Oops, Chuck! Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! $195 pledge is like 2 X $100 pledge, so the hardcopies are unsigned and unnumbered. This can verified with the FAQ on KS RA site.
Really, the cheapest option to get both signed & numbered books for Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry is to make two $175 pledges. There was no option for like a $345 pledge.
I was at $500 level for the longest time for that very reason before I moved on.
Oops, Chuck! Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! $195 pledge is like 2 X $100 pledge, so the hardcopies are unsigned and unnumbered. This can verified with the FAQ on KS RA site.
Really, the cheapest option to get both signed & numbered books for Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry is to make two $175 pledges. There was no option for like a $345 pledge.
I was at $500 level for the longest time for that very reason before I moved on.
Ok, thanks. I see it FAQed under the info about the $250 pledge. Thanks!
HEY!
You guys broke $180k, you get Gods and demons now! Congrats!
Oops, Chuck! Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! $195 pledge is like 2 X $100 pledge, so the hardcopies are unsigned and unnumbered. This can verified with the FAQ on KS RA site.
Really, the cheapest option to get both signed & numbered books for Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry is to make two $175 pledges. There was no option for like a $345 pledge.
I was at $500 level for the longest time for that very reason before I moved on.
That's why I said "I think" because I knew that I would get something wrong. ;) Thanks, Zarathos.
Does anyone know if the (potential) subscription going to be written for PF, S&W or both?
Does anyone know if the (potential) subscription going to be written for PF, S&W or both?Given the trends of the past projects, I'd bet both.
Ill cry about it, and b&%*h and moan, but it will be for both systems.
We try and dual-support both as often as possible. Tsar was a special case of timing, mostly.
SG
PS The Gods and Demons Appendix is most certainly not a direct reprint, although I may just leave the spell cutt-off for nostalgia's sake.
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In an effort to get my players to pledge something I've told them that I will award their current characters in the campaign we are playing 10 xp per dollar pledged.
Not sure if it will work, but I am not at all above simple bribery!
Does anyone know if the (potential) subscription going to be written for PF, S&W or both?Given the trends of the past projects, I'd bet both.Ill cry about it, and b&%*h and moan, but it will be for both systems.
We try and dual-support both as often as possible. Tsar was a special case of timing, mostly.
SG
Thanks. I'm something of a FGG newcomer (though I'm catching up). I'm glad to hear Slumbering Tsar was an exception rather than the rule (I'm afraid my sympathy for your increased workload pales beside my enthusiasm for more S&W material).
Cheers. :)
Well, since the $180,000 goal was met I went and upped my pledge to $500.00. I want that GM Journal, gosh darnit!
We left the "salad" typo in Tome of Horrors Complete for nostalgia. :-)
We need more backers! Traveller is catching up. Get your players to buy players packs!
Subscription service now available! Check it out!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/rappan-athuk/posts
SG
Clearly Tsathogga is the demon lord of money extraction. He's very good at it.
Huzzah for subscription. $250 -> $300
Is it possible to get two different pledges on the same account, I was going to get an extra T-shirt by picking up the $20 players pledge in addition to my current pledge. Do I just add $20 onto the pledge amount and tell you about it later??
Why not have a friend sign up, then you pay the friend; we get another pledger, and you get the shirt! Win-Win!
SG
I am attempting to answer multiple posts in this post which may be too complex for Blonde Frog over here, but I'll take a stab...
@Shadowcat7 You rock! That is exactly what we need more GMs doing!
@Darwyn the GM Journal is going to rock, I'm snagging several myself cause they are just freakin' cool.
@Joe Wells It's all apart of being evil, bwahahahahaha
@Matthew Morris Yes, on the survey you can specify any person's name you want, final approval by us of course for anyone out there thinking of truly horrible names to add.
@sanwah68 You will be able to add on schwaggy type stuff on the survey. Some items won't be available like the collector stuff so if you want to lock in those items pledge for them now. Of course Skeeter has the right idea that you definitely should get more friends to back and look at the project.
Goal is currently at $187,369, 731 backers, and 8 days left! Impressive, quite impressive indeed! We're literally right around the corner from meeting the $200,000 goal.
