Artifacts of Legend: Coming to Kickstarter May 25

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by mburr0003

But that doesn't really apply well to GURPS. D&D GMs and Players are a rather different breed, and SJG has come out and said "adventures don't sell well at all".

Now, among GURPS Fantasy fans? They probably sell better than the other GURPS genre fans... which is why I 'd ask Douglas Cole whether his adventures had more backers than his Bestiarys (my guess is yes, despite being a loss, I'd bet the adventures had way more backers).

Project Number	Campaign	Notes	Backers	Funding	Core $/pledge
16	Old-School Solo Adventures	Conversions of TFT solos to OSE	803	38818	 $48.3 
13	Nordlond Bestiary	Big DFRPG monster hardcover	685	52223	 $76.2 
7	Four Perilous Journeys 	First TFT offering; 5 books	608	40108	 $66.0 
6	Citadel at Nordvorn	Second DFRPG setting/adventure	600	26030	 $43.4 
14	Till Death Do Us Part	TFT Solo. Small campaign.	572	22093	 $38.6 
10	Character Collections	Very art heavy. Stretch goals.	557	28918	 $51.9 
9	More Perilous Journeys	Second TFT offering; 5 more books, two solos	555	32320	 $58.2 
4	Hall of Judgment	First DFRPG product	525	15793	 $30.1 
11	Delvers to Grow	Fast chargen.	451	31662	 $70.2 
8	Nordlond Sagas	Two 100-pg adventures, Hand of Asgard, Nordlond Folk. Lost over $10K.	420	24912	 $59.3 
17	Nightmare Fuel	Three bestiaries	395	34781	 $88.1 
19	Artifacts of Legend	Magic Items. Funding goal covers printing and go-forward art costs.	381	13503	 $35.4 
18	Best Supporting Actors	Conversion of Character Collections to OSE	372	19431	 $52.2 
3	Dragon Heresy	First big 5E book	328	16146	 $49.2 
12	Tower of the Moon	Backerkit direct before BK crowdfunding even existed	322	9602	 $29.8 
1	Dungeon Grappling	First ever	294	4853	 $16.5 
2	Lost Hall of Tyr	First adventure	241	4055	 $16.8 
5	Lost Hall 2nd Edition	Really an update from LHoT1 to HoJ, but Dragon Heresy flavor	131	4089	 $31.2 
15	Combate Epico em Masmorras	Brazilian Market test. Funding goal covered costs; real goal was 1,000+ backers	129	628	 $4.9

Judge for yourself!

The first Bestiary was my most-backed DFRPG project, and yet it probably came up shorty by a few hundred backers of what it would have taken to make me really happy with it. Especially given the protestations about GURPS not having a consolidated fantasy bestiary!

Citadel at Nordvorn was next, and I was very happy with it. It also picked up 100 of folks who skipped the original HoJ release.

Hall of Judgment was the first 3pp release for the DFRPG, and pulled in roughly 1/3 of everyone who bought the boxed set (1,587 in the first KS).

Nordlond Sagas was poorly backed and lost over $10,000 net. So not only was it low backer count, the costs ran away as well (the pledge prices were established before the manuscripts came in, and they were targeted originally at 48 and 64 pages, but grew to 112 and 96 in order to properly cover the material...that was an "early learning" mistake in several ways).

Then we have Nightmare Fuel, which went from "folks really like monsters!" to "...um, or not." Artifacts is a gear catalog. They're famously popular...except when they aren't.

If it were possible to predict what stuff of mine folks were going to like, assuredly I would make more of it. But for each example of "folks liked this" we find one or two "...but not twice."

So Doug, out of your KSes, which GURPS Nordlond ones have been backed the most, the adventures, the Bestiarys, Nordlondr Folk, or Delvers to Grow? (or even Shield's Up, but I think that was an add-on to the Bestiary Expansions?)

The answer to the above is "that's only half the question." Each thing I repeated, and each thing has done well AND poorly.