Coyote & Crow Joins The $1M TTRPG Club!

With just a few hours to go, the Native American tabletop RPG Coyote & Crow just went past the $1M milestone, making it the 7th tabletop RPG Kickstarter campaign ever to do so.

Coyote & Crow is the third Kickstarter in the last month to do so. The first was 2016's 7th Sea from John Wick, followed by campaigns from Matt Colville (the undisputed champion of TTRPG Kickstarter) and Hit Point Press in 2018 and 2019.

Date	Kickstarter	Creator
March 2016	7th Sea: Second Edition	John Wick
March 2018	Strongholds & Streaming	Matt Colville
April 2019	Humblewood Campaign Setting for 5e	Hit Point Press
November 2019	Kingdoms, Warfare & More Minis!	Matt Colville
March 2021	The One Ring Roleplaying Game, Second Edition	Free League
March 2021	The Seeker's Guide to Twisted Taverns	Eldermancy
April 2021	Coyote & Crow the Roleplaying Game	Connor Alexander

Congratulations to Connor Alexander and the team! If you want to get in on Coyote & Crow, you have about 6 hours from the time of writing this.

Coyote & Crow the Role Playing Game

A science fiction and fantasy tabletop RPG set in a near-future where the Americas were never colonized, created by a team of Natives.

www.kickstarter.com

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Crazy thing about this Kickstarter - it was only available in North America. I wonder how high it could have gotten if it was available world-wide? Another $500k easily, especially if fulfilled from EU and ANZ. Maybe they'll do a follow-on International edition.

 

[Jeff Carpenter]

Good for them. Great to see a fresh concept make money.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Is this the first/only original RPG to break the $1m barrier?

All the rest appear to be sequels/editions or sourcebooks (either for specific RPGs or general usage). I backed it at the PDF level, because it's a pretty strong concept. Hopefully it's as good as it sounds.

Why is it that nearly half this list is from this year (and we only have April). People have nothing other to spend on?

I feel like some of this really has to be spill-over from 5E getting people into RPGs, not just existing RPG fans deciding to blow more cash.

 

[imagineGod]

Is this the first/only original RPG to break the $1m barrier?

All the rest appear to be sequels/editions or sourcebooks (either for specific RPGs or general usage). I backed it at the PDF level, because it's a pretty strong concept. Hopefully it's as good as it sounds.

I feel like some of this really has to be spill-over from 5E getting people into RPGs, not just existing RPG fans deciding to blow more cash.

Now that you mention it, Coyote and Crow looks like the first truly original new RPG, and also from a new creator without a track record and without a fan following in the thousands.

So Coyote and Crow raised over a million Dollars just on the strength of what the game offers on its own merit, without riding on past success, or popular IP or even without the D&D 5e rules.

There may actually be hobby redefining life outside 5th Edition's dominance.

 

[MGibster]

Now that you mention it, Coyote and Crow looks like the first truly original new RPG, and also from a new creator without a track record and without a fan following in the thousands.

You're not kidding that this is super impressive. I typically only bacj projects run by known individuals and I don't think any of the RPGs I've backed have hit the $1 million mark.

There may actually be hobby redefining life outside 5th Edition's dominance.

I agree. I think creators can really connect to a very specific audience with crowdfunding in a way that traditional marketing cannot.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I agree. I think creators can really connect to a very specific audience with crowdfunding in a way that traditional marketing cannot.

There's that, and I think Kickstarter connects you to people who aren't like, big nerds.

I'm not sure that's quite the right way to put it but... all my friends who have never been to DriveThruRPG, who generally only buy RPG books in paper formats (DNDBeyond being an exception), who don't think about RPGs all that much when not playing, and so on, are on Kickstarter, and hear about Kickstarter stuff somehow, often before I do, and do stuff like back weird indie RPGs. People who have a lot of disposable income have somehow all ended up on Kickstarter buying stuff - from my dad to co-workers.

So I dunno if it's about a "very specific" audience as much as an audience which is both extremely broad in terms of demographic (I know people from their 20s to their 70s backing stuff on there, and diverse in terms of backgrounds too), and is I think, better-off than average (because they have money to back projects which might not work out). There's also a "luxury" vibe to Kickstarter, which I don't know if I can exactly explain, but I think helps make people feel cool about spending money there.

 

[Arilyn]

Congratulations to the creators of this one. I backed it, and am excited to see it. I love the concept, especially placing it in the future.

 

[ART!]

I hemmed and hawed for too long about this one, and didn't back it.
I've leaned back toward wanting hard copies of my gaming material, and the printed version of this was $50 I think, and I just couldn't budget it in.
I don't feel bad about not supporting them, because they raised A MILLION DOLLARS.

 

[Umbran]

It looks like the pdf of the rulebook is out today. I haven't downloaded it yet, but I look forward to looking it over.

 

[darjr]

Ooohhhh!!! Will you give us a bit of a preview?!?