RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – World's Largest Dungeon, Cosmic Dark, Neon City Outlaws, and more

The World’s Largest Dungeon from World’s