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Monday, August 15, 2016

When Kickstarter gets Violated by MLM - Smash Fund

When I saw the link to Smash Fund in the Kicksnarker Community on G+, I didn't think much of it.

Watch the video. It's short. Apparently, coffee is 5 bucks a cup...

Look, it wants to be a social media platform, a crowdfunding platform and a multi level marketing platform. How sweet!

Then I dug in a bit more and I realized it was insanely awful. Of the level on can only assume is meant to be a joke but probably isn't.

So, what is your cost and what do your backers get?

Yep, you can lose money on crowdfunding and cut out the middle man.

Holy shit.

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herucaAugust 15, 2016 at 12:15 PM
Kinda like asking people to pay for Facebook. It simply wouldn't happen. This is an equally bad idea and business model.
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HoundinAugust 15, 2016 at 12:28 PM
wait... isn't that kind of like Patreon, except not only the backers have to subscribe?
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EN429August 15, 2016 at 1:05 PM
My favorite: "All you need to know is that you're paying $149 a month."
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Venger SatanisAugust 15, 2016 at 4:54 PM
I have a passion... for never touching that site with a ten-foot pole!
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Jayson "Rocky" GardnerAugust 15, 2016 at 4:58 PM
So . . . A crowd funding, social media pyramid scheme. Sign me up!
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Jayson "Rocky" GardnerAugust 15, 2016 at 4:59 PM
So . . . A crowd funding, social media pyramid scheme. Sign me up!
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TheShadowKnowsAugust 15, 2016 at 5:11 PM
GRAB A SHOVEL.
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WithintheDungeonAugust 15, 2016 at 8:13 PM
Take fund and smash it into our pockets...
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WithintheDungeonAugust 15, 2016 at 8:17 PM
And...

You can smashfund your campaign year around for only $1788... And if you only happen to raise $200 no problem. We'll take you to court for the fee...
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Doc SavageAugust 15, 2016 at 11:53 PM
$150 a month to do things we can already do for free. Better get in before they sell out!
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Jack of ShadowsAugust 16, 2016 at 3:55 AM
I suddenly feel the urge of watching "The Sting"...
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DougAugust 16, 2016 at 7:51 AM
Good Lord, whoever is stupid enough to sign up for this deserves what they get.

Memo to file: Stay away from Todd Gross and everything he does.

I feel sorry for other people named "Todd Gross." At least one of the other people with my name is only a murderer, not an "affiliate marketer." (Yes, it's true. Turns out another guy with my name likes to not pay his medical bills. So I get extra attention when I try to buy a firearm, and get my credit report screwed up. I'd still prefer that to being mistaken for an MLMer.)
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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When Kickstarter gets Violated by MLM - Smash Fund

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