I don’t think this comparison quite works. The boxed set already exists. It went out of print, but you can still buy PDFs of the books. This is a Kickstarter to meet demand for a reprint, which is also using that demand to bootstrap new products. That seems like a pretty smart business plan to me.
I've never run OSE, but I have played in it. I had a terrible time (likely the fault of the adventure, the DM, and the players' playstyles not merging with it.)
Really trying to do better this year. Over the pandemic I bought so much gaming stuff, and in practicality I'll likely never use it. I'm getting overcrowded and feeling unappreciative of what I have. And it doesn't help that my in-person gaming is basically nil and has been for two years.
Of the OSE adventures I’ve run (Winter’s Daughter and Halls of the Blood King), I have run precisely zero of them using the OSE rules proper. I ran Winter’s Daughter as a conversion to PF2, and I ran Halls of the Blood King using my homebrew WWN/OSE hybrid. I’d recommend both to anyone who doesn’t run OSE and is fine with doing a bit of conversion work to their system of choice.
That would take some MAJOR cajones. I fully expect someone to attempt this within the next twelve months.
I was joking earlier, but I'm right there with you. I need to reel in my spending in 2022. The last two years have been brutal to my savings account. This OSE KS could not have come at a worse time for me.
