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As a backer, from how the kickstarter went down over time, I do not think this was simple incompetence.

The big thing is that it was the first city module ever. Same thing for Tegel Manor which was the first spooky haunted house kind of scenario. And at the time, this was a 100 page book competing with 16 page modules from TSR. It was pretty impressive for the time just for the sheer volume of...

My uncle and father fought in the war. I think of all the BS that Bledshaw spewed, the bit about Gen. Eisenhower being part of some Jewish conspiracy and intentionally getting white soldiers killed pissed me off more than anything.

Correct. And they pushed people in the Kickstarter updates to buy the Frog God stuff so they could finish it. For anyone that doesn't remember exactly how bad the Bledshaws are, here's a reminder if you can stomach it.

If they used it to refund us, that would be fine. But finish their version? Yeah, good luck with that. And at this point, I have no interest in receiving anything from Judge's Guild other than a refund.

I really want to see something from Goodman. I'm a little shocked they would release any news about this without a thorough explanation. They can't be that oblivious to the optics, can they? And the explanation better be good because "well we thought you'd forget" is not going to do it for me...

I'm sorry, but that's just not true. The only exclusivity requirement is to join the Kindle Unlimited lending library and for that, you are paid paid by the page-read at a rate they set, but your book remains on sale for regular purchase at a price that you are fully in control of. The...

Amazon KDP pays 35% for ebooks retailed priced under $2.99 (to prevent a race to the bottom) and 70% for ebooks $2.99 or over.

I'd guess that Foundry tends to appeal to more hardcore gamers with roll20 having a much lower barrier to entry and more friendly to casual gamers. And I'd guess posting on a message board about RPGs probably also appeals to people who are more hardcore than average. Also, I'm a Foundry user and...

Two more big ones. It's free. Sure, you need a sub if you want to do fog of war and that stuff, but to start it's free. And the one nobody gives it credit for is the search engine for open spots in games. On a whim, when the Call of Cthulhu kickstarter arrived, I searched for a game on roll20...

I think buying stuff is the plan, but having bought the Free League bundle, the pre-made stuff is pretty dialed in. For example, the Forbidden Lands system is just splash screens. There's no text of the adventure, no tactical maps, and no NPCs set up. Overall, I find that the poor UI design in...

I also feel like it's actually fun to do in Foundry. I compared it to the endless adventures I wrote (and never ran) as a teenager when I was new to the hobby. "The game when you're not playing the game." For dislike, it would be Alchemy. I should be a slam dunk for a "theater of the mind"...

I checked off too many stretch goals, but it's more about what kind of stretch goals. I've seen plenty of KSes where the stretch goals are "Two Additional Monsters!" or "PDF of an additional adventure" and those are fine because they're low impact and not going to cost anything additional. What...

I played the heck out of RQ2 back in the 80s, but I'll be a negative as well and agree with @Retreater. My version of the elevator pitch would be "In college, you missed sessions with your D&D group because your anthropology homework was just really so much more interesting. Now you can play RQ...

Right now, the real white whale would be a full run the Dracula Dossier (Night's Black Agents). I ran it six years ago, but it only lasted a few months and we finished up with one minor wife of Dracula being staked. As a GM, it was one of the most fun things I've ever run. I loved the system and...

Since like 1980, yeah.

Rules define the universal constants and constraints of our fictional universe. Throughout our real lives we rely on reality having a shape and boundaries. We don't concern ourselves with stepping out the door and flying up into the sky. We know that water doesn't poison us. We know that hitting...

I'm going to guess the success has something to do with all the emails I have from companies suggesting I back it. I'd honestly never heard about it prior to the Kickstarter. And whatever the secret sauce is, their backers are basically a list of every company I buy from: Free League, Chaosium...

That's what I was wondering. I mean, presumably they will be released when this book comes out. Hard to offer a license that doesn't exist. And yes, Chaosium is in Bits and Mortar.

If you made a RPG without character creation, the rulebook would end up partially burned, embedded in lucite, passed around to various RPG luminaries, and eventually lost in the mail... I think the "cinematic" scenarios for Alien work well with a premade cast of characters who are intended to...