Power Up Gamers have a new Kickstarter live, and it’s for the sequel to L’gat’s Tome of Amazing Creatures. Their tagline is Roleplayers for Accessibility and in Power Up Gamers introduction to L’gat’s Tome v1 they thanks the gaming community for being a safe space for all people regardless of their gender, sexuality, physical handicap […]
A free introduction to Lex Arcana: A RPG set in a magical Roman Empire
Depending on where you are you might already be a big fan of Lex Arcana. It’s a hugely popular game. The Dark Eye is very popular in Germany, for example, and Trudvang Chronicles in Sweden. as Lex Arcana is an alternative history fantasy game in which the powers of divination magic kept the Roman Empire […]
Go wild with Troika as ultra-slimline RPG heads to Kickstarter
We’ve found some great RPG Kickstarters to back this year but it might be fair to say that some of them have promised the Earth if only we would fund them a lever long enough to move it. Not this super-simple RPG. Troika is looking for £5,000 to fund and will put a hardback copy […]
Monte Cook’s “Your Best Game Ever” gets Kickstarter better
The game designer behind Numenera, Dungeons & Dragons core rules and loads others, Monte Cook, has a Kickstarter that is (at the time of writing) funded by 430%. They’ve just added more pledges. Your Best Game Ever! is a “tool book” for tabletop games, not of rules, but of tips. Gamers like Matt Colville, Matthew […]
Half a million (and counting) raised to build a take-home HAL 9000
File this under; what could go wrong? The Master Replica Group want to build you a HAL 9000 that can communicate with your wifi and refuse to open the pod bay doors. They only needed US$80,000 to make this happen with a month left on an Indieigogo campaign they’ve raised more than $400,000 and are […]
Milled metal die… solid enough to be dangerous!
The second thing you notice in this Kickstarter is the name of the company; ‘Flying Horseduck’. Good one. Of course, the first thing you’re likely to notice is how their golf ball sized 60-sided die could probably be used as a thrown weapon! They’re asking for US$10,000 to mill and laser all these die and […]
Hangout with elder gods and sentient cats: The Oddity High Kickstarter
We’ve seen a load of strong Kickstarters this week. Amazing video pitches. Huge licenses and remakes of popular classics. Given that we’re between San Diego Comic Con and Gen Con this isn’t a surprise. I wanted to find a promising Kickstarter on the other end of the budget scale and found Oddity High. There’s no […]
Free to Download: The Expanse Roleplaying Game quickstart
You can now download The Expanse RPG quickstart for free. The timing is spot on as publisher Green Ronin are only a few days into their The Expanse Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, and it is going great guns. It funded in just one hour, smashing the US$30, 000 goal. At the time of writing, there are […]
Free comic books to kids with Skies Over Superior
Skies Over Superior is a new comic book series with monsters, music, mental illness, mythology and Michigan. At the time of writing, there are five days left to back this funded Kickstarter project. [Back this Campaign] There’s a generous preview of the comic, taken from the Kickstarter pitch, below but first, let’s take a look […]
Steve Jackson Games attempt to bring back his first ever RPG
If you played tabletop games a lot in the 1970s then you may have played Melee or Wizard. This tabletop game later evolved into a more traditional game to take on Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, well, that went well… but now you can get involved with Kickstarter campaign. [Back this Campaign] Steve Jackson Games seem […]