He just… forgot? Seriously?… (Well… I guess an awful lot of months did pass between that kickstarter campaign and actually having to put “ephemera” into envelopes…)Īnd secondly … the print quality of the zine itself (and those “bonus printed materials”) was just a bit… “iffy”. So, the lovely envelopes you receive do not currently contain them.” The zine, sheets and envelopes were all being coordinated and packed by Dizzy, but somewhere over the last year the notepad and stickers just evaporated from my mind and my planning. “The Collector's editions were supposed to have the zine, eight sheets of bonus content, a little notepad and a sticker sheet. The creator posted an update a few days later… …what actually arrived was the zine packed in a custom-branded (not glassine… though that didn’t worry me so much) envelope, with 8 A5 sheets of “bonus content” cardboard, and … nothing else. The kickstarter pitch claimed that the package would include: “the zine itself in a custom-branded glassine envelope, packed with printed matter: bonus tables, art, stickers and other ephemera.” (Because I’m a sucker for arty-crafty bells and whistles, and the cost uplift wasn’t that much). The zine eventually arrived in early March… more than a year after the campaign ended, and 9 months behind schedule.įirstly … I’d plumped for the collectors edition. (and a beak-zine at that!) … not the most radical or innovative of kickstarter deliverables, for sure? The project chiefly involved printing a zine. But… it’s not like we didn’t all have a year of covid under our belts already… and some sense of urgency over delivering the zines that campaign backers had coughed up £72,000 to fund might’ve been a bit more appreciated than the family snaps. Which, yeah, I get… 2021 was a very strange time. ![]() And then much of the following year was spent receiving monthly updates about which I remember very little, other than the fact that the author would lead far too many of them with instagram-esque shots of his young children doing assorted “seasonal” activities, and telling us how difficult it was coping with covid. ![]() The delivery date of June soon slipped by. Well… I’m not sure exactly what went wrong, but something clearly did. The kickstarter was relatively cheap, hit its funding goals super-quickly, and seemed like it would be fulfilled super-fast (printed in the UK, with fulfilment anticipated in 4 months - What could go wrong?) And I’ve always been far more of a Sci Fi fan than a “high fantasy” fan … so I figured that if I was going to play a game that called for me to do a whole bunch of creative writing, then this thematic remix would be the one for me. Bucket of Bolts is a Sci-Fi re-imagining of a game called Artefact - a game which seems to be held in extremely high regard by folks who are into these things. Or, more specifically … a kickstarter for one of these fangled solo-roleplaying-journalling games caught my eye. So back in February of ’21, one of those fangled solo-roleplaying-journalling games that I told you about last time caught my eye.
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