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The Dungeon Masters Guild Creators' Circle is a moderated Facebook group for DMsGuild community content contributors. The DMsGuild is a storefront on the OneBookShelf platform dedicated to D&D 5E. Publishing here is under a different agreement than the OGL and there are other restrictions and a higher rate to WotC. If you already contribute or intend to create content for the DMsGuild, you need to be a member of this group. The best and brightest of the DMsGuild creators are active in this group and will impart their wisdom, and community opportunities abound for one who is willing to contribute. If you belong to this group, you will also want to join the Dungeon Masters Guild Facebook group, which is moderated by WotC.

However, if you have a general interest in RPG design or publishing on other platforms, there are groups better suited for those interests. The discussion on DMGCC is limited to the DMsGuild platform. Most of the contributors to this group are active in other groups, so their wisdom will not be hidden from you.

The Low Player Count Podcast  is mostly a discussion about games and the experience playing them at (wait for it) low player counts – solo and two players. This includes games that are specifically designed for 1-2 players, games that are listed for player count ranges that include 1 or 2 players, and games that can be scaled down with variants. While they do some reviews of games as well, their focus is more general about what makes games good and particularly what makes them good at low player counts.

In recent days, and only 8 days apart, there have been two Kickstarter campaigns in the Tabletop Game category that have absolutely exploded. Thanks to a convenient list on ICv2 (Top 10 Tabletop Kickstarters) the following is easy to report. On Feb. 11, 2015, Conan funded with the second highest total $ raised in the tabletop category. Just over a week later it was bumped down to third when Exploding Kittens took over the top spot, beating out the previous leader Dark Heaven: Bones by over 250%.