Top Ten most infamous RPG Kickstarter Failures, by Shannon Appelcline.

[darjr]

Shannon Appelcline write a Advanced Designers & Dragons article about his list of most infamous failed RPG Kickstarters. Of coarse Ken Whitman made the list.

This listing orders Kickstarters by dollar amount, but they aren't necessarily the top ten valued failures, just the top ten most notable.

Advanced Designers & Dragons #69: The Top 10 Infamous RPG Kickstarter Fails - RPGnet

 

[darjr]

I actually felt a bit torn about posting this. I think it’s important to warn people of some of the folks in this list, at the same time I think some folks have taken over a couple entries and are trying to right the ships. Also while Shannon seemed impressed with my contributed entry he didn’t use it.

 

[TerraDave]

I had backed one of these and then forgotten about it.

The documentary...oh well. I guess I will get over it, again.

 

[TwiceBorn2]

I funded the documentary-that-will-never-be (?), the Paizo Online Kickstarter (but I only backed for the table-top adventure books and flip-mats, which I did receive, so no loss there), and this dud from Fire Mountain Games: Throne of Night, a Pathfinder RPG Adventure Path.

The latter used his KS money to fund a trip to Africa and to back other Kickstarters.

The D&D documentary and Fire Mountain Games fiascos, along with dramatic increases in shipping costs and shipping delays, are reasons why I now wait for products to make it to retail before purchasing.

 

[TwiceBorn2]

I actually felt a bit torn about posting this. I think it’s important to warn people of some of the folks in this list, at the same time I think some folks have taken over a couple entries and are trying to right the ships. Also while Shannon seemed impressed with my contributed entry he didn’t use it.

Which one did you suggest?

 

[darjr]

One thing, the movie Dungeons & Dragons documentary Kickstarter had a competitor that got involved with a podcast about the beginnings of TSR using audio interviews from people involved, it’s awesome.

When We Were Wizards on Apple Podcasts

Society & Culture · 2022

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[darjr]

Which one did you suggest?

This one.

Dark Sun spiritual successor Red Dawn presents a new wasteland setting for D&D 5E with old problems

Upcoming D&D 5E supplement fails to address bioessentialist and racist implications of popular '90s release.

www.dicebreaker.com

 

[Ryujin]

I actually felt a bit torn about posting this. I think it’s important to warn people of some of the folks in this list, at the same time I think some folks have taken over a couple entries and are trying to right the ships. Also while Shannon seemed impressed with my contributed entry he didn’t use it.

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment was one of the groups that tried to save a couple of the Ken Whitman Kickstarters, though they had absolutely no involvement at the time they were created. Despite the lack of involvement their name had been used to draw in backers, so the president of ZOE at the time felt that their good name was being dragged through the mud, too. I've heard Ben (who was the then-president of ZOE) speak on the matter several times.

As to the two different pencil dice and the card dice Kickstarters those are things that almost literally any of us could have brought to fruition, and yet they "failed"?

 

[Professor Murder]

I don't know any inside info, but it feels at least that Chaosium came out better on the other side of their own Kickstarter issues. It wasn't their first big crisis, as the card game boom/bust with Mythos also almost sunk them as I understand it.

 

[Yora]

I now wait for products to make it to retail before purchasing.

Which is how Kickstarter was originally intended.