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Kickstarter from the Inside: Day 5
It’s the end of the first “business week” of my Kickstarter, and I’ve cracked the 25% mark. It’s been an interesting week. Here’s some highlights: The amount of marketing and promotional spam I’ve received on Kickstarter is remarkable. One site promised me thousands of dollars from “Super Backers”; another suggested my story could be on…
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Review – Citadel Paints
My lovely wife got me a selection of Citadel paints from Games Workshop for Christmas; as I was in the middle of painting the Blood Rage Ram Clan, so I continued on with those paints, and today was my first time out with the Citadels. Up to now, I’ve mainly been using Reaper paints, with a…
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Children of the Apocalypse Review – Role Player’s Imaginarium
Patrick “Shadowdad” Greenlaw was kind enough to review the Children of the Apocalypse demo kit on the Role Player’s Imaginarium blog! Check out the review here.
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Kickstarter from the Inside: Day 1
According to Kickstarter, I’ve backed 24 projects since my very first one, Conclave, a web-based tactical RPG. Children of the Apocalypse, however, is my first run at my own project. It’s been nerve-wracking getting everything lined up, and knowing that the fate of the project is out in the hands of the Savage community. Fortunately, the Savage Worlds…
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Painting Blood Rage – Ram Clan
For the five clans in Blood Rage, I opted to associate one with each season – here is the Ram clan, the clan of Spring.
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Superfight Round 4: Nailed It
After Wednesday’s game, I think I’ve come around to the conclusion that the base No Power Points rule, with a couple of tweaks, will work for my supers setting. Part of the challenge was making sure the players knew all of their options, such as concentrating on a power for a round to reduce the…
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Superfight – Round 3
The second round of playtesting the superhero setting with the core book rules and No Power Points is in, and the idea of rank-based bonuses still flopped badly. The “Flash” type speedster character completely and repeatedly failed to invoke the quickness power, which sort of defeats the purpose, and players opting to just shoot things were generally more effective…
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Christmas Wish List – Savage Settings
OK, Santa – I’ve been hoping for some of my favorite properties to be Savaged, and here’s my wish list. The Vorkosigan Saga: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga is probably my all-time favorite book series; I’ve been reading it since my days of part-time high school work in the local bookstore. It’s classic space opera, complete with…
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Kickstarter Budgeting
One of the key questions when you set up a Kickstarter is your funding goal. Where do you set it so that you can accomplish what you need to accomplish and bring your product to market? How do you structure the reward levels so that they make sense? I’m deeply indebted to Jamey Stegmaier’s excellent Kickstarter…
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Arisia Schedule Update
At this year’s Arisia convention in Boston, I’ll be running Children of the Apocalypse on Saturday at 5:30 and my upcoming setting, Legion of Liberty, at 4:00 on Sunday. If you’re in the area, Arisia is definitely worth a visit – it’s a great all-purpose geekery convention.