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Kickstarter rival Backerkit bans crowdfunding projects solely using AI-generated art

“It’s important for us to recognize both the immediate and long-term adverse effects [AI] may pose to the creators and creative communities we serve."

Oct. 3, 2023 Chase Carter

Invisible Sun promotional art showing a figure in red approaching a solitary true in the middle of a featureless swamp.

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Surreal fantasy RPG Invisible Sun - and its 14kg Black Cube - returns from the shadows for a limited print run

What's in the box?!

Oct. 2, 2023 Chase Carter

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The Mandalorian-inspired solo RPG Notorious explores the edges of a war-torn galaxy in Outsiders expansion

Once more into a life of scum and villainy.

Sept. 28, 2023 Chase Carter

Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion miniature promo

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Elden Ring board game studio announces cooperative tabletop adaptation of Horizon: Forbidden West video game

Seeds of Rebellion’s narrative will take place before Aloy arrives in the titular Forbidden West

Sept. 20, 2023 Chase Carter

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Planet Fist smashes Edge of Tomorrow and slice-of-life drama into a satirical combat wargame

Love must bloom on the battlefield when there is nothing else.

Sept. 19, 2023 Chase Carter

A close-up image of the board for Terraforming Mars

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Terraforming Mars makers defend use of AI art in upcoming board game expansion amid fan grumbles

“We have and will continue to leverage AI-generated content in the development and delivery of this project.”

Sept. 14, 2023 Chase Carter

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DuckTales-inspired RPG is a hellish vision of the classic cartoon, now with art from Mörk Borg creator

Duck Souls.

Sept. 12, 2023 Chase Carter

artwork from Kickstarter trailer for tabletop RPG Society of Rafa

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Society of Rafa trades heroes’ journeys for community healing in a Jewish RPG world of spirits and medicine

Creators plan to launch an accessible online wiki containing all play materials formatted for screen readers.

Sept. 7, 2023 Chase Carter

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Comedy RPG Coffee & Chaos lets your D&D characters run a cafe and uses cutlery instead of dice

Give your heroic adventurers a stressful day job in food management - what could go wrong?

Sept. 6, 2023 Chase Carter

Cover art for tabletop RPG Infinite Revolution

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Infinite Revolution is a hyper-fast RPG for fans of Utena, Kamen Rider and existential anxiety

You breathe stardust. You eat darkness. You guard dreams. You bleed light.

Sept. 5, 2023 Chase Carter

The Magnus Archives backerkit campaign video screenshot

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The Magnus Archives’ tabletop RPG cracks $1m, releases an anemic quickstart primer

Fans of the horror podcast might be tempted, but there’s little in the free document to sell longtime hobbyists on Monte Cook Games’ latest adaptation.

Sept. 5, 2023 Chase Carter

Promotional art for tabletop RPG Eat the Reich from Kickstarter trailer.

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Eat the Reich is a gory, indulgent, quickfire RPG about WWII vampires out to drink all of Hitler’s blood.

Sic exsanguinatis tyrannis.

Aug. 30, 2023 Chase Carter

Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Blood Berets art

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Classic RPG Mutant Chronicles goes noir gumshoe in mystery-focused Luna City Blues

Moon-based mysteries.

Aug. 29, 2023 Chase Carter

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Dolmenwood is mushroom-infested Old School Essentials by way of British Isles folklore

Spore me a pint, adventurer.

Aug. 18, 2023 Chase Carter

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Wooden meeples from Wolves, a new board game from the creator of Coyote & Crow

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Coyote & Crow maker’s new semi-cooperative board game only has a winner if nobody loses

Meeples for all the peoples.

July 10, 2023 Chase Carter

Board spill of Cyclades Legendary Edition from the board game's KS campaign

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Cyclades Legendary Edition hauls in half a million in crowdfunding for revamped Bruno Cathala board game

I gave all my lunch money to Zeus.

July 8, 2023 Chase Carter

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs promotional trailer screenshot

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Gloomhaven’s bite-sized board game Buttons & Bugs coming from Mountains of Madness designer

Finally, a Gloomhaven box below lethal throwing weight.

July 6, 2023 Chase Carter

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Liminal: The Backrooms expansion Kickstarter art

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Liminal RPG attempts to map out The Backrooms in an expansion based on the collaborative creepypasta universe

Hell is mouldering yellow wallpaper.

June 30, 2023 Chase Carter

Two members of Kickstarter's community advisory council expressed optimism and excitement for advocating on behalf of users, despite ongoing concerns over the company's blockchain plans.

