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

Dream of Djinn
This looks like a nice starter adventure for low level characters…if you’re like me and enjoy having traps everywhere and twisting people’s wishes into something now quite what they wanted. In the product description they outline some of the traps your poor party will encounter, and creativity is encouraged to get out of them.

“Suitable for lower-level characters (as you might not want to be too attached to them), Dream of the Djinn focuses on deadly traps, cunning curses, and a healthy dose of exploration. During testing, the adventure has so far provided about 12-15 hours of gameplay, a high mortality rate, and a consistent thumbs up.

Wishes are not the easiest of things to come by, so be prepared for a challenge. Throughout the course of the adventure, characters may run into ancient gods, sinister illusions, powerful artifacts, and trips through time. Or, more likely, their deaths.”

 

Stretchy Chainmail Dice Bags
If the large number of boxes I’ve posted to store your dice in haven’t caught your interest, maybe you should take a look at these bags. They are chainmail, but also include stretchy rubber links that allow the bag to get much larger. The bags they are selling through this kickstarter will hold about 35 dice, and you can choose your color combination!

“Our dice bags are handmade of anodized aluminum & EPDM rubber, which makes them stretchy & helps pad to prevent damage to your dice. The ring measurements are 16 gauge thick & the inner diameter is 5/16″. Each small bag can hold approximately 35 dice. The drawstrings are paracord; the stopper & end caps are plastic. All will be available in different colors.”

 

Kill Doctor Lucky
I really love the idea of this board game, where instead of trying to find the killer, like in Clue, you’re actively trying to murder the host. This game has been out for almost 20 years, but is currently out of print. This kickstarter is to produce a new deluxe edition.

“Cheapass Games was founded in 1996, and our very first board game was Kill Doctor Lucky. It’s a “pre-mystery” board game, where players compete to kill a very lucky old man. Kill Doctor Lucky has been through several versions and variations over the years, and it is currently out of print. To celebrate the 19.5th anniversary, we are bringing back Kill Doctor Lucky in a special edition, with new art and updated rules.

Kill Doctor Lucky is a fast, easy board game. The goal is simple: to kill Doctor Lucky. You’ll sneak around Lucky Mansion looking for good weapons and hiding places. To make a murder attempt, you must be in a room with Doctor Lucky where no one else can see you. And of course, he’s very lucky, so he’s quite hard to kill.”

 

Machu Pichu Dice
I think these dice a gorgeous and incredibly unique. There are several designs to choose from, and even though they are pricier they would make a great addition to a dice collection, or even just look beautiful as a display piece.

“We believe the Machu Picchu Dice to be something quite… weird. GOOD wierd. We have looked extensively, and found nothing slightly similar out there. So we are happy, because we are doing something awesome AND new. We made the dice with two key purposes:
A. Deliver something GREAT. We wanted durability, we wanted precision and we wanted beauty.
B. To create a product that MEANT something.

There is so much amazing things to be shared from this corner of the world: talented people, amazing designs and materials, that even something as simple as reimagining a dice design is an opportunity to create something truly unique. It’s hard work, and a single die can take many hours to make, but the result is well worth it.”

 

Crucible: A Coin-based Fantasy RPG
Crucible uses a d2 system, which is heavily integrated into the worldbuilding of the setting. I haven’t seen d2s as a core mechanic before, and I think it looks like a great way to incorporate them. You can use any d2 you want, but the campaign is producing special coins to go along with their world.

“Coins in Crucible aren’t just for mechanics, they’re also an integral part of the game world. They are sacred tokens, reservoirs of energy that allow those journeying toward ascension to focus and extend their capacities, enchant relics, and boost their potential to superhuman or even godlike levels.

Coins are also used to invest power into accoutrements of legend. Like Gandalf’s Glamdring or King Arthur’s Excalibur, the most important relics in a character’s possession remain with them over their lifetime, growing in power and renown as the character does.

The tail-sides of the coins are important in Crucible, for it is in them that the creation of the world is described. We call this the “Tale-side”, and this aspect carries through into gameplay where characters select stories that add drama and interest to their development instead of traditional advantages and disadvantages.”

 

H.P. Lovecraft Metal Record
Just to add some diversity to this listing, you can now pick up a whole metal album that focuses on Lovecraft’s works. There are song samples on the Kickstarter, and you can also pick up some great artwork they’re producing to accompany the album.

“A guitarist and composer, haunted by alien strains from beyond. An artist, being driven mad by his dreams. At the edge of sanity, the only way back from the yawning gulfs of illimitable horror is…Metal. Heavy Lovecraftian Metal.

‘Oath Of Dagon’ is my 5th record of instrumental, prog-metal guitar. Teaming up with Argentinian fantasy and sci-fi artist Marcelo Orsi Blanco, the purpose of this record is to finally go all-in with a lifelong obsession: the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

The aim here is to create the ultimate, authentic, Lovecraft metal experience. This is a true audio / visual project – a 10 song, full length record with 10 Lovecraftian paintings, combined into a cultist’s Dream Journal. The music and journal will be packaged as a high quality download card with a 20 page comic-style art book.”

 

Still active!

Project Bombshell
Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game
Pathfinder Metal Dice Set
Masks: A New Generation
Cultists and Cthulhu
Spellbook Gaming Boxes
Boogie Dice
Scrawl of Cthulhu
Spaceteam
Tome of Beasts: 300 New Monsters for 5e
The Book of Starry Wisdom