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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InkwellIdeas" data-source="post: 5752590" data-attributes="member: 26988">Last Monday, I announced my new Kickstarter: Monster Stand-InsLink: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkwellideas/monster-stand-ins-plastic-card-miniatures" target="_blank">Monster Stand-Ins (Plastic Card Miniatures) Kickstarter</a>There was a lot of planning that went into it, and I commissioned and paid for the logo and over 10 sample images over the past month or two.  I also had a plastic card printer print 100 samples of a few of the sample monsters.Then today I saw the announcement of Paizo's Bestiary Box, which I think was also announced last week.Here are the differences as best as I can see:Monster Stand-Ins are over 150 creatures printed on credit card plastic for durability and dry-erasability.  (Mark hits taken, conditions, "Kobold #7" whatever, right on the card.)  1 set costs $30 and will include a pdf to print more yourself.  The hope is to do another set or two with over 150 more in each set to cover an even larger range of creatures.  I am working with a number of very good artists, so I expect the quality to be high end.  You can see the samples on the Kickstarter page linked above.  There is also an optional organizer box for $10 extra.Paizo's Bestiary Box has over 300 cardboard minis for $35.  They include a pdf to subscribers.  They will have the same great art (or maybe/likely some new art or the same quality)I'm still finalizing the stands I'll include in Monster Stand-Ins, but I expect there will be a combination of a simpler stand mechanism (described on the project's updates page) and some standard board game plastic game piece stands with 2" and 3" (or so) discs for larger creatures.So given all that, is there a place for two similar products around the same time?  Is there enough of a difference?  Will people want variety and consider getting both?  (Say each set contains 4-6 kobolds... well, often you need 10-12, so getting both lets you get 10-12 that are all different looking.)  Since it is Kickstarter, my questions will be partly answered by the Kickstarter model/process, but I'd like to get opinions.  Thanks!</blockquote>

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