Kickstarter - more ideas
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:58 pm
First of all I am very happy to see the project funded in less than a day. I was too late for early bird hardcovers, but I'm so happy to see a new edition for Earthdawn that I will buy the hardcovers nevertheless.
But let's come to the reason for this post:
Your kickstarter projekt is a bit ... uncreative. Mainly books plus pdfs. Ok, there are posters and a t-shirt. But we don't know how they will look, so that's a risk.
When you wrote in the forum that you will do a kickstarter to fund production and the art I was curious as to what the rewards would be. Pictures? Maps? Other art? Fancy or funny stuff which doesn't cost you a lot of money but will earn you money to spent for the development of Earthdawn?
I don't mean this in an unpolite or rude way but to only come up with an online game session (with way to much books included) is a bit dissapointing.
The project is funded and I'm very happy about this, but still I want to share some ideas/wishes for better rewards. Maybe you want to add some to earn more money for an even better 4th edition or to fund later products.
You included the online game session with autographed books. There's your first idea. Add autographed books (for maybe 10 $ more). Or even write a whole thank you sentence.
Lot's of kickstarters added credits to their products. Depending on how much someone pledges he or she will be included in the credits.
Give me not just posters of which I don't know how they look but the Earthdawn map. I really want a new one.
Luckyly you didn't have to beg for the project to be funded but you could have included something like dices or stuff. Just to earn some money to use it for the books.
Use the new art. If you will use all new pictures and drawings for the new books then you can kind of sell them:
You could sell the discipline pictures. Pledge level: some hundret dollars: Your favorite character as a disciplin picture. You can write us a description of you character and our artist will draw him accordingly.
(If you do it like first edition with two disciplin pictures, one could be a favorite char of a backer and the other a first circle example char.)
Include coloured pictures. The same as above. But we all will get some coloured pages just for the flavor of the game and some persons will get their own hero in the official book (without stats, just a picture underwritten with "Krull! the warrior king, sponsored by Otto Smith"). I have no idea how much you would have to pay your artists for drawing after the description of someone else but some of us Earthdawn lovers since the 90s have some real jobs now and are able to pay some money for real cool stuff.
Has someone else an oppinion on this? Or is everybody happy with new books? No one in for a new map?
But let's come to the reason for this post:
Your kickstarter projekt is a bit ... uncreative. Mainly books plus pdfs. Ok, there are posters and a t-shirt. But we don't know how they will look, so that's a risk.
When you wrote in the forum that you will do a kickstarter to fund production and the art I was curious as to what the rewards would be. Pictures? Maps? Other art? Fancy or funny stuff which doesn't cost you a lot of money but will earn you money to spent for the development of Earthdawn?
I don't mean this in an unpolite or rude way but to only come up with an online game session (with way to much books included) is a bit dissapointing.
The project is funded and I'm very happy about this, but still I want to share some ideas/wishes for better rewards. Maybe you want to add some to earn more money for an even better 4th edition or to fund later products.
You included the online game session with autographed books. There's your first idea. Add autographed books (for maybe 10 $ more). Or even write a whole thank you sentence.
Lot's of kickstarters added credits to their products. Depending on how much someone pledges he or she will be included in the credits.
Give me not just posters of which I don't know how they look but the Earthdawn map. I really want a new one.
Luckyly you didn't have to beg for the project to be funded but you could have included something like dices or stuff. Just to earn some money to use it for the books.
Use the new art. If you will use all new pictures and drawings for the new books then you can kind of sell them:
You could sell the discipline pictures. Pledge level: some hundret dollars: Your favorite character as a disciplin picture. You can write us a description of you character and our artist will draw him accordingly.
(If you do it like first edition with two disciplin pictures, one could be a favorite char of a backer and the other a first circle example char.)
Include coloured pictures. The same as above. But we all will get some coloured pages just for the flavor of the game and some persons will get their own hero in the official book (without stats, just a picture underwritten with "Krull! the warrior king, sponsored by Otto Smith"). I have no idea how much you would have to pay your artists for drawing after the description of someone else but some of us Earthdawn lovers since the 90s have some real jobs now and are able to pay some money for real cool stuff.
Has someone else an oppinion on this? Or is everybody happy with new books? No one in for a new map?