[KICKSTARTER] The RPGsite Thread for Information About Kickstarter Projects

[ThePunslinger]

Hello all! My new project, SLASH! - The Horror Movie RPG, is launching on Kickstarter on JULY 11th, 2023.



Inspired by 80s and 90s horror movies, this game puts you in the shoes of a classic horror Archetype (the Nerd, the Athlete, the Virgin, etc.) as you struggle to escape from a brutal Killer. You're weaker than your enemy, so you'll have to run, hide, scavenge, and strategize to survive. It also features a unique dice pool mechanic that feels like a cross between the Genesys dice system and TIME Stories: White Cycle, which gives every action unintended side-effects that cause ripples down the road!

Back/Follow our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skullcamera/slash-the-horror-movie-rpg

Or check out our website for more information: https://slashrpg.com/

[Elder Evil]

THE STRAIGHT WAY LOST

Sourcebook & Adventure for 5e

The Straight Way Lost is a 400-page book that is one part sourcebook and setting guide for fantasy gaming in a Renaissance that never quite was, and the other part a massive adventure of intrigue, terror and triumph.

The adventure is set in a fantastical version of Italy in 1492 and features a voyage between Heaven and Hell inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy.
Background chapters detail everyday life in the Italian Renaissance, the worldview of its protagonists and the supernatural aspects, as well as extended character creation guidelines tailored to the setting.

The book is illustrated with 140 full-color artworks by Jana Heidersdorf, Gwenevere Singley and Mark Smylie. The Kickstarter will also offer lots of great add-ons like stl-files for miniatures, maps, Roll20 module, sound files and custom made characters to enrich your roleplaying experience.


We are live on Kickstarter now. Please come and look; we hope you like what you see and pledge early to snag the Early Bird discount!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vortex-verlag/the-straight-way-lost-sourcebook-and-adventure-for-5e

[Elder Evil]

The final 24 hours for The Straight Way Lost have begun!

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within
a dark wood where the straight way was lost."
-- Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto I; John Aitken Carlyle translation

The Kickstarter for The Straight Way Lost is now in its final hours. We have so far unlocked 2 stretch goals and are hoping to reach the third.

Please help us make the final push now; there will be no late pledges!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vortex-verlag/the-straight-way-lost-sourcebook-and-adventure-for-5e

[Gegilles]

Behold!

Dragonslayer: The Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Game by Dr. Greg Gillespie

Live NOW! Please help spread the word.

http://kck.st/3Z9kk5r

[Klytus]

Our own Rob Conley has a new Kickstarter out that compiles his wisdom and experience creating a fantasy sandbox into a single source, plus it includes a sample setting and his Blackmarsh setting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/batintheatticgames/how-to-make-a-fantasy-sandbox

[estar]

Our own Rob Conley has a new Kickstarter out that compiles his wisdom and experience creating a fantasy sandbox into a single source, plus it includes a sample setting and his Blackmarsh setting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/batintheatticgames/how-to-make-a-fantasy-sandbox

Appreciate the shout out!

[Llew ap Hywel]

Follow on to Beowulf Age of Heroes. I'm no 5e fan but the setting material and digital resources in the last one were great.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonhodgsonmaptiles2/king-beowulf

This one looks at domain play.

[Bobloblah]

Wow! The Adventurer Conqueror King System II: Imperial Imprint edition is now live on Kickstarter, and funded in less than 15 minutes! Spread the word now that it's live...

Adventurer Conqueror King System Imperial Imprint (ACKS II), via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autarch/adventurer-conqueror-king-system-imperial-imprint-acks-ii?ref=android_project_share

[palaeomerus]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-miniatures-dungeon-dwellers-roleplaying-game



DDRPG's goal is to take the best parts of our favorite fantasy RPG editions and blend them together to offer something unique in today's tabletop landscape. DDRPG keeps things fast and fun.

