nesbit37 posted:

In honor of the spooky nature of halloween, one of them will be a scenario involving zombees and the other ghost bees from hives in a cemetery.

kinkouin posted:

Yeah, I feel the same way about the art.

It's a cool bundled adventure for those that want a quick start and not the hassle of breaking out pen and paper for DnD but overall didnt hit all the buttons for me.

HazCat posted:

It's the Dreamer's Arcana

HazCat posted:

Thanks so much! I'm really optimistic about the campaign funding, but I'll have to wait and see how badly it stalls in weeks 2 and 3, since apparently those tend to be the worst...


Thanks! I've been really humbled by how much support the deck is getting. I'm so lucky I found such an amazing artist to work with!


She does! She's apollineart on Instagram, has a Facebook portfolio and is on ArtStation.

She does artwork for boardgames too, so this post is even tangentially on topic

Cecil posted:

Hi, Hello, and Hooray! Dear Reader,

The Forest Hymn & Picnic is a forthcoming tabletop adventure game set across the backdrop of a very absurd, unending and often haunted forest. Players take up the lives of oddballs in The Forest Hymn—precocious Animal Folk, lost People, or costumed Ghosts—as they stumble upon trouble in the strange woods. Take on work in town and get to know the neighbors, investigate the supernatural, take a spot in the brass band, explore the ruins that litter the woods or even win a dance marathon at the county fair! This role playing game is best played in 2 to 4 hour sessions by folks ages 13 and up.

This RPG is heavily inspired by the following sweethearts:

• The illustrations and literary works of Arnold Lobel: Frog & Toad, etcetera
  
• The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  
• The more outlandish bits of the 100 Acre Wood as told by A. A. Milne
  
• Over The Garden Wall by Patrick McHale
  
• A certain animated film from 1949 based on Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
  
• The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks—specifically the 1929 version in both black and white!
  
• Stories allegedly told by the Greek fabulist Aesop
  
• The music of The Decemberists
  

FirstAidKite posted:

Quick question for you Nemesis of Moles about Americana, I know it has listed 6 archetypes which I'm guessing are basically just classes, but is it listed anywhere what the races are? I only skimmed through and I saw that it mentioned that there would be 9 fantasy species but I wasn't sure what species that included or if it was listed down somewhere in particular.

Bruceski posted:

From a post a couple of pages back:

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

To expand and explain a little bit - the 9 species thing is actually me goofing up, I meant to say 8, but since I goofed we've been talking about adding Tieflings or something to the cast. Or I'll fix the typo and hope not too many people notice. Stay on the edge of your seats!

What makes the species different from each other is also right now purely an aesthetic choice, but we're playing around with an Cultural or Species strength list to choose one additional strength from. People like both kinds right now so we'll see what it ends up looking after some more playtesting.

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

To expand and explain a little bit - the 9 species thing is actually me goofing up, I meant to say 8, but since I goofed we've been talking about adding Tieflings or something to the cast. Or I'll fix the typo and hope not too many people notice. Stay on the edge of your seats!

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

Bieeanshee posted:

Bunnies and Burrows is almost as old as formally published D&D, and based heavily on Watership Down. It's... fairly unique.

Bieeanshee posted:

Bunnies and Burrows is almost as old as formally published D&D, and based heavily on Watership Down. It's... fairly unique.

malkav11 posted:

Not completely unique, though. In particular, Bully Pulpit Games did a PBTA game called The Warren with a very similar theme. I haven't played either so I don't know whether The Warren is likely to obviate the need for a new edition of B&B, but Bully Pulpit (in particular Jason Morningstar) are very good and so is the Apocalypse Engine, so I'd say it's at least worth looking at.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

It was created by B. Dennis Sustarre. The same guy, the druid spell Chariot of Sustarre in D&D was named after.

avoraciopoctules posted:

Someone I know on another forum is kickstarting a D&D 5E Adventure Module. It looks pretty cool!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/458886079/petals-and-thorns-what-do-you-believe-in

I am not much of a 5E enthusiast, but this module pitch has me SERIOUSLY tempted to try DMing it. I love fantasy games with interesting faction-based politics, and it sounds like they thought about the strengths and weaknesses of 5E as a system when they set this up. They have also reached the funding level for a Pathfinder conversion!

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

As of this morning, Americana is 90% funded. That's incredible, and a lot of that comes down to everyone in here, SA is something like #3 on our backers/funding list. I was hoping I could ask for one big push from ya'll, some tweets or throwing rocks through windows or however we're supposed to promote stuff these days, to get us through that last 10% and into Funded Land, where the streets are made of honey and Nem's heart rate can return to a normal healthy state.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/americana-1

We've tested out the posters from DriveThru and we'll be including one in every signed copy, and having them for a very low nominal fee (less than $1 if possible) when we launch. We've also launched a section on the website where you can check out some of the stories that'll be included in the book as we work on them, you can find those here.

I'm also doing a Q&A tonight at 7:30PM EST to 9:30, if anyone is interested in checking that out, the link for that is here.

AND our artist Andi has done a bunch more on their CYOA over on their blog, including this, the best thing to come out of this project so far.


Anyway, thanks for all your support, and any more you're all willing to give.

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

We've also launched a section on the website where you can check out some of the stories that'll be included in the book as we work on them, you can find those here.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

I missed out on that sweet sweet Ork Stabr KS (each copy a collector's item!), so there was no way I was going to not back this.

bagrada posted:

Backed Americana as #236. It's not really the type of game my group would play but the CYOA looked fun and I probably got my entertainment out of reading the Orc Stabr stuff posted here already. I also forwarded the Bee Summer KS the other day to my friend who loves nature/science/animal themed euro games. She said she loved it so hopefully she got in before the buzzer. Good luck to you both and all the other goonstarters.

Merauder posted:

Just backed Americana because I will forever have to live with the self loathing of not backing Orc Stabr. Keep up the awesome work.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I backed, and will finally get to be the hunky dreamboat orc I've always wanted to be.

Antivehicular posted:

I appreciate that the first story establishes that this game is radically inclusive, both in the sense of "pushing limits" and in the sense of "way cool."

Leraika posted:

oh poo poo, it's skelly five aces