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Hi Peter,
I just saw this thread and read through it and thought I should hop in to answer some of your questions.
Hi Jason,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my concerns. It speaks volumes of your involvement and commitment to the community. I'm sure you are remarkably busy with the Kickstarter an other irons you have in the fire, and it means a great deal to me to have you respond personally.
Actually, in response to feedback like yours we are now giving away the PDFs free with every print order. At $50, that's actually the same price as ordering the print version plus PDF of the Paizo Mythic Adventures hardcover - though there are ways to discount that if you are a core rules subscriber.
Excellent Choice and one that would have dramatically increased the odds of my backing the project (if your response hadn't already convinced me to). I suppose I've been spoiled by Paizo and have come to expect (fairly or otherwise) PDFs with my hardcovers.
I should also point out that, with two weeks to go, the Mythic Spell Compendium is already larger than the Mythic Adventures, and if projections hold all three books should exceed the size of the Mythic Adventures hardcover by the time we finish the Kickstarter.
An excellent point, and one that gets me excited about the prospects of this Kickstarter.
I wonder in retrospect if we should have run this Kickstarter as a series of individual Kickstarters, one for each book. It seems that asking for people to pledge for all of them at once does create a blocking issue for some. You say below that "$50 is a throwaway" but $180 (now $150, with free PDFs) is not, and I get that; it's just an interesting bit of sales psychology about the difference between paying $50 three times vs. $150 once. Both add up to $150, but one feels easier to accept than the other. We'll certainly keep that in mind on future Kickstarters.
I can't make that kind of decision or relate most others feel on the matter, but my observation has been not only for myself but for those I know that $50 is a sweet spot. It's something I can fit into a monthly budget without killing myself. There is a bit of wiggle room on that number, but once you go over a bill it becomes a more difficult choice.
Fortunately for me your timing is pretty good, and I'm not as strapped for cash as I might usually be.
As a Pathfinder fan, I'm surprised you don't recognize Wolfgang Baur, Owen K.C. Stephens, Jeremy Smith and Dreamscarred Press, Sean K Reynolds, or any of the names from Legendary.
Actually there are a couple names on that list that I recognize (Owen I believe just signed with Paizo, Wolfgang of Kobold Fame, SKR of course who has on a couple occasions threatened to ban me from the forums...). I simply hadn't noticed them when I brought up the Legendary Games Profile on Kickstarter.
In any case, everything else again I'd like to thank you again for responding to my concerns. I look forward to getting my hands on the books when they ship.
They would actually have to get a license from Paizo to do myth conversion kits of the material. It's not beyond the pale, after all, Paizo licensed material for Reign of winter ** spoiler omitted **.
Your spoiler was empty. I'm curious, what licensed products were you talking about there?