Following on from a Kickstater campaign launched in June 2013 Mark Rein-Hagen’s new RPG “I am Zombie” is due in stores. The game will have a I Am Zombie Field Manual which will cos about $40 and a I Am Zombie Playkit which includes two decks of ID cards, 8 “Brainz” dice, bump chips and […]
Founding fathers return to rescue Call of Cthulhu
Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen have returned to Chaosium. Petersen is the original designer of Call of Cthulhu the RPG Chaosium made famous and Stafford founded the publisher back in 1975 with a war game called White Bear and Red Moon (later renamed Dragon Pass). In June of 2013 Chaosium raised over half a million […]
Clockwork Watch turns to Kickstarter
Geek Native’s reviewed and enjoyed previous Clockwork Watch titles and so getting a tip off that there was a live Kickstarter was timely. You can see full campaign details over on the funding page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1622307513/clockwork-watch-tick-tock-ipa-3 [Back this Campaign] A pledge of £7 unlocks a digital copy of Tick Tock IPA #3 which you’ll get before […]
It looks scarily good, no wonder Blackout is winning on Kickstarter
The board game is an post-apocalyptic dungeon crawl that supports GM-led play, solo and co-op for up to 5 players. Kickstarter has taken to the game from Nevermore Toys and it funded within 7 hours. You can still back via the Campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1336904045/blackout-journey-into-darkness [Back the Campaign] This is a game that lets characters level […]
Crestfallen RPG returns
Crestfallen was written 15 years ago and first released, for free, over the internet. This makes it something of a granddaddy of an RPG. Now White Rose Games have turned to Kickstarter to release a new edition with professional art. You can check out the full pitch over at the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/396706317/crestfallen-rpg [Back this […]
Myth meets post-apocalypse: Bane Kickstarter
It’s worth giving Gamesicle’s video for their card game Bane a watch. Why? You might have seen some disheveled presenters in the past but this is on a whole new level. Check it out. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1283899359/bane-tabletop-card-game [Back this Campaign] The campaign is asking for $22,000 to fund and with 26 days to go, at the time […]
Periorbis mines success from Kickstarter
Periorbis is an economic strategy game set in space around the business of mining asteroids has cleared it’s Kickstarter funding goal with days left on the clock. It’s worth a look at the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gdmnw/periorbis-the-deep-space-mining-board-game-for-2-6 [Back this Campaign] The early bird pledge slots are all gone so the first tier that might interest you […]
From the Inkwell: 12 Realms and Bedtime Stories
One of the success stories Geek Native has been able to chart has been Mage Company. The publisher pulls together clever board game ideas, well thought out Kickstarters and binds them together with savvy business models. In this guest post Geek Native shares the floor with Alexander Argyropoulos & Michael Andresakis the two Mage brains. […]
In Their Own Worlds: Authors venture inside their books
This is a clever photography Kickstarter which is designed to take a group of authors and bring them into the worlds they created. The project has already funded twice money spare and you can read more about it at the campaign page. [Back this Campaign] The authors are from a number of different genres; including […]
Blood & Bone: Gritty, Game of Thrones inspired RPG
Arcana Games is just a few hundred dollars shy of funding Blood & Bone. This RPG is Game of Thrones meets Dungeons and Dragons, a classless game, with a gritty setting suitable for dark fantasy and horror. Check out their Kickstarter campaign for more details. At the time of writing Blood & Bone has 28 […]
