Tell your overdue Kickstarter story
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Ulfgeir
Hero
Looks like it.
mach1.9pants
Hero
Surely someone has already mentioned spellbound by Crafty Games. They've not cancelled and the company still exists, but it was from c2010, I can't remember? Myth and magic (2e osr) which I got a nice players book pdf, an art free DM pdf, but nothing physical - those are still for sale on drive thru. That was also from similar time, early 2010s. I thought I got burned by The Blight, but Frog God Games rescued that one
Oh and the Decades late LotFP referee book
Oh and the Decades late LotFP referee book
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Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Marmoreal Tomb.
Launched in 2014, expected delivery 2016, actual delivery 2023.
Launched in 2014, expected delivery 2016, actual delivery 2023.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Good for him, and F cancer, that's no joke. Kudos for him to deliver something to his backers.
Which also means I hope someone I know backed AND RUNS IT FOR ME
TheSword
Legend
I pledged $180 to this one, and it’s the reason I’m highly unlikely to use Kickstarter again.
The most galling thing is that Gary McBride despite ghosting his 180 or so pledges, he has pledged himself to almost 600 kickstarters. Of which over 400 were after he went silent. That’s almost one a week! So he was logging into Kickstarter continuously, spending thousands of dollars, ignoring the hundreds of messages and appeals from pledges.
For that reason I consider him to be a fraudster and a thief. Every month or so I do a google search just to make sure he isn’t working on another TTRPG. If I was a rich man I would hire lawyers in America to sue just to smoke him out.
At the very least, he could have apologized and released the artwork and maps that were completed by the artist on the project as a map pack. The Artist was happy to, but Gary McBride owned the rights and despite being spoken to by the artist just ignored everyone else.
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Joshua Randall
Legend
The system is a fraud enabler. Which is why I only back things from large established companies that are basically preorders.
Old Fezziwig
this is a low-flying panic attack
There was another positive update this morning: Central Michigan University Press is going to print The Mountain Witch Revised Edition as part of their upcoming Art & Systems: Games for Expanded Play series. They're working with Kleinert on arranging things so backers from 2018 will get the printed copy from their series.
Fanaelialae
Legend
The first Kickstarter project I ever pledged to was the Quantum RPG by Joshua Frost. At first there were regular updates and progress seemed good. Then the updates got less frequent, and the last update was that the project was dead.
Launched: 10/31/11
Estimated Delivery: 4/12
Last Update: 5/6/14
Then there was the N.R.G. Core Rulebook by Game Smiths LLC. In their last update, they sent out their Sinbad setting to everyone, but then went silent (and deleted their creator account).
First Update: 7/21/13
Estimated Delivery: 4/14
Last Update: 2/19/15
There was also Dragonheim, by Varon Cook. They did fairly regular updates with previews and then just suddenly fell off the face of the earth.
First Update: 8/15/13
Estimated Delivery: 12/13
Last Update: 4/2/15
Shinobigami is one where I'm still waiting for my limited edition book. Which was kind of surprising, because I had backed both their Tenra Bansho Zero and Ryutama KS prior to that, and while I think those were late, they did deliver and the quality was excellent (in my opinion). I think, as has been mentioned, that there might be some undelivered stretch goals for those projects, but those don't concern me as much.
Hunter's Mark was another one. They delivered a PDF, but nothing more.
Reach of Titan, by Jim McClure, is another one that hasn't delivered, and has been radio silent for years. This one's arguably the biggest bummer, as I was excited for the concept. I'd be overjoyed if they suddenly popped out of hiding and delivered the game, but it doesn't seem terribly likely at this point.
Launch: 1/29/19
Estimated Delivery: 1/20
Last Update: 9/22/21
Children of the Beast, by Nicholas Kitts, is very late but the oldest one that I think still has a decent chance of being delivered. They've sent out draft versions of the game, and appear to still be working on it as of the last update. Fingers crossed.
Launched: 6/11/19
Estimated Delivery: 4/20
Last Update: 3/10/25
That said, I back a LOT of Kickstarters and most of them are TTRPGs. These represent only something like 2-3% of the TTRPGs and supplements I've pledged, the majority of which have delivered as promised (albeit, frequently late). It's always disappointing when something like this happens, but cest la vie...
Launched: 10/31/11
Estimated Delivery: 4/12
Last Update: 5/6/14
Then there was the N.R.G. Core Rulebook by Game Smiths LLC. In their last update, they sent out their Sinbad setting to everyone, but then went silent (and deleted their creator account).
First Update: 7/21/13
Estimated Delivery: 4/14
Last Update: 2/19/15
There was also Dragonheim, by Varon Cook. They did fairly regular updates with previews and then just suddenly fell off the face of the earth.
First Update: 8/15/13
Estimated Delivery: 12/13
Last Update: 4/2/15
Shinobigami is one where I'm still waiting for my limited edition book. Which was kind of surprising, because I had backed both their Tenra Bansho Zero and Ryutama KS prior to that, and while I think those were late, they did deliver and the quality was excellent (in my opinion). I think, as has been mentioned, that there might be some undelivered stretch goals for those projects, but those don't concern me as much.
Hunter's Mark was another one. They delivered a PDF, but nothing more.
Reach of Titan, by Jim McClure, is another one that hasn't delivered, and has been radio silent for years. This one's arguably the biggest bummer, as I was excited for the concept. I'd be overjoyed if they suddenly popped out of hiding and delivered the game, but it doesn't seem terribly likely at this point.
Launch: 1/29/19
Estimated Delivery: 1/20
Last Update: 9/22/21
Children of the Beast, by Nicholas Kitts, is very late but the oldest one that I think still has a decent chance of being delivered. They've sent out draft versions of the game, and appear to still be working on it as of the last update. Fingers crossed.
Launched: 6/11/19
Estimated Delivery: 4/20
Last Update: 3/10/25
That said, I back a LOT of Kickstarters and most of them are TTRPGs. These represent only something like 2-3% of the TTRPGs and supplements I've pledged, the majority of which have delivered as promised (albeit, frequently late). It's always disappointing when something like this happens, but cest la vie...
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