Routinely Itemised: RPG #347

Huzzah! Goodbye January! Good riddance.

Now, let’s start with the TTRPG summary of summaries.

• There’s a Baldur’s Gate III TV show on the way.
• Dice Tower’s Sam Healey is out after taking an anti-Minnesota-victims stance.
• Heard of it? Oceania 2084 has won another TTRPG award.
• Beadle & Grimm’s is teasing a new official D&D book (and WotC has said nothing).

This Valentine’s Day, name a Shoggoth after your toxic ex!

The candidates for the March Spotlight are:

• Thaloranth Publishing
• Wagon Wheel Publishing
• Eren Chronicles
• Open Sesame Games
• WBD Gaming

You can help by voting here. Remember, if you are a Geek Native patron, then you’re awesome.

On with the TTRPG news!

Spotlight: Surbook Press.

RPG news from Geek Native

• Late is better than never as we spotlight d20play and the evolution of the hobby.
• HBO will make a Baldur’s Gate III D&D TV show.
• MAGAt Sam Healey is out.
• Geek Native had an early look at the quickstart for Idols of the Neon Dark.
• We note that Swedish indie RPG Oceania 2084 wins Game of the Year.
• Geek Native has an early review of Goblin! for Misbehave.
• Loke Battle Mats has released more Cyberpunk RED goodies.
• Horseshark Games and Goodman Games have released the DCC Netcrawl.
• In the Bundle of Holding, there’s a Shadowdark Compatible bundle.

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RPG news from around the web

• VegOut Mag notes that Playing Dungeons & Dragons boosts brain function, research shows.
• Bell of Lost Souls looks at Beadle & Grimm’s New Platinum Edition Teases “Mysterious New D&D Book”.
• Bell of Lost Souls writes up RPG: ‘The Sauvage King’ Is A Massive, Sandbox Expansion For ‘Pendragon’.
• Rascal carries What Zine Month Means To Graftbound Press.
• Chaosium announces Chaosium Con for 2026: Chaosium Con New Zealand.
• Mollie Russell, at Wargamer, reports Meet the indie tabletop RPG that fights fascism with f*cking.
• CBC’s Lucas McInnis runs Islanders can explore ‘no-holds-barred’ imagination at role-playing game nights.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Ill Met by Morrslieb reviews Forest of Hate (WFRP 4e).
• Traverse Fantasy offers an informal review of FRSO’s Program.
• B/X Backrazor shares ASC Review: Rockall.
• Reviews from R’lyeh pens a review of Gallows Corner – A Peasants’ Revolt RPG Prerelease Guide (the Kickstarter is live and the quickstart is here) and the Shadowdark Eve of Destruction
• Grognardia has a retrospective on Shadowdale.

RPG new releases

• Horrible Guild has released the Kickstarter smash hit Vileborn.
• Frog God Games has published The Necromancer’s Game: Game Master’s Guide and also The Necromancer’s Game: Expansion Pack #1.
• Daniel Irwin has a Savage Worlds book out with Dark States of the Zone.
• Topix Media Lab has given us The Game Master’s Handbook of Collaborative Campaign Design.
• High Level Games has released May I Enter: A Vampire Game.
• Beyond the Screen has penned the 5-compatible Book of Spirits.
• W.R.K.S. Games’ sci-fi is out with Katana-Ra: The Dark Frontier.
• Gallant Knight Games has released Blue Planet: Recontact – Moderator’s Guide.
• Midwest Mancers have published Within Cold Stars – All-in-One Rulebook.
• Three Sails Studios’ quickstart for Gallows Corner is out.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $2.30 (10%) with Blackoath Entertainment’s Choir of Flesh Complete bundle.
• Save $1.99 (3%) with Wagon Wheel Publishing’s Saloon & Outlaws – Core + Arbiter Set (Print) bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Messages From The Far Heavens mulls on Being a Good Tabletop RPG player.
• Goblin Punch has good thoughts about the Party healbot.
• A Knight at the Opera thinks about Navigation Games.
• The Angry GM pens Let’s Build a Pretty Good Dungeon: Introduction.
• Words in the Dark shares Campaign of the Month February 2026: Mystara.
• Sly Flourish writes Lazy Campaign Building Checklist.
• Giblet Blizzard writes up Nordheim: Runes as Dice in D&D.
• New Gamemaster Month reaches You’ve Run Your First Game. Congrats! What’s Next?.

