Is The One Ring 2E Kickstarter going to break the records?

At over $140K in the first half hour and shooting quickly past the $200K mark before the first hour was up, the numbers on Free League's Kickstarter for the 2nd Edition of The One Ring are whizzing up faster than the eye can see!

THE ONE RING™ Roleplaying Game, Second Edition

A new edition of the roleplaying game set in the world of The Lord of the Rings™ by J.R.R. Tolkien, designed by Francesco Nepitello.

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The record for a TTRPG Kickstarter is Matt Colville, at over $2M for his Strongholds & Followers project (and a followup $1.3M campaign). The next highest was John Wick's 7th Sea at about $1.2M.

There were over 6,000 people who were following the pre-launch page for this Kickstarter, which runs for three weeks.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I won’t be getting my physical books until sometime in March. Luckily I have the PDFs and plan to run the starter this next weekend. Look isn’t forward to it.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Could you summarise the gist of the mini-campaign? What challenges are the PCs supposed to face?

The "player-heroes" (awkward term) are hired by Bilbo to help him fill some gaps in research about the Shire and find other items. Across five adventures they have to:

Spoiler

(1) Sneak past a dog into the Michel Delving Mathom-house in the Westfarthing to retrieve a map (travel, stealth/problem-solving).

(2) Travel to the Northfarthing to locate the club of Bullroarer Took -- a mystery adventure. There is a troll at the end that could be a combat encounter but is better as a clever roleplay/riddle encounter. As a combat encounter it isn't a "to the death" sort of thing though.

(3) Head to the Southfarthing to find an old cache of Gandalf's fireworks (exploration, social deduction, though there is a combat encounter with a single orc at the end).

(4) Travel around the Shire delivering letters for the post (survival, exploration). Ends in the Eastfarthing.

(5) Go to Buckland to enter the Old Forest to find & drive off a beast feeding on Farmer Maggot's chickens (social interaction, exploration, with a closing combat encounter resolved in a non-combat way appropriate to the Old Forest).

Each adventure is 2-4 sections or "scenes" and hits all the major sections of the Shire. Not a huge campaign, but great for a starter kit and the Shire sourcebook that is included has enough that you could continue to adventure there for quite a while just focusing on social interaction, politics, and exploration.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Each adventure is 2-4 sections or "scenes" and hits all the major sections of the Shire. Not a huge campaign, but great for a starter kit and the Shire sourcebook that is included has enough that you could continue to adventure there for quite a while just focusing on social interaction, politics, and exploration.

Thanks for the info!