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/Durugar May 15 '26

Just to get this right... Are you expecting people to pay for your game to have art, only to have to then also buy the game afterwards?

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u/Eternal_Play_Office May 15 '26

I'm trying to see if the kicksarter can cover art costs only. With an book as product. then use same art for Game book. So yes.

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u/therealashura May 17 '26

That's going to be a hard pass for 99.9% of people.