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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[The Hierophant]

Looks like Denmark charges VAT on books. Thankfully the UK doesn't. I'll probably sign up to this kickstarter.

 

[darjr]

A video update!

[video=youtube;73Nk6C25Mr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Nk6C25Mr0[/video]
https://youtu.be/73Nk6C25Mr0

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Oh yeah, Denmark charges 25% VAT on the books price, plus 25% of the shipping cost because it's a service (no joke) and then charges you $26 for the service of charging you.
EU friendly kickstarters only, thank you very much.

 

[Usus]

Looks like Denmark charges VAT on books. Thankfully the UK doesn't. I'll probably sign up to this kickstarter.

Yup, that is correct. 25% on books.

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[hawkeyefan]

Congrats, [MENTION=1300]mattcolville[/MENTION]! Sounds like an awesome project, and it it’s anywhere as useful and thoughtful as your youtube videos, it’ll be great.

I’m adding my $30 pledge.

 

[Sylvain Lafleche]

It just goes to show that there is a massive market for D&D supplements.

The one supplement a year model WOTC puts out is just wasted opportunity.

If a 3rd party product like Strongholds is raising over 1 million. Imagine how much WoTC could of made.

Just maybe, MAYBE, allot of gamers out there want a Birthright style of game. Hint hint.


In any case. Congrats to Matt Colville for this. What an incredible and inspiring achievement.

 

[Jester David]

What does it take to become EU friendly?

 

[77IM]

What does it take to become EU friendly?

Just talk to the EU once in a while. Be nice and respectful, but try to keep it casual. Invite the EU to a party at your house, maybe an evening out with some of your other friends. Before you know it, you and the EU will be hanging out all the time like best buds!

 

[Morrus]

If a 3rd party product like Strongholds is raising over 1 million.

Bear in mind this is *not* typical of third party Kickstarters. It'll be the only third party 5E product *ever* to have done that; and only the second RPG book *ever* to do it. It's a statistical outlier by an order of magnitude, and it's awesome, but one shouldn't model anything on it. At least not until it has happened a few times.

This, on its own, is going to be a noticeable percentage of the entire tabletop RPG market for the year.

 

[Parmandur]

What does it take to become EU friendly?

Not from the EU, but I did work in logistics for years: it needs to ship from within the EU, whether from a batch printed in, say, Germany, or shipped from a warehouse in France that the Kickstarter bulk ships to ahead of time.