RPG Crowdfunding

There’s more! You can catch up with the Kickstarter campaign we’ve written up in more detail at Kickstarter watch. Here are some noteworthy industry projects to mention:

• Barbarian Bay – Low-prep Sword & Sorcery RPG Zine from Nigredo Press kickstarts “A low-prep Sword & Sorcery RPG Zine, inspired by Conan, Elric of Melnibonè, and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser”
• The Thunder Perfect Mind is a project by Tanya Floaker that promises “An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG”
• Void Echoes #2 – The Secrets of Lunar X-12 is a project by DMing the World Press that is described as “2nd issue of the official zine of DarkSpace! Survive alien wildlife & corporate rivals to uncover the terrifying truth of Lunar X-12.”
• Iron and Liberty – The War of the Three by Steven Leon is offering “What if the American Revolution happened in 1854 instead of 1776 in the age of steam, telegraphs, and revolvers?”
• DRAGONFLY MOTEL – A Role-Playing Game of Dreams and Mirages by Bläckfisk Publishing is offering “A tabletop role-playing game about reckless travelers lost in a surreal trap of dreamlike slices of life.”
• COLD STATIC: ROBONOIR ROLEPLAYING from Livid seeks funding for “A PvP RPG about robot detectives of the far future”
• RIGS & RACES in Roomino! TTRPG Zines from Eric Oakland introduces “ENNIE nominated Family-RPG, Let’s Go to Roomino! expands with 2 Zines! With adjustable challenge levels, & the fun of failing together.”
• The Muck : A 28mm Frog Adventure by Cody Williams is now live, described as “Bringing 90s dark fantasy to tabletop games.”
• Void Hand Quickstart – A card-only Tabletop RPG by Rensei is an upcoming supplement for “A new kind of Tabletop RPG played exclusively with a standard 52 card deck of playing cards. How will you use the hand you’re dealt?”
• Corviers: The Corvid Couriers from Hungry Familiar presents “Will your players discover news from far away, receive a mysterious package, or befriend a rider-less hippogriff? System-neutral zine.”
• Baptism by Fire from Amarik has introduced “A tabletop RPG zine quest that teaches new GMs how to run an introductory adventure across multiple game systems.”
• The World Throne: SYSTEM KEY ZineQuest from Jeremy Davis has introduced “Have you ever played a game that plays you back?”
• DAnG20 Zine’26: The Maverick, the Classless Class for 5e is a project by DAnG Panda that invites players to explore “A Field Guide to the Self-Taught Hero. Break the bounds of tradition and invest Training Points to create your ideal character.”
• Tabletop Cowboy Games Zine by Rogerjporter is currently raising funds for “A Quarterly Zine!”
• Burn it all to light the way – TTRPG is a project by Michael Endo Weil that promises “A Roleplaying game about Skilled dungeon explorers, Sacrifice, Resource management, Extravagant excess, Ambition and Taxes.”
• BÖRÜ BORG: Denizens of the Dire Steppe by ONLY VOID Creative is a new roleplaying games project for “A Mörk Borg (and OSR) compatible supplement packed with 30+ new entities, each with unique hand-drawn art, stats, and lore bites.”
• DnD EasyMap: 3D printable modular tabletop terrain STL from Marco is launching “The first D&D system designed for true verticality. Create battlefields, towers, chasms, and stacked levels! Stable, playable, INFINITE”
• The Pearl of Tides for D&D 5e by Hidden Hoard is now live, described as “Sail into a cursed island, retrieve a legendary pearl, and flee before disaster strikes in this one-shot fully compatible with DnD 5e.”
• Toe Beans Magical Cat Cafe: A Supplement for Daggerheart by Fistful of Crits is currently raising funds for “Welcome to Toe Beans, a magical cat cafe purrfect to drop in to your Daggerheart game, by Fistful of Crits.”
