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 […]
Turn back the darkness: Delta Green – The Labyrinth on Kickstarter
Delta Green: The Labyrinth takes the H. P. Lovecraft inspired roleplaying game up to date with modern America. This is the world of alt-right activists, to Reddit rants and dangerous live streams. You can follow the Kickstarter here. [Back this Campaign] A pledge of US$20 gets you the PDF download of Delta Green whereas US$45 […]
Dungeons and Doggies run wild on Kickstarter
Fancy playing an intelligent doggo in your next dungeon-crawling quest? Now you can thanks to Russ Charles and this Kickstarter campaign. [Back this Campaign] At the time of writing, this Kickstarter has about a week left to run, and it will kickstart. How come I’m so sure? It’s funded by 1261% already. That’s £190,000 against […]
