[Kickstarter] Petals and Thorns
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:42 am
I am Kickstarting a thing. Specifically, I am Kickstarting an adventure for levels 3-5 in which you must defend a town from an assortment of nasties on a giant wilderness map with several attached dungeons while several factions bicker over who gets to have their way over various inflection points that crop up along the way.
Something that this community in particular will quickly notice is that this is a 5e adventure, which brings the immediate question of why you would ever want to buy a 5e adventure. Most GMs don't seem to actually run the adventures they buy, though, so I figure most of my sales from this forum are going to come from people who don't plan to ever actually run it, just read it as a curiosity and maybe cannibalize a few of its concepts for games run in other systems. The adventure is designed to work with 5e's limitations (in some cases by finishing the game like I'm a modder tweaking a Bethesda release), and I figure some people might find that entertaining for the same reason that Five Nights at Freddy's was really popular as a streaming game.
It's also worth noting that Kickstarter gives visibility to projects based on number of backers, not total money raised, so $1 backers are a lot more helpful than you might expect. If you want to support my efforts to make a living on creative projects but don't want to actually buy the product, a $1 pledge will hit way above its weight level in terms of expressing support (regarding the viability of making a living on creative work by going through TTRPGs, I certainly didn't expect TTRPGs to be the most successful wing of my multi-pronged efforts to get the internet to pay me for making stuff up, but here we are).
Something that this community in particular will quickly notice is that this is a 5e adventure, which brings the immediate question of why you would ever want to buy a 5e adventure. Most GMs don't seem to actually run the adventures they buy, though, so I figure most of my sales from this forum are going to come from people who don't plan to ever actually run it, just read it as a curiosity and maybe cannibalize a few of its concepts for games run in other systems. The adventure is designed to work with 5e's limitations (in some cases by finishing the game like I'm a modder tweaking a Bethesda release), and I figure some people might find that entertaining for the same reason that Five Nights at Freddy's was really popular as a streaming game.
It's also worth noting that Kickstarter gives visibility to projects based on number of backers, not total money raised, so $1 backers are a lot more helpful than you might expect. If you want to support my efforts to make a living on creative projects but don't want to actually buy the product, a $1 pledge will hit way above its weight level in terms of expressing support (regarding the viability of making a living on creative work by going through TTRPGs, I certainly didn't expect TTRPGs to be the most successful wing of my multi-pronged efforts to get the internet to pay me for making stuff up, but here we are).