That wasn't part of what you were asking. But how big do you think those companies were when they started? Big companies have and will continue to rise up out of crowdfunding. Heck, I backed both Kobold Press' (as Open Gaming) and Monte Cook's (as Malhavoc Press) first crowdfunded books, both of which predated actual crowdfunding sites, and those successes help build the companies they have today.
I seem to recall it was also fueled by an overcurrent of V:tM being more mature and, along with it, D&D being immature.
Apparently, my mother stacked the deck to make sure I would never be sent backwards, so the game wouldn't go on forever.
I mean, no one in college went to a D&D game hoping to hook up, whereas that was definitely the best case scenario many Vampire players were hoping for.
That's not really my experience, at least for online play. I can find players at the drop of a hat for pretty much anything I run.
Having played both Vampire games at the table and in the Camarilla, the percentage of people going to Vampire explicitly hoping to hook up was a small portion of population I’ve encountered
In some areas yea, in other areas no
And relative to how many people were hoping to hook up at a D&D game ...?
I guess I'm lucky in that my regular group is more than willing to try new things.
Whizbang Dustyboots said:
These two posts appearing one right after the other: priceless!
