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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 9636080" data-attributes="member: 326">I was looking forward to an extremely high quality, smith-sewn binding, glossy paged, book ribbon, lay flat version of the GOD RULES: Player's Guide...and that may be available in a subsequent Kickstarter (I have lots of books coming down the pipeline). But for now I'll settle for a Drivethru RPG Print-on-Demand version.I just took the safe route for my first Kickstarter and we will see how that goes. I'd love to just get 1000 (top quality) copies printed and have them in a Fulfillment warehouse and people can order them from my website. But unless I know I'm going to sell at least 500 books fairly quickly (to recoup the Printing Cost) its too big a gamble, plus with the tariff situation even shipping back to the fulfillment centre in the US might be ridiculous since a lot of these Print companies print in China.I appreciate the excitement. The physical miniature was always going to be a shipping (cost) nightmare as it looked like I had to post them all from Belfast.Maybe I can partner with some miniature place in the US and that will make that side of the Kickstarter more viable. Anyone know any such companies? I could get some Printed myself and ship to the UK/EU, but I know 85% of my market is the USA & Canada, so not sure how many actual minis I would sell to the UK/EU.Incidentally, I looked at Drivethru's Shipping Rates for the books and they are very reasonable in most countries. USA = $6 for Shipping (I think there is a more expensive option which I guess is 'tracked & signed' which is about $10 more). UK was $7 (about £5) and most of the EU was around $13-20...as was Canada. Mexico was $20. Australia $25 and Brazil a whopping $45.Still not sure what to do for Stretch Goals (or even if I will have any).,,Any suggestions?I have basically shown nothing so far (partly because things are still being worked on), but trust me when I say the art is EPIC and the rules are GODLY! Legends & Lore (AD&D version) inspired me back in 1988 when I got it for my birthday, I hope my GOD RULES will go on to inspire players imaginations for years to come.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":giggle:" title="Giggle    :giggle:"  data-smilie="27"data-shortname=":giggle:" /> I appreciate the love, basically five years and a ton of savings sunk into this and its only now about to get released....although I won't hold you to buying everything amigo, I have a bunch of related T-shirt designs coming soon (somewhere, still weighing my options and tweaking the details). The margins on these things seems minuscule (unless I go the Printify route which is a bit more work involved).I did notice Drivethru RPG does card sets including mini-posters. So my Immortal Character Sheet idea might be back on the table for this Kickstarter. What I wanted was a new Character Sheet design (its really cool - I won't spoil it), but as well as selling the blank sheets, I was also going to have 6 filled in (Divine Rank 1) Hero-deity Character Sheets with 6 different immortal characters, one was Cu Chulainn, I won't spoil the other 5. This was so Games Masters could do immediate one-shots or play right out of the <s>box</s> book...even though character creation is super easy*, take a Level 20 character add 2 small/simple templates...that's it.*barely an inconvenience you might say.</blockquote>

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