There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.
Cthulhu Holiday Ornaments
I have one Cthulhu ornament on my tree, and I can’t wait to add to the collections. These are pretty, made in house, and should get to you by Christmas! This is a short lived project, so get your order in ASAP!
“We’re making Cthulhu Holiday Ornaments for your Cthulhumas tree! This is a very simple campaign, with one goal: to put a set of 4 snazzy mirrored Cthulhu ornaments on your Yuletide tree, wreath, or mantle. That’s it! No complicated add-ons or variations, and we’re planning on producing and shipping quickly, so you can have your ornaments in time to enjoy them for the holidays (at least if you’re in the US or Canada – shipping elsewhere will probably cause them to arrive after Dec. 25).”
Secret Hitler
You can probably figure out what this game is about just from the name. It looks like a lot of fun and I would love to play it at parties. Plus, you can pledge to get some exclusive Cards Against Humanity cards!
“Secret Hitler is a dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930’s Germany. Players are secretly divided into two teams – liberals and fascists. Known only to each other, the Fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader. The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it’s too late.
Each round, players elect a President and a Chancellor who will work together to enact a law from a random deck. If the government passes a fascist law, players must try to figure out if they were betrayed or simply unlucky. Secret Hitler also features government powers that come into play as fascism advances. The fascists will use those powers to create chaos unless liberals can pull the nation back from the brink of war.”
Sly Flourish’s Fantastic Locations
Inspiration is always essential as a GM. And locations can be hard to come up with. A book like this, full of great locations (that are system agnostic!) can be invaluable to a GM, to inspire their own locations or save a little work during prep.
“We RPG game masters have a lot of tools to help us run our roleplaying games. Our monster books and bestiaries give us piles of foes to throw at our adventurers. The various guides for game masters often give us non-player characters, treasures, and story-building tips.
One of the hardest parts of game mastering, however, is coming up with interesting adventure locations for our characters to explore. These locations need to be fantastic, detailed places that capture the minds of our players every session we run. Good locations are hard to improvise and often hard to strip out of a fully-fleshed-out adventure.
Sly Flourish’s Fantastic Locations is a book, available in PDF and print-on-demand, that gives you fifteen system-agnostic fantastic locations to drop into your favorite fantasy roleplaying game. Each location builds on a fantastic theme, such as a mysterious ancient structure under the ice, a cursed castle of a mad king, a fallen celestial fortress, and a dwarven mine that cracked into the tomb of a dead god. Each location includes artwork by Brian Patterson of D20Monkey. Sometimes this artwork takes the form of maps. Sometimes it’s an overlook of a specific location.”
Runequest: Classic Edition
Runequest is a classic old school RPG that has gone through several editions and was Chaosium’s first game. And as Chaosium approaches it’s 40th year as a company, they’ve decided to bring back the classic second edition of the game.
“Here we are in 2015, the 40th Anniversary of Chaosium as a game company. In a few months Glorantha, Greg Stafford’s fantasy game world, celebrates its Golden 50th anniversary. We feel the time is right to bring the celebrated classic second edition of RuneQuest back into print. Gaming is going through a bit of an Old School renaissance as of late, and we want RuneQuest to be a part of it. We hope you’ll join in on the fun!”
Unspoiled! Podcast Laptop Christmas Miracle
Unspoiled is one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and the one I’ve been listening to the longest. Natasha produces an incredible amount of incredibly entertaining content covering books, movies, and TV in short and in depth episodes. She currently could really use a new computer to help her with her full-time podcasting, and you should check out her amazing content even if you don’t want to pledge!
“My increasingly well-known podcast UNspoiled! started four years ago, on a Macbook Pro and a Blue Snowball microphone that my co-host and I had to fight over to be heard. We continued like that for almost two years, upgrading only the microphones, until one day tragedy struck: my laptop slid out of my hands and slammed into the unforgiving concrete of a Philadelphia sidewalk. It continued functioning just long enough for me to purchase an emergency second-hand desktop Mac, which was at the time already 5 years old. Fast forward to today, and I’m still on that old Mac.
This old girl has served me well, but there are signs that she’s approaching her last legs. I already had a hard-drive failure in October of last year, which cost me months of recording time. Thankfully, my unbelievably generous listeners came together to help me purchase the $500 replacement hard drive, and I managed to soldier on. But even that upgrade hasn’t prevented her from slowing down when faced with some of the newer, more intricate software and online apps that I need to deliver the full range of shows and perks to my audience.
Now that I’m embarking on a mission to podcast full-time, it’s more crucial than ever that I have a machine that can withstand the rigors of intensive, constant, everyday use. Not only that, but having so much production to manage really necessitates a laptop; the sheer number of hours I’m putting in now makes sitting constantly at my desk a painful endeavor. ”
Still active!
Würm
What Lies Beyond Reason, a PF adventure path
Lovecraft, P.I.
Age of Legends
Bring Back MST3K
Leonardo
Jellyfish Aquarium
Cthulhu Tales
Yrisa’s Nightmare, A Pathfinder AP
Luma Dice
