Pen-And-Paper Rpg Crowdfunding Projects
Roleplaying GamesMuadMouse
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The gaming community has benefited immensely from crowdfunding systems like Kickstarter and Indiegogo in recent years: Fate Core, Cortex Hack, Dungeon World, Hillfolk, and the RPG spin-off of the YouTube series TableTop have all been made possible because we gamers thought them worthy and spread the word. Perhaps we contributed money ourselves or just let others know about them. Most of these projects have no advertising budgets, and must rely on word of mouth instead.
Hence, this thread.
I'd love to know about any ongoing crowdfunding projects both in order to know what's up in the business, and to not miss juicy projects the way I missed Hillfolk.
To start with, I present to you Nathan Rockwood's GameMaster's Apprentice story deck Kickstarter. The deck serves as a random generator for story ideas, plots, characters, setting details, names, and loads more. Most intriguingly, the deck can be used as a gaming system in its own right, and can even be used for RPG solitaire! The project will be funded on Friday, July 25 2014 at 09:57 UTC. At the time of this writing it's raised over twice the minimum amount for funding.
For the Finnish-speakers among us, there's Astraterra on Indiegogo, which closes on 22nd of July 2014. It's a science fiction RPG intended for the whole family. Seems neat, but I'm still on the fence about actually putting money into it - a friend got her hands on a copy for review purposes and I'm hoping we get to try it out before the funding deadline. For those interested, there's here's an English description of the game. If the game works it might well get translated into other languages.
That's all I've got at the moment. Please do give a heads-up if you hear of any other PnP RPG related crowdfunding projects!
Ioanna
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*I am bluffing*