RPG Crowdfunding News – Outgunned, The Book of Unnumbered Worlds, The Bad Year, and more

This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between June 25 to July 8. This includes award winning TTRPGs, sourcebooks without number, solo RPGs, adventures, and more.

Outgunned Adventure: Broken Compass Legacy from Two Little Mice and Free League Publishing

• END DATE: Jun 18, 2026 at 4:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Outgunned
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €149 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of Golden Age, Jolly Roger, and Voyages Extraordinaires as well as dice and a deck of cards
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Need three official books of adventures for the award winning Outgunned RPG? This Kickstarter offers three choices: Outgunned Adventure: Golden Age, a book focused on stories inspired by Indiana Jones and the 1999 Mummy movie, Outgunned Adventure: Jolly Roger where you play as pirates, and Outgunned Adventure: Voyages Extraordinaires, which offers quests inspired by the writings of Jules Verne. Using Outgunned’s pairs- and triples-seeking d6 dice pool, you’ll use these books for campaigns complete with new roles for your characters. Each book provides a full campaign of gameplay and more to enhance your Outgunned play. If you’re interested, the Backerkit campaign page includes a link to the quickstart guide as well as an adventure preview.

The Book of Unnumbered Worlds from Sine Nomine Publishing

• END DATE: Tue, June 30 2026 11:59 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): System neutral
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $85 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• AI STATEMENT: “All art, writing, and design in this book is entirely human-created and does not involve the use of AI.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Kevin Crawford of the “Without Number” series of TTRPGs (Stars Without Number, Worlds Without Number, etc.), is back with a new sourcebook built to support all original fantasy worlds. These writings and charts build on Kevin’s system-neutral tags and tables combined with step-by-step instructions for maps, nations, societies, religions, monsters, and more. This does not reprint any of the material from his other Without Number books, so if you already own those, this does not represent a double dip. If you need tools to build a fantasy setting, this book has a variety of options that you can plug and play as needed.

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Wonderous & Dangerous Consortiums & Xendria World/Lore Book from Fantasy Companion Workshops, LLC

• END DATE: Thu, June 25 2026 4:03 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Castles & Crusades - Reforged, Shadowdark, Nimble 2E, and Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014 Edition)
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $80 + S/H for the PDF and print versions plus SRD art of Consortiums and Xendria as well as the PDF of Troll Lord Games - Engineering Towns
• AI STATEMENT: “No AI Art: All our art is handmade by real human artists who were paid standard industry rates, or better, for their work. Our products feature the work of upcoming artists as well as well-known industry professionals. No AI Writing: Our books and adventures were typed character by character by our wonderful authors and creators.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Keeping with the worldbuilding theme of the previous Kickstarter on this list, let’s look at Fantasy Companion Workshops’ books. Need a toolkit to create organizations that drive your fantasy setting? What about a ready-made fantasy world where classic fantasy combines with new fantasy? This Kickstarter offers two books: Wonderous & Dangerous Consortiums and the Xendria World Setting & Lore Guide. These books offer advice and a world compatible with a number of systems – Castles & Crusades - Reforged, Shadowdark, Nimble 2E, and Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014 Edition) – meeting the GM and players where they game. You’ll find hundreds of pages around guilds, cults, and companies with histories, detailed structures, cultures, and relationships. The setting book for Xendria offers detailed governments and cities including maps. If you want a fantasy setting complete with design philosophy, this Kickstarter is worth exploring.

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Colostle: The Moat from Nich Angell of Big Punch Studios

• END DATE: Thu, June 25 2026 7:06 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £25 + S/H for the hardcover
• AI STATEMENT from Nich Angell: “Zero use of AI. Everything in Colostle has been devised, written and illustrated by my hand, personally.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Did you ever want a castle? How about one so massive it contains continents and oceans? This setting and adventure for the Colostle solo RPG suggests a building larger than worlds to tour through. Using the Ennie Award winning Colostle solo ruleset, this setting imagines a castle coup that spans landmasses. If a world where scale takes on new meaning excites you, check out this 105-page adventure for solo fantasy fans.

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The Bad Year from MacGuffin & Co.

• END DATE: Thu, June 25 2026 4:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): System neutral
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £40 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This book gives you 53 system neutral horror mysteries for your gaming table to solve. The adventures are designed to standalone or work as a structured campaign. Built around several calendars of play, you can use this book for weekly one-shots, a 52-week experience with a double-sized adventure for Halloween, or 13 monthly adventures. Each adventure is a double-page spread with a clue map. While these are standalone adventures, there are seven overlapping narratives to bring these quests together as a campaign. If you’re looking for horror adventures, this project awaits.

