I think the best computer roleplaying game I’ve ever played was Planescape: Torment. Skyrim is great but Planescape: Torment was special. It looks like the stars have aligned and there will be a follow up. Wizards of the Coast have carefully guarded the rights to Planescape and the original Black Isle studio close. Makes it […]
Tunnels & Trolls goes Deluxe with Kickstarter
Another RPG Kickstarter of note. This time it’s Tunnels & Trolls and this game really does have a strong claim to fame. It was the second RPG published in the States and it beat Dungeons & Dragons to print in the UK. It’s older than this blogger; as it was first published in 1975. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/994700393/deluxe-tunnels-and-trolls/ […]
e20 RPG Kickstarter failure results in complaint to Texas State Attorney General
Gary M. Sarli’s Game Design: “e20 System Evolved” Roleplaying Game successfully closed with $14,605 (asking $10,000) in March 2010. One backer pledged $1,500 and 27 others pledged $200 each out of a total of 148 backers. Kickstarter has been vitally important to the RPG landscape in recently months and there have been many successes. However, […]
A week left to be a hero
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/ [Back this Campaign] You Are the Hero is a Kickstarter campaign by the author Jonathan Green. The goal is to raise £15,000 to fund a celebration of 30 years of Fighting Fantasy, a book with a forward from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone themselves, art and insight. At the time this post was written […]
Evil Hat offer art preview of Fate Core
The Kickstarter project for the core rules to Evil Hat Products’ system, Fate Core, is a huge success. At the time posting there are 46 days on the $3,000 campaign left to run. How much have they raised $145,845. It’s gone up twice while I was writing this post. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ Today, Fred Hicks updated the […]
Evil Hat’s Fate Core Kickstarter blows away targets
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ [Pledge Support] “That looks good. I should blog about that tomorrow.” That’s what I thought when this Kickstarter launched late yesterday. A few hours later and here’s the blog post with one little twist. The project already has over 700 backers and has already beaten the campaign goal 7 times over. Evil Hat did […]
Will Berserkon see life?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947923695/berserkon/ [Pledge Support] A Kickstarter pitch to bring a gaming and geek convention to Duluth in Minnesota. Wikipedia tells me Duluth is the fourth largest city in Minnesota with a population of about 87,000. Kevin Michelson has turned to Kickstarter to try and raise the small fortune necessary to run the convention (named Berserkon). The […]
Free to Download: 6d6 Free
6d6 are being especially busy as their successful Kickstarter enters its last week. The campaign is into the stretch goals and, at the time of writing, just a few quid short of unlocking The Dungeon of Demon Strata with the bestiary coming up next. As the Kickstarter attracts attention it also generates more questions from […]
Combat Kitchenware
Quirky picture? This isn’t an one off. This sword-meets-pan is actually the first combat kitchenware proposed by Morlock Enterprises and the centre piece of their Kickstarter. That’s right; if you want one of these “fighting man frying pans” then you can donate to the product and perhaps qualify. Morlock are asking for $7,000 in order […]
Populous returns via Godus
[Support this Campaign] Hot off the back of Curiosity 22Cans have launched a Kickstarter for their next project. However, it’s more complex than that. I’ve donated to 22Cans to support Curiosity through their initial server troubles and today recieved an email from them asking me if I wanted to transfer my donation to their Kickstarter. […]
