RPG Crowdfunding News – Itza’s Guide to Dragonbonding, Ultimate Faeries, EUMORPHICA, and More

This week of RPG crowdfunding options ends between November 28 and December 1. There are some great options for 5e, original systems, and more. This sampling of what’s currently crowdfunding for RPGs gives an idea of what is coming to your gaming table soon.

Itza’s Guide to Dragonbonding: A DnD 5e supplement from Draco Studios

• END DATE: Thu, December 1 2022 3:00 PM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $60 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book plus the PDF introduction
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Look at the feathered dragon on the cover of this book, it pops! A tome of dragons featuring 5e rules for their aerial combat, their rune magic, and their companions as well as character options and more, this is a cool book to add to Dungeons & Dragons. With a book of dragons you can expect three new classes designed for living in a world of dragons plus eight new subclasses. You’ll get monsters, spells, and dragons, but most of all, you’ll get artwork. Dragons are powerful and majestic, and this book provides artwork that makes them look as they’re described. If you want inspired 5e dragons, check out the campaign page for a free preview link.

Beyond Corny Groń: Adventurer's Guide from Nerd Sirens

• END DATE: Mon, November 28 2022 6:36 AM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): System neutral, but OSR friendly
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €35 + €15 S/H to the US for the PDF and print versions of the book, the PDF and print versions of the postcards, and additional PDFs
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Want a toolkit to create adventures inspired by Polish mountain lore? If you’re a fan of The Witcher or Polish folklore, this project offers system neutral content (combined with OSR friendly stat blocks) for monsters, adventures, and tales to inspire your campaign. This book shifts the center of your fantasy campaign from Western Europe to Eastern Europe with their highwaymen, nobles, and fey. If you’re interested in something different for your adventures, check out this campaign page for a free preview link of the Player’s Guide.

Dead Air: Seasons from The World Anvil Publishing

• END DATE: Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59am PST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Monad Echo
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €148 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of three books, dice, a GM screen, and additional PDFs
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is an original survival post-eco-apocalypse horror RPG. Coming in at 300 pages, you’ll player survivors in a world where nature, catalyzed by humanity’s blunders, is taking back the world. Worse, what’s left of humanity can’t be trusted. The world wants your character dead, how will your character survive. This RPG pulls from a long list of ecofiction and post-apocalyse tales: The Last of Us, Station 11, The Girl With All the Gifts, Contagion, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Contagion, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, and Mad Max: Fury Road. If the idea of facing the world and the last of humanity interests you, check out the Backerkit page for a link to their free quickstart.

Ultimate Faeries: Fey Monsters & Campaigns for DnD 5E & PF from Legendary Games

• END DATE: Wed, November 30 2022 8:59 PM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Pathfinder 1e and 2e
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 for the 5e version of the PDF
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is a lot of fey. For 5e and PF2e, Legendary Games is creating two books that will be over 500 pages combined, Faerie Bestiary and Faerie Campaigns. For Pathfinder 1e, you’ll get the 432-page Forest Kingdom Campaign Compendium omnibus volume. These books give monsters, adventures, spells, character options, and all things fey for your fantasy campaign. If you’re a fan of the faeries, check out the campaign page for links to a free preview for the system of your choice.

Titan Robotics from Palladium Books

• END DATE: Wed, November 30 2022 11:59 PM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): Palladium
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $20 for the PDF of the book and a PDF to convert this to Savage Rifts
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Palladium has a new Rifts book for you game. Play as a Rifts android using this 160-page book about advanced weapons, robotics, and more technicals for your campaign. In addition, they’re pulling together a hardcover that collects 30 years of Rifts lore on the subject. If you’re a Savage Rifts fan, they have the conversion rules for this book as a part of this campaign. This campaign is for every type of Rifts fan.

EUMORPHICA - Transhuman Spacefaring Role-Play from Sanguine Productions LLC

• END DATE: Wed, November 30 2022 11:59 PM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $19 for the PDF and POD options for the game
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? In a future of limitless space travel, physical bodies are not a disadvantage, in fact, there are no limitations. Adapt your body to any situation, use it to get from destination after destination in this RPG that transcends our everyday for a future of astonishing possibilities. The system is similar to the options used in Urban Jungle, Myriad Song, and Ironclaw. If you want to try a transhuman traveling sci-fi RPG, this one may be right for you.

Two 5e TTRPG Adventures, Same Art from High Level Games

• END DATE: Thu, December 1 2022 9:23 AM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 for the PDF of the book
• DISCLAIMER: I have freelanced for High Level Games. I am not involved in this project
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Josh Heath purchased dozens of pieces of artwork by Dean Spencer and passed them out to RPG authors, then challenged them to let the artwork inspire adventures. What came out were two 20-page adventures. The first adventure is a The Price of Iron, an introductory adventure for levels 1 and 2 in which you just have to guard a blacksmith’s warehouse for one night. A Kingdom’s Edge delves into the sighting of an apparition, the ghost of a hero that the kingdom would like recovered. For levels 5 through 10, this adventure could be used to form a considerable part of your campaign. If you need two 5e adventures inspired by the visuals you’ll get with this purchase, check out the campaign page to see more of the art.

