Kickstarter - GURPS Pyramid Scheme

[philreed]

$20,000 stretch goal unlocked. New stretch goal revealed.

[Refplace]

We have I think two stretch goals to go. My latest ad blurb

[Tomsdad]

I like the option to pledge $24 and get the bundle of 2020 PDFs (which I missed),

Pledged, and cheers

TD

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by ravenfish

The bit where, having written all the material beforehand, they pretend it won't all be released unless they get enough funding, strikes me as rather manipulative. I realize that businesses have to make money, and I will back in any case because I want the product, but I do so in a decidedly miffed sort of mood.

Leaving aside the points that others have made (and I definitely agree with). I think the best way to look at this is that you are going to get 3x 44pg* pyramids for $6 i.e. that is extremely cheap when you consider what we would have paid per Pyramid issue in the past. Not forgetting that while even 6$ for 3x20pgs would have been a deal compared to historical Pyramid prices the very nature of Kickstarter and the way it allows the supplier to assess success/demand instantly and achieved revenue, that then allows them to commercially justify stretch goals that further improves the deal for us consumers (and of course encourages more pledges).

So if it makes you feel better doing it this way is providing us with a great deal in terms of material per $.


*and it may get to $6 for 3x 48pgs

[Phantasm]

$501 to go for the $26K goal! I've advertised, but mostly running into a collective "meh". :(

[Michael Thayne]

Oh my. How many stretch goals are there?

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

Oh my. How many stretch goals are there?

Eight. The full extent of the campaign was three issues, 52 pages each, with each article being four pages long. Unless there's something surprising past the final, 11th article per magazine (and I doubt it), then the next goal after $26,000 should be the last one.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

$501 to go for the $26K goal!

We've just got there. Next goal is not up yet.

[ravenfish]

Looks like the next goal is up- and all three potential articles look interesting.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by ravenfish

Looks like the next goal is up- and all three potential articles look interesting.

Pulling from my own social media . . .

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Four days to go and one final stretch goal remaining! That goal includes not one but two articles of mine, so I have a personal stake in seeing it reached – at least, more of a stake than my everyday "develops GURPS at SJ Games." I'd like to elaborate and perhaps tempt the fence-sitters:

• "Tactical Looting": Largely game-mechanical guidance on "speed runs" through dungeons for fun, profit, and not dying when the ceiling collapses. I took the title from the fact that in some situations, you're switching on tactical combat time and leaving it on even when there's no fighting. Now I don't say, "Game out an entire adventure one second at a time on a map, choosing hundreds or thousands of maneuvers." But much of the article's value is in how and why it stops short of that – and what it recommends instead.
  
  
• "Putting Science in Your Fiction": My formal education was as a scientist – a physicist, to be precise. One thing that irritates me in fiction, games, and the popular imagination is how what's called "science" is often engineering that results in gizmos. You could call that "applied science," but then where does that leave theoretical and experimental science? Out in the cold! This article offers a mini-game, not unlike that for inventing, for curiosity-driven research as a goal in itself. It adds in-game value to expensive science skills.

Both are limited by (1) being four pages long, and (2) not being playtested. That's business as usual for magazine articles. But I firmly believe that both provide useful seeds that could grow into new forms of adventure – one fast-paced and action-heavy, one slow-paced and cerebral.