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Kickstarter steps further away from a blockchain future but stops short of promises

The crwodfunding company's Community Advisory Council might have pulled that particular bacon out of the frying pan.

June 30, 2023 Chase Carter

Artwork from KS campaign for RPG Fantasy World

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War of the Ring: The Card Game maker expands its RPG footprint with indie book Fantasy World

Powered by the genre-specific Apocalypse.

June 29, 2023 Chase Carter

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Nausicaa meets Mad Max RPG Eco Mofos!! does climate post-apocalypse with a heavy dose of hope

“Weirdhope not Grimdark”.

June 28, 2023 Chase Carter

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Shipwrights of the North Sea Redux Kickstarter screenshot

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West Kingdom trilogy makers return to the North Sea to remake the board game that started it all

Righting the shipwrights.

June 28, 2023 Chase Carter

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The crew of the Bebop from the Cowboy Bebop anime series

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Cowboy Bebop RPG’s faithful recreation of the jazzy, sci-fi anime is now available

Mana Project Studio takes a crack at bringing Spike & Co. to the tabletop

June 26, 2023 Chase Carter

Screenshot from Card Wars episode of Adventure Time

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Adventure Time’s official RPG will let you play as Finn, Marceline or wholly original characters

A “Yes, And” mechanic drives collaborative storytelling that doesn’t rely on a bunch of maths

June 24, 2023 Chase Carter

screenshot from Gamefound crowdfunding campaign for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. board game cracks $2m in crowdfunding for a campaign-focused cooperative “zone crawler”

A replayable Zone Survival Mode won’t be included in the base game post-crowdfunding.

June 19, 2023 Chase Carter

Promotional art for card game Bad Baby Lich Lords.

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Bad Baby Lich Lords relaunches crowdfunding for ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ competitive card game

Deathly mayhem, round 2

June 19, 2023 Chase Carter

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Firefly board game is getting a seriously fancy, seriously hefty collector’s edition for its 10th anniversary

Massive box includes everything ever made for the game, plus a new expansion and upgraded components.

June 13, 2023 Matt Jarvis

Promotional art for tabletop RPG Triangle Agency featuring someone in a blue suit carrying a briefcase spilling red light.

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Triangle Agency is a satirical horror RPG of paranormal investigation inspired by Control and The X-Files

Equal parts cheeky and deadly serious in its send-up of corporate overreach and work's stranglehold over our lives.

June 9, 2023 Chase Carter

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Turn normal playing cards into stunning and demonic art in incredible-looking solo RPG Wreck This Deck

Part game, part art project.

June 5, 2023 Matt Jarvis

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Longshot City turns surreal-fantasy roleplaying gem Troika into a superhero RPG

Kapow!

May 31, 2023 Matt Jarvis

Tales of the Valiant Kickstarter video screenshot for Kobold Press' new RPG

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Tales of the Valiant reimagines 5E roleplay with “cooler spellcasting” and less burden on GMs

Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag sets sail as a fully fledged RPG ruleset.

May 24, 2023 Chase Carter

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Sailor Moon meets Blades in the Dark in magical girl RPG Girl by Moonlight

In the name of the Moon, I’ll punish your dice!

May 24, 2023 Matt Jarvis

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Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects

The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.

May 23, 2023 Chase Carter

Leviathan Wilds Kickstarter relaunch screenshot showing board spill

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Breath of the Wild-inspired board game Leviathan Wilds returns to crowdfunding with tighter focus

Be runnin' up that bull. Be runnin' up that snake. Be runnin' up that big crab.

May 10, 2023 Chase Carter

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MOBA-inspired board game Guards of Atlantis II returns to crowdfunding with new heroes and updated rules

Stay in your lane.

April 27, 2023 Chase Carter

Promotional artwork for Call of Duty: the Board Game

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Call of Duty’s board game adaptation will include a Ghost miniature and iconic multiplayer maps

Pay two bullet resources to de-escalate civilians.

April 24, 2023 Chase Carter

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Gorgeous Nausicaä and Delicious in Dungeon-inspired RPG Break!! launches crowdfunding campaign

Give me an entire herd of shaggy bumpo, please.

April 20, 2023 Chase Carter

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Monster Hunter World board game sequel will adapt Iceborne’s clutch claw and mid-fight turf wars

Stay frosty, hunters.

April 12, 2023 Chase Carter

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Too Many Bones maker’s The Elder Scrolls board game is a more digestible Gloomhaven experience

Keep an eye on that suspicious-looking mudcrab

March 31, 2023 Chase Carter

Promotional artwork for miniature wargame BattleTech: Mercenaries

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BattleTech breaks $4.5 million in crowdfunding for Mercenaries expansion to ‘mech wargame

BattleTech’s next expansion paves the way for tanks, advanced tactics and AI opponents.

