Kickstarter
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From sea to neuronic sea.
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Nature board game Cascadia is getting a series of flip-and-roll-and-write spin-offs
There’s dice in them thar hills!
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Play deadly hide-and-seek as a shark and octopus in two-player board game Kelp
Kelp yourself to a bite.
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Elizabeth Hargrave translates another personal hobby into a theme-heavy tabletop title.
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Wingspan, Cascadia and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel portrays a fantastical forest of foxes.
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Just imagine the hair nets.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG reprint revives a 1980s tabletop oddity
Heroes in a hardcover sourcebook.
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Unsettled and Vindication designer’s MMO-like Spirit Fire claims to be the first “living board game”
This high fantasy solo board game boasts World of Warcraft, Metroidvanias and living card games among its influences.
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Stationfall maker’s new influence card game puts you in charge of the Enlightenment-era Illuminati
Become the eye in the pyramid.
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RPG anthology Do Not Adjust Your Set explores modern urban legends with spooky tabletop one-shots
Talking holes never promise anything good.
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Plus, a sweeping, epic tabletop RPG of Southeast Asian martial arts and melodrama.
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Everything you need to work and die alone in the black void space. Hooray!
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Saw: The Jigsaw Trials will bring the gory horror franchise to board game night via Kickstarter
Here’s hoping for a Billy the Puppet miniature.
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America is dead, long live America!
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Kickstarter rival Backerkit bans crowdfunding projects solely using AI-generated art
“It’s important for us to recognize both the immediate and long-term adverse effects [AI] may pose to the creators and creative communities we serve."
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Once more into a life of scum and villainy.
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Seeds of Rebellion’s narrative will take place before Aloy arrives in the titular Forbidden West
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Yellow & Yangtze designer’s next pair of board games claims to be more than European design fads
“Pure strategy” titles Cascadero and smaller companion Cascadito meld Eurogame sensibilities with attractive art and short runtimes.
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Terraforming Mars makers defend use of AI art in upcoming board game expansion amid fan grumbles
“We have and will continue to leverage AI-generated content in the development and delivery of this project.”
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Creators plan to launch an accessible online wiki containing all play materials formatted for screen readers.
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Infinite Revolution is a hyper-fast RPG for fans of Utena, Kamen Rider and existential anxiety
You breathe stardust. You eat darkness. You guard dreams. You bleed light.
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Sic exsanguinatis tyrannis.
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Classic RPG Mutant Chronicles goes noir gumshoe in mystery-focused Luna City Blues
Moon-based mysteries.
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Dolmenwood is mushroom-infested Old School Essentials by way of British Isles folklore
Spore me a pint, adventurer.
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Feature: Tabletop creators struggle to plot their future amidst Twitter’s still-burning ashes
The death of the bird app at the hands of Elon Musk leaves designers big and small in the lurch.
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Map-drawing RPG Border Riding is The Quiet Year meets Scottish land wars
Landmark my words.
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Coyote & Crow maker’s new semi-cooperative board game only has a winner if nobody loses
Meeples for all the peoples.
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I gave all my lunch money to Zeus.
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Hell is mouldering yellow wallpaper.
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Kickstarter steps further away from a blockchain future but stops short of promises
The crwodfunding company's Community Advisory Council might have pulled that particular bacon out of the frying pan.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game maker expands its RPG footprint with indie book Fantasy World
Powered by the genre-specific Apocalypse.
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Nausicaa meets Mad Max RPG Eco Mofos!! does climate post-apocalypse with a heavy dose of hope
“Weirdhope not Grimdark”.
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West Kingdom trilogy makers return to the North Sea to remake the board game that started it all
Righting the shipwrights.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG’s faithful recreation of the jazzy, sci-fi anime is now available
Mana Project Studio takes a crack at bringing Spike & Co. to the tabletop
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Adventure Time’s official RPG will let you play as Finn, Marceline or wholly original characters
A “Yes, And” mechanic drives collaborative storytelling that doesn’t rely on a bunch of maths
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Bad Baby Lich Lords relaunches crowdfunding for ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ competitive card game
Deathly mayhem, round 2
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Equal parts cheeky and deadly serious in its send-up of corporate overreach and work's stranglehold over our lives.
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Tales of the Valiant reimagines 5E roleplay with “cooler spellcasting” and less burden on GMs
Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag sets sail as a fully fledged RPG ruleset.
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Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects
The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.
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Breath of the Wild-inspired board game Leviathan Wilds returns to crowdfunding with tighter focus
Be runnin' up that bull. Be runnin' up that snake. Be runnin' up that big crab.
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Call of Duty’s board game adaptation will include a Ghost miniature and iconic multiplayer maps
Pay two bullet resources to de-escalate civilians.
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Into the Mother Lands finds new home at Expanse, Dragon Age RPG publisher
No longer adrift in RPG limbo.
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Gorgeous Nausicaä and Delicious in Dungeon-inspired RPG Break!! launches crowdfunding campaign
Give me an entire herd of shaggy bumpo, please.
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BattleTech breaks $4.5 million in crowdfunding for Mercenaries expansion to ‘mech wargame
BattleTech’s next expansion paves the way for tanks, advanced tactics and AI opponents.
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‘Inis in space’ board game Galactic Renaissance mixes portals and politics
Influence one planet, outfluence another.
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King Kong and Pacific Rim coming next for D&D 5E compatible adventure project
Mechanics for mayhem with monkeys and mechs.
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West Kingdom board game maker mix-and-matches over 100 dice in Scholars of the South Tigris
Garphill Games' latest title is another marriage of theme and engine that doesn't skimp of colourblind accomodations.
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Tabletop accessories maker Wyrmwood responds to allegations of mishandled sexual assault claims
CEO Douglas Costello apologises for initial “tone deaf” video response.
