RPG Crowdfunding News - Thousand Year Old Vampire, Animon Story, and more

This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding sampler covers projects that end between September 12 to 18. This article includes a solo TTRPG, sourcebooks, quests localized from international TTRPGs to the English market, and a 120-page Mörk Borg adventure.

So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire from Tim Hutchings Makes Games

• END DATE: Sep 17, 2024 at 11:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Thousand Year Old Vampire
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $54 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• ADDITIONAL REPORTING: Coming soon, tabletopjess talks with Tim Hutchings about this project
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? As a regular person, what are you to a vampire? A friend? Employee? Lover? Food? In this solo TTRPG, you’ll find out. You meet a person, they’re intriguing, dangerous, ancient, and, as it turns out, a vampire. Because of their nature, your relationship with them is in question. Can a fish be friends with a shark? This book is a 600-page sequel to the popular solo TTRPG, Thousand Year Old Vampire. Despite being a sequel, So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire is a standalone game. The numbers raised for this project are impressive, proving there’s an audience for solo journaling TTRPGs. If the idea of how your character would interact with a powerful undead individual intrigues you, check out the Backerkit campaign for more details.

Animon Story: Legend's Wake from Zak Barouh

• END DATE: Sat, September 14 2024 4:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $55 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book and the deck of cards
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This sourcebook gives new options for your Animon Story game in which you play as kids training monsters. In the game, you play as a monster tamer along the lines of Pokémon, Digimon, and Monster Rancher. Using a d6 dice pool system, you’ll find, train, and adventure with your monster pets. This sourcebook gives you a region to play in, a full campaign to play through, NPCs, monsters, and new rules to make your game more immersive. If monster training interests you, check out the crowdfunding page for a free PDF sample of the system.

The All New Gobber's Guide to Hearth and Home from Unlimited Realms Ltd

• END DATE: Wed, September 18 2024 10:03 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £18 for the PDF of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Did you need a home, town, settlement, or city for your 5e campaign? One with NPCs, buildings, events, and an ongoing progression, something more alive than not? Then this book may be for you. The All New Gobber's Guide to Hearth and Home has rules for building bases and managing their settlement. While there’s some standard 5e sourcebook material, the big wins are 100 magic items and 100 monsters. That’s a lot of monsters for a book about building a nice place to rest your head. It implies you may have to fight to keep your home safe. If you need some homesteading options, this book is worth a look.

The Evil at the End of the Path – Dragonbane from Dunderdagar

• END DATE: Sun, September 15 2024 3:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dragonbane
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: SEK 250 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is an adventure for Dragonbane. The Evil at the End of the Path is a 48-page adventure, a companion to Dunderdagar’s previous adventure, The Creeping Darkness. The Evil at the End of the Path was created in 2012 for the game, Fantasy! – Old School Gaming. You must stop an unknown monster from destroying a village. If you are interested in taking up this quest, check out the campaign page for a free sample adventure.

Dragonix's Deadly Denizens II (A 300-page D&D 5e Bestiary) from Dragonix Books

• END DATE: Thu, September 12 2024 8:00 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 for the PDF of the book
• AI STATEMENT: “All art pieces are 100% created by human artists.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? If you’re looking for a 300-page 5e bestiary, this is a cool option. The book contains over 300 monster stat blocks. Some of those monsters include VTT and STL files, so you can bring these to life in your online and tabletop games. If you want monsters, this book gives you a nice variety including a number of ways to game with them.

Barbarians of Lemuria - Mythic+ Edition from Ludospherik

• END DATE: Wed, September 18 2024 3:00 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Barbarians of Lemuria
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €40 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• AI STATEMENT: “[A]bsolutely NO so-called AI or generative gizmos whatsoever have been used in the creation of either the text or images of this book. The content of this game is entirely human-made.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? 232 pages of fantasy rules, setting, and reasons to game. The newest edition of Barbarians of Lemuria includes a location, combat, monsters, magic, and rules for less common situations like mass combat and ship battles. Set in a post-apocalyptic world that’s fallen back to pre-history, this game uses a 2d6 system, four attributes, four combat options, and four careers. The game was published in English in 2014, found success that led to gameplay innovations via translation for the French TTRPG market, and is bringing these upgrades back to your gaming table. If you’re interested in this project, check out the campaign page for a free sample.

