Are you ready to break free from the constraints of pre-made settings and rules? Grand Odyssey is here to revolutionize your tabletop RPG experience! Whether you're a seasoned GM crafting epic campaigns or a player dreaming up the perfect character, Grand Odyssey gives you the tools to create your perfect adventure. Compatible with popular D20 systems like D&D and Pathfinder, Grand Odyssey introduces innovative mechanics like the dynamic D4 system for advantages, disadvantages, and game-changing effects. With detailed combat features like damage reduction, dodge mechanics, and realistic weapon skills, every battle feels thrilling and unique. Best of all, you only need the Grand Odyssey core rulebook to dive in—no extra supplements, no hidden costs. Just endless possibilities. Join the Adventure Today! Support our Kickstarter and help bring Grand Odyssey to life. Follow us on social media and join our Discord community to connect with fellow creators and adventurers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sacredfiregames/grand-odyssey-ttrpg-system https://discord.gg/bu8JkVsg

Are you ready to break free from the constraints of pre-made settings and rules? Grand Odyssey is here to revolutionize your tabletop RPG experience! Whether you're a seasoned GM crafting epic campaigns or a player dreaming up the perfect character, Grand Odyssey gives you the tools to create your perfect adventure. Compatible with popular D20 systems like D&D and Pathfinder, Grand Odyssey introduces innovative mechanics like the dynamic D4 system for advantages, disadvantages, and game-changing effects. With detailed combat features like damage reduction, dodge mechanics, and realistic weapon skills, every battle feels thrilling and unique. Best of all, you only need the Grand Odyssey core rulebook to dive in—no extra supplements, no hidden costs. Just endless possibilities. Join the Adventure Today! Support our Kickstarter and help bring Grand Odyssey to life. Follow us on social media and join our Discord community to connect with fellow creators and adventurers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sacredfiregames/grand-odyssey-ttrpg-system https://discord.gg/bu8JkVsg

link to product below: www.thepaintcleaner.com

Hello!

Looking for advice! My husband and I are in the process of bringing our product to life. We have been working with a design firm for the last few months, and have our final design ready for manufacturing! We are trying to decide which route to go to get our product out there.. It is a tool that cleans and smooths out paintbrushes without having to get your hands wet/covered in paint! Kickstarter seems like a great place to go to raise money to make our mold/ get our product manufactured. The concerns I have with kickstarter are "is this product right for the crowdfunding demographic?" "is it realistic to raise enough money via kickstarter to get this thing into production?" I have found the launchboom book incredibly helpful and informative, but still trying to figure our if this is the route we should go with this! Would love any advice you all might have!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/namestoovirtual/namestoovirtual

I don't know exactly what the overlap of people on this sub who additionally are aware of what v-tubing is, but we've started a v-tubing agency to counter a problem we've seen repeatedly in this industry. Because this industry is still new and start-up capital is larger than some, a lot of these other larger agencies are incredibly predatory towards their talents, typically as a result of being funded by legacy media companies and having monetary interests to protect. We've started our own with the talent's best interests truly in mind, keeping our staff small and passionate. Any feedback for our campaign?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388595241/alpenshade-sun-protective-clothing-for-babies-and-toddlers

Launched today! Sun protective onesies for babies and infants designed by a dermatologist and engineer. We are so excited to get these out into the world and would be extremely grateful for any support!

Hi All,

My first KS campaign for my short film, THE COWARD , got close but failed (43k of 50k ask).

I want to run a new campaign, to make the same short film, but that name is now locked to that old, failed campaign. This page says

1) Start a new project, setting it up however you wish. Your original project is always available for reference, so feel free to copy and paste any content, as well as import rewards. Your new project will have a new URL, and it will need to have a different title.

So going by that I'd need to create a new project, call it THE COWARD SHORT FILM or something clunky like that?

Considering that the old project can still pop up when people are searching for the new project, it becomes very frustrating that they could easily click the old one, see it's closed and leave.

Changing the actual film name is not a usable option.

Hello Reddit. Recently, I decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign for my debut indie game. Since I have no marketing budget, I don’t hold any particular hopes for the success of this venture. However, one thing caught my attention: on the very first day of the launch, my inbox and direct messages on the platform were flooded with various offers from so-called marketing agencies offering their services as promoters.

What struck me first was that most of them showcase successful case studies from projects that are over 10 years old, yet the domain names of their websites were registered relatively recently.

Has anyone had any experience working with such organizations?

For anyone interested, here’s the story about the game.

Hi all 👋🏼

Our D&D Actual Play Kickstarter just launched!! 🚀

Please please please go check it out and even if you can offer any financial support please share with your nerdy friends!! 🤓

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017209423/failing-forward-a-new-dandd-story

Also, any feedback would be greatly appreciated 👍🏼

Thanks, Kade

I just got approved and im realizing i have no idea about the reasons pre launch and campaign page have to be differet, so far i understand

• someone can steal it

• you want some exclusive content for the launch.

So whats the sweet spot? How do you adress that? Its hard to understand because pre launch dissspears from other past campaigns.

