Gamefound's RPG Party: Indie TTRPG Creators Get Crowdfunding Boost

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Today, I got a chance to sit down and talk to Gamefound about RPG Party, its ongoing initiative to help independent game creators launch their products.

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time checking websites like Kickstarter and Backerkit for new games to watch out for, whether it be the latest launch from MCDM, an indie creator like Fool’s Moon Entertainment or the next big set of books that are to be launched. Gamefound is a similar crowdfunding platform that has hosted some considerable competitors on its platform, but has yet to make a significant splash of the TTRPG industry.

Originally founded in 2016, Gamefound has focused primarily on providing crowdfunding tools and resources for the board game production community. Successful campaigns, such as the Helldivers 2 board game, have all run through this platform in recent years. It attracts a significant number of backers and campaigns. Still, it hasn’t become as prominent a player as Kickstarter yet (although its recent acquisition of IndieGoGo could impact that down the line.)

The RPG Party project has been in development since 2023, according to Gamefound's new business manager, Tadeusz Nowopolski. While the project has evolved and changed during that period, “It was important to us that the initiative serve real creator needs and that it be truly collaborative, rather than just a platform-led campaign,” Nowopolski told TTRPG Insider.

The company announced RPG Party in April 2025, an initiative providing independent creators with resources and training to develop their projects into complete books, zines, and systems for play.

More than 200 submissions were filed, with a variety of systems and stories represented. The company claims that only 10% of the submitted projects were related to Dungeons and Dragons, and Nowopolski confirmed that the finalists will have a plethora of game types involved, ranging from original systems made by the designers to popular systems like Powered by the Apocalypse. Each submission was judged on originality, execution, the strength of the visuals already developed, and how well the project would fit within the space, according to staff.

The final results were narrowed down to around 50, and ultimately, 23 candidates were selected by the end of the process.

RPG Party’s Support for Creators

The 23 creators who were chosen received support from Gamefound in a few different ways. This included Nowopolski and fellow manager Cameron Bradley making themselves available to creators, hopping on video calls to assist with quick starts, preview pages, and some organic marketing. Attendees also received the opportunity to attend seminars from major creators in the TTRPG space, including Magpie Games, Chaosium, and Loot Tavern. They will also receive between $100 and $500 in credit for Gamefound’s marketing system to use. There are also plans to partner with some noteworthy influencers in the TTRPG space to increase visibility for the projects.

Gamefound has had to adapt to the needs of the creators, particularly those who had not finalized their products or created sufficient content to promote their campaigns to the company’s liking. For example, the company initially told TTRPG Insider that it hoped to launch all of RPG Party’s representative campaigns in late August or mid-September. The date was eventually pushed back to mid-October in response to feedback from other creators, who expressed concerns about not having enough time to complete the project and present the best possible product.

They’re also in a peculiar position where they are trying to present resources to people who are new to crowdfunding such as Heliosail author Quinn Martin as well as long-term game design veterans like Soul’s Food co-creator Nathaniel Elks. It’s a tricky tightrope to balance. Nearly all of the RPG Party-affiliated creators that TTRPG Insider spoke with expressed gratitude to the company for the support. However, some did note that the resources may require additional refinement in the future to meet their unique need.

Bradley admitted that RPG Party’s launch has gone through its ups and downs, but compared the adaptations that staff have had to make to the crowdfunding campaigns that he’s trying to help launch. “You can be overly prepared in your own mind, and then you jump into it, and there are all kinds of surprises that you didn't realize are a thing until you actually get into the weeds,” Bradley said.

With over a month before the event launches, RPG Party’s success remains uncertain, as they are still launching 23 separate independent games into a crowdfunding market that has slowly cooled when it comes to funding, and where people may be hesitant to support TTRPGs due to the uncertainty of whether fulfilling those demands will be viable. However, the team leading this operation seem confident about helping the creators succeed in the coming days.

RPG Party intends to have all of the crowdfunding campaigns go live on Oct. 14, 2025, at 4 PM CEST.

Thanks to Gamefound and to the RPG Party applicants for chatting with us! We’ve got a larger collaborative project involving them down the line, but we wanted to ensure we got this story out there first.

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