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

Dice: Rendezvous with Randomness
I really love dice. I love the cool dice that show up on Kickstarter and Shapeways and other online stores. So I really love the idea of a photobook showing off some of the beautiful dice that have been made. I really love the pictures they show on the kickstarter, and you should at least peruse those. You can also get just a print of one of the pictures.

“This book is an homage to the ultimate symbol of table-top and role-playing-game culture. Starting with the color, form and function, I let the dice inspire me. Random chance, luck and probability have even permeated my approach to photography. The work has aroused thoughts on matters of order and chaos, determinism and free will. These subjects too will be a common thread throughout the book. What, of our reality, is just a consequence of a billiard game of atoms and planets following the Big Bang, and what can we actually influence and control? Dice are so much more than just small pieces of plastic. Each set is a work of art and this book will attempt to show that to the world.”

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

HP Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos Petroglyphs
These are really cool looking sets of glyphs depicting Cthulhu that you can display in your home as an artifact you found last time you were in the South Pacific. I really like the full slate with the glyphs in sequence.

“H.P. Lovecraft created a universe where outside forces came to and inhabited our planet before the dawn of man, and left a lasting record of their travails and accomplishments. In stories that are cornerstones of Lovecraft’s history of deep time, like “The Shadow Out of Time” and “At the Mountains of Madness,” explorers, antiquarians, and researchers discover this history through carvings in stone, bas-reliefs, petroglyphs, and murals left behind by ancient races. Our stones depict scenes from the Cthulhu Mythos using the South Pacific Island style of petroglyphs, like those made by the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) people and the Māori of New Zealand.”

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

Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder
Sandy Petersen is a master of Lovecraftian mythos, especially when it comes to integrating it into RPGs. Now he is releasing Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder, which is certainly exciting. The project includes new rules, lore, stat blocks and even miniatures for over 100 mythos monsters. Since Paizo is releasing their own Adventure Path inspired by Lovecraft called Strange Aeons later this year, these new monsters may help to expand that campaign. This book also revises some of the stats released for mythos monsters in previous Bestiaries. I think this will definitely be worth it for the expanded number of monsters and artifacts, not to mention the gorgeous miniatures.

“Sandy Petersen is the undisputed authority on the Cthulhu Mythos in games as the author of the groundbreaking game Call of Cthulhu, the first game ever to bring HP Lovecraft’s work to the gaming world. He now proudly presents Sandy Petersen’s Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder, by Petersen Games. This is the definitive and ultimate guide to bringing Lovecraft to the high fantasy sword and sorcery worlds played using the Pathfinder rule system.

Your band of heroes can now fight (and maybe even defeat) monstrous horrors and bizarre, inhumanly advanced races in adventures featuring these unique entities, their magics, and the alien technologies accurately portrayed from Lovecraftian works!”

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

Worlds of the Cypher System
Monte Cook Games have been teasing this kickstarter for a while, and I couldn’t be happier to see it this morning. The Cypher System is the only major book MCG didn’t Kickstart, but now we have the chance to pledge for world settings for the game. This will get us at minimum three settings books, all of which sounds like amazing places to set your game. The settings include modern people heading back in time to the dinosaurs, a fantasy setting where you can find your own divine spark, and super power horror setting, which just sounds amazing.

“Awaken your divine spark, claim a dominion, and become a god in a fantasy world in which the heavens smashed upon the Earth like a vengeful star.

Or find yourself trapped in the dark and dangerous world of the Cretaceous Period. First you’ll have to figure out how to survive using the tech you brought from the future—modern weapons, advanced science, and bioengineered dinosaurs. Then you can worry about the asteroid that history says wipes out most life on earth.

Or drift to the edge of insanity. They’ll say you’re dangerous. Insane. That you suffer from Dissociative Mask Disorder. Your parents and the doctors and the press and the military—they can’t believe what’s happening. They can’t believe what you can do. And they wouldn’t believe the price you pay.

Three exciting, 192-page campaign settings from the creative minds at Monte Cook Games! The Cypher System is an incredible tabletop roleplaying game engine that delivers all the narrative power and ease of play of Numenera to any campaign you want to run. The content in this Kickstarter will provide at least two full years of awesome Cypher System campaigns—plus the tools and content to build your own incredible games—all straight from the minds of the legendary Monte Cook Games creative team. We’re brewing some awesome books, and if this campaign does well, we’d add more cool stuff, like expanded rules and maybe even some fiction.”

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

HP Lovecraft Birthplace Marker
HP Lovecraft is one of the founders of weird fiction, and for all his faults, he has inspired many to delve the depths of their minds for the horrors that lurk there. Currently there aren’t many markers in his hometown, and this kickstarter is looking to change it.

“Over 125 years after the birth of famed author H.P. Lovecraft, there remains no permanent marker to note where he was born in Providence, Rhode Island. We’re here to change that – with help from YOU.

We, the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council (a federally recognized nonprofit educational organization) would like to place a really special marker to commemorate where it all began – literally, where the literary creator of Cthulhu, the Necronomicon, Nyarlathotep, and myriad other creatures of cosmic imagination, himself came into being.

H.P. Lovecraft, the “father of weird fiction” (a unique blend of horror, science fiction, and fantasy), is revered around the world as one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers of such imaginative fiction – and yet, in his own home town, there are few things to indicate he ever existed here.”
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