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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 9894487" data-attributes="member: 1">[ATTACH=full]434776[/ATTACH]Launched just this week, funded its $250K goal in under a minute, and currently sitting at nearly $5.5M with a month left to go, <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/renegade-game-studios/dungeon-crawler-carl-rpg-unstoppable" target="_blank">Dungeon Crawler Carl</a> is already <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/million-dollar-ttrpg-kickstarters.678540/" target="_blank">the third biggest TTRPG crowdfunder in history</a>, with a strong chance of climbing to the #1 position.Based on Matt Dinniman's novel series, which features the titular hero Carl and a cat which belonged to his ex-girlfriend, forced to compete in an intergalactic Running Man-style reality show centered round a deadly dungeon crawl. The World Dungeon is a massive megadungeon created by an alien corporation, and livestreamed across the universe. The players take on the role of crawlers, tasked with surviving the dungeon.The crowdfunder by Renegade Game Studios includes not just the Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG, but also a deck-building card game, and more merchandise than you can shake a stick at--dice, bags, screens, miniatures, trays, playmats, stickers, journals, cards, and more. The campaign also includes a 'season pass' which gets you digital content throughout the year.The current leader in the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/million-dollar-ttrpg-kickstarter-club.678540/" target="_blank">Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club</a> is 2024's <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/the-stormlight-archive-rpg" target="_blank">Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere RPG</a>, which came in at $14.4M, followed by 2021's <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/avatar-legends-the-roleplaying-game/description" target="_blank">Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game</a>, which made $9.3M. Dungeon Crawler Carl currently sits in 3rd place with $5.4M and climbing.The TTRPG is a d20 'skill-based TTRPG' and features 30+ playable races, backgrounds, and a 'massive class roster'. It has five stats--the D&D stats, but with Wisdom removed. Skills are divided into attack, spell, utility, and passive skills. A skill check is--as you'd expect-- a d20 plus modifiers compared to a target number. As part of the megadungeon's conceit, the actual floor number of the dungeon (in the novels that goes from 1-18) is added to the target number, meaning all tasks are more difficult the further you progress. One feature of DCC is that GMs do not make skill checks; only the players do.Speaking of 'DCC", Renegade is abbreviating this to the 'DCC' RPG, which is bound to create confusion with Goodman Games' existing Dungeon Crawl Classics, which uses the same abbreviation.Dungeon Crawler Carl is on Backerkit right now, and ends on May 15th.</blockquote>

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