Between March 1st and 7th, 25 RPGs and 20 RPG Zine Quests end on Kickstarter. 45 projects ending in 7 days. Because that pool is an ocean, I fished out 4 RPGs to review while sharing the zines as quick links. Let’s get into these projects.
Ultimate Player Race Creator - Endless 5E D&D Races by Andrew Michael Engelbrite
Pocket Box Games of the Eighties by Steve Jackson Games
Hudson & Brand: Shadows of the Past by Stygian Fox Publishing
Beat the Boss by Doug Geisler
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Ultimate Player Race Creator - Endless 5E D&D Races by Andrew Michael Engelbrite
- END DATE: Sun, March 3 2019 8:56 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5e
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $3 for PDF copies of “each Race Creator book and the full compilation of the Ultimate Everything Player Race Creator” plus digital stretch goals
- NOTE: Andrew Engelbrite is a frequent contributor for EN Publishing’s En5ider
“Make any playable Dungeons and Dragons race you can imagine with hundreds of racial traits to choose from. The ultimate race creator lets you quickly make your very own player race. Want to play a were-iguana? How about a robot-scorpion? Elf-ghost with psychic powers? How about a manticore-man? We've done our best to cover just about every trait a character could possibly have. So if you can come up with it, you can play it. The Ultimate Race Creator is compatible with 5th edition D&D but can be easily adapted to other editions or systems. Beastmen includes 24 pages of traits that cover everything furry, feathered, or beast-like. With it you can play as centuars, minotaurs, satyrs, Kitsune, panda-folk, moose-men, or just about any other variation of man and beast that you can think of. Scalykind Race Creator is 32 pages full of all the traits you need for a zillion varieties of any kind of dragon people, serpentfolk, boggarts, grippli, medusa-kin, hydrafolk, and every kind of reptilian or amphibious traits we could think of.”
Pocket Box Games of the Eighties by Steve Jackson Games
- END DATE: Fri, March 1 2019 6:38 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Various, but focusing on Undead
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rule box sets
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $200 (US shipping included) for “Car Wars, Truck Stop, Crash City, and any seven of the available Pocket Box games plus stretch goals and more”
“Help us create reproductions of the classic Steve Jackson Games Pocket Box titles of the eighties. The POCKET BOX was, for about seven years, the iconic Steven Jackson Games product format. These hard-plastic cases, sized to fit the same racks that held paperback books back in the eighties, were everywhere! Working closely with our partners at GPI, we have taken steps to scan original POCKET BOX games and prepare them for print.” Among the offerings is “Game #8 – Undead is two games in one! It can be a boardgame for two players, or a gamemastered roleplaying adventure for three or more. Either way, it’s a battle of wits. One player, as Dracula, must use great strength and shape-changing powers to stay alive – protecting his coffins and drinking the blood of innocents.”
Hudson & Brand: Shadows of the Past by Stygian Fox Publishing
- END DATE: Fri, March 1 2019 2:59 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Call of Cthulhu
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure modules
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £25 for PDF and softcover of Hudson & Brand: Shadows of the Past and all unlocked stretch goals
“A Cthulhu by Gaslight adventure anthology. Hudson & Brand: Shadows of the Past presents a trio of linked scenarios, set in Victorian London, where players of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game (published by Chaosium, Inc), must thwart an ancient cult that seeks vengeance against the Empire for its activities in Africa. While this anthology collection builds upon the setting established in Hudson & Brand: Inquiry Agents of the Obscure, it stands on its own and the first book is not needed for these scenarios to be enjoyed. The 150-page, main book will contain three scenarios, scenario seeds based on the events and NPCs introduced in each scenario, and their impact on the historical record. All Maps, Handouts, and NPCs will be included in appendices in the book/PDF for easy reference and printing. Ten Pre-Generated Player Characters will also be included in an appendix.”
Beat the Boss by Doug Geisler
- END DATE: Fri, March 1 2019 2:59 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $20 (US shipping included) for PDF and softcover of Beat the Boss plus PDFs of character sheets, NPC sheets, Boss Moves, Universal Moves, and organizing chart.
