Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

Sacrosanct · Saturday at 11:45 PM

Clint_L said:
Same for me with Reaper 6. It took ages to deliver, but when it finally did, unpacking was super exciting. I had totally fogotten half of the contents!

I felt the exact same way.

cbwjm · Sunday at 12:43 AM

HywelPhillips said:
I've just got my Dolmenwood hardbacks. I pre-ordered on their store rather than backing the KS, though. The books do exist so hopefully it's just shipping logistics etc. at this point. It's very good.

Good news, I've since received the books! The campaign book is massive. I've run a couple of friends through winters daughter and I've been reading through the campaign book to prepare for future adventures and finding quite a few "WTF, mate?" moments. They were well worth the wait.

Mean Eyed Cat · Sunday at 1:15 AM

Mini Molds: Mushable monster miniatures Creator never fullfilled Kickstart. Started a a website that basically is selling the same thing: Products
Vagabond's Guide to Dalriada Basically abandoned project. No updates in a long time.
Honorable mention: Horror Epics: GrymWyrd Omnibus 5e It's alwasy a sob story about a sick family member <eye rolls>

Scarlet.Knight · Sunday at 6:43 AM

The Soloist said:
In 2010, e20 System Evolved RPG, the evolution of d20 by Gary M Sarli*, was never delivered. In 2014, in the last update, he claimed he had succumbed to mental illness due to a misdiagnosis. Looking at his social media activity, he is fully recovered and bans anyone who asks about the project.

*He worked on Star Wars SAGA and leveraged that for the KS.

Yeah, I paid a fair sum for that one... sigh

Wild · Sunday at 7:10 AM

Velderan said:
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.

This coming April it’ll be 5 years. Ordered 2 full sets plus 8 extra d20s for my players. Still waiting on the 2 sets, both of which are colors they can’t supply because of issues with them (obsidian black and hematite gray).

MNblockhead · Sunday at 7:20 AM

Sacrosanct said:
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.

Its gotten much better, but for a while porch pirates were bad in my neighborhood. Still, for anything expensive/important I use the option to deliver to pickup locations.

Weiley31 · Sunday at 7:31 AM

jerryrice4949 said:
Sirens Battle of the Bards https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stonejamison/sirens-battle-of-the-bards

Not only have the two people taken the money and run but they both appear to be miserable humans. So it’s like a double whammy. Bank rolling jerks and nothing to show.

I came REAL CLOSE to backing that due to Red Opera and I'm glad I didn't at the time.

CrysmalonDM · Sunday at 11:04 AM

How about this old gem: The Shadowlands Campaign Setting. I was very new to kickstarter and a sucker for campaign settings. It launch in like 2014, with the last update in 2020. Nothing final ever delivered. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadowlands/the-shadowlands-campaign-setting-guidebook-for-pat

CrysmalonDM · Sunday at 11:05 AM

Or the Here Be Dragons Cypher system version of Monte Cook's The Diamond Throne? While hardback books were eventually delivered (2 years later I think), final pdfs were never delivered and most ancillary materials never released. And the physical book quality was awful, with some art clearly of a low resolution, my copy had misprinted pages (upside down), etc.

BiblioTek · Sunday at 2:27 PM

Redshirts, Vol. 2: A Starfinder Compatible AP. It's been almost eight years since the campaign ended, and nary a sign of the product. The creator, T.J. Lantz, has multiple unfulfilled KS campaigns. Apparently he ran into financial troubles due to a misunderstanding of tax laws and subsequently sorted those out, but has yet to fulfill the campaigns.

Redshirts Vol 1 was pretty good; it was basically Star Trek Lower Decks before there was Lower Decks.

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