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I think the question is clear. It's one of the two things you said. You can tell which it is by looking at the thread title with your very own eyeballs. Sorry, that was very snarky. But also mildly funny.

Into the Mother Lands? Yeah, I'm not clear on what's up with that one.

Eric ran Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News (which is archived here), while my d20reviews.com existed alongside covering the third party d20 system stuff. Then when Eric stopped running his site, the two were merged into EN World. Well, it's a bit more nuanced than that, but that's the...

It's an article not a podcast. :)

I'm going with Hufflepuff.

Interesting. I'd have expected YouTube to me much higher on the list for you. Though you aren't really the type of influencer I was talking about here--I'm talking about people who started on YouTube and built up a massive following which they then mobilised. For you, YouTube is just part of...

NoNats?

I literally said that in my post! I was asking about other ones!

I did an interview with RPG Drop! We covered running a company, Kickstarters, AI, and more! https://www.rpgdrop.com/reliability-over-hype-russ-morrissey-on-running-an-rpg-publishing-company/

Well Australia is a long way away! Geography is geography! :D

I know there’s a few out there these days, especially since the OGL crisis, but I haven’t really kept up with them all. Obviously I know Level Up: Advanxed 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant. There’s a bunch more though! What else is out there, what is it, and by who? (I’m talking...

He’s the poster child for it! Built an amazing following on YouTube then used that reach to run a record breaking Kickstarter and build a company. I can think of no more perfect an example of how it’s done. His success is admirable.

Well yes. I know how it works. It’s pretty simple and doesn’t really need explanation. I mean, it’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the last 26 years, albeit on a smaller scale. I wasn’t asking how to do it. My question is how well it has worked for various influencers and how those games...

It’s always been expensive for as long as I’ve been shipping things to Canada from the US.

There’s nothing stopping you backing Rob Schwalb rather than Bob Worldbuilder. One doesn’t remove the other. :)

I have heard rumours that there is a DS9 focused episode later in the season. I don't know if that's true, or what "DS9 focused" means (set on DS9?) but that is really intriguing.

Yeah, but even so the overwhelming factor is pre-existing reach. It eclipses any other factor by orders of magnitude, including Kickstarter's internal algorithms. I don't have the reach that some of the influencers do, but I do have some reach, and that fact is true even for me, let alone...

Well it’s because they have existing large followings. With a Kickstarter the single most important determinant of success is reach. And many influencers have a reach that most TTRPG companies would kill for.

I was more after commentary than just a collection of links! How well did these things do, what was their background, how well have they done since, that sort of thing?

I’m interested in the rise in recent years of large TRRPG Kickstarters launched by popular YouTube influencers. It seems that many influencers aspire to become creators and often do so very successfully; the reverse isn’t often true, though, with even successful TTRPG companies struggling to...