Cosmere Overtakes Avatar Legends To Become Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Ever!

With a full five days left to go, Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere RPG has passed Avatar Legends' record of $9.5M to become the highest funding tabletop roleplaying game podcast ever! Just its first-day total of $4.3M put it at #4 in the official Million Dollar Kickstarter Club, and it looks set to comfortably set a lead of at least $2M. Backer Tracker currently projects a total of just under $12M, while Kicktraq predicts $12.3M.

Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

Avatar Legends leads the pack in an exclusive club -- Kickstarters for tabletop roleplaying game products which have broken the $1M barrier! It is currently the most successful TTRPG Kickstarter in history with a funding total of nearly $10M, and over 80,000 backers. [UPDATE--Backerkit started...

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While the backer count is under half that of Avatar, the Cosmere dollar total is currently sitting at nearly $9.8M. Brandon Sanderson already holds the Kickstarter record for the most funded project ever--his novel series made over $40M on Kickstarter in 2023!

Published by Brotherwise Games, the game encompasses Brandon Sanderson's entire universe of novels. It includes a world guide, a rulebook, and an adventure called Stormlight Stonewalkers. It's a new game system, based on a d20 mechanic with talent trees and skill-based magic.

It only remains to be seen how far it can go--but one thing is for sure: Brandon Sanderson has yet another world record to his name!

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[bedir than]

Spicy Cosmere sounds delicious. Is it closer to Cali-Mex or Tex-Mex?

Old Bay, it pairs with crab

 

[dbm]

Now it’s over $15m with late pledges.

 

[Anon Adderlan]

Not surprising.

While the backer count is under half that of Avatar,

This however was.

I will bet that this game ends up with more players than any of the "big" OGL debacle spawned games (MCDM, Kobolds etc.).

Not sure I'd take that bet. However the Plot Die can be effortlessly ported to any d20 style system out there.

It's all about the average pledge level and the sheer amount of stuff you get--that's why most of the million dollar Kickstarters have merchandise which pushes that average pledge level up. It's very hard to hit a million with just a game. Only Shadowdark and Coyote & Crow ever managed that (at least so far).

Also #DC20.

I wonder why KS doesn't implement their own fully-fledged pledge manager.

Because they didn't need to until now.

 

[Nikosandros]

Because they didn't need to until now.

I don't know if they needed to do it, but Backerkit made a lot of money by offering post-campaign pledge managing and now it has also became a crowd-funding platform itself. Undoubtedly it benefited from being known as a pledge manager platform.

 

[Parmandur]

Wildly, they said thst the $250,000 goal was what they needed to do to break even with the development costs over the past 2 years...and now they have done more than that in late pledges.

They have a longterm plan past the first two games, and apparently have the next 4 years of development work funded out.

Crazy.