RPG Crowdfunding News – Rifts® for Savage Worlds: Europa, Mothership Month, and more

This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding sampler shares projects that end between December 5 to 11.

The list includes games and books from Pinnacle Entertainment, Legendary Games, Gallant Knight, Yellowbyte, and more. In addition, it’s Mothership Month on Backerkit meaning there are 21 Mothership projects funding right now as part of a group-collab. Led by Tuesday Knight Games, publisher of the core Mothership rules, these publishers are offering a ship full of sourcebooks, adventures, and more. As a Backerkit group-collab, if you back at least 5 of these 21 projects at the physical level, you’ll get an exclusive set of extras: A deck of Mothership character cards plus “21 foil project stickers, an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin, and a brand new adventure pamphlet.” If you’re a Mothership fan, these creators are offering some novel incentives to get your attention.

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Mothership: WAGES OF SIN from Tuesday Knight Games
  • END DATE: Dec 10, 2024 at 1:00pm EST.
  • CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit as part of Mothership Month
  • SYSTEM(S): Mothership
  • PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 + S/H for the PDF and hardcover versions of the book
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? For Mothership Month, this is the centerpiece. Mothership: WAGES OF SIN is a hardcover toolkit designed to open up a universe of bounty hunting. Clocking in at over 200 pages, this book catalogs 10 bounty hunters and 200 NPCs from 50 worlds that you’ll meet via d100 scenarios. On top of the pregen content, you’ll find advice, charts, and rules to support your own homebrew bounty hunting campaign. In the Rim, there’s crime. You’ll get paid when you bring the criminals in for judgment and prison (both of which are explored in this book). Alternately, if you’re playing criminals in this setting, those 10 bounty hunters I mentioned are after you; their job is nothing personal, unless you make it so. If you’re a Mothership gamer and want to get into bounty hunting, this Backerkit campaign is worth exploring.
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Awaiting the Burning Gods: a Module for Mothership RPG from Magnum Galaxy Games
  • END DATE: Dec 10, 2024 at 1:00pm EST.
  • CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit as part of Mothership Month
  • SYSTEM(S): Mothership
  • PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: C$20 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the zine plus the PDF of the GM screen and poster map
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This adventure and setting toolkit is a sci-fi pulpier offering described as “Indiana Jones meets Stargate.” The 32-page adventure puts you on a desert planet with freshly uncovered ruins that threaten to be buried again by an oncoming sandstorm. This 3 to 5 session adventure offers clashing NPC factions, artifacts, robots, and maps. The cover art and logo font provide a fun retro vibe for this book. If you’re looking for pulp sci-fi, this Backerkit campaign may speak to you.
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Interloper: Sandbox Mystery Module for Mothership RPG from Silverarm
  • END DATE: Dec 10, 2024 at 1:00pm EST.
  • CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit as part of Mothership Month
  • SYSTEM(S): Mothership
  • PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $28 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? On a rogue planet, a mega-corp vision is dying after a leadership change abandoned the project. As the planet freezes, its former patron is killed and it’s up to you to find the murderer before you take the blame. The idea of an abandoned, half-finished planet wide project in which you have to solve a murder mystery is intriguing. There’s a clock ticking on how long this world will still be habitable and how long before you are framed for the murder. With two challenges looming, you have to step up or be overrun by these crimes. This scenario with its criminal element and investigation will fit nicely with Mothership: WAGES OF SIN above. If you’re interested in a murder mystery set among a unique location and circumstances, this Backerkit campaign is worth a look.
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Rifts® for Savage Worlds: Europa from Pinnacle Entertainment Group
  • END DATE: Thu, December 5 2024 8:00 PM EST.
  • SYSTEM(S): Rifts® for Savage Worlds
  • PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $100 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the boxed set
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? On Rifts Earth, Europe is a wilderness ruled by monsters and supernatural factions. This boxed set brings those lands to life for the Savage Worlds iteration of Rifts. The continent offers small areas of refuge between the many creatures and dangers. As you travel, you’ll find kingdoms ruled by Gargoyle Emperor Zerstrun, Pharaoh Rama-Set, the Russian Warlords, the Angel of Death, and more. If you’ve gotten a Rifts® for Savage Worlds boxed set before, you know what you’re getting: Hardcovers, maps, pawns, NPCs, and maps. These boxes are loaded with gaming content ready to put onto your table. If you’re a fan of Rifts® for Savage Worlds, this boxed set is a must-have.


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SWARMS! Masses of monsters for 5E, Pathfinder, & Black Flag! from Legendary Games
  • END DATE: Fri, December 6 2024 8:00 PM EST.
  • SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, Pathfinder 1e and 2e, and Tales of the Valiant
  • PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 + S/H for the PDF and softcover versions of the book in the system of your choice
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Legendary Games offers a themed bestiary: Monsters that swarm. 80 monsters that come in waves threatening your party and their belongings. The campaign lists creatures such as elemental gravelbugs, living wildfire, dead ink swarm, unquiet ash, animated silverware, finger-crushing lobsters, and the floofy kitten swarm. Just the names conjure images of what your characters will face from the gravel on the road attacking to a kitchen of flying silverware to piles of kittens. Best of all, the creatures are in a variety of commonly used systems. If you need new monsters in massed formations, this book is worth a look.


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Gavriel Quiroga's Lords of Death and Illusion from Gallant Knight Games
  • END DATE: Dec 6, 2024 at 1:00pm EST.
  • CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
  • SYSTEM(S): System neutral with broad mechanics for Troika!, Mörk Borg, Hell Night, and Warpland
  • PROJECT TYPE: RPG zine
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $15 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the zine
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The idea presented in Lords of Death and Illusion takes the GM-less TTRPG to another level. You play as powerful sorcerers battling each other in a streamlined OSR setting. This 24-page zine offers a system where warlocks fight each other, something creator Gavriel Quiroga describes as competitive. Imagine a GM-less game where each player is fighting against the other, yet crafting the narrative together. For players looking for a traditional setting and an expanded version of PvP, this RPG zine on Backerkit may be of interest to you.
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The Unsinkable: Terrors of the Deep (5e) from Yellowbyte Studios
  • END DATE: Tue, December 10 2024 10:00 AM EST.
  • SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
  • PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook adventure
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €54 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? 5e plus Lovecraft plus the Titanic equals a sourcebook and 3rd to 10th level campaign that may be the end of your characters. Set in the early 1900s, this book puts you on the Titanic in a campaign that will awaken Cthulhu. This book adds new rules including a Sanity ability score and options for modern conveniences such as guns, automobiles, and planes. In terms of dark horror 5e campaigns, this feels like an interesting quest to take on. Check out the Kickstarter page for a free PDF sample.


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Monstrous Menagerie II: Hordes & Heroes from EN Publishing
  • END DATE: Thu, December 12 2024 6:00 PM EST.
  • SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014 and 2024) as well as Level Up A5E
  • PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
  • MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £55 + S/H for the PDF, VTT, and print versions of the book
  • DISCLAIMER: EN World is a subsidiary of EN Publishing
  • WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Do you need monsters for your 5e (both versions) and A5E campaigns? EN Publishing has hundreds of beautifully illustrated and exciting monsters with innovative gameplay options. If you want monsters for your table, check out this book for some awesome additions to your favorite edition.

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