Angel's Bacchanalia: Holiday Feasts & Celebrations for D&D from EN Publishing

• END DATE: Mon, November 28 2022 6:00 PM EST.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £7 for the PDF of the book
• DISCLAIMER: EN World is a subsidiary of EN Publishing
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Just in time for the holiday season, a “hedonistic solstice adventure” from the fine folks at EN Publishing! Morrus and company are offering a feast with mythical meals, fantasy drinks, and the component that makes me the most curious: gastronomical spells. The adventure has a great hook with an angel in your midst offering forgiveness for all sins, so many folks are committing all of the sins as their offenses will be expunged. Then there are recipes for magical dishes using monsters as ingredients. Plus optional rules for aging, traditions, and more. But the pièce de résistance are the dozen gastronomical spells. Ranging from boil to hunter's moon pie to scouring song to dragon hunter's feast, I’m eager to see how these spells work. Check out the campaign page to learn more.

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[eyeheartawk]

Wow.

I wasn't expecting for Palladium to ever go back to Kickstarter after Robotech Tactics and the monumental way they screwed over their backers there.

Surprised people are backing this. Then again, if you're a Palladium fan I guess seeing the company mismanaged is a pretty normal thing, so idk.

 

[Ghal Maraz]

Wow.

I wasn't expecting for Palladium to ever go back to Kickstarter after Robotech Tactics and the monumental way they screwed over their backers there.

Surprised people are backing this. Then again, if you're a Palladium fan I guess seeing the company mismanaged is a pretty normal thing, so idk.

"Rifts®", please!

I guess its fans (the few surviving ones) are loyal and the project isn't (mis)managed by Kevin Siembieda himself, but by a new creative director who firstly became involved with Palladium through Savage Rifts®. Savage Rifts® has (rightly) got some good fame, so that helps too.

Also also, in-house books are a lot easier to produce than multi-component miniature games for a licensed franchise, even more so when the publisher in question is a book-printing decades-old publisher (even a "discussed" publisher like Palladium Books).

Also also also, there are a lot of reprints in this KS, which could bump up the backing.

 

[Kannik]

So many things over the years about Palladium surprise me. Them going back to KS after their supreme flameout definitively counts in that category.

I do wonder if Kevin can keep his hands off the product; if this is all in-house from what I gather that's a tough thing for him to do.

 

[eyeheartawk]

I do wonder if Kevin can keep his hands off the product; if this is all in-house from what I gather that's a tough thing for him to do.

It's like there is a demon on his shoulder telling him to rewrite every manuscript just enough to put his name as the primary author and then lay out the book manually in a two column format like it's 1940.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Want a toolkit to create adventures inspired by Polish mountain lore? If you’re a fan of The Witcher or Polish folklore, this project offers system neutral content (combined with OSR friendly stat blocks) for monsters, adventures, and tales to inspire your campaign.

Everyone publishing setting and lore books about their own culture's myth and legends is my favorite part of this era of RPGs. More, please, from everyone.

 

[schneeland]

Yeah, that's really a great thing (already backed Beyond Corny Groń a few days ago).

 

[Stone Dog]

Wasn't the Robotech Tactics KS more Ninja Division's fault than Palladium?

 

[Kannik]

Wasn't the Robotech Tactics KS more Ninja Division's fault than Palladium?

That's what Ken would like us believe, in his remarkable "not a single thing was ever my fault and I'm the victim here yet again" bus-throwing post that was such a long kvetch that it took two separate KS update posts due to its length.

Now, quite possibly there were errors all around that compounded, but when looking at Palladium's own fraught production history and the reactions of those who have been burned by him (as @eyeheartawk alludes to above) it casts even more doubt on the veracity of what was said in those KS updates.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I just downloaded and skimmed the free players' guide to Beyond Corny Gron. It's really quite appealing. The one thing that turned me off a bit is that I'm not a big fan of rolling on tables to determine things (background, dress, traits, etc.) about my character, and a lot of the document was taken up with that. However it is useful for skimming and generating ideas.

Things I loved:

1. The artwork! Not standard fantasy fair, but delightfully done and a refreshing change.
2. The summaries of various factions. No in-depth history, just a few paragraphs of description and a summary of their goals.
3. The descriptions of common monsters. I'm thinking about this in the light of a current thread (and an infinity of past ones) debating how much new characters would know about monsters. I love that this section (and really this guide) is a concise and readable "here is what your character would know about this world".
4. Overall the authors managed to escape the trap that so many RPG authors seem to fall into, which is (apparently) to fall in love with their own ideas and writing and just drone on and on and on for pages and pages and pages, so that as a reader I can't ever see the forest for the trees. Even with a relatively quick skim I have a nice image in my head for what this setting is like.

I'm thinking about backing this because I might be able to use a lot of it for a campaign I've been thinking about starting.

UPDATE: It's only 10 Euros for the PDF! Backed!