Kick ALL the Starters Part II

[Shepherd]

For GURPS fans, they're having a short duration kickstarter for Dnugeon Fantasy Magic Items 2, which ends this Friday:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...d-by-gurps

[Mamorien]

Caution: Larry Blamire, noted director of neo-B-movies, is running a campaign to complete the video availability of his oeuvre with a Blu-ray release for a little ditty he called Trail of the Screaming Forehead.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lsr...ectors-cut

More Caution: With six days to go, it has taken a sudden jump into viability, shortly after being backed by Richard Thomas of Onyx Path Publishing fame (logrolling in our time: Blamire contributed deliberately grade-Z fiction to Onyx Path's first original Storypath game, They Came from Beneath the Sea!).

[Shader]

Does the Kickstarter have to be on Kickstarter to qualify for this thread?

Anyone remember the game Homeworld? And its Sequel Homeworld 2? (and the not mention game Homeworld: Cataclysm?)

The makers recently announced Homeworld 3. (Check various Twitch channels for the announcement)

And in line with that they are doing a 'kickstarter' on Fig. 

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/homeworld3

Something to keep an eye on.

[Bob Schroeck]

We've had links to Indiegogo and other crowdsourcing sites in these threads, it's certainly not restricted to Kickstarter.

[Mamorien]

You woke up… different. Someone changed you: on a slab, an operating table, an altar. By luck or by fate, you escaped. Hunted by your creators, they hold all the cards*, and it seems they might recapture you. Except, what they don’t understand is they’ve stoked the fires of vengeance; what they did wasn’t right. What they don’t know is that now — you’re hunting them.

Deviant: The Renegades presents a game where the victims of experiments band together to bring down the monolithic organizations that twisted and warped them.

Fictional antecedents for this Storytelling game of vengeance include Akira, Deadpool, Firestarter, The Incredible Hulk, Kamen Rider, Orphan Black, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It's the first all-new Chronicles of Darkness game in literally years, and you can help make the Prestige Edition possible.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200...aying-game

Spoiler

* And dangle all the participles.

[Rajvik]

My Basic set of Gunsmith Cats: Explosive Edition has arrived, i got the challenge coin, what did the rest of you get?

[Shepherd]

Got mine today as well. I just got the basic DVD.

[Bob Schroeck]

I also got just the basic DVD yesterday.

[Rajvik]

Robert Woodhead, of AnimEigo fame, is following up his successful Bubblegum Crisis, Otaku no Video, Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats kickstarters with the "Omega Edition" of the legendary Megazone 23:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...ga-edition

Just minutes in and already 46% funded (the last of those percentage points was achieved while I was typing, and I wouldn't be surprised if it hit 47% before I click Post Reply). Clearly, there was a Great Need.

Just got an update on this and it is official they will be able to ship outside the US, so if you want to do a post backing purchase go ahead

[Mamorien]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...l-deviants

"Those Kids U Know" is basically a catalog of the different kinds of teenagers we all went to high school with. There are the jocks, the geeks, rich kids, outcasts. Each of the 26 A-to-Z pages highlights a different character and high school trope. But as the book goes on, the kids get bored remaining on their own page and start wandering around, getting into trouble, interacting with each other, and breaking their own stereotypes.

Funded with less than twenty-four hours to go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pet...f-and-turf

If you missed Village Pillage (Blue Beard Entertainment's game of risk, betrayal, and turnips), you can pick up the base game and the new sailor- and animal-themed expansions! (If, like me, you already have it, you can just get the expansions, like I'm doing!) Sure, you might be able to find the base game at your FLGS, but will they have the KS-exclusive Chicken Coin and wooden turnip tokens? I sort of doubt it.*

Spoiler

* Peter Hayward, the game's developer, talks like this, only more so, all the time. Check out the updates to any Blue Beard campaign if you don't believe me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hea...issues-1-3

Heartbreak Quadrant is the story of Ida and Kumi, a pair of scavengers who cruise the galaxy, looking for items from the long-since-destroyed Earth. Anything from a 1957 Cardiac Coup DeLuxe to a box of Corporal Crisp's Breakfast Bits can bring in big bucks on the trade circuit, but being space-faring junk dealers isn't easy - there are double-crossing clients, technological disasters, and sub-standard replicated nachos to deal with. Along the way, Ida and Kumi encounter Nim, a badass with bad luck; Riddy, a lonely clerk at an intergalactic convenience store; Gloria, an obsolete customer service hologram; and Avilix, a ruthless enforcer from the all-powerful Owner Corporation. I do draw inspiration from comics and cartoons of the 70s and 80s, but it's not a sequel, prequel, reboot, preboot or roomba.

