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<blockquote data-quote="Loren the GM" data-source="post: 9292963" data-attributes="member: 6882721">I'm less convinced that has anything to do with 5e and more to do with the size of my pre-existing audience (and funding goal, see more below) versus the Free League audience. Every Free League Kickstarter I've seen in the past few years has hit funding within, as you say, minutes of going live, as they have a huge fan base ready for the products.For Born form Ice, it should hit funding in the next few days, based on the trends of how everything is going. We are right around 90% funded, and only need about $5,000 more to fund. I started with a higher, more realistic goal than a lot of other Kickstarter projects; if I had done a low goal number (say around $10,000, which seems to be an average of what I saw in my research) we would have hit that &quot;funding&quot; on Day 1.A lot of Kickstarters shoot for a low funding goal that is well below the cost of the project (for multiple reasons, such as getting better placement in Kickstarter's algorithms, social/psychological proof that the project is successful, etc.). The down side of doing this is if they don't make their real funding goal, they either can't fulfill the project or have to cancel the campaign before it ends. (To be clear, I am not saying Free League is doing this; I am more commenting in general on the general process of Kickstarter).We'd probably be higher funded than we are now if I had gone this route (fully funded to my true internal goal, and probably well beyond). But it seemed when setting up the campaign better to aim for a true goal instead of playing games with the system. So, lesson learned, although it does feel like something also might be a bit broken in a system that requires this type of number manipulation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Loren the GM, post: 9292963, member: 6882721"] I'm less convinced that has anything to do with 5e and more to do with the size of my pre-existing audience (and funding goal, see more below) versus the Free League audience. Every Free League Kickstarter I've seen in the past few years has hit funding within, as you say, minutes of going live, as they have a huge fan base ready for the products. For Born form Ice, it should hit funding in the next few days, based on the trends of how everything is going. We are right around 90% funded, and only need about $5,000 more to fund. I started with a higher, more realistic goal than a lot of other Kickstarter projects; if I had done a low goal number (say around $10,000, which seems to be an average of what I saw in my research) we would have hit that "funding" on Day 1. A lot of Kickstarters shoot for a low funding goal that is well below the cost of the project (for multiple reasons, such as getting better placement in Kickstarter's algorithms, social/psychological proof that the project is successful, etc.). The down side of doing this is if they don't make their [I]real[/I] funding goal, they either can't fulfill the project or have to cancel the campaign before it ends. (To be clear, I am not saying Free League is doing this; I am more commenting in general on the general process of Kickstarter). We'd probably be higher funded than we are now if I had gone this route (fully funded to my true internal goal, and probably well beyond). But it seemed when setting up the campaign better to aim for a true goal instead of playing games with the system. So, lesson learned, although it does feel like something also might be a bit broken in a system that requires this type of number manipulation. [/QUOTE]

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