This week’s sampling includes TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns that end between January 18 to 31. Lots of 5e adventure one-shots in this article as well as an original system and a sourcebook.
Under the Indigo Moon from Mountainland Games
Whispers of the Woods - Narrative-Driven Tabletop RPG from Heltung Storytelling
Coven & Crucible: Unbound from 13th Moon Games
Cyberpunk Noir from Praxis Studios
Mausoleum of the Ashes from Meditating Munky
Eclipse of the Magus-King, A solo 5E dungeon crawl from DMDenz
Make 100 / Hidden Rooms and Secrets for 5e from Dragon Scale Games
Deck Of Many Pulses from Vesenia Lindsey
The Broken Controller - Issues 1-4 from Bloat Zines
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Under the Indigo Moon from Mountainland Games
- END DATE: Fri, January 26 2024 4:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition with stats for Pathfinder 1e and 2e, Shadowdark, and OSRs
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $1 for the PDF of the adventure plus VTT maps and tokens
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This adventure offers conflicts, some of the expected violent nature while others are more philosophical in design. Baron Feathermont hires your party to clear out some druids so he can farm their land. This adventure may be a straightforward land grab or your party might decide that they’re on the wrong side of this conflict. This is a one-shot adventure for levels 4 to 7, which includes a new Druidic Circle (Circle of the Full Moon), new monsters, new magic items, lore, and maps for battles and the region. In addition, all of the stats are available for many of the most popular fantasy systems. If you’re looking for an encounter where there’s a question about the morality of your task, this book may speak to you.
Whispers of the Woods - Narrative-Driven Tabletop RPG from Heltung Storytelling
- END DATE: Tue, January 23 2024 12:01 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €30 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is game is minimalist and offers a few lesser used game mechanics. Taking inspiration from “18th-century history, Slavic and Germanic legends, the art of Arthur Rackham, and von Goethe's writing”, this is 80 pages with a lot of options within a small book such as group play with a GM, GM-less, and solo rules. In Whispers of the Woods, you play as villagers journeying into the woods, whether for a fight, a parley, a rite of passage, or a picnic will depend on your gaming table. This uses a d6 for all rolls, but some are standard roll-and-report-the-result whereas others are roll with your eyes closed and guess the result. Along with the rules is a hex map generator that has plot hooks and encounters. If you’re looking for a fairy tale-like experience with varied mechanics, check out this campaign page to learn more about the game.
Coven & Crucible: Unbound from 13th Moon Games
- END DATE: Tue, January 23 2024 2:07 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 + S/H for the print version only of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This project is a sourcebook for the urban fantasy TTRPG, Coven & Crucible. The system uses 2d12 to tell tales of the supernatural in our time. Designed by a “witch and pagan,” this sourcebook expands the lore and rules including 13 new houses plus more details about the original 9 houses. There’s info on the various planes of existence as well as over 100 NPCs and monsters, new magic, 50+ new magic traits, and more. This is 200 pages for fans of the game and an important expansion of its fanbase.
Cyberpunk Noir from Praxis Studios
- END DATE: Sun, January 14 2024 4:41 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): An original system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £17 for the PDF of the rulebook
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign reprints the Cyberpunk Noir core rulebook. This is an RPG about street detectives working their way through a neon world of violence and worse. Mechanically, dice size corresponds to skill level so you’ll be able to determine your odds for success by the range of your dice. Cyberpunk Noir is available from DriveThruRPG right now if you want to check it out digitally. If you want a physical copy of this project, check out the campaign page.
Mausoleum of the Ashes from Meditating Munky
- END DATE: Tue, January 23 2024 9:48 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG zine
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $12 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the zine
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign is set to produce two 5e books, one an adventure zine and the other is a sourcebook detailing the world. Mausoleum of Ashes is the first zine in the second series of adventures for this campaign world, Celia. At 16 pages, this is the first of a planned 9-volume campaign. The World of Celia - Free Cities of Ravosa Regional Guide is, as the name implies, a sourcebook expanding on the setting, a collection of cities that just won their freedom. If you want to see what the maps will be like, you can check out the campaign page to sign up for some freebies.
Eclipse of the Magus-King, A solo 5E dungeon crawl from DMDenz
- END DATE: Mon, January 22 2024 2:45 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: NZ$20 for the PDF of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Want a solo adventure gamebook that uses 5e? While there are some GM-less, solo adventures, they’re not the most common combination with the 5e ruleset. In this adventure, you’ll enter the Magus-King's abandoned palace to face off against monsters as you search for treasure. This book offers 20 creatures, a mapless combat system better suited to solo play, and a chance for your character to level up as they delve. If this gamebook speaks to you, check out the campaign page for a free sample of the book.
Make 100 / Hidden Rooms and Secrets for 5e from Dragon Scale Games
- END DATE: Wed, January 31 2024 9:00 PM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG maps
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $20 for the PDF and VTT of the 100 rooms
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is pretty straightforward, 100 rooms drawn as battlemaps. Need a lot of encounter options complete with loot and creatures? These maps are designed as drag-and-drop with everything you’ll need whether that be just the map or all of the details.
Deck Of Many Pulses from Vesenia Lindsey
- END DATE: Wed, January 31 2024 11:59 AM EST.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $30 + S/H for the print version of the deck and tuck box
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is an art project. Vesenia Lindsey of Vesenia Designs brings Pulsey, her energetic character, to a series of cards, each depicting the character’s fantasy adventures. As a product, it’s 22 cards to draw from to use in your game as a prop. While they do not have any in-game stats, they may trigger some roleplaying and adventuring ideas. This project was inspired by D&D and “homebrew campaigns by RolePostiveGaming on Twitch.” If you’re looking for an art card series, this is a fun, cartoony offering.
The Broken Controller - Issues 1-4 from Bloat Zines
- END DATE: Tue, January 30 2024 8:00 PM EST.
- PROJECT TYPE: Retro video gaming zine
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $49 + S/H for all 4 The Broken Controller zines and the exclusive Retrostalgia #1, all in PDF and print
- DISCLAIMER: Egg Embry (me) wrote articles that appear in The Broken Controller #1 and Retrostalgia #1
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Are you a fan of retro video gaming from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s? This zine series takes you down a rabbit hole of interesting games, thoughts, and memories. Eric Bloat of Bloat Games is trying something new with this series, moving from TTRPGs to video games. In the first issue, you’ll find thoughts on The Legend of Zelda, River City Ransom, Twight 2000: The Video Game, the first Shadowrun video game, Gameboys, and more. Since I wrote for the first issue, I’m not an unbiased source, but if you love retro 8-bit, 16-bit, and many-bit video games, these zines will speak to you.
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