Owlcat Games successfully reached their Pathfinder: Kingmaker Kickstarter campaign goal of $500k.

Owlcat Games announced Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the first computer RPG based on the universe of the tabletop Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and also announced that Chris Avellone would be contributing narrative design to the title.

Subset Games announced the turn-based strategy game Into the Breach, as well as Chris Avellone's involvement in writing and world-building for it.

Italian game developer Gamera Interactive announced the isometric action-RPG Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms, with Chris Avellone as a creative consultant working on the lore, world design and character backstories for the game.

It was announced that Chris Avellone would be working on Divinity: Original Sin II, although not as part of a stretch goal.

Larian Studios announced they would be launching a Kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin II at the end of the month and asked their community to vote on what reward tiers they wanted to see in it

It was announced that Chris Avellone would be joining The Bard's Tale IV's team if its Kickstarter campaign surpassed $1.9 million in funding and that he would design a deadly dungeon named the Cairn of Horrors for it, but this goal was not reached.

Torment: Tides of Numenera's Kickstarter campaign ended with a final tally of $4.18 million, overtaking Project Eternity to become the highest-funded game on the platform.

The Torment: Tides of Numenera's Kickstarter campaign passed the $3.5 million stretch goal, leading to Chris Avellone being referred to as a "human stretch goal".

It was announced that Chris Avellone would be joining the Torment: Tides of Numenera's team if a further stretch goal of $3.5 million was reached.

A Kickstarter campaign was launched for Torment: Tides of Numenera, with an endorsement from Chris Avellone and an initial funding goal of $900,000 that was reached after just 6 hours.

Brian Fargo acquired the recently expired trademark for the word Torment.

Project Eternity's Kickstarter campaign ended, raising over $3.9 million, the most money ever raised by a video game on Kickstarter at that time.

A Kickstarter campaign was launched for Project Eternity, with an initial funding target of $1.1 million that was reached in just over 24 hours.

Stormlands was cancelled, as Obsidian's vision for the project had become increasingly disconnected from Microsoft's demands for it. The largest round of layoffs in Obsidian's history took place, with around 40 employees losing their jobs.

Chris Avellone wrote a blog post in support of the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter campaign.

Brian Fargo announced his decision to use Kickstarter to crowdfund Wasteland 2, the sequel to the 1988 post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland. Chris Avellone was contacted to provide a promotional quote for the Kickstarter campaign.

Double Fine launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new adventure game and reached their goal of $400,000 in less than 8 hours. This inspired Chris Avellone to write a blog post soon after asking fans what kind of project they wanted to potentially see Obsidian launch a Kickstarter campaign around.