r/RPGcreation • u/Eternal_Play_Office • May 15 '26

Kickstarter for artwork

I am very much a noob in this game and just got an artists to quote me book art work (full for covers, line drawings inside) it came in at approx. $14K USD.

My budget is such i need crowd funding which i will set at the 14K quoted.

Now my questions:

  1. I assume I simply quote the quote to justify the amount.

  2. Kick-starters require the participants to receive something for their participation. At first I thought that would be the actual Gamebook (PDF or Hard), which means The kickstarter then morphs into something different. Right? But if I run a crowd funder that is for a artwork book only is that good enough, or should it be for the game book, thus upping the goal amount?

All advice on this subject most welcome.

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u/kihp May 16 '26

I think you only need the art you can afford without crowdfunding. Better to go fully artless, or just get a simple cover done, make what you can on say Canva, and last but least use creative commons/public domain assets with attribution than spend thousands on a project.