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Not sure if we've mentioned it before, but this miniatures campaign is in it's last two days. Next Level appears to be a new company, but they're working with Punga and Frog God Games, so that brings some of the risk down. Part of the FGG collaboration is some minis for their Rappan Athuk megadungeon, if that's something you're into. The best part, from my perspective is that it sounds like the pledge manager will have the minis available a la carte, rather than just in one or the other of the larger sets.
 
I was thinking about this and I was wondering whether you could use Weird of Hali to run the Mythras system in regular Call of Cthulhu modules?

Ive been very intrigued by this kickstarter since it was released a couple of weeks ago
 
The Italian Spaghetti Fantasy "with Meat!" RPG for D&D5E "Brancalonia" is running a new Kickstarter for a new supplement book "Brancalonia - The Empire Whacks Back



I missed the original kickstarter so I'm hoping they have a pledge level which includes the new book and the older kickstarter books as well. Pasting the content of the email I received about the new KS below for those interested.

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BRANCALONIA WON THE ENNIS


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Rascals and scoundrels, we did it!
Thanks to your votes, Brancalonia has received four Ennies Awards: Best electronic book (gold), Best setting (silver), Best writing (silver) and Product of the year (silver).

But a new menace is threatening the Kingdom...

The Emperor and his army are coming from the North to impose their taxes on us! This is so outrageously legal, an indelible affront for every honest criminal of the Kingdom: that's why we decided to run a new Kickstarter campaign... and we're hiring!

>>> CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN <<<

The battle will begin very soon!
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I'm very tempted though I don't strictly need more minis. The full color art looks great. After shipping, it will come out to around 40 to 50 cents per mini, prepainted for talentless players like me. I like how the tiers give you 10-40 sets instead of just a fixed set of minis.
 
Stan said:
I'm very tempted though I don't strictly need more minis. The full color art looks great. After shipping, it will come out to around 40 to 50 cents per mini, prepainted for talentless players like me. I like how the tiers give you 10-40 sets instead of just a fixed set of minis.
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I pledged on their first Skinny Minis™ Kickstarter and these are some of the best looking, best quality flat plastic minis I own. I'm rather picky when it comes to the designs so I'll have to see if I can find enough sets that I like on this one*. It took some effort on the last Kickstarter as well.

* design-wise I prefer Arcknight's Flat Plastic Minis™
 
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3rik said:
I pledged on their first Skinny Minis™ Kickstarter and these are some of the best looking, best quality flat plastic minis I own. I'm rather picky when it comes to the designs so I'll have to see if I can find enough sets that I like on this one*. It took some effort on the last Kickstarter as well.

* design-wise I prefer Arcknight's Flat Plastic Minis™
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That's the same problem I'm having with this one. The minimum tier is for so many sets, I don't think I can get that many. I'm going in for $1 and just going to use the pledge manager.
 
chuckdee said:
That's the same problem I'm having with this one. The minimum tier is for so many sets, I don't think I can get that many. I'm going in for $1 and just going to use the pledge manager.
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My issues is the sets are nice but one or two of each doesn't fill my miniature needs. I'd also like to have just an orc pack, guard pack, etc. Minis for me are most needed when there are a lot of participants (dozens). When it is the party and one or two monsters, theater of the mind is more time effective and just as good.

I'm so-so on the style of the art but it is well done.
 
xanther said:
My issues is the sets are nice but one or two of each doesn't fill my miniature needs. I'd also like to have just an orc pack, guard pack, etc. Minis for me are most needed when there are a lot of participants (dozens). When it is the party and one or two monsters, theater of the mind is more time effective and just as good.

I'm so-so on the style of the art but it is well done.
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Yea, this isn't the product for armies of enemies.
 
chuckdee said:
The minimum tier is for so many sets, I don't think I can get that many.
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Mind you, some of the larger sets count as 2 or 3. But still, I might end up following your example as I don't want to be forced to add a set of fugly minis.
 
xanther said:
I'm so-so on the style of the art but it is well done.
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Yes, the art style can make it difficult to find sets you like. Especially the heroes and demihumans are very fugly Disney/D&D5E/Pathfinder-esque. However, I managed to get some nice looking sets from their first Kickstarter.
 
Here's a neat-sounding 'zine-style take on Mythic Greece for DCC - envisioned as the first in a series, it features the Labyrinth as a 0-Level funnel:



Also, please forgive the non-RPG submission, but this new indy fiction anthology sounds like it's going to (forgive me again) rock:

 
Balthazar66 said:
I was thinking about this and I was wondering whether you could use Weird of Hali to run the Mythras system in regular Call of Cthulhu modules?