March 27, 2023 Chase Carter

Art from the crowdfunding trailer for board game Galactic Renaissance.

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‘Inis in space’ board game Galactic Renaissance mixes portals and politics

Influence one planet, outfluence another.

March 21, 2023 Chase Carter

Screenshot from the trailer for Pacific Rim: Uprising

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King Kong and Pacific Rim coming next for D&D 5E compatible adventure project

Mechanics for mayhem with monkeys and mechs.

March 14, 2023 Chase Carter

Screenshot from Kickstarter trailer for Scholars of the South Tigris from Garphill Games

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West Kingdom board game maker mix-and-matches over 100 dice in Scholars of the South Tigris

Garphill Games' latest title is another marriage of theme and engine that doesn't skimp of colourblind accomodations.

March 7, 2023 Chase Carter

Best Games

31 indie RPGs to check out during Zine Month 2023

Our comprehensive list of unmissable games, supplements and more crowdfunding throughout February.

Feb. 13, 2023 Matt Jarvis

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Cover art for The Electrum Archive - Volume Two RPG zine

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Morrowind-inspired Zine Month RPG Electrum Archive explores a desert city in newest edition

Sniffed any good ink lately?

Feb. 6, 2023 Chase Carter

Key art for Cubicle 7's Broken Weave tabletop RPG

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Warhammer RPG maker announces new D&D 5E compatible system alongside “tragic fantasy” setting

Broken Weave will crowdfund in February and offer first hints at Cubicle 7’s upcoming C7d20 system

Jan. 30, 2023 Chase Carter

Artwork from the quickstart rules for the Fifth Season RPG.

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Fifth Season RPG brings NK Jemisin’s fantasy novel trilogy to the tabletop

Start with the end of the world, then tell your own story.

Jan. 26, 2023 Chase Carter

Screenshot from announcement trailer for Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig board game.

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Mad King Ludwig board game sequel trades tiles for blueprint drafting paper

Trapdoors and geese-filled moats, by royal decree!

Jan. 10, 2023 Chase Carter

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Tabletop games have made over $1.5 billion on Kickstarter

That’s a lot of cardboard cash.

Dec. 13, 2022 Chase Carter

Artwork on the announcement page for Crowdfunding by Backerkit.

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BackerKit discusses challenging the 'big green K' as it moves from crowdfunding tool to competitor

From background support to leading player in crowdsourced financing.

Dec. 12, 2022 Chase Carter

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Science Fantasy RPG Troika’s new softback reprint is an excellent entry point for new players

This sourcebook is monochrome, but multi-use.

Nov. 15, 2022 Chase Carter

Product shot of Heroscape: Age of Annihilation miniatures wargame

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Heroscape may enter its own Age of Annihilation if crowdfunding fails

Another decade in the memory hole.

Nov. 7, 2022 Chase Carter

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Artowrk for tabletop RPG Outcast Silver Raiders

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Outcast Silver Raiders is a tabletop RPG from the Satanic Panic’s worst nightmares

The law of this land is "Do as thou wilt."

Nov. 2, 2022 Chase Carter

Promotional art for The Longest Rest, a horror RPG from Jeeyon Shim.

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The Longest Rest is a horror RPG that warps fantasy taverns into monstrous haunted houses

Bleeders' Digest(ed).

Oct. 20, 2022 Chase Carter

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Monty Python RPG nears $1m in crowdfunding for a decidedly silly take on tabletop gaming

Includes a 30-sided die, whether you like it or not.

Oct. 20, 2022 Chase Carter

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Cowboy Bebop RPG is a fawning but promising tabletop adaptation of the anime - quickstart preview

Difficult dance steps keeps this jazzy adaptation from truly swinging.

Oct. 19, 2022 Chase Carter

Art from tabletop RPG You Meet in a Tavern, You Die in a Dungeon

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This procedurally generated dungeon crawler always ends in a total party kill

Delve well and leave a half-dissolved corpse.

Oct. 18, 2022 Chase Carter

Screenshot of Beyond Solitaire's preview of historical board game Rising Waters.

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Rising Waters transforms the Great Flood of 1927 into a co-op board game of resistance and community

Mississippi meeples.

Oct. 13, 2022 Chase Carter

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Bad Baby Lich Lords' designers wanted to create the Saturday morning cartoon of card games

Necro-frantic fun.

