![]() ![]() Spades of new minis that range from new lower-level foes to epic new encounters with beings of divine power that look straight out of a soulsborne game. Popular YouTube RPG star Matt Colville raised 2,121,465 on Kickstarter to fund the 5e supplement Strongholds and Followers as well as pay for a studio to live stream his new game. I mean this is a roleplaying Kickstarter in 2019–there’s gotta be minis in it. Of course you’re getting more than just that. Which is great to see, you’re not really losing that much of the streamlined, accessible, fun-to-play system we all know and love. Among contemporaries in the RPG space, consistent hits from Monte. Just over two years ago, John Wick’s 7th Sea: Second Edition Kickstarter smashed through the barriers of roleplaying game potential, becoming the first campaign of its kind to surpass the 1 million mark. And with Colville’s Old School sensibilities, you can feel some of the classic ideas getting a new lease on life for 5th Edition. Strongholds & Streaming Kickstarter from Matt Colville Raises the Bar. Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition both had rules and subsystems for having minions do things–often with an in-game benefit. This is a classic D&D idea, an enduring one that’s been around since Birthright at least, where players inherited power through their divine heritage (because hey let’s take the divine right of kings literally), and is at the heart of one of the most popular Pathfinder Adventure Paths of all time.Įven the latter stages of popular video games that have sprung up as a result, show your character having an impact in the world. ![]() Kingdoms and Warfare builds off of those concepts and introduces the idea of Domain Level play, which is taking on the role of governing a whole kingdom, or some other sort of organization that runs while you also go on adventures. Kingdoms & Warfare is the followup book to Strongholds & Followers, which introduced a set of rules for characters to attract followers and develop a stronghold of their own. But I'll wait until the rules are reviewed before I'd buy - I'm not sure how much play testing etc will go into them.Matt Colville’s Kingdoms and Followers Kickstarter enters its final four days with more than one million dollars raised. I've also got a successful YouTube channel where we talk about running the game!"Ĭan't find any D&D designs he's done, but obviously a very talented and experienced designer. mattcolville I think were gonna hit a million bucks today. I designed the official Knights of the Dinner Table card game, and the Red Alert! Star Trek starship combat game, those were both tons of fun. I worked on the Star Trek RPG, I did the starship combat rules for this one, and I worked on several third party books for 3rd edition, I wrote a whole monster book! And I designed mass-combat and nation building rules set for 3rd edition. I was a designer on the original Dune CCG and the RPG. I’m the author of the official Critical Role comic, I was the lead writer on Evolve, I was the lead writer AND a designer on Mercenaries, but before ALL THAT I was a designer in the tabletop business. "Hey everybody! My name's Matt Colville I'm a writer and designer in the video game business and before that I was a designer in the tabletop business! ![]()
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