Sigma-X posted:

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you literally didn't recognize any of them as being rip offs of various anime / cartoons.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

I was tempted by this, I just couldn't think of enough used to justify a $600 3D printer.

dwarf74 posted:

It has a class called the Psycho. How could you not be on board?

clockworkjoe posted:

This looks interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvmedia/ki-khanga-a-sword-and-soul-role-playing-game

Hiro Protagonist posted:

Here you go!

Baron Snow posted:

Some of you seemed interested in the style of the teaser image I posted last, so I figured you'd get a kick out of the full cover art.

cyberia posted:

Baron Snow posted:

The Lazer Ryderz Kickstarter is live!
And oh my god, the box is cooler then I thought it'd be.

Nuns with Guns posted:

like senrath said, yu-gi-oh was originally just a manga about a hyper competitive pharoah possessing a boy to play any kind of game of chance. iirc there's even a bit where they do an arc around russian roulette. The magic: the gathering children's card game arc was so popular they revisited it a few times, then decided to license the property for a card game and port the anime to the west, which became card-focused after the first season.

jmzero posted:

Not to be too much of a wet blanket, but their last game - RESISTOR - also looked pretty cool visually. Unfortunately, it was pretty much one big glaring game design problem, got tepid reviews overall, and I think was forgotten about pretty quickly.

So yeah, I really like the visuals and the boxes here, but I have no faith in their ability to design a game.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Ok reading Deep Madness a bit more, here's my concern:

you set up a scenario
rooms get corrupted at random
corrupted rooms spawn monsters
monsters are more powerful in corrupted rooms

My fear is that the interaction of the random room mechanic with the scenario mechanic will result in a Betrayal at House on the Hill scenario where it's just complete luck as to whether or not you can make it through the scenario. In some cases, you could draw badly and all of your scenario objectives are lurking in corrupted rooms with powerful monsters in them.

There's also a race mechanic in the game - your guys start out in peak condition but a casual read of the mechanics shows that they get nasty conditions piled on them and also need to search for equipment to deal with certain environmental obstacles. The equipment search is random. Coupled with the fact that they have "irreplaceable skills" that most likely interact with the scenario somehow...hmm. Again this is not a death sentence but it does make me nervous...if a couple of bad draws tank your Scientist and thus your hope for beating the scenario, that would suck.

Coupled with the horrific amateurishness of the text I am not getting a good vibe about the game part of the KS. If you like the minis though who cares?

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Squiddo is kickstarting some post-apocalyptic female minis that look pretty neat. Might be good for Rogue Stars or similar.

Nuns with Guns posted:

speaking of is there a good Law & Order rpg? because a game with both a police detective phase and a trial by jury phase sounds really fun.

That Old Tree posted:

Harlem Unbound, the Cthulhu mythos in the Harlem Renaissance, seems cool. Mentioning a video game stretch goal immediately makes me wary, though, even if it's kind of jokey. Still, there are good, reliable people involved, so backed for now.

Ettin posted:

I'm currently debating making the art book double as a splat for the tabletop game so I can put it on DriveThruRPG. We'll see if that works out I guess

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Do you like scifi in the vein of Asimov, Blade Runner, Terminator, Ex Machina, Automata and Westworld? Then Mutant: Mechatron is for you!

This is the second major expansion to Mutant: Year Zero, the award-winning postapocalyptic pen&paper roleplaying game by Free League Publishing.

But Mutant: Mechatron is no mere supplement - it stands on its own and can be played as a complete game in its own right. Get ready for the rise of the robots!

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Mutant: Mechatron tells the origin story of the robots, and introduces them into the dawnworld of Mutant: Year Zero. Some of the contents:

New rules for creating and playing robots. A unique system lets you build your machine character part by part. The book includes all the rules you need to play!

A detailed description of Mechatron-7, the huge underground robot hive, including a beautiful full-color map.

The complete campaign Ghost in the Machine, putting the player characters in the middle of a conflict threatening the future of the entire robot hive.

An overview of how the robots can adapt to life in the Zone, and join the human mutants of Mutant: Year Zero.

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Mutant: Mechatron is a full game in its own right, but if you’re new to the Mutant: Year Zero universe there has never been a better time to get started!

During the entire run of this Kickstarter, we have a 20% discount on all Mutant: Year Zero products in the Free League webstore. (We have EU- and North America-friendly shipping.)

Mutant: Year Zero is the latest version of the classic Swedish pen & paper roleplaying game Mutant, first published in 1984. Mutant: Year Zero was published in 2014, and was awarded RPG of the Year by the main Swedish gaming magazine Fenix.

