The OOTS Reprint Drive at Kickstarter: Pledge now to get exclusive rewards!

[Gwynfrid]

Hmm. The #5 spot in the Kickstarter Hall of Fame is at $556k, that's within reach even if the present rate slows down a bit. But #4 would be a more challenging bar, $800k or so.

[CloakedDancer]

Shouldn't there be a new thread by now?(wayyyyyy past 50 pages)

Isn't it obvious? We've already set a record or two on Kickstarter. We might as well try to break the record for number of posts in a thread while we're at it.

[DreadArchon]

A coloring book is still a new book. Looks like I'm up to $25.

(I would love it if the coloring book was bound to look like the normal books, with a number on the spine and everything. )

[Tanuki Tales]

Well, I bet it's intentional. The Mods probably figure that this thread will keep hitting 50 pages easy and in a relatively short amount of time, so it'd be a waste of time, effort and forum space to lock one and open another.

Or they're just too busy.

[SaintRidley]

Isn't it obvious? We've already set a record or two on Kickstarter. We might as well try to break the record for number of posts in a thread while we're at it.

Yeah... probably not going to happen. We're barely 20% of the way to hitting the length of the Dominic Deegan epic thread.

As Troll Bräu noted, it's most likely intentional. It is an exception to the fun and compliance with the rules, citizen. Now please return to your fun.

[usuakari]

I just carefully added up all the Kickstarter coolness and wanted to share my list for lazy fans:
Because Rich has kept adding the mini-prizes, Mystery Prizes, and other incentives as the numbers skyrocketed, here's what you will now get for a donation of at least $25 (the "Art Print" =$7 shipping to Canada=$32). I have all the books, so I didn't need to order them, but $32 gives me:
1. An 8x10 OOTS cast art print.
2. A Roy Green hilt magnet
3. An O-Chul story PDF
4. A 32-page OOTS Coloring Book
5. Custom character Story PDF #1 (character chosen by one of the 3 crazy backers who pledged over $1250, but all of get a copy too!) 8-12 pgs
6. Custom character Story PDF #2 (8-12 pgs)
7. Custom character Story PDF #3 (8-12 pgs)
8. Julio Scoundrel Story PDF (exclusive mystery prize)
9. Dim Sun Story PDF (exclusive mystery prize)
10. Sir Francois & the Dragon (and Elan!) Story PDF (exclusive mystery prize)
11. Set of OOTS Wallpapers (at least 10) (mini-prize)
12. Sheet of 8 OOTS Stickers (mini-prize)
13. OOTS Hit-Point Pad (mini-prize)
14. Mystery Prize #4 (will be revealed when we break $500,000- which will certainly happen soon)
..and possibly more! How can you resist??

[usuakari]

Also, would anybody else love to see a limited OOTS Kickstarter print collection that collected all the short stories (at least 7 now!) with the story of this whole Kickstarter craziness, including the graphs and comics, coloring book, wallpaper, sticker art, and all the other awesome graphics? Like the "merch only" single-panel gags, there's so much uncollected material waiting to become a book with "K" on the spine:) A 72 or 96-page book would be easy to fill up!

[Gwynfrid]

Also, would anybody else love to see a limited OOTS Kickstarter print collection that collected all the short stories (at least 7 now!) with the story of this whole Kickstarter craziness, including the graphs and comics, coloring book, wallpaper, sticker art, and all the other awesome graphics? Like the "merch only" single-panel gags, there's so much uncollected material waiting to become a book with "K" on the spine:) A 72 or 96-page book would be easy to fill up!

Posters here and on the KS site have been clamoring for that for the past 10 days or so. It's called "the K book". Hopefully it will come to exist one day.

[Helanna]

It's a recurring quote from The Hudsucker Proxy, a film by the Coen brothers.

Hmm. I have never, ever heard of that movie. Thanks for clearing that up though!

[Flame of Anor]

Yeah... probably not going to happen. We're barely 20% of the way to hitting the length of the Dominic Deegan epic thread.

Could you link? I mean, a 300-page thread? This I have to see.

[MoonCat]

Eh. The coloring book is cool, but I'm more interested in the other stuff. I'll get one anyway, since it's still pretty neat, but I wouldn't have raised my pledge to get it if it wasn't already there. Not as much of a colorer I guess. Especially since it'll only be usable once, and I always hate ruining pretty things with my own shoddy coloring abilities.

