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

The Dragon Tray
This is the most beautiful collection of dice trays I’ve ever seen. That shouldn’t be a surprise since this project is by Dog Might Games, but these are works of art. Available in over 25 designs and a variety of finishes, woods, and felts (or even faux leather!) this dice tray will quickly be the envy of anyone else at your table. As an added bonus, each of them come with the hardware to hang them on the wall and display them like the art they are. I ordered the Dragon Sheath when they ran the kickstarter last year and it’s one of my favorite pieces in my gaming collection.

“Crafted by the insane Lumberjack Vikings at Dog Might Games, the Dragon Tray is the most jaw dropping dice rolling surface known to man. These amazing works of art are the culmination of years of artistic study combined with technical expertise and fine craftsmanship. Every Dragon Tray is created from hand selected hardwoods and comes with a Lifetime Guarantee.

At Dog Might, we understand that gaming is about immersion. All of our products are focused on bringing you a unique piece of art that enhances your experience at the gaming table, allowing you to stay in character and keep you fully engaged in the story you are creating. To that end, we have created a wide variety of designs so you will be able to find the right thematic fit for your game.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Fear’s Sharp Little Needles
This book of one shot adventures for Call of Cthulhu has over 20 adventures, written by an impressive array of people. All of them look interesting and creepy, and I love that there’s even a one on one adventure included. Aser’s hoping to convert some of the adventures to Delta Green, and it looks like there’s some great candidates for that. I really appreciate that they will be tagging each adventure with the general plot and monsters so you don’t accidentally include the same monsters as last time you picked up this book.

“Fear’s Sharp Little Needles is a grand collection of Call of Cthulhu 7th edition scenarios in a modern setting (easily convertible to 6th edition). They focus on the darker aspects of horror roleplaying and, as such, are recommended for a mature audience.

More inspired by True Detective and Hannibal than Pulp Horror, these adventures involved mythos corruption of the Human psyche and many feature direct contact with entities from outside space and time. Ideally suited to one evening’s play, they have been written with a compact adventure style and Keepers will need a minimum of preparation time before being able to run them.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

SAYER Season 4
SAYER is an incredibly imaginative podcast about the AI that runs the Typhon station. Creepy, funny, and mind-bending, it’s definitely something you should listen to. And now a fourth season is completely funded and rushing towards some very cool stretch goals, like a dating sim game. Even if you don’t want to put down the money right now, you should check out SAYER. You won’t regret it.

“Season 4 will take the show in a unique direction, as every season before has. I will write every episode, giving me the opportunity to construct a cohesive story arc stretching over the full span of episodes. Seasons 2 and 3 gave us the ability to see into different parts of Typhon as we hopped from resident to resident. Season 4 sees a return to the “one special resident” philosophy of Season 1 and I can’t wait for you to experience that.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Innsmouth: The Lost Drawings
I really enjoy the almost Victorian style of art for these drawings. This artbook is a collection of ‘found’ images of the denizens of Innsmouth. You can get the entire artbook, or just some postcards with prints.

“H.P. Lovecraft has become a legend among those of us with “darker” sensibilities. His Cthulhu mythos has inspired writers as diverse as Stephen King and William S. Burroughs. But what if there was more to Lovecraft’s stories? What if his settings were not so imaginary.

Renowned illustrator and comic artist, Mark A. Nelson, has spent years researching legends surrounding the “fictional” town of Innsmouth, and discovered, on a surprisingly fruitful visit to the Miskatonic University Library in Arkham, Mass, evidence that an artist named Mannish Sycovia, traveled from revolutionary Russia to Innsmouth in 1914, to create portraits of the Innsmouth elite, under the patronage of Mr. Barnabas Marsh. Marsh was the cornerstone of the Innsmouth high society, and heir to the Obed Marsh Gold Refining business. His increasingly strange behavior and his infrequent ventures out of Innsmouth helped to alienate him from those closest to him. Following the 1927 demolition of the town by the U.S. Army following an aggressive bootlegging raid, the artist was never heard from again. Only rumors and fishy stories remained until this body of work was uncovered.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Harlem Unbound
There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.
The 1920’s is a very popular era for Call of Cthulhu games. Harlem Unbound is a sourcebook for the Harlem Renaissance for Call of Cthulhu and Gumshoe games. My history education is lacking, and I sadly don’t know much about the era, but it looks like a really intriguing place to pull from your game. Plus it’s really nice to see mythos based RPGs that overtly work address the bigotry in Lovecraft’s original works.

“Harlem Unbound is a unique RPG sourcebook that takes players into the exciting world of the Harlem Renaissance at its height, to face terrifying horrors from the Lovecraftian Mythos. This groundbreaking tome gives Keepers and players everything they need to bring this unique place and time to life, and engage with the people who gave it its soul. Harlem Unbound is compatible with multiple systems, with options for investigating the Mythos on New York’s jazz-soaked streets using either Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu RPG or any of the several GUMSHOE-powered investigative RPGs by Pelgrane Press.

This sourcebook flips the standard Lovecraftian view of minorities on its head, putting them in the role of heroes who must struggle against cosmic horrors while also fighting for a chance at equality. By default, the protagonists of Harlem Unbound are African American, not white (which is the standard assumption found in Lovecraftian fiction). Our heroes and heroines come from all walks of life with regard to class, ethnicity, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation. The heart of the Renaissance was a revolution aimed at changing the world through art, ideas, and the written word. It was a uniquely powerful movement against the unjust status quo, a time in history that still inspires today. The history, people and stories in this book shine the spotlight on the people of Harlem, their successes and their struggles.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Tales from the Loop: Roleplaying in the 80’s That Never Happened
This game reminds me of Stranger Things, where you play kids in the 80’s investigating the strange going-ons in the town you live in. However, this town has some cool and creepy scifi stuff going on in the background. The game was inspired by art, and in turn the art in it is beautiful, very realistic, making the appearance of the machines even stranger.

