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Kickstarters To Watch: Inverse World

Inverse World is a Dungeon World-based product featuring a unique new setting and many new playbooks. Inverse World has a few design tenets that separate it from common fantasy RPG tropes – for example, flight is not a feared, game-breaking ability, and there is no weird undertone of racial determinism like there is in a lot of other games, where your race will determine what roles you do well in. Instead, the races of Inverse World are all one people but with different appearances, but it doesn’t look as though it will play a role in mechanically pigeonholing you. While the Game was originally for Dungeon World, it’s now also offering a FATE system product that you can also pledge for, if you’re not interesting in Dungeon World.

There’s several levels of rewards you can go for. At the $10 level you get your pick of Dungeon World or Fate Inverse World PDFs, while at $15 level you get both at once. The $30 level is the first physical tier, though it also includes the PDFs. For $50 and $70 you get some physical goodies like post-cards, design commentary, thank-you notes and custom content for your own game. $100 gives you everything plus some artwork. A special $125 bundle intended for a group of four people comes with multiple copies of the game and some of the goodies, and baked-in international shipping, which is a good idea considering how much international shipping can be a bummer for both kickstarter backers and for the creators.

Inverse World is already funded, so you don’t have to worry about whether or not you’ll get it – now it’s all about what you’ll get out of it. The Kickstarter has currently accrued $9000 worth of donations. A number of stretch goals have been reached, such as an additional post-card and new Adventure Locations for the game. The next Stretch Goal at the $10,000 level adds an Instant Islands guide for DMs to quickly create new, interesting places; a $13,000 stretch goal adds vehicles and mounts to the game. Both sound like great values that could vastly improve the play experience.

If you’re a fan of Dungeon World or FATE and want a unique and tasteful new take on fantasy, you’ll want to back this. Already even the smallest tier is looking like a great deal, so give it a look.

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Kickstarter Red Alert: Channel A

I wrote about Channel A a while back, and I wanted to come back to that for a moment because they’ve got less than 48 hours to go to make around $900 in order to fund. Channel A is a card game about putting together a crazy  and funny concept for an anime and pitching it like it was a real thing. They are so close and it’s such a nice-looking game made by some great people that it’d be pretty disappointing if that didn’t manage to fund, so I wanted to put out the word on that again. Check out my old article if you want, and you can also check out Ewen Cluney’s tumblr where he’s posted a cool graphic made by Clay Gardner, the game’s graphic designer, with some Channel A card combinations based on Clay’s twitter friends (including me!). So check it out and see if it’s something you’d want to pitch in for, it’s got a small window left to get it over that last hurdle.

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Kickstarters To Watch: Channel A

Those who have followed me for a long time or who routinely see me on social media services know that I am an anime. I may even be a contender for the biggest anime present in tabletop circles. I have gone so far as to write embarrassing old articles about making your games more anime. It is an influence on any genre-related entertainment writing I perform.

This time around we’ve got Channel A, a premise near and dear to the hearts of a lot of anime fans. I’m pretty sure anyone who has watched enough different anime, and seen the almost absurd breadth of topics they take on, such as the animal-eared people in ancient japanese clan warfare found in Utawarerumono; alternate history mecha rebellions in Code Geass; magical transforming girls in Madoka Magica; and seemingly nothing at all in K-On!; and much more, will have thought about their own conceptual mash-ups and how that mash-up would work as an anime.

In Channel A you do this all the time, because the basic premise is that it is a card-based tabletop game where you get the elements of your anime from cards, and have to put them together into a pitch for the producers. Like Cards Against Humanity it’s a simple concept and derives humor from the combinations and interpretations people put together. Unlike Cards Against Humanity you won’t feel depressed after playing it. The funding goal is $10,000 and they’re at $1500 nowYou can even download the game right now in a basic format so you can take a look at it before deciding whether to pledge.

The basic reward tier is the $25 dollar tier that gets you the game and a series of fun little buttons. Even more fun is the Mystery Box, which includes the game, and three exclusive mystery buttons (mystery may vary) for $25 as well. At $65 dollars you’ll get two copies of the game, the buttons, and a series of five custom buttons with your own chibi (small, cutesy, super-deformed characters) character on them. At $250 dollars you’ll get a special DVD for your own custom-made anime, along with two copies of the game, and the usual set of buttons. The DVD will include a 30 second theme song for your anime, and other goodies.

Stretch goals include a funny video with a cat in it (you know you want this), more exclusive cards at $14,000, more buttons at $16,000, and an exciting expansion set of new cards at $18,000, designed by Ewen Cluney in a livestream with the game’s backers. Ewen Cluney is known for the translation of Maid: RPG and the upcoming Golden Sky Stories, and is the creative force behind Channel A. You can check out his blog here. He’s a pretty cool guy.

So if you’re a fan of humorous light-hearted party card games and anime you should definitely give this a look. You could possibly have a K-On! level success on your hands, albeit only in your own imagination.

