Kickstarter Round-Up: Sea Monsters, Giant Trolls, & Beautiful Middle-earth
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights!
Universe Ball Anthlogy – RPG
Universe Ball Anthology #1 is the first book in a collection of strange SciFi tabletop roleplaying games about odd discoveries, creative problem-solving, and being stupid with your friends. The tone, sense of humor, and game design are inspired by media like The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Doctor Who, and Metroidvanias.
This book comes with two rules-light one-shots (one long, multi-chapter campaign, and one short, improv-heavy adventure). The first game (The S.S.O.S.) is an absurdist heist game where you play as lizard people and rob the fuel of an interdimensional cruise ship. The second game (Yep, That’s Me) is a short, improv-heavy adventure that starts the players in a randomized story climax and flashes them back to the start where they have to figure out how they get to the end again.
Pledges start at $8 for a PDF.
How to Create Your 1st Board Game
This book is for anyone who has an idea for a board game but isn’t sure where to start. The book will walk you through all of the major steps of designing and publishing your board game. It covers topics like creating prototypes, playtesting your game, pitching your game to publishers and tips for Kickstarting your game.
Although there are some books out there that cover board game design mechanisms and theory, there are not a lot of books like this one that provide a step-by-step guide through the process from beginning to end.
Pledges start at $8 for a PDF.
Sea Monsters – Creatures of the Deep for 5e
Sea Monsters is an 80-page softcover 5E bestiary featuring over 60 incredible creatures of the briny blue drawn from myth and legend and the long tradition of epic ocean voyages and aquatic adventuring that goes back as far as Sinbad the Sailor and the Viking Eddas and through the pages of games like Dungeons and Dragons from the earliest days of RPGs. The rivers, lakes, and seas are filled with wondrous and deadly creatures that float and sway with a dangerous grace, slow and easy as they drift in the eternal ebb and flow, yet beneath their beauty stand ready to strike!
Pledges start at $10 for a PDF.
SINS: Spawn of Minions
SINS is a deck-destructor and a highly competitive game. It’s built from the core to be an aggressive game of powers and weaknesses. Both attacking and defending will cost you deeply and exhaust your hand. Therefore, be careful not to be too aggressive or too defensive, as you might lose your advantage. Pick your battles, save your strength, take the hit and fight back when your opponent is exhausted.Each battle pack of cards has a specific sin and each sin has a unique set of principles, which can either form or change your strategy as you play through the game.
SINS: Spawn of Minions introduces 3 different themed battle packs focus around the sins of envy, sloth and lust which supports 2-6 players.
Pledges start at $59 for a trilogy box.
Blood and Skulls
Wellcome to our biggest miniatures ever! Blood and Skulls ork rider is the largest and more detailed miniature in 70 mm scale that Nocturna models released in all of these years. This project is really monstruous and we need your help to fund it. Take a look at all the figures in the campaign, all of them are in 70 mm scale. Blood and Skulls is 28 cm high! Every miniature on the campaign is a possible extra Add-on to your Pledge, and these are the prices one by one. Also, we will add more things if we reach some Stretch Goals.
(This week’s header image is from this campaign.)
Pledges start at $48 for a bust plus stretch goals.
Sindarin Tarot Deck
[The Sindarin Tarot deck is] in the colors of the characters of Middle-earth. It is a clairvoyant tarot deck with Frodo and the other main characters. Gollum thus becomes the wheel of fortune, Gandalf the grey – Hermit, Aragorn – The Emperor, or Elrond the Justice. We don’t know if reading in the future really works, but this game will be perfect for a collector because the images are very beautiful. It will delight the biggest fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Tolkien’s archetypes tarot is based on epic stories of Lord of the Rings. It’s an unexpected journey to your inner dark and light world. Every character has its own unique symbolic message and answers for your questions allowing you to go through the fantasy world to the real world. Connecting myth and reality gives the answers. The decks used to fetch cards are an appropriation of a standard Rider-Waite.
Pledges start at $44 for a 78 card deck with a tuck box.
~Which Of These Campaigns Caught Your Attention?
