RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Evening Hunters, Dungeon, Inc., Empire of Bones, and extra

This week’s crowdfunding sampler seems at campaigns that shut between February 12 to 25, deep into Zine Month. Known as ZineQuest on Kickstarter and ZineTopia on Backerkit, February is a promotion/celebration of the RPG zine format, booklets nice for adventures, video games, and extra. Whereas I don’t have any listed right here (too early), this month is certain to supply so nice gaming choices, so be looking out.

Evening Hunters: Gothic Horror for TOV and 5E D&D from Kobold Press

• END DATE: Fri, February 13 2026 6:00 PM EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Tales of the Valiant and Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Version
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook and journey
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA$129 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of each hardcovers
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Kobold Press presents their tackle 5e Gothic horror with Evening Hunters and Evening Terrors. These books provide you with new participant choices – new subclasses, backgrounds, heritages, and monstrous lineages – in addition to enhanced mechanics to ramp up the fear on the desk with a strong dread system and a brand new system the place the GM can tempt gamers to make darkish selections in alternate for in-game perks. Evening Terrors provides 12 adventures with distinctive villains to push the nightmares your characters encounter. To assist these books, Kobold offers a set of 56 Tarot-sized playing cards that includes the dangerous guys of this setting as Main Arcana. As well as, the playing cards can be utilized for Kobold’s in-world card recreation. Kobold Press does lovely 5e books, and these appear like they may sit properly alongside official Wizards of the Coast choices like Ravenloft. Their projected supply is summer time of 2026, properly forward of the Halloween, so you may make use of this for any seasonal, themed adventures. When you want 5e-specific darkish enjoyable, try this Kickstarter web page to get a free preview and/or again the marketing campaign.

Empire of Bones from Agamemnon Press

• END DATE: Tue, February 17 2026 7:04 AM EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Previous-College Necessities
• PROJECT TYPE: Journey
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $55 + S/H for the PDF and hardcover variations of the guide
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Protecting with the horror theme, let’s discuss concerning the sequel to The Painted Wastelands. This providing takes the dream-like high quality of The Painted Wastelands hex crawl marketing campaign and provides nightmare gas. Twice the scale of the unique, Empire of Bones is a brand new Previous-College Necessities hex crawl in your gaming desk. Discover the necromancer-ruled metropolis of Zeb, a metropolis administered by undead politicians, the 36 hexes of mud, and the 4 dungeons discovered on this tome. There’s a 22-card deck of holographic playing cards, the deck of the cursed lifeless, used for necromantic spells that alter encounters. Anticipated to ship this summer time, this guide guarantees nightmares in your OSR hex crawls. Empire of Bones ought to fill your desk with the enjoyable type of concern.

Dungeon, Inc. from Merry Mushmen

• END DATE: Thu, February 19 2026 6:00 AM EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): “This marketing campaign is for the brand new version of award-winning French TTRPG Donjon & Cie (2022), remastered and augmented by the Merry Mushmen with its unique creator, Ben Felten. Dungeon, Inc. is constructed onto Macchiato Monsters, itself a hack of OSR powerhouses Whitehack and The Black Hack.”
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook and marketing campaign
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €38 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the guide
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The Merry Mushmen have a job for you. A notable phase of OSR is about dungeon delves, adventuring in and raiding a dungeon for treasure and expertise. Via Dungeon, Inc., the idea will get turned on its head, OSR-style. You’re a monster within the dungeon, an worker of the principle boss; you could have quarterly kill tasks and should exhibit your worth in crew conferences or be downsized into the boss’ maw. That’s proper, you could have a 9 to five with crew constructing workouts and prospects which are attempting to kill you, supplied as a 128-page core rulebook that includes OSR guidelines for the company elite and a 72-page mission guide with 10 adventures. Do your gamers wish to run a dungeon and eat adventurers? Positive, all of us do, and Dungeon, Inc. makes it potential, so try this Kickstarter to get your franchise began at the moment.

Swords With out Grasp from Unwritten Earths Symposium

• END DATE: Sat, February 14 2026 2:00 AM EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): An unique system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the guide
• AI STATEMENT: “Swords With out Grasp is by people, for people. We don’t use generative AI in our work, and neither do our collaborators.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This storytelling RPG has you tackle the function of a rogue in a fantasy world. Much less simulation, your rolls use a set of tone cube to find out the motion/scenes final result. Your character makes an attempt to steal, roll to see if the end result is jovial or glum. This isn’t a d20-based RPG, however a TTRPG that may be a group train in story centered narratives. It’s discovering an viewers and it’s one of many few TTRPGs that provides an arrogance press, pay-to-publish backer stage so you possibly can recommend tonal parts to reinforce the marketing campaign. In case your desk enjoys group storytelling otherwise you need your work to look on this guide, this Kickstarter is price a learn.

RealmBreakers — Apocalypse Machines to Terrify Your Desk from The Arcane Gate

• END DATE: Thu, February 19 2026 2:49 PM EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Version
• PROJECT TYPE: Journey
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $
• AI STATEMENT: “100% Human-Made Content material. Each illustration, map, miniature, and web page format in RealmBreakers is created by actual artists. No generative AI. No inventory property. No placeholders.”
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? That is an thought – 5e adventures that includes colossal machines designed for world-ending destruction. The twist? These are drop-in adventures. Does your 5e marketing campaign want a giant dangerous which will destroy your city or area or the world? That’s the stakes for these random adventures. As a GM, did you prep for tonight’s recreation? No? Properly, right here’s an choice to gamble the entire marketing campaign on! I actually dig the machismo of any GM that dangers their fastidiously constructed world on a drop-in journey that would destroy the whole lot they’ve been constructing if the gamers don’t win. Regardless of this being a guide of 5e adventures, that spirit feels brazen, unsafe, and enjoyable. Usually, the gamers are those risking loss if their characters die, however right here the GM may lose their setting by way of a one-shot (truly, multi-session tales, however nonetheless designed to be dropped into an ongoing marketing campaign). If you wish to add a brand new stage of threat to your marketing campaign, try this guide of adventures on Kickstarter.

Full Class Compendium for Stage Up A5E and D&D 2024 from Mike Myler

• END DATE: Feb 13, 2026 at 11:59pm EST.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Version and Stage Up: Superior Fifth Version
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $20 for the PDF of the guide
• AI STATEMENT: “All-Human. No LLM, ‘synthetic intelligence’, or another Response Machine was used within the making of this challenge.”
• DISCLAIMER: Mike Myler is a columnist for EN World
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Over on Backerkit, EN World’s Mike Myler presents 12 unique courses in your 5e and A5E video games. As well as, get new feats, spells, colleges of magic, methods to construct settlements, lineages, monsters, and extra. Play as courses just like the Physician, Mechanics the place your armor is your power, the Speedster the place your fast actions make you a hero, and lots of extra. In order for you new 5e participant choices, this sourcebook might converse to you.

See you in two weeks.

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