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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[Parmandur]

39,834 Backers, for $11.4 million dollars, this has now passed The Legend of Vox Machina. Still 7 hours until the 48 hour notice (which is often where campaigns kick into high gear)

 

[Zarithar]

None can withstand the Sanderlanche.

 

[Parmandur]

$11.8 million wirh 40 hours to go, I have now backed the game myself.

Some cool art from the recent updaye:

 

[Parmandur]

$12.26 million from 44k backers, now the 7th biggest Kickstarter of all time.

New stretch goal unveiled, a 24 page softcover player intro to the world of Mistborn:

 

[dbm]

I think another factor which maybe differentiates this Kickstarter from some other big RPG crowd funding is that Brotherwise is an established company with other revenue streams and established operational systems.

When a new or small company hits big that can disrupt all their other systems meaning they have to spend funds on sorting out their company rather than investing it in the product. Often the lead still needs to do their day job alongside the campaign even though they got an injection of funds, and I think factors like that are a big part of campaigns crashing.

So hopefully Brotherwise are well set up to capitalise and make-good on this.

 

[dbm]

This link shows the top 10 Kickstarters of all time, with real-time updates. At the time of posting Cosmere is at #5 and I think it could definitely edge-out Frosthaven before the campaign is complete.

Which would ‘only’ require another $32k. Which is still more than many Kickstarters make in total!

Bonkers!

 

[Parmandur]

This link shows the top 10 Kickstarters of all time, with real-time updates. At the time of posting Cosmere is at #5 and I think it could definitely edge-out Frosthaven before the campaign is complete.

Which would ‘only’ require another $32k. Which is still more than many Kickstarters make in total!

Bonkers!

Should pass it within the next couple hours. Passing the "Coolest Cooler" by the end of the campaign is quite probable.

 

[Parmandur]

$12,970,579 from 45,994 Backers, now the biggest gaming crowdfunder of all time and #4 overall on Kickstarter.

@Morrus

 

[Cergorach]

This link shows the top 10 Kickstarters of all time, with real-time updates. At the time of posting Cosmere is at #5 and I think it could definitely edge-out Frosthaven before the campaign is complete.

It's now #4 and I think it likely to hit #3. $20M is just too far away for the #2 spot.

 

[Morrus]

Yep, that's gonna finish at #3 all-time (and #1 TTRPG, of course).