Shortly after being funded, the funding rate for the Bard's Tale IV Kickstarter campaign crashed once again. It appears that E3 has done what the weekend could not. In a new Kickstarter update released this morning, Brian Fargo attempts to shore up the troops in a somewhat apologetic new Q&A video. In particular, he tries to allay people's concerns about the principles behind the game's save system which he described in the previous Q&A video. Although I suspect that by bringing it up he's only triggered more concern, as a glance at the Kickstarter comments will confirm.


Other than that, the campaign has also unlocked four more gamification achievements, adding some "old-school premium graph paper" (lol) to the game box. Yes, the digital versions will receive a PDF of that! One more achievement and inXile will also Red Boots DLC to the game. $49.95 not required.