Kickstarter Highlights: ‘Conan’ Gets Versus Mode, ‘Among Cultists’, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding and Kickstarter highlights—including board games, RPGs, and STLs!
Kabuto Sumo Sakura Slam
It’s cherry blossom season. As the beautiful sakura petals fall, a calm tranquility lingers in the air. It’s the perfect calm before the storm: welcome to the Sakura Slam! In this stand-alone sequel to Kabuto Sumo, players return as the wrestling Kabuto Mushi (“helmet bugs”). Use Kabuto Sumo’s signature coin-pushing mechanic to knock your opponents off the edge.
Sakura Slam boasts a square arena with fixed corner posts and a notched pushing platform to bring new, dynamic obstacles to the game. It also features eight new wrestlers with epic powers, bringing the total number of released wrestlers to 28!
Among Cultists – A Murder Mystery Thriller Board Game
Become a member of M, a secret society! 4-8 investigators try to prevent the arrival of a big evil in University… but watch out: evil cultists are already among us!
Conan by Monolith: Red Nails Expansion and Versus Mode
Conan is a miniature-based board game for 1 to 5 players that takes you through the lands of the Hyborian Age for adventures that can be played in around 1 hour as you pit your wits, daring, and tactical cunning against your opponent.
The genre classic is back with 4 brand new boxes filled with new stories and adventures, new settings, and of course, new miniatures! There are now a total of 3 ways of playing the game: Solo/Cooperative, Adventure, and the brand-new Versus Mode.
D-Day Dice: To DO or DIE
A book focusing on the history, rules & background of the multi-award winning solo/coop dice game by Emmanuel Aquin: D-Day Dice.
It’s D-Day. June 6th, 1944. At dawn, the Allies send the greatest armada the world has ever known against German-occupied France. As the first wave of Allied soldiers step out of their landing craft, they are mowed down by machine-gun fire. You are one of these soldiers. And you’re not going to lay there, waiting to be killed. It’s do or die! You start moving, and shout to your comrades… “Follow me!”
Spire’s End: Rangitaki
Rangitaki is a solo choose-your-path card game that can be enjoyed with or without prior experience with the Spire’s End series. It’s been designed as a stand-alone adventure, broken into three chapters of 300 Tarot-sized cards. There’s minimal setup and no need for extensive statistics or bookkeeping. To play, you just begin at the top of the card deck and let the journey unfold!
Battle for the Realm – 5E
Battle for the Realm Trilogy is the final book in the Eastern Farraway Adventures campaign and completes the series. The campaign consists of five books with more than 800 pages, 15 linked fantasy adventures that take the characters from level 1 to 15, and five extensive compendiums.
