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resident-bard · 3 months
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Coming to Kickstarter February 5th: I CRAVE THE LOOP, a fast-paced, roguelike rpg!
Played with a real life snack, your goal is to stay one step ahead of the ghostly creature that haunts you and hungers not for your sanity, but for your cereal. Race through your home ahead of its Eldritch influence, use what items you can, and down that snack before it does!
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No-Tell Motel is now crowdfunding!
In this solo murder mystery RPG, you play the overnight clerk at a sleazy motel. One of your guests killed another, and you'll spend your nights spying on a cast of 15 colorful suspects to uncover their secrets and connections to each other.
Just don't get it wrong, because a false accusation could cost you your life.
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To play, all you need is a deck of cards, a six-sided die and a ledger to log your motel's nightly activities. (The game will come with a ledger, but any old notepad will do).
Using a spread not unlike a hand of Solitaire, you'll find out who checks in, who checks out, who gets entangled with who, and who has dark rumors following them - all with an eye toward building enough circumstantial evidence to make an accusation.
As the nights wear on, doubt will creep in. So build the best case you can, because you've only got one shot to get this right.
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I've been working on this game for a long time, and I absolutely love the potential this has to be an ongoing drama generator for the built-in cast of characters or any OCs you bring to the mix. Check them in and set them loose, then document what they get up to.
As for extras? Yeah. We've got those. Pick up a keychain from Room 7, site of the murder, and maybe even a "dice tray." Yeah that's it, it's a dice tray.
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The campaign runs Feb 23 - March 15, so give it a look and let me know what you think!
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We're so excited to have Meg and Vince Baker AND Rae Nedjadi (@temporalhiccup) together to talk Powered by the Apocalpyse for Splat 5!
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It's ZineMonth!!! Lets talk about some cool games!!
There are so many awesome games crowdfunding right now that today we're just going to talk about 10 cool games that are currently crowdfunding on Crowdfundr! I'll be making more posts about more games in the future, and if you know of a cool game that's currently crowdfunding please add it on to this post!!
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Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto lets you take control of the cosy Tea Grotto as you blend tea and build a community around you. Make friends, drink tea, go on an adventure, and stay wholesome.
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The River Spirit is a guidebook for a solo journaling experience that uses a deck of cards to help you create memories of your hometown and the community found there, only to remix them into new stories and eventually sacrifice those memories for the greater good.
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Tangled Blessings is a magic academy horror RPG for 1-2 players that uses tarot cards to reveal your fate.
On the eve of your final exam at Brackroot Academy, what mysteries, secrets, dread, and drama will you recall from your last four years of schooling?
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In Dinocar, you and as many friends as you can gather will work together to map out a snippet of that world. You’ll paint a map, draw landmarks, slap buildings into place, and take turns going on chaotic road trips and commutes. At the end of a game of Dinocar, you’ll have a story to tell and a wonderful map to either frame on the wall or stick to the fridge.
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Necro Mech Synthesis is a Bonepunk RPG about ghosts piloting mechs via possession! Fight in a world abandoned by God and defend Lady Death herself against the remaining three horsemen of the apocalypse!
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Echoes in my Hull is a solo journaling game about remembering the people we have lost. Use a deck of tarot cards to become acquainted with your crew and ultimately be the last existing record of their lives.
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GRANDMOTHERSHIP is a sci-fi TTRPG about senior ladies in space. Get in trouble, crochet a new scarf, go ballroom dancing, and find solutions where everyone else has failed.
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My Mother’s Kitchen is a solo journaling game about traditions, change, and cooking. You play as the author of the original family cookbook, robbed of memory and trapped on Earth as the spirit of your cookbook. Act as a guardian for your family, and try to remember why you’re bound to the book as you guide your inheritors through centuries and generations. 
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WANDS & LASERGUNS is a high-intensity solo roleplaying game about being a wizard trapped in an anti-magic future. Pit your old-fashioned wits and wondrous new technology against diamond-studded nobility, cybernetically enhanced gangs, dirty cops with a vendetta, and high-fashion psychopaths. The struggle is real when you're far from home.
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Derelict Delvers is a thrilling, action-packed sci-fi roleplaying game that immerses players in a struggle for survival and profit. Players take on the roles of elite space troopers, scientists, and engineers who must explore derelict spaceships and space stations in order to scavenge for supplies, salvage for weapons and valuable resources, and ultimately, hunt down the monsters that threaten the very existence of mankind.
