Paradoxically, I hate when higher pay is a stretch goal. That feels like extortion. “Oh well, we’d LIKE to pay our people more but… well… it’s just so hard. Maybe YOU can make it happen? If only you were more generous…”
I suppose that’s one way to look at it. I just see it as reinvesting in the people who made the game happen. “We initially budgeted for our writers to receive X, but if can reach <insert goal>, we can increase that to Y.” It’s kind of like getting a Christmas bonus when your company does well over the year - it’s not expected, you still get your base pay, but it’s a way to reward the team when things go right.
Also the sheer volume of stretch goals, and unplanned stretch goals are a red flag.
It's more that they don't have the money for higher rates- your additional money helps with a larger budget for them.
Yeah, that's how I've always seen it as well. The extortion angle was totally surprising
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Then I’d say make it a policy. Don’t draw attention to it, just pay your people. Do it every single time if the product does well enough.
I like it when the stretch goals are incremental improvements on the product. Fund us to X level and we hire a professional editor. Fund us to Y level and we get full-colour art. Fund us to Z level and we hire a layout designer.
I dunno, I like seeing it. Is it shamelessly capitalistic, yes, the publisher is still making more, but it's at least getting redistributed and it's a nice public statement to make.
Again, same here. Also, in some cases the publisher is also the author, and probably deserves a bonus
!so, what you are saying is that Shadowrun books need to be kickstarter campaigns?
The SR kickstarter would be more like "if we hit this goal we'll learn what an editor is, if we hit the higher goal we'll hire one, if we hit the highest goal then we'll fire the editor to give you the Shadowrun quality you expect".so, what you are saying is that Shadowrun books need to be kickstarter campaigns?
It looks like the "ink" filter from Paint.net. I'll bet his mom is very proud too and taped this piece to her refrigerator.
My vision isn't good and I could easily be wrong about this, but... isn't that 'old master' just Skarka himself in cosplay?
I kind of think it is.
Don't kinkshame.
Including a previous Skarka game brought up in this thread.
I guess if you consider being consistent a virtue, he's been nothing but on all fronts in this project. (I genuinely don't care; I've never purchased or played a Skarka game and I only occasionally follow this debacle out of a mild curiosity, having been burned on a couple of KS projects myself).
That's the same one shown above, isn't it?
Yup, I was mostly posting it for the date on the tweet.
Now I wish I had a copy of the L5R Larp handbook. It's been a while, but in my memory it was basically the same thing. And by photo-manipulated, they were just black and white. I think some samurai were wearing glasses, but that might be my faulty memory.
Jennifer Aniston's game? That Jennifer Aniston?
= the RPG Pundit, for reasons unclear to me.
This is what I get for living in self-imposed isolation in my lonely mountain-top laboratory.
Thanks, I was going to ask the question also.
Honestly, for LARPs, especially for fantasy ones, I'm cool with it. It's a nice reward for folk for putting in the effort of making quality outfits, and can inspire other players by showing them that it's very doable.
