Is The One Ring 2E Kickstarter going to break the records?

At over $140K in the first half hour and shooting quickly past the $200K mark before the first hour was up, the numbers on Free League's Kickstarter for the 2nd Edition of The One Ring are whizzing up faster than the eye can see! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/the-one-ring-roleplaying-game-second-edition? The record for a TTRPG Kickstarter is Matt Colville, at over $2M for...

At over $140K in the first half hour and shooting quickly past the $200K mark before the first hour was up, the numbers on Free League's Kickstarter for the 2nd Edition of The One Ring are whizzing up faster than the eye can see!

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THE ONE RING™ Roleplaying Game, Second Edition

A new edition of the roleplaying game set in the world of The Lord of the Rings™ by J.R.R. Tolkien, designed by Francesco Nepitello.
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The record for a TTRPG Kickstarter is Matt Colville, at over $2M for his Strongholds & Followers project (and a followup $1.3M campaign). The next highest was John Wick's 7th Sea at about $1.2M.

There were over 6,000 people who were following the pre-launch page for this Kickstarter, which runs for three weeks.
 
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Enevhar Aldarion

Hero
Morrus said:
Not substantially. Both are life + 70 years. You can read about copyright duration in various countries here:

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List of countries' copyright lengths - Wikipedia

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For the US, that is only for works published on or after Jan 1st, 1978. For works prior to that, if I am understanding the legalese correctly, the copyright is good for 28 years and then has to be renewed, or it goes public domain. But if it is successfully renewed, the new copyright is good for 67 years, so The Hobbit and LotR had to be renewed in the US in 2006 or the rights would have been lost.
 


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Bardic Dave

Adventurer
Enevhar Aldarion said:
For the US, that is only for works published on or after Jan 1st, 1978. For works prior to that, if I am understanding the legalese correctly, the copyright is good for 28 years and then has to be renewed, or it goes public domain. But if it is successfully renewed, the new copyright is good for 67 years, so The Hobbit and LotR had to be renewed in the US in 2006 or the rights would have been lost.
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Without getting into specifics, the long and short of it is that copyright cannot be extended indefinitely in the US, regardless of whether the work was published before or after 1978.
 
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Staffan

Legend
Bardic Dave said:
Without getting into specifics, the long and short of it is that copyright cannot be extended indefinitely in the US, regardless of whether the work was published before or after 1978.
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... unless you're Disney and can bribe enough congressmembers to extend copyright indefinitely that way when Steamboat Willie gets close to becoming public domain. Should be about time for another extension now.
 


Paragon Lost

Paragon Lost

Terminally Lost
imagineGod said:
I have given up. This is more money than ever dreamt possible in the Free League world.
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I had initially told my wife that it would probably end up at around $750,000.00. I definitely underestimated, since it's now pushing that right now after 2 plus days. It's going to go much higher even though their will be the lull period as is the norm of Kickstarters. I have no idea where it will end at in other words. It's fascinating to be sure. I do wonder why they didn't go the full 30 days instead went with a 21 day Kickstarter.
 

Morrus

Morrus

Well, that was fun
Staff member
Paragon Lost said:
I had initially told my wife that it would probably end up at around $750,000.00. I definitely underestimated, since it's now pushing that right now after 2 plus days. It's going to go much higher even though their will be the lull period as is the norm of Kickstarters. I have no idea where it will end at in other words. It's fascinating to be sure. I do wonder why they didn't go the full 30 days instead went with a 21 day Kickstarter.
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Quite a few people are using shorter kickstarters as in the middle period not much happens. I’m doing 2-week campaigns a lot these days, and I’ve seen a few 3-weekers. I’m actually considering dropping to one-week campaigns.
 

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