[Back this Campaign] You are a Crone, a wizened old witch of great power and fearsome reputation. Your magic will shake the very foundations of the earth. When Crone launched in open beta Geek Native described it as “female friendly”. I think that was right at the time. The RPG clearly puts female characters at […]
The pitch for Dragon Finn Soup
[Back this Campaign] Geek Native covers plenty of Kickstarters but computer RPGs that make it to the blog seem pretty rare. Why is that? It must be hard to pitch computer games hoping to be considered RPGs to a dyed in the wool tabletop fan. That makes Dragon Finn Soup interesting. Grimm Bros are a […]
Red Kobold wins with Blue Dungeons
[Back this Campaign] Kickstarters for gaming tiles haven’t always had an easy ride. However, with 41 days (when this post went live) still to go Red Kobold Games have raised nearly $14,000 from 220 backers beating an asking price of $9,500. Unless there’s a mass run to remove or lower pledges this project is cooking. […]
Kickstarting big-time: Mage the Ascension 20th anniversary edition
[Back this Campaign] True to form; The Onyx Path’s latest 20th-anniversary edition from the World of Darkness series is blistering a path of cash at Kickstarter. The campaign went live a few days ago, asked for $70,000 and funded pretty much straight away. At the time this blog post goes live there’s $265,766 in the […]
Tabletop Taverns: The quickest way to build a whole RPG model town
[Back this Campaign] Going three or four steps beyond the concept of paper minis for your tabletop RPG adventures is the idea of an entire tabletop town. That’s exactly what Tabletop Towns offer. The boxes are suitable for 28mm wargame or tabletop system and transform into buildings. Okay, I’ll admit it, I was a bit […]
Protect your luck: Cryptex dice vaults
Do you hate it when someone else touches your dice? Is it fair when someone grabs one of your d20s, rolls and lands a crit that might have been yours? Or do you need just a handy, pocket sized, cool looking dice holder? These photographs are of the prototype for the smallest Cryptex Dice Vaults […]
OGL and fantasy world epic: Orin Rakatha
[Back this Campaign] I was able to speak to Mike Penny of the Orin Rakatha project ahead of this Kickstarter launch and used it to ask some questions about the campaign. As usual, given the busy Kickstarter marketplace, I was keen to discover some of the details and why gamers might pick Orin Rakatha ahead […]
The rules are no longer the master: NGS – The Narrative Game System
[Back this Campaign] This campaign has funded. At the time this blog post goes live NGS has $3,830 or so and asked for $3,000. There are 19 days still to collect funds. A pledge of $2 gets you the Quick Start Guide straight away. The full colour PDF comes at $5 when it’s published. The […]
Dice and Slice: Mixing gaming with grub
Would you mix a webseries on gaming with a webseries on food? You might if you wanted to fight back against the perception that gamers are just interested in junk food. [Back this Campaign] Paco Jaen of the G*M*S Magazine, a RPG site with reviews and articles, has a new Kickstarter. The site has invested […]
Victorian-era Baker Street RPG: The world of Sherlock Holmes
[Back this Campaign] In the States a judge may have ruled that Sherlock Holmes is now Public Domain but this RPG has the official backing of the Conan Doyle Estate. Baker Street from Kirby Young and Fearlight Games is set after the Reichenbach Falls encounter, when Sherlock is believed to be dead and yet cases […]
