5e forgot the best idea it had: Modular design. How 5e solved its biggest problem before launch, and then forgot about it.

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Kibbles' Summoner v0.9 - is out in the wild. PDF, GMBinder, and Guide all linked in the Reddit post:
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've put up a new way to buy my books via a store page on my website:
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While I test to make sure everything is working in the soft launch, I've put up a discount code folks can use at checkout for 25% off 'KIBBLES_LAUNCH_TEST'. It'll last until ~Tuesday or the codes run out.

Made my first 'blog' post: Opt-in Complexity & 5e Design, talking about what sort of complexity you can slot in the game, the difference between 'crunch' and 'grit' and the importance of know who you are writing content for:

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Orders placed over the weekend will ship out on Monday.

After many trials and tribulations, Kibbles' Compendium of Legends and Legacy has been fulfilled to backers, and both KCLL and KCCC (my first book) are in stock and available in all regions.

Here's your chance to get a Kickstarter without the usual 2-year waiting period!

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Mission Control? Depends on the situation I guess. Others have said Handler, which I could see.

'Coordinator' or 'Controller' are the ones that spring to mind (based on level of authority). 'Mission Control', 'HQ', etc. Depends on the context though I guess.

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I've just put up my 2025 Summer Survey. I appreciate anyone that uses my content and takes a few minutes to fill it out.

Content creation is a data driven business, and its super helpful to know where folks are at.

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For folks that grabbed it through Kickstarter or Backerkit, codes have been sent out through Backerkit and be redeemed through the Roll20 marketplace (instructions included with code).

A big thanks to @meditatingmunky.bsky.social for helping get this module ported and ready.

Kibbles' Compendium of Legends and Legacies, a large D&D 5e content compendium, is now available on @roll20.net:
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+4 New Classes (Occultist, Spellblade, Warden, and World)
+More than 30 new subclasses for core 5e classes
+More than 40 new feats
+250 new spells

I've seen a lot of publishers say the TTRPG Books should be exempt from the tariffs. This is not what my customs broker is saying, so if anyone out there has an actual customs brokers that is saying that, please let me know their name and contact.

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Once a year on this most... auspicious... of days, I live up to my user name to provide the Actual Kibbles Content that you demand.

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(Yes... this is a joke. Yes... people will probably play it anyway)

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Summoner v0.6 - Contract powerful monsters, call forth ravenous swarms, turn creatures into living bombs, or make them your very armor and weapons!

Updates back in the fey plane, adds a variety fixes, and brings it a little closer final release.

Links to GMBinder/PDF
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It's not great, but the alternatives are corporate software or going independent... which isn't exactly the more stable option. My two cents are take the jobs you want, just make sure the time you trade for money is adding up, and you're not counting on something in the future to make up for it.

It's in no way an endorsement of Hasbro that this is pretty typical video game industry behavior when an underwhelming project launches or management changes their mind. Tons of games get shoved out the door or scrapped before launching. It's part of why I left the video game industry long ago.

Kibbles' Summoner v0.5 posted. New version that overhauls the action economy and expands the summon options considerably.

Still a pretty early beta fleshing out the core mechanics.

Full more details and PDF on Discord/Reddit.

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My own experience with my audience is that the 5e market has moderated from rapid growth to basically replacement rate, with generally low excitement around D&D 2024 as a new edition or an update to 5e, but I won't really know for sure what that translates to in Kickstarter till I run a campaign.

That said... I'm not sure how much of that is market appetite changing vs. creator preference changing. It's not like we see a sharp spike in failed high budget 5e Kickstarters, rather we see a lot of creators that moved on from 5e for reasons other profitability, even at the cost of profitability.

To add a little context from that conversation, total TTRPG campaigns are probably down a fair bit year over year, depending on how you count it. Counting by Backers, the number that reached 1,000 backers declined from 194 in 2023 to 148 to 2024.

Still, 5e's decline was sharper than the market's.

If I use this account just to post paladin doggos (or is it doggo paladins?), I feel like I'll finally be living up to what people expect from my username (art by Lia Pianelli for goodest boi paladin).

Checking in over here, though I never much used the other platform, so not sure how much I'll use this one.

I make D&D 5e content. You can find it all here:
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Here. Enjoy a Paladin Doggo picture: