Kick ALL the Starters Part II

[robkelk]

The GURPS Girl Genius Kickstarter is up and already funded:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...t_launched

Not only is it funded, but it's reached its one and only stretch goal, an eight-page comic by the Foglios and Mr. Wright.

Agatha is in the house! My copy of the hardcover just arrived.

[Shepherd]

Another Steve Jackson Games Kickstarter, this time for dice and bookmarks. Only seven days on this one, but they've already unlocked three stretch goals.

The Official Munchkin Bookmarks Campaign of Ocean Dice
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...escription

[Shepherd]

Three days to go on a Steve Jackson Games Kickstarter for a pair of dice games, only $7 if you want the rules without the dice.

Nanogames: Dragons & Jack-o'-Lanterns by Steve Jackson

Two dice games, each designed by Steve Jackson. The rules are printed on a poster that folds down to the size of a credit card.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...ve-jackson

[Norgarth]

THE ALL NEW COMMODORE® 64x!

That's right! The legend has returned. Hailed as the World Record holder for the highest-selling single computer model of all time, the Commodore® 64x is going to be a hit with retro fans everywhere.

There will be three models available including the barebones case DIY model, the Extreme Model compatible with Windows 11 and Linux, and the PC gaming-ready Ultimate Model.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/myr...Z545RUyims

[Mamorien]

Before the Psi Orders...
Before Terra Surge...
Before the Nova Age...
Before the Hammersmith Incident...
Before there was a Trinity Continuum as we know it...
There was something else.

Call it what it was: hubris, arrogance, a collective delusion of grandeur… We thought we were the only beings in this universe and that with our grand intellect and glorious empires we were the best humanity would ever be.

And then came Aether.

And along with Aether came mental expansion, form mutation, matter warping, time manipulation, and the discovery of new worlds, new peoples, new and terrifying possibilities.

And with Aether came the doom of humankind. Aether brought the Martians to our world, and the unravelling of the reality we knew.

Aether is a full rule and setting expansion for the Trinity Continuum line of games, set in the year 1895, at a time when humanity has conquered its own world, and now seeks to conquer the limitations imposed on us by the laws of all the sciences known to our kind. Inside, you will find:

• A complete Victorian-era setting and Paths for characters to embark upon within it.
  
• Aether powers allowing you to manipulate fate, space, time, and even your own bodies in wondrous and horrifying ways.
  
• Societies both lawful and rogue, looking to leave their imprint on the world, from those in league with Mina Harker to those affiliated with Dr. Jekyll and Moriarty.
  
• Storyguide advice, secrets, hooks, and plots, to enable you to start your game of Aether off with a bang.
  

Going live July 19th at 2PM Eastern: if you're not already following Richard Thomas, sign up now to get the heads-up! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200...aying-game

[Bob Schroeck]

Oh, I forgot to mention that just before I went on vacation, my copy of Stars of Akarios arrived. (Norgarth pointed this one out two years ago.) I took it with us on the trip, and we got an evening's play in, going through the the first scenario in a 200-page+ book covering several huge story arcs. It's a massive game, and well made, and the space combat has a wonderfully cinematic feel -- I could visualize it on a movie screen a la Star Wars. Two thumbs up.

[Norgarth]

Oh, I forgot to mention that just before I went on vacation, my copy of Stars of Akarios arrived.  (Norgarth pointed this one out two years ago.)  I took it with us on the trip, and we got an evening's play in, going through the the first scenario in a 200-page+ book covering several huge story arcs.  It's a massive game, and well made, and the space combat has a wonderfully cinematic feel -- I could visualize it on a movie screen a la Star Wars.  Two thumbs up.

*nods* I've received my copy as well, and have been trying it out.

[Mamorien]

Per today's Daily Illuminator, Steve Jackson Games is pouring an old game into a new skin!

Next Monday, with your support, we're bringing the Revolution! boardgame, designed by Philip duBarry, back in a new edition. Unavailable for a few years now, Revolution! plays unlike anything else we have published. Rather than dice, cards, or other randomizers, the Revolution! game is driven by skill and your ability to read the table. With no individual turns, the action in the Revolution! boardgame resolves as every players' decisions are revealed at the same time.
For this newest edition of Revolution!, we've partnered with our friends at Paizo to bring the city of Korvosa to your tabletop in a way you've not experienced it before. Better still, this is a true new edition of Revolution . . . our development team worked from the existing Revolution! edition – and expansions! – to reconstruct the game from the ground up to refine the play and carry only our favorite mechanics into this new edition.
The Pathfinder Revolution! Kickstarter campaign has only a single stretch goal, but it is a big one: an integrated five to six player experience! If the goal is unlocked, then we will print the gameboard and bidding boards double-sided – and add the components necessary to support up to six players – making the game fully playable as either a three or four player game or a five or six player game. In the earlier edition of Revolution!, playing with five and six players required an expansion. IWe hope for enough support to simply include that option in the core game.
Your support can make this a success! Please follow the Pathfinder Revolution! Kickstarter page today and join us on Monday, July 18, when we open the project for funding.

