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Issues with Kickstarter campaigns by creators Allister and DM-Flynn
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Issues with Kickstarter campaigns by creators Allister and DM-Flynn

Please do your due diligence before backing projects by either of these creators. They have established a consistent pattern of advertising PDFs for their campaigns, only to deliver practically unusable Google Docs instead then telling backers to make a PDF themselves. Their VTT tokens are also nothing of the sort, just a bunch of images pasted into a Google Doc.

They claim it's a mistake, that they'll fix it going forward, etc, but they have been called out on it before and done nothing to change. They have admitted that using Google Docs was always their intention and that they were knowingly, falsely advertising PDFs.

They also claim that all of their content is made, edited, polished etc. by humans, but it's obvious from even a glance at their "final products" that they heavily use AI.

They are mass reporting comments on their past and current campaigns in an attempt to cover it up.

If you backed one of their previous campaigns, please report it. If you see this and you are backing one of their current campaigns, I urge you to reconsider.

Campaign links for reference:

Current Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/evolution-was-not-gentle-100-evolving-race-options

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/they-all-think-theyre-right-100-evolving-factions

Previous Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/living-bestiary-100-evolving-horrors-and-eldritch-bosses

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/world-under-red-glass-a-5e-campaign-setting/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/subclasses-of-wonder/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/brews-of-wonder-50-potions-for-every-adventure-5e-one-dandd

u/Wild_Caterpillar2361 — 8 days ago

Please do your due diligence before backing projects by either of these creators. They have established a consistent pattern of advertising PDFs for their campaigns, only to deliver practically unusable Google Docs instead then telling backers to make a PDF themselves. Their VTT tokens are also nothing of the sort, just a bunch of images pasted into a Google Doc.

They claim it's a mistake, that they'll fix it going forward, etc, but they have been called out on it before and done nothing to change. They have admitted that using Google Docs was always their intention and that they were knowingly, falsely advertising PDFs.

They also claim that all of their content is made, edited, polished etc. by humans, but it's obvious from even a glance at their "final products" that they heavily use AI.

They are now mass reporting comments on their past and current campaigns in an attempt to cover it up.

If you backed one of their previous campaigns, please report it. If you see this and you are backing one of their current campaigns, I urge you to reconsider.

Edit (Campaign links for reference):

Current Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/evolution-was-not-gentle-100-evolving-race-options?ref=creator_tab

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/they-all-think-theyre-right-100-evolving-factions?ref=profile_created&category_id=34

Previous Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/living-bestiary-100-evolving-horrors-and-eldritch-bosses

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/world-under-red-glass-a-5e-campaign-setting/comments

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/subclasses-of-wonder/comments

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/brews-of-wonder-50-potions-for-every-adventure-5e-one-dandd/comments

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