Considering: None (I thought about WoW, but I’ll just wait for retail if I get it at all)
Backing: None
Awaiting:
I guess if we’re making lists, I could mention upcoming campaigns I’m waiting/watching for;
I’m sure more will get added to the list, but those are the “front and centre” ones right now.
Haha. Oh man. Brace yourselves:
Boardgame KS, oldest outstanding to newest:
Myth: Journeyman - technically all I’m waiting on at this point is the minis. But they were hundreds of dollars worth of minis, so…
Sentinels of Earth-Prime - this got caught up in the delay of OblivAeon and now COVID - seems like it’s most of the way there but it’s still over 2 years late and not in production yet, I don’t think? Or in production and not ready to ship, one of the two.
BattleCON: Unleashed - I believe this is on the cusp currently.
Spirit Island: Jagged Earth - not technically late yet but I don’t think it’s gonna fulfill this month so.
Sword & Sorcery: Ancient Chronicles - I’ve played maybe five sessions of the previous campaign so this can take its time!
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon - I did get the first wave of this but there’s three more campaigns coming and a couple mini-expansion dealies.
Millenium Blades: Collusion - they finally locked in addresses, so…soon?
Hyperspace - man, who the fuck knows. But Petersen Games deliver eventually.
Wrestlenomicon - mostly backed on a whim and to support Arc Dream. I think it’s late but eh.
Carnival Zombie 2nd edition - I keep forgetting this was even a thing, but I’ve heard good things. Like six months late already.
Folklore: The Fall of the Spire (and previous content) - Projected for December. Could hit that, who knows.
Maximum Apocalypse: Legendary Edition - projected for this month and I think it’s currently shipping, IIRC.
Anachrony: Fractures of Time and Infinity Box (plus previous content) - estimated March. Running late, forget where we’re at.
Hostage Negotiator: Career (and previous content) - estimated March also, but I think this is shipping?
Too Many Bones: Splice and Dice (and previous content) - running late but I think the main content is shipping or about to and the Trove Box is estimated for August atm.
Etherfields - running late, estimated March but clearly not hitting that.
Dice Throne: Adventures (and updated season 1) - estimated July at the time, so might end up late but we’re not there yet.
Middara: Unintentional Malum (and previous content) - estimating december next year. So, yeah.
Hexplore It: The Sands of Shurax - August, maybe?
Sleeping Gods - estimated this month but I don’t think it’s gonna hit it.
Aeon Trespass: Odyssey - estimated January next year
Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood - december?
Unsettled - October?
Glorantha: The Gods War expansions - fuck if I know.
Black Sonata - August?
Return to Dark Tower - Feb next year?
Aeon’s End: Outcasts - August probably (these things ship like clockwork in my experience)
Kanban EV - November?
Hastur Rising (Hastur mini for several petersen games) - dunno
Cloudspire - November?
Final Girl - May next year?
Yeesh.
Upcoming is a tricky thing, especially in the current climate. I really think most publishers that aren’t named Cephalofair should probably wait if they are looking to really cash in on Kickstarter. Clearly a good number are going forward regardless (either because they have no realistic alternative and need to keep moving forward regardless of diminished success in the near-term; or because it’s a passion project and it doesn’t need to be hugely-successful to meet the creator’s expectations)
But, that said, here’s what I’m watching for:
Oh, I forgot the Graphic Novel Adventures. They’re puzzle game books and I get the Sherlock Holmes ones as they come out so I’m awaiting those from the latest kickstarter (Season 3, I think it is).
I dunno. On the one hand, many people are newly-unemployed; on the other, those who are still employed may well not be spending money on things they usually would.
I have a whopping 12 things backed on KS. I mean, for all time, just 12, and I have received them all. Latest one was a few things from the Batman:GCC Season 2 KS last June.
However, I will most likely be backing the War of Whispers campaign, as it looks great, and I am very tempted by the Kemet: Blood and Sand, but I’ll have to see the pricing when it launches.
This is the only thing I’m waiting for.
Also, Tribune is here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indiegamestudios/tribune?ref=discovery_category_newest
I’ll be looking for game play videos to see what it’s like
Currently Considering
None at the moment.