That URL again: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...kson-games

[Norgarth]

Monster Hunter International miniatures/board game based on the novels by Larry Correia
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eve...mino20.com

17 days left and they are just about at their first stretch goal.

[Shepherd]

The previously mentioned Pathfinder Revolution! by Steve Jackson Games Kickstarter has begun:

A reimplementation of Revolution! by Steve Jackson Games, Pathfinder Revolution! makes some improvements on the classic, introduces elements of expansion material into the core game, rebalances some elements, and sets it all in the lush world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game by Paizo.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...kson-games

[Shepherd]

The Trinity Continuum: Aether RPG Kickstarter just launched.

Trinity Continuum: Aether is a game of steampunk adventure, exploration, and mystery set in 1895 in the Trinity Continuum. In the decade prior, Nikola Tesla identified and learned to harness Aether, an energy source capable of spinning new realities or unwinding the effect to restore reality. Now, Aether users dot the globe, silently spinning and unwinding with ease while Victorian era society goes about unaware of the dangerous experiments taking place in underground laboratories, dark alleys, and foreign worlds.

Inventors skulk in their secret societies, building new devices with the goal of pioneering exploration, medicine, warfare, and more. The few fortunate enough to wield the apparatus, drink the tonic, or pass through an Aether Gate, may believe they’re pushing humankind into a new, golden scientific age, but just as many take Aether for their own aggrandizement. Aether experimentation has mutated and warped many of its users, sometimes beyond human reckoning.

In the background of this secret dabbling in forbidden science, humanity’s devil-may-care attitude to Aether may be responsible for drawing the attention of the greatest threat our planet and species has ever encountered: the Martians. Soon, it’ll be impossible to keep the use of Aether clandestine, as alien invaders crash into our planet’s surface, keen to vaporize, harvest, and enslave its people.

Will Aether’s users — dubbed Aethernauts by those who know of this new science and its practitioners — make themselves known and defend the Earth against our great foes, or will they only empower themselves and let the unenlightened fall to the depredations of Aether-spawned monsters, tears in reality, and the power-hungry Martians?

In Trinity Continuum: Aether, you play as Squires, Gogs, or even Magogs. Squires are individuals capable of wielding Aether devices to spin reality. Gogs have learned to use Aether to enact a temporary change, either in themselves or others. Magogs have stepped outside the bounds of humanity, enacting permanent physical changes, and are able to use Aether without the aid of a device or prompt.

In this game, you can join the war to stop the Martian invasion; hunt down monsters who use Aether for nefarious purposes; use Aether to spin fantastic new realities; protect reality by unwinding dangerous Aether events; and explore strange places and lost civilizations.

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

[Shepherd]

Steve Jackson Games' 2022 GURPS Pyramid Scheme
Pyramid returns with three new issues! GURPS support for fantasy, modern, and sci-fi campaigns!

$6 gets you all three issues, which is 60 pages total. Stretch goals will unlock additional pages. Only 9 days on the Kickstarter, but already funded and approaching the first stretch goal.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...escription

[Shepherd]

Six days to go on the latest Steve Jackson Games Kickstarter:
Hexagram #10, an Old-School RPG Zine for The Fantasy Trip

A retro-style collection of articles for Steve Jackson's "The Fantasy Trip" roleplaying game.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...ntasy-trip

[Shepherd]

The Spinnerette webcomic is holding a Kickstarter for volume 8 in the series.

Spinnerette Volume 8: Dreaming of a Fight Christmas

Ohio's #3 Superhero is back for more spider-powered shenanigans!

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

[Mamorien]

After several Indiegogos, Onyx Path will be taking their next-announced project to BackerKit's proprietary crowdfunding service.

Welcome to the final stage of your journey. After all this time, your hero becomes a God.
Scion: God brings Scion stories to their final chapter with all-new rules for players and guidance for Storyguides. This completes the journey begun in Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero and continued through Scion: Demigod. Gods face the impossible balance between a desire to interfere with The World and their duty to protect the Overworlds. It presents all the rules and lore Storyguides and players need to craft the thrilling finales of their Scion chronicles.