Four Core Classes: Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, Wizard
Four Core Folk: Human, Proudfoot Halfling, Wood Elf, Hill Dwarf
Six Ability Scores: Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
d20-based Resolution System: The core of DDRPG uses a twenty-sided die. Whenever a character attempts something with interesting success or failure, the d20 is rolled and modifiers added.
Open Skill System is based on Ability Checks - a character's Background, Folk, and Class define what sorts of Skills a PC is proficient in.
Renovated Spell System - some spells have been revamped, improving utility and effectiveness; Spell Points allow casters to alter spell effects, increasing damage, number of targets, and degree of effect.
Dangerous - When Hit Points are exhausted, a creature is likely to die. When Hit Points are reduced below 0, the combatant has till the end of the round to be stabilized or they die. There are no Death Saves in DDRPG.
Easy to Use - DDRPG is compatible with almost any other RPG product. If you want to add something from a different system, it's easy to fold it into DDRPG's ruleset.

[palaeomerus]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/palladiumbooks/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-other-strangeness

[Panjumanju]

Solo Martial Blues: A One-player Martial Arts TTRPG

As part of Crowdfundr's Table Top Non Stop event, Radio James Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Solo Martial Blues, a solo-play TTRPG based on the Indie Groundbreaker Award nominated TTRPG Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart.

The Solo Martial Blues ​campaign runs from February 1st through March 1st, 2024. Click here to join the fight: https://fnd.us/solo-martial-blues?ref=sh_dCLT6b

Solo Martial Blues is designed by Canadian indie developer James Kerr, with art by artist Steven Wu, artist of indie darling and Ennie-award winning Jiangshi Blood at the Banquet Hall. Set in fictional New Hope City, Solo Martial Blues is an urban, gritty, down-to-earth martial arts game inspired by films like Bloodsport (1988), Hard Times (1975), and Streets of Fire (1984). It should be especially appealing to fans of the recent shows Cobra Kai and The Warrior. The mechanics of Solo Martial Blues are unique. Unlike most solo TTRPGs it does not use dice, and does not use story prompts. It uses a structure of trumping moves, like rock-paper-scissors, but couples this with a heartbreaking melodramatic mechanic of Comforts—tracking what the fighter cares about, what they're fighting for!

To learn more about Radio James Games, please visit www.radiojamesgames.com

James Kerr
Radio James Games

[mikelaff]

Cocaine Owlbear for Savage Worlds - Now on Kickstarter

Cocaine Owlbear is a short adventure (and adventure generator!) of magical drug-fueled whimsy for Savage Worlds.

The heroes are native critters of a fantastical forest tasked with scoring more of the enchanted nose-candy that gave them sentience before the effect wears off and they return to their less fun, less paranoid woodland ways forever!

FULL PITCH
You're a woodland creature who has recently gained sentience when you ingested magical cocaine from
the satchel of an unlucky traveler in your forest.
With your newfound intelligence, you plunder the belongings of the courier you killed. You find that he or
she had a complicated heist plan written on parchment and hidden in their satchel bag. But it's not just
any heist. It is a complicated heist that involves stealing more of the enchanted cocaine that has granted
you sentience and made you really jittery.
Can you take a chance that when the cocaine wears off you'll revert to being a mere woodland animal?
No.
No, you cannot.
You have to get more of that enchanted cocaine! Luckily, you have this written plan from the deceased
courier that requires discipline and exact execution.
Unfortunately, you're a goddamned coked-out enchanted woodland creature prone to rage.

[Persimmon]

This is for volume 2 of a combined adventure path/sandbox and campaign setting.  But the good news is that you can also get volume 1, which was published last year, either in standard or premium binding, which is great for books that are this massive.  We are just starting this now and IMO it's probably the best adventure/setting I've seen for OSE Advanced: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pulphummock/gods-of-the-forbidden-north-volume-2

Note: I'm just a backer & fan.  Not affiliated with the author, though we've communicated via email.

