Piratecat's "TimeWatch" kickstarter is 1090% funded and mentioned on Boing Boing. Woot!

[Matchstick]

Just backed. This wasn't something I was terribly familiar with, but looking at it the game seems to be well designed with almost limitless possibilities. The idea of a low player count "Quantum Leap" type game is wonderful, the paradox rules make good sense, and it's Pelgrane and GUMSHOE (nuff said). I don't back many things but I don't want to pass this up.

Plus I've gamed with Piratecat at GenCon and he's seemed a good guy.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

At a billion dollars he will make a real time machine and get us all dino pets...

quickly someone get some scientists and Discovery channel on the line...

 

[Piratecat]

Thanks! Dino pets can't go badly, right...?

I'm about to enter the stage were either things slow down, or people keep spreading the word and we get more and more pledgers. It's exciting!

 

[Matchstick]

Thanks! Dino pets can't go badly, right...?

I'm about to enter the stage were either things slow down, or people keep spreading the word and we get more and more pledgers. It's exciting!

Like I always say, "a kickstarter that good, you don't pledge all at once"!

 

[TarionzCousin]

Thanks! Dino pets can't go badly, right...?

Absolutely not. "There is no possible way that re-introducing giant lizards back into the world could have any negative consequences whatsoever." --Ben Franklin, Philadelphia, 1778

Many congratulations.

 

[Piratecat]

25 hours to go: TimeWatch officially launches Tuesday at noon

Hit a new stretch goal today, and we're at around 600 people and $26K. 36 hours in, that astounds me. I have no idea what our total is going to be.

I'll tell you this, though. Remarkably, I'm not having "aughh, the game isn't good enough" feelings. I'm really proud of this one, and I like it every time I sit down to add more. That's a good feeling.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Hit a new stretch goal today, and we're at around 600 people and $26K. 36 hours in, that astounds me. I have no idea what our total is going to be.

I'll tell you this, though. Remarkably, I'm not having "aughh, the game isn't good enough" feelings. I'm really proud of this one, and I like it every time I sit down to add more. That's a good feeling.

Here's a thought for you: Trail of Cthulhu (and, for that matter, Call of Cthulhu and its myriad children and cousins) provides a heaping helping of historical adventures in the horror vein. Lots of rich material to mine. Maybe some general tips on how to adapt such scenarios for time travelers? I admit it can be a challenge when your player characters are empowered to approach these adventures from the outside of the timeline...

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Holy cow, you guys. In the last hour we funded AND passed two stretch goals! How is that even possible?

I am completely agog, and absurdly grateful.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinkulp/timewatch-gumshoe-investigative-time-travel-rpg

Never underestimate the goodwill attached to your name because of, inter alia, those wonderful story hours you provided us all for free. Now it's tangible payback time, but in a good way....

 

[Morrus]

25 hours to go: TimeWatch officially launches Tuesday at noon

Yeah, I think this is a case of having earned it over a decade or more. I'm so happy for Kev.

 

[Henry]

Kevin has given so much time and effort to the community here over the years, and has such a good name with the gaming products he's released, that if tomorrow we saw the headline:

Kevin Kulp punches Easter Bunny

we'd probably all say, "Hope Kev didn't get hurt! What was the Easter Bunny up to?"