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In Kalusa, clearing monsters out of the sewers will only get you so far if the alchemical laboratories keep poisoning the water. That example captures the thinking behind Kalusa: The Enchanted City, a tabletop RPG campaign where alliances, personal relationships, and the ability to persuade others can shape the future
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Most of us learned to read a fantasy map the same way: find the town you're in, find the town you're heading to, count the mountains in between. Francesca Baerald would like you to stop doing that. For her, a map is not an instrument for
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James "Grim" Desborough has been making tabletop RPGs for more than twenty-five years. He won an Origins Award for The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming, spent a stint as line editor on SLA Industries, and has run Postmortem Studios through the arrival of PDF publishing, the
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Nord Games has been part of the tabletop RPG landscape for more than a decade, building a catalog that spans bestiaries, NPC books, settlements, traps, card decks, and now digital tools. In that time, the company has seen Kickstarter evolve from a relatively open frontier into a crowded, data-driven
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Over the years, Son of Oak Game Studio has shown that Kickstarter success in the TTRPG space is rarely accidental. From City of Mist to Legend in the Mist, Amit Moshe and his team have built their campaigns not on short-lived hype, but on something far more durable: community,
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Gábor Dán does not talk about community the way many publishers do. For Elderbrain, the audience is not just a pool of potential customers waiting for the next Kickstarter campaign, but an active creative force helping to shape the worlds, themes, and building blocks of the company’s sprawling adventures.
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For most of us, “no DM” still sounds like a contradiction — like ordering a symphony without a conductor and hoping the brass won’t revolt. And yet Archmage Press has turned that contradiction into a product category: DM-Less 5E campaigns that play like “proper D&D” at the
The Top 10 highest-funded Tabletop Games of 2024: 1. Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere® RPG by Brotherwise Games – Raised $15.1M+ from 55,106 backers, the highest-funded Games project of all time 2. Altered TCG by Equinox – Raised $6.7M+ from 14,997 backers, the highest-funded trading
What a year! The global TTRPG market in 2024 reached an estimated $1.9–2.0 billion, maintaining steady growth after the post-pandemic boom. While retail sales plateaued, the industry thrived through digital sales, crowdfunding, and direct-to-consumer models. Key highlights include: * Dungeons & Dragons' 50th Anniversary
Kickstarter has just revealed its 2025 Product Roadmap, bringing major updates that could reshape crowdfunding for tabletop RPGs and indie game developers! With TTRPGs consistently ranking among the platform’s top-performing categories, these changes could be a game-changer for creators looking to fund their next big project. Key
1. Overview of Games and Tabletop Crowdfunding Performance in 2024 The Games category had a record-breaking year, leading all other categories in crowdfunding. Tabletop games, particularly TTRPGs, played a major role in this success. Key Figures for Games on Kickstarter (2024) MetricValueTotal pledged to Games category$270MTotal pledged to
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Since picking up Dungeons & Dragons around 2010, Kirk Wiebe—better known as PhD20—has watched tabletop gaming evolve alongside the tools that support it. From early YouTube content in the hobby’s formative digital years to his current work writing thoughtful articles and resources for game masters, he has
Bob World Builder has spent years breaking down tabletop design on YouTube with a rare mix of clarity, pragmatism, and healthy skepticism toward hype—whether it’s about mechanics, Kickstarter myths, or the role of AI in creative work. But alongside the videos, Bob has quietly been building a growing
This interview is about much more than mechanics or setting design. It’s a conversation about culture, memory, and the act of storytelling itself—and how all three shape the way tabletop role-playing games are created. Emmet Byrne, founder of Old Oak Games, has spent over seven years working
Before retro nostalgia became a trend and long before “weird fantasy” returned to the spotlight, Agis Angelomatis and his team were already quietly building tools, worlds, and ideas that grew out of genuine love for tabletop role-playing games. What began as a “side quest” in the most literal sense—
For more than a quarter of a century, Mike Shea has been doing one thing with remarkable consistency: helping Game Masters run better games. As the creator of Sly Flourish, author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, blogger, YouTuber, and publisher, Shea has become one of the most recognizable
For more than 25 years, Russ Morrissey has been a constant presence in the tabletop RPG world—often behind the scenes, sometimes at the center of major conversations, but almost always doing the unglamorous, long-term work of building infrastructure for the hobby. As the founder of EN World and
From a single, practical need at the table to a recognizable creative brand with multiple successful Kickstarter campaigns, Natwuns is a story of growth rooted firmly in play. What began as a hand-drawn map made to replace a generic Roll20 background quickly turned into something bigger—not because of
Cultic Games was born out of a filmmaker’s refusal to stay on the sidelines. Before founding the studio, Can Oral was already leading a film collective, used to building teams and telling stories through images. When his lifelong fascination with interactive narratives pushed him toward game development, he applied
In the world of tabletop RPGs, one question keeps resurfacing: what does it really mean to play “old school”? Is the OSR (Old School Renaissance) simply nostalgia for yellowed rulebooks and pencil-scribbled character sheets, or is it a conscious rebellion against the narrative-driven, commercially polished design of modern
When anime collides with tabletop role-playing, the result can be pure chaos—or pure magic. Gates of Krystalia is one of those rare projects that dares to blend both. Created by Alberto Dianin and Andrea, this TTJRPG draws inspiration from the emotional depth and visual dynamism of anime while
Crowdfunding in the TTRPG industry is about more than raising money – it’s an art of community building, storytelling, and generating momentum long before launch day. In our conversation with Dream Realm Storytellers, we explore their marketing philosophy: from early teaser posts and pre-launch mailing list campaigns, to engaging
In 2024, Kickstarter solidified its dominance in the tabletop space. 83% of all crowdfunding dollars pledged to games flowed through Kickstarter, with backers committing $316 million across 2,694 projects. Out of these, 1,878 projects successfully reached their goals, making 2024 the biggest year for games in the platform’