[jere7my]

There are some bonus fundraiser items, such as the stickers and coloring book, being given away when you buy a book. I already have all of the books and just want some the shwag. Will these be available for individual purchase?

Rich said he would like to put the leftover notepads and such up at the store, once all the Kickstarter craziness was over. This doesn't mean it'll definitely happen, but it does mean he's thinking about it.

[YohanLeafheart]

Could you link? I mean, a 300-page thread? This I have to see.

Google is your friend http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53160

There are 47 if I counted correct threads about this webcomic (which I never heard about), that thread is the one with 301 pages.

[jmucchiello]

A coloring book is still a new book. Looks like I'm up to $25.

(I would love it if the coloring book was bound to look like the normal books, with a number on the spine and everything. )

No, no, no, then you can't use it as a coloring book. Coloring books have to open flat. (And I don't think you can perfect bind a book with less than 64 pages, or it might be 48 as the lower limit. But certainly not 32. It just isn't enough pages.)

Of course, I'm getting more than one to have one that is not colored. :)

[Exediron]

Some more quick statistics (this time on item numbers):

PDFs: 6,164
Roy Greenhilt Magnets: 6,477
Art Prints: 1,061
Art Prints (autographed): 25
OotPC: 1,339
OotPC (autographed): 105
SoD: 1,137
SoD (autographed): 90
SS&DT: 1,681
SS&DT (autographed): 85
DCF: 722
DCF (autographed): 85
NCftPB: 874
NCftPB (autographed): 85
DStP: 673
DStP (autographed): 59
W&XP: 1,516
W&XP (autographed): 139
Holiday Ornaments: 120
Sticker Sheets: 4,571
Hitpoint Pads: 4,571
Complete magnet sets: 10
Crayon Drawings: 71

Total books to be shipped: 8,590
Total items to be shipped: 25,496
Total items requiring the Hand of the Giant: 744

Note: These numbers are all minimums; I didn't feel like going into the possibilities generated by mix & match categories, extra orders, etc.

Fittingly enough for a drive originally intended to reprint War & XPs, it is the most common book to be shipped; it is also the most common for signing.

[SaintRidley]

Could you link? I mean, a 300-page thread? This I have to see.

It's the thread where Deegan Snarking became a blood sport.

No, no, no, then you can't use it as a coloring book. Coloring books have to open flat. (And I don't think you can perfect bind a book with less than 64 pages, or it might be 48 as the lower limit. But certainly not 32. It just isn't enough pages.)

Of course, I'm getting more than one to have one that is not colored. :)

My fiancee will be scanning the pages out for the children at work to color so we can keep the original in pristine condition. If she's learned one thing from working with children it's that you never hand them an actual coloring book. All nine hells break loose when that happens.

[factotum]

Well, I bet it's intentional. The Mods probably figure that this thread will keep hitting 50 pages easy and in a relatively short amount of time, so it'd be a waste of time, effort and forum space to lock one and open another.

Or maybe this is the first time a stickied thread has hit 50 pages and they're not sure what to do with it?

[Porthos]

Fittingly enough for a drive originally intended to reprint War & XPs, it is the most common book to be shipped

Actually, that would be SS&DT as near as I can tell.

[Kobold-Bard]

Shouldn't there be a new thread by now?(wayyyyyy past 50 pages)

The first 5 pages would be nothing but people making "woo new thread!" type comments. It's a one off started by the Giant, just saves the hassle of migrating everyone over to a new one.

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Note: These numbers are all minimums; I didn't feel like going into the possibilities generated by mix & match categories, extra orders, etc.

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But what if they were definites rather than possibilities? I have the original $65 signed DStP, but have had signed Snips & W&XP added to it by PM.

As an aside, one of the $65 pledges has become open again it seems, so if you want a signed DStP then run for your life & click it.

[CloakedDancer]

Yeah... probably not going to happen. We're barely 20% of the way to hitting the length of the Dominic Deegan epic thread.

As Troll Bräu noted, it's most likely intentional. It is an exception to the fun and compliance with the rules, citizen. Now please return to your fun.

Checking out the links, wow. That's a lot. How about for stickied threads though? I don't feel like checking myself.


So what is Mystery Prize #4 going to be? And what could be added after that to keep the drive alive? There has to be a ceiling somewhere...

