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Advanced D&D 5e Level Up adds Pets & Sidekicks (and Nemesisi too!)

July 13, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You’ve heard the stories of D&D campaigns in which the heroes adopt wolves, baby dragons and even little goblins. A trope that rarely occurs?

No matter, EN Publishing’s Pets & Sidekicks, which includes crabs and demons, has utterly devastated crowdfunding targets with hundreds of backers. Trope or not, people want it

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, kickstarters, level up

Eastern Farraway: 5e that’s low on magic and whimsy but high on success – an interview with Midnight Tower

July 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I met Midnight Tower and UK Games Expo, knew The Adventurer’s Guide to Eastern Farraway was coming and especially wanted to tackle the pair’s approach to low/high fantasy. I shy away from comic book fantasy, too, even in D&D.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, midnight tower

Call of Cthulhu: The Oracle is an adventure of prophecy and smog

July 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Poland-based The Lunar is crowdfunding a Miskatonic Repository project, which means content for the TTRPG Call of Cthulhu.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, kickstarters, the oracle

Menagerie of Unbearable Things: TTRPG monsters and what love did to them

July 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Menagerie of Unbearable Things is a system neutral TTRPG compendium of tragedy. An art and story-heavy bestiary of monsters and what love did to them. 

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, monsters

A meat-grinder dungeon: Cullen Bunn’s Quill & Codex RPG + Daemonrot Dungeon!

June 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Outland Games is Kickstarting Cullen Bunn’s Quill & Codex RPG + Daemonrot Dungeon for print. That’s the Cullen Bunn of Deadpool, X-Men, The Sixth Gun and many other titles. You can get the digital rules for free by reading on or jump to backing the Kickstarter, but be quick as it leaves crowdfunding on the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cullen bunn, kickstarters, Outland Entertainment

Hope for the Dead: Forbidden Psalm turns Mork Borg into a skirmish game

June 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This time, we’ve Hope for the Dead, and you are trying to survive for two years. It’s a skirmish game played with 28mm minis and compatible with the tabletop RPG MORK BORG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, zombies

Fateforge explores solo TTRPG innovation with “Echoes in the Deep”

June 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a giant collection of traditional Fateforged RPG as Pay What You Want available on DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fateforge, kickstarters, solo rpgs

All The Cardinal’s Men: A standalone Call of Cthulhu adventure based on Claudia Christian’s writings

June 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Claudia Christian, of Babylon 5 fame, and Nightfall have collaborated before, notably on Musketeers vs. Cthulhu. It’s happening again, except this time, players work for Cardinal Richelieu.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, kickstarters, lovecraft, Nightfall Games

Hunt monsters and unmask alien infiltrators in Nightwatch, a steampunk TTRPG

June 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Although Nightwatch has similarities to Savage Worlds, we used board game mechanics for inspiration to keep the flow of the game high and mechanical frustrations low.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, steampunk

A free preview and Vanguard lead Kobold Press’ Player’s Guide 2 charge

June 15, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kobold Press are on Kickstarter with over $200,000 backed for Player’s Guide 2. It’s a book for D&D and Tales of the Valiant (they mention D&D first).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, kobold press, tales of the valiant

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