Chaosium Kickstarter: Horror on the Orient Express Box set

[TAK]

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/448...ium-publicatio
We can always hope, right?

[dce]

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/448...ium-publicatio
We can always hope, right?

Hmm ... I'm sure Chaosium would certainly be happy if the Kickstarter really *were* trending towards ending at $243,000 [click the link and you'll see what I mean] ... that's probably their operating budget for (I wouldn't care to speculate how many) years!

Personally, though, I'm just happy that the project has reached its target and we really will be getting a nice, deluxe reprint of HotOE!


Dean (from Adelaide)

[TAK]

Personally, though, I'm just happy that the project has reached its target and we really will be getting a nice, deluxe reprint of HotOE!


Dean (from Adelaide)

True that, but if it goes over and one can imagine it should get to around 100k at least considering HotOE has never been reprinted and it is a good campaign. And of course, if you look at things like Monte Cook's Numenera or Shadows of Esteren, I won't be surprised if it will go high.

[Noble]

I am having a little bit of a blonde moment chaps, do you need to add $25 for shipping on the First Class Edition?
It isn't stated under the blurb.

[Black-Seal-Editor]

Yes you do. Its in the first or second update. But not the blurb.

[TAK]

I am having a little bit of a blonde moment chaps, do you need to add $25 for shipping on the First Class Edition?
It isn't stated under the blurb.

For all perks under FIRST ClASS level please add $10 for international shipping, and for FIRST CLASS level please add $30 (US shipping is expensive, we apologize).

So, it's actually $10 or $30. Which is why I went with 1 below First Class to save $20 on shipping and apparently receive a t-shirt instead of the keeper screen. While I would like the keeper screen, I'm not will to pay $40 for it and lose the t-shirt.

[WiseWolf]

I thought it was total 30 outside US. Regardless of what you wanted, Toni. So you better check your pledge.

[Zarozinia]

True that, but if it goes over and one can imagine it should get to around 100k at least considering HotOE has never been reprinted and it is a good campaign. And of course, if you look at things like Monte Cook's Numenera or Shadows of Esteren, I won't be surprised if it will go high.

I hope so too, but I'm less confident. I think for it to do really well it would need to attract interest from the wider roleplaying audience (I mean, those of us here on Yog-Sothoth are queuing up to give Chaosium our money, but our numbers represent a fraction of the wider gamer population), and unfortunately HotOE doesn't seem to be attracting much excitement on other RPG forums (it was only listed yesterday on RPG.net's list of Kickstarter projects).

[TAK]

I thought it was total 30 outside US. Regardless of what you wanted, Toni. So you better check your pledge.

That is a direct copy and paste from the update. And I haven't seen anything else since. I specifically asked them because First Class was missing the shipping info.

[Noble]

Well I joined in at First Class level $120, just go to settle in for the long haul.

[PoC]

I've written Chaosium to request that these characters be added anyway, as a tribute. I think YSDC's recorded campaign has done more to promote this product than anything Chaosium themselves could have done -- and that's without the associated publicity from drooling over the German edition (which seems to be happening for pretty much anything a European licensee puts out these days).

What a lovely thought!

If Chaosium get in touch with us about such an idea, I'll let you know.

[Pookie]

The good news is that Chaosium has posted an update, including news of its first Stretch Goal, which is at $50,000.

Shipping rates have also been confirmed.

[Emrys]

Shipping rates have also been confirmed.

Well, sort of. It still doesn't clarify what the shipping is for First Class - it only says what the shipping costs are for above First Class and below First Class (and that still contradicts the "Details of Rewards" section directly above the FAQs).

[WiseWolf]

We can assume that above First Class is an inclusive statement.

I don't like the stretch goal reward, where is the benefit for the other 400+ backers that cannot aspire to travel to a Con in the US? I don't think it is a valid one. See the other kickstarters stretch goals, they added something for every layer of the project.

[Apofis]

We can assume that above First Class is an inclusive statement.

I don't like the stretch goal reward, where is the benefit for the other 400+ backers that cannot aspire to travel to a Con in the US? I don't think it is a valid one. See the other kickstarters stretch goals, they added something for every layer of the project.

I think you got it wrong, the stretch goal reward gor $50,000 is improving the quality of maps and handouts