• The Book of Plagues for Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder by Douglas Sun is a new roleplaying games project for “A simple and versatile system for including communicable diseases in your fantasy RPG campaign”
• Mermaid Heist is a project by Benjamin Sperling that promises “The Atlantean Gems are missing, see if you can retrieve them!”
• Goblyn Market from Jerod Leupold is crowdfunding “F. Artificial Intelligence Revised Edition (FAIRE)”
• Rabid Dogs Vol. 3 Zine with Collector’s Box from Nick Baran seeks funding for “A DCC RPG-compatible zine full of new classes and special rules in a collector’s box.”
• Whims of the Fey: 3 One-shots for 5E from PetDM is working on “Three complete, minimal-prep 5e one-shots featuring trickster goblins, endless parties, and the deadly Wild Hunt.”
• Expeditions into the Blood Sands from Jeffrey Jones kickstarts “Setting, player, monster, and adventure books for the Blood Sands – a weird sci-fi/fantasy setting for OSE!”
• Demidirge – Fanged Funnel from Shane Walshe has introduced “An acidic nightmare adventure for Shadowdark RPG”
• Dungeon Squares: Modular Map Tiles for Tabletop RPGs by Adventures Await is touted as “Upgrade your game night with these beautiful, full-color, 6″x 6″ map tiles designed to work with any fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.”
• Dungeon of Despair: Chamber of the Mad Mage is a project by Crippled God Foundry that looks at “3D printable STL Fantasy Miniatures, scenery pieces and modular terrain for your dungeon crawl adventures!”
• Psionics for Shadowdark from Molten Blast shares “A new Psionics Class, Disciplines, Psionic Monsters and Psionic Items for the Shadowdark RPG, compatible with OSR versions of Dungeons.”
• PIRATE BORG: These Bloody Sails is a project by ThisEffinGm that is described as “A wild nautical adventure zine full of bizarre locations, rules for travel and chase scenes, and random tables for your crew!”
• CAIN SUN – a Mothership scenario by WacoMatrixo is touted as “Play as the parasite, not the human – fight for control or burn beneath a dying sun.”
• Handbook of Magic & Mayhem for the Shadowdark RPG is a project by WyrdFall Press that features “Uncover the meaning of Magic, explore the secrets of Spells, and reveal the mysteries of the Mages. All this and a complete adventure!”
• Infinite Adventure Engine – The Time Saving RPG Tool from Mellow Golem Games is nominating “Random Generators, Solo Play Tools and More! The All-In-One Tool For Anyone That Runs or Plays TTRPG!”
• 🗺️ TTRPG Maps — 450+ Dino Park Maps 🦖 from LFirefly is developing “Explore a dangerous dinosaur park with 450+ TTRPG maps for survival, exploration, and epic encounters.”
• The Crypt Has Opened is a project by When Suddenly! Games that features “A TTRPG of Magic, Cryptids, and Campy Horror! Follow if you dare muahahah!”
• Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between: For Shadowdark RPG by Jesse Winter is offering “A slime-slathered puzzle dungeon for Shadowdark RPG”
• Dark Matter Mega Box: Sci-Fi 5E from Mage Hand Press seeks funding for “A 5th Edition campaign setting set in a universe inspired by Mass Effect, Dune, and Star Wars. With maps by Czepeku!”
• Spellbook of Typos is a project by Trent Ford that is described as “Silly and Unbalanced Spells to Wreck Your DnD 5e Game”
• The Crimson Night – for Shadowdark RPG by Erkyn Adventures is offering “The Crimson Night: the vanishing of Klara Creedy is an investigative adventure for Shadowdark RPG”
• The Curse of Stoneshatter Tomb: A Shadowdark Adventure from Jeff Mueller @ Jerd Productions offers “A 2nd level adventure balanced for one-shot, or convention, play!”
