Recent content by Morrus

I know there’s a few out there these days, especially since the OGL crisis, but I haven’t really kept up with them all. Obviously I know Level Up: Advanxed 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant. There’s a bunch more though! What else is out there, what is it, and by who? (I’m talking...

He’s the poster child for it! Built an amazing following on YouTube then used that reach to run a record breaking Kickstarter and build a company. I can think of no more perfect an example of how it’s done. His success is admirable.

Well yes. I know how it works. It’s pretty simple and doesn’t really need explanation. I mean, it’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the last 26 years, albeit on a smaller scale. I wasn’t asking how to do it. My question is how well it has worked for various influencers and how those games...

It’s always been expensive for as long as I’ve been shipping things to Canada from the US.

There’s nothing stopping you backing Rob Schwalb rather than Bob Worldbuilder. One doesn’t remove the other. :)

I have heard rumours that there is a DS9 focused episode later in the season. I don't know if that's true, or what "DS9 focused" means (set on DS9?) but that is really intriguing.

Yeah, but even so the overwhelming factor is pre-existing reach. It eclipses any other factor by orders of magnitude, including Kickstarter's internal algorithms. I don't have the reach that some of the influencers do, but I do have some reach, and that fact is true even for me, let alone...

Well it’s because they have existing large followings. With a Kickstarter the single most important determinant of success is reach. And many influencers have a reach that most TTRPG companies would kill for.

I was more after commentary than just a collection of links! How well did these things do, what was their background, how well have they done since, that sort of thing?

I’m interested in the rise in recent years of large TRRPG Kickstarters launched by popular YouTube influencers. It seems that many influencers aspire to become creators and often do so very successfully; the reverse isn’t often true, though, with even successful TTRPG companies struggling to...

Shipping to Canada from the US is very expensive. We run into that problem when selling to Canadians who have their books shipped from our US warehouse.

Back in March 2025 we reported that print-on-demand costs at DriveThruRPG were increasing by as much as 50% in the US, with the price of a 300-page black-and-white hardcover rising from $13.08 to $19.04. The effect in the UK was much less pronounced, being only around 3-4%. Now, less than a...

Is it still not working for you? I'm having no issues.

Not really. But then I don't buy stuff like that if I can't easily afford it, and I know that 90% of what I buy will be just to read and collect and not play because time is a finite resource, while new TTRPGs apparently are not! [Edit--actually, yes. Kickstarters whose products were available...