This week’s RPG crowdfunding projects end between December 8th through the 13th. Every week, I look at a sampling of the projects that are available for you to back. Despite this list ending during the holiday season, there are a variety of options from Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Savage Worlds Adventure Edition to MÖRK BORG and Mothership and more to check out.
GeneFunk 2090: Dark Forest from CRISPR Monkey Studios
Tales from the Trail Vol 2 from Jade Monkey Studios
Menagerie of Adventures #3: Five D&D 5E Adventures from Menagerie Press
Constant Downpour Remastered from Marco Serrano
Brimstock from Vivid Worlds
Quest Decks 2.0: Adventure Cards for your RPG Games from Dice Dungeons
Witness - A solo RPG from Matt Parkinson
450 RPG Encounter Maps: Real Life Encounters Drone Imaging from Matthew New
A Treasury of Tokens: 300+ Useful Beautiful Tokens for Games from Gametee
A Brazen Crown from Long Tail Games
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GeneFunk 2090: Dark Forest from CRISPR Monkey Studios
- END DATE: Fri, December 9 2022 11:59 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA$65 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? GeneFunk 2090 is the meeting of 5e and biopunk, a potent mix of cyberpunk and body horror/body enlightenment. In a future where the human body is redesigned from the DNA up, you’re faced with the same challenge as we endure today: How to pay for it? With this hardcover, CRISPR Monkey Studios offers adventures in “a remote Peruvian jungle valley” as you merc against “carnivorous plants, insidious parasites, narcoterrorists, mad scientists, monstrous beasts, mutagenic viruses, horrifying kaiju, and diabolical biological AIs!” In terms of non-adventure content, you’ll get new archetypes, genetic enhancements, cybernetics, drugs, and more. If you’re interested in biopunk and how it looks with 5e, the campaign offers this book, their other setting adventure book, Shadow of Korea, and a reprint of the sold out core rulebook with errata and typo updates.
Tales from the Trail Vol 2 from Jade Monkey Studios
- END DATE: Thu, December 8 2022 10:39 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £18 for the PDF and a discounted POD version of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This adventure is set in THE AFTER, an Earth that went through a century of alien invasion and war, what’s left are the scraps of humanity. In this world, it’s a post-apocalypse sci-fi western and you’re trying to navigate the trail to stay alive. This book, their second set of adventures, gives you three tales of the dead, aliens, small settlements, and more wild west action. If you’re a fan of SWAdE and sci-fi westerns, this may be right for your gaming table.
Menagerie of Adventures #3: Five D&D 5E Adventures from Menagerie Press
- END DATE: Fri, December 9 2022 2:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $8 for the PDF version of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Need five 5e adventures that cover levels 1 to 9? This book has “The God Wheel” where you stumble upon a wheel that must be from the gods, “The Jubile Tower” in which a town sacrifices strangers, and three more to run your players through. With this collection, you’ll get some interesting hooks to entice your players and expand your night’s gaming session.
Constant Downpour Remastered from Marco Serrano
- END DATE: Thu, December 8 2022 9:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Mothership
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $56 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book, a CD, a notebook, a weapons catalog, art print, patches, and more
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? As with all Mothership adventures, characters leave all hope behind. Dubbed a stress-crawl, Constant Downpour Remastered is about trying to survive as the toll and loss of sanity mounts up. This book comes in at over 100 pages with more than 20 encounters and monsters, factions, weapons, NPCs, river rafting rules, maps, and more. In addition to this adventure inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain”, there’s a soundtrack to get the table in the mood. If you’re looking for a Mothership adventure that takes notes from one of the great authors and has a soundtrack, this is waiting for you to discover.
Brimstock from Vivid Worlds
- END DATE: Sat, December 10 2022 1:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG zine
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £8 for the PDF of the zine and additional handouts
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This RPG zine imagines a 5e monster music fest for the minions of Hell. In this zine, you’ll get details of the epic demonic clashes of bands with a battle of the bands rule system, NPCs, locations, and adventure ideas. If you’re thinking a creature concert would be a fun detour in your campaign, this zine promises you what you’ll need to achieve the right tempo for your gaming table.
Quest Decks 2.0: Adventure Cards for your RPG Games from Dice Dungeons
- END DATE: Sun, December 11 2022 10:00 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): System neutral
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $123 + S/H for 10 quest decks in print and PDF
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? These decks of cards offer quick, simple sidequests providing an engaging bit of discovery on any given game night. Coming in at 45 cards a deck, these decks are divided by theme such as “Horror & Mystery” or “Lost & Found”. Select a deck, draw a few cards, pick a quest, and go. There are quite a few deck themes to choose from so you can tailor the results to your fantasy campaign. $14 gets you one deck, $124 gets you ten, all with different adventure possibilities. If the idea interests you, check out the campaign page for a free sample deck.
Witness - A solo RPG from Matt Parkinson
- END DATE: Sat, December 10 2022 3:34 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £3 for the PDF versions of the game
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Using a standard deck of 52 cards, you’ll generate a crime. Then an eye witness will recount the crime, giving you enough details to learn who the witness is, and what they can recall. You’ll work on the who, what, when, where, and why in order to serve justice. If you want to work on a draw and write RPG about solving crimes, this may speak to you.
450 RPG Encounter Maps: Real Life Encounters Drone Imaging from Matthew New
- END DATE: Thu, December 8 2022 6:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): System neutral
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £42 for 450 photo maps
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Matthew New owns a drone and a camera with which he takes pictures and makes RPG encounter maps of real world locations. Just as Google Earth offers images of roads, homes, cities, and everything between, these maps give you real world images for use in your RPGs. The creator hopes to work with software that will allow buildings to be “opened” to display the rooms within. If you’re looking for a different take of maps, this may speak to your gaming table.
A Treasury of Tokens: 300+ Useful Beautiful Tokens for Games from Gametee
- END DATE: Tue, December 13 2022 3:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): System neutral
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £10 for all of the digital tokens
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Need printable tokens for characters, NPCs, or enemies? This project offers hundreds for a low price, organized for easy discovery and usable in most VTT systems. Elves, pirates, rabbitfolk, vampires, dragons, and more, adding to the pile, they have a 56-page 5e adventure to use with the tokens. If you need a lot of tokens at a small price, this is a good deal.
A Brazen Crown from Long Tail Games
- END DATE: Sat, December 10 2022 3:54 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): MÖRK BORG
- PROJECT TYPE: Card game
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: AU$60 + S/H for the digital and physical copies of the game
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This isn’t a roleplaying game, but a card game based on the popular RPG, MÖRK BORG. The card game has 306 cards, 90 tokens, a rules book, and box. The games are fast and brutal with death at zero HP, using all of your cards, or triggering the seventh misery. If you’re interested, they have the rules and a digital sample linked through the campaign page.
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