There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Unknown Armies
Unknown Armies looks like exactly the type of game I enjoy. Horror? Occult? People struggling (and sometimes failing) to fix the world? Sounds perfect. Plus this game comes from people I trust to succeed in the horror genre, like Greg Stolze and John Tynes.

“Unknown Armies is an occult game about broken people conspiring to fix the world. It’s about humanity, and how those among us who are the most obsessed have the power to alter reality until it aligns with their fevered desires. It’s about getting what you want despite others trying to keep it from you.

Unknown Armies presents magick as it might exist in a world co-created by Tim Powers and James Ellroy, as twisting wrinkles in reality created by greater and greater risk, sacrifice, and obsession. In Unknown Armies we ask, what would you risk to change the world? Your friends? Your family? Your health? Your sanity? Magick finds a way to ask the very most from you, until you achieve what you want or you are left with nothing.

Unknown Armies lets you play one of these characters. Resolve your character’s actions through the luck of percentile dice. Track your character’s emotional response to significant forms of trauma and shock. Try to accomplish a self-assigned objective or goal in order to get what you want. As part of a cabal, your character helps others to achieve their own goals, as well as a group objective that can — and will — have long-lasting consequences when it is met.

Co-created by Greg Stolze and John Tynes, Unknown Armies presents an entirely original and yet disturbingly familiar approach to mystery, horror, and action in roleplaying games. This new edition, helmed by Stolze, also features the diverse talents of a cabal of contributors: Cam Banks, Tim Dedopulos, Shoshana Kessock, Sophie Lagacé, Chris Lites, W.J. MacGuffin, Ryan Macklin, Chad Underkoffler, Monica Valentinelli, and Filamena Young.”

 

Gunmetal Polyhedral Dice
I really love the Gunmetal dice Easy Roller already sells, and now it’s going to be possible to get them in even more colors. These are nice, simple, and beautiful metal dice, and I think they’d be a great addition to my dice collection. Or yours.

“We are launching our entire line of what we call Gunmetal Dice. These 16mm polyhedral dice are made of solid zinc alloy and of black nickel plating which feature beautifully laid numbers in various colors. The plating is laid by hand for a firm hold.

What we’ve found is that everyone (including us) loves metal dice! The metal dice currently on the market are limited, and we’re determined to change that with unique looks and colors.”

 

Wooden Deck and Counter Box
I have the dice chest that these guys made last year and it is lovely. It looks great, holds all the dice I regularly use and everyone comments on it when they see it. If you play a lot of games with cards and counters, these neat little boxes will be a great way to carry them around. There’s a top and bottom compartment once again. And if you don’t use cards, maybe you need a smaller dice box? It couldn’t hurt.

“Approximately 10 month ago, I have started experimenting on and off with a design for wooden storage boxes which can be used as a Deck and Counter Box for Trading Card Games, or used as a mini chest for storing Fantasy Coins and tabletop gaming tokens and accessories. I have designed, redesigned, tweaked designs, and a large number of prototypes were produced as well for trials. Based on the feedback and comments that I’ve received from gamers, I’ve made a number of further tweaks to compartment dimensions, and experimented with different materials and parts.

And finally 10 month later, the design is now matured, and the time have come for this tabletop gaming storage device to be launched on Kickstarter!”

 

Still active!

Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder
Littlest Lovecraft
Dice: Rendezvous with Randomness
Storypath Cards
Gods and Icons
Prism Dice
Judges Guild
MythosMonsters: A Lovecraft Art Book and Coloring Book
Dice Base 2
Don’t Mess with Cthulhu
Meeple Mate Bottle Opener