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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eilathen" data-source="post: 9447391" data-attributes="member: 51843">I don't know...I just think it's a bit unfair to count this (and also the Avatar KS) as a TTRPG Kickstarter. Sure, there is a RPG in there, but no RPG that has not a famous novel author or IP behind it will ever raise that kind of money.With Avatar, the backercount alone shows you that it is an outlier, not even Sanderson could pull off those numbers (over 80000). There were a looooot of backers who were never interested in the Avatar RPG, just in the lore-book aspect for their favorite TV Show.Same goes for this one. There are a lot of fans of the novels who are mainly interested in the lorebooks and art. Also also, technically, this KS was for 2 RPGs, not just one.So both of those KS "at the front" of the $$ list were kind of "cheating".So for me, the most successful pure TTRPG crowdfunder to date is the MCDM one (4.6 Mio, iirc).Now with that being said, it's still pretty astounding what the Cosmere KS pulled off. And the Avatar one for that matter.What I would really like to see is how much $$ Critical Role could pull in if they did a TTRPG crowdfunder. Unfortunately (or maybe not), so far they have gone via the traditional publishing route. Which honestly, I like. Not putting all the risk on the consumer, but taking it on themselves.</blockquote>