Well, since the $180,000 goal was met I went and upped my pledge to $500.00. I want that GM Journal, gosh darnit!Just to make sure you know what the GM Journal is:
"It is basically a plain journal branded by us that the GMs can take notes in."
Eh, the point's moot now anyway. I just upped my pledge again for the subscription.
Heh,
On our FGG Obituaries page, you can see quite a cross-section of dead PCs from FGG/Necro products. I myself am on there, apparently I died going down the Well...
SG
I don't mind Traveller taking the lead. It was an amazing game back when there were no real science fiction RPGs at all. Heck, DnD had just started getting going when Traveller appeared. I say Kudos to them!
(Still hoping we take the crown from them the day after they close though!)
And I think that Traveller is a game and RA is a huge adventure. It makes sense that a game would attract more people in general. And hoping RA takes the prize... I would never invest in Traveller what I have in RA.
Some facts about the RA Kickstarter:
We set our to raise $25k to cover printing.
We DOUBLED the previous RPG book Kickstarter, from a company way bigger than twice our size in distribution.
The company that may end up with the highest grossing total has almost TWICE the pledger's we have, and they only nudged us out.
We have a higher per-pledge dollar amount.
We're releasing a book; they are releasing an entire version of their rules.
Combined, RA and Traveller have raised (currently) almost $400k in pre-sales, in a bad economy. Thats a DAMN good thing for the industry, no matter who it is.
Im proud as Hell of both our companies. More power to more companies trying to get product out.
(But Im still pissed they will probably beat us!)
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Wow, where did all this "they'll probably beat us" sentiment come from?
Probably from the fact that a few days ago, the lead was something like $12K, and right now it's decreased to about $300.
Traveller WILL be in the lead by the time it's funding period finishes. That's pretty damned inevitable. The only question is: Will the extra day allow RA to reclaim the crown?
The only question is: Will the extra day allow RA to reclaim the crown?
Both the Crown and Rod Kthulhu, maybe even the Orb.
Thanks, Kthulu, for keeping it real. However, here is some perspective and a reality check. On June 16 & 17, the largest single backer pledges came in. At this point, about ten days ago, RA was ahead of Traveller5 with the largest delta of about $21,000. Over this ten day period, they closed the gap and pulled ahead. If Bill hadn't brought the subscription option forward, Traveller5 would have pulled ahead about three days ago.
Traveller5 has had a persistent and consistent rate of increase over this time while RA has had large transient spikes. If RA and Traveller5 rates are about the same over the next 4 days as they have been over the previous ten, Traveller5 has possibility of creating a gap about $8000 in their favor. Which would leave RA about 28 hours to close that gap. The possibility of gaining a substantial number of new backers is low. Unless, Bill has got some secret backers in reserve, we are in trouble.
So, to have even the glimmer of a chance, Bill is going to have to get a little crazy. A majority of the $100 & $250 pledges have got to move up $50 and he has got to figure out an incentive for them to do so. The $100 pledges have shown interest in the dice; perhaps he could include a set with the subscription. The $250 pledges already get a set; I don't know if another is going to do it.
Traveller5 is kicking our ass and taking names, not because of the current delta but because of number of backers along with the rate of increase. That makes sense because it is a ruleset with player material. Frog God Games sells adventures which appeals to GMs and those that like to read their well-written material. However, without great adventures, a RPG is severely diminished but player material does sell better.
I apologize for the frankness of my statement above. I really like FGG and am a huge fan but there are facts and then there is wishful thinking.
Current delta in Traveller5's favor as of this writing : $1083 and continuing to climb.
All that said, the support we've received is beyond any expectations we had.
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Returning on a more optimistic note, Frog God Games is the best third-publisher of adventures and modules that I have ever seen for world's oldest fantasy RPG from 1974-2008. Their adventurers are excellent and second-to-none except maybe for some of Greg's outside work. Ironically, by September of this year due to WOTC's reprinting of 1e and 3.5e core books, FGG will concurrently support both D&D versions with minimal conversion.
