Mars wrote in Kickstarter projects:Badmike wrote in Kickstarter projects:I've learned enough about him the last decade that I'd never give him any of my money, anyway.Completely agree. I still don't understand why people decide to team up with him and then are surprised and/or complain when he acts the same way he has for decades. I'm just saying I don't think the Kickstarted projects had added any new information. If you read his comments when he posts, he is a bad representative of his own company so why would he be a good one for other companies?And if he is still working with Elmore, that is a relationship that is now 8? 10? year old.
Badmike wrote in Kickstarter projects:I've learned enough about him the last decade that I'd never give him any of my money, anyway.
misterspock wrote in Kickstarter projects:whoa... thanks for posting that. I got to catch up on reading those kickstarter updates.
Jolly BlackburnMarch 11, 2015 at 2:26 AMYes I was spammed to death by the d20 Marketing Machine. Tagged in multiple d20 macbook posts each day (posted to multiple groups to 20k people apparently). I found it was impossible to get off the spam list - apparently asking nicely, over a dozen times wasn't sufficient. I had to get loud and public about it before my name was finally removed. So... I was already a bit frazzled regarding the subject of spam when KODTLAS backers began complaining the kickstarter update list (105 updates and counting) was being used to push/pimp products not related to the project. That led to more head butting trying to get the practice to stop (understand that it is NOT my kickstarter - d20's baby. We just provided the license and creative input and have no fingers on the button). Finally, after weeks we managed to curb that practice - only to learn d20 took the email lists of backers from the project and put them on several spam/mailing lists. Unsubcribe from one list you would pop up on another, and another and then the original list again. Complaints to d20/Ken apparently went unheard so guess what? Backers began complaining to ME!! So ye it's true - I had to get very loud and very public regarding the situation to bring i under control. And to be honest, I'm not even sure if it's been resolved now. But complaints in my inbox have gone down dramatically in recent days. I may need therapy (and some medication) but yes, I am a d20 Spam Tsunami survivor.
ExTSR wrote in Kickstarter projects:gyg wrote in Kickstarter projects:Do you, Extsr, know something we don't?Perhaps.In any event I am unable to elaborate at this time.Feel free to ignore or heed my 'flag'.
gyg wrote in Kickstarter projects:Do you, Extsr, know something we don't?
stahlnee wrote in Kickstarter projects:misterspock wrote in Kickstarter projects:was this the guy that was working with Larry Elmore?Not was. Larry is still working with him. Larry is signing pencil dice bags for one of his kickstarters that ended just 2 days ago.On Snarfquest the complete combined book offering was nixed months after funding.I am staying away from both guys.
misterspock wrote in Kickstarter projects:was this the guy that was working with Larry Elmore?
I want to make a couple of things clear, I think some people are or were worried and/or confused about me involved on several kickstarters. Check my kickstarter profile and you will see that I have only been involved in two kickstarters, and they were mine. They were conceived, produced and with the help from all my backers, published by me. Sometimes my name gets used even without my permission, or people use my art, second rights, which they should pay me for...all of this is very difficult for me to keep up with. I currently am NOT working with Ken Whitman on any of my projects and have not worked with him for over a year. Sometimes he takes advantage of our friendship or persuades me to use my name as part of his product lines that I am not otherwise involved in. Also I have never authorized the use of my mailing lists for any purpose whatsoever! This is going to stop, I never want to be a "Kickstarter whore". From the very start I have only wanted to do three Kickstarters, two big artbooks (color and black & white) and this Snarfquest new adverture book. I may have future Kickstarters, but I do not see anything in the near future. Maybe I will do another in a few of years. I do want to work on new art and who knows where it may take me.The other kickstarter Snarfquest book was a separate license deal with Imagined Publishing, which was supposed to run a year before this Kickstarter started. Imagined Publishing is a good company and the owner has been a Snarfquest fan since he was a child. They are making a quality product, and we were thinking about using his re-mastered thirtieth anniversary edition, but I decided I am not using those books for any of my fulfillments. My original Snarfquest book, currently on my website, that I have been selling for many years, had some mistakes, a couple of pages out of order plus one page missing...I didn't catch this until just a couple of years ago. They were mistakes that you could read through without really realizing it....but once I found them, they really bothered me. These mistakes have been corrected, including the missing page, in the combined books we are printing now. Everything in this Kickstarter is from ME, published by me, printed by a professional high quality printer... not from any other kickstarter. All is newly published. The Snarfquest books that I have been selling over the past few years will soon be removed from my website and replaced with my new books.Again, I want to thank everyone for their support and patience, I only want to bring you the best possible quality product, and sometimes it takes more time and searching (plus a few mistakes) than I anticipated.
But, like everything I get involved in, there's always a glitch. There was a problem with the combined books. Because I love the quality of these books delivered today so much I have decided to print the combined books through the same printer—these are also the same people who printed my Complete Elmore art book last year. Yes, these books will be a single, combined book, offset print, for both the softcover and hardcover versions. The new file was sent to the printer today, and hopefully, barring snowstorms, freezing ice or asteroids, they should arrive later this month. We will keep you informed!I take responsibility for this delay on the combined books and even though this change is costing me extra I think it's worth it because I want to deliver the best quality product I can. I want you to know, when you by a Kickstarter product through Larry Elmore or Elmore Productions that it's coming straight from me and you will get a quality product.
bbarsh wrote in Kickstarter projects:Dwarven Forge's City Builder Terrain System -- FINAL HOURS! by Dwarven Forge — KickstarterDwarven Forge. Very, very cool.
cabala wrote in Kickstarter projects:bbarsh wrote in Kickstarter projects:Dwarven Forge's City Builder Terrain System -- FINAL HOURS! by Dwarven Forge — KickstarterDwarven Forge. Very, very cool.This is seriously very cool but the pricing seems to get way out of hand. I could spend $1000 on all these add-on sets and what not. I don't have time to paint and these are beautifully painted. It beats the other kickstarter that was referenced recently which was similar to this one but I decided not to back for similar reasons. Is this mainly for wargaming terrain or do people use these types of setups when playing a pen and paper rpg?
xRalphx wrote in Kickstarter projects:I saw TheHistorian post a review of what he had received on Yoggie : yog-sothoth.com/topic/23524-chaosium-ki ... /?p=297903I haven't received mine yet.
Blackmoor wrote in Kickstarter projects:I imagine it could be used for both. We tried using the original Dwarven Forge stuff for RPG's, it was just to awkward and time consuming, took forever to set up and take down. We use a grid map now for the most part.