Are We Looking At A New RPG Kickstarter Record?

The current record for an RPG Kickstarter is John Wick's 7th Sea 2nd Edition, which made just over $1.3 million in about a month. Matt Colville looks like he might leave that in the dust with Strongholds & Streaming, however, having raised nearly half a million dollars in about 5 hours at the time of posting this, with a month to go!

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Strongholds & Streaming is a dual Kickstarter - first to produce a 128-page hardcover book about building strongholds and attracting followers for D&D 5th Edition; and then with stretch goals related to Colville's streaming channel.

You can build four stronghold types - keeps, towers, temples, and establishments; these roughly correlate to warriors, arcane casters, divine casters, and rogue-types. The stronghold improves your class abilities, and attracts followers.

Stretch goals include miniatures, more pages, an an adventure (so far - he's blown through all those on there right now already).

You can see this epic Kickstarter here. I've never seen an RPG Kickstarter blow up quite so fast in so short a time!

Matt Colville writes the Critical Role comic, and has worked on various tabletop gaming projects, including the recent Star Trek RPG. He has worked on various mass-combat and starship combat rulesets. In addition, he runs a big YouTube channel about tabletop RPGs (D&D especially).

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[KahlessNestor]

This is the first Kickstarter I ever backed, so he got me. I do love his videos.

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[Hawk Diesel]

NEW STRETCH GOAL: PIRATE SHIP!

My first thought: Eberron Elemental Airships!

 

[Fanaelialae]

NEW STRETCH GOAL: PIRATE SHIP!

My first thought: Eberron Elemental Airships!

Yeah, a mobile stronghold is a cool concept! I hope the goal is reached, though I can't imagine it won't.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think that's a little bit of a stretch. Right now there's 6,864 backers. Or 0.002% of the US population. That's vanishlngly small, not massive. In fact, it's just 2.2% of the first month of sales for 3rd edition. If anything, this is confirmation that streaming is inconsequential.

Only if you really, really want it to “confirm” that.

The new campaign debut of Critical Role had roughly 100k viewers on twitch, plus all the people watching on Alpha and YouTube live, and the people who don’t watch until the weekend or whatever. The pre-orders for the campaign book the put out last year ran out in a couple days, and the entire first printing ran out too quickly for me to get a copy.

Streaming is inarguably consequential.

 

[darjr]

I wish he’d do city strongholds like a bar or in or gambling den or theatre. Especially seeing the rumors of the next campaign being in the big city of sigil.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

I wish he’d do city strongholds like a bar or in or gambling den or theatre. Especially seeing the rumors of the next campaign being in the big city of sigil.

I could be wrong, but I think those types of ideas will be covered in the Establishments category.

Keeps let you raise armies, and the rules include a new, basic version of my forthcoming Warfare rules.
Towers let you conduct spell research.
Temples let you buff armies and towns.
Establishments generate revenue and gather intelligence on your neighbors.

 

[darjr]

But it’s a single type, or maybe that’s just the example.

 

[Motorskills]

Only if you really, really want it to “confirm” that.

The new campaign debut of Critical Role had roughly 100k viewers on twitch, plus all the people watching on Alpha and YouTube live, and the people who don’t watch until the weekend or whatever. The pre-orders for the campaign book the put out last year ran out in a couple days, and the entire first printing ran out too quickly for me to get a copy.

Streaming is inarguably consequential.

Especially as Matthew will surely use the platform to generate more buzz and more products down the road.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Especially as Matthew will surely use the platform to generate more buzz and more products down the road.

Yep, and they talk about dnd and CritRole at cons, and more and more celebrities are getting into it, including playing streamed or at least recorded games, etc. it’s a big deal.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Especially as Matthew will surely use the platform to generate more buzz and more products down the road.

I think he actually has two more book ideas if this does well (which it is). His warfare rules is one. I'm not sure the other one. Maybe it was politics or something? I remember when he was first floating the Kickstarter idea he mentioned like a trio of books he wanted to do even if the KS didn't work.