I'm one half of Troll in the Well, a duo that makes adventures for TTRPGs. We launched our very first Kickstarter campaign yesterday and we'd love for you to check it out.

Something Rotten is a 48 page illustrated short campaign for 5E and beyond, that will see your party crawling through a goblin ridden cave system and bashing weird little (and not so little )green guys.

You can check out the campaign and read more about it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trollinthewell/something-rotten

https://preview.redd.it/sz6u5a7mb5he1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53ba9027326091e30c7c72b48b1e7e18fdbfccb4

Hello everyone!

I would like to get your opinions on different pre-launch marketing strategies. My co-founder and I are mechanical engineers and product designers from Munich, Germany, working on B2B Hardware products for the last 10 years. As a side project, we have been working on a machined, magnetic multi-pen called the A/B Pen. Product is ready and suppliers lined up, we have been experimenting with different approaches to gather leads since January. We have a landing page for email sign ups that leads to a 3$ reservation / VIP offer.

Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/782492726/a-b-pen

Landing page: https://www.makeduo.com/

1. First half of January: Meta ads with sales objective, advantage+ (no explicit audience definition). This gave us: 62 leads, 19 VIP’s, 190 Euro ad spend, 2.56 Euro per Lead, 15.8 Euro per VIP, 2.34 ROAS (calculating with 1% conversion on emails and 30% on VIPs). CTR of around 4.5%.

2. Last week of January: Meta ads with lead generation objective (email sign up). We gave some hints to Meta’s AI regarding audiences, we added relevant interests for our niche and added “Crowdfunding”, “Kickstarter” and “Indiegogo” as further filters. This generated: 76 leads, 1 Order, 50 Euro ad spend, 0.65 Euro per lead, 50 Euro per VIP (:D). 2.18 ROAS (same assumptions as above). CTR was also around 4.5%

3. Since yesterday we restarted the first approach with improved ad creatives and copy, still with a small ad spend as we are unsure about the best strategy (hence this post).

4. We have been getting 2-3 Kickstarter followers every day since we put the pre-launch page up, without any paid ads sending people there. Currently sitting at 70 followers.

We’ve read the “Crowdfunded” book from Launchboom and materials from the Prelaunch Club (shoutout to both for doing a great job of summarizing all this info and making it accessible).

The “LaunchBoom” approach is gathering emails and 1$ (or more) reservations / VIP leads, according to them 1% of emails and 30% of VIPs convert. Prelaunch Club suggests that followers to the Kickstarter campaign convert much better (20-40%, so almost like a Launchboom VIP), so a direct approach, bypassing the landing page, might be more beneficial. In the end the emails and VIP’s would have to eventually be educated about Kickstarter and sent there to back the project.

My questions:

1. What do you think is the best pre-launch strategy. Lead generation only (emails), lead generation with a $1 reservation, or driving followers directly to the Kickstarter page?

2. We initially went the email route to be able to have a good email list for future projects, but if emails convert so badly across the board, what’s the benefit?

3. Any feedback on our kickstarter page and/or landing page would be very welcomed 😊 

Thanks in advance for your insights!

My advice for other creators: marketing your product might not be the first step but is definitely not the last! We could’ve started figuring pre-launch topics much earlier during the development phase, lesson learned!

Looking for some brutal and honest feedback on my Kickstarter page! Thank you so much in advance

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkblox/inkblox/

On Kickstarter, if you're a creator, you've got a few different options for contacting backers of a previous campaign you've run...

1. Post an "Update" on the campaign itself, which should send an update notification to every backer who has the notification enabled.

2. "Message All Backers" ... which sends the same message you compose to all backers of the campaign.

3. Sending a single message, individually, to a backer.

As a creator, I've run over 60 campaigns now, since 2017, and I typically post an update on prior, recent campaigns to let them know about a new campaign I launch.

But, I'm wondering if it's a good idea, or bad idea, to send prior backers an individual, personalized message, as well. Is this good etiquette, or bad etiquette?

The reason being... I'm assuming that updates about a project that has already been fulfilled have a greater likelihood of being ignored. By contrast, an individual message may not be.

Of course, "Spamming" on Kickstarter is against the Terms of Service. But, unless you're constantly bombarding users with messages, I don't think contacting prior backers to tell them about a new campaign qualifies. In fact, in the case of a cancelled or failed project, they specifically encourage it.

I'm thinking, at the beginning of a new campaign, post an update to prior campaigns, and then as a campaign closes, send an individual message?

Is that too much? Or, does it strike a good balance.

I know we all hate being sent unwanted communication. But, is it more unwanted, than not? I do fairly regularly have backers contact me later on and say, "I'm sorry I missed this campaign. Can I still get this?" So, the counter to that is that the additional contact is helpful.

Thoughts? Please let me know if you're speaking from the perspective of a creator or backer, if you chime in. Would help me know where you're coming from.

Thanks in advance for any input you provide.