• The Black Wyrm’s Hoard: Vol 2 – The Swamp Issue (5e) from Michael Lorette is pitching “Swamp-themed character species, magic items, mini-dungeons, monsters, and more to drop into your Dungeons and Dragons 5e game.”
• Troy – Black Tales RPG [5e, OSE and Mork Borg compatible] is a project by Officina Meningi that looks at “Discover the truth behind the myths in this grim and deadly RPG, join Ulysses’ and Aeneas’ crews and conquer the Mediterranean sea!”
• Gates of Krystalia – Lumina: The Card-Based Anime TTJRPG is a project by Top Notch International LTD that looks at “No dice. Just cards, emotions, and divine secrets across the anime multiverse.”
• The Dark Forest from Dash Almeida is crowdfunding “A modern table top role playing game with science fiction and fantasy elements.”
• Mount Olympus Community College from 9thLevel seeks funding for “Lesser Gods who didn’t get into Mt. Olympus University! Navigate higher education, higher states of being & disappointing your parents.”
• Three Coins for a Corpse, a TTRPG Noir Western Mystery from Matthew David is nominating “A complete investigative adventure for 4–6 players, levels 8–10, designed for 5e, OSE and Daggerheart”
• Puzzles & Paradoxes – A TTRPG Supplement by Alex Edwards is touted as “A curated collection of logic puzzles, riddles, and mini-games for your tabletop games”
• Biomes in Maksur: Grasslands is a project by Cave Gaming that promises “TTRPG Resources for running wide open Adventures!”
• I Have Lived A Thousand Lives by Alex Rinehart is currently raising funds for “A solo journaling TTRPG about changing and being changed by stories you love.”
• The Witch Hunter Guild – A Guild House Compendium for DnD 5e is a project by Secrets of Alexandria Retrogrind that features “A complex witch hunter & monster hunter guild compendium, Dungeons and Dragons 5e compatible, including VVT tokens & images & stretches”
• Rordon Gamsay’s Extraordinary Cookbook: DnD 5E Zine from dusky_cat shares “Taste the Chaos with a tower crawl adventure and unleash culinary spell mayhem through this DnD 5E Zine!”
• Amarath by Robin Fjärem is offering “Fight against impossible odds when facing the hordes of Chaos in this epic Dragonbane adventure”
• Briar Bay: A Mork Borg Zine is a project by edward rathke that looks at “A wyrd Mork Borg setting inspired by dark fairy tales and folklore compatible with OSR systems.”
• One Card Dungeon – Hell’s Door from Little Rocket Games is launching “Print & Play stand-alone Adventure Pack of the popular solo dungeon crawler.”
• HIVEMIND RPG from Andrew Taylor shares “Rules light and Mork Borg compatible”
• Rock, Paper, Scissors V2 – An RPG Like Adventure by Kreative Explosion is a new roleplaying games project for “You know that ages-old hand game? We are here to double, no… quadruple the fun. This is an extraordinary RPG experience.”
• Levitating Glowing Dice Set by HuaLong Wang is a new roleplaying games project for “A set of levitating glowing dice, each floating independently above the base—infusing your dice with tech and visual flair.”
• RUNES #9 – Fantasy RPG Zine from James Floyd Kelly is developing “RUNES is a magazine for GMs and Players of Shadowdark RPG.”
• Dungeon Crawl Magazine is a project by Dungeon Tower Games that invites players to explore “We’re creating a gaming zine so we can party like it’s the 80’s and 90’s all over again”
• The Partner Handbook: WILLOWISP Duo Journaling RPG Zine from Ossandra White is pitching “A fun set of games for two people to play together, set in the mysterious sci-fi world of WILLOWISP spies, lies, and surprise.”
• The Florida Men Folio: A TTRPG Zine from Greggo Movie Rants has introduced “An unhinged 5E compatible supplement! 4 new Subclasses, plus monster stats, magic items, & spells from the mythical lands of Florida!”