EDIT:

Total items requiring the Hand of the Giant: 744

Note: These numbers are all minimums; I didn't feel like going into the possibilities generated by mix & match categories, extra orders, etc.

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I feel like the minimum for items requiring the hand of the Giant is much higher:
$38 Level: 25 signed
$50 Level: 25 signed
$52 Level: 30 signed
$57 Level: 30 signed
$60 Level: 25 signed
$65 Level: 35 signed
$83 Level: 50 signed
$50 Level: 25 signed
$92 Level: 35 signed (allowing for minimum of no one picking a second book)
$96 Level: 50 signed
$240 Level: 120 signed (all 8 magnets get signed)
$250 Level: 50 drawings
$262 Level: 180 signed (all 6 books signed)
$305 Level: 175 signed (all 7 books signed)
$575 Level: 175 signed (all 7 books signed), 15 drawings
$600 Level: 5 drawings

Minimum: 1,050 drawings/signings (more likely 1,085 since I doubt people at the $92 level are refusing the choice of a second book).

[SteveDJ]

Shouldn't there be a new thread by now?(wayyyyyy past 50 pages)

Isn't it obvious? We've already set a record or two on Kickstarter. We might as well try to break the record for number of posts in a thread while we're at it.

I figure it is just like the graph on KickStarter, that just keep getting taller, and taller...

People would just go ballistic if the Giant were to trim off the lower $400K on the next graph, putting that at the bottom of a new, abbreviated graph.

So why shouldn't this thread just keep getting bigger, and bigger...

[Weimann]

The first 5 pages would be nothing but people making "woo new thread!" type comments. It's a one off started by the Giant, just saves the hassle of migrating everyone over to a new one.

It would save a lot of hassle in every case. That's not an argument.

[t209]

Recap: what is the current reward for 10 dollar pledge?

[Kobold-Bard]

Recap: what is the current reward for 10 dollar pledge?

Donate $10, get:
- O'chul origin story
- Julio Scoundrel story
- Dim Sun alternate reality OotS story
- Sir Francois story
- 3x stories bought by pledgers for $1,250 about a character of their choosing or a stick-ified version of another story of their choosing
- Roy Fridge magnet

Choose a pledge to get either the poster or at least one book ($25+) and you also get:
- A sheet of OotS Stickers
- An OotS notepad
- (In ~$3,000's time) A 32 page OotS colouring book.

[bjornthedwarf]

Okay, I started a new thread to compile blogs, forums and news articles about the drive, and to suggest other places that we can post on, or write to, about the drive to try and get even more coverage of it. Figured I would create a separate thread, as there's already a lot going on in this one:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231412

[jmucchiello]

Donate $10, get:
- O'chul origin story
- Julio Scoundrel story
- Dim Sun alternate reality OotS story
- Sir Francois story
- 3x stories bought by pledgers for $1,250 about a character of their choosing or a stick-ified version of another story of their choosing
- Roy Fridge magnet

This and the $25 donation should be in a sticky.

[usuakari]

If Rich decides to try the OotS set of dice, I think it would be cool if, on the dice, they replace the highest number with the face of an OotS character ( Critical hit! Yay) and the lowest number with their Linear Guild nemesis ( Critical miss! Bwahaha!)

What an awesome idea! Let's see, OOTS/Linear Guild faces could be:
Vaarsuvius/Zz'dtri on the d4
/ on the d6
/:yikyik: on the d8
/ on the d10
/:hilgya: on the d12
/ on the d20
Demon Cockroaches on the percentile d10?
But then what about the more serious villains- , , Monster in the Dark? Hmm..

[Jobuu]

Personally, I would love to see an Order of the Stick mousepad. It's something that could easily fit into an envelope with the books (similar size to the hit point pad). Not sure what sort of cost would be incurred, but that could be an idea for a future reward level.

[ella ventic]

$449,000! We'll make $450,000 in just about an hour, I bet...

[Kobold-Bard]

What an awesome idea! Let's see, OOTS/Linear Guild faces could be:

...

/ on the d4
/ on the d6
/ on the d8
/ on the d10
on the %
/ on the d12
/ on the d20
/ on either side of a coin

That's be my suggestion anyway.

Although I'd prefer just the Order's faces, with Mr. Scruffy or Blackwing on the % and the Xykon/Redcloak coin. But that's just me again, I'm not a big LG person.