[Winged Lion Games]

To celebrate reaching the goal of the Arcana Familia Fresh Meat campaign we have decided to add a special limited number bundle!
The Bundle includes, at a discounted price compared to the separate purchase, the "Murderer" Reward (the Fresh Meat adventure printed and in PDF, plus the Stretch Goals and digital prints) and the Arcana Familia Core Book (both printed and in PDF), and in addition the short adventure Dance with the Sharks and the Additional Contracts expansion are free, both in PDF and printed format! This offer is only available to the first 15 interested parties, and only for English copies. Take advantage of it! Don't miss this opportunity! Click here to go to the Fresh Meat campaign page! https://gamefound.com/en/projects/a-game-of-nerds/arcana-familia---fresh-meat

Arcana Familia is an esoteric cyberpunk ttrpg with an original rules system based on the Blackjack card game, set in a future where occult worlds interwine with dark technology. In a future Earth where the appearance of the god of reality He Who Has Many Names has allowed an unprecedented technological increase in exchange for human's freedom to decide his destiny, The players will play creatures from another dimension, the Aos, who infiltrate our universe for their own mysterious purposes, offering diabolical deals to desperate people in exchange for the power to manipulate the world by ignoring its physical laws, and their human servants and contractors known as the Lost Children. Together they have been co-opted by the mysterious Arcana Familia for the purpose of conveying, conveying and supervising the movements of these entities so that they do not bring chaos to the Earth Union and to the plans of its enigmatic ruler Basileo, as well as those of other unnatural subjects who in the have infested the world in recent years.

Fresh Meat is an adventure lasting about three sessions of hypothetical investigative games, the events of which however will start an extended plot that could influence the future of the Arcana Familia, the Earth Union and even the entire world. It can easily be used as an incipit for a group of newly recruited Aos and Lost Children to begin a wide-ranging extended chronicle, and constitutes the first element of a saga that will be further expanded in other modules, although it can easily constitute a case in itself . The book will also describe in detail the building that serves as the headquarters of the local department of the Arcana Familia of Nuova Este and at the same time as a dormitory for its agents, the latter each presented in their own roles. Finally, additional optional rules will be described to allow agents to use vehicles of various types, both during breathtaking chases and in combat. Despite being convenient and practical, it is not always possible to use the subway!

[Fleur WT]

​Mystified! A Flabbergasted Expansion
Launching in 1 Week on Backerkit - March 26th

Mystified! is an expansion to the ENNIE-nominated game Flabbergasted! Learn how to craft a mystery-driven campaign to introduce into your Flabbergasted games. Befuddle, bewitch, and bewilder your players as they unravel a myriad of mysteries, with 3 NEW ARCHETYPES, 3 NEW LOCATIONS, and 3 PRE-WRITTEN campaigns, along with additional story hooks and pre-made club sheets. All of this will be made easy to incorporate into your Flabbergasted games through our new Mystery Sheet.

Here's a taste of what Mystified! will introduce:

Go on new adventures: You can take a more classic whodunnit approach where your players must solve a murder in a mansion, where every resident is a potential suspect. You can also have an action-adventure mystery where intrepid adventurers must follow a trail of clues across the globe. Or explore a darker mystery where investigators become embroiled in a case of cults and supernatural dealings...

Craft your own mysteries: Creating your own mystery can be a daunting task. Using a brand new mystery sheet and simple rules, creating your own mystery has never been easier!

Play new archetypes: The Snoop, the Explorer, and the Occultist are added to the selection of archetypes! Each features new scene cues.

Explore new locations: Be it the unsuspecting sleepy town of Pembrook, the eerie city of Kravenspire or the lush, distant island of Porto Verde, you'll have the perfect setting for your club's next mystery.

Join new secret societies: With new archetypes, you'll be invited to join one of 6 new secret societies when reaching max dignity or scandal!

​Follow now on Backerkit