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I'm more of a PS3 fan, but I do like the xbox controllers... Not sure how I feel about this news. It's nice that they can compete on price but I can't help but feel sad about the Kinect. I was hoping to see some games that are high quality for it, and that's much more likely with a better install base of it. I've not jumped on board yet, but I saw it as PS4 being better slightly for me, but xbone being better if the gf or other girls want to play
Jason, I never got a call. That being said, Matt threatened to slap me if I took on any non FGG writing right now. I would be happy to brainstorm ideas with a pathfinder saavy person for a few hors, maybe in. a Seattle bar if desired.That would be BEYOND epic.... Agreed on this. Although to be frank I never saw FGG as much wanting to support mythic rules....they do like deadly critters however! ;p
I was interested in backing at this level too until I saw that it didn't actually get you physical copies of the books. I'm not paying $50 a piece for PDFs. The $75 dollar level gets you pdfs of all three books. I agree though the books aren't cheap! I was on the fence a long time but these books get beefier with every stretch goal unlock.
As someone who is on a great team that has done several Kickstarters, and I believe all of them were late... To be honest though, from what I've seen the one that had some pretty significant delays were from emergencies. And, the author(s) at that time were VERY open with it. More open than anyone expected and the community completely understood and was supportive (I think!). In any event FGG will have a lot of good feelings coming their way for helping to pull Razor Coast outta Limbo. I think that's going to carry a lot of karma =)
On the point that DaveMage is making, I would agree in general on the multiple KS at the same time thing. However, I think there can be some exceptions. Primarily this goes back to a rule of backing successful companies. FGG is in that boat right now, but was very forthright in where they are on the progress of their previous KS for SoA. No problems backing for Barakus in that case, as they've a strong history. Henry Lopez also wanted to delay his KS for a new Arcanis book until delivery of his latest KS, but so many fans wanted him to get it started so he did. Still, the fact he wanted to hold back I thought was classy by itself. Agreed also on the newness of KS, and I think some of the best practices and unofficial norms haven't come together in their entirety yet. I'm hoping it does because KS has the potential to be an amazing way for creatives to publish fantastic RPG material. It also has the potential to drive so many away and evolve into an elaborate pre-order system for only proven companies. (My money is on the latter becoming the norm).
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on what an estimate is Subby. IF, say for example someone states they will deliver all 6 chapters of an AP in a year, and it turns out manages to get (1) out in that time, that's stretching the whole "estimate" to a whole new level. I can only imagine if the rest of the world worked like this. Pizza delivered in 30 minutes? It's ok to get it after 3 hours instead. That estimate you were given for $1000? Here's your bill for $6000. Now, mind you as someone up-thread stated, if they apologized for this and had some reason for it happening many wouldn't mind so much, and I happen to agree. Also, for what it's worth I didn't happen to KS this, as I've said up-thread I only KS from companies with proven track records. And thankfully so! =)
When did expecting people to fulfill their promises become something to be looked down upon?Every author/artist is more important to me than a fictional book. You can't forget behind the "business" is a human writing because they enjoy the material, and enjoy making people happy. Yep, wow. I work hard at my job as a teacher, and I have a lot of student loans to pay back. Additionally, I'm paying for some further education. I don't know anyone's personal situation here, but I'll say that my gaming budget isn't so great that I can just shrug when someone makes off with $100 and "goes dark" on a project. If others can throw money and shrug their shoulders about it God bless them for it. I do fail to see how wanting to get something that was paid for is entitlement. It's not as if people want something for free. They've paid over a year in advance for a product, which takes much of the finance burden off of the shoulders of the creator. I'd also add that said the subject of this thread is a busy beaver when it comes to funding KS projects, close to 100 at this point so he's not exactly a starving artist... If the author/artist can't live up to a contract, then it's time they went through a proper and reputable company to manage it for them until such time that they can live up to them. It doesn't mean they're bad, but it does mean they don't have the business chops to pull these things off (at least as of yet).
From my point of view, ShadowcatX is pretty much on the money. I'm sorry, I know this is a creative field, and I understand it's based on passion for gaming and it's a small community. Nevertheless, if you want to start a KS you should understand that if you're taking in 30 or 40 thousand dollars this isn't something to be done lightly. This is reminding me a lot of 3.0 OGL avalanche of material. Every person who loves rolling d20s is coming out of the woodwork to make their own games. Truth is, most of the time it isn't necessarily their work that is bad but their project management. I'd go so far as to say that a lot of gamers could put together some great materiel, but few and far between have the business savvy to make it work. Heck someone brought up Paizo, I do believe Lisa has an MBA degree. Coincidence? Having a couple of ideas and a picture drawn aren't enough. A lot of these projects haven't been done by people with proper experience in the field, by that I mean experience where they've had to work under an editor or whatever that has a real deadline to live up to. I myself pretty much take the position that I'll only back KS for those companies or individuals that have proven themselves. To me, that's folks like FGG, Monte Cook, Kobold, Henry Lopez (Arcanis fella), Reaper, and I think I'm adding Dreamscarred and Legendary as well as they seem very reputable at this point IMO. Even the Judges Guild KS is a bit questionable to me, as while they as a company may have done some work I haven't heard much from the in years. Yes, I understand that KS is a way to help creatives fund the projects they want. But without business acumen they have to rely upon trusted partners to make this happen. Part of that acumen is setting realistic project dates, having benchmarks for completion of sections, planning for a few holidays and sickdays, etc. Yes, by all means if an emergency happens that's fair enough, but I also agree with Shadowcat that I doubt MOST of the KS which have vanished or are late are due to that. There's something to be said about paying someone for the job once it's completed and not a minute before, and I think KS only helps to prove that.
