RPG Crowdfunding News – Pirates of Pugmire, The Dark Eye, Dark Trails, Hearts of Wulin, and more

Here is a sampling of ten RPG Kickstarters ending between June 14^th and 20^th. Some of these end during Origins Game Fair and Free RPG Day so if you’re attending either event, I recommend noting the end dates of your favorite projects. If you’ll be at Origins, don’t be afraid to stop me and say, “Hi.”

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Pirates of Pugmire - A Realms of Pugmire Tabletop RPG by Onyx Path Publishing / Pugsteady

END DATE: Thu, June 20 2019 1:59 PM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5e variant
PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $45 + S/H for the PDF, POD, and hardcover of the book

“Contribute to help us create a traditionally printed game book featuring pirates in the Realms of Pugmire - and get it into stores. The main goal of this Pirates of Pugmire Kickstarter is to enable us to create a hardcover edition of the Pirates of Pugmire book compatible with the other Realms of Pugmire core rulebooks such as Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau. We want to create an 7" x 10" hardcover with an evocative, action-packed cover image and a Pugmire- and Mau-inspired cover design. We estimate the book to be between 150-200 pages, with a full-color interior and endpapers on high quality paper stock. Exceptional funding may allow us to add Stretch Goals that further develop the setting and add additional materials for play, including further depth to the two new playable species! Dogs have inherited the world, building the kingdom of Pugmire untold centuries after the Ages of Man were over.”

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Hard Wired Island by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic

END DATE: Fri, June 14 2019 11:15 AM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): An original system
PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: AU$58 + S/H for the PDF and softcover of the book

“A retrofuture cyberpunk tabletop RPG inspired by 90s anime. Hard Wired Island is a cyberpunk tabletop RPG with a retrofuture aesthetic, inspired by 90s media like Ghost in the Shell, Policenauts, Bubblegum Crisis, and Cowboy Bebop. It's set on Grand Cross, a space station in crisis. Corporations are corrupting it into an authoritarian monument to greed. Long-time residents are being pushed out of their neighbourhoods as the wealthy expand their territory. In the shadows cast by the corporations lurk criminal gangs, hate groups, and rogue robots. Whether you're engaging in street activism, getting dragged into corporate schemes, or fighting the corporations and their minions directly, your goal is to steer the station towards a better future before it's too late. Hard Wired Island uses a mix of old-school and new-school mechanics. Our aim is to produce a system that feels like it was made in the 90s but updated for modern play. A d6-based system where social interactions are at least as important as hacking a network or getting into fights.”

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Arabian Fights: A DnD 5E Campaign Setting by One Shot Wonderland

END DATE: Sat, June 15 2019 7:06 AM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5e and Pathfinder
PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $20 for the PDF of the book

“A D&D 5E/Pathfinder adventure to escape and explore a beautiful, chaotic desert of death. Arabian Fights is a modular sandbox (hah!) written for players who want something a little different. Presently, Arabian Fights is a PDF nearing 100 pages and expected to be that size at print. Your players have just survived a terrible crash in the middle of a mysterious desert. Stripped of belongings and points of reference, they see one distant spot against the horizon—with miles of glowing desert dunes in the way. What begins as a mad dash for survival quickly becomes something much more... Will they choose to save their own skin and escape at the earliest opportunity? Or will they leave their mark and unbalance a terrible, ancient rivalry of unparalleled magnitude?”

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MÖRK BORG by Johan Nohr

END DATE: Sun, June 16 2019 7:00 AM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): An original system
PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: SEK 250 + SEK 85 US shipping for two PDFs (one English, one Swedish) and the print book and print map

“A DOOM METAL ALBUM OF A GAME. Rules light. Art heavy. MÖRK BORG is blackened artpunk/osr about ill-fated bastards seeking redemption, forgiveness or just the last remaining riches of a world that is plunging ever faster to its inevitable ruin. An art book you can play. A spiked flail to the face. While MÖRK BORG is certainly a product of the OSR genre and share the same roots and foundations as many of the retro-clones, we try not to care too much about tradition or nostalgia. Emulating gaming in the 70's or being compatible with other OSR modules is not a design choice, but MÖRK BORG can do both regardless. Aesthetics are more important than being truthful to some Gygaxian heritage, this time...We will produce a beast of a book. 88 pages printed with 6 colors (CMYK+2), hardback A5 size with a soft-touch laminated cover with embossed and reliefed details, two different paper stocks, and (if we meet the stretchgoals) glow-in-the-dark ink on the spine. We’re even considering gold foiling some details in the book, but we’ll see where we end up economically.”

