Launched simply this week, funded its $250K purpose in underneath a minute, and at the moment sitting at practically $5.5M with a month left to go, Dungeon Crawler Carl is already the third greatest TTRPG crowdfunder in historical past, with a powerful probability of climbing to the #1 place.
Based mostly on Matt Dinniman’s novel collection, which options the titular hero Carl and a cat which belonged to his ex-girlfriend, pressured to compete in an intergalactic Working Man-style actuality present centered spherical a lethal dungeon crawl. The World Dungeon is an enormous megadungeon created by an alien company, and livestreamed throughout the universe. The gamers tackle the function of crawlers, tasked with surviving the dungeon.
The crowdfunder by Renegade Sport Studios contains not simply the Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG, but additionally a deck-building card sport, and extra merchandise than you’ll be able to shake a stick at–dice, baggage, screens, miniatures, trays, playmats, stickers, journals, playing cards, and extra.
The marketing campaign additionally features a ‘season move’ which will get you digital content material all year long.
The present chief within the Million Greenback Crowdfunder Membership is 2024’s Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere RPG, which got here in at $14.4M, adopted by 2021’s Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Sport, which made $9.3M. Dungeon Crawler Carl at the moment sits in third place with $5.4M and climbing.
The TTRPG is a d20 ‘skill-based TTRPG’ and options 30+ playable races, backgrounds, and a ‘large class roster’. It has 5 stats–the D&D stats, however with Knowledge eliminated. Expertise are divided into assault, spell, utility, and passive abilities. A ability verify is–as you’d expect– a d20 plus modifiers in comparison with a goal quantity. As a part of the megadungeon’s conceit, the precise flooring variety of the dungeon (within the novels that goes from 1-18) is added to the goal quantity, that means all duties are tougher the additional you progress. One characteristic of DCC is that GMs don’t make ability checks; solely the gamers do.
Talking of ‘DCC”, Renegade is abbreviating this to the ‘DCC’ RPG, which is certain to create confusion with Goodman Video games’ current Dungeon Crawl Classics, which makes use of the identical abbreviation.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is on Backerkit proper now, and ends on Might fifteenth.