• The Abyssal Vault | Hero Vault & iPad Dock for DnD by Jack Gell is now live, described as “A hardwood dice tray and miniature storage case for Dungeons & Dragons, featuring an integrated iPad Mini dock and 3D laser-engraved ar”
• AND HE SHALL EAT THE SUN is a project by Dale L. Houston that invites players to explore “An old-school, tournament-style roguelike dungeon-crawl inside of a living god at the end of the world.”
• NU_ORDR by GnomeLackey is an upcoming supplement for “A CY_BORG compatible rules engine to enforce the Empress’s law—until tyranny breaks you, freedom consumes you, or chaos ends it all.”
• Maps for TTRPGs – Eastern Kingdoms is a project by RealmCrafters that promises “300+ Asia/China-Themed Maps for Every Tabletop and VTT System (e.g., DnD, Pathfinder) Plus Commercial Use Included! (Grid & Gridless)”
• Firelance: An OSR RPG Zine. is a project by Ian Hickey that is described as “Traverse the Deepways in this fast, hard-hitting dwarven biker OSR RPG. Compatible with AD&D and other OSR systems. For ZineQuest 2026.”
• Guildhouse Games is a project by Kat Pyke that promises “A tabletop games cafe aiming to develop and grow an inclusive presence within the local community alongside a games publication side.”
• Pilot Episode – Rebooted from SmallRedRobin13 presents “A musical, GMless ttrpg about being trapped in a 1950s sitcom.”
• Kings & Beggars Character Cards for Shadowdark RPG from ORBLORD presents “What could be waiting for these poor souls in the cold dark?”
• CRIMSON RHEN: The Adventure Edition Hardcover Graphic Novel! is a project by Nydaria Entertainment that promises “Crimson Rhen Vol. 1 has been sold out for years, and now we’re going back to press with NEW Perks and Surprises if you missed out!”
• Potvory – Tabletop Roleplaying Game by Studio Tvora is an upcoming supplement for “Potvory is a rules-light tabletop role-playing game that offers a new look at traditional Slavic mythology through a queer lens.”
• 🪶TTRPG Maps – 457 Native America Maps🏹🦅 by Benjámin Weisz is touted as “Stylized Native American maps. 2.5K VTT & 8K high-fidelity print resolution. Maps for classic era TTRPG tabletop adventures! 🏹”
• The Play Fearless Greatest Crits Zine from Mad Jay introduces “A Zine of Essays, Tools, and Table Truths from the Play Fearless Newsletter.”
• Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 54 is a project by Todd that invites players to explore “The Wyvern’s Eyrie”
• Primemordica Core System DND 5e homebrew is a project by AkinDrago that is “Primemordica Core System is a dnd 5e homebrew rules for making and running Mechas.”
• Kitten & Pup Foundry Dice is a project by Bear Dice that looks at “Forged in Metal – 6 Exclusive Colors for Pet Lovers & Collectors”
• Secrets from an Old Shoebox by Sandra Rosner is currently raising funds for “A TTRPG game of letters, mementos, and memories.”
• Fragment of the Fallen Moon || A 5e Cosmic Horror One-Shot by Leon Jaume is currently raising funds for “An epic and eldritch 5e adventure themed after this year’s lunar new year: Year of the horse! You love Bloodborne, this is for you!”
• Curse of the Mire-Mare is a project by Medora Games that looks at “Fog-addled OSR swamp-crawl adventure for 3rd-5th level characters.”
• Medieval Guilds & Markets for RPGs is a project by Dwarven Brothers that looks at “Everything you need to create realistic medieval economies for your world [ENG/ITA]”
• Delving into the Ever-Shifting Sands by James Fraser Kyddyk is currently raising funds for “Support this Campaign in the works! Aiming to get artists so this can be formatted and published! Image is a Placeholder! :D”
• Tangerine Glow: A cozy, small-town RPG Setting & Story Kit is a project by AJ Crow that invites players to explore “Welcome to the quaint little town of Tangerine Glow! Grab your Story Kit and start creating your own tales in this cozy, quirky world.”
