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Reaper Bones II On The Way To New Kickstarter Records

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Reaper Bones II

Last year’s Reaper Bones Kickstarter was easily the highest-grossing crowd-funding campaign for miniatures. Hell, it even brought Kickstarter.com’s servers to its knees.

“Bones” doesn’t appear in the Tabletop Games category, as it offers no games… just loads of miniatures. Still, nearly 3.5 Million US$ put it comfortably ahead of all the other Kickstarter top-dogs of 2012 such as Sedition Wars, Zombicide or (if you count January 2013) Kingdom Death.

Now Reaper is back with Bones II. I would’ve thought the first one would have satisfied the demands for Bones Miniatures for the next few centuries. Well.. not really.

#1 – Bones I vs Bones II

The funny thing is, Reaper Bones I was actually quite a “sleeper” for most of the campaign.

Bones I launched without any of the now-typical pre-Kickstarter-launch hype and made “only” around 7.000 US$ on the first day.

Reaper Bones Kickstarter 1

From there, “the deal” of Bones got a little bit better every day, and with every day new backers joined. It wasn’t until the final few days, that Reaper “cashed-in” on the huge basis of backers it had drawn to it and launched the madness: Over 3/4 of a Million US$ on the last day.

Compare that to Bones II on it’s first ~1 1/2 days.

Reaper Bones II The Return of Mr. Bones

Nearly 1 Million on the first day (which, given that it didn’t start at midnight, was far less than 24 hours) and now already well over that magic (is it still?) Million-Dollar mark.

The first day of Bones II was 2K better than the last day of Bones I with all the build-up.

Madness!

The big question, I suppose, will be whether the Kickstarter “stagnates” (for Bones-standards), or if this is only a prelude to a new record finish? Bones II north of the 5 Million? 10 Million?

#2 – Reaper Bones Stats

Reaper Bones Stats

In a recent Kickstarter updates for Bones II (over 30 in one day… they are very well prepared), Reaper shared stats on how they spend the 3-and-a-half Millions from the first Bones Kickstarter.

Interesting insights and a rare treat for a company to grant insights like this. Have a look!

The Reaper Bones II Kickstarter will run until  Sunday Oct 27, 12:00am BST.

Share your thoughts!

  • Have you backed Bones I?
  • Are you backing Bones II?
  • Anyone willing to wager where this will end?
  • Why do you think Reaper Bones are so madly successful on Kickstarter?

Leave a comment and let me know!

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  • Redmoo

    Ih ave only ever backed one thing and that is Deadzone. Mainly as it comes as a pretty much complete little game.
    I personally don’t see the idea of getting hundreds of minis with no clear game to play them in, as pretty/well valued as they are.

    • Ruska

      It can be a boon for the RPG player or group – keep in mind that many (most) RPGs don’t have a dedicated line. Over the course of a campaign, it’s common to encounter a variety of different types of monsters. Rather than having to say “this model is a goblin”, “these two are bugbears”, etc. you can have a more appropriate model on hand to use. Do you need to do this? Not at all, but you don’t really even need to use real miniatures. As for myself and my friends, we enjoy the added detail of using models that more closely represent the characters and monsters in the encounter.

      • Redmoo

        You see I have never used miniatures in my RPGs at all. Barely ever even use hand drawn maps.
        Different strokes for different folks I guess.

        • http://pinsofwar.net/ Zweischneid

          Perhaps.

          I also tend to RPG without miniatures.

          But I think the RPG-industry is quickly moving in the opposite direction, and fast.

          The “no-miniatures” RPGs – at least as far as bigger lines go – are all dead, not least (ironically enough) to the deluge of Kickstarter-RPGs where somebody or another peddles their homebrew RPG as pdf through Kickstarter for a few thousands. And for literally every niche imaginable. There is no sustainable business for a company there.

          The “big ones” all push miniatures hard. The most successful D&D thing to come out in a long while was Lords of Waterdeep. For lack of a better word, WoTC seems to want to turn D&D into a board-game franchise these days.

          And Reaper Bones is including licensed miniatures for most others. Reaper I had loads of official Pathfinder minis. Reaper II now has Numenera. Etc… That’s – in no small part – where their backers come from.

          • Andrea Pearson

            I don’t play any games with my miniatures – I just enjoy collecting and painting them. The more the better!

  • Matt Allocco

    I didn’t hear about Bones KS1 until it was already finished, now that KS2 is coming to an end, I’m trying to only throw a modest amount of money at my screen *slapface*

    I don’t plat RPGs, although my friends have tried to get a few together, but with a $100 investment, you can get tons of heroes and bad guys for less than $1 a pop. That’s insane!

    Personally, I play wargames and find the cheap option to get a few monsters for 1/8 of what I might buy from another store, and still 1/2 (or less) the price it will end up being once the KS ends is too much to pass up on. The only downside is the core set includes such a variety of minis that I can’t see myself using them all. Kinda makes me wanna spark up that RPG with my friends (and get them to pitch in some money) :)