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The Looming 7th Sea Kickstarter Fund Drive. [CLOSED]

Lemme explain this one. 7th Sea, for folks who don’t know, is a Swashbuckling, Musketeers and Pirates and maybe a little Horror behind the scenes RPG that my wife and I used to play; both separately, and in the same campaign. I enjoyed it, she loved it. The Kickstarter for a Second Edition starts up tomorrow.

goal-thermometerThat’s not what I’m fundraising.  I easily have the cash I’d need to get all the books, no problem, no worries. However… if I can put together $500, I understand that I can add a player-character to that game world… and by GOD my wife’s favorite character would be perfect for that game line. My characters?  …Well, I had fun with them, and they were good characters, but they weren’t legitimately special like my wife’s best one was.

So, this is what I’m doing. On the left is all the cash I have at my disposal. I’m going to put up the button below. If you feel like buying my wife a present – and you do not have to feel obligated to chip in to buy my wife a present – feel free to do so.  If I don’t make it to $500 on this one, I refund your money. If they use up all the slots on the Kickstarter before I get the cash together, I refund your money. If you can’t be hassled with a refund, I’ll spend it on her for something else.  …A spa, or something. She could use a spa afternoon. Well, so couldn’t we all.

Oh, and when the Kickstarter drops: 7th Sea is an AWESOME game. I’ve been wanting them to Kickstart this one for, like, forever.

[UPDATE: It funded in moments, and the $500 pledge levels washed away like sugar cubes in a hurricane. I’ve already refunded everybody’s money.]

“The Specialists Omnibus” Kickstarter.

The Specialists is a WWII superhero webcomic that I read, and rather like; and they’re trying for another bite of the apple to get their webcomic published in print form. I kicked in the first time, and was disappointed that it didn’t quite take; but they’ve readjusted and are going to give it another shot. I think that this time they’re going to hit it.  Here’s hoping, at least.

My inevitable combination #DeltaGreen Kickstarter / Patreon post…

Now that the game has hit $260,000 on Kickstarter, I’m gonna show you folks the latest Patreon short-short-short that I wrote for my Patreon account: 100WS-ElderGod.  It really and truly is a Cthulhu Mythos story! Just… from the other side.

I’ve also updated my Patreon milestones with a $200/month tier.  It will upgrade the $60/month one: instead of a 1,000 short-short-short story per month, my patrons will get a 3,000 short story. I figure that I’ll figure out how to write them by then…

The Delta Green Kickstarter finally created “I want everything” tiers.

I understand why they held off on that – Kickstarter is useful as a servant, bloody dangerous as a master – but I found it cruel, cruel hard to wait.  However… for a mere $300 you can have every Delta Green product that they’ve funded or will fund in this Kickstarter.  Which is pretty nice, from the point of view of just the hardcovers: player’s guide, GM’s guide (yes, they explicitly said that this tier will get you both), GM’s screen, King in Yellow campaign sourcebook, Pelgrane Press’s ‘historical’ Delta Green game… and it’s safe to assume that the introductory campaign book is going to get funded at this point, and very likely the Majestic-12 sourcebook, too.  Add in all the PDFs and it’s getting to be a haul.

And for another fifty bucks, you get all the old stuff in PDF/e-book form, too. That, I won’t bother with, because I already have it. But if you don’t… well, I’m not saying don’t do it.  I mean, you’ve come this far, right?

The Delta Green KS passes $180K, and my bank account screams…

…as now I have to squeeze another fifty bucks out of it to get the next unlocked tier item.  I mean, what am I gonna do? Pass up a King In Yellow campaign book? I know darned well I’m just going to buy it anyway.

Well, the good news?  There’s only currently a few more items that might force me to torture my bank account further until it gives up the cash.  No more than… [click click click] …one hundred bucks.  Sorry, no: one hundred and five.

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Dag, but these people know how to properly exploit geeklust.

Continue reading The Delta Green KS passes $180K, and my bank account screams…

18 Days to go on the Delta Green Kickstarter.

…and it’s going well. And by which I mean it’s taken up every penny that I have been given or scrounged to this point*, and promises to bust my budget some more in the very near future. The shipping charges on this are going to be huge. HUGE!

The folks at Arc Dream** are pretty much pushing this Kickstarter across the social medias as well. ‘Mediae?’ – At any rate, the more places it ends up, the more free stuff I get as an insanely all-in backer. So let’s not pretend that I’m an disinterested observer here, OK?

Moe Lane

*I did not collect the $250 in one day to hit that ‘buy the six volumes hardback’ goal, alas.  Which is just as well; there’s a lot of discrete hardbacks appearing in this Kickstarter.

**For those coming in late: Delta Green is ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ meets ‘X-Files’ meets ‘Your guns won’t save you.’ Definite cult status among roleplayers, if you’ll pardon the pun…