Sign up now to be notified when it goes live in mid-October:

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action...-main-page

(This leaves them free to use Kickstarter for the next Exalted Third Edition fatsplat, Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course, which is wending its way through the writing process even now.)

[Shepherd]

Foglio Portfoglio 2

Limited Edition, Signed, Extended Art, Officially Licensed Magic: the Gathering Playmats and Prints by Kaja and Phil Foglio

Fully funded with two stretch goals hit an two weeks to go in the Kickstarter.

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

[Norgarth]

while I'm unsure if any of you would be interested in a children's book, It's my brother's first kickstarter so I'll at least leave a link here, just in case.

Agent Cypher - Operation Dandelion
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cel...-dandelion

[Shepherd]

Onyx Path's Backerfit campaign for Scion: God just went live, and you get some bonus PDFs for signing up within the first two days:

If you sign up to be notified at the launch of the campaign and then pledge your support within the first 48 hours, you'll receive the Storypath Starter Set PDF Bundle as a bonus! This bundle contains 5 jumpstart PDF supplements for some of Onyx Path's Storypath system games.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/onyx-path/scion-god

edit:
Just got an email with the names of the 5 bonus jumpstarts for early backers:

A Light Extinguished PDF for Scion Second Edition
Quantum Leap PDF for Trinity Continuum
Party Beach Creature Feature PDF for They Came from Beneath the Sea!
Haunting of Abbeyham Priory PDF for They Came from Beyond the Grave!
Live by the Sword PDF for Scion: Dragon

[robkelk]

A Little Immortality: Schlock Mercenary Book 17

Started an hour ago, and it's almost at the first stretch goal.

[Norgarth]

The Monty Python Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme Role playing game has launched!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exa...-programme
funded in under an hour, already more than 3X the initial target

EDIT:
huh, spotted a Cowboy Bebop RPG kickstarter as well
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/man...aying-game

[Shepherd]

Looks like the Paranoia RPG is getting a new edition. Four weeks to go and they've already unlocked a lot of stretch goals. I played a version of this at a convention decades ago and had a great time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/199...escription

[Bob Schroeck]

I really hate it when Kickstarters I really really want show up at quarterly tax time and/or the start of the holiday season.

[Shepherd]

Munchkin Witches, 30 Cards for Steve Jackson's Munchkin

This new mini-expansion is packed with new Munchkin cards for your next adventure. Expand the classic game with joyous witchery!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...s-munchkin

[Mamorien]

Montreal-based Flyos Games, makers of Vampire: The Masquerade — CHAPTERS, now have a campaign going for the follow-up.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — RETALIATION is a cooperative game where you take on the role of a pack of Garou undertaking perilous missions in a gameplay format known as dungeon-crawling. Each of these missions, called scenarios, lasts around 30 minutes per player. There are 30 scenarios in total, though some are only available depending on the choices you make during the campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fly...etaliation

[Mamorien]

We all remember where we were when the news came in from Gumption, TX, or at least we do if Gumption exists in our timeline and we get news from there.

At 9:41 PM CST on July 4th, 2007, the Permian Basin Superorganism Natural Preserve (known colloquially as the “Mystery Flesh Pit National Park”) experienced a catastrophic disaster which resulted in over 750 fatalities, and over 1,800 major injuries. In the weeks following the incident, approximately 18,000 individuals from the surrounding communities sought medical and psychological treatment for ailments including breathing problems, chest pains, shortness of breath, nausea, birth defects, hallucinations, depression, anxiety, internal bleeding, sore throat, and headaches as a direct result of contact with gastric ejecta which had been introduced to the atmosphere.

But a little hard luck never stopped the American way before!

We here at the Permian Basin Recovery Corporation have been working tirelessly to re-open the Mystery Flesh Pit -- with updated safety and security features! With your help, we aim to put the past behind us and start a new leg of our journey in discovering the wonders of our natural resources.

Yes, mothers, Trevor "Strange Vehicles" Roberts' tale of geobiological scenery and broken philosophy could be continued on your computer!

It focuses on the story of a crew brought in by The Permian Basin Recovery Corporation to increase public awareness on social media of the park's imminent re-opening after the 2007 disaster.

This crew has quite an online following as urban explorers. With their online presence and the MFP's funding, they launch a marketing campaign to put the park back on the map.

Of course, whenever there's an opportunity for things to take a turn for the worse... they do.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vfm...ction-game