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[Yendor]

Top Ten? This is just completed projects below:

1 $942,578 Design
2 $938,771 Design
3 $830,827 Technology
4 $556,541 Technology
5 $486,518 Design
6 $369,569 Design
7 $364,698 Design
8 $345,992 Film
9 $306,944 Design
10 $301,850 OOTS

There's a currently running design project at, at last count, $754,952. So we're in 11th, at least for the next five minutes.

[Electronic]

Is there a pledge where I can get:

Don't Split The Party
War & XPs
Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales

[ORione]

I don't believe it, there's still an unclaimed autographed DStP. Unfortunately, it's out of my price range.

[Duskranger]

I pledged, yeah, I will get the three print only books ^^.

Now only to see what is left on my card when everything is done.

Especially since I have the price in euros and the kickstarter is in Dollars.

[Tanuki Tales]

Good googly moogly.

I go to bed at around 1 am EST last night and the Pledge amount is ~260. I check right now, about 10 hours later (after waking up) and we've broke clear through 300k.

[Kobold-Bard]

Really you guys? Really?

That 3rd mystery prize was just thrown up as a gimmick to keep us placated as the line inches upwards over the next couple of weeks. We weren't actually supposed to reach it, it was a joke line. But now Rich'll have to come up with something else to add to the PDF.

It's like you hate him or something. You all make me sick

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[Tanuki Tales]

I must now go fiddle around with my W2 as soon as possible to see what I'm getting from my Tax Return. I'm going for the total compilation. >.>

[RMS Oceanic]

It's human nature to be attracted to what's in the mystery box.

[Tanuki Tales]

*sits and does some quick math*

I really hope Rich adds some T-shirts or something to the options, possibly as add-ons to other levels.

That way I can go for the compilation and add 30 dollars of other stuff and then get a poster for free. >.>

[Duskranger]

Really you guys? Really?

That 3rd mystery prize was just thrown up as a gimmick to keep us placated as the line inches upwards over the next couple of weeks. We weren't actually supposed to reach it, it was a joke line. But now Rich'll have to come up with something else to add to the PDF.

It's like you hate him or something. You all make me sick

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I did not pledge because of that (though I will happily accept it), I pledged since I follow OOTS as long as I play DnD and I now really want to have those stories I never have read before. I want to know how everything started and I want to read the tales from SSaDT.

[Savannah]

Do we have an OOTS barter thread somewhere?

Something where I could say "Hey - anyone have a Belkar magnet? I'll trade you the rights to a Crayon drawing for a Belkar magnet!" etc.

That strikes me as really dangerous. What's to stop me (unscrupulous person with nothing but a desire for a Belkar magnet) from approaching you (nice person with a Belkar magnet who wants a crayon drawing) and going "hey, let's trade!", then waiting for you to remove your pledge and taking it, leaving you with nothing?

Is there a pledge where I can get:

Don't Split The Party
War & XPs
Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales

Pledge $94 or more
150 Backers

PICK THREE (OR MORE) BOX: Pick any two color compilation books (Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, No Cure for the Paladin Blues, War and XPs) and any one prequel book (On the Origin of PCs or Start of Darkness). Then add $30 for every extra compilation you want to add and $16 for every extra prequel, up to a total of 6 books. Plus a Roy Greenhilt magnet. Don't pick now; we'll ask you which ones you want when we collect your shipping address. (NOTE: If Don't Split the Party is being reprinted by the time the drive ends, you can pick that for your compilation, too.) Shipped anywhere in the United States (Canada/Mexico orders, please add $22 extra to your pledge to cover shipping; international orders, add $37.) [New reward! Added 1/26/2012.]

Bolding is mine.

[keldorn]

Here's something I posted a little while ago.

Talking about fanboy stuff, a while ago I posted

I did eventually discover four current projects that were bigger than we were at the time, but we have since passed two of those and look how close we are to running this one down. I'll produce a list of our remaining top 15 targets once I notice we have passed that one.

Oh well, I couldn't wait that long. Here are the current top 15 projects in terms of money including both completed and open projects.

1. $942,578 Design
2. $938,771 Design
3. $830,827 Technology
4. $735,802 (and growing) Design
5. $556,541 Technology
6. $486,518 Design
7. $369,569 Design
8. $364,698 Design
9. $345,992 Film and Video
10. $306,944 Design
11. $281,989 Design
12. $273,725 Film and Video
13. $262,351 Technology
14. $259,293 Technology
15. $257,307 Food

Thirteen of those are products which have uses, as is the one which we are running down. So we are already the third largest "arts" project. With the pent up demand for DStP as part of various packages, including signed ones, I think we will take positions 15 to 12 in a rush when we get there and become the second biggest arts project. If we get to the third bonus award, we will probably get to be in the top 10. Unless Rich has further fundraising plans that he hasn't yet mentioned, I can't see us getting to position 9 and becoming the biggest arts project at the same time.

The biggest running project has now reached $755,280. We have reached $305,008. Something makes me think that we will become a top 10 project about the time that I manage to send Rich a message suggesting relevant t-shirts.

[Shale]

Sigh, why must all prospective heroes go through this stage?
If not you, whom would do it? Would you really want to live in a world where it wasn't done, to take the consequences of your inaction?
To let others suffer the consequences of your inaction?

