Since it’s Pride Month, I’m showcasing LGBTQIA+ themed products as well as other awesome RPGs in this week’s update. These RPG crowdfunding campaigns end between June 17 and July 1, so check them out before they’re gone.
Monsters of Murka: Chromatic Gamut from Action Fiction
Extreme Meatpunks Forever: The Roleplaying Game from Sinister Beard Games
Adventuring with Pride: Queer We Go Again! LGBT+ DnD 5E Book from Jack Dixon
MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying from 9th Level Games
Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide 5E from Green Ronin Publishing
Pride Dice Buddies from Dbl Feature
ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG from Exalted Funeral
Heliana's Guide To Monster Hunting: A DnD 5e Supplement from Loot Tavern
Botanical Bestiary, the Leshy-centric bestiary from M. Cavanaugh
Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG from Caleb Stokes
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Monsters of Murka: Chromatic Gamut from Action Fiction
- END DATE: Thu, July 1 2021 12:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 for the PDF of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Because sourcebooks of themed 5e material with beautiful art are always a great addition to the gaming table. This one offers new items, feats, spells and 4 new subclasses including Blood Hunter: Order of the Donor, Barbarian: Path of Stone, and Monk: Way of the Vogue. Best of all, more monsters, 35 of them to be precise. This project looks like it offers solid mechanics and fun.
- END DATE: Thu, July 1 2021 11:00 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £35 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Because you live on Meatworld, a planet made of the dead body of a god, you use its flesh to make meatmechs, and fight to survive in a world of old gods, monsters, and worse. This game comes in at 200 meaty pages of Powered by the Apocalypse fun and, if you’re interested in testing this out, there’s a quickstart linked through the campaign page.
Adventuring with Pride: Queer We Go Again! LGBT+ DnD 5E Book from Jack Dixon
- END DATE: Wed, June 30 2021 6:13 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure module
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £25 + £20 US S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Four one-shot adventures with pre-gens, NPCs, and more. Providing over 100 pages of content, you get an adventure to save a tournament, stopping a vengeful storm before it ruins a wedding, a murder mystery on a ship, and a vacation adventure. If you’re looking for some fun stories along with some mechanical options (like 3 new subclasses), check out the details on the campaign page.
MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying from 9th Level Games
- END DATE: Wed, June 30 2021 4:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Powered by Polymorph
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $39 + $6 US S/H for the PDF and print versions
- ADDITIONAL COVERAGE: I spoke to Chris O’Neill about this project here
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Need an easy to understand fantasy RPG, this one runs on an award winning engine combining old school and modern RPG thoughts. This campaign takes the existing MAZES material and adds new material bringing the total to 250 pages of gaming options. Want to try a single die RPG that is easy to explain and well supported by the publisher? Give this a shot.
Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide 5E from Green Ronin Publishing
- END DATE: Fri, June 18 2021 10:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $80 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of this book and the Book of Fiends
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? It’s great that one of Green Ronin’s most noted RPGs is coming to a new system. With the original version winning a Silver ENnie for Best Rules in 2005, this is a game that has stood the test of time and still has a place in gaming. Originally, Blue Rose used True20 and then the AGE engine so having it make the transition to 5e is a win. This 176-page brings romantic fantasy to D&D, and if you’ve heard of Blue Rose and want to bring something different to your 5e table, this may fit the bill.
- END DATE: Thu, June 17 2021 10:00 PM EDT.
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $8 + $4 US S/H for one enamel pin
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? If you’re a gaymer or an ally, these pro-LGBTQIA+ pins let you share your love of gaming as well as your feelings with a cool image. The d20 figures are cute and the flags send a positive message. In addition, if you’re looking for a fun extra flourish for your convention outfit, these should be to you in time for convention season.
- END DATE: Thu, July 1 2021 10:04 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $60 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book and a community PDF copy
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Dicebreaker named this project one of the 2021 tabletop RPGs to watch for. ARC is a new system meant for rules light, high tension sessions. Using a clock to time out aspects of this 172-page game, expect unusual situations as time has to advance and the ending is coming whether you’re ready or not.
Heliana's Guide To Monster Hunting: A DnD 5e Supplement from Loot Tavern
- END DATE: Thu, July 1 2021 3:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book plus stickers
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Interested in another million dollar 5e 3PP (third party publisher/project)? This 300-page tome is on track to join that club. Check it out and see if it’s mix of rules for tracking, harvesting, and crafting appeals to you. Want to play a Monster Tamer? Do you need 10 familiars and 50 monsters? Looking for over 200 encounters? But, most of all, the theme of this decides your level of interest: You’re hunting monsters, you’re not after the treasure that they horde, instead you’re after them as the treasure.
Botanical Bestiary, the Leshy-centric bestiary from M. Cavanaugh
- END DATE: Sun, June 27 2021 11:59 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Pathfinder 2e
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $15 for the PDF in the system of your choice
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This book contains all the enemies you encounter when you go to a salad bar. You can fight an avocado monster. Sold. The other 49 monsters are just garnish next to the big avo to the cado! Crafted by druids and granted spirits and souls, these plant creatures are cute, deadly, and part of a balanced diet. If you need new monsters that your parents would tell you to eat if you want desert, this project awaits.
Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG from Caleb Stokes
- END DATE: Mon, June 28 2021 9:53 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $30 for the PDF and POD versions plus additional content
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? It’s urban fantasy through the lenses of General Hospital, Grey’s Anatomy, or House. One player takes the role of the patient with a supernatural disease, everyone else plays the beautiful doctors that will save their life no matter how much romantic drama it causes. If your table loves medical melodramas, this has all the potential in the world to be fun as they work to solve aliments and fall in love.
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