RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – World's Largest Dungeon, Cosmic Dark, Neon City Outlaws, and more

This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding sampler covers campaigns that close funding between June 12 to 18. Get the world’s largest dungeon crawl, an RPG where you create the characters as you play, a cyberpunk world where you create the city through gameplay, and several other systems, settings, and more.

The World's Largest Dungeon from World's Largest RPGs

• END DATE: Jun 13, 2025 at 8:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014)
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $299 + S/H for the PDF, audiobook, and print versions of the slipcase, books, maps, GM screen, and more. There’s also a pay over time option for this pledge level
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? For character levels 1 to 20, this is a huge dungeon delve. The campaign page shares that this is the 5e version of their “Guinness World Record-winning dungeon crawl.” Coming as 4 books with over 1,600 pages, this is all 5e dungeon to crawl. Originally released 21 years ago by AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group), this campaign updates the contents for 5e (2014 with a “free 2024 Conversion Guide PDF to all backers”). If the idea of a massive dungeon with levels upon levels and rooms upon rooms alongside maps and more appeals to your gaming table, check out this Backerkit campaign page for more details.

Cosmic Dark from Graham Walmsley

• END DATE: Tue, June 17 2025 6:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £36 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is weird space horror from the creator of Cthulhu Dark. In the 180-page core rulebook, you’ll start playing without the need to create the characters of the world first, those elements will be generated during gameplay. You work for an amoral company that has sent you deep into space. Across six scenarios, you’ll learn about the corporation, the horrors of space, and more. If you want a space horror game where you start playing without the need to invent characters before play begins, check out this Kickstarter page.

Neon City Outlaws from Scratchpad Publishing

• END DATE: Thu, June 12 2025 12:49 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): “Neon City Outlaws builds off of the game structure of Dusk City Outlaws”
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $90 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the two books, GM screen, slipcase, and more
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Cyberpunk heists in a city that you’ll design as you play through the game, Neon City Outlaws brings a chrome-twinged version of Dusk City Outlaws to your gaming table. The campaign provides the 240-page hardcover Neon City Outlaws: Core Rulebook as well as the 96-page perfect-bound Neon City Outlaws: Setting Book. In this game, each job/adventure is self-contained, but can be strung together to form a campaign. The campaign page points out a few elements that sets this game apart from other cyberpunk offerings: You build the megacity as you play, you change bodies as needed, VR for all, and a mechanic that lets you influence the coming cyberpunk revolution. If you want to try out a cyberpunk RPG made of connected one-shots, this may be for you.

Setting Off! Any Character, Any Setting, Any Way from Tim Leiner

• END DATE: Jun 13, 2025 at 9:00am EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €45 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the core rulebook plus additional PDFs
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Setting Off! offers a setting agnostic, universal RPG system for your game of choice. Claiming the ability to work with fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, this game promises modular character creation, intuitive mechanics, and more to let you conquer all genres. Using skill trees, you’ll be able to accomplish all tasks including spellcasting. For the characters, there are attributes and origins allowing you to create an elf-draconian or the like. If you want a universal system with rules for exploration, conversation, combat, crafting, housing, romance, and naval combat, this game may speak to you. Check out the Backerkit campaign page to learn more.

Songfall Survivors Relaunched from Genesis of Legend Publishing

• END DATE: Wed, June 11 2025 10:24 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): After the War
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA $15 for the PDF of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Building on After the War, a sci-fi RPG of “memetic horror and rebuilding in the aftermath of galactic conflict.” Billions died in the war with some of the reminder gathering on a world to create a peaceful, safe future. This sourcebook expands on those ideas. Songfall Survivors brings 240 pages of lore and rules to your game. This book gets deeper into the history of the universe, the war, its aftermath, and the factions that dominate what remains. If you’re a fan of sci-fi in which hope is the only way forward, this campaign may be for you.

Royal Society of Mythology from Fainting Goat Games

• END DATE: Fri, June 13 2025 8:42 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $7 for the PDF version of the book and the POD discount coupon
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? All of the world’s myths, stories, and nightmares are true, if you know where to look. The Royal Society of Mythology knows the truth about dragons and the fey, and so does that rivals. In this 34-page setting book, you’ll learn how to hunt and study the myths, learn what they mean and how they can serve our world, or destroy it. At the same time, you’re competing with factions to control this information. If you’re a fan of research into mysteries, this Savage Worlds setting may be right up your alley.