Still not enough games? Check out Crowdfundr's Tabletop Nonstop page or the ZiMo official website for more!
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gigantic-spider · 1 year
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This is a big day for me! It's my 10 year anniversary on this hellsite (affectionate) and the launch of my first TTRPG crowdfunding campaign.
I'm funding a print run of "The River Spirit", a solo journaling TTRPG about saving your hometown from an awful drought by sacrificing your memory to the River Spirit. You use a deck of playing cards to build up your memories of your hometown and community, tell stories about them to a cast of eclectic spirits you meet walking through the forest, and finally cast pieces of your identity off to satiate the enigmatic River Spirit.
I have to thank @crowdfundr for making this such an easy process. It was a daunting proposition to embark upon this journey, but thanks to their help it didn't feel like I was doing it alone.
If you're interested in the game, check out the campaign here: https://crowdfundr.com/River_Spirit
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kristen-chin · 1 month
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Like Tabletop Games? Feel like modern society is a series of gamified hoops to jump through? Want to see really cool inked art?
Well I have a TTRPG for you…
In the last 30 hours of its Kickstarter (as of 14th February 2024) - Death Game is a tabletop rpg about high stakes battles for survival in the face of the capitalist hellscape, inspired by Battle Royale, Squid Game and the Hunger Games.
Featuring an array of very pointedly satirical Arena situations - like @ratwavegamehouse’s Conrad Open Hospital, @wendiyu’s Identity Politics & Capitalism themed mystery arena and my own Arena on Experimental Model Cities and hostile architecture.
And some really really great and gritty art by Hodag - please check out the Kickstarter site for more info
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timepool · 2 months
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My solo boomer shooter TTPRG GUTGUN has now launched on KICKSTARTER-- there are 3 weeks to fund the game and make it a reality!
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW OR TEXT HERE TO BACK IT!
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goblincow · 1 month
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331% Funded | 15 days to go!
If you've been following me for a while you'll know I'm soon going to be releasing The Perilous Pear & Plum Pies of Pudwick, a 52 page full-colour, fully illustrated adventure for Melsonia where a group of plucky adventurers will shrink to insectoid size and adventure into the uncanny world that exists inside a sapient pear tree in a system agnostic weird fantasy bugcrawl.
If that interests you, you should absolutely check out Beetle Knight, which I hope to run TPPAPPOP with when I get my grubby palps on it!
Beetle Knight has got a cool contested rolls system, an emblems mechanic reminiscent of the medals in Bug Fables or charms in Hollow Knight, and it comes from a team embedded in the OSR/NSR design trajectory.
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I'm not involved with Beetle Knight, but if luck is on our side both projects will release the same day Silksong comes out! If it sounds like your kind of game (and you know it is if you're following me) go check out the kickstarter page!
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capacle · 2 months
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An oracle zine with 60+ results per page for any solo RPG
My Zine Month project is up! 🎲🎲
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Introducing 'Random Realities', an oracle zine for all your solo RPG needs!
Roll a d66, flip a page, or roll the dice inside the PDF (yup, that's right) and get 60+ oracle results on every page!
Here's a sample page of the zine.
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Envision worlds, quests, people, scenes, creatures, items, and more on a glance!
If you're familiar with oracle decks, it's the same principle, but in a convenient zine format.
The PDF comes with a function that allows you to click on the dice (or on the title of any category) and it takes you to another random page!
It's pretty magical!
If you are using the physical version, you can simply flip to a random page, or roll d66 and go to the corresponding page, following the dice results in the bottom right corner.
And it's all there, no need to flip through to find the right table for the right scenario.
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The results vary from more abstract words and terms open to interpretation, to more direct and guided results, combined with evocative icons to spark your imagination.
I drew from the 30+ games I've made to collect the most practical and evocative oracles I could devise.
My hope is that you can grab this zine and your favorite system, and jump to an adventure in no time.
If that's your jam, check out the campaign and spread the word! 💗
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soulmuppet · 1 month
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ZINE MONTH CONTINUES!
And so does us shouting out projects we've got our eyes on!
Notorious Style
Outliers
Rom Com Drama Bomb
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morebluebs · 1 month
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ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT TO BACK ROM COM DRAMA BOMB
A 3-player TTRPG of Meet Cutes & Mayhem
Rom Com Drama Bomb is my love letter/ransom note to the romantic comedy genre. Play as two people being forced into a fucked up romantic comedy and the evil villain who set the whole thing up.
