Cosmere Overtakes Avatar Legends To Become Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Ever!

With a full five days left to go, Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere RPG has passed Avatar Legends' record of $9.5M to become the highest funding tabletop roleplaying game podcast ever! Just its first-day total of $4.3M put it at #4 in the official Million Dollar Kickstarter Club, and it looks set to comfortably set a lead of at least $2M. Backer Tracker currently projects a total of just under $12M, while Kicktraq predicts $12.3M.

Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

Avatar Legends leads the pack in an exclusive club -- Kickstarters for tabletop roleplaying game products which have broken the $1M barrier! It is currently the most successful TTRPG Kickstarter in history with a funding total of nearly $10M, and over 80,000 backers. [UPDATE--Backerkit started...

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While the backer count is under half that of Avatar, the Cosmere dollar total is currently sitting at nearly $9.8M. Brandon Sanderson already holds the Kickstarter record for the most funded project ever--his novel series made over $40M on Kickstarter in 2023!

Published by Brotherwise Games, the game encompasses Brandon Sanderson's entire universe of novels. It includes a world guide, a rulebook, and an adventure called Stormlight Stonewalkers. It's a new game system, based on a d20 mechanic with talent trees and skill-based magic.

It only remains to be seen how far it can go--but one thing is for sure: Brandon Sanderson has yet another world record to his name!

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[Belen]

Now predict how large its active play community will be in five years!

Small to tiny.

Cosmere does not have enough Sandbox elements for more than a single campaign.

Wheel of Time set in a different age would be better.

Now, if they came out with a setting neutral book too with a good MM, then it could have legs.

 

[Elvish Lore]

Really? I admit that I don't follow Sanderson, but I thought that there was a general consensus that it would be a huge, multi-million, success. Anyway, it must be pleasant to be shocked this way...

Perhaps a bit of false humility from Team Sanderson.

There were articles on polygon, comic book.com and plenty of people in discussions groups who opined that it would most likely be the most successful dollar value RPG kickstarter of all time.

And this is before they revealed it was cosmere and not just stormlight.

But while the dollar value is biggest... the number of backers far trails Airbender's crowdfunding.

 

[Parmandur]

But while the dollar value is biggest... the number of backers far trails Airbender's crowdfunding.

It's about 100 backers from being the 2nd largest number of individual backers, however, with the bulk being at the all-inclusive GM tiers.

 

[Parmandur]

Small to tiny.

Cosmere does not have enough Sandbox elements for more than a single campaign.

Wheel of Time set in a different age would be better.

Now, if they came out with a setting neutral book too with a good MM, then it could have legs.

Honestly, seems the most likely of any new RPG in the past several years to get real long-term traction.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

Now predict how large its active play community will be in five years!

I will bet that this game ends up with more players than any of the "big" OGL debacle spawned games (MCDM, Kobolds etc.).

 

[Parmandur]

I will bet that this game ends up with more players than any of the "big" OGL debacle spawned games (MCDM, Kobolds etc.).

Probably Daggerheart is the one I would have bet on as most likely to succeed...but I'd rather use this system, personally. I am just in love with every design decision Brotherwise has taken.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

Probably Daggerheart is the one I would have bet on as most likely to succeed...but I'd rather use this system, personally. I am just in love with every design decision Brotherwise has taken.

I feel like dagger heart strayed too far from traditional systems incorporating a lot of meta currency and forced narrative mechanics that makes homebrewing and GM improvising a lot more difficult. Cosmere has a lot less meta currency and makes the "narrative" play tools optional in a way I like as a forever GM. IMHO GM preference really makes or breaks games, and Cosmere looks to be easy to run.

 

[Parmandur]

I feel like dagger heart strayed too far from traditional systems incorporating a lot of meta currency and forced narrative mechanics that makes homebrewing and GM improvising a lot more difficult. Cosmere has a lot less meta currency and makes the "narrative" play tools optional in a way I like as a forever GM. IMHO GM preference really makes or breaks games, and Cosmere looks to be easy to run.

Yeah, Daggerheart got a bit busy for my tastes, though I love Critical Role. This is hitting a real mechanical sweet spot for me.

 

[Parmandur]

Just passed $10 million with 34,670 backers.

 

[DarkCrisis]

He has a large fandom.

Much like Avatar they will make interesting reads and rarely see play.

Before anyone starts tripping, that’s just like any RPG that’s not D&D or Pathfinder.