Should Kickstarter have a tabletop role-playing game category?

[genobalto]

article: [url]http://www.examiner.com/article/should-kickstarter-have-a-tabletop-role-playing-game-category[/url]

[QUOTE]Kickstarter, the popular crowdfunding site, recently crowed about the success of its Games category, with seven of the eleven projects that have crossed $1 million this year being games. It's enough for cofounder/head of community Yancey Strickler and data engineer Fred Benenson at Kickstarter declare 2012 "the year of the game." There's just one problem – not all games are alike.

Kickstarter curiously only breaks down its Gaming category of crowdsourced initiatives into Board & Card Games and Video Games. But there are many lesser known tabletop role-playing game Kickstarters launched at a pace of several a week -- so numerous in fact that a Tumblr was created by ENWorld called RPG Kickstarters just to keep track of them all. There are 16 pages of tabletop-related Kickstarters on that page alone.[/QUOTE]

What do you guys think? I would love to hear the opinion of tabletop RPG players. I don't personally play them, but I would like to see how TRPGs move along in the timeline in the midst of all this craze about mobile gaming and next generation platforms. Are TRPGs immune to that kind of tech-advancement? Are they time-transcending? Is there a 'next generation' of TRPGs?

[Highmist]

I would like to see them separated. Mixing the two into the one category just seems weird, and I would prefer it split. I'm by no means a huge tabletop guy, mostly due to friends not being as into it as I want to be, but as you said I would love to see how they develop as time moves along. They also seem to be the more successful area on Kickstarter, as I have not seen many that have failed to reach their goal in time. It might be because I don't tour around the tabletop part much, but its jsut from what I've seen

[Orki]

You mean like this?
[url]http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/video%20games?ref=sidebar[/url]
[url]http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/tabletop%20games?ref=sidebar[/url]