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Dark Trails RPG by Stiff Whiskers Press

END DATE: Sun, June 16 2019 12:00 PM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): Dungeon Crawl Classics
PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $65 + S/H for the PDF and hardcover of the book

“A standalone weird west RPG based upon the popular Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG (DCC) ruleset. The Dark Trails RPG is a game which pays homage to the popular weird West genre. It can be used as a standalone game or as the perfect complement to a growing line of products that all utilize the rules found in the Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) RPG. As a player, you’ll find a wealth of material that allows you to assume the role of one of 11 unique classes, with descriptive names like: the Calavera, the Bedlamite, and the Sin-Eater. As a Judge, you’ll find over 400 pages of material giving you a wealth of resources for designing and running fantastic adventures set against the haunted landscapes of an unforgiving weird West. You may be wondering about the above mentioned game that Dark Trails is tethered to...Fortunately, the Dark Master (Joseph Goodman) has granted permission to include a modified version of the DCC ruleset within the pages of Dark Trails to make it the first 3rd party published work to include the necessary rules for play. You don’t need anything other than the Dark Trails RPG to play the game aside from some dice, paper, and pencils.”

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The Black Death d20 by Black Oak Workshop

END DATE: Sun, June 16 2019 3:00 PM EDT.
PROJECT TYPE: Dice
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 + $4 for US shipping for two d20s and unlocked stretch goals

“The Black Death has arrived! This ominous d20 will bring mayhem to your tabletop! Black Oak Workshop is back in black with a d20 that gives no quarter - The Black Death! We are sure you will agree, this d20 will reign supreme on your game table. All other dice will quiver in fear before it! Standing at almost an inch tall and featuring a skull on the 20 face, this mighty d20 will allow you to go medieval on all those who oppose you! Reach into your dice bag and draw forth the deadliest d20 available! The Black Death is as fearsome in appearance as it is in name! Many tales of woe will be wrought by its cold, silent faces. Check out some of the deadly features detailed below. This die towers above lesser dice. The size of the Black Death along with its crisply presented numerals means it is easy to read while being frightening to behold!”

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Hearts of Wulin by The Gauntlet Gaming Community

END DATE: Sun, June 16 2019 8:00 PM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse
PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $30 + S/H for the PDF and hardcover

“A tabletop roleplaying game of wuxia melodrama, Powered by the Apocalypse. In Hearts of Wulin, players take the role of skilled martial artists in a world of rival clans, conspiracies, and obligations. The game emulates films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese wuxia TV series like The Smiling Proud Wanderer and Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, and Chinese martial arts novels from the second half of the twentieth century. In these tales, romance is as dangerous as a blade. Everyone has ties to factions, loves they can’t quite express, and secrets which will shake them to their core. As in the source material, stories in Hearts of Wulin are driven by the characters’ duties, romantic desires, and entanglements with other characters...The hardcover book will be part of an offset print run, digest-sized, roughly 200 pages (depending on stretch goals unlocked), full-color interior.”

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Memento Mori: D&D 5E Victorian Gothic Campaign Setting by Luna Publishing

END DATE: Mon, June 17 2019 2:15 PM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5e
PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 for three PDFs

“Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) 5th Edition Compatible Campaign Setting. A dark gothic fantasy that takes place not in medieval times, but in the age of industry and exploration. Where firearms gave men courage, but the threat of monsters remains. Where lands long forsaken to old world horrors were finally being fought back against. A land where magic leads to damnation. A place where even fighting against this horror can lead one to their own destruction. Memento Mori takes risks that most campaign settings won't. Steamships, zeppelins, and trains. Weird science, witchcraft, and seduction to the darkness. A unique mix of that I'm sure you will enjoy.”

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The Deal Live-Action Roleplaying Game by The Warden

END DATE: Tue, June 18 2019 6:25 AM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): An original system
PROJECT TYPE: LARP Core rulebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA$20 + S/H for PDF and POD of the game and a set of poker cards

“What happens when you merge poker with live-action roleplaying? You get "The Deal," a high-stakes game of blackmail and confrontation...The Deal is a live-action roleplaying game (or a "LARP," as the cool kids call it) where four players take on the role of strangers gathered together for a high-stakes game of poker. As they actually play poker, special cards known as Twists & Turns introduce plot twists as the strangers discover one of them is blackmailing the others. Nothing will remain the same when this game is done, as the strangers discover some of the deepest, darkest secrets even their loved ones don’t know.”

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The Dark Eye - Magic of Aventuria by Ulisses Spiele

END DATE: Tue, June 18 2019 11:00 AM EDT.
SYSTEM(S): The Dark Eye
PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €89 + S/H for seven PDFs, the hardcover, two decks of cards, and more

“Bringing more Magic to the ENnie-winning The Dark Eye RPG with new rules and adventures. Explore the deeper mysteries of The Dark Eye with Magic of Aventuria and enhance your gameplay with additional rules, professions and archetypes on 240 pages! Magic of Aventuria gives you access to new magical traditions, perks and spells and gives you the background of what magic is like in Aventuria. Magic of Aventuria allows you to take complete control over the mystical art by delving into some of its strangest and most powerful practices of every kind of magic – from word, to song, to dance. Expand your magical repertoire with new traditions, spells and enchantments! Nearly two dozen profession packages expand options for starting characters and new focus rules for spell workshops allow mages to develop new and exciting spell effects! People have been playing The Dark Eye for over 30 years! It’s a well-crafted, believable medieval world created by masterful German designers native to a land of dark woods, deep mines, and high castles. The Dark Eye (TDE) has the largest active community of any European roleplaying game."

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