Just in case people missed the post in the Official Announcements forum, we are doing a Launch Party for the crowdfunding.
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So 8 minutes in and its already 225 backers and 38,000 dollars. Awesome!
Soooo I hope this might mean that there will be new Ars Magica 5e stuff in the works afterward.
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Well, the standard edition of the core rules is a guaranteed open license release now (note: it has not happened yet), so I think that's pretty certain.
And we are now at $80,000 and 450 backers.
I am impressed. And not going to bed just yet. (1:19 am here.)
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I just backed it and it's up over $88K now. And I get the feeling this ain't done yet.
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Well, it would be nice to see an updated stretch list goal considering the backing. Late stretch goals have less impact than early ones!
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John and Michelle are working on it. This has… gone rather faster than we expected.
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I'm hoping relevant stretch goals will be up before the ENWorld publication (which I presume will happen soon), as I suspect that can bring it traffic.
I'm also hoping they will include more art.
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Congratulations on more than doubling the highest stretch goal so far! I am very happy with the look of this, and have shared with my gaming group
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Can we get additional ribbon bookmarks as early stretchgoals (considering you even labeled it as "1st")? A book of this size needs at least three (gold, silver, copper?), and I'd hate to see those not being reached in the end.
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If only everyone had voted for reducing the entire Order to Merinita, we could have had six ribbons...
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New Stretch Goals are up. And down, for quite a few of them — including ArMD under CC BY-SA.
You might need to reload the page to see them.
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What’s the mood in the Atlas office? Are we happy with how it’s going?
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It's not planned to release the entire line under Creative Commons?
Well, those are stretch goals so I suppose that depends on the money to edit and produce the CC text versions....? At any rate, we're already at 200,000$ and 225,000$ includes most of the line as CC if I understand correctly, so there's that.
I think they'll need to come up with more stretch goals soon, through. 
I do hope for more new high-quality art.
Well, "most" as in "little over half", i.e. corebook(s)+21 supplements but missing the Houses of Hermes books, Covenants etc.
The 275 000$ level is the really significant one, since at that point the only missing books will be the 7 Scenarios ones: Calebais, Hooks, Tales of Mythic Europe, Antagonists, Tales of Power, Thrice Told Tales, and Dies Irae (plus, I guess, the Fallen Fane Larp).
That said, at the time of this writing 230 000 $ have been reached, and though the pace has slowed a tad, it's still impressive. I would not be at all surprised if the half-a-million threshold were reached by the end of the week.
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All we actually need to do is, after the campaign, edit the Atlas Games | Ars Magica Open License page with a list of the titles whose text we declare to be licensed under the CC-BY-SA 4.0.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that every 5th Edition book is going to be on that list. And a CC-BY-SA 4.0 notice will be on the Definitive Edition text sent to backers later this week.
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IIRC there are more ribbons in the stretch goal list, yet to be revealed.
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I must say I am quite impressed about how this whole launch was organized.
The timing, the pricing, the bundling, the shipping, the various stretch goals, the hype in the previous months - as well as the big effort to deliver a lot of real value by cleaning up the core-book (kudos to David Chart). And countless other little details like the recycled dice. It's all done very masterfully. There's too much gilding for my tastes but overall It's quite a lesson of excellent marketing, with resources that are not really extravagant as far as I can tell.
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Well it broke a quarter mil. So getting the additional Artwork. Less than $25k to the point where almost every book except the Scenarios ones are CC. Got delayed by real life or I would have backed hours ago.
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It's getting crazy now... Just breached $275K
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