Oct. 11, 2022 Chase Carter

Interview

Kickstarter's new CEO talks future of tabletop crowdfunding, Gamefound rivalry and blockchain plans

"We have a lot to improve on that will keep our hands full."

Sept. 30, 2022 Chase Carter

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Kickstarter hires Everette Taylor as CEO amid growing competition and blockchain worries

33-year-old Taylor replaces Aziz Hasan after the latter stepped down in March 2022.

Sept. 30, 2022 Chase Carter

A massive snake with a spiked crest is fended off by bow-wielding warriors fighting on an open plain.

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Coyote & Crow is ready to expand its indigenous science-fantasy world beyond the tabletop RPG

A new bundle of adventures, card game and other projects open space for fresh voices to tell stories in their own way.

Sept. 29, 2022 Chase Carter

Promotional artwork for tabletop RPG The Zone featuring four soldiers in an alien-looking forest.

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How new tabletop RPG The Zone embraced, and then kicked, AI-generated art

Journeys of self-destruction.

Sept. 27, 2022 Chase Carter

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Zoo Tycoon board game turns the PC classic into cardboard

Conservation versus capitalism.

Sept. 26, 2022 Chase Carter

Artwork for Black God's Kiss, an adventure setting for D&D 5E and OSE based on the weird fiction of C.L. Moore.

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Black God’s Kiss adapts the work of sword & sorcery fiction pioneer for D&D 5E and OSE

The perilous RPG adventure republishes two of C. L. Moore’s works as short stories.

Sept. 23, 2022 Chase Carter

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Dead of Winter designer’s tasty next board game serves up recipes from Wild Gardens

Forage for ingredients before plating them up for guests.

Sept. 23, 2022 Matt Jarvis

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Play out your dead D&D characters’ afterlives in existential RPG Ink

TPK, OK.

Sept. 8, 2022 Matt Jarvis

A grayscale forest trail that has been smudged, as if remembering it imperfectly.

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Designer of half-game, half-poem Lilancholy jokingly calls it “evil WarioWare”, but it looks like so much more

Hold tight to your name, and don’t lose.

Aug. 25, 2022 Chase Carter

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Homeworld Fleet Command board game promises huge fleet battles that won’t destroy an entire evening

Kharak open a cold one with the fleet.

Aug. 24, 2022 Chase Carter

Cover art for solo tabletop RPG Rune, which is heavily inspired by Elden Ring and other Soulslike games.

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Rune looks like the perfect solo TRPG for those of us who need more Elden Ring in our lives

Soulsborne fun for the maidenless and mateless.

Aug. 23, 2022 Chase Carter

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This D&D 5E campaign book from a team of Black creators sweeps an entire continent onto new maps

The Sundering says it focuses on inclusion at the table as much as adventure within its pages.

Aug. 15, 2022 Chase Carter

The cover art for Kickstarter's Zine Quest 4 event.

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Kickstarter brings Zine Quest back to February for 2023’s fifth annual indie TRPG event

A representative says the creator-focused event will keep this schedule going forward.

July 1, 2022 Chase Carter

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More indie support, less blockchain: Kickstarter’s new games advisors on tackling the crowdfunding giant’s problems

Munchkin maker CEO and Stray Fawn Studio co-founder discuss the hopes and goals they want to bring to the popular platform’s attention.

June 24, 2022 Chase Carter

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Backerkit launches its own crowdfunding platform with nearly 40 planned projects

The newest competitor in the crowdfunding scene will open more broadly in 2023 with a Gloomhaven exclusive.

June 14, 2022 Chase Carter

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Whimsical fantasy RPG Land of Eem is like Lord of the Rings with Muppets, and it looks as great as that sounds

It’s time to play the music, it’s time to roll the dice.

June 14, 2022 Matt Jarvis

The advisory council will meet six time per year to help guide Kickstarter towards the best decisions for its users and creators, but the company is not beholden to their decisions.

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Munchkin publisher CEO among members of Kickstarter's community advisory council

Reining in the crowdfunding platform’s blockchain dreams will only be one of their expressed duties.

June 14, 2022 Chase Carter

A group of adventurers struggle to work a busy café in the upcoming tabletop RPG Coffee & Chaos, which is now crowdfunding on Gamefound.

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Tabletop RPG characters get the zany café AU of their dreams with Coffee & Chaos

Dungeons & Decaf.

June 13, 2022 Chase Carter

Four members of a gang exerting their influence through bullets in th upcoming tabletop RPG Gangs of Titan City, which is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

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Industrial Cyberpunk TRPG Gangs of Titan City is Peaky Blinders meets Spire and Blades in the Dark

Top of humanity’s trash heap.