• Fantasy Map Maker is a project by Doopy Games that is “Roll dice, draw features, and fulfil quests as you craft a fantasy world.”
• Ebonheim from Codex Games brings us “Make an expedition into the forsaken city of Ebonheim; grasp tight your sanity and gamble your flesh as you quest for treasure.”
• From the First Flame – An Urban Fantasy RPG by Cerfnoir Project is a new roleplaying games project for “Play as an Arcanist in an urban fantasy Europe, where myths and legends are part of your everyday life.”
• Sarkaasa’s Lair: An Old School Fanhawk Adventure from Forlorn Skulk is working on “Stop Sarkaasa’s gnoll horde before it’s too late!”
• Realms of Clay, Adventures in Nahar-Ki from RealmCrafts proposes “a D&D 5e compatible adventure based on the history and mythology of the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamia”
• Hawthorne Effect: A Conspiracy and Surveillance TTRPG is a project by InnocentGoblin that is “Millions of cameras are made every day, they’re watching you!”
• Slightly Random Tables from Danny Kodicek shares “A selection of quirky, unconnected tables to inspire your TTRPGs, from Slightly Underpowered Gods to Slightly Unpleasant Diseases”
• 1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg is a project by Roberto Diglio that promises “A setting and source-book manual of celestial presences and ufos for any rpg. And it’s free.”
• Sparking Strings – Fan-fueled Fiction (TTRPG) by Emilia Weigelt is currently raising funds for “A narrative driven tabletop RPG all about building and developing your own unique character and writing your own story.”
• Gastronomancer – The Main Course by Sealight Studios is now live, described as “A cosy cooking TTRPG for two players”
• Whispers of War from Paper Joust kickstarts “A low-commitment strategy game that keeps friends connected no matter the distance.”
• Khardruz, The Hive, and Southwick: Zines for Shadowdark RPG is a project by William Murakami-Brundage that features “A zine trifecta: Khardruz, The Hive, and Secret of Southwick. Custom printed, 100% compatible with Shadowdark Core RPG”
• Oppai Sluggerz: The Apocalypse Never Looked So Good from NeonRot is pitching “A TTRPG about being a big-busted babe during the zombie martian apocalypse. Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry (style mechanics.)”
• Extra Ordinary TTRPG Softcover Print Run by Kodi Gonzaga is now live, described as “Physical copies of Extra Ordinary, a TTRPG about kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world!”
• The Bottle Episode is a project by Spilled Coffee Creatives that is “The Bottle Episode is a TTRPG where players become the characters of a popular TV show, in everyone’s favorite low-budget episode!”
• Marked for the Hunt: a monstrous TTRPG from Second Rodeo Games has introduced “A prompt + oracle deck TTRPG where a monster hunts you. Discover how to kill it before it kills you.”
• Poor Lichard’s Almanac – A Humorous RPG Fantasy Supplement from Broken Bell Publishing presents “A fantasy based, diegetic tabletop zine of generators, curses & advice from a cynical Lich. Practical tools for short, terrible lives.”
• The Quick & The Undead is a project by Inkspill Inklings that features “A one-night, rules-light, bite-sized zombie TTRPG — fast, cinematic, (GM-less) pick-up-and-play apocalyptic mayhem!”
• Bowerbird – a GM-Less Journaling TTRPG by Joel Salda is currently raising funds for “What will you build for love? Find your partner during the courtship season in this journaling TTRPG about bowerbirds.”
