Kickstarter Question (Patreon)

Yes, I am thinking about running my own kickstarter!

Now, I should first, before doing anything else, ask people what they would expect and whether it's a good idea in the first place. I'm very interested in what people think so please make sure you vote in the poll below and leave a comment if you have any other thoughts. 

Bear in mind, if I do a Kickstarter it won't be for a little while :)

There are a bunch of circumstances that are somewhat unique to my situation which I will try and break down below. 

Patreon vs Kickstarter

I do of course run a patreon, which accounts for almost my entire monthly budget, paying my rent, bills, buying food, saving etc which doesn't actually leave me with a huge amount at the end of each month. In the past this has been fine but it doesn't allow me to fund larger projects. The best example of that was the Blood Grotto. 

I had a budget for that small setting of $500. I spent $600 all told, on the cover artist, interior artwork, paying the writers, editors and a few smaller expenses etc. I also did a ton of work myself like the layout, writing, mapmaking etc and burnt myself out getting it done in a single month. 

Unfortunately when looking at the total money that I have made from the Blood Grotto a year later, the amount is about $350, which is a net loss of $250. So from a certain point of view it doesn't make sense to make more. 

However!

The Blood Grotto was accessed for free on my website by over 220 people from patreon and a few other places using free codes in addition to those that have bought it. If everyone that accessed it from patreon paid the $10 I would have made about $2000, which is a pretty good profit if you ask me. Now that is not accurate of course but as a rough guide it's very interesting to think about. Also, another thing to bear in mind, my Patrons were able to cover the loss simply by the steady pledge increase month after month. Putting aside a small amount from my monthly Patreon total to then potentially fund the next project was my general idea at the time. 

Not only that, but the setting itself was very well received and I did not receive a single, and I mean not one bad comment in regards to the content, price or anything else. This was of course, very encouraging. 

And that is the route that I can still take, I could keep making a small setting and possibly adventure, every year going forwards, and may decide it's better than a kickstarter for the foreseeable future. 

Running a Kickstarter would allow me to do something bigger however and I’m very confident that I could put it all together considering the Blood Grotto took a single month to complete from start to finish. 

Continuing Pateron

I would like to make it clear that I wouldn't replace my Patreon with any kind of Kickstarter, instead it would be an optional, additional thing on the side that would allow me to do something that requires a much larger budget. I would still be making maps, and KTech would still be making tokens for patrons on a monthly basis! :)

Kickstarter Goal

The questions would be, what would I make? Well Im 99% certain I want to make another setting but this time I want to have a proper go at it. It would be larger in scope and contain, creatures, items, random tables, city guides, locations, descriptions, secrets, new races, systems and of course, tons of lovely maps and tokens. 

I would absolutely try to do a physical book reward as well! 

Feedback

I won't go into more details with this post, as I would need to work out all the details later, so for now I simply would like feedback on what people would be happy to support and if in general people think it is a good idea! 

Thank you very much for reading and I hope everyone is doing well! <3