Arcanis: Cradle of Empires KickStarter is now LIVE!

I know it has already been spoken on at length, but for those of us that weren’t able to get involved at the beginning, some of those unique Character Creation boons would allow at least 3-4 local people that I play with around here to pitch in one-two hundred dollars, each.

Right now there are 2 people that can play Undead characters and 4 that can play val’Sosi Ss’ressen’s. Would game integrity be that injured by expanding those numbers to say, 6 of each?
In my experience (as a long-time Venture-Captain for PFS) one of those most sought after items are Racial Boons. A person gave $400 to charity just to play a Catfolk and similar amounts were given for other character creation type boons.

I’m not advocating wildly throwing open the gates (in fact, in PFS I am strongly opposed to opening up more character races). I can only speak for myself, but personally, were a few more to be made available, I would be potentially doubling or tripling my pledge and others would probably do the same.

New pledge levels can be added that are similar, if not the same, should they decide to do that.”

Hello Dean,

Thanks for your suggestion, but I’m spreading myself thin already.

Understand completely. Thats why I though that the other members of the writing team could do the actual mod with a “This is what you need to include / reveal” from you

That way those that forked out the big bucks get “Super Unique Henry Mod” when others can get “Unique Henry Influenced Mod”

As said a suggestion, but one that would require a bit of work I know.

Will keep thinking

Dean

Divine get Holy symbols which function as wands. At least one was found at Origins.

Hello Todd,

Would game integrity be that injured by expanding those numbers to say, 6 of each?

Perhaps not game integrity, but my own would be.

Each of those Pleadge Levels are priced based off of what the item is and its rarity. If I were to say, create another pledge level for 4 more agamassi to be purchased, I’ve decreased their value and probably made the original two patrons less than happy that they’re playing something (relatively) more common.

I don’t have an issue adding special tables, because each of those tables is getting a DIFFERENT adventure based upon the group and their interests, so that uniqueness remains.

I have a few more pledge levels coming up next week, but I cannot and will not, in good conscious, dilute the rarity of some rewards and break my bond with those patrons who have so generously supported the game.

While this probably makes me a very bad capitalist, as I would love to have your freinds pledge those $200 each, I’d rather lose out on that than any trust I may have fostered throughout the years I’ve been doing this.

It’s my hope that they can find something else that might interest them to support the campaign/game.

I hope you and others understand my position in this matter.

I understand as well. I’m just highly disappointed I missed out on the Agamassi (particularly since I went to check as soon as I knew the KS was up (about 2-3 hours after it went live)).

Another option which would be more work on your part would be to check with the existing pledgers at the special levels (since there are so few) and ask if they have any issues with opening up more. If none do, then you could open up more. If even one does, then it stays very very limited.

I understand from other comments that the extremely limited number is similar to how PCI did the previous Kickstarter but I’ve never seen any KS with so few of any pledge level that low priced so I wasn’t really surprised (just disappointed) when they were all sold out within hours.

I collect sports memorabilia. One of the prized/favorite pieces in my collection is an autographed football jersey by the entire 1972 Miami Dolphins team, the only undefeated team in NFL history. Only a limited amount of these autographed jerseies were every produced. I know the exact quantity. I know the dealer is very reputable in the industry. If this dealer at a later date had more jersies signed, it would not only ruin the value of the jersies out there but also the ‘unique’ aspect about them…let alone the reputation of the dealer in the industry would be forever tarnished.

I am not comparing sports memorabilia to a pledge level per say, but the principle is very much similar.