Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Well, it's going to be a lot. Would you like to make a guess, Kelsey?

13. Okay, we've got two on 13. 13 million, not 13,000.

It is incredible. It is what? I just, I check it every day. Do you? I haven't backed it because, you know, the Cosmere stuff. Well, I just haven't read any of the books. It's not, you know, it's not my, but I'm just fascinated by the Kickstarter and I just really wanted to do well and I don't know why because it doesn't affect me at all. But, you know, I'm just like egging it on. Come on, come on.

Well, there's two ways you can look at it. You get some people who just get jealous. Yes. And then you get the other people who are just happy that this thing is happening. And I'm in the latter group.

I'm pleased to say.

What's interesting is if you look at the top, the list of top TTRPG Kickstarters, the top four are all not D&D. Wow. If you count this one, the top four are not D&D. So the top four are, so this one, Avatar Legends is not D&D. Gloomhaven Grand Festival was not D&D. Which we...

Well, that's not entirely true. But the third one was the MCDM. But I will say that Shadow Dark is one of only two Kickstarters, the other being Coyote and Crow, to do it without all of that extra stuff. Oh.

There's only two that have done it without all the dice and the shirts and the plushies and the... Board games. Yeah, yeah. Stuff. So, yeah, Shadow Dark 2023 and Coyote and Crow in 2021. The only two that have ever done that. Wow. That's why... An exclusive club.

Yeah.

I didn't get into this industry to make plushies.

Pencil cases, that's a different thing. I really put into it to make pencil cases. That's what I want to make.

Anyway, that is... That's the Brandon Sanderson news for the week. Next week, we'll get a report on what it actually did and find out that I won and I guessed correctly.

We'll see. That's definitely what will happen. Time will tell.

I'm just looking at the same announcement that you are. I don't know, Kelsey, have you... Do you follow Paizo much? Have you followed this one?

Yeah, so they had a community use policy for years, and they replaced it with a fan content policy.

It was so that you could make merchandise using Paizo IP.

rules mechanics and character generator tools and online databases of stuff and that sort of thing okay which a lot of people make as fans don't monetize but make it as fans as part of the community yeah and just the path builder I think it affected that sort of thing is why people didn't like it.

Yeah, this wasn't an OGL type situation. No, not at all.

Paizo is always like... I feel, been a bit more plugged into the community than Wizards has been for a long, long time. It's probably just a scale thing, partly because Wizards is so much bigger and stuff. But I think just on a company culture level, I think they are more kind of plugged into the community as well.

At one time it was larger. Yeah. But we're going back sort of 10, 15 years when Wizards was a lot slimmer than it is now. Not these days at all. I think Wizards is enormous in comparison now.