Currently Backing
Currently Awating
I’ve stopped backing most KS as a recent convert to Vasel’s Law (“If it is good, it will get a retail release/reprint. If it is not good, it will not.”) Most of the time the game store I work at gets the retail version cheaper and faster than the KS version, and most of the time the KS-exclusives aren’t worth the enormous extra scratch I have to pay.
A couple exceptions, obviously.
You’re in Canada, I believe? Going by SVWAG that seems to have its own special set of conditions with respect to US Kickstarters.
At the moment shipping+customs to the UK is mostly a break-even; the retail version may be a bit cheaper overall, but it will also have less stuff, and the cost per stuff seems pretty close. And if I pay now, the collapsing £ works in my favour.
Had a look at Tribune - 80 quid (including shipping)? Bloody hell. No thanks. I’m happy with my Die Macher.
I just find Kickstarter simpler. I don’t need to worry about keeping track of when the game comes out, if I can find it anywhere, if it’s cheaper if I can, whether I can get all the gameplay content, etc. I just pledge, and pay way too much money, and then suddenly, months later, I get this bonus present of a game that I’d forgotten all about. 
I think Vasel’s Law is 100% accurate 99% of the time.
Monstrous, spectacles-of-components games are probably the exception. Like Container 10th Anniversary; I’m pretty sure the publisher is on record somewhere saying that the project was a wash, profit-wise (or, at least, any chances of a reprint, giant or otherwise, would be a wash). Which is crazy to me, because with the trumped up plastic and the low-rent graphic design (which certainly saved a buck or two), it should have been profitable at the prices they were charging for it.
Cthulhu Wars is also something I have a mild interest in but will likely never encounter in-person; it doesn’t hit retail (except in extremely small numbers, and only when the retailer is working directly with Peterson Games, I’m pretty sure); it’s big and heavy, so the second-hand market for it is likely going to be weak. And, on top of everything else, it’s lousy with expansions, which (for me) really muddies the water when it comes time to sink money into something - often I feel I should be “all-or-nothing” on games in my collection (the merits of this are subject to debate, of course).
For typical games that come in standard-ish-sized boxes and standard-ish weights, I fully expect anything good to be available at some point in the future (either directly or by way of reimplementation). And, of course, the “reimplementation” aspect is arguable as well: I totally would have bought a new printing of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork but completely avoided Nanty Narking (because I was more interested in the game for the setting than anything else)
Well, add another to the list… Holy Grail Games just posted a teaser image on Facebook:
It suggests a Rallyman GT expansion that brings offroad Rally racing back to the table
I can’t say anything that may have been discussed privately but I know there’s been a lot of speculation on BGG, some of it by JC himself, about a possible “rally” expandalone. (Rallying is what he really cares about, but for the reprint HGG persuaded him to transplant it to GT racing.)
In UK retail, Cthulhu Wars has good presence. I bought the base and all the expansions from UK retailers. CW has two on-going KS, the Bubastis and the Daemon Sultan - none of which I backed on KS due to its expensive shipping.
I’m pretty excited about this one 
Other than that…
Backing:
Railroad Ink Challenge (as is another person in our small gaming group. We reckon we could theoretically play a 48-player game between us…)
Awaiting:
Honestly, if I knew that was in the works, I may have passed entirely on Rallyman GT. I’m kinda happy I didn’t. I almost got it to the table last night to learn how to play solo and participate as a late entrant in the ISGOYTRA Rallyman GT Cup 2020. Unfortunately, by the time my partner went to bed and I could fully concentrate on a game, it was too late to get started… here’s hoping for tonight.
On the other hand, it seems likely that it’s the huge success of GT which made this new thing (whatever it may turn out to be) possible.
Speaking as the GT cup organiser, I strongly recommend David Rees’ webapp (linked on each month’s race page) because it makes my life much easier. 
Well, I’m probably just not the correct audience for Cthulhu Wars. I think I’ve seen it in one of my FLGSs, but that FLGS charges 100+% MSRP and, as a rule, I just don’t pay MSRP for anything.
