I'm throwing around ideas for the kickstarter for this product, so I thought I'd make a brief list of some of the things you guys would be interested in as stretch goals.
1) Rocks. This could also be an add on, but rocks are cheap, and could be funny.
2) Cardboard Heroes: This one has never made it in the past, but I know a lot of people would be really happy if we did that. If you guys REALLY wanted cardboard heroes, we could do them for all my previous products also. They're cheap.
3) Additional Material: This supplement already weighs in at about 353 pages, including an entire community at Earth's Center. It's a big beast of a book. I don't know what additional material we could add without turning the book into something that weighs a ton and is awkward to carry around. Imaginary Friends clocked in at 280 typed, so assume this would be about 280 with art and maps.
4) Comes in a bag with the Earth on it: This is also silly, but could be a great gag.
5) This is the one that both excites me and bothers me. Strike Force seed money. I'd be perfectly willing to give up a portion of Kickstarter funding to make sure that this book exists, but I also understand that it's kind of like holding Strike Force hostage to my product, which I don't like. On the other hand, if we make enough, the book gets made without a kickstarter, which we know, once made, Strike Force sells itself. The reason this idea seems phenomenally dumb is that your money is then effectively held in escrow until another product gets made. It's a huge risk.
Add-ons
1) Art prints. I've seen the art. It's very pretty. Somewhere around 20 bucks could get a signed art print.
2) Dice. People apparently like dice. I wonder why. We would have to get enough money to make the dice, and it would probably decrease the print run for the product. At least they would all be six sided dice.
3) Cat Hair: One of my cats is a huge shedder, and I'm sure that...nah. This is a really bad idea. Granted, I could probably make a new cat every two days.
So...suggestions?
Suggestions would be helpful. I'm not under any illusions that I'm not as popular as Mr. Surbrook or have anywhere near the cred that Aaron Allston does.