Oh yeah, some of the miniatures campaigns have been straight-up batshit. Pages and pages of options and photos and hype and money goals and social media goals and and and. I think that phenomenon went a long way toward cementing the “Kickstarter is another word for preorder” thing.

Still see it on some boardgames, especially when there’s a highly variable amount of bling. Mini games, still. It works.

I dropped out of the Mare Nostrum campaign when my aggregate backing of $198 just further unlocked yet another goodie I felt like I couldn’t live without, which would have brought me to $230 or something stupid. Totally irrational to spend all that and totally irrational that I can’t live without the whole thing (like I did with Fief, which I don’t regret but I was less poor that year).