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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[DM Magic]

And considering the fact that he hasn't been on these boards...

He literally posted in this thread.

 

[Hussar]

He literally posted in this thread.

True, but, he wasn't promoting his kickstarter here, I believe is what KN meant. It's not like he's a regular poster here.

OTOH, like others, I'm not sure where the hostility is coming from.

 

[darjr]

He didn’t need to promote here, one of his fans, the owner of the very site, made it front page news. Only five hours in. Matt’s first post here was to answer questions about the Kickstarter to help promote it.

 

[KahlessNestor]

What’s more is I don’t think anyone in this thread even seems to be implying he’s lied. I certainly haven’t. Dirty pool man.

That's how it came aceoss sounding to me.

Colville: The success of the KE is due to the fans of my channel.

Many posters: Nuh uh! No it's not!

Colville admitted to not having been on the sute in a decade. I think he's kind of on to something with his "new generation of grognards" comment that everyone got their backs up about.

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[KahlessNestor]

He literally posted in this thread.

Yeah, for the first time in about a decade, and only to answer questions about the KS. He didn't push it ir advertise it or anything. There was no banner at the top of the page.

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[DM Magic]

Yeah, for the first time in about a decade, and only to answer questions about the KS. He didn't push it ir advertise it or anything. There was no banner at the top of the page.

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I was simply responding to your comment, "And considering the fact that he hasn't been on these boards..." I didn't realize that there were all these unsaid caveats and addendums that I was supposed to read into the comment.

 

[Morrus]

That's how it came aceoss sounding to me.

Colville: The success of the KE is due to the fans of my channel.

Many posters: Nuh uh! No it's not!

That's not what happened at all. I think everybody here is perfectly aware that his following is YouTube-based. It's not that unusual a thing.

There's no need to create conflict where there is none. People are generally happy for him (those who aren't are outliers).

 

[darjr]

That's how it came aceoss sounding to me.

Colville: The success of the KE is due to the fans of my channel.

Many posters: Nuh uh! No it's not!

Colville admitted to not having been on the sute in a decade. I think he's kind of on to something with his "new generation of grognards" comment that everyone got their backs up about.

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I was responding about the "degree" of the response, not about where it came from.

 

[Hjorimir]

It seems to me that there's this weird drama around this, which isn't necessary or productive. D&D (and other RPGs) are doing fantastic. The success of venues such as Critical Role and Colville's channel is great news for us as hobbyists (in a general sense). That success means more companies will invest in RPGs and that means more offerings for us consumers. We all suffered through the Edition Wars. May I suggest we avoid a war about which medium is the superior one for promoting and discussing our games? I love ENWorld and it isn't going anywhere.

 

[darjr]

It seems to me that there's this weird drama around this, which isn't necessary or productive. D&D (and other RPGs) are doing fantastic. The success of venues such as Critical Role and Colville's channel is great news for us as hobbyists (in a general sense). That success means more companies will invest in RPGs and that means more offerings for us consumers. We all suffered through the Edition Wars. May I suggest we avoid a war about which medium is the superior one for promoting and discussing our games? I love ENWorld and it isn't going anywhere.

I'm with you, I have been since the very beginning. I dunno where the accusations are coming from, and I thought this forum was among the most respectful and quite positive. I know I was. I just watched him play nethack for three hours. That was fantastic! And yes I dug out my old nethack saves.

I must ASCEND!