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EthanSental · Monday at 1:57 PM

Give Falk some credit, he broke down his estimates for producing the kickstarter and it came out to $2022 and it made a little over 3k. Glad to see if finished. Retailer tier was $37 for 5 physical copies so luckily retailers weren’t out a ton of cash without a product to sell for a couple years.

thirdkingdom · Monday at 2:34 PM

EthanSental said:
Give Falk some credit, he broke down his estimates for producing the kickstarter and it came out to $2022 and it made a little over 3k. Glad to see if finished. Retailer tier was $37 for 5 physical copies so luckily retailers weren’t out a ton of cash without a product to sell for a couple years.

I hope that didn't come across as not giving Falk credit! And yeah, in the grand scheme of delayed Kickstarters it's pretty minor. The one that turned me off to backing at the retailer level was the OSE boxset one from a few years back. I had about 1k in that and it was nine or so months late. That was hard to bridge.

Autumnal · Monday at 3:16 PM

Here you go. I owe it some updates.

Thread 'High-quality systemless books [+]'

May 9, 2025

I’ve been thinking about setting books that are either genuinely free of mechanics, or close as darn it. Favorites of mine include things like the systemless version of Freeport, a bunch of the Glorantha books for HeroQuest, and settings for Amber and Lords Of Gossamer & Shadow. My experience with allegedly system-neutral books published within the orbit of D&D was that they were actually compatible with any variety of D&D, but I like being happily surprised. So please, tell me about your favorites of this sort, in any genre.

One request: please tell me about them. Don’t just...

EthanSental · Monday at 5:36 PM

thirdkingdom said:
I hope that didn't come across as not giving Falk credit! And yeah, in the grand scheme of delayed Kickstarters it's pretty minor. The one that turned me off to backing at the retailer level was the OSE boxset one from a few years back. I had about 1k in that and it was nine or so months late. That was hard to bridge.

That would be a big ouch for sure for a business!

thirdkingdom · Monday at 6:58 PM

EthanSental said:
That would be a big ouch for sure for a business!

Yeah, these days I don't back a crowdfunding project as a retailer unless a) the finished product is ready to go and ship within a couple of months or b) there's an option for an upfront minimal pledge with the ability to do the full purchase when ready to fulfill.

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