Ive been very intrigued by this kickstarter since it was released a couple of weeks ago
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It's a strange Kickstarter. For starters, it is not clear what it is for. What are they raising money for? There are no clear objectives. The book is written and illustrated, seemingly ready to publish, but the campaign is asking for £10,000 to pay for ... we do not know. Judging by what I can see, there is no layout artist, not even one waiting in the wings. Being really harsh, the preview looks like it is from the bad old days of Chaosium monograph publishing. Why did they not mockup a better layout? Pay for a preview of few pages showing a trial layout with a professional layout artist with a view to funding a better complete layout for the book using the kickstarter funding.

There is an illustrator for the project, who from her Instagram has been producing work for the project for 10 months (?). She has even recorded videos of work in progress which you can see on her Instagram site. Are those used in the KS campaign? No. Any work in progress show as part of the campaign updates? No. Interview with the artist? No. The images used on the KS page aren't prepared correctly so they look washed out. The artist herself knows how to present the work better.

How about the author? Any updates from him? No. An interview? No. A sample of fiction to show in a campaign update? No.

Promotion? When I look around for more info about this, all I found were coy posts from a mysterious "thoughts?" figure .... who has been thinking
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Not sure if we've mentioned it before, but this miniatures campaign is in it's last two days. Next Level appears to be a new company, but they're working with Punga and Frog God Games, so that brings some of the risk down. Part of the FGG collaboration is some minis for their Rappan Athuk...
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I got a notification that there is to be a Mothership boxed set Kickstarter, but I can’t locate it in a shareable form for here. Was there a Twitter announcement that I (probably) missed or something? I did sign up for notifications from Kickstarter on it. I think I deleted the email I got...
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Any opinions on this new kickstarter for 'Weird of Hali RPG'?
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Who is Balthazar66... TonyB...Tentacles_123459049... surely not someone connected to the publishers!

Why not just come clean and say "we are publishing this, here is a preview, this is what we would like to do" ... yadda yadda. This stealth social media is just daft and wastes everyone's time. You can promote on Reddit and elsewhere (to some degree) without concealing yourself. Doing this coy 'interested punter here' stuff says nothing about the project. If you are on Reddit, why not at least try an AMA, or present an interview either written or with one of the YouTube channels which have previously featured Mythras and/or Cthulhu horror - there certainly are some.

They have an interesting author, an apparently already written game book, a whole series of novels behind it, a decent illustrator. But no layout artist for the book, no plans to get one, no rationale for the funding, no use for the (from what I can see) quite savvy writer and skilled artist involved. The preview itself is unattractive and may have lost supporters, it did me. Frustrating.
 
Bilharzia said:
This stealth social media is just daft and wastes everyone's time.
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There’s a rather large RPG company I won’t buy from in part because one of their authors was shilling all their releases without admitting his connection to the company. When he finally admitted it he didn’t seem to understand why not disclosing he worked fir the company he was hyping up was a problem.

I also had the experience of getting lambasted by an account after I said I wasn’t impressed by the revealed stretch goals. Lots of cursing at me until I pointed out I backed at the second-highest tier, at which point they suddenly shut up. Many months later I found out the account was a sockpuppet for one of the game’s editors, who I had even worked for at one time.
 
Oh, almost forgot: I finally got the miniatures that were the last thing I was waiting on for a Kickstarter that went south a half-dozen ways. My understanding had been they would be monopose, one-piece minis, and I thought the publisher’s final middle finger to me woukd be the fact they are all multi-piece.

Then I saw an ad on Facebook this morning that all their digital files are 50% off today, so I could have saved time and money by waiting to pick the game up now, rather than backing the Kickstarter
 
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Hi this is more for boardgames, but the pre-order for CMON's Ghostbusters figures for Zombicide is going live today, October 5th at 3PM EST:

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The part of my brain that loves to buy things is telling me to pick these up to use next time I run the Ghostbusters RPG, but a more sensible part of my brain is asking me when I am ever going to use minis with the Ghostbusters system.
 
Baulderstone said:
The part of my brain that loves to buy things is telling me to pick these up to use next time I run the Ghostbusters RPG, but a more sensible part of my brain is asking me when I am ever going to use minis with the Ghostbusters system.
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Yeah I have a similar dilemma. I have the Ghostbusters boardgame but missed out on the Kickstarter. It would be cool to use Gozer and the Hounds.
 
Baulderstone said:
The part of my brain that loves to buy things is telling me to pick these up to use next time I run the Ghostbusters RPG, but a more sensible part of my brain is asking me when I am ever going to use minis with the Ghostbusters system.
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When Running Hot Rods of the Gods to represent who is in Ecto-1 during the demolition derby?
 
