Kick ALL the Starters, Part III: Fund ALL the Crowds!

[Mamorien]

I'm happy with the campaign that is unfolding currently.

Question Hound returns to Kickstarter for Maximum Cope!

He's been with you through winking WhatsApp chats, weekend work emails, and Discord dramas. Now it's time for you to accompany Question Hound through an anxiety-tinged adventure of his own in his first video game.

Welcome to the Kickstarter campaign for "This is Fine: Maximum Cope," a charming platformer where our beloved character faces off against the manifestations of his deepest fears and anxieties.

With a little less than 10 days to go, he's over the 70% mark, which usually indicates a campaign will succeed, but they do say every little bit helps. As a backer of two previous KCG campaigns (the Question Hound "This is Fine" plushie and his comic adaptation of Collodi's original Pinocchio), I got a double reminder.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kcg...imum-cope/

[Shepherd]

A Kickstarter for a game by Steve Jackson:

One-Page Bulge 2nd edition

The iconic game by Hall of Fame designer Steve Jackson in a new new solo and 2-player version for the 80th anniversary of the battle.

Steve was already a respected game designer in 1980 when Moves magazine posited the question, "Would it be possible to get all the rules for a wargame ... onto both sides of an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper?" Steve's response was "Sure. Why not?"

The result was a fun, challenging and easy-to-learn regimental-scale game based on solid historical research.

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

[Mamorien]

The next Exalted expansion is upon us.

There is a world beyond Creation, a world alive with the endless motion of titanic machinery. This is Autochthonia, the Realm of Brass and Shadows, the world that is the living body of the Machine God. No green thing has ever grown here; no sun’s light has ever touched its vast metal expanse. It is haunted by alien machine gods and stalked by monstrous nightmares of flesh and steel. Survival here is all but impossible — and yet, the Eight Nations still stand.

The people of Autochthonia live within the body of their god, toiling to maintain the Great Maker’s industrial organs and world-machinery. It is a harsh existence, ever on the precipice of disaster. It is only by the incalculable effort of millions and the divine power of the Alchemical Exalted that the people of Autochthonia thrive.

ALCHEMICALS
Forged by the Machine God

The Alchemical Exalted are the Chosen of the Machine God, biomechanical demigods forged from divine metal and heroic souls. They do not rule the Eight Nations, but serve as Champions of the people, a sacred duty greater than any ambition. The eldest of Alchemicals transcend their human forms to become metropoli, living cities that offer the Eight Nations a stronghold against Autochthonia’s perils.

The Realm of Brass and Shadows is unforgiving, and the Eight Nations find themselves faced with many challenges: cataclysmic upheavals of Autochthon’s world-machinery, incursions of gruesome techno-organic gremlins, and the ever-present threat to their livelihoods. All the while, the slumbering Autochthon grows ever sicker, his corrupting Blight metastasizing throughout his world-body. Despair not. There is work to be done.

The campaign is just over nine hours in and just over 250% funded. Unlocked stretch goals include a Storyteller's screen, a metropolis that's been flung into Creation, a collection of ST advice and plot hooks, and a section on those who live in the Reaches beyond the Eight Nations (all but the screen incorporated into an Alchemicals Companion along the same lines as Heirs to the Shogunate, Many-Faced Strangers and the upcoming Miracles of Divine Flame). Possible future companion expansions include new panoply (Charms, submodules, and the beamklave-based martial art Light-Sharpening Blade Style) and quick-character stats for Apostate Alchemicals and other creatures of the Blight. Now how much would you pay?

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ony...ted-3e-rpg

[Mamorien]

Got three several licensed projects for you, two of them about to sound their respective two-day warnings and the third with about four weeks to go. In the order of their disappearance, we begin with the Smurfs Roleplaying Game by Maestro Media. Adventure in the Cursed Lands as a pre-generated Smurf of your choice, including the Smurf-flowers from the long-lost village of Smurfy Grove, or make your own (or remake a canonical Smurf who didn't make the cut, such as Pretentious Smurf from before or after he was King Smurf).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mae...f=activity

Then, Beadle and Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse, aka Matthew Lillard and his D&D group, have done a pair of licensed Star Trek party games: the first Trek murder mystery game-night I can recall since the nineties (Picard: Murder on the Titan-A) and what I think is the franchise's first proper escape room experience (Strange New Worlds: Mary Celeste).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bea...f=activity

Finally, professional licensees Cryptozoic Entertainment (from whom I backed two Ghostbusters board games) are bringing the classic DC Heroes Role-Playing Game back into print for its 40th anniversary. First or second edition box set, or both with add-ons and higher pledge levels, plus seven bundles of sourcebooks and adventures from both editions that you can add or otherwise include.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...f=activity