The English version of the game was released in December of 2014, and was an instant hit. Watch the release trailer here. Mutant: Year Zero was named Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2015 and it was awarded a Silver ENnie for Best Rules at Gencon 2015.

The first expansion for Mutant: Year Zero was Mutant: Genlab Alpha, telling the story of the mutant animals. Mutant: Genlab Alpha was successfully kickstarted a year ago and released in July last year.

Hiro Protagonist posted:

Riotminds, creators of Trudvang Chronicles, have put up a translation of their other big roleplaying game, Gotterdammerung, on Kickstarter, under the name Lex Ocultum. It's a really interesting idea. All the secret societies and occult stuff of the 18th and 19th centuries? It was true, and you are the people that had to fight the gently caress ups of the ignorant nobility who dabbled in that which man should not know. In a way, it is similar to Call of Cthulhu, and it uses the BRP system, but it is based more heavily in the Enlightenment, with more of a Templars fighting in the background rather than random people swept into the conflict, at least as far I can tell.

El Estrago Bonito posted:

The only time sex has really come up was in playing the Pendragon grand campaign where the entire game covers the rise and fall of Arthur Pendragon from the death of his father to Camlann which covers a pretty long period of time and having kids is heavily advantageous to having your Game of Thrones esque plots see completion. When I ran that game we managed to have one player have like four sons who all died in battle fighting with Arthur in various campaigns so he was considered weak, but he had actually sent his secret fifth son to marry a African princess and he returned at Camlann right after Arthur and Mordreds deaths, routed both the remaining armies and seized the throne of Britain. We then ran a ~6 month follow up game where the grand children of the now dead PCs traveled to Normandy and Scandinavia in order to raise troops to depose the 12 year old king of England and Aksum.

The Malthusian posted:

The Mutant Year Zero robot expansion book has come up in the thread a couple of times before--it looks like most of their stretch goals are new "Zone Sectors." Anyone familiar with the base game and its released Zone Sectors? Are they any good? Just trying to judge how the ones for this Kickstarter might turn out.

Chill la Chill posted:

WizKids should do that with a whole new game and jumpstart their usual awful business model from the ground up. They can even have a super expensive tier that allows you to join a special tournament that, upon winning, allows you to have even more exclusive cards.

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An epic adventure book for 5E. Blends classic fantasy with Greek mythology. From the lead designer of Baldur's Gate I & II and KOTOR.

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If you've been following this project already, then you know that we've released the Player's Guide to Odyssey of the Dragonlords for FREE on DriveThruRPG.com. This 32-page booklet provides players with a starting point for their journey into the lands of Thylea. It contains all the information you need to create your character.

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About
Embrace the savage darkness of post-Roman Britain with Wolves of God, a semi-historical tabletop RPG from the creator of Stars Without Number, Godbound, Scarlet Heroes, and other best-selling role-playing games.

It is the year 710 of our Lord as brother Bede reckons it. The barbaric English have long since swept over Britain, their passage shrouded by the smoke of burning cities. For six generations they have been masters of the best part of the island, driving the native Britons before them with bloody iron or taking them as thralls and subjects, until the wretched heirs of the Roman kings can have refuge only in the western mountains or the cold northern lands. The magnificent Roman cities of old have been thrown down, the roads have grown wild and perilous, and even the kings of the English must live in thatched wooden halls and ride from one royal villa to the next merely to feed their companions. It is an age of darkness, poverty, and unsleeping war.

Four generations ago the English turned Christian under the ministrations of Roman missionaries and Irish monks. Scattered across their untamed lands are the minsters of these clergy, strongholds of learning and Roman civilization against the hard ways of the English tribes. Only in the minsters can stone buildings be found, with windows of glass and artisan-monks fashioning wonders to adorn their altars and reward the generosity of great lords. Brave abbots and wise abbesses rule these strongholds, always seeking to lift their kinsmen from their cruel ways and iniquities, and always in need of strong heroes to help them in their work.

Yet there are worse things in the dark than raiding warbands and embittered pagan remnants. The Roman sorcerers, the Artifexes of old, carved cysts into the world where they and their slaves could hide from the fury of the English. These Arxes were sealed until help could come, but help never did; now they canker and rot, old magic gone sour and strange, and those that dwell within them have been terribly changed. The Arxes burst open within the fallen Roman cities, monstrous beasts and twisted men going forth to scourge the innocent and take revenge for the crime of their conquest. The minsters stand fast against their diabolic power, but the abbots and lords need brave heroes to venture into the cities and purge these Arxes of evil before they can swell greater still.