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[dave2008]

After looking through this article I just realized something about myself (and perhaps the hobby). I just gloss over the non-5e products. While I might have the time to adapt new material to my 5e game, I don't have the time or bandwidth to take on a whole new system.

I see a lot of interesting ideas in these posts, but anything not 5e related I pretty much disregard. I just don't have the time.

 

[Dire Bare]

After looking through this article I just realized something about myself (and perhaps the hobby). I just gloss over the non-5e products. While I might have the time to adapt new material to my 5e game, I don't have the time or bandwidth to take on a whole new system.

I see a lot of interesting ideas in these posts, but anything not 5e related I pretty much disregard. I just don't have the time.

You're not alone, I think most folks are similar. And that's okay.

But . . . your enjoyment of the hobby can be improved by exploring games outside of D&D. And maybe even convincing your group to play one of them!

 

[timbannock]

After looking through this article I just realized something about myself (and perhaps the hobby). I just gloss over the non-5e products. While I might have the time to adapt new material to my 5e game, I don't have the time or bandwidth to take on a whole new system.

I see a lot of interesting ideas in these posts, but anything not 5e related I pretty much disregard. I just don't have the time.

Exact opposite here. While I'll inevitably be running Shadowdark and therefore 5E stuff is often useful to port over, the fact is that I rarely find myself needing the "more furries, the better" or the increasingly esoteric subject matter that comes out for 5E these days.

New games and settings are exciting to me.

 

[dave2008]

Exact opposite here. While I'll inevitably be running Shadowdark and therefore 5E stuff is often useful to port over, the fact is that I rarely find myself needing the "more furries, the better" or the increasingly esoteric subject matter that comes out for 5E these days.

New games and settings are exciting to me.

I have not run into "more furries, the better" content for 5e, but, like other systems, I am would mostly gloss over those as well.

However, it is seems you misunderstood the thrust of my realization. It is a time issue for me, not a content or excitement issue. I always find new ideas exciting (which still exist in the 5e sphere of influence too), but I just don't have the time and energy to learn, let alone find a group and play, a new game every 1-2 months or so. Adapt something new to 5e, no problem. Play a whole new system, pretty much a non-starter at this point in my life.

 

[dave2008]

You're not alone, I think most folks are similar. And that's okay.

But . . . your enjoyment of the hobby can be improved by exploring games outside of D&D. And maybe even convincing your group to play one of them!

I have in the past, I just don't have the time and energy to do that now. Also, I should explain that I, and my group, have never had more fun roleplaying (over the past 35+/- years) than with our current homebrew version of 5e. So that also acts as a deterrent to exploring new systems.

 

[Sossij]

However, it is seems you misunderstood the thrust of my realization. It is a time issue for me, not a content or excitement issue. I always find new ideas exciting (which still exist in the 5e sphere of influence too), but I just don't have the time and energy to learn, let alone find a group and play, a new game every 1-2 months or so. Adapt something new to 5e, no problem. Play a whole new system, pretty much a non-starter at this point in my life.

There's just never going to be enough time to watch every movie, read every book, and play every game. It's probably healthy that you are realistic about your expectations, if anything!

That said, I like to read RPGs I might never play for the lore or the mechanics, just to see it. As a matter of a fact, I haven't even been playing TTRPGs since maybe HS until very recently, but I was collecting and reading the books anyways.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have not run into "more furries, the better" content for 5e, but, like other systems, I am would mostly gloss over those as well.

Oh, it's out there. The most prominent animal-forward 5E content, Humblewood, is even on D&D Beyond.

In this time of RPG abundance, pretty much anything one wants can be found somewhere, between the fan-pro level or the big multinational corporations.

 

[dave2008]

Oh, it's out there. The most prominent animal-forward 5E content, Humblewood, is even on D&D Beyond.

In this time of RPG abundance, pretty much anything one wants can be found somewhere, between the fan-pro level or the big multinational corporations.

I know it is out there, the poster I responded to seemed to imply that was the only new 5e content out there - and that has not been my experience.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I know it is out there, the poster I responded to seemed to imply that was the only new 5e content out there - and that has not been my experience.

If I were going to paint with a broad brush about what sort of 5E content is out there, it'd be stuff calling itself "dark" or "grimdark." The animals are few and far between in comparison.