❤️🤣🎭💣
"It's like if Jigsaw wanted people to kiss." - BE/HOLD
This is your last chance to help support this project! Ends 2/28 @ 9pm ET
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resident-bard · 1 month
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It's the last week to Crave the Loop!
The fridge snaps shut. The room darkens. A distant, curious yowl sounds from the other side of the house. The midnight chase is begun again. The creature craves your sugary loops, and it will not be denied. It is invulnerable. It is insatiable. It is... Kinda cute? When it's not whiskers deep in your snack, that is.
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I Crave the Loop is a solo rpg about snacking and pets, in which you flee from a creepy little guy™ who's sole desire is to devour your sugary breakfast loops (or equivalent). This directly contradicts your desire to eat them without eldritch cat fuzz all over them, so grab the laser pointer, lace up your shoes, and book it or your snack is as good as gone, bud.
Using a real-life snack as your game clock, you'll race across maps of houses, dorms, apartments, conventions, and other snack-filled locales in a desperate attempt to finish your snack before a little guy like this catches you and finishes it for you:
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Look at him, loopless and hungy. Despondent. He's never been fed in his entire life and will never eat again (a fate my cats are convinced they share 30 minutes before dinner time).
I Crave the Loop is inspired by roguelike video games, so there's lots of variety from game to game. You've got different character origins that shape each game, you've got a diverse cast of creepy cats with unique v O i d P o W e R s, and you've got a veritable plethora of haunted maps featuring silly items and passive powers to help you escape.
It's our last week on Kickstarter, so come check us out! We're fully funded, so you're guaranteed a reward! If we can hit our next couple stretch goals our team gets a cozy little bonus and I'll add 4 more maps to the game!
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Zine Month 2024 Round-Up
Lock your credit cards, hide your wallet, tell your banks to close early, because it’s February and that means a veritable deluge of new tabletop roleplaying game zines taking their shot at getting created with some crowdfunded help. Down the hall Aaron can be heard trying to keep his head above water with the first wave of ZineQuest projects on Kickstarter (there’s an alarming number of gargling…
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summoningcirclepress · 2 months
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Splat 5: Golden is Live on Kickstarter
The year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons* and more excitingly, 50 years of TTRPGs as we know them! To celebrate we are looking back through time to bring you handpicked thoughts about evolutions in labour conditions, the indie scene, Powered by the Apocalypse, and RPG SEA. *Dragons sold separately.
WHAT'S INSIDE THE ZINE?
Interview with Meguey & Vincent Baker (Apocalypse World) in conversation with Rae Nedjadi (Apocalypse Keys) @temporalhiccup about designing the apocalypse over the years.
Interview with Waks Saavedra (Gubat Banwa) @makapatag and momatoes (ARC: Doom) about the rise of the TTRPG industry and culture in SouthEast Asia known as RPG SEA.
Interview with Jay Dragon (Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast) @jdragsky and Orion D Black (WotC & Dimension 20, freelance writer) about labour conditions and being indie in a corporate dragon world.
Back us between Feb 6 11:00am-Feb 7th 11:00am 2024 for an EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT
We're Kickstarting until Feb 20th 9pm EST
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arsene-inc · 2 months
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Oh god, Zinequest and Zinemonth, what are you doing to me
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crowdfundr · 1 year
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Support Solo TTRPGs on Crowdfundr!
These ten games are Live or Launching Soon on Crowdfundr for Tabletop Nonstop!
Derelict Delvers from Cezar Capacle - Survive and thrive in derelict space with solo or group play.
Echoes in my Hull from Matthew Woodyard - A game from the perspective of a spaceship.
Wands & Laserguns from Christian Bahnweg - Play as a wizard trapped in an antimagic future.
Any% from S. Quinn Morris - Tarot-Fueled Speedrunning Action!
Soft Focuses from C. R. Legge - A solo journaling game about ADHD
Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto from Michael Sweeney - A cozy blend of tea, tarot, and journaling.
My Mother's Kitchen from Fleet Detrik - A game about traditions, change, and cooking.
Project Ecco from Elliot Davis - Track a time-consuming entity throughout an entire year and record your playthrough on the pages of a planner.
Tangled Blessings from Mothwin Productions - A solo or 2-player magic academy horror ttrpg
The River Spirit from Nico Macdougall - Create memories of your hometown and the community found there, then remix them for new stories.
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