Kickstarter Spotlight - Kickstarters You Might Have Missed Edition

Typically, the Newsletter only does one Kickstarter Spotlight per month. After last week's edition, however, two of your fellow RPGnetters put in requests for Kickstarter Campaigns to be featured in the Newsletter. So, this week, in place of our normal Threads You Might Have Missed feature, we'll take a quick look at those two additional gaming-related Kickstarters. As always, if you have suggestions or requests for Newsletter content, please shoot me (Iustum) a PM.

First up, requested by RPGnetter El Ravager34, is Mythic Wars: Clash of the Gods & Cthulhu Rises. This campaign from Excalibre Games US offers both the base game (Mythic Wars: Clash of the Gods) and an expansion (Cthulhu Rises). Mythic Wars is a deckbuilding, dice-rolling tabletop game wherein the players battle it out between groups of deities called factions. The full game rules are available linked from the Kickstarter campaign, making it fairly easy for prospective backers to get a feel for whether this is the type of tabletop game for them.

Excalibre Games has been producing well-regarded tabletop games (predominantly hex-and-counter war games) for many years, so this foray into a different style is well-worth your time to check out. The Mythic Wars: Clash of the Gods & Cthulhu Rises Kickstarter runs until December 2.

Second, RPGnetter Allandaros pointed out the Operation Unfathomable Kickstarter Campaign from Jason Sholtis of the Hydra Cooperative. (Full disclosure - Allandaros is a member of the Hydra Cooperative.)

Operation Unfathomable is a "gonzo funhouse" underworld campaign setting for the OSR Swords & Wizardry RPG. The Kickstarter campaign page has loads of previews of the book's content and art, so a prospective backer should be able to discern pretty quickly whether it would be a useful addition to their OSR library. Also worth noting is that Sholtis is using primarily his own art in the book, which will definitely help maintain its consistent aesthetic. The campaign is also very transparent with regard to shipping costs and has some useful charts to help prospective backers make sense of the various pledge levels. (In fact, after seeing them, Yr. Humble Editor is more than happy to sign a petition that would make similar charts mandatory for all future gaming Kickstarters.)

Overall, if you have any interest in running an underworld-based OSR campaign, it is well worth your time to check this out. The Operation Unfathomable Kickstarter runs until November 10.

New Columns

Christopher Cecil offered up a new Fuzzy Thinking: "A Hard Hobbit to Break."

Fred Furtado of Superseeds rounded out his series on trophy-based superheroes in "The Trophy Room, Part Three."

And, Sandy Antunes leapt back up on Sandy's Soapbox with some tongue-in-cheek advice about "Making IP Theft Work for You!"

New Reviews

The week started off with four more new gaming accessory reviews from Antonios S:

Antonios S also reviewed to supplements for the Dice City board game. First up was "Dice City: Crossroads,"where Dice City becomes more tactical and more themed in a single expansion. Second was "Dice City: All That Glitters," a meaningful, if somewhat limited, addition to the original game.

John T. Jessop took a look at "Red Mists: Swords Against Sorcery," a slim, beautiful, visceral and flawed gem of an RPG that gets right most of what makes S&S such a compelling genre.

And, Edward Kabara reviewed the "Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition Keeper Rulebook," and found it to suffer from some design/layout problems, but to be a reanimation of a great rule system.

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Have a good week, everyone.

  • Iustum
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