Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Kickstarter is live!

The Kickstarter for Magpie Games' Avatar: Legends RPG has launched and is hurtling towards $1M in its opening hours. Set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra, this tabletop roleplaying game includes a free quickstart which you can download today.

Update — it hit $1M in the first few hours, making it the fastest ever TTRPG Kickstarter to do so.

Update -- after less than two days, it has made over $2.3M, already making it the biggest TTRPG Kickstarter ever (with nearly a month yet to go!)

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game

An officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

www.kickstarter.com

Avatar Legends: The RPG is a heroic fantasy game set in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra in which you and your friends take on the role of young heroes from across the Four Nations who have joined together to make the world a better place. It’s a game for people of all ages who want to look at the world beyond the scope of the existing stories and explore the meaningful actions heroes take for the good of others.

 

[overgeeked]

It's slowing down. It's only done $200k in the last 8 hours.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Part of the $200k was my $200 as my daughter would LOVE this. Gifts are nice. Unexpected gifts rock on toast.

 

[Umbran]

If there were any lingering doubts about whether or not crowdsourcing is the future of indie game publishing...well, I think this should clear that up.

At this point, by "indie" we may mean "anyone other than WotC".

 

[Umbran]

It's slowing down. It's only done $200k in the last 8 hours.

As Morrus said - the typical U-shape will happen. It may be higher, but the general shape is still to be expected.

 

[PsyzhranV2]

At this point, by "indie" we may mean "anyone other than WotC".

Yeah, at this point I wouldn't call Magpie "indie" anymore, they were pretty well established even before they announced Avatar Legends. Maybe B tier to Chaosium, FFG, and Paizo's A, and then WotC is in a tier all of its own; but there's definitely a world of difference between Magpie and a solo or two-man itch.io outfit.

 

[Umbran]

Yeah, at this point I wouldn't call Magpie "indie" anymore, they were pretty well established even before they announced Avatar Legends. Maybe B tier to Chaosium, FFG, and Paizo's A, and then WotC is in a tier all of its own; but there's definitely a world of difference between Magpie and a solo or two-man itch.io outfit.

If they make this work, and then have follow-through, I daresay that B tier classification might need to be reconsidered. How many B tier companies get revenue like this? 20K units of a game is a stellar performance.

 

[overgeeked]

If they make this work, and then have follow-through, I daresay that B tier classification might need to be reconsidered. How many B tier companies get revenue like this? 20K units of a game is a stellar performance.

How about the common A-F tiers with S on top for WotC?

 

[Umbran]

How about the common A-F tiers with S on top for WotC?

Common for people with MBAs is not common in a colloquial sense.

It isn't like we have actual financial or business information on RPG publishers to distinguish between them with any resolution, and we should not proceed as if we did. I think it more like, "With 3 million dollars and 20k+ units of sales, if they have follow-through they've hit the big leagues," is sufficient.

 

[overgeeked]

Common for people with MBAs is not common in a colloquial sense.

It isn't like we have actual financial or business information on RPG publishers to distinguish between them with any resolution, and we should not proceed as if we did. I think it more like, "With 3 million dollars and 20k+ units of sales, if they have follow-through they've hit the big leagues," is sufficient.

No, but it’s the scale commonly used in just about every D&D ranking video and blog post for the last few years...so properly common in gaming circles.

We wouldn’t need to know their finances. Just rough estimates. The data already collected by the site, top five ranking, Roll20 popularity, plus some easily accessible data like Amazon sales ranks, etc would be enough.

 

[Morrus]

No, but it’s the scale commonly used in just about every D&D ranking video and blog post for the last few years...so properly common in gaming circles.

We wouldn’t need to know their finances. Just rough estimates. The data already collected by the site, top five ranking, Roll20 popularity, plus some easily accessible data like Amazon sales ranks, etc would be enough.

We already have that — the quarterly ICv2 charts.