Does anyone have Kickstarter regrets?

[Muad'dib Pendragon]

Two regrets:

1. Backing at collector levels. Not sure it's worth it, especially when "collector" items arrived damaged.
2. FOMO: Backing more than a few items that, while presented as interesting and compelling, wound up being neither.

Note: 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive...

 

[cbwjm]

I have only backed maybe a dozen kickstarters and I guess the one I regret the most is kingdoms and warfare. I don't think it's a bad book but when flipping through I quickly got the feeling that the systems presented weren't ones I would end up wanting to use.

 

[Morrus]

Really sad one of the big fails was a African nations created ttrpg kinda like Coyote and Crow, that I was really looking forward to. They bailed on it

Into the Mother Lands? Yeah, I'm not clear on what's up with that one.

 

[MNblockhead]

I have only backed maybe a dozen kickstarters and I guess the one I regret the most is kingdoms and warfare. I don't think it's a bad book but when flipping through I quickly got the feeling that the systems presented weren't ones I would end up wanting to use.

Yeah, I got a LOT of use out of Strongholds & Followers and have generally liked every MCDM product I backed, but I never had any interest in using Kingdoms & Warfare once I got it. At least I only backed for digital.

 

[cbwjm]

Yeah, I got a LOT of use out of Strongholds & Followers and have generally liked every MCDM product I backed, but I never had any interest in using Kingdoms & Warfare once I got it. At least I only backed for digital.

Strongholds and followers was great, I think I was running off that thinking K&W would be a great expansion on it. I have some other products from them and generally quite like their stuff, I think the only thing that stopped us using their classes was that everyone was comfortable using dndbeyond, not sure if their classes are up on there now.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Two regrets:

1. Backing at collector levels. Not sure it's worth it, especially when "collector" items arrived damaged.
2. FOMO: Backing more than a few items that, while presented as interesting and compelling, wound up being neither.

Note: 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive...

The second one has bit me to some degree more than once. Fortunately for the first, by the time Kickstarter came along, I had largely stopped buying non-digital product. There was a time I might have been more subject to it.

 

[dbolack]

Into the Mother Lands? Yeah, I'm not clear on what's up with that one.

It's running rough right now.

 

[aramis erak]

I’m thinking regrets after the campaign was fulfilled rather than overdue Kickstarters. There’s a separate thread on that here.

Maybe you’ve been caught up in the hype and you’ve put down your hard-earned money but then, once the product is delivered, you wish you hadn’t of done it.

This might be because you realise afterwards you’ll never run the game - you just got too excited at the time and didn’t think it through.

Coriolis: The Great Dark. I expected more mechanical continuity to Coriolis: The Third Horizon. I Might, eventually, get it to table... it's a good read, at least. But probably not worth the price unless I do.

Blade Runner. The regret hit when I found out my players didn't have a grasp of the setting. Even after watching the movies.

 

[Retros_x]

I have to admit, I regret a little bit backing Dolmenwood - I backed one of the big collectors packs because I thought it looked amazing and I loved OSE at that point. Unfortunately in the meantime I learned to love Shadowdark... And I will still probably rip content from Dolmenwood, because it is quite good, but I don't think I will ever use all that shiny stuff. Oh and the maps are all printed too dark.

In general though I had a lot of luck (and trusted campaigners) I think I backed around 10 projects and they all delivered on quality.