Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You?

[Hugh Neilson]

Interesting; I didn't take it that way at all. My take was essentially that you could buy the special thanks; or you could buy the PDF & Character Pack and get the special thanks for free; or you could buy the book and get the PDF/Character Pack and the special thanks for free; or you could buy the exclusivity of limited edition & authorial autograph and get the book, the PDF/Character Pack, and the special thanks for free; and so on...

You can certainly look at it that way. Practically, the book price would be the benchmark I'd use to set other rewards. Each copy of the book has an incremental cost, since it has to be printed, shipped, etc. Adding a copy of the .pdf to the book carries no extra cost, since we had to create the .pdf to print the book (that's a fixed cost that has to be covered by profit on each book, but it won't go up if I distribute another 1,000 .pdf's). It's quite a bit different from Hero's "Book + PDF is a small discount from the cost of buying both individually".

I'm commenting only on what may or may not influence the contribution. For myself, I look at the physical book, since that's what I want, and if the price is acceptable, that's what I'll pledge. Whether a .pdf is thrown in or not, no real change. But that's because I don't value the .pdf. I don't use Hero Designer, so who cares about the character pack? My wife might - she uses HD.

It seems like more art than science anyway - if you have 10 people pledge, say, $80, that's $800 towards the goal regardless of how many are international book orders requiring shipping costs over and above the book cost. Sounds like Kickstarter provides some decent advice on what's worked historically and what hasn't. That's bound to be way more valuable than my idle speculation (free advice tends to be worth what you pay for it - Kickstarter's advice isn't so much free as billed on contingency, since they get some of your $$ if it gets your product to succeed).

[Narf the Mouse]

Narf, if you want to register a complaint you should post it in some thread pertaining to the company's own Kickstarters. This is one about possible future Kickstarters I might try personally, and I've said nothing about shipping. That's putting the cart waaaaay ahead of the horse.

*Slaps forehead* Yeah, it's the BotE shipping I have a problem with.

[karlindel]

What I would consider paying for the proposed books (At $25 or less, I'd likely go for just a pdf copy, at higher prices I'm assuming physical books along with a pdf copy).
Mythic Hero - $50 or so for softcover black and white, up to about $100 for hardcover color
STORMLords - $25 initial interest, possibly $50 or more, though I would want to know a bit more about the product before committing that much
Cyber HERO - $25 initial interest, possibly $50 if the book has a lot of utility for non-cyberpunk games
Dark Champions for 6e - $25 or less initial interest, possibly $50 or more if it included some significant new material

[Bolon]

I would get a Stormlords book if it was also an update of the Urban Fantasy Hero supplement. I would be more than willing to pledge 50 for that combination. I also think that Urban Fantasy Hero is ripe for the market with Grimm and all the supernatural type shows on TV now. If it was done as a kickstarter, I would think 50 would be good for the book and PDF. For those who don't use PDF's, they are great for anyone who uses computers with Itouch or Ipads or even projector monitor systems. Don't knock it until you try it.

[Steve Long]

I would get a Stormlords book if it was also an update of the Urban Fantasy Hero supplement.

It wouldn't be -- that would make the entire book waaaaaay too big. It would certainly include a lot of Urban Fantasy-style character creation elements (such as Templates) for 6E, and some of those would undoubtedly be "duplicates" or rough "updates" of existing ones covered in UFH, but STORMlords is a setting book not a subgenre book.

Heck, the four main power sets -- Gun Fu, Magic, Martial Arts, and Psionics --- which I've already written up, are 75,000 words long -- 58% the word count of all of UFH. So as you can see the setting book as a whole is likely to be a pretty hefty beastie.

[Steve Long]

Update/slight thread hijacking: for those of you who are interested in my STORMlords setting, which has been discussed a little above, I just updated my Hero blog with the latest info:

Steve's STORMlords blog

[Ndreare]

Ironically I have been reading this forum since the old forums when I posted under another name. I never noticed the Blogs section! after 10+years and never noticing one of the four largest buttons on the page.

[Roy_The_Ruthles]

Of the ideas, cyberHERO is the most appealing to me.

[Narf the Mouse]

Ironically I have been reading this forum since the old forums when I posted under another name. I never noticed the Blogs section! after 10+years and never noticing one of the four largest buttons on the page.

...Wait, there's a button for the blogs?