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Morrowind-inspired Zine Month RPG Electrum Archive explores a desert city in newest edition
Sniffed any good ink lately?
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Do you love me: yea or neigh?
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Warhammer RPG maker announces new D&D 5E compatible system alongside “tragic fantasy” setting
Broken Weave will crowdfund in February and offer first hints at Cubicle 7’s upcoming C7d20 system
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Mad King Ludwig board game sequel trades tiles for blueprint drafting paper
Trapdoors and geese-filled moats, by royal decree!
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Tabletop games have made over $1.5 billion on Kickstarter
That’s a lot of cardboard cash.
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BackerKit discusses challenging the 'big green K' as it moves from crowdfunding tool to competitor
From background support to leading player in crowdsourced financing.
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Hexcrawl-curious adventurers should check out this toolbox of tabletop RPG aides
Crawl through the hexes and burn through the witches.
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Kickstarter is releasing its first card game, and you can get it for free at PAX Unplugged
Ask weird questions in Blow My Mind, designed by TEAM3 studio.
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Science Fantasy RPG Troika’s new softback reprint is an excellent entry point for new players
This sourcebook is monochrome, but multi-use.
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Outcast Silver Raiders is a tabletop RPG from the Satanic Panic’s worst nightmares
The law of this land is "Do as thou wilt."
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Monty Python RPG nears $1m in crowdfunding for a decidedly silly take on tabletop gaming
Includes a 30-sided die, whether you like it or not.
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Feature: Cowboy Bebop RPG is a fawning but promising tabletop adaptation of the anime - quickstart preview
Difficult dance steps keeps this jazzy adaptation from truly swinging.
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This procedurally generated dungeon crawler always ends in a total party kill
Delve well and leave a half-dissolved corpse.
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Kickstarter's new CEO talks future of tabletop crowdfunding, Gamefound rivalry and blockchain plans
"We have a lot to improve on that will keep our hands full."
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Kickstarter hires Everette Taylor as CEO amid growing competition and blockchain worries
33-year-old Taylor replaces Aziz Hasan after the latter stepped down in March 2022.
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Feature: How new tabletop RPG The Zone embraced, and then kicked, AI-generated art
Journeys of self-destruction.
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Zoo Tycoon board game turns the PC classic into cardboard
Conservation versus capitalism.
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Black God’s Kiss adapts the work of sword & sorcery fiction pioneer for D&D 5E and OSE
The perilous RPG adventure republishes two of C. L. Moore’s works as short stories.
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Hold tight to your name, and don’t lose.
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Rune looks like the perfect solo TRPG for those of us who need more Elden Ring in our lives
Soulsborne fun for the maidenless and mateless.
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This D&D 5E campaign book from a team of Black creators sweeps an entire continent onto new maps
The Sundering says it focuses on inclusion at the table as much as adventure within its pages.
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Red Opera and Sirens RPG writer Rick Heinz discusses the tribulations of working at Apotheosis.
Heinz alleges shady contracts, long overdue payment and a work culture of distrust and ego-stroking.
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The studio plans to release a public statement soon calling the allegations against Stone “inaccurate”.
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Kickstarter brings Zine Quest back to February for 2023’s fifth annual indie TRPG event
A representative says the creator-focused event will keep this schedule going forward.
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Munchkin maker CEO and Stray Fawn Studio co-founder discuss the hopes and goals they want to bring to the popular platform’s attention.
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Backerkit launches its own crowdfunding platform with nearly 40 planned projects
The newest competitor in the crowdfunding scene will open more broadly in 2023 with a Gloomhaven exclusive.
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Munchkin publisher CEO among members of Kickstarter's community advisory council
Reining in the crowdfunding platform’s blockchain dreams will only be one of their expressed duties.
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Industrial Cyberpunk TRPG Gangs of Titan City is Peaky Blinders meets Spire and Blades in the Dark
Top of humanity’s trash heap.
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Root and Oath creator’s new board game, Arcs, splits its campaign mode into an expansion
Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Arcs will sell both pieces of the original design separately
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Acclaimed AD&D adventure Dark Tower gets a hefty and faithful three-volume reprinting
Players can delve through the classic crawl using either DCC or D&D 5E’s ruleset
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Children of Uma puts RPG players in the driver’s seat of the post-apocalypse
We’re not in Kansas any– what? We *are* in Kansas?
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DIE the RPG announces return to Kickstarter for comic’s tabletop adaptation
DIE-ing from anticipation.
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Passover RPG Ma Nishtana lets players tell a collaborative Exodus ritual
“This is a story for all of us: Jews, non-Jews, and the Jew-’ish’ alike.”
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Blades in the Dark publisher crowdfunds Improv for Gamers 2E on Gamefound
Learn to "yes, and" your dungeon delving.
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Grannies versus cosmic horror RPG Brindlewood Bay crowdfunds two physical books
Cthulhu fht–agh! My back!
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Cyanide & Happiness left Kickstarter for Gamefound, but don’t call it a breakup
"It's amazing competitors are finally emerging because Kickstarter is not perfect."
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Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan steps down after three years
Chief Operating Officer Sean Leow has been named interim CEO.
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Kickstarter opens applications for paid positions on a community advisory council
Members will help the crowdfunding company make decisions regarding blockchain tech, among other user-focused issues.
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Revenge TRPG The Slow Knife is Count of Monte Cristo with a red-string conspiracy board
Prepare those villainous monologues.
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Over 100 tabletop games made $500,000 on Kickstarter last year for the first time
Crowdfunding site hits another record figure, despite recent blockchain controversy.
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The crowdfunding platform will establish an advisory council to keep the project focused and free of crypto pitfalls.
