Yeah, I got a LOT of use out of Strongholds & Followers and have generally liked every MCDM product I backed, but I never had any interest in using Kingdoms & Warfare once I got it. At least I only backed for digital.

Strongholds and followers was great, I think I was running off that thinking K&W would be a great expansion on it. I have some other products from them and generally quite like their stuff, I think the only thing that stopped us using their classes was that everyone was comfortable using dndbeyond, not sure if their classes are up on there now.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Two regrets:

1. Backing at collector levels. Not sure it's worth it, especially when "collector" items arrived damaged.
2. FOMO: Backing more than a few items that, while presented as interesting and compelling, wound up being neither.

Note: 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive...

The second one has bit me to some degree more than once. Fortunately for the first, by the time Kickstarter came along, I had largely stopped buying non-digital product. There was a time I might have been more subject to it.

 

[dbolack]

Into the Mother Lands? Yeah, I'm not clear on what's up with that one.

It's running rough right now.

 

[aramis erak]

I’m thinking regrets after the campaign was fulfilled rather than overdue Kickstarters. There’s a separate thread on that here.

Maybe you’ve been caught up in the hype and you’ve put down your hard-earned money but then, once the product is delivered, you wish you hadn’t of done it.

This might be because you realise afterwards you’ll never run the game - you just got too excited at the time and didn’t think it through.

Coriolis: The Great Dark. I expected more mechanical continuity to Coriolis: The Third Horizon. I Might, eventually, get it to table... it's a good read, at least. But probably not worth the price unless I do.

Blade Runner. The regret hit when I found out my players didn't have a grasp of the setting. Even after watching the movies.

 

[Retros_x]

I have to admit, I regret a little bit backing Dolmenwood - I backed one of the big collectors packs because I thought it looked amazing and I loved OSE at that point. Unfortunately in the meantime I learned to love Shadowdark... And I will still probably rip content from Dolmenwood, because it is quite good, but I don't think I will ever use all that shiny stuff. Oh and the maps are all printed too dark.

In general though I had a lot of luck (and trusted campaigners) I think I backed around 10 projects and they all delivered on quality.

 

[Bae'zel]

I have to admit, I regret a little bit backing Dolmenwood - I backed one of the big collectors packs because I thought it looked amazing and I loved OSE at that point. Unfortunately in the meantime I learned to love Shadowdark... And I will still probably rip content from Dolmenwood, because it is quite good, but I don't think I will ever use all that shiny stuff. Oh and the maps are all printed too dark.

In general though I had a lot of luck (and trusted campaigners) I think I backed around 10 projects and they all delivered on quality.

I've noticed that there are threads here and there on the internet (Reddit too) where people are converting Dolmenwood to use Shadowdark rules. There is hope! A lot of the best material in those books is rules-agnostic, to be honest. It could be a breeze to use that stuff with your preferred system.