• Blood in the Needle – A Bookmark Dungeon for Mork Borg from Crumbling Keep is crowdfunding “Explore the lab of the Xtreme Xalted Xsanguinator and save your place in the dying world with this five room Mork Borg dungeon bookmark”
• ShadowTimer: A Torch Timer for Shadowdark & Other TTRPGs from Studio Drachenspiel is pitching “An immersive app that brings back the fear of dwindling light.”
• Courts of Rememory: A Supplement to Song of the River Prince is a project by Mark Meredith that is “A book about the Fey and their Kind throughout the Riverlands”
• The Hell Crusades 1099: A TTRPG Zine is a project by Jason that features “A Christian army took Jerusalem in 1099. The slaughter of innocents that followed opened a portal to Hell, sealing their fate.”
• Game Master’s Little Helper – Random TTRPG Tables Zines from Eric Bloat is developing “Six zines for Game Masters: Fantasy, Dungeons, Sci-Fi/ Apocalyptic, Treasures, Magic Items, and Cthulhu”
• Enjoy Scrolls! from Micah is pitching “Rich descriptions of scrolls for Shadowdark and other fantasy roleplaying games”
• The Valley of Lune is a project by Hilander RPGs that promises “A living forest and abandoned city for Cairn 2e. ~48 page zine, statement format.”
• Tok 4: A Vast Grimm Supplement and Adventures from Nick Weigand is pitching “Tok 4 introduces you to a new location in the Vast Grimm Universe along with 2 new classes and a new raider faction.”
• Maps & Mishaps: The One-Shot Misadventure RPG! by Bardlight Studios is touted as “Build a world, or choose your favorite, then create your characters and take them on a GM-less misadventure! All in a single night!”
• The Holiday RPG Trilogy by Sean McGrath is a new roleplaying games project for “A system agnostic horror adventure for fantasy RPGs”
• Dungeon Death: 16-bit rules for Shadowdark from Crimson Adder Curiosities offers “A mysterious cartridge pulls you into a lightless dungeon. It’s pitch dark in here… you are likely to be eaten!”
• KÖT: a city prowler solo RPG zine is a project by Korba Games that features “The city is changed. The air hangs heavy with the stench of alien ectoplasm. And you are not the only one who can smell it.”
• Flesh Ware! [Cursed Cybernetics for Mothership TTRPG] is a project by StoicheinCat that invites players to explore “A cursed cybernetic module for Mothership TTRPG”
• Aqua Tofana by Wannabe Games is a new roleplaying games project for “A baroque solo game about poisoning your husband”
• Aetherian Legends: TBC Hardcover Edition ZINE QUEST by Josef Vaccaro is now live, described as “A hardcover version of the successful kickstarter from last Zine Quest, the Blackraven Curse returns as a hardcover. #ZineQuest”
• The Pleiades Archipelago is a project by Bryce Taylor that features “A Campaign Setting for your favorite Tabletop Roleplaying Game”
• Noir-Neo from WyvernDen kickstarts “a 24XX compatible TTRPG, where you are investigators trying to solve cases in the Neo-Future”
• Tales from the Locker #1 – Pirate Borg Compatible Zine by SkeletonKey Games is offering “Explore dangerous locations, run a high-stakes heist, and expand your campaign with new classes, creatures, and tables.”
• Von Hynd Manor is a project by Stella Condrey that is described as “A gothic horror zine of noble predation”
• The Hive Under Eisenstead is a project by Living Past Games that features “A low-level dungeon adventure focused on interactivity, problem solving, and faction play designed for old-school and modern systems.”
• Cozy Worldbuilding Tools, Setting Creator, & Hexcrawl from Ty Hulse proposes “Fantasy communities as compelling as the characters. Tools & tables for making Cozy Settings, with a mini-setting for story driven play”

[What’s this chart? We use Kickstarter Heat to measure how busy the crowdfunding season is.]

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