March Crowdfunding Campaign Collection
March is not the holidays low nor the Zine Month high, so if this is normal, it looks like it will be a strong year for games! The Network is showing off our values this month with games about being queer, fighting fascism, and care for the planet. Sometimes all at once! In the mix are two games about psychic powers (who could have seen that coming!?) and two substantial Powered by the Apocalypse games set in fantasy realms. Please check out all the projects, share them with others who might enjoy them, and if these games look like something you want to exist, please pledge your support!
New for March!
The Psychic Danger Society
Launching 7 March (22-day campaign, ending 28 March) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jameskerr/the-psychic-danger-society
A cozy tabletop roleplaying game of mystery, psychic prediction, community, and tea. Dice are rolled at the beginning of the session as predictions and used throughout the game to save your little town of Beaumontcamp from every little danger. But of course, not every danger can be avoided, and as cases are failed they become increasingly supernatural. It began with little Jimmy slipping on his bike, but now a vampire is running to be mayor. Come, spend a little time in Beaumontcamp. It will be an experience you could never see coming.
From Radio James Games at www.radiojamesgames.com .
Extra Ordinary: A Belonging Outside Belonging TTRPG
Launching 10 March
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaztice/extra-ordinary-a-belonging-outside-belonging-ttrpg
Extra Ordinary is a rules-light, GM-full, tabletop role-playing game about being a kid with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world. It uses the belonging outside belonging system and only requires tokens, a playset print out, 3-6 people, and your imagination to play! It's inspired by stories like Maximum Ride, Percy Jackson, and Animorphs, and it's often described as "X-Men meets The Goonies" or "Stranger Things but you're all playing Eleven." The Kickstarter funds will be used to create a hardcover book with stunning artwork by Stella Langecker.
From Kodi Gonzaga.
Vale of the Failed and the Fallen
Launching 11 March (22-day campaign, ending 2 April)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gandersnitch/vale-of-the-failed-and-the-fallen
You were the chosen ones of Earth, children destined to rescue the fantasy realm of Eidylorn from the clutches of the Great Evil. But you failed in your task, and your friend died. Now, twenty years later, you are summoned to the realm to try once more. Can you finally be the heroes your childhood selves needed you to be?
From Robert Turk / Wicked Clever Games.
Assemblage: A TTRPG of World-building and World-breaking
Launching 13 March
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/scryptid-games/assemblage-a-ttrpg-of-world-building-world-breaking
Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG by Nat Mesnard in which 2-6 players use prompt cards and a guidebook to collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster. In Assemblage, you play not as a single character, but as an entire species. As each player imagines their own unique and fantastic creatures—deep sea leviathans, magical bacteria, insect cryptids, psychic cats, sentient moss—you will craft the story of an ecological assemblage: a group of species tossed together in a strange habitat, finding interdependent ways to survive. Then it will be time to encounter an epic environmental disaster—and discover how your assemblage responds.
From Nat Mesnard, Scryptid Games.
Defy the Gods
Launching 25 March
https://prelaunch.hecticelectron.com/
In this queer sword & sorcery adventure-romance, the world is against you. A single sword stroke or kiss can change everything. Ascend to a glorious destiny, but beware the monster you may become. The gods dare you to write your own epic.
From Chris Sellers, Hectic Electron Games.
Still Active!
Warped FM
Ending 10 March
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goosepoopgames/warped-fm]
Interview creatures from other dimensions and run your own podcast in this wacky gm-less tabletop role playing game! Warped FM is the perfect TTRPG for those who love podcasts (like Serial or Hello from the Magic Tavern), late night talk shows (like the Tonight Show), and chat shows (like Very Important People and Midnight Gospel). Features lite rules for playing without a game master, a branching story campaign, and plenty of roll tables to make your creatures as unique as they are goopy. Warped FM is a great one shot TTRPG for in between games of DnD, or a breezy campaign to play with friends.
From Jordan Dube of Goosepoop Games.
Resistance is Required
Ending 21 March
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beezeerpgs/resistance-is-required-rpg
Resistance is Required is a cooperative RPG about building a movement to challenge fascism. RiR uses the Entwine System designed for Battle School. Instead of character creation, RiR uses a wardrobe of pregen characters known as The Proles. It is a D6 system, roll to meet the DC with either one or two dice depending on skill training. Each player character action affects the DC that the entire party will roll for individually. Character progression is replaced with Renown accrual. Renown is a spendable resource representing people within the movement who’ve signed up to help with the cause. By spending renown you’re spending people, as all revolutions have a high cost. Spending renown allows for tiers of special abilities to be used in a round. The goal is to think critically about how to challenge each threat brought forward by The Regime Master (GM), and learning to meet fascism equally and oppositely.
From BeeZee RPGs.
Caligaes' Xeno
Ending 27 March
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/axostories/caligaes-xeno-you-are-the-alien
Caligaes' XENO is a minimalist TTRPG in which players take on the role of a terrifying alien creature sent to Earth to atone for their sins. The game is designed for 2 to 5 players, including the Alien Master, who can enjoy one-shots where they hunt humans, fight demons, and fulfill MOTHER's objectives.
Published bu Axostories, Created by Caligaes.
Love for the Love Gods
Ending 15 April
Love for the Love Gods is Cabin in the Wood but for Hallmark Movies. Ever wonder why all those TV specials are so formulaic? Well there's a reason for that! A huge, cosmic, reality-shattering reason! Queer Love Stories That Aren't Tragic! #TheLoveGodsDemandLove! And only you can maintain the ritual!
From Graham Gentz.