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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6293469" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Unless you've got this thing written, and have some kind of proven track record, a Kickstarter is not the way to go. Write and put it up for pdf and POD if you must. The scope of your project sounds really big, and the OSR community has accumulated its fair share of Kickstarter failures, enough to make them wary. People are not going to line up to throw money at you.</p><p></p><p>I've been doing Swords & Wizardry material on my blog for a bit over two years now. I'm not hard-core old school like Gorgonmilk or Grognardia, more of a tinkerer interested in 3e options in an old-school ruleset, but people seem to like it. I did a <a href="http://secretsoftheshadowend.blogspot.com/2013/04/test-test.html" target="_blank">free product</a> last year that gets a lot of positive comments. <a href="http://secretsoftheshadowend.blogspot.com/2014/04/secrets-1-print-edition-now-available.html" target="_blank">I just put out my first "pay" product</a>, a small zine collecting material from my blog. To date I've sold two pdfs and 19 print copies, and that's about as much as I expect to do. I'll probably get a bump when I put out another issue, but 20 copies was more than I expected to be honest. It's possible I made enough to cover costs, but barely (I have a lot of cardstock, envelopes, & etc left over from projects years ago, so I haven't been figuring those into costs.) Printing 20 copies of the cover, on paper I supplied, cost $15.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://taxidermicowlbear.weebly.com/dd-retroclones.html" target="_blank">Also, there are a lot of OSR games available now. A LOT.</a> There's a good chance that there's one out there that does what you like and you can piggyback off of. If you like Castles & Crusades, I'd suggest OSRIC. OSRIC has a large, established audience and a very lenient license for indicating compatibility, so you can say "Compatible for OSRIC" in ways that you can't say "Compatible with Castles & Crusades".</p><p></p><p>Also, and kinda more important, if you're concerned you don't understand the legalities, you need a lawyer or to do a lot more reading. Read the licenses line by line and make sure you understand them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6293469, member: 70"] Unless you've got this thing written, and have some kind of proven track record, a Kickstarter is not the way to go. Write and put it up for pdf and POD if you must. The scope of your project sounds really big, and the OSR community has accumulated its fair share of Kickstarter failures, enough to make them wary. People are not going to line up to throw money at you. I've been doing Swords & Wizardry material on my blog for a bit over two years now. I'm not hard-core old school like Gorgonmilk or Grognardia, more of a tinkerer interested in 3e options in an old-school ruleset, but people seem to like it. I did a [URL="http://secretsoftheshadowend.blogspot.com/2013/04/test-test.html"]free product[/URL] last year that gets a lot of positive comments. [URL="http://secretsoftheshadowend.blogspot.com/2014/04/secrets-1-print-edition-now-available.html"]I just put out my first "pay" product[/URL], a small zine collecting material from my blog. To date I've sold two pdfs and 19 print copies, and that's about as much as I expect to do. I'll probably get a bump when I put out another issue, but 20 copies was more than I expected to be honest. It's possible I made enough to cover costs, but barely (I have a lot of cardstock, envelopes, & etc left over from projects years ago, so I haven't been figuring those into costs.) Printing 20 copies of the cover, on paper I supplied, cost $15. [URL="http://taxidermicowlbear.weebly.com/dd-retroclones.html"]Also, there are a lot of OSR games available now. A LOT.[/URL] There's a good chance that there's one out there that does what you like and you can piggyback off of. If you like Castles & Crusades, I'd suggest OSRIC. OSRIC has a large, established audience and a very lenient license for indicating compatibility, so you can say "Compatible for OSRIC" in ways that you can't say "Compatible with Castles & Crusades". Also, and kinda more important, if you're concerned you don't understand the legalities, you need a lawyer or to do a lot more reading. Read the licenses line by line and make sure you understand them. [/QUOTE]
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