You are one such hero. Whether a spear-wise gesith, a young ceorl of broad back and stout heart, a wild-eyed waelcyrige-maiden of battle, a charm-muttering galdorman, or even a blessed and pious saint, your ambition is to earn a deathless name of glory and an honored place among your people. Whether offering your aid to warring lords, plundering the riches of fallen Roman cities, delving the dark halls of a festering Arx, or acting as agents of some cunning abbot, you will dare great deeds with your brave warband of companions and win yourself a place in the songs of kings… or a nameless grave in some blighted earth.

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What is Fae's Anatomy?

Fae’s Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG parodies the stories found in procedural medical dramas. Think General Hospital, Grey’s Anatomy, M.A.S.H, or House. Only insane, because who needs realism?


One player takes on the role of the Patient, struggling to provide the medical team with enough clues so they can make a diagnosis. Each Patient can come down with any 1-of-10,000 possible diseases! Roleplay the symptoms...or die!


The rest of the players are Providers, medical professionals dedicated to solving the case and saving a life. But being a doctor is stressful! To stay focused and solve the case, our medical heroes need to steal medications from the pharmacy, make out in broom closets, and the other heinously unprofessional stuff that makes science interesting enough to watch on television.


No one starts the game knowing what’s wrong; the game “black boxes” the diagnostic puzzle so that even the Patient doesn’t know what they’re suffering from. The whole table has to work together to solve the crisis!

Who is Fae's Anatomy For?

Fae’s Anatomy is an indie storytelling game wrapped around a sprawling logic puzzle. It features the fun and freedom of an improv game (like Fiasco or Hillfolk), but fueled by a deductive challenge difficult enough to engage more traditional RPG players.


Fae’s Anatomy is GM-less and dice-less. The rules take five minutes to learn, fit onto a single character sheet, and require no more than one person to have read anything beforehand.


Everything in Fae's Anatomy — theme, mechanics, presentation, etc. — is designed to get the game started as quickly and easily as possible.

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This book contains real medical information! Well, half of it does. Actually, it’s probably somewhere between 25-33%. And most of that is from Wikipedia. But it’s real, damnit! While no one should use FAMMM to learn medicine, we’d love it if players could pass through the game on their way towards actual Biology.


If we meet this stretch goal, the book includes extensive endnotes for every source used to make the -Natural side of the list. We’ll also link to those sources in the PDF and any future digital releases.

CobiWann posted:

Boosting the signal for a friend of mine...

The Hammer and the Stake - a new RPG where 1920s era Eastern European socialists fight a tyrannical government led by Count Dracula!

DarkAvenger211 posted:

Are there any threads in here on the YZ engine games? I've got a couple I haven't read yet but I'd be interested in hearing other people's experience with it too.

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Monarch Edition is a complete remaster of the original Over War, which has been out since 2022. Monarch Edition adds new tables, resources, lore, GM tools, and solo play support, and includes all content from the Fraternization And Fortresses, Roads Of Caer Elhwyn, The Gerlac Woods, and Lake Crescent expansions.

By Richard Kelly February 5, 2024 on kickstarter comment 2 posted:

At the start of the game, you have five types of characters unlocked. This means you might be able to put Gremlins, Rocketists, Wolfhounds, Archmages, and Ghosts in your Unit, freely mixing and matching in whatever formation you like. You might build your Unit out of only Gremlins, or put a sturdy Wolfhound in the front and a frail but powerful Archmage in the back. When you have time between battles, you can reshuffle both your formation and which types of characters you have included, so you can even design counter-formations to deal with particularly pesky enemy Units.

As you play, you explore the hexmaps of the various provinces and territories of Ballark and visit the towns and cities therein. Most settled tiles will let you heal and reshuffle your formation, but some will unlock new character types---or will give you a choice that unlocks a new character type if you're willing to pay the price.

In the first scenario included in Monarch Edition, The Campaign For Estwald, the players come across a human city plagued by an infestation of Vampyres. The humans want the Vampyres gone, and will gladly give you rations and a holy relic in exchange for purging them from the streets. The Vampyres, on the other hand, are sick of being pushed to the margins of mortal society and will happily join up with you if you leave them in peace. The humans of Ballark don't like it, and it affects your Reputation with them, but you can choose to unlock Vampyres here, gaining a powerful character type that hits harder at night.