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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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RELEASE: Home of the Brave

Greater Spirit Games (me) has just made its first commercial product available for sale on DriveThruRPG. Home of the Brave is available for $2.99. It’s a humble 13-page game based around playing Presidential Candidates in the fictional Republic of Amera. You use cards and 1 ten-sided die in order to roleplay the day-to-day narrative of the campaign trail. Each News Cycle of a game will introduce its own Theme and Political Issue, and the candidates use their playing cards, the political parties they’ve chosen to be part of, and the issue and theme they’re tackling to make humorous political speeches and earn points. At the end of the game there is a final Presidential Debate after which the highest-scoring character wins the Presidency!

The game is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND so you can share it with your game group, but every copy helps support me and my future endeavors. Every little $2.99 counts at this point! In addition, buying through DTRPG will keep you up to the minute on any Errata I have to issue or content updates, delivered absolutely free with your purchase. So if you’ve ever wanted more of my whacky ideas in a small purchasable package, now’s your chance. May the 24-hour news cycle be with you!

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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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DriveThruRPG Halloween Promotion

 

It’s that time of the year again, when online stores start to dish out quirky holiday promotions for our favorite day to stuff ourselves full of candy themed after gross things, and dress up as even grosser things. Not only is DriveThruRPG hosting their usual sales through the Drunken Goblin Page, they’re also doing a special promotion. As you can see on the banner above, there’s going to be pumpkins scattered around the site. When you find a Pumpkin (there’s 7 of these) you can click on it to earn a treat, such as a discount. So while browsing the sales, keep your eyes. I’ve yet to find one, myself.

As far as the sale items there’s a few that’d interest me. There’s the sort of seminal “kid horror” RPG Little Fears, which I’ve heard had some of its more exploitative content (like that creepy child predation-themed King of Lust) toned down in the Anniversary Edition so it’s proper scary and not “weird child exploitation what the hell am I reading” scary. Sounds good to me.

Pelgrane Press has a sale on some GUMSHOE stuff. GUMSHOE is their investigative RPG system. I’ve always been interested in what GUMSHOE represents, as a new school narrative take on stuff like Call of Cthulhu, but never enough to buy it. I’ve hard good things about The Esoterrorists and that line currently has a huge amount of stuff on sale. The core game itself is in this book, which seems more than reasonable at 6.71, so I might even spring for it myself. The rest of it is discounted for the Halloween sale, so you might want to look at it before the 5 days of the sale are up.

Other Publishers also have their own sales and Halloween product bundles, even if not listed on the Drunken Goblin Page, that may be worth checking out. You can probably find most of them by searching for Halloween on DTRPG. Bundles tend to be pretty good values around this time of year, and you can scroll all the way to the bottom to see exactly what you save, and judge for yourself whether you’re okay with the savings. For example, our good friends at Lee’s Lists have a Bundle up right now with some Halloween-themed lists. Halloween-themed stuff tends to mesh well with the fantasy dungeon crawling RPGs that most people tend to be into, so you’ve got a huge selection of stuff from this holiday sale.

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Fantasy Flight Games Releases Only War Beta

Well, this was certainly unexpected for me. I haven’t exactly been keeping up with the news, but I received a DriveThruRPG notice that Only War: Core Rules Beta is up on the site now for $20 USD.

The book is in black and white, but it’s the whole book, so I guess that’s why they’re charging for it. Aside from being in black and white instead of color this is a whole 40k core rulebook, all 267 pages of it, with all the chapters and rules needed to play a complete game with all of the rules of a typical Warhammer 40k system RPG. The PDF contains artwork and it has the familiar layout for FFG 40k products. The PDF is bookmarked, and contains an adventure at the end as usual. I’ve only gotten to skim through looking for artwork and such so far because I just got the book like three minutes ago.

There’s like 10 guardsmen specialties including Ogryn, Techpriest Enginseer, and COMMISSAR. There’s stats for the Baneblade, Leman Russ, Sentinel, Chimera, Hellhound and Basilisk. There’s a huge section on Equipment, and its availability for the Guard. There’s a new setting, The Spinward Front. And there’s a whole Regimental Creation section. The Adveraries section contains Chaos and Dark Eldar, as well as their vehicles. If you’ve got Deathwatch, you can probably introduce all the enemies from there into here without much fuss – they use the same enemy class system.

Looks great. Gonna read it and see if I can get back to you, perhaps as a Critical-Hits review in lieu of my other 40k work there.

This is gonna be pretty sweet.

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