[Shepherd]

One week left on Onyx Path's Kickstarter for the Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition RPG:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339...d-edition/

[Norgarth]

GoDice,
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/192...80hpi_eDSI
smartdice that can link up to your tablet/etc via an app

[Shepherd]

One week left on the Steve Jackson Games kickstarter for Car Wars 6th edition:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...son-games/

[Norgarth]

High Colonies, a hard Scifi setting from the makers of Harnmaster
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...ref=6gjgfd

[Norgarth]

The Level UP (A portable tabletop extension for any board, card or role-playing game!)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...IE-MRZkJQs

[Bluemage]

Platinum Games is Kickstarting a remastered version of The Wonderful 101 (for those unfamiliar, an action game where you control a blob of up to 100 sentai heroes in a quest to Save The Earth, from the makers of Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising, Nier Automata, and some other really good games) for Switch, PS4, and PC.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pla...emastered/

One day in, they had $1.3 million- WAY over the goal.

I personally love this game. Unique and challenging gameplay, a brilliant example of a sentai hero anime in video game form, great music... it's got it all. The funny bits are funny, the sad bits are sad, the Star Fox-style rail shooter bits and Punch-Out-style fistfights are well-done homages... I've been waiting for a port of this for YEARS.

[Norgarth]

Stibbles Codex of Companions
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/415...ref=at298h

A 5th Edition D&D supplement providing unique animal companions, familiars and pets. Along with new ways to use them at your table!

just under 2 wks to go, well past the initial goal and working through stretch goals.

[Rajvik]

Monsters Monsters and "The Toughest Dungeon"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...escription

Just under a month to go and already funded, i joined in to get the nice leather bound copy

[Bob Schroeck]

Stibbles Codex of Companions
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/415...ref=at298h

A 5th Edition D&D supplement providing unique animal companions, familiars and pets. Along with new ways to use them at your table!

just under 2 wks to go, well past the initial goal and working through stretch goals.

Not having ever seen 5th Ed D&D, and still running 1st Ed AD&D, I have to ask how hard the conversion from the one to the other is.  Because if it's not too big a deal, I just might kick in on this one.

[Norgarth]

I believe AD&D counts as 2nd edition.  That said, yeah, there's been a fair number of changes since then.

5th edition dialed back some of the changes from 4th (which was rather different from 3rd/3.5), but it's still plenty of changes and I'm not sure how easy/hard a conversion would be.

For starters, ever since 3rd Ed, Ac has gone from low=bad to high=good, (easier to calculate than THAC0), and several new character classes have been added (Sorcerer was added in 3rd and 5th added Warlock, both arcane type spellcasters).  4th added a few that have been subsequently removed.

Elves, Dwarves, and halflings don't count as racially determined Classes, any race can be any class (though some races don't lend themselves well to certain classes)

For that matter, since 3rd edition the list of standard (and optional) player races has expanded a bunch.  the Standard races in 5th Ed are Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, gnomes, Half-elves, Half-orcs, Dragonborn (originally inspired by the Draconians from Dragonlance I believe), and Teiflings (basically humans with obvious Infernal heritage)

Optional races include Assimar (the Celestial equivalents of Teiflings), Genesai (sp? same again but Elemental heratige, Warforged (magical robots/golems) as well as various monster races.

the Standard 5th Ed Classes are: Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druiid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue (changed from Theif back in 3rd Ed I think)Wizard, Sorcerer (sort of a Wizard but the magic comes from Draconic/fey/etc bloodline instead of extensive study), and Warlock (sort of a Wizard but the spells come from a Pact made with a Demon/ArchFey/Great Old One/etc)


wow, I kinda rambled there.  Boiled down, I suspect it'd be a fair bit of effort to convert the book to AD&D, since the change between AD&D and 3rd Edition were pretty big and the differences have only grown since.

[robkelk]

I believe AD&D counts as 2nd edition.  That said, yeah, there's been a fair number of changes since then.

There's a First Edition AD&D and a Second Edition AD&D. First Edition has stat caps for nonhuman races (and lower caps for female characters in some cases) that Second Edition doesn't, for one thing.


Back on-topic...

Bug Martini - The First Book Collection. Already funded and first stretch goal reached, with 23 days to go.

The PDF of the book is 95% complete at this time so the only thing holding up production will be raising money for the actual printing. I'll be using a company called Print Ninja which specializes in illustrated books so this won't be their first time to this rodeo.

[Shepherd]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ori...escription
Foglio Portfolio - High quality Magic: the Gathering art playmats signed by Kaja and Phil Foglio.

[Norgarth]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...kit_launch
An artbook for the webcomic Lackadaisy Cats, and hopes to create an animated short.

[Norgarth]

Frosthaven : Euro-inspired dungeon crawling sequel to the 2017 smash-hit Gloomhaven
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fro...ref=eog8lr

[Norgarth]

Starlight is a solo/cooperative campaign game for 1-4 players where you fight in space battles and explore a mysterious universe.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcc...ninbox.com
only 7 days to go, well into stretch goals