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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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And that's the $700K just reached! I'm pretty sure it's broken all tabletop RPG KS records so far. How long did 7th Sea take to hit 700K?
 

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7th Sea (the current record holder) hit 700K after about 4 weeks. This thing did the same in one day.

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I have to ask, what's the motivation here? Why is this product being treated differently than other products were during their kickstarter runs? Numenera didn't get this kind of fanfare when it was up.
Matt Colville has a (relatively speaking) massive online following that Monte Cooke does not. While that does mean it was more of an accomplishment for Monte Cooke than this is for Matt Colville, I personally find Matt to be a rock solid and insightful entertainer while Cooke is much more controversial.
 

Matt Colville has a (relatively speaking) massive online following that Monte Cooke does not. Which does mean that it was more of an accomplishment for Monte Cooke than this is for Matt Colville. But on a personal level, I personally find Matt to be a rock solid and insightful entertainer, while Cooke is much more controversial.
Also, this is a D&D rules compatible Kickstarter.
 


I have to ask, what's the motivation here? Why is this product being treated differently than other products were during their kickstarter runs? Numenera didn't get this kind of fanfare when it was up.
It's also triple the pledge amount Numenera 2 was at the same point in time. 700K+ in the first two days means it's on track to easily make 2 million plus.

Edit: Plus, this Kickstarter encapsulates a few different narratives that have been floating around, like the obvious popularity of 5e, and the importance of streamers and video content creators to that popularity. The fact that the 1st million plus 5e Kickstarter was created by a streamer is meaningful.
 
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Matt Colville has a (relatively speaking) massive online following that Monte Cooke does not. While that does mean it was more of an accomplishment for Monte Cooke than this is for Matt Colville, I personally find Matt to be a rock solid and insightful entertainer while Cooke is much more controversial.

Why is Monte Cooke controversial?
 

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