Pumpkin Spice Joins the Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club

A 'magical cozy RPG'.
There's a couple of current crowdfunders that look like they might join the Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder Club. Free League's Dragonbane: Trudvang looks like a dead cert, and Roll & Play Press (backed by UK Actual Play Mega-Group The High Rollers, who will be appearing at the 02 Arena later this year as part of the D&D Fan Expo) have Altheya: The Dragon Empire, which looks like it is in with a good chance.

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One project which has just passed the million dollar mark is Pumpkin Spice, which describes itself as a 'magical cozy RPG'. Ending in just a couple of days, it's a TTRPG where you run a magical cafe. It's a rules-lite, narrative game in which you play a coven of witches who run the aforementioned magical cafe while protecting the 'Fount of Magic' from those who would corrupt it.

You can play a Hereditary, Green, Coven, Solitary, Secular, or Traditional witch, each with 6 traits and different magical powers. The game comes in a full-colour hardback book, accompanied by a book of adventures. The game also uses special dice called Essence Dice, with each face showing a different Essence. There is, of course, the usual dizzying array of add-on merch which accompanies most million dollar crowdfunders--t-shirts, cards, notebooks, bags, even a vinyl record with a soundtrack for the game.

Pumpkin Spice comes from Italian publisher Acheron Games (Brancalonia, Lex Arcana, Inferno), and runs until 8pm GMT on March 5th.

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A whole cozy system and adventure book with brand name cozy art, rather than standard MCG art, appealing more to cozy fantasy fans isn't a big surprise to me.
Yeah, totally fair. I wouldn't have known the cozy art was a brand name and I couldn't tell you what mechanics are good or not for a cozy game. It just crossed my mind since we got on a Cypher tangent anyway.
 

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Right, it's not T&A horny. It's intimate, comfortable, and vulnerable, like you're seeing them in a "shields down" moment. It's clearly something that a lot of people find interesting and gets their motors going, but it's not titillating in the way a lot of classic fantasy art is. And definitely aimed at a different audience than that.
Yeah, it's noteworthy that the spirit animals in these pics all appear to be pets and there for emotional support, not breathing fire on their enemies or something.
 

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Here's the first ad on Facebook today. I wouldn't call that T&A, myself.
For what it's worth, I initiated the term T&A in-thread, and was using it to describe the overall in-broad-strokes concept of showing skin to sell product. Previously the word used was 'horny' which, I'm not really sure if that's more or less strident of a term.

Regardless, I don't think the product is either, but it does have some what I'll call 'they knew what they were doing' artwork that perhaps leans in the direction of suggestiveness.
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On the other hand, there's plenty of art that is not (excepting that it shows young adult women):
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Young women wearing short shorts and short skirts is just where fashion is at the moment. I live in Southern California, and the moment girls are in late elementary school, they're wearing shorts that would have been PE shorts at best when I was growing up. That continues through college and into everyone's mid-20s.

I do agree that the upskirt shot on the front cover of the adventure book is definitely flirty, but it's also intended to have the flowy skirt echoing the clouds overhead.
 







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