This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding sampler looks at games ending between July 25 to 31. These include Year Zero Engine offerings, cyberpunk settings, horror, and various kinds of adaptations.
Eldritch Automata from Gehenna Gaming
Neon Blood: Year Zero from The RuneForge
Sinless: Billionaire Bounty from Hack & Slash Publishing
The Oracle Monster Generator for Fantasy RPGs from Nord Games
Trickerion - The Role-playing Game from Shadowlands Games
Hellpower from Heltung Storytelling
Cult of the Cave Crickets: An Adventure for D&D 5e and DCC from Dark Star Adventures
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Eldritch Automata from Gehenna Gaming
- END DATE: Jul 25, 2024 at 12:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- SYSTEM(S): Year Zero Engine
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $55 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book plus a patch and a t-shirt
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Mechs, cosmic horror, and the Year Zero Engine. Inspired by Evangelion, Pacific Rim, and other mechs versus monsters fare, this TTRPG sees you as one of the humanity’s last defenders. Using the Year Zero Engine created by Free League Publishing, this RPG has you balance the stress of using the mech with the horrors you’ll experience when fighting the monsters and the stress of your non-mech life as you navigate alliances and rivalries. If this project interests you, check out the Backerkit campaign page for a free quickstart that gives you rules, pregens, and an adventure.
Neon Blood: Year Zero from The RuneForge
- END DATE: Thu, July 25 2024 9:01 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Year Zero Engine
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 for the digital versions of the book and soundtrack
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign converts the original Neon Blood, an Electrum Seller on DriveThruRPG, to the Year Zero Engine. This book offers a gritty cyberpunk TTRPG for your gaming table. Despite using Free League’s engine and the same genre as Free League’s version of Blade Runner, this project has a different look and feel. It’s 2035, and the horrors of hacking and cybernetics are daily occurrences. In Neon Blood, their goal is OSR-inspired gameplay melded with the Year Zero Engine. Deadly and specific, you’ll need to be great at combat and lucky to survive. If you want a deadly cyberpunk TTRPG for your gaming table, this Year Zero hack may speak to you.
Sinless: Billionaire Bounty from Hack & Slash Publishing
- END DATE: Fri, July 26 2024 8:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): “If you have played Shadowrun 3rd or 4th edition, you will find the game very comfortable.”
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $19 for the PDF and POD discount versions of the book
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Cyberpunk and magic combine in this TTRPG homage to Shadowrun. In the year 2090, the world’s gone magic and cyberpunk. This book offers 64 pages of adventures as 12 billionaires are trapped in a city during an inter-dimensional invasion. The manual includes details on the billionaires, their backstories, missions, equipment, maps, and quickstart sheets that provide a rules overview for the Sinless TTRPG. If you’re a fan of Shadowrun, this project is an homage to its earlier days and worth grabbing a bucket of d6s to play with.
The Oracle Monster Generator for Fantasy RPGs from Nord Games
- END DATE: Thu, July 25 2024 4:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): System neutral
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG accessory
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 + S/H for the physical boxed set
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Do you need a way to randomly generate system neutral monsters? This boxed set offers cards that can be pulled and combined to make monsters. Divided by environments like desert, forest, mountain, swamp, tundra, underground, and waterways, the GM draws a card with a keyword, description, and some random options. Pulling the cards, you’ll get inspiration for the creature’s behavior, abilities, and more. If the idea of pulling cards to make your own monsters speaks to you, check out this campaign page for a free preview PDF.
Trickerion - The Role-playing Game from Shadowlands Games
- END DATE: Jul 25, 2024 at 3:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- SYSTEM(S): Estirpe game system
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €29 for the PDFs of the book, scenarios, and pregens
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This TTRPG adapts the board game, Trickerion – Legends of Illusion, for fans wanting a deeper dive into that world. What is that setting? Victorian-esque with magic and steampunk. In a world where magic is real, guilds and gangs try to monopolize the power in the city of Magoria. You’re an illusionist navigating the streets of power dealing with intrigue and violence in your pursuit of fantastic abilities. If this idea speaks to you, check out the Backerkit campaign page for a free PDF quickstart to get a sense of the setting and rules.
Hellpower from Heltung Storytelling
- END DATE: Jul 31, 2024 at 3:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- SYSTEM(S): MÖRK BORG
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €50 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book plus 50 character sheets
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The idea behind this game is dark. Hell gave out superpowers to their adherents: murderers, thieves, sociopaths, and the ultra greedy. In a world of superpowers, the good have none. Inspired by The Boys, this 120-page MÖRK BORG TTRPG from the creator of CORP BORG and Kill Your Necromancer promises a dark and dangerous time. When the powers that be have a bad day, you have to fight back. If you want ultra powerful enemies that you have to stop, yet you lack the powers that they flaunt, this project is for you.
Cult of the Cave Crickets: An Adventure for D&D 5e and DCC from Dark Star Adventures
- END DATE: Wed, July 31 2024 11:59 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Dungeon Crawl Classics
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $15 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the adventure
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? A subterranean cosmic horror adventure inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Designed for 2nd level characters, this is a multi-session adventure with new monsters, traps, and terror. Think caves, shadows, bugs, fungus, and escalating encounters as you deal with something beyond human understanding. If you’re a fan of 5e or DCC adventures with a horror twist, this may be the right adventure for you.
Egg Embry participates in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, Noble Knight Games’ Affiliate Program, and is an Amazon Associate. These programs provide advertising fees by linking to DriveThruRPG, Noble Knight Games, and Amazon.