“In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop.

Acclaimed scifi artist Simon Stålenhag’s paintings of Swedish 1980s suburbia, populated by fantastic machines and strange beasts, have spread like wildfire on the Internet. Stålenhag’s portrayal of a childhood against a backdrop of old Volvo cars and coveralls, combined with strange and mystical machines, creates a unique atmosphere that is both instantly recognizable and utterly alien.

Now, for the first time, YOU will get the chance to step into the amazing world of the Loop. With your help, we will be able to create a beautiful printed RPG book about the Tales from the Loop. This game is our third international RPG, after the critically acclaimed Mutant: Year Zero and Coriolis – The Third Horizon. The lead writer is the seasoned Swedish game writer Nils Hintze, backed up by the entire Free League team who handle project management, editing, and graphic design.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Dungeon Crawl Classics Scratch Off Holiday Module
We love playing holiday themed games at TRF, and I really love the creativeness of this new DCC module. The character’s can’t remember who they are and so you don’t know all of your information as the game begins. You have to use your scratch off character sheet to learn who and what you are. The adventure is also holiday themed, called Twilight of the Solstice. There’s not much time left for this, and it should be in your hands by the holidays, so order quickly!

“This Kickstarter funds the creation of a Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure module with a Christmas theme, which includes special scratch-off character sheets for play. Yes, just like the lottery! The adventure is thematically tied to the holiday season and is the perfect adventure to play over your holiday break! The character sheets tie into a specific mechanic described in the adventure, and will enhance the play experience significantly as the players “discover” their characters and recover lost memories by scratching off the appropriate squares.

The adventure module is 24 pages long, written by Marc Bruner with cover art and maps by Doug Kovacs, and interior illustrations by Cliff Kurowski, Doug Kovacs, and Stefan Poag. The module’s page size is 8.5″x11″. Each module includes 6 loose-leaf scratch-off character sheets, also measuring 8.5″x11″, illustrated by Stefan Poag.”
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There’s many interesting items to be found on Kickstarter, but these are the coolest ones this week.

Constellation Dice
I love how clever these dice are, especially the Fate dice. The d6s all have different constellations on them, with the pips being the stars in the constellation. The Fate versions have a bright star in a series of stars, making a plus sign on two sides, that spans to another side with one of the points, creating the minus sign. There’s still the other stars that function as a normal d6 as well. Currently your other dice options are d10s with moons (the d10) or with the planets (including the sun and Pluto, and works as the d100). They’re looking at creating a full dice set though, so keep your eyes on this project.

“Glow in the dark Constellation Dice were designed last year and found encouraging success. It’s originality has been recognized by the world record holder dice collector Mr. Kevin Cook, and the project is going to be featured in the art photo book “Dice – Rendezvous with Randomness” by Måns Danneman (to be soon published by Åskfågeln). They are still in demand, but not many are left. This campaign will provide good company to your First Edition Ptolemaic Constellation Dice (Northern Sky), while offering new backers the chance to grab the very last available First Edition, along with all new designs.”
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The Game Anywhere Table
This is one of the most affordable gaming tables I’ve seen, and even better, it can fold up to go with you anywhere, or for storage when you’re not using it. The basic table is only $259, and then there are a ton of cool add-ons, like cup holders, card holders, ways to divide up player areas and more. If you don’t have the space for a full blown gaming room, this table can make it possible for you to have a great tabletop experience whenever you have friends over.

“Tabletop board games, card games and RPGs have made a huge comeback in popularity, and all of us here at Transforming Designs love them just as much as you do.

The recurring problem is finding where to play and what to play on. So we decided to get our group of engineers together to solve this problem. After months of designing and testing we created the Game Anywhere Table. The Game Anywhere Table was designed with more than just the game in mind, we had the player in mind as well. So, we are proud to introduce our innovative patent pending design with four playing stations featuring magnetic player panels.”
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Follow
This new game from the creator of Microscope is a quickstart system, requires no GM and no prep. It has basic quests that can be adapted to any environment you want, and you can play each quest over and over by facing different challenges each times. I love the flexibility of games like this, and they’re great for unexpected changes to your gaming schedule.

“Follow is a game where you sit down with your friends and play characters working together to achieve a common goal: your quest. The quest you pick decides the kind of game you’ll play. You could start a rebellion, cure a disease, slay a dragon (or a cat), or get your candidate elected. If it’s something people can work together to accomplish, it could be a quest. Will your characters stay united or will their differences tear them apart? Will they triumph or will their hopes go up in flames?

To complete your quest, you confront a series of challenges. Each success makes you more likely to win the quest and each failure makes it harder… but not impossible. The challenges you choose determine what kind of story you’re telling, so you can play the same quest over and over again and have a completely different experience each time. You could play a Heist that was all about casing the joint and crafting a cunning plan, another that was all car chases and gun fights, or one that was all about lying low until the heat blows over and you figure out who ratted you out to the cops. They’re all heists, but even though they’re totally different flavors of heists, one quest template can do them all.”
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