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Kickstarters To Watch: Highlights

I normally only cover one product on my Kickstarter posts, and always one that I can write a little bit about or touches me personally in a way that gets me going. There are a lot of kickstarters than interest me and might have gone under people’s radars but that for one reason or another I’m not able to write full posts on each of them, usually because the products are very simple and speak for themselves. So I thought I’d round them all up in one post and write a little bit about them. It’s not that I don’t like them, after all – but I don’t think I could write 500 words on each of them alone! You deserve to know about them nonetheless.

Tavern Cards: Tavern Cards it a product of Chaotic Shiny‘s Hannah Lipsky, long-time maker of Random Generators for RPGs. This time you can help her kickstart a random generator for taverns in the form of a deck of custom playing cards, fully playable in your favorite standard card games like poker, while also containing colorful artwork. By drawing random cards from the deck you can generate a random tavern as explained in the description. $13 gets you a Tavern Deck, $45 gets you a deck and a signed print of one of the cards of your choice by the artist, and for $120 you can be a character on a card! Tavern cards has 14 days to go and is 3/5ths funded, and it’s a simple and interesting idea that I think is quite worth a look.

Thematic Fate Dice: This Kickstarter is essentially for a batch of Fate/Fudge dice that have symbols on the faces instead of just pluses and minuses. I normally use pretty stock dice, but I’ve seen people with all kinds of crazy dice on them that look great. $14 gets you one set of 4 dice, $21 gets you 8 dice, and so on. Most of the pledge levels are different amounts of dice and covering shipping costs. So if you’d like some new dice with colorful faces, you might give this a shot. They’re about halfway funded.

Gnomish Adventurers: I’m not really a Gnome superfan (there is a lot of evidence on twitter of me suggesting gnomes just be thrown out of fantasy games) but even I took notice of these cool-looking Gnome miniatures. The miniatures are already funded, so look to the stretch goals instead: $30 will get you a full set of gnomes, and then some special dice, character sheets and an additional figurine or sprue set. Higher rewards include more sets. Check the page for all the deets.

That’s it for the first batch, if you have any Kickstarters you’d like me to look at, feel free to email me about them. However, I will say that I’ve been getting a lot of requests, and sometimes they really don’t catch my eye. I can’t promise I’ll post about every one, even in these little collections, because sometimes either I’m not interested enough in it, I’d be uncomfortable talking about the project because of my own personal ethics and morals, or I flat out don’t really like it. I try to respond to every email as best as I can, but please take this into consideration before contacting me!

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Kickstarters To Watch: Ehdrigohr

Medieval European Fantasy pretty much permeates fantasy gaming culture, and I’m frankly way past tired of it! If you agree even in part, I encourage you to look to kickstarter and indie projects like Ehdrigohr, a fantasy roleplaying game inspired by tribal and indigenous folklore from around the world. The game is based around the familiar FATE system with a few tweaks, which already spells very good things – FATE is a pretty accessible game with a strong emphasis on story and mechanics that do a lot to help evoke the characters in that story. Edrigohr’s mythology looks rife with opportunities to play new stories and explore a unique world, and the artwork showcased is amazing. The turtle fortress just draws you right in.

For $15 you get the Digital Edition of the game; $25 gets you a softcover and $35 gets you both. Higher than that and you’ve got t-shirts and poster maps to sweeten the pot, and for $500, if you live in the Chicago area, you will get a visit from Mr. Turner himself, who’ll run a game for you and deliver your rewards. Sounds like a blast to me.

Endrigohr is already fully funded, and the next stretch goal is a full-color printing. But I still wanted to draw attention to it just because this went completely under my radar (and I try to pay attention to these things) until now. It has 14 days left and I think it deserves a lot more than $8030 worth of love. It’d be great to get some more exciting stretch goals going. I also think that it is important for the RPG community to highlight and showcase examples where people are innovating, doing something new and cool right from the heart, outside the hobby’s norms. Projects like Ehdrigohr are a huge positive for RPGs, and show that the medium can support a lot more than medieval fantasy europe and its infinite mirrors.

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Expedition becomes Uttarakuru

I’ve made some decisions regarding Expedition that I wanted to share. By this point, I’ve basically made a 180 from what Expedition was about as I’ve incorporated so many new ideas. I figured I might as well go for broke. It’s always been my dream to publish some kind of game system, but also to publish my own campaign setting. In light of the successes of setting-based roleplaying games lately, and (in my opinion) the decline of a lot of traditional “generic” fantasy games, I’ve decided to convert Expedition into Uttarakuru, a setting-based fantasy roleplaying game. It will still use all the mechanics for Expedition that I’ve been talking about such as card-based adventure roleplaying mechanics. However, it will also be a small setting book. So I’m gonna try to hit both of my dreams in one go. Got nothing to lose at this point!

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