I hope it's okay to self-promo a little, but I want to share my first ever Kickstarter campaign - Flabbergasted! :happy:
It's a rules-lite and narrative-driven TTRPG set in the roaring 20s and was greatly inspired by madcap comedies like Jeeves and Wooster and Fawlty Towers!
As a first time creator, launching on Kickstarter was a very nerve-wracking experience :crossed:
But the reception couldn't have been better and we're already 300% funded with a week to go!

 
Fleursciortino said:
I hope it's okay to self-promo a little, but I want to share my first ever Kickstarter campaign - Flabbergasted! :happy:
It's a rules-lite and narrative-driven TTRPG set in the roaring 20s and was greatly inspired by madcap comedies like Jeeves and Wooster and Fawlty Towers!
As a first time creator, launching on Kickstarter was a very nerve-wracking experience :crossed:
But the reception couldn't have been better and we're already 300% funded with a week to go!

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I'm always a sucker for comedic games and liked Jeeves and Wooster.

You should have mentioned in the post that there is a quickstart available. From browsing, it reminds me a bit of Tiny D6, which feels appropriate to the material.
 


This almost seems custom made for me as “sport animes” has become a new drug for me during the pandemic.

also seems like a completely card based system. Which is interesting.
 
Fleursciortino said:
I hope it's okay to self-promo a little, but I want to share my first ever Kickstarter campaign - Flabbergasted! :happy:
It's a rules-lite and narrative-driven TTRPG set in the roaring 20s and was greatly inspired by madcap comedies like Jeeves and Wooster and Fawlty Towers!
As a first time creator, launching on Kickstarter was a very nerve-wracking experience :crossed:
But the reception couldn't have been better and we're already 300% funded with a week to go!

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Speaking as a mod, it is entirely fine to self-promote in this thread.

As a long-time Wodehouse fan, I am interested in this one. The Scene Cue mechanic looks well-thought out based on the two examples. Both of them are geared more to opening up possibilities rather than resolving a situation. It's a good approach for automatic abilities.
 
Fleursciortino said:
I hope it's okay to self-promo a little, but I want to share my first ever Kickstarter campaign - Flabbergasted! :happy:
It's a rules-lite and narrative-driven TTRPG set in the roaring 20s and was greatly inspired by madcap comedies like Jeeves and Wooster and Fawlty Towers!
As a first time creator, launching on Kickstarter was a very nerve-wracking experience :crossed:
But the reception couldn't have been better and we're already 300% funded with a week to go!

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Speaking as a mod, it is entirely fine to self-promote in this thread.

As a long-time Wodehouse fan, I am interested in this one. The Scene Cue mechanic looks well-thought out based on the two examples. Both of them are geared more to opening up possibilities rather than resolving a situation. It's a good approach for automatic abilities.
 
Stan said:
I'm always a sucker for comedic games and liked Jeeves and Wooster.

You should have mentioned in the post that there is a quickstart available. From browsing, it reminds me a bit of Tiny D6, which feels appropriate to the material.
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Thank you! And good point! Whoever is interested, the quickstart is available here!

And thank you for the comparison, I had someone else describe Flabbergasted as "Blades in the Dark and Tiny D6 had a baby" :grin:
 
Between Reach of the Roach God, Weird of Hali...and maybe Fight with Spirit, though I've got to read the quickstart first to avoid another "I backed TorchBearer" event... and the fact that I just discovered Mr. Greer has written a treatise on Thybault's Academy of the Sword (which is an auto-buy:shade:), my debit card has started hating this thread already:grin:!
 
I’m happy to see that Pinnacle is putting out a new ip instead of just another license, I almost want to back it for that, but I’m just not a big horror guy and don’t see myself running this.
 


I’m intrigued by this, moreso after watching the video and the author discussing moral dilemmas in the scenario: I tead an adventure this morning where the author missed the fact the bad guy both had a point and was doing damage to a greater evil.

Tgat said, I don’t think it’ll fund. The “all three” PDF level will make people wonder why they can’t just buy one version for less. They show previews of very few of the miniatures, and I think they need more information on the setting background and the adventures themselves.
 
I just launched a Kickstarter campaign for Cha'alt: Chartreuse Shadows. It's the 3rd book in the trilogy, supporting eldritch, gonzo, science-fantasy, post-apocalyptic gaming with a humorous, sleazy, pop-cultural streak. Fully compatible with OSR and D&D (if rules-light is a problem, you may have some conversion work ahead of you):

 
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