Yeah, I almost went in for the KS too, especially since I'm from Portland and it's just a stones throw away. Dude seems passionate enough and heard great things about the previous AP...just think he's not so great at keeping to schedules and then feels a bit ashamed to keep contact.
It's a sandbox game where players are supposed to be a lot of the content. If you want to just sit around building crap all day I suggest Simcity, or if that game having natural disasters is too PvP then perhaps Microsoft Rail Simulator?
Let's just put this out there then. Are you suggesting that playing an evil character in a video game is somehow indicative of a person in real life? How about the GM playing the evil characters in the table top game? Please never join a game I'm in.
Not going to be long winded about this, just going to say that these boards are very gay/queer/whatever-other-term-is-used. I really doubt the moderators are letting it stand because they're not sensitive. Quite the contrary I find sometimes they can be too sensitive in that way. Nevertheless, honestly to accuse them of insensitivity on that particular point to me is just laughable.
Everquest on Vallon Zek. We had community rules (well, I joined about a year in I hear it was pretty bad at first). Community decided on rules such as loot n scoot (if you die you leave the area for an hour), not fighting when others were on mobs, and larger rules for guild vs guild (controlled corpse runs, fighting over static spawns). It worked pretty well for a few years I'd say, sure it had some problems but by and large if you were known as a trashy player the bigger guilds wouldn't let you in and generally you wouldn't get the benefit of those rules. I'd say it worked pretty well through the first six expansions at least...not a bad run. Also, as the game relied a lot upon grouping the community was rather strong, and with a nice variety of characters.
The way to view it is the other way around. The River Kingdoms area is already somewhat styled to the nature of the game that they wished to build. Hmm, that's a bit concerning then. It's not a Pathfinder game, but it's a game that they built and decided to skin somewhat in Pathfinder flavor. Meh, I'll see what it's like. Honestly so far the game doesn't sound much like what I'd expect from Pathfinder. Then again I was in that crowd that wanted something in the vein of NWN set in Golarion, which isn't necessarily allowable from my understanding.
Honestly I'm a bit curious here myself. The game so far looks interesting but not necessarily PF in flavor. I suppose one part of this is that it's focused on the River Kingdoms area, which isn't necessarily the first that comes to my mind. Just my interpretation though, we'll see how it turns out! =)
So maybe I don't keep up on the material enough, but I'm honestly confused. This is a sandbox that previously trumpeted itself as all player driven content, right? And we're also saying that Chaotic Evil will be a funnel of suck. Does this partially apply to Lawful Evil? I'm very worried that IF all content is player driven and we make people not want to be the bad guys what does this leave us with? Craft Simulator 2000? What happens when the game is run by a few small LG settlements? Sit around the campfire making S'mores, singing Kumbaya, and having the inevitable circle?
Ah ok I'll run down there Wednesday and send it back (doing teaching license stuff tomorrow :/) Shipping all the stuff with my next sub is fine, though I wonder what will happen with shipping rates in that case! I generally add a lot of items to my monthly shipment to get the first $10 off shipping for the order (always made it free ;p) Will I still have that option in February? In light of there being two months worth of materials I wonder if it'll push the shipping cost very high for me. Or, will shipping be calculated only on the new stuff and not the existing side cart? Thank you so much in any case, I'll get to the post office Wednesday straight away ~ Aaron
Hiya guys, I think there's been a very big mistake mine. Yesterday morning I opened a box which was my name and shipping information, but when I opened it the packing slip was for order a Mr.Bush, order #2754657. What should we do in this case? I'm assuming that this other guy got his name on a box filled with my order (Order 2970559). I'm only in town for one more week so I hope we can get this figured out rather quickly, as I'll be back in Thailand until July at that point :/ Aaron
Just a quick question regarding suspension or how long items are held in side carts. At some point very soon I will be slowing my purchases and keeping it primarily to AP volumes. Living overseas, I tend to just use the pdf and have the packages sent to my mom's house, where I pick them up during a visit home. I'd be interested in possibly getting the AP charged monthly, but all held in side-cart or something until all six volumes release. With that, I can just have them all shipped together and save on the shipping costs. Is that something that is able to be done? If so once I return from America in February I would be interested in setting that up and can start a new thread for that. I guess the other option is for me to suspend and renew my subs every six months, but I reckon that $16 for AP volume monthly is better for cash flow for Paizo =) At this point just asking the question and not asking for action to be taken. Thank you so much! Aaron
Well it did feel a bit like the license was there to draw in fans of Pathfinder. I think even the authors of the KS said as much, that it wasn't in keeping with the flavor of Pathfinder. Bottom line, the more I looked into it the more I thought I only was backing it because of the Pathfinder license. Not saying it's not anyone else's cup of tea, but I suspect a significant number of backers felt the same way. I guess the mechanics just didn't grab me, maybe I'm not one for dice games such as that ~ I would love to see it come back, as the project was fully funded. Just not something I see as being PF much (having said that, really doesn't matter to me truth be told!)
Good afternoon (well here it is!) I just wanted to see if someone could peek in on Order 2928584. I saw that in my email it said there would be a shipping charge. Between my side-cart items and my AP sub I'm just over $100 in items before shipping. In the email it says there will be a shipping charge of $9.71. I just wanted to bring it up, I'm assuming that once it ships I'll end up getting the save $10 off of shipping discount for over $100 worth of items being shipped. Thank you so much! =)
Allegedly they had a sale that was bigger than they thought. How you don't account for that is beyond me.We've done sales before, but this one just plain caught us out. The number of orders we anticipated for the month-long sale was exceeded on the first weekend, and the size of the individual orders was also unanticipated—we had some single orders containing nearly a thousand individual items. I hear after clearing all that from the warehouse there was an entire culture of people found, natives who have had little interaction with the outside world..
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