Zinequest 2 Post-Mortem Reviews

The Zinequest 2 for Kickstarter is long over. I backed way more than I should have. The consulting company data-scientist-AI-guru that detected February as a slow month for TTRPG projects did a great job, since the amount of zines, paired with the usual FOMO of us obsessive collectors, made it a financial success with a myriad of options on the menu.

But do they bring some quality to the table? Do I see myself using some of the contents in my own games? Whereas some of the creators were known faces, others are complete strangers to me. Products are slowly arriving to my mailbox. As an international backer in the heart of Europe™, I had to contempt myself with digital copies in most cases.

Kickstarter	Format Backed	Paid	Received?	My Impression
36 Stranger Chambers	PDF	8 AU$	No	TBD
Adventurer's Guide to the Yol'Najj Forest	PDF	5 US$	Yes	TBD
Best Left Buried: Zinequest Quartet	Print + PDF	50£	Yes	TBD
Dungeons & Dilemmas	PDF	7 US$	Yes	TBD
Gourmet Street: Fantasy Street Food Adventuring Zine	Print + PDF	10 US$	Yes	Review
Hunters in Death	Print + PDF	8 US$	Yes	Review
Madam Maze's Cabaret of Carrion Delights	PDF	5 US$	Yes	TBD
Old School & Cool	PDF	5 US$	Yes	Review
Sinister Red	PDF	5 US$	Yes	Review
Sphinxes: the First of Sages	PDF	5 US$	Yes	Review
Ten People You Meet in the Undergarden	PDF	5 US$	Yes	Review
The Bone Age	Print + PDF	16 US$	Yes	TBD
The Phylactery	PDF	5 US$	Yes	TBD
The Waking of Willowby Hall	Print + PDF	15 US$	Yes	TBD
They Cried Monster	PDF	5 US$	Yes	Review
THEY FEED ON FEAR	Print + PDF	25 CA$	Yes	TBD
Willow	Print + PDF	14 CA$	Yes	TBD

My aim is to give an overview/review of the content, one by one, about what I liked and where I think it failed short. Not to roast anyone. But to give a fair and constructive overview. It will also help me see other folk's work critically, and with the digested zine format it should go faster than a full module. It might will also keep me up at night seeing how much money I splurged on things I'll never have the time to run.