RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Castles & Crusades, Fragged Kingdom, Tabletop Inn, and extra

Castles & Crusades Adventurers Backpack REFORGED! from Troll Lord Video games

• END DATE: Jul 3, 2025 at 1:00am EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Castles & Crusades
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebooks
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $99 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of 4 books and a deck of playing cards
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Like so lots of Troll Lord Video games’ initiatives, this one is a cornucopia of recent content material. A leather-based Fillion report keeper containing the Adventurers Backpack, Adventurers Companion, Deck of Backpack Playing cards, a C&C canvas backpack, softcovers, and extra. You’ll get 14 new courses, multiclassing guidelines, runic magic, magic battles and counterspells, alternate unarmed fight guidelines, new familiars, and extra to reinforce your sport of Castles & Crusades. For those who’re a fan of C&C, this Backerkit is value exploring.

Fragged Kingdom 2 | ttRPG from Wade D

• END DATE: Jul 3, 2025 at 8:00am EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Fragged Kingdom 2
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: A$150 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the three books
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Following Fragged Empire 2, this marketing campaign gives the 2nd version of Fragged Kingdom. Set 200 years within the setting’s future, it is a world of techno-magic. This e-book provides you new, steamlined guidelines, an up to date setting, and every part you’d must journey as mercenaries in a world of recent gods because the chief of the Kingdom of Ire, a demigod, nears dying. For those who’re a fan of the Fragged franchise, take a look at this Backerkit for extra content material.

BloodMoor Marketing campaign Setting: Surreal Horror for Shadowdark! from Black Lodge Video games

• END DATE: Thu, July 3 2025 12:00 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Shadowdark RPG
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $84 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the e-book and each zines
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This third-party Shadowdark RPG gives a full surreal marketing campaign setting. A world of perpetual evening lit solely by a moon, this world has international locations that act as fertile grounds for the likes of vampires, Frankenstein’s monster, and extra. With new courses, Moon Magic, monsters, and extra, this Kickstarter is ideal for Shadowdark followers on the lookout for a horror marketing campaign setting.

Claudia Christian’s “All The Cardinal’s Males” RPG from Dusk Video games

• END DATE: Thu, July 3 2025 6:00 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Name of Cthulhu
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £30 with free transport to the US and UK for the PDF and print variations of the e-book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? That is the second e-book within the Musketeers Vs. Cthulhu sequence. You’ll play as Musketeers tasked with spying, courtly intrigue, and surviving Cthulhu. This 112-page e-book contains guidelines to create brokers, spells, NPCs, and monsters in addition to a 4-part marketing campaign, all utilizing Name of Cthulhu guidelines. If the thought of muskets and monsters speaks to you, take a look at this Kickstarter.

HELLWHALERS: Guide Of Leviathan from Plus One Exp

• END DATE: Jul 9, 2025 at 5:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): HELLWHALERS
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $55 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the e-book and zine
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Have you ever learn the joke the place somebody posts a sentence and the punchline is, At no level whereas studying that sentence did I do know what was going to be stated subsequent? With that yuk-yuk in-mind, right here’s the pitch this this sport: “HELLWHALERS is an authentic GM-led token swapping & d6 primarily based TTRPG of nautical and non secular horror. Gamers take the position of damned whalers searching a monstrous whale throughout the oceans of hell for the promise of salvation; playing, fishing, and dealing with the trials of hell alongside the best way.” The concept of a extra overtly non secular Moby Dick mixed with extra stereotypical view of sailors to supply an authentic TTRPG that’s getting a sourcebook speaks to the creativity and prospects that may be found with roleplaying video games. Let’s be sincere, there’s area of interest after which there’s the thought of searching the whale is literal salvation. This 40-page zine provides you extra hell to throw at your crew. For those who’re a fan of this concept, take a look at the Backerkit web page for extra particulars and hyperlinks to get the core rulebook.

Could I Enter: A Vampire Sport from Excessive Degree Video games

• END DATE: Tue, July 8 2025 11:45 AM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse variant
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $40 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the sport
• DISCLAIMER: I freelanced for Excessive Degree Video games a few years in the past. I’m not concerned on this venture
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? What if vampires had been certain to do good? What if they may solely feed with consent? What if their powers had for use to enhance the world? These ideas would flip a vampire story on its head, resulting in monsters-as-heroes. There have been video games of heroic vampires, however it was a selection, not a compulsion. In Could I Enter, Helen of Troy forged a spell and also you’re certain to do the suitable factor due to it. Utilizing a variant of the Powered by the Apocalypse engine, this sport pits you towards supernatural forces and vampires that managed to counter Helen’s curse at the same time as you need to keep a social community of feeders and pals as you’re employed to avoid wasting the world. For those who’re fascinated by coming into, you’re invited to the Kickstarter marketing campaign web page to study extra about actively consenting vampires.

The Tabletop Inn: A Board Sport Mattress & Breakfast from Mike Belsole and Grace Kendall

• END DATE: Solar, July 6 2025 11:17 AM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• PROJECT TYPE: A board game-themed mattress & breakfast
• LOCATION: Marion, North Carolina (outdoors of Asheville)
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $550 for “a one-night keep for as much as 8 folks on the Tabletop Inn (you get each suites!) and allow us to provide the royal therapy! Scrumptious breakfast included”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Keep at a board sport mattress and breakfast close to Asheville, NC, a small artwork metropolis secreted away within the Appalachians. You and your mates share rooms, video games, and breakfast. The house owners, Mike Belsole and Grace Kendall of the “multi–award–successful riddle-solving social gathering sport Smug Owls is revealed by the unbelievable two-person group of Gwen Ruelle and Sam Bryant at Runaway Parade Video games”, will probably be their to prepare dinner you up an awesome meal and enable you run board video games (they’ve 600 video games to select from). If 8 followers did 4 days/3 nights, that’d be $206.25 a head. The 4-day go for Gen Con is $155 an individual and you continue to must pay for a spot to remain. In actual fact, the overall for the pair of Tabletop Inn suites is almost the identical as the price of my single lodge room for Gen Con, no badge. Whereas that is TTRPG-adjacent, it’s nonetheless a cool thought and extra reasonably priced than it’d seem at first look. For those who’re a board sport fan desirous about a trip, it is a neat thought. For those who’re a GM with a TTRPG mattress and breakfast or a gamer that’s attended one, I’d love to listen to in regards to the expertise.

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