#zinequest

[eliotbaum]

The Sewers & The Stars, a new Hidden Isle adventure is now live on Kickstarter!

ends on February 17th '24 💧🌟

[resident-bard]

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!

[sohkrates]

Coming Soon: FEALTY

Coming to Kickstarter February 1st, FEALTY is a ttrpg about commoners steering an ill-humoured monarch and managing the resources of a unique fantasy nation.

It is a collaboration between Galen Pejeau (CRASH//CART, The Facility, artist with too many indie rpgs to count) which is honestly a career-long dream for me.

Excited to share more over the next month, please follow the project to know as soon as it goes live and to ease our anxiety by letting us see number go up.

[evlynmoreau-blog]

Meow! Only 2 days left to get some paper huts from Lett:

[summoningcirclepress]

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

[goblincow]

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.

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!

[capacle]

An oracle zine with 60+ results per page for any solo RPG

My Zine Month project is up! 🎲🎲

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.

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.

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! 💗

[plotbunnygames]

Crowdfunding coming up for ZineMonth!

You have set out together to hunt the monster and end its existence once and for all.

"Against the Monster" is a story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters. Whether it's a dragon, vampire, tentacle monster, or artificial intelligence — you'll decide in which setting you'll hunt which monster.

When the monster faces you in the end: Do you really attack it?

"Against the Monster" is a GM-less Descended from the Queen story game (you may know the mechanics from "For the Queen" or our previous project "Viva la QueerBar") for 2-6 players and a flexible play time of about 1-4 hours.

After successful funding, the game will be published as a 24-page A5-sized zine and as screenreader-ready PDF, in both English and German. It will get evocative original artwork on every page (100% human-made, of course).

Game Design: Jasmin Neitzel and Andrea Rick Illustrations & Layout: Andrea Rick

Sign up to be notified when we launch on Kickstarter!

[chiakiakito]

The Magus & The Oracle

or, my yearly ZineMonth breakdown waiting to happen

Here we are! I can finally spill the beans on what I'm working on for ZineMonth 2024. This year NessunDove is joining forces with award-winning designer @momatoes for the first-ever English print of The Magus, the solo ttrpg about pathos, arcana, calamity, and the infinite loneliness of power... Plus a brand-new addition in the form of The Oracle: a 78-card inspiration deck designed to provide visual and storytelling prompts for The Magus, ttrpg systems, and all acts of storytelling.

I was overjoyed to work on the Italian edition of Magus back in 2021, and it was the first ever print run of the game. Now it's time for a new and improved English edition, with a new layout and updated rules that keep The Magus's narrative-driven crunch intact but supplement it with a new source of endless inspiration.

If you're in the mood to tell the tragic story of a sorcerer's quest for arcane mastery, do follow the pre-launch page on Kickstarter and help keep my anxiety at bay by making number go up.

[soulmuppet]

ZINE MONTH CONTINUES!

And so does us shouting out projects we've got our eyes on!

Notorious Style

Outliers

Rom Com Drama Bomb

[morebluebs]

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

[eliotbaum]

Coming to Kickstarter's zinequest in February '24 - The Hidden Isle's first Adventure, The Sewers & The Stars!

You can get notified on launch here 💫💧

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played ROM COM DRAMA BOMB ?

By Elliot Davis

Rom Com Drama Bomb is a storytelling game for 3 players. Over the course of 90 minutes—the perfect rom com length—you will play out the trope-fueled scenes of a romantic comedy with a maniacal twist:

Play as two people who shouldn't fall in love and the evil villain who will stop at nothing to make sure they do.

Currently being crowdfunded on kickstarter ( til the end of February)

[sohkrates]

FEALTY is now on Kicsktarter!

A fiction first TTRPG of courtly drama, awful monarchs, and a fantastical medieval nation. Steer society, the throne, and more in this GM-less token-based game.

Thanks to art by the incredible Galen Pejeau this is gonna be one of the most beautiful games I've ever made:

Fealty is based on the Belonging Outside Belonging system by Avery Alder, and its chief inspiration is the novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Fealty is all about moving and trading tokens that represent favours and resources as you try to get your way at court, come up with plans of action that please the monarch, while at the same time dealing with growing threats caused the whims and faults of the nobility.

Play as the Inkpot, Champion, Fool, or more. Familiar faces in any monarch's court, but common born all, elevated by skill or fate, and doomed to serve in a hierarchical power structure destined to fail.

Will you steer the nation of Kyr to a golden age, wheel and deal to see your vision realized, or will your patience wear thin as you turn to one of your revolutionary moves to end this this awful monarchy forever?

Check out Fealty! Spread the word! Ogle at this incredible art!

[resident-bard]

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.

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:

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!

[cannibalhalflinggaming]

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…