Cradle of Empires – Blessed Lands and First City Sourcebook

The difference between an add on and a stretch goal is fuzzy to me. Is it a side deal? Or a physical reward?

Since I already have copies of the core book and heroes that isn’t a useful option for me. Probably not a useful option for your core arcaniacs as a whole. But might be a good deal for someone new. I don’t know what the ratio will be of arcaniacs vs kick starter browsers.

I would rather see the Argyle cover piece for the core rulebook as a poster or on a shirt rather than books I already own. Its my opinion that the cover is the best single piece of artwork PCI has ever commissioned and would make a great reward/add on/bit of eye candy to attract browsers.

Just my 2 cents.

Other good add-ons I’ve seen:

1) Extra kickstarter books at a discount with a pledge that includes a book (For your gaming group)
2) Signed/Personalized copies with either your name engraved, signed by the staff, or with custom artwork of a character
3) Embossed/Leatherbound/Other Fancy hardbound additions (Get the book and pay $40 to have it in an embossed cover, e.g.)

John

Books from Witchhunter and Rotted Capes – let others take it up to play, and thus increase the playert base.

These would actually be pretty good add-ons.

You could also work out a deal with Pat for character art as an add-on.

Other things that highly successful RPG kickstarters have done:
-Maps of the world as currently known/more detailed maps of specific areas
-Special created dice sets
-Stuff mentioned previously, like personalized editions and ‘upgraded’ editions.

As the launch of the Cradle of Empires Sourcebook comes closeer to launching (just waiting on a final OK from KickStarter)

I didn’t think that the approval process for Kickstarter was normally this long. Has there been any word from them?

Though I am impatient, I think this is fair. Personally I think that an announcement should be made on the website updating this (with brief explaination), as it still says the Kickstarter is live in September.

Hello,

Due to a family emergency, the Arcanis: Cradle of Empires KickStarter has been delayed.

I’ll update everyone when it goes live.

Thank you,

Henry Lopez

Hello,
I think that it’s important to the credibility of the company that we fulfill (or imminently so) our base commitment before starting a new KickStarter.

There have been some high profile failures (and alleged fraud) occurring and I don’t want anyone to have even the slightest doubt that we meet our obligations.
Henry, as someone that is unfortunately involved in one such Kickstart, I would like to thank you and commend you for the position you’ve taken on this matter. I’m sure very few of us would have batted an eye had you started the new project, and very many of us would have thrown money at said project. Stand-up move, sir.