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Neil Gaiman No Longer Affiliated with 'Good Omens' Graphic Novel
January 31st
Neil Gaiman will not receive any of the proceeds of the Kickstarter campaign to fund a Good Omens graphic novel, the Terry Pratchett estate announced in an update on the Kickstarter page. The campaign to produce a graphic adaptation, by Colleen Doran, of the original novel, which was co-authored by Pratchett and Gaiman, had raised £2,419,973, or about $3 million dollars, when it ran in 2023 (see “‘Good Omens’ Adaptation”). The book will be released in Spring 2025. (Read More)
Archigram: The Magazine launches reprinting campaign on Kickstarter | News | Archinect
January 31st
The first authorized facsimile of all ten issues to be printed since 1963 aims to increase access to currently rare copies of the publication (the M+ museum acquired the complete Archigram archive in 2019 for $2.2 million) alongside an illustrated reader’s guide. (Read More)
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Renegade to Release Final 'Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid'
January 30th
The retailer tier offers three each of the Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid Eternal Rangers box, Eternal Rangers Player’s Compendium, Jonathan Ying’s Designer Journal, Templates for Fan-Made Custom Rangers, and stretch goals for $185 (the consumer tier is at $125). (Read More)
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Genre Spray Monday: What's New in Kickstarter Comics
January 30th
The mission of The Comic$ Crowd is to curate the crowdfunding campaigns in the Kickstarter Comics category in order to identify and spotlight those projects most likely to yield actual comics and to yield the most high quality comics in terms of story, design, and cover/interior artwork. (Read More)
'Freedom Five' Board Game Heads to Retail Over Four Years Post-Kickstarter
January 29th
This board game, designed by Richard Launius, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler, originally hit Kickstarter on September 8, 2020 (see "'Freedom Five'"). The game, which is based on Greater Than Games' Sentinal Comics universe (see "'Sentinels of the Multiverse Definitive Edition'"), raised $944,246 from 5869 backers (about $167 per backer), and according to their KS page, started shipping fulfillment to backers in Q4 2024. (Read More)
Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: 'Legends of Gadia'
January 29th
Legends of Gadia is a card-shedding game for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up, and takes about 20 minutes to play. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with a pledge level of $25 for a copy of the game. (There are some early bird pledges available at $20, as well as several pledge tiers that include other goodies.) The game’s theme and content are family-friendly and the rules are inspired by traditional card-shedding games, but younger players may need some help learning the different combinations of cards. (Read More)
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Cat Vs Human now live on Kickstarter
January 29th
ow Does it Play? Setup: Lay out 3 Human Cards on the Table, choose a cat token, draw 4 Cat Cards On your turn, play a Cat Card with the matching Mischief Mark to the Human Card, whoever plays the most Chaos Points wins the Human Card toward the 5 they need to win. Be careful not to run out of Cat Cards, players need to make tough choices about which Humans to annoy and which chaos to cause. Games are about 15 minutes, they always play differently and it’s fun to play multiple games in one sitting. (Read More)
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Star Anvil opens $50K Kickstarter for its third Secret World tabletop RPG
January 29th
No, Funcom hasn’t made any big moves on The Secret World MMORPG franchise lately and didn’t even rouse itself to celebrate the game’s 12th birthday last year – but fans are keeping the IP alive. (Read More)
Coffee Stain North reveals Goat Simulator: The Card Game
January 29th
Coffee Stain North is excited to announce Goat Simulator: The Card Game! Being developed by MOOD Publishing, the creators of Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game and Valheim: The Board Game, the aptly-named Goat Simulator: The Card Game will soon bring familiar caprine chaos to a table near you. (Read More)
"Souls-like meets Fable" is all this indie RPG needed to say to meet its Kickstarter goal, but it added in a Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood nod just for good measure
January 29th
Fade RPG: The Sacrifice is an indie RPG in development at solo developer Knight by Night, which is cool and all, but it's the fact that it's a Soulslike inspired by Fable and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood that I suspect is fueling its Kickstarter funding surge. (Read More)
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Vigilante City for 5E Enters Enters Final Hours on Kickstarter
January 29th
Bloat Games is getting ready to wrap up their crowdfunding run to bring Vigilante City for 5E to the masses. The roleplaying game is a restructuring of the original Vigilante City into a two book set which uses 5E mechanics. The Kickstarter project is fully funded and you can reserve copies of the two hardcovers (with PDFs) for a $59.00 pledge or just score the PDFs for a $29.00 pledge through January 31st. Expected delivery is October. (Read More)
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Kickstarter - Dark Visions - For the Shadowdark RPG
January 29th
Here's the point where I talk about "connections." I've known Jeff Jones for several years. He laid out and edited the two issues of our Torchlight zine. He simply does good, professional work in a timely fashion. (Read More)
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Immortals: Hubris & Glory - The darkness of mythic ancient Greece
January 28th
How about a mythic ancient Greek setting written by an actual Greek TTRPG publisher? Black Lantern Productions is such a company, and Immortals: Hubris & Glory is their new and dark setting for 5e. (Read More)
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$49 gadget tells you how safe your food and water is in just 3 seconds
January 27th
We put a lot of trust in the authorities responsible for keeping our drinking water and food safe to consume, but at the end of the day, apart from setting up some kind of home testing laboratory, there's not a whole lot – beyond sight, smell and taste, or buying a water filter – we can do to help guarantee it. Well, until now. (Read More)
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Celestial Empire 5e: Acheron Books shatter €100,000 with a TTRPG inspired by Marco Polo
January 26th
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and explorer in the 13th century who travelled extensively throughout Asia. His book, “The Travels of Marco Polo“, detailed his experiences and introduced Europeans to the wonders of the East, including China, Japan, and India. (Read More)
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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #293
January 25th
Hello from Storm Eowyn. Geek Native HQ is by the coast, on a cliff face, but we’ve not been too battered by the strongest storm in the UK for years. Mr Root Is this because Éowyn is a famous Lord of the Rings character? No! That would be daft (Read More)
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