Kickstarters Thread

[thebigh]

GURPS Pyramid Scheme kickstarter

 

[tetnak]

Heroes & Hardships is coming to Kickstarter soon!



ANY SETTING
ANY CHARACTER
ANY ADVENTURE
ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE!!​

Heroes & Hardships is a Universal RPG System built for flexibility and fun!

Heroes & Hardships lets you play your way.

• Chuck handfuls of d10s with a Roll & Keep dice pool system.
• Scale your game from gritty to fantastical with 3 available Power Levels.
• Create your character with a Point Buy system or leave it to fate with random Attribute generation.
• Forego the doldrums of combat rounds with Heroes & Hardships' innovative action points system.
• Customize characters with hundreds of Skills, Abilities, and Ancestry Traits.
• Wield magic and powers with two Magic Systems for wizards and super heroes alike.
• Equip your character with an assortment of gear, gadgets, weapons, and armor.
• Pilot starfighters, galleys, tanks, and more.
• Defeat a Bestiary full of Fantasy, Modern, and Sci-Fi adversaries.
• Use dozens of optional rules to play the game any way you want.

You can join the other Heroes and follow the campaign and get notified when it launches!

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away!

- Jason

 

[Fenris-77]

Freeleague is going to be kickstarting a 40th aniversary edition of Drakar och Demoner (Dragonbane).

 

[Brock Savage]

Another Troika based kickstarter. This one is tailored to solo or duet play and is inspired by the arcade game Joust.

Is it weird that as a child I often tried to imagine what the implied world of Joust was like for D&D? I have to check this out!

 

[Baulderstone]

Is it weird that as a child I often tried to imagine what the implied world of Joust was like for D&D? I have to check this out!

The simplicity of those old games really encouraged me to come up with elaborate backstories about those blocky pixels.

 

[Acmegamer]

Douglas Cole over at Gaming Ballistic just launched a Kickstarter for OSE solo and group play adventures that David Pulver designed. Good people both, and Douglas always runs a good Kickstarter. He communicates well and frequently and he ships a quality product. I've pretty much backed almost everything he's done. I'm interested to see how David's take on these adventures end up looking for OSE and for solo as well.

 

[chuckdee]

Freeleague is going to be kickstarting a 40th aniversary edition of Drakar och Demoner (Dragonbane).

Do you have any knowledge of what the game is about?

 

[Fenris-77]

Do you have any knowledge of what the game is about?

Nope, never played it. But it came out in '82, so I can probably make some very educated guess even without looking at a review. Now I'm curious though...

 

[Fenris-77]

Here's the early development history....

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

My last day for pledges, if anyone can help with donations big or small!

 

[Caesar Slaad]

So is this just a link farm to KS projects, or should we be dropping random KS kvetching in here?

Because I gotta share...

Sure it sucks when someone straight up fails to deliver on their KS product and the project kinda dies.

But it's a whole different kind of suck when a project never really dies but takes so long that by the time it delivers, you don't care anymore.

 

[Voros]

Looks fun. I got burned by The Melsonian Art Council when I KS one of their books but it never arrived and my query emails have been ignored so I won't be backing them again but I still like Troika!

Worth updating that I reached out to The Melsonian Art Council directly via their site and a friendly chap got back to me and was able to get me my book. Something with the coupon code was refusing to work and he patiently helped out.

I'd still be wary of backing something on KS but would recommend ordering direct from them once a book is out.

 

[Voros]

My last day for pledges, if anyone can help with donations big or small!

Pledged! I always set projects I want to support to remind me because I'm lazy like that but I'm glad to see you made the goal Yeti Spaghetti!

 

[Stan]

Kickstarter and my gmail often fail to work together; order surveys don't arrive - they don't even get shunted to spam, just unfindable. This has held up several rewards. Occasionally, when I get suspicious, I login to Kickstarter and find messages about things having gone out and am able to get things fixed. It seems to happen only with direct communication from Kickstarter; messages from Drivethru and Backerkit arrive on time.

 

[Voros]

Checking out the games as part of Zinequest and this one caught my eye. I'm getting the Warhol game for print and play to try them out.

Three Pocket-Sized RPGs by Ready Play.Games, via @Kickstarter

 

[Voros]

This isn't rpg related per se but I know we have some blaxploitation film fans here and the folks at Deaf Crocodile Films have displayed impeccable taste with their bluray releases so far.

Restoring Sal Watts' Solomon King, via @Kickstarter
This pic alone made me pledge instantly.

 

[Brock Savage]

This isn't rpg related per se but I know we have some blaxploitation film fans here and the folks at Deaf Crocodile Films have displayed impeccable taste with their bluray releases so far.

Restoring Sal Watts' Solomon King, via @Kickstarter
This pic alone made me pledge instantly.

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Dude, nice find! I have never stumbled across something good on Kickstarter on my own.

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Pledged! I always set projects I want to support to remind me because I'm lazy like that but I'm glad to see you made the goal Yeti Spaghetti!

Thanks!! We received a last-minute donation that put us over the edge. It was actually someone I should have approached earlier in the campaign, but the timing ended up being right for them to make us hit our goal.

I will say this, though. I hope I don't have to do another Kickstarter!! This campaign was a mental and physical strain.

 

[thebigh]

Hooray! Congratulations. I look forward to seeing the finished product and getting my sweet PDF.

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Hooray! Congratulations. I look forward to seeing the finished product and getting my sweet PDF.

That's two PDFs! Remember, I raised the stakes by promising all backers at $10 or more "The Blood Countess" as a bonus module!

Both will, of course, be available on DriveThruRPG for POD copies.

 

[3rik]

ZineQuest is upon us! Lots of stuff for OSE and Mörk Borg, some interesting looking ones for DCC. I backed this one.

 

[3rik]

Here's a couple of others that I think look kind of fun or interesting but I haven't backed (yet):

for OSE

for DCC

 

[3rik]

And two more that may be of interest:

 

[chuckdee]

Well, I just got on two keyboard kickstarters, so that kills any chance I have of being lured in by ZineQuest

 

[Sacrosanct]

Twilight Fables is just over halfway done. 630% funded so far. To quote someone "the digital level is...well...a steal actually." And as of a few days ago, there is an option for an OSR converted version. Possibly the best thing is that it's done. So there's no risk of Far West going on here...

 

[UnplayedRanger]

I don’t think this got posted already, but it uses the Shadow of the Demon Lord system:

 

[AsenRG]

Bit of a change-up. Here's a novel that sounds cool written by a guy I've gamed with.

That one is fairly interesting, and I like his approach. Does he plan to also release a setting?

 

[Stan]

That one is fairly interesting, and I like his approach. Does he plan to also release a setting?

Not that I know of.

 

[AsenRG]

Not that I know of.

Who is he waiting for, SJG?