A Gnome's Ponderings

  Magpie Games just finished up a Kickstarter for a licensed RPG about Avatar. (The Last Airbender/Kegend of Korea, not the ‘let’s see how m...

  It has been a while since I actually backed a Kickstarter project. However, Radow Ignatow’s A Lot of Games bundle managed to win me over. ...

A regular thread that seems to show up on Boardgame Geek is folks’ experiences with Kickstarter. So I decided to take a look down memory lan...

I've been interested to see what The Spiel Press would turn out to be ever since I first read about the up-and-coming imprint/company on...

I My latest print-and-play project was making the demo copy of the Grand Gamers Guild's Pocket Ops for the precise goal of actually play...

Does this ever happen to anyone else? I was looking through my PnP files and realized I had not yet downloaded some of the files I had bough...

And  This is a little bit late, since the Kickstarter is almost over, but Button shy Games is kicking off the year with the standalone expan...

The Mysterious Package Company is having itself another Kickstarter. I have never been a customer of the Mysterious Package Company. Ins...

The Kickstarter for Mint Works is almost at an end and it's been funded well and above the goal. Enough that a number of stretch goals h...

Since I'm on the Smallbox Games mailing list, I found out when they started the Akua Kickstarter.  What immediately struck me what t...

Lairs is a Kickstarter project that checked off enough boxes for me that I ended up backing is on the PnP level. Admittedly, the fact that t...

While I usually just look through Kickstarter for boardgames, I do look at the role playing games and was surprised to see that a revised ed...

It isn't a surprise that the Arcade Pyramid got funded, seeing as how it matched its funding goal on day one. Additional stretch goals, ...

Looney Labs has just started a Kickstarter project called Pyramid Arcade, which is the largest tool kit they've offered for their Looney...

Another Kickstarter which interests me has relaunched, Dice Bazaar. While it is a game, which is what I generally look at when I look at, Di...

The Kickstarter for the Name of God has come to a close and it has passed and flying colors. Tons of stretch goals were met which means that...

After enough people asked how exactly The Name of God worked, I wrote to Alessandro Piroddi to get permission to get the PDF of the first ed...

As I spent more time on Kickstarter, both doing a lot of lurking and backing some projects, I have grown more critical of stretch goals. Wel...

One of the most rewarding Kickstarters of 2014 for me was the Pack O Games series.  Part of the fun was that every stretch goal was a ne...