Crown of Salt from Tania Herrero

• END DATE: Thu, September 12 2024 11:59 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Mörk Borg
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €30 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Buried beneath the salt plains lies a legend, and you must find it. This is an art heavy adventure for use with the Mörk Borg ruleset. It’s unusual to get a longer adventure without the Mörk Borg rules included as most creators add the engine in to make their work a standalone. However, this 120-page adventure is just that, an adventure that requires the use of the Mörk Borg core rules. The adventure started life as a quest for use with the Spanish TTRPG La Marca del Este. This campaign translates the work, and uses the Mörk Borg ruleset to bring the world to your gaming table.

The Hobgoblin's Fortress: a Module for D&D 5E and Pathfinder from Ramen Sandwich Press

• END DATE: Tue, September 17 2024 3:30 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and Pathfinder 1e and 2e
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $3 for PDFs for both systems
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? There’s a war on. Your party faces something unusual, settling a feud between officers and mercenaries. The leaders and mercs are goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. This mini-adventure requires investigation, roleplaying, and player tolerance as you work with the monsters, instead of falling into instant combat. Designed for characters at levels 1 to 3, this is the 13th adventure in the Places by the Way series. If you want a war, monsters, negotiations, and fighting, this adventure may be for you.

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I loved, loved, loved Thousand Year Old Vampire.

That game was largely about death and memory and the things we let go of as we age. It was a super-profound roleplaying experience.

This one looks like it's going to do the same for toxic relationships. Very excited about this new horror game. (TYOV was definitely a horror game for me when I played it, and this, if anything, seems to have the potential to be even darker.)

 

[longshanks]

I am glad to see Barbarians of Lemuria - Mythic+ Edition here. Thanks Egg! BoL is a great rules light swords and sorcery game that now, in this new edition, has amazing art. Check it out! (I am not affiliated with the kickstarter. I am just an avid gamer. )

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I loved, loved, loved Thousand Year Old Vampire.

That game was largely about death and memory and the things we let go of as we age. It was a super-profound roleplaying experience.

This one looks like it's going to do the same for toxic relationships. Very excited about this new horror game. (TYOV was definitely a horror game for me when I played it, and this, if anything, seems to have the potential to be even darker.)

This is the first I've heard of Thousand Year Old Vampire, but the concept definitely intrigues me.

 

[talien]

Thousand Year Old Vampire is life-changing. I used it to help create a backstory for a vampire in my own campaign, and he ended up being the villain for my adventure, 5E Quest: Mastherik Manor at DriveThruRPG (the dialogue entries from that game are scattered throughout the adventure and are a major part of the plot). Worth playing for sure, just be ready that it may bring up emotions about grief, loss, and aging you weren't expecting.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Thousand Year Old Vampire is life-changing. I used it to help create a backstory for a vampire in my own campaign, and he ended up being the villain for my adventure, 5E Quest: Mastherik Manor at DriveThruRPG (the dialogue entries from that game are scattered throughout the adventure and are a major part of the plot). Worth playing for sure, just be ready that it may bring up emotions about grief, loss, and aging you weren't expecting.

Yeah, I’m strongly considering buying it.

 

[talien]

It's a solo-style RPG with a really straightforward mechanism, but it involves your vampire slowly losing who they are. The longer the vampire "lives" the higher the odds it forgets important parts of its life and connections. I made some rules to tweak it to fit D&D for my vampire, but it's more creative fiction-writing. What's so compelling is how it goes about doing this. Tim is an amazing artist (who has had his art on display in galleries) and seeing all the art and layout he uses is a window into his fantastic imagination -- but then it becomes part of you too. I can tell you chapter and verse what happened to Silvandyre, my vampire, more than I can speak to NPCs I've been role-playing for years.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This is the first I've heard of Thousand Year Old Vampire, but the concept definitely intrigues me.

I posted an actual play of it here.

 

[Lalato]

Here are the 5e Campaign Setting and Adventure Path crowdfunding campaigns I'm keeping an eye on right now.

Things have slowed down a bit this week. I guess people were saving their money for a certain revision of a popular game.

Closed and Funded:

• City of Arches

Closed:

Open and Funded:

• Monster Trainer's Handbook (2 weeks)
• Giant's Rage (2 weeks)

Open:

• Ordinem (0%, 1 week)
• The Lord Navigator's Almanac to Chorus (27%, 1 week)
• The Blue Divide (5%, 2 weeks)
• Eeyore City RPG (51%, 1 week)