RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Nat19, Festival of the Forgotten, One HONK Two Furious, and more

This week’s article looks at TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns that end between March 27 to April 2. These include 5e expansions, campaigns, an original game about geese, and OSR offerings as well as Secrets of the Grave: Undead Monstrosities & Spells of Decay from EN Publishing.

Zagalhta's Exolunar Collection: A 5th Edition Expansion from Nat19

• END DATE: Tue, April 1 2025 4:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (Nat19’s 5.19th Edition)
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA$30 for the PDF and VTT versions of the book
• AI STATEMENT: “This project does not and will not use AI for any of its content, marketing or production, be it writing, art, design, etc..”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Nat19 is a live-play group that uses 5e and, like several other companies, crafted their own version, 5.19e. The tailoring includes options for science-fantasy and JRPG themes as they expand on their live-play setting. With this campaign, they offer a 250-page book with new space-based mechanics, airships, piloting mechanics, classes, monsters, spells, and more. If you’re a fan of Nat19’s games, their setting, Somus Domina, or original 5e ideas, they have a free PDF sample of the book can be obtained via the campaign page.

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Festival of the Forgotten: A Dark Carnival D&D 2024 Handbook from Storytellers Forge Studios

• END DATE: Mar 28, 2025 at 2:59am EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2024)
• PROJECT TYPE: Campaign adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $70 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book plus digital content
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? In this 200-page campaign for 5.2024e, you’ll get a dark carnival quest with multiple endings, which means your party’s choices matter. This campaign includes new monsters, NPCs for the carnival, new subclasses and other elements to excite players. The new subclasses come with built-in flaws and villainous traits to make them fit into this dark setting. If you want a fantasy version of Something Wicked This Way Comes, download sample packet from the Backerkit campaign page.

One HONK Two Furious: A Goose-Based TTRPG from Jack Dixon

• END DATE: Mon, March 31 2025 7:00 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): H.O.N.K. System
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £20 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book and more
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign offers the 2nd edition of the Goose-Based TTRPG system and a Goose-Master’s Toolkit as well as two adventures, Troubled Waters and Jail-Birds, plus maps. But wait, what’s the selling point of this TTRPG? You play a goose. Not one from Top Gun, you play as the type of goose that litters the yard with their leavings and have serious political views. Seriously, you’re a gaggle of geese going on adventures with fights and, I’d assume, flights. If you’re into the idea of playing through Letterkenny’s Canada Goose episode, this game awaits.

Wasteland Degenerates: a hardcover TTRPG from Scott C. McDonald

• END DATE: Tue, April 1 2025 8:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): “Inspired by Mörk Borg and Cy_Borg”
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $45 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the core rulebook plus additional digital content
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The apocalypse came and went and now it’s Mad Max time. Mörk Borg with vehicular homicide and wasteland mutants. With this core rulebook, you’ll get all of the rules you need to play plus a starter adventure, vehicle combat rules, monster factions, and more. If you like the deadliness of Mörk Borg and want to ride through the wastelands, this game awaits.

HârnQuest from Columbia Games

• END DATE: Tue, April 1 2025 9:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): System neutral
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $119 + S/H for 4 issues of HârnQuest in PDF and print plus additional PDFs
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign offers four quarterly collections of new and updated articles about Hârn. Each issue is 32 pages with articles about what Columbia Games does best: The kingdoms, cities, castles, and history of Hârn. If you’re a fan of their books, this gives you a chance to deep dive into specific nuances of their setting. Head over to the campaign page for a free map.

Blacklight for Shadowdark RPG from The Scrying Dutchman

• END DATE: Mon, March 31 2025 9:59 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Shadowdark RPG
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €29 for the PDF of the book plus a discount coupon for the POD version of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is a sourcebook for Shadowdark RPG. In this book, you’ll get rules and equipment that propels this game from fantasy to the modern era. I dig when there’s a modern era version of an OSR, those sourcebooks speak to me, and Blacklight is no different. I want vehicle rules, firearm rules, and other current ideas so I have more gaming options. This book includes a setting so you have both the crunch and narrative options.

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Reaver Sword & Sorcery Role-Playing Game from Raven God Games

• END DATE: Tue, April 1 2025 3:59 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Die Chain Mechanic
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $18 for the PDF of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This sword-and-sorcery games uses a die chain mechanic in which modifiers step up or down the type of die that you roll. With a static 4 or higher to succeed, the size of your die determines your likelihood for success. In a setting that has notes of Robert E. Howard, you’ll battle through the land in search of your fortune. If you want to check out the gaming system, the campaign page for a PDF copy of the quickstart rules.

Secrets of the Grave: Undead Monstrosities & Spells of Decay from EN Publishing

• END DATE: Thu, March 13 2025 6:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014 and 2024)
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £10 for the PDF of the book and the VTT tokens
• DISCLAIMER: EN World is a subsidiary of EN Publishing
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Ending tomorrow! Your 5e games needs to make the players feel alive, and EN Publishing is here to deliver. The latest compilation from EN5ider Magazine brings 6 undead monstrosities, 9 spells that “induce decay, consumption, and nightmare,” a graveyard generator, and “Town of The Dead,” an adventure for 2nd to 4th level characters. You’ll get multiple diseased zombies, a swarm of flying corpse-throwing carrion, burnt, vampiric thuuls, and an adventure where the undead have overrun a town. If you want death in your 5e campaign, this book is worth a review.

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[Olaf the Stout]

Festival of the Forgotten appeals as I love Dark Carnival themes, but the fact that it's just barely hit the $50k needed to fund has me very wary.

 

[Scrying Dutchman]

Thanks for the spotlight, Egg!

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Festival of the Forgotten appeals as I love Dark Carnival themes, but the fact that it's just barely hit the $50k needed to fund has me very wary.

It still has 14 days to go.

 

[Lalato]

Here are the 5e Campaign Setting and Adventure Path crowdfunding campaigns I'm keeping an eye on right now.

Closed and Funded:

• Gods & Avatars 2: Egyptian Gods

Closed:

Open and Funded:

• Avalantas: Book 1 Dark Rising (2 weeks)
• Zamanora: Ballad of the Witch (3 weeks)
• Beyond the Woods (4 weeks)
• Wyrmhollow (4 weeks)
• Transform & Roll Out (5 weeks)

Open:

• Emberland (4 weeks, 74%)
• Gardar Realm (3 weeks, 52%)