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Well, I've been told that I need to start getting an audience before going on to Kickstart and starting a kickstarter project.
I want to start a kickstarter to get an adventure self published. Currently I am not being paid for the work I do, so I'm going to do a kickstart. I have two choices: not to do Art in the adventure, or do some Art. Or maybe do both -- a Stingy Gamer edition, for instance.
So a few questions:
* Full color Art -- good thing or bad thing?
* If you want color art, what kind and why?
* Is a stingy gamer edition good idea or bad idea?
The adventure is set in a Creatively Anachronistic America. In fact it's so Creatively Anachronistic that there are elves and dwarves, halfings and gnomes, and half-elves and half-orcs as well as humans. I did a lot of research on the movements of the Tribes of Israel through out the world, and most of them -- representatives of all of the Tribes of Israel -- are on the American Continent today. I thought to myself -- "if I downplayed the religious overtones, it would make a great Campaign Setting!" So, I thought of a Creative Anachronism in America. A setting that is Late Middle Ages to Renaissance. Instead of a United Republic, there are scattered kingdoms. Instead of Movies, there are passion plays. The United States are a mixture of the Middle Colonies and Iroquois nations. Except that they rebelled after Henry the Fifth led his campaign into France.
I got the idea from Orson Scott Card, I didn't get it from Michael Stackpole. :) The adventure is set in the Salt Lake Valley. It's centered around an elf town and a human town that are facing a kobold invasion. The PCs must either pay back the treasure owed to the Kobolds, or the two villages become property of the kobolds.
I would like to do 3D art. :) I know this is expensive for most companies' overhead, but I've been doing it for four years and I've got it perfected. The Kickstart will pay for my overhead costs in getting the Art and Cartography done. Although I don't have to worry about getting lawyers and contracts -- the artists I'll be working with need only to understand that their work will be covered by a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (although I'll have to pay for transfer of copyright on some of the art).
I need some ideas on how to proceed.
What do you think the rewards ought to be?