D&D 5E Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms 5E

It sounds a little like the D&D Shorts guy is mostly just the face of the project. He's listed almost last in the credits and his credit text is is described as :

Will Earl (he/him) is a content creator on YouTube and TikTok (dndshorts), and publisher of the DM’s Secret Weapon magazine. He is handling influencer outreach, promotion, and mechanical writing for the project.

It sounds like the lion's share of the works is being done by others. There is a primary loremaster credited there, several different writers, a couple of monster/encounter balance people, project managers, artists etc many of whom are Loot Tavern's people. Which of course makes it a bit odd that it's his name on the KS campaign rather than Loot Tavern's.

I backed this, but i'm somewhat having second thoughts. I hadn't made the connection between this campaign and that guy who was bignoting himself all over youtube during the OGL crisis, but also it seems like this is going to be a very heavily mechanical product, rather than a setting. Given my usage pattens of past edition D&D products and my already-overloaded list of Kickstarters pending delivery, I've instituted a firm policy for myself of only impulse buying stuff that's setting- and background and in-world-heavy, because inspirational material is much so more likely to hold its usefulness past the next edition change (whenever that might be) than books packed full of crunch that's tightly coupled to a particular edition.
 

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How many people who are currently backing Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms backed it because it was advertised by the D&D Shorts guy? And how many decided to back it because there was something about this setting that they found something appealing about it? I didn't know about this setting until I chanced upon seeing it on a D&D Shorts clip on YouTube a couple days ago. Did the D&D Shorts guy get me interested enough to search for the Kickstarter on the web? Yes. But it took a longtime friend of mine to ask me one question when I was hesitant at first about backing this Kickstarter. And that question was, Why Not? ;) The moment he skyped me that question, I jumped in to back it up even though it would months before I would even lay my hands on this upcoming book. 😋

This Kickstarter will be the sixth one I've backed. :)
 









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