Game designer Jim Pinto has a novel take on crowdfunding - he's currently running a Kickstarter campaign with a pledge level of $1 and whose rewards are a mystery. Well, kind of. Backers will suggest and vote on a title, and he will write an RPG based on that title. Every backer gets a PDF of the result for $1. Some higher pledge levels let you vote more times, but the reward remains the same. Stretch goals include extra pages, along with wacky things like control of Pinto's Twitter account for an hour and Pinto getting himself a tattoo of the game's name.
It's doing quite well, too. With a $1 funding goal, it could hardly fail to succeed, but it's blasting through some stretch goals and is approaching $4,000 with a week left to go.
It already has an additional 48 pages, and at $4,000 it will get an extra 50 pages.
Here are some of the already suggested titles:
Why would you back such a thing? As the creation himself says, it's only a dollar and he hasn't cheated anyone yet. On that basis alone, it might be worth a plug. Find it right here!
It's doing quite well, too. With a $1 funding goal, it could hardly fail to succeed, but it's blasting through some stretch goals and is approaching $4,000 with a week left to go.
It already has an additional 48 pages, and at $4,000 it will get an extra 50 pages.
Here are some of the already suggested titles:
- Werewolves of London
- Big Booty Bards
- Oil
- Occam's Dollar Razor Club
- The Road Less Travelled
- In A Dark Room
- The Alchemist's Dilemma
- The Rancorous Regiment of Revenant Rouges and the Randomly Relocating Ring
- I Don't Know How to Play This
- More Than A Mannequin
- Death in Wonderland
- Unintentional Clairvoyance
- Pass the Cannibal
- Ninja Roulette
- ... and many more!
Why would you back such a thing? As the creation himself says, it's only a dollar and he hasn't cheated anyone yet. On that basis alone, it might be worth a plug. Find it right here!
