I was one of them, backer #2
The Pioneer RPG Kickstarter is now Live!
- Thread starter MongooseMatt
- Start date
Jarac Rassen
Mongoose
I was looking for this option, too. Was surprised by its absence.
They will certainly be read there!
nostromo1a1
Mongoose
I pledged, one question, can I get my PDF's through Drive Thru?
Don't think I've evern seen this - what does it do?
You can!
August 2026.
shirgall
Banded Mongoose
It is helpful to think of the way things flow (not specific to Mongoose or anyone else specific):
1. Kickstarter starts, potentially give out a freebie like the "Preview" PDF
2. Kickstarter ends, creator sometimes gets a backer list to set up a questionnaire for fulfillment
3. Two to three weeks later the funding is actually released to the creator (there are typically some backers that end up not funding)
4. Digital fulfillment typically starts then, for things that are done, but even then there's likely a desire for editing and scale playtesting
5. Physical orders have significant lead time (months, including test prints) and require a lot of money up front
While some content can be worked on before that money comes in, it's usually a bad idea to lay out money or significant work before seeing some of that money, especially deposits on physical runs.
lategamer
Mongoose
Yeah I’ve been part of many KS. I just wanted to know the forecast. KS is little more than pre-orders to well organised companies like Mongoose.
March 2026 according to the KS page.
We already have pre-orders on our website
What Kickstarter is good at, aside from allowing us to gauge interest in weirder projects or expanding more reliable ones beyond their original concept, is punching into areas that we cannot normally reach - in a nutshell, Kickstarter is a form of marketing (which, ironically, these days needs marketing to work, but I digress...).
These are the reasons we do it
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Think of Kickstarter as group patronage in the form of the old patronage of artists. It is paying them for the concept of a job and then carrying out that concept.We already have pre-orders on our website
What Kickstarter is good at, aside from allowing us to gauge interest in weirder projects or expanding more reliable ones beyond their original concept, is punching into areas that we cannot normally reach - in a nutshell, Kickstarter is a form of marketing (which, ironically, these days needs marketing to work, but I digress...).
These are the reasons we do it
lategamer
Mongoose
We already have pre-orders on our website
What Kickstarter is good at, aside from allowing us to gauge interest in weirder projects or
I can understand that from the point of view of trying out some weird stuff though the incredible amount of work you’ve already done … goodness. I’m glad it’s working. That’s a big investment on a hope.
The marketing angle I appreciate.
These are the reasons we do it
There’s only a few companies I’d pledge without thinking (particularly at the higher levels). I think Mongoose have proved their bona-fides.
