Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Well, I guess maybe then this dragon milk might not be.

You just missed them. It might be like cats all hidden away, but on the scales.

You just missed them. It might be like cats all hidden away, but on the scales.

Maybe they have to have them built into the scales, like the bat nipples in the George Clooney Batman film.

Maybe they have to have them built into the scales, like the bat nipples in the George Clooney Batman film.

Oh, okay, so they sort of like slip up and pop out.

Oh, okay, so they sort of like slip up and pop out.

This week, Morse, PJ, and Jessica are joined by Rich Lescoflair to talk about Phantasy Star. In the news, lots of big Dungeons & Dragons announcements, including the D&D Direct Recap, new Forgotten Realms sourcebooks, a Prodigal Sigil update, and more! This week on Morse's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk!

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Morris' own official tabletop RPG talk. I am Russ, a.k.a. Morris, or Morris, a.k.a.

but we'll talk to Rich in the second half of the show the first half of the show as usual we are going to talk about some news and there's a lot let's go it's a big big news week where shall we start what's that thing Oh, well, most of it is D&D, so let's do the non-D&D stuff first, and then we can dive into the D&D stuff. How about that?

Talking about hype trains and success. Oh, yes. Okay. Quick segue here into the biggest tabletop RPG Kickstarter ever.

So the Cosmere, Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere RPG has finished now. Yep.

It overtook Avatar towards the beginning of this week.

PJ, you know the question.

It's an average of $276 per backer, by the way.

Yeah. So it's like nearly one and a half times what Avatar did in terms of dollars. but it's only about 60% of what Avatar did in terms of backers right yeah there's a lot less backers it's a much higher it's a more than twice as much average pledge is what's done there and a lot less merchandise as well there's a lot of stuff there's a lot of books there's a lot of books say that yeah

Yeah, yeah. Well, this is now not only the biggest tabletop RPG Kickstarter ever, it's the biggest gaming Kickstarter ever of any kind.

Wow. Bigger than any board game or video game. Okay. But also, it's the third biggest Kickstarter ever. I believe number one. I believe by a watch. A watch? Okay. And Brandon Sanderson's own other Kickstarter, which is the number one.

Yeah. Yeah. So Brandon Sanderson has the first and third biggest crowdfunding projects ever.

It's incredible. Yeah. Yeah.