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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 6086258" data-attributes="member: 20307">From my perspective as a cuistomer in Europe, I'm a bit leery. I backed on kickstarter project (<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1778492214/appendix-n-adventure-toolkits-dcc-rpg-modules" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1778492214/appendix-n-adventure-toolkits-dcc-rpg-modules</a>) which is horribly delayed. I still want the stuff and am quite relaxed about the delay, but this alone diminishes my enthusiasm for this way of business.Over on rpg.net several RPG projects are discussed which apparently busted completely. Either the backers got some sort of refund, there came apologies and more apologies from the producers, or it busted completely: no product and no money back.Another trend seems to be that the books - not PDFs, mind you - are rather high-priced. Take 50-60$ to claim the book as reward, add another 30-40$ for international shipping, and we're talking about a luxury item. Other people might differ, but I want risk such a sum on a project which might go bust.I think we are experience a wave of RPG crow-funding projects right now which will be over a year from now. There'll be some (semi-)professional companies using this way to fund risky projects, which might not sell in needed numbers. They could use crowd-funding as a pre-order channel where they sell directly to customers.On the other hand I see small scale publishers using crowd-funding to finance art or maps for their PDF projects. The price to gain a reward would be quite low as well as the goals to be reached. If I back such a project with 5-10$, my risk is acceptable. If the oal is reached, I'll get (hoepfully!) a decent PDF, and if it's really successful, the PDF might turn out to be beautiful.I might be completely wrong, of course, but this scenario seems most likely to me.</blockquote>

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