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I am not sure what premise you refer to, the one where the target price is a fraction of the actual internal target / required minimum? Yeah, I can see one man shops that are new to this be completely wrong about what their target should be and actually having a target of $1000 or whatever...

I can see someone wanting 5 out of the 12 and buying only 3 or 4, but only 1 if they previously bought 3 out of 4 regularly? I can see someone who bought everything religiously lower their number of total purchases, much like I can see someone who only occasionally bought a book buying slightly...

Shadow of the Weird Wizard yes, it’s easily compatible with 5e, Shadow is not, but will still be pretty familiar

beggars can’t be choosers, the TTRPG space is very different today from the 1e days As to 1e today (your is), unless you count the OSR as 1e, I do not believe it is popular at all

given that the premise was that the target is a made up number that is way too low, it does not really make much of a difference whether you hit ‘ridiculously too low’ or ‘far too low’ to break even

Shadow of the Weird Wizard / Demon Lord when it comes to the wider 5e landscape, Tales of the Valiant when it comes to the ‘clones’

they were bad at capitalism for a lot more reasons than releasing a lot of products though. To the point that I am not so sure whether that even had anything to do with their downfall. Selling below manufacturing cost, and that on some pretty well selling products, cannot have helped. Nepotism...

if you exclude S&H, yes

start it this weekend, the KS will still be going for a while

multiply the numbers by 10 or 20 then, doesn’t change the principle

I agree with that, it is not purely a popularity gauge, this being an optional product already makes it less important. If they had kickstarted their first ‘of Everything’ book instead, that would give us a better approximation

I don’t know, they can spend 1M on a new TTRPG or 100M on a new game, and I am not sure the game is guaranteed a higher chance of success than the TTRPG… If your game takes off then releasing a TTRPG for it might be a smart idea for WotC, but the hurdle still is to make a successful game first

even as a one man operation there are economics of scale. If you only manage to sell 20 books via KS, you will print those at a loss, and there is no point printing another 180 or so to bring the price down which you then have to store and sell later. I believe your best bet to get people’s...

that probably assumes that you buy all of them, I assume most people are not collectors that compulsively buy everything. For the non-collectors who only buy what piqued their interest, the average year probably gets between 0 and 2 purchases. Having a wider array of offerings might change that

how many games are being released is far less interesting than what is actually getting played however. I get a lot more print advertising than I buy books, that doesn’t mean the advertising is more popular (or even wanted) around here

it’s a bit of both. If the KS sat at 1M right now people would take this as a sign of popularity. Sitting at 150k then also is a sign of somewhat limited popularity, some of which can certainly be explained by playstyle preferences and price point. The question is whether all of it can.

I am not saying they should, I am saying having 200 people work on the same book was the wrong takeaway. All of this ignores that video game developers might not have the right skill set for creating TTRPG supplements anyway ;) Not sure I agree with breakneck pace though, four or five books a...

it’s definitely an artificially low funding goal, designed to be reached within minutes or at least hours If for whatever reason you cannot reach that, cutting your losses might be your best option. DM Lair recently pulled an ongoing KS that was on track to being funded (I believe) because it...

Sigil might have done that already…

more books, not more people working on the same book…