June 10, 2022 Chase Carter

John Varley's The curfew sells the feeling of separation and a yearning for connection at the heart of momatoes' new tabletop RPG, There is a Light at the End of the World.

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Arc designer’s newest TRPG needs two players, several days and a lot of emotional honesty to complete

Build a little lighthouse in your soul.

June 9, 2022 Chase Carter

The cover of Possible Worlds Games' Beak, Feather and Bone: Claw Atlas, the expansion to a mapmaking tabletop RPG now crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

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Claw Atlas expands map-based RPG Beak, Feather & Bone with two new roles and a heap of weird locations

Corvid City blues.

June 8, 2022 Chase Carter

The cards from Why the F*** Did They Keep This? contain all the rules needed to play this solo journaling RPG about what's left behind.

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Unpack the dearly departed’s past in thoughtful but quirky solo RPG Why the F*** Did They Keep This?

Cluttered attic, cluttered heart.

May 24, 2022 Chase Carter

A digital recreation of the table during a session of Arcs, the newest title from Leder Games. The competitive science fiction board game is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

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Root and Oath creator’s new board game, Arcs, splits its campaign mode into an expansion

Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Arcs will sell both pieces of the original design separately

May 24, 2022 Chase Carter

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New card-based RPG from Fiasco creator tells folk horror stories about dying badly

The Quiet Year and For the Queen meets “a dark and unmerciful heart”.

May 4, 2022 Chase Carter

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Sleeping Gods’ sequel board game Distant Skies will build on the success of the original

Gamefound crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed $1,000,000

April 22, 2022 Chase Carter

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Blades in the Dark publisher crowdfunds Improv for Gamers 2E on Gamefound

Learn to "yes, and" your dungeon delving.

April 8, 2022 Chase Carter

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Grannies versus cosmic horror RPG Brindlewood Bay crowdfunds two physical books

Cthulhu fht–agh! My back!

April 8, 2022 Chase Carter

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Cyanide & Happiness left Kickstarter for Gamefound, but don’t call it a breakup

"It's amazing competitors are finally emerging because Kickstarter is not perfect."

April 4, 2022 Chase Carter

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Kickstarter opens applications for paid positions on a community advisory council

Members will help the crowdfunding company make decisions regarding blockchain tech, among other user-focused issues.

March 16, 2022 Chase Carter

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Over 100 tabletop games made $500,000 on Kickstarter last year for the first time

Crowdfunding site hits another record figure, despite recent blockchain controversy.

March 2, 2022 Matt Jarvis

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9 Zine Month RPGs that let you explore sunken submarines, wait for the train and be a hungry seagull

This second batch of RPG zines will send you to the furthest depths of the ocean or just into your backyard.

Feb. 15, 2022 Chase Carter

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Disney Villainous publisher Ravensburger confirms plans to crowdfund “a handful of projects” following Gamefound investment

Projects will include both original and licensed titles.

Feb. 15, 2022 Matt Jarvis

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Castles of Burgundy and Villainous publisher Ravensburger gets into crowdfunding with $4.5m investment in Kickstarter rival Gamefound

Over $22 million raised on the crowdfunding platform since launching last year.

Feb. 10, 2022 Matt Jarvis

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The One Ring RPG announces a release date for anticipated second edition

Forget Isengard, they’re taking the Hobbits to retail.

Feb. 3, 2022 Chase Carter

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Best Games

9 Zine Month RPGs you should check out (and where to crowdfund them)

Stapled and saddle-stitched gems.

Feb. 1, 2022 Chase Carter

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Wanderhome studio’s next game dumps Kickstarter to crowdfund on Indiegogo

“We’re hoping to forge a new path forward for TTRPG creators so they aren’t depending on a union-busting anti-creator corporation.”

Jan. 20, 2022 Chase Carter

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The Wizards and the Wastes’ second edition opens an endless sea of magic - at a cost

Top-shelf thaumaturgy.

Jan. 17, 2022 Chase Carter

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Gamefound jabs at Kickstarter in its own ‘vision of crowdfunding’s future’

Outlines incoming tax improvements, recent infrastructure changes and plan for 2022.

Dec. 17, 2021 Matt Jarvis

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"A slap in the face": Tabletop creators wrestle with the cost of departing Kickstarter in wake of crowdfunding site’s crypto plans

Planned move to blockchain in 2022 leaves designers and publishers desperately seeking viable alternatives to the industry’s dominant crowdfunding platform.

Dec. 16, 2021 Matt Jarvis

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