This campaign covers tabletop RPG crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter and GameFound that end from January 2nd to the 10th. This sampling of what’s available includes options for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, Pathfinder Second Edition, The Fantasy Trip, Powered by the Apocalypse, and more systems.
Silverplate: A Tasty Campaign Setting for 5E from Dream Realm Storytellers
Rose Labyrinth Roleplaying Game Adventure Set from Steve Jackson Games/Warehouse 23
An Occurrence at Howling Crater Compatible for DCC, MCC & 5E from Planet X Games
The Wolf King's Son from Lumpley Games
Monsters And Men - A Monsterhearts 2 Skin Anthology by SmallRedRobin13
The Mystery Of Beacon Hill by Darklight Interactive
Deck of Creepy Cryptids: RPG Deck from Tracey & Carmelitta
Inquisitor's Orders - A 5E/PF2E Monster Hunter Campaign from Quest Gaming, LLC
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Silverplate: A Tasty Campaign Setting for 5E from Dream Realm Storytellers
- END DATE: Thu, January 5 2023 2:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £25 for the PDF of both books
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is why we game. In Silverplate, you’re a food, a living, breathing, burgering, donuting, animated food, and you have things to do before you’re eaten. The visuals say it all, you play as an anthropomorphic meal going on adventures in a 5e food world. The setting book, Tasty Lands of Silverplate, is 250+ pages of meat monsters, snack NPCs, delicious archetypes, menus of lore, and candied lands. The ten level campaign/adventure, Blight of the Green Witch and Other Adventures, is 220 pages that’s all an adventuring appetizer to get you into a world of consumables. If you’re hungry for this type of adventuring, check out the campaign page for a link to the free demo to get a taste for this.
Rose Labyrinth Roleplaying Game Adventure Set from Steve Jackson Games/Warehouse 23
- END DATE: Mon, January 2 2023 6:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): The Fantasy Trip
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $32 + S/H for two 24" x 24" double-sided gameboards and a custom d6
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? From Steve Jackson and Liz Danforth, this project offers two battle maps of a rose garden for use with any fantasy RPG. The dual maps include 50 counters with one side showing a grave, seat, urn, or other obstacle, and the other side showing the same but damaged or destroyed. There’s also a four-page booklet of rules, lore, and an adventure seed. If you enjoy battle maps, this one looks impressive and sizeable when both are connected together. As an added bonus, if you’re new to The Fantasy Trip, check out the Bundle of Holding to get PDFs of the books for a limited time.
An Occurrence at Howling Crater Compatible for DCC, MCC & 5E from Planet X Games
- END DATE: Tue, January 3 2023 8:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, and Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $35 + S/H for the PDF and softcover of the DCC/MCC version of the booklet, a barf bag, VTT content
- ADDITIONAL REPORTING: Check out my interview with Levi Combs about this project
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Explore a crater full of mutated cultists that worship an alien crash site. This project takes an existing adventure for 5e and goes full weird fantasy with DCC and MCC mechanics. An Occurrence was originally kickstarted for 5e, but this version adds 40 new pages to the 5e version and converts it to DCC and MCC rules to give it more of an Appendix N feel. If you need more weird fantasy at your gaming table, this project is for you.
The Wolf King's Son from Lumpley Games
- END DATE: Fri, January 6 2023 11:59 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $35 + $10 S/H for shipping in the US for the PDF and print versions of this RPG
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? You’re the Wolf King’s Son, but you’ve run from home, and now your life begins. This 100ish page RPG lets you try a variety of stories, some about your life as it’s lived now, some about those around you, some about the wider world. The campaign page makes me think there’s an element of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and ensemble tales of that nature within the storytelling of this RPG. Add to that, the game runs on the Powered by the Apocalypse concept and comes from the creators of the system. If a coming-of-age fantasy RPG from the creators behind PbtA speaks to you, check out the campaign page.
Monsters And Men - A Monsterhearts 2 Skin Anthology by SmallRedRobin13
- END DATE: 1/5/2023, 7:00:00 PM
- CROWDFUNDING ON: GameFound
- SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse (Monsterhearts 2)
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $14 for the PDF of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Are you a fan of Monsterhearts 2? The RPG in which you are a teenage monster searching for connections; think of an RPG inspired by “Twilight, Buffy, Ginger Snaps, The Vampire Diaries, and The Craft” that uses the Powered by the Apocalypse system. This book, Monsters and Men, adds new skins, or classes, for you to play as. Plus the book includes some new Moves for the game, which makes this is a good book to pick up for your Monsterhearts 2 sessions.
The Mystery Of Beacon Hill by Darklight Interactive
- END DATE: 1/10/2023, 8:00:00 PM
- CROWDFUNDING ON: GameFound
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $5 for the PDF of the adventure
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is a short side adventure, roughly one hour to one session of a campaign in length. Designed for a party of 1st to 3rd level adventurers, The Mystery Of Beacon Hill might get a name change, might not, but the core of the adventure is a hill and cemetery that you’ll adventure around. Estimated to be 6 to 8 pages, Darklight Interactive (David Flor) is using this campaign to try out crowdfunding on GameFound. I support trying out the different platforms to learn their ins and outs.
Deck of Creepy Cryptids: RPG Deck from Tracey & Carmelitta
- END DATE: Sun, January 8 2023 1:07 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Old-School Essentials
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $15 + $5 S/H in the US for the oversized 42-card deck
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Are you a fan of Appalachian cryptids? Would you like a deck of the monsters complete with original artwork, lore, and stats for Old-School Essentials? If so, this oversized deck of cards awaits you. As a quick reference tool, this promises you everything you need to throw some random cryptids into your fantasy RPG.
Inquisitor's Orders - A 5E/PF2E Monster Hunter Campaign from Quest Gaming, LLC
- END DATE: Mon, January 2 2023 7:56 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Pathfinder 2nd Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $30 for the PDF of the campaign sourcebook, three one-shots, and twelve months worth of adventures, one a month
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This project offers multiple one-shot adventures tailored for monster hunting. You’re not bound by a pattern or sequence for the order of the adventures, you can offer each of them to your group and they will be able to tackle these hunts in whatever order they choose. The campaign page implies that there will be rules to adjust the levels of the adventures so your characters aren’t over matched. If a 5e project where you can add in some monster hunts appeals to you, especially one with new content being added monthly, this campaign may be worth checking out.
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