I'll gladly slay whatever ancient lurking evils threaten the very fabric of existence. But this is math.

[Elder Tsofu]

I'll gladly slay whatever ancient lurking evils threaten the very fabric of existence. But this is math.

The hero of mathematics, take up the shield of Laplace and the ancient sword named Division! Do your duty, fulfil your destiny and battle the numbers for the sake of us all.

[Weimann]

On the one hand, I'm tempted to upgrade to get the Full Story pledge.

On the other, I already have On the Origin of PCs and Start of Darkness, and that's fair share of money there.

Luckily it's not limited, so I'll wait a couple days.

[Electronic]

Bolding is mine.

I don't think Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales counts as a prequel book.

[Absol197]

So, by doing some eyeballing, the jump from the full reprint of War and XPs to the reprint of On the Origin of PCs was about $20,000. Since the Giant said that after Don't Split the Party, Start of Darkness would be up next, I'm thinking at the current rate we have a legitimate shot of getting enough for it to be reprinted before the next update!

We're already almost $30,000 over Don't Split the Party, and the highest base printing cost was for DStP itself, at around $80,000. Could Start of Darkness, as a short, mostly-greyscale book, really be more than half that cost? I think if we reach $315,000-ish, we'll be there! Hooray for us!

[factotum]

Bolding is mine.

You might want to re-read that--it only offers a choice of SoD or OtOoPCs for the "non-print" books, you can't get SSaDT through that pledge.

[Krizak]

Actually no, I was talking about debit cards, as in the one I use in cash machines.

Yes, the issue here is that debit card doesn't necessarily mean that in all places. For instance, up here in Canada, the card I use in cash machines and for electronic payment at retailers is indeed called a debit card, but I can't use it on Amazon or almost any other place online, because it uses the Interac system (that is spelled correctly) rather than being branded by a credit card company like American debit cards are. Trust me, if I could use my debit card for this, I would have grabbed one of the signed full sets of books, rather than using two accounts to get two rewards both under a hundred dollars since that's the largest Visa or MasterCard gift cards seem to come in.

(As an interesting aside, iOS autocorrects MasterCard to have the camel case.)

[Savannah]

I don't think Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales counts as a prequel book.

....aww, crap, you're right, it's not listed. Well, in that case, what I would do is pledge for one of the options that has two of the books you want ($68 and $78) and message Rich (on Kickstarter) asking to add the other book. When I was in your situation, he told me how much to increase my pledge by to get what I wanted.

You might want to re-read that--it only offers a choice of SoD or OtOoPCs for the "non-print" books, you can't get SSaDT through that pledge.

That's because it logically fits there -- it's one of the "thin books" so I was assuming it was a shipping thing (2 fat books, 1 thin book). Shoulda been looking at more than whether Don't Split the Party was on the list

[homeslice]

All the books in one fell swoop.

Goodbye money.

[Sethala]

On the one hand, I'm tempted to upgrade to get the Full Story pledge.

On the other, I already have On the Origin of PCs and Start of Darkness, and that's fair share of money there.

Luckily it's not limited, so I'll wait a couple days.

If you don't want to get another copy of the prequel books, message Rich and tell him what you do want, and he should be able to point you at the right pledge and how much to increase it by.

[jmucchiello]

Updated, thanks to Keldorn (finding the in-progress projects is not easy):

1 $942,578 Design
2 $938,771 Design
3 $830,827 Technology
4 $755,563 Design 11 days left
5 $556,541 Technology
6 $486,518 Design
7 $369,569 Design
8 $364,698 Design
9 $345,992 Film
10 $306,944 Design
11 $305,912 OOTS 21 days left

[Tev]

As kickstarter pledge grows faster and faster so does this thread . . . impossible to read fast enough :X

4 MODS: what about new (sticky) thread like "Kickstarter pledge: Q&A" or "Kickstarter: how to get combo of books x and y and z etc." or something like that?

[Forbiddenwar]

Ona side note, this is the third time we've broken the chart between updates. Even more amazing is the last update was only 10 hours ago.

Yep, Rich raised $40,000 in 10 hours, or $4,000 an hour.

[Yendor]

Into the top 10, after a little more than nine days. Rock on.

[Spacewolf]

i really hope that this isnt just people messing about so it shoots down in the last few days

[wxdruid]

I stayed awake til the wee hours of the morning to see the new rewards and jumped my pledge up to the signed set. One slight difficulty though, I almost slept past the housing block opening for GenCon. Fortunately I made it just in time and got the hotel I wanted and now I have a complete signed set of books headed my way.

[bjornthedwarf]

i really hope that this isnt just people messing about so it shoots down in the last few days

Even if there were a few like that, there is now a $43,000 buffer above the minimum needed to make some printing of all 4 books. Hundreds of donors could back out at the very last second, and all the goals would still be met.

[Dragon Star]

As kickstarter pledge grows faster and faster so does this thread . . . impossible to read fast enough :X

4 MODS: what about new (sticky) thread like "Kickstarter pledge: Q&A" or "Kickstarter: how to get combo of books x and y and z etc." or something like that?

Isn't that the point of this thread?