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by MicahWedemeyer 5056 days ago
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I run a website in the tabletop RPG space, and there is an average of 1 new kickstarter per day for someone trying to fund their new game, new module, new idea, new iphone dice roller, new virtual tabletop, etc.

They all point to the massive successes, but very few seem to understand that failure is a definite possibility.

Thanks for putting this together and I'll definitely be talking about it on my podcast: http://hastepodcast.com We're always covering new kickstarter projects, and this is an invaluable tool for people who get all starry-eyed at crowdfunding.

2 comments

It seems like 75-80% of the card/board game projects are funded according to kickback.
Yeah, that was surprising to me as well. Maybe the whole picture is rosier than I thought.
Kickback's corpus only goes back to June 2012.
Agree, great resource. Also, cool podcast.