“A Roleplaying Game for Organizing on the Job and in the Community. The class war is coming to the table top. In Beat the Boss you and 3 to 6 friends will take turns organizing a group of workers or community members to take part in the fight of their lives. You will identify the issues and make the banners then plan and take the actions that will change the balance of power at work. Beat the Boss is a tabletop roleplaying game that is Powered by the Apocalypse to create a place for activists to learn how to organize on the job and in the community. With a handful of six-sided dice, a pencil, a character sheet, and a group of friends, you can learn how to move people to action and take back their power. The game has been play tested with organizers, role players, and complete noobs to make sure the rules and language work for as many people as possible. It is in its final form and ready to print, so the books will go out, both PDF and paperback, as soon as the campaign ends. There are about 100 pages with six original black and white illustrations created for the game by Xavier Lopez Gama.”
[h=3]RPG ZINES[/h] A Rasp of Sand: A Roguelike Tabletop RPG Experience by David Cox
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 12:00 AM EST.
- “A large zine with a Roguelite randomized ocean goddesses temple. Designed to be difficult and highly replayable.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $12 US shipping included
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 12:00 AM EST.
- “A roleplaying game about broke goblins and the town they live in.”
- PDF & Print $10 US shipping included
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 9:46 AM EST.
- “Strings is a zine metagame and metasystem for TTRPGs that asks the question: what does a character hold onto as death approaches.”
- PDF $1 / PDF & Print $5 Worldwide shipping included
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 1:17 PM EST.
- “A zine of rules and content for implementing American Football in Fantasy Role Playing Games.”
- Print $10 US shipping included. NOTE: No mention of digital copies.
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 1:23 PM EST.
- “A cyberpunk tabletop RPG zine; made for #ZineQuest!”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 Worldwide shipping included
- Ends Fri, March 1 2019 11:59 PM EST.
- “From the heady days of store flyers and indie zines, Joe was a cartoon hero asking the big questions about tabletop gaming.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 US shipping included
- Ends Sat, March 2 2019 10:00 AM EST.
- “4 horror RPG adventures, written, illustrated, and edited by trans and nonbinary gamers.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $12 US shipping included
- Ends Sat, March 2 2019 8:00 PM EST.
- “An RPG zine about learning through play.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 US shipping included
- Ends Sun, March 3 2019 12:01 AM EST.
- “An RPG fanzine in the style of the old school fanzines that launched the hobby.”
- PDF $6 / PDF & Print $12 US shipping included
- Ends Sun, March 3 2019 1:33 AM EST.
- “Cavaliers, Enchanters, and Magic Items”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $12 US shipping included
- Ends Sun, March 3 2019 7:36 AM EST.
- “Bring High Strangeness to Your High Fantasy RPG Setting. This zine features close encounters, aliens, and other fantastic weirdness!”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 + $3 US shipping
- Ends Sun, March 3 2019 10:04 AM EST.
- “An RPG-zine based on encouraging diverse ideas and diverse creators. The focus will be on world building, design, and art.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 + $4 US shipping
- Ends Sun, March 3 2019 2:19 PM EST.
- “An RPG Zine to steal your soul!"
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $10 + $2 US shipping
- Ends Mon, March 4 2019 6:00 PM EST.
- “A 3-issue tabletop RPG zine about power suits, giant kaiju robots, and massive teenage angst.”
- 3 issues print $15 + $4 US shipping
- Ends Mon, March 4 2019 6:59 PM EST.
- “A monthly magazine for worldbuilding enthusiasts, writers, RPG gamemasters (GMs) and others who love to explore sci-fi/fantasy worlds.”
- PDF £3 / PDF & Print £8 Worldwide shipping included
- Ends Mon, March 4 2019 9:00 PM EST.
- “A new Torchbearer adventure for characters levels 2-3.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $9 + $4 US shipping
- Ends Tue, March 5 2019 11:12 AM EST.
- “A System agnostic campaign frame for fantasy games, in a limited saddle-stitched Zine.”
- PDF $3 / PDF & Print $10 US shipping included
- Ends Tue, March 5 2019 9:00 PM EST.
- “A tabletop RPG about a curious girl in a wondrous world, for telling stories like Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz.”
- PDF & Print $9 Worldwide shipping included
- Ends Wed, March 6 2019 3:26 PM EST.
- “A OSR-themed RPG zine with stats for centaurs, minotaurs and all of the beastmen you'll ever want. Includes minis for play!”
- PDF $10
- Ends Thu, March 7 2019 9:00 AM EST.
- “Zine Quest: A brand new zine-sized module for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $15 + $6 US shipping
- Ends Sat, February 23 2019 4:00 AM EST.
- “Dreamrs, we are such stuff as dreams are *Powered* on, and our little life is rounded *by the Apocalypse*. Complete PbtA RPG in a zine.”
- PDF $5 / PDF & Print $12 US shipping included
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