This week’s crowdfunding sampler appears at campaigns on Kickstarter and Backerkit that shut between July 23 to August 13. Past essentially the most anticipated TTRPG of 2026, nice GM recommendation, maps, and Ennie Award-nominated TTRPGs listed on this article, you may try the Facet Quest promotion at Kickstarter. Facet Quest options creators producing small RPG merchandise for the gaming desk, it’s an effective way to pattern proficient creator’s work.
Deathbringer TTRPG by Professor DM from Roll For Fight
- END DATE: Aug 13, 2026 at 8:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- PROJECT TYPE: Shadowdark RPG (Deathbringer variant)
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $125 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the Deathbringer Core Guidelines, journey pack, 16 character sheets, GM display screen, dungeon and grass Final Dungeon Terrain (UDT) double-sided playmat, in addition to Deathbringer character and monster pawns, together with adventures by Professor DM, Kelsey Dionne, Baron DeRopp, Grace World Destroyer, DM Scotty, Bob World Builder, Brandon “Runehammer” Gillam, Justin Alexander, Luke Hart, William Tanner Schroede, and Ben Milton
- AI STATEMENT: “All of our artwork is created by people, no AI trickery! Solely actual, soul-forged artwork!”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Probably the most anticipated TTRPG launch of 2026 (as reported right here), Deathbringer is Professor Dungeon Grasp’s (PDM’s) tackle old fashioned, high-lethality fantasy RPGs. Utilizing a model of Shadowdark RPG the place there isn’t any magical therapeutic, surviving loss of life unlocks the best powers. This recreation embodies all the philosophies that PDM shared in his movies: Savage fight, evil foes so there’s no ethical grey space, bonus loss of life cube so as to add to your rolls, and Final Dungeon Terrain (UDT), a round stage the place the world revolves across the PCs simplifying distances, motion, and fight. Mixed with the unique gameplay mechanics present in Shadowdark RPG, this recreation guarantees to convey again lethal encounters however make them a novel expertise. If you’d like a harmful recreation that feels steeped within the Eighties, this Backerkit marketing campaign is value a glance.
Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster from Sly Flourish
- END DATE: Thu, August 6 2026 10:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): System impartial
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the guide
- AI STATEMENT: “For People By People. All of our books have been and can all the time be written, edited, designed, and laid out by human beings for human beings. Actual human artists supplied all the artwork and maps in these books.”
- ADDITIONAL REPORTING: Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Speak performed an interview with Mike Shea aka Sly Flourish
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The grasp of minimal recreation prep is remastering top-of-the-line GM guides in gaming! Behold, Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster! When you run TTRPGs, this guide, and Sly Flourish’s different tomes, are a time examined supply of ideas, tips, and methods to prepare your campaigns and adventures so that they don’t eat your freetime. Let’s face it, making ready an journey takes too lengthy; I discover working con video games intimidating due to all the prep they contain. Nevertheless, the Lazy Gamemaster collection simplifies the ideas of working a recreation and hastens attending to the cube slinging. If you’d like quicker recreation prep, check out this Kickstarter marketing campaign.
Limithron’s Pirate Map Assortment from Limithron
- END DATE: Tue, August 4 2026 11:59 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): System impartial
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG equipment
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $100 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the boxed set and encounter atlas
- AI STATEMENT: “Is Synthetic Intelligence utilized in any a part of this undertaking? Completely not. We’re creatives who take pleasure in creating. Why would we hand that over to machines?”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The creators behind Pirate Borg, arguably the most well-liked of the MÖRK BORG variants, provide over 100 dry-erase nautical battle maps to be used with any fantasy TTRPG. Boats, ships, seashores, buildings, and each location you’ll affiliate with pirate treasure will be discovered amongst this assortment of maps. Sized at 8.5 by 11 inch as much as 22 by 34 inch, these maps allow you to do ship duels, dungeon delves, and treasure digs that your desk will love. If you’d like pirate ship maps, this Kickstarter marketing campaign has the vessels you’re in search of.
D&D 5E: The Soul of Trickery (Growth E book) from Nat19
- END DATE: Aug 1, 2026 at 1:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5.19 Version (Nat19’s model of 5e)
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: C$100 + S/H for the PDF, VTT, and print variations of Soul of Trickery and Paraprismatic Tempest and the PDF and VTT model of Lyre’s Information to Retia
- AI STATEMENT: “ZERO AI. Earlier than we get into the whole lot else, we wished to place up entrance that NO AI is used at any stage within the creation of this product or marketing campaign. Nat19 solely helps human artists.”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? 150 pages of participant assets for Nat19’s Somnus Domina setting. 39 subclasses, 44 spells, 27 NPCs, deities, planes, and extra await you in Soul of Trickery. Updating their goddess of fireside, assassination, honorable crime, and trickery, this guide expands on Luxus’ Information to Kits’adria. The opposite product on provide is Paraprismatic Tempest, 90 pages exploring their elemental realms. If you’d like 5e sourcebooks about gods and planes of energy, this Backerkit might communicate to you.
Sickest Wretch for Sickest Witch – New Non-Witch Class E book from Severed Books
- END DATE: Solar, August 2 2026 10:45 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Sickest Witch
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $19 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the guide
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? 2026 goes nicely for Sickest Witch. This recreation is discovering its followers, particularly since its 2026 Ennie Award nominations for Greatest Sport, Greatest RPG Associated Product, and Greatest Guidelines. Sickest Witch is low fantasy folks horror OSR and it’s brutal. This enlargement affords non-Witch courses in addition to journey hooks and a one-shot to construct on the core guidelines. If you wish to check out the sport that acquired so many Ennie nominations, try this Kickstarter.
Gary’s Appendix: Subject 11 (Goblins!) from RPG Ramblings
- END DATE: Thu, July 30 2026 6:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Outdated-College Necessities
- PROJECT TYPE: RPG zine
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $19 + S/H for the PDF and print variations of the zine
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? On this challenge of the OSR zine collection, the crew tackles goblins. This challenge provides old fashioned goblins their due with a take a look at their folklore, ecology, tribes, faith, and what physique horror they pursue. With contributions from Zac Goins, Shannon Appelcline of Dungeons & Designers fame, and extra, you’ll get 44 pages with 6 articles and a few bestiaries. When you’re a fan of goblins and wish some nasty, old fashioned horrors to combat, this zine awaits.
D&D EN5ider Annual–adventures and guidelines for D&D 5.5E! From EN Publishing
- END DATE: Thu, July 23 2026 5:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5.5 Version
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £19 for the PDF model of the guide
- AI STATEMENT: “EN5ider Journal comprises no artwork or every other content material created by generative synthetic intelligence. We work with a big, worldwide crew of proficient freelance artists and writers, overseen by journal editor Mike Myler. Cowl artwork by Leonardo Sa.”
- DISCLAIMER: EN World is a subsidiary of EN Publishing.
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? EN Publishing has a brand new 5.5e providing that includes 360 pages of adventures, a brand new class, and extra. Inside this hardcover reside 20 adventures constructed on your celebration (between ranges 3 to 12). Tasked with 17 puzzles and over 40 monsters, your gamers must work onerous to beat these obstacles. With CRs starting from ½ to 25, these monsters would require new spells and magic objects to defeat them. Luckily, this guide homes over 180s spells, 30+ magic objects, new feats, and a wide range of subclasses. The brand new class is the Protomancer, a magic person ready to make use of magic as a constructing block. This marketing campaign reprints the fabric from points 1 to 12 of EN5ider Journal in a hardcover. Try the Kickstarter web page for extra particulars about these adventures and monsters.
See you in two weeks.
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