Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Jumped that gun, yup.
D&D (2024) D&D 5.11 - the time of big change is over
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bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
They're going to be the first million dollar RPG Kickstarter in a long time.
The supposed errors of Kobold have cemented them as the strongest near term offshoot of 5e.
dave2008
Legend
No Shadowdark was a million dollar (1.3 actually) Kickstarter 2 months ago.
dave2008
Legend
I actually like the idea, but the implementation to achieve backward compatibility was clunky and probably wouldn't work. If they had done this from the get-go in 2014 it might have worked, but now, not so much.
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bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
Ok. Second in what was a long gap.
I don't think their overwhelming success is a demonstration of failure
Shardstone
Hero
There was one this year and a bunch last year.
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
There was such a long pause that Morrus wrote about it.
But, again, this bizarre idea that success is now failure keeps coming up
dave2008
Legend
I don't think the gap is as large as you think. As others have said there was more than 1 last year (I haven't verified that) as well and LevelUp almost reached that mark 2 years ago (and they are much smaller publisher). However,..
...that doesn't really matter. I think getting 10x your funding goal should always be considered a successful Kickstarter. However, the real question of success will come in the long run, not from the kickstarter.
I will note that their recent (last year) Tome of Beasts 3 for 5e got over $700,000 on Kickstarter. From that perspective I don't know that $1,000,000 + is that great for a complete game (rules and monsters), from their perspective.
mamba
Legend
If by RPG KS you mean their own sysyem, then Shadowdark. If adventures etc count too, then we had some last year as well, eg the MCDM monster book at 2M
they are the first out the gates / on KS. Will be interesting to see how C7 fares with theirs, or even Shadow of the Weird Wizard
Quite frankly... I would have bought a new 5E24 Player's Handbook even if it only included Ranger buffs, 4 Elements buffs, some re-balanced or fixed spells like True Strike and Barkskin, and if they tossed out the individual species write-ups for the Half-Elf and Half-Orc and replaced the with a Mixed Heritage entry. I'd drop my money on it without issue.
When WotC announced when they were going to make a new trio of books for 2024 all those months ago... the calculation from that point was you needing to save $7 a month to be able to be able to buy all 3 when they got released (and if we add in the book price increase it's now like probably $8). And I easily determined I was good with saving $7 a month for however many months it was going to be to buy these books no matter what changes were or were not made to them. So if it turns out WotC only makes a handful of changes all told, but those changes fix things that people have been railing about for the past 9 years... then that's a good purchase as far as I'm concerned.
When WotC announced when they were going to make a new trio of books for 2024 all those months ago... the calculation from that point was you needing to save $7 a month to be able to be able to buy all 3 when they got released (and if we add in the book price increase it's now like probably $8). And I easily determined I was good with saving $7 a month for however many months it was going to be to buy these books no matter what changes were or were not made to them. So if it turns out WotC only makes a handful of changes all told, but those changes fix things that people have been railing about for the past 9 years... then that's a good purchase as far as I'm concerned.
