We have a reasonable projected budget for both ZEITGEIST and SANTIAGO - higher than for WotBS, but not "pie in the sky" high.
We're mulling over other ideas for raising funds. We can produce them as is (so there's no danger of them not appearing and not being awesome), but the more money we have, the better the APs will be - in terms of more text, more art, etc.
Given that these adventure paths are to be available to EN World silver subscribers, what are peoples' feelings on Kickstarter projects and such? For those not familiar, a Kickstarter project allows you to pledge a certain donation, and if the target is reached we use the money to do awesome stuff. We'd specify what that is, of course (it's a thought, not a plan right now); and donators would get some kind of reward. Traditionally, in RPG projects, this tends to be advance access to the product or NPCs named after/by you, plus your name in the credits - nothing erath-shattering, but nice to show your friends.
Thoughts? Is there enough interest in such a thing to make it worth even considering? If we could raise a few extra thousand dollars (we spent about $2K on each for WotBS, plus another $1K or so to update each to 4E) we could splash out and make these things even better than they will be - and they'll be awesome anyway!
We're mulling over other ideas for raising funds. We can produce them as is (so there's no danger of them not appearing and not being awesome), but the more money we have, the better the APs will be - in terms of more text, more art, etc.
Given that these adventure paths are to be available to EN World silver subscribers, what are peoples' feelings on Kickstarter projects and such? For those not familiar, a Kickstarter project allows you to pledge a certain donation, and if the target is reached we use the money to do awesome stuff. We'd specify what that is, of course (it's a thought, not a plan right now); and donators would get some kind of reward. Traditionally, in RPG projects, this tends to be advance access to the product or NPCs named after/by you, plus your name in the credits - nothing erath-shattering, but nice to show your friends.
Thoughts? Is there enough interest in such a thing to make it worth even considering? If we could raise a few extra thousand dollars (we spent about $2K on each for WotBS, plus another $1K or so to update each to 4E) we could splash out and make these things even better than they will be - and they'll be awesome anyway!
So we'd spend the money on the APs.