GROK?! 2e: A Gonzo Science Fantasy RPG from Gander Gaming

• END DATE: Fri, June 26 2026 11:59 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $40 + S/H for the PDF and prints versions of the book plus additional PDFs
• AI STATEMENT: “Grok?! is 100% made by free-range humans.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Ready for a second edition of this post-apocalyptic technomancy inspired by Fate, Cortex Prime, Freeform Universal, Index Card RPG, Cairn, Electric Bastionland, Ultraviolet Grasslands, and Savage Worlds? This is a game meant to leave the laws of physics behind as you explore a multi-dimensional universe of possibilities and the rule of cool. Using player facing rolls, inventory slots, description based modifiers, and a rules light engine, you’ll explore a setting of plausible realities. If the idea speaks to you, check out the Kickstarter page for a free PDF quickstart to test out the rules.

DARK LENINGRAD from Livres de l'Ours

• END DATE: Fri, June 26 2026 8:05 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): “Dark Leningrad is a 2d6-based game, largely inspired by Marc Miller's Traveller as well as the Cepheus rules.”
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €10 for the PDF of the book
• AI STATEMENT: “NO AI. No LLMs or so-called AIs were used in the making of this book.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? In this TTRPG, the Soviet Union carried on, it’s 1995, and you’re a dissident facing off against the KGB, hiding your thoughts from psychic cats, and avoiding CIA agents. This Soviet Union builds a city beneath Leningrad and, by 1991, the country is under the leadership of a cybernetized Leonid Brezhnev and fighting the United States and China. A nuclear strike over Leningrad causes the government to abandon the underground city, leaving it for anti-government elements to exploit and deal with the dark anomalies that populate that secret world. Designed to be subversive, this TTRPG touches on social rebellion within a repressive and supernatural nation. If you’re a fan of weird alternate history TTRPGs using rules inspired by Traveller and the Cepheus system, this project is worth checking out.

See you in two weeks.
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[stormwriter]

Terrible week for my wallet, backed Unnumbered Worlds, Colostle Moat, Grok 2e and Outgunned.

 

[Sossij]

The art on Grok looks great but I'm barely controlling my hoarding instincts and I must fight them.

Colostle seems cool but it sounds like something I need uncomfortable surgery to remove and I also don't do solo RPGs at the moment.

EDIT: If I didn't already have some campaign ideas for the future and my group met more often I might do The Bad Year.

 

[CF07]

The AI Statements seem kind of amusing and a bit over the top.

I get what people are saying but there are aspects of design, writing, and editing where AI absolutely excels. For example, using it to do probability analysis or other tedious aspects of playtesting seems pretty solid and is going to make for a better game. A half dozen carefully constructed prompts will tell you if your proposed dice system is worthwhile or not. Yes, this could be done by hand or with R or Python programming, but why?

 

[Sossij]

The AI Statements seem kind of amusing and a bit over the top.

I get what people are saying but there are aspects of design, writing, and editing where AI absolutely excels. For example, using it to do probability analysis or other tedious aspects of playtesting seems pretty solid and is going to make for a better game. A half dozen carefully constructed prompts will tell you if your proposed dice system is worthwhile or not. Yes, this could be done by hand or with R or Python programming, but why?

One might argue that AI has had consistent problems with accurate math that R and Python do not.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Colostle setting is 10/10 but I found the system to really not work that well.

My playthrough of the original game: Colostle: The Adventures of October O'Leary

 

[Sossij]

The Colostle setting is 10/10 but I found the system to really not work that well.

My playthrough of the original game: Colostle: The Adventures of October O'Leary

That seems pretty fun and when I have time I shall read more of it.

 

[CF07]

One might argue that AI has had consistent problems with accurate math that R and Python do not.

Fair point. That's true if you let it guess a lot, which is certainly what happens if you just vibe code without clear instructions. To get it not to do that, tell it to use Python and, well, that's what it does. Also, check its work, ask it to explain its reasoning.

 

[Aldarc]

Great to see Two Little Mice updating their Broken Compass supplements for Outgunned Adventure.

 

[Nightfly]

Love the Outgunned supplements. Indiana Jones is obvious, but Jules Verne is not. That's very cool.