It's hard to not just repeat what everyone else said, but let's see.

- 2009 One Page Dungeon Codex - I really like this book.  One page dungeons are neat to review even if just for ideas, and having a bunch of them in a book is neat.
- Gaming Paper Adventures, Gaming Paper sequel - The Gaming paper folks provide their paper, graph ruled, with a dungeon printed on them - one side with rooms, the other with rooms and furniture.
- Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple.  Probably not your cup of tea if you hang out here, but a lovely book.
- Astonishing Swordsman & Sorcerers of Hyperborea
- The Sense of the Slight of Hand Man - it was a bit late, but it's also bigger than originally expected, and although I haven't gotten around to reading it yet I'm sure it's going to knock the socks off.
- Deadlands Noir - On time and lovely - Pinnacle has their stuff together.  I got a ton of pdfs for my $10.
- Savage Worlds Rome - Also by Pinnacle, and I think the pdf arrived in my hands a week after the kickstarter closed.
- Dungeon World - Yum.  You may not like the game, but the kickstarter went well.
- Tremulus - Also got this in a decent amount of time.  Still waiting on stretch goal goodness.
- Nova Praxis - Cyberpunk/post-singularity roleplaying using FATE.  Fantastic pdf.
- Ehdrigor - Also FATE, haven't read the pdf yet, but I've _got_ it.
- Arcana Rising - I think I just got the pdf for this, but I"ve been busy this week and haven't downloaded it.

So, there you go.  And that's not every rpg kickstarter I've done, either.  I seem to generally have a good hand at picking and backing decent ones... there's just a few that get comically off the tracks.

The Lamentations of the Flame Princess hardcover Rules & Magic came out quite late but with an excellent presentation. Its mostly a fixed version of Grindhouse, with better graphics and firearms rules.

Nice touch - red fabric built in bookmark!

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. The game was ready (written) the day the kickstarter was launched, the issue was production, to be able to have a box and two booklets and a map and dice inside and it worked great. The final product does justice to the game. The communication was great, there was diligence and hard work going into it... and it reached my doorstep unscathed.

Robotech RPG Tactics looks pretty good.

The funding was around: $1.5 million; not too shabby.

I was wondering if this makes it the highest funded tabletop game?

Anyone?

You can easily see the most funded games from this link.

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/most-funded

This includes computer and board games as well, but the list starts with the highest funded and then goes down--I think it lists the top 100 funded items.

It's bizarre: I wouldn't consider the kickstarters that rocked the most to be automatically the ones that funded the most. For me, when you're asking me whether a kickstarter "rocked", I'm thinking of the overall experience, the communication, the bang for the buck, the production values, the timing of reception, all these sorts of things. I think raising too much money can spoil a kickstarter and get to one's head. I mean, it's obviously great for the people who raised the money, at first, at least, by validating your ego or whatnot, but it's not necessarily a sign of quality, for me. It basically raises the stakes and expectations across the board, not necessarily in a good way.

Quote from: jcfiala- Arcana Rising - I think I just got the pdf for this, but I"ve been busy this week and haven't downloaded it.

I just sent out the playtest draft this week, yeah. It's still rough, but so far feedback has been good and helpful.

Quote from: Spinachcat;690180So who are the RPG Kickstarter heroes?

Eclipse Phase: Transhuman: Delivered right on time. Exactly the type of great supplement with high production values you'd expect from Posthuman Studios.

Numenera: The extras haven't delivered yet, but everything so far has been right on time. The fact that I've been getting a dollop of awesome in my e-mail inbox every couple of weeks is simply delightful. And Cook was clearly able to take the extra money from his astounding Kickstarter success and pump it into both fantastically high production values and a long-term plan for providing support for the game.

Reaper Bones: I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these miniatures, but they're awesome.

Dungeon-a-Day: A bit of a disappointment when it comes to the stretch goals (which are way behind schedule), but I backed it for access to the website and the wealth of material it contained. I'm very satisfied.

Monster Stock Art & Minis: Great art. Great price.

Order of the Stick: Another fabulous bargain. Some of the bonuses and stretch goals have fallen behind schedule, but the actual books were speedily delivered and this is another project where the constant drip of extra awesome over the long-term provides a constant reinforcement of my deep satisfaction with the project.

Quote from: Benoist;690296It's bizarre: I wouldn't consider the kickstarters that rocked the most to be automatically the ones that funded the most.

I don't think anybody said that at all.  Somebody asked which RPG KS made the most money and I provided a link.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;690181I fucking love my random dungeon generator poster map!

I am addicted to the free online game version of it and it makes me want to buy the poster.

Quote from: Benoist;690296It's bizarre: I wouldn't consider the kickstarters that rocked the most to be automatically the ones that funded the most.

Yeah; the amount of money is interesting as a high score, but the only question that matters is "did you hit 100%?". As much as people like to harp on that "kickstarter is not a store", every pound raised on kickstarter funds come with obligations, it's not just a sudden large payday for a lucky developer with some nostalgia behind them.

Quote from: Ladybird;690336Yeah; the amount of money is interesting as a high score, but the only question that matters is "did you hit 100%?". As much as people like to harp on that "kickstarter is not a store", every pound raised on kickstarter funds come with obligations, it's not just a sudden large payday for a lucky developer with some nostalgia behind them.

True, I see a few there that are likely to be problematic--for Computer Games, I see trouble for both Yogventures and Homestuck Adventure Game, since in those cases guys who never made games themselves are gonna have a lot of trials ahead.

It is however a pretty good gauge to see what KS are more popular.

I notice that most of the Tabletop ones that did big are mostly existing properties.  CoC, Exalted, etc.  Out of the Tabletop RPGs I think Numenera is the highest one done based on the name or reputation of the author alone rather than a pre-existing concept that had its own popularity.

I was very pleased with Starships and Spacemen.

Good book with some nifty extras delivered on time.

It was indiegogo but whatever.

Also FATE core.

Another Indiegogo one, but OpenQuest 2 has just distributed the pdfs and I'm expecting my actual book next month.  d101 games are doing some supplements including a free rules intro "OpenQuest Basics" off the back of the campaign.

Outside of Order of the Stick, which I missed, the one I've been most impressed with was FATE Core.  They've delivered what they said they'd deliver and they've kept everyone appraised of the situation.

I've also liked Triple Ace's Hellfrost - Land of Fire setting.  They were a bit hamstrung with the shipment coming to them via a cargo ship, but that's wasn't something they could control once the ship left the dock.  But the print run was very professional and I've enjoyed reading the setting material.

Once Lone Wolf's RealmWorks software is released, that'll probably join the other two.  I realize that the were able to hire some extra programmers and they had more eyes looking at the architecture that they had to redo things for the long term.  That they were honest about it is fine with me, as I'm an ex-coder myself.  Better to get it done right rather than rush it out and then have to fix it later.