One miiiilllliiiooon dollars!

[mach1.9pants]

Unbelievable

Whoops I mean

The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive by Rich Burlew Updates — Kickstarter

One million US dollars (admittedly including a lot of postage for international buyers) is one hell of an acheivement

 

[Wild Gazebo]

That is awesome.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'll hate to be his tax statement next year.... cause that's going to hurt... A LOT.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I'll hate to be his tax statement next year.... cause that's going to hurt... A LOT.

I'd hate to be a tax statement in any case, but RPGs take all kinds I guess.

I'd hate to figure it out.

I'd love to see the look on his accountant's face when he sees the 10,000 plus pledges from all over the world.

 

[Piratecat]

He's already talked to the tax guy, thank goodness. Once he did all the new goals went up by quite a bit.

 

[Crothian]

I'll hate to be his tax statement next year.... cause that's going to hurt... A LOT.

As this is part of the business and he's going to spend a lot of it to reprint books and it's not going to be that bad. There are plenty of deductions businesses can take advantage of especially if they know an increase in revenue is happening.

 

[El Mahdi]

Wow! An average of $84 per pledge. There's some people pledging some serious money! I wonder what the single biggest pledge was...

 

[wingsandsword]

Wow! An average of $84 per pledge. There's some people pledging some serious money! I wonder what the single biggest pledge was...

At least $5000, since somebody very early on bought the package for their D&D character to make a cameo in the strip.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I find it completely crazy that what is basically a free webcomic has able to raise that much money. Totally awesome, yet still completely crazy.

To give some perspective, it is only the third Kickstarter project to break the $1 million mark. That's huge when you think about how many projects would have been Kickstarted previously. What is even funnier is that the project has raised the original amount Rich put up to raise + $1 million!

I honestly thought we'd get to the low $900,000's and top out. It is now at $1.125 million and will probably finish at $1.15 million or thereabouts. If he didn't realise before, I think Rich will now realise just how popular OotS really is. That, and the fact that his fans have a lot of disposable income!

Olaf the Stout

 

[wingsandsword]

If he didn't realise before, I think Rich will now realise just how popular OotS really is. That, and the fact that his fans have a lot of disposable income!

I think Rich has said as much in the updates he has posted to Kickstarter. Apparently there have been times he's been tempted to just throw in the towel and give up on OotS. I guess it's the naysayers and bashers, but knowing that he has that many fans, especially fans who can and will throw money down for a webcomic they can get for free, really has given him a boost and inspiration to keep going when times get rough.

Personally, I put in my $10 pledge, because I'm almost broke and can barely afford the $10 right now, and for what you get for $10, you practically can't afford NOT to if you're a fan.

C'mon, for $10 you get the Roy Greenhilt fridge magnet (a nifty little bit of swag, but not the main reason I contributed), but also the big OotS PDF collection he's making. It started with just the story "How the Paladin got his scar", the origin/backstory of fan-favorite minor character O'Chul. Then it grew into the 3 "Backer's Choice" PDF stories, where 3 people chipped in $1250 each so they can commission short stories about minor characters/side stories of their choice, plus the Julio Scoundrel PDF (i.e. Elan's airship pirate mentor gets a side story), plus Haleo & Julelan (Romeo and Juliet spoof done with Haley and Elan), plus a set of 100 different fold-up OotS-style monster & PC minis for gaming (and if the pledge drive hits $1.14 million, that jumps to 400 fold-up minis). . .and I might even be forgetting a pdf in there. All that for $10? Best deal in the gaming world I've seen in a while.

EDIT: Yeah, I forgot a PDF: Dim Sun, a parody of what-if OotS was set in Dark Sun.

In related news, Forbes has picked up on the Order of the Stick kickstarter hitting the million dollar mark (as an article about how this can shake up the publishing world, since it is an author essentially completely sidestepping normal editorial & distribution channels and doing it very successfully), so that's some attention for this from mainstream business media: Million Dollar Book Proves Kickstarter Model, Now Authors Just Need The Reach - Forbes