Josh

Hi everyone, so I just launched my first RPG video game/Kickstarter campaign 24 hours ago. We're at 7% funding which is really cool however, we've only gotten a collective 4 views on our trailer today. I want to maximize our chances of success and improve engagement. Especially since I heard the first 48 hours are the most important (which is stressing me out a bit)

I'm not trying to promote my game NOW (although I just did a couple hours ago) I just want any advice/feedback on how to better my project :) thank y'all so much

Link to campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1447980077/clover-2?ref=user_menu

My team and I have been working on this for a year and will be live in the morning. We have built an engine to create personalized stories in letter format delivered in the mail to kids aged 7-12(for now. More age ranges in the fall). We don’t use AI to write or illustrate. We are hoping to improve literacy in kids by making reading enjoyable and breaking it up with fun activities. Plus the kids feel a part of the story. Hope you like it

Hey, we're Onw Studio – a small team of five working on our first game, Veiled Edge, now available on Steam for PC. Our inspiration comes from movies like Inception, Blade Runner, and Cyberpunk, and we wanted to create something futuristic with robots, detectives, and plenty of action.

In Veiled Edge, you play as an investigator working alongside a hacker. Together, you’ll explore a virtual world called “Full-dive,” completing levels and mini-games (similarly to It Takes Two) to uncover the truth behind crimes committed in this digital space. Each level has unique setting and challenges. For instance, one level features a nighttime theme park adorned with beautiful sakura blossoms, while in another, you can hack an entire map to reshape it to your advantage. One of the maps also has secret pathways that can only be uncovered using Rapid’s unique ability.

The game is currently in Early Access, and we’re aiming to add more chapters. Your support would really help us deliver more high-quality content for our players!

Veiled Edge on Kickstarter

Click “Notify me on launch” to be notified of when the project is launched💚

Veiled Edge on Steam

Hi community,

I’m launching my mushroom coffee campaign next Tuesday and have been testing different ways to promote my Kickstarter pre-launch page, but the results have been limited. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• FB Ads ($10/day, CPV model) – Trying to build an audience to retarget on launch day, but engagement is low. Getting views, but no real followers.
• Posting in Coffee/F&B-Related FB Groups – Most groups seem inactive, so the impact is questionable.

Since I’m in the food & beverage space, I’d love to hear from anyone who has successfully launched an F&B product on Kickstarter. What worked best for you? Any organic or paid strategies that helped drive engagement and sign-ups before launch?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/483097634/wild-infusion-your-on-the-go-botanical-mushroom-coffee

Appreciate any insights—thanks in advance!

They take 7.5% of the pledge amount through their referral link. They also charge $1250 upfront fee. I’m thinking of using it but not sure if they are legit or not. Have you guys used it before? Are you satisfied with the result?

TurboFix by TurboFix — Kickstarter

TURBOFIX is an adhesive that’s designed to handle almost anything. It has incredible bonding strength—up to 5000 PSI—and it sets in just 10 seconds. Plus, it works in extreme conditions, from freezing cold to scorching heat. Whether you’re working with metal, wood, plastic, or ceramic, TURBOFIX has you covered. We are seeking support from Kickstarter to upgrade TurboFix packaging, ensuring it’s more durable, eco-friendly, and visually appealing for our customers.

https://preview.redd.it/yt6tw095tyge1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=579d6a7213753d107eb3383da6ba2f2364bf58bb

They take 7.5% of the pledge amount through their referral link as their commission fee. They seem legit but I’m not sure if they are a scam. Has anyone used them? Are you satisfied with their result?

Here is the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crownbattles/crown-battles-1?ref=960yjg&token=e38bfbdc

You can share your feedback here or on the Kickstarter website.

ps. this is my second attempt after a failed first one.

I am all ears 👂

I feel like this is petty and I am sorry if this is not within the spirit of the subreddit, but I got ripped off and this is the only way I can think of to make it known. It's a really shitty feeling being stolen from, and has very much soured my trust in kickstarter. I've backed dozens of projects over the years but in the last year have been scammed twice.

Cozy Quests was for a DND quest book and some other extra stuff. It ended in March last year. We got ONE update in September - the month it was originally supposed to ship. Silence ever since.

Backers have asked them in the comments for an update, have asked on their social media for an update, etc. Everyone is being as patient as they can - asking for ANY news, even bad news. But leaving us on the hook with zero information is just foul.

Meanwhile Dice Guardians continues to operate a webstore selling relevant items, attending cons, etc. A business who just ghosts an entire kickstarter should not be allowed to continue to operate.

I know the risk is on the backer with kickstarter but I'm no longer interested in taking that risk on. There should be some level for accountability when a person joins the website just to scam people.

Hi 👋🏼

This is my first, well, second attempt at my first Kickstarter project. It's a low-budget D&D webseries based in Leeds-UK. We're not actors or professionals or anything like that—just nerds who want to share our story with the world.

If funded, we'll use ALL the funds to improve the project with: better equipment, professional overlays, compensate our character artist, etc.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017209423/failing-forward-a-new-dandd-story?ref=6h5tpf&token=decbd9f1

Please take a look and drop ANY feedback here.

Much appreciated, Kade

Would you buy this $60 software for your parents?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1099908074/verticare-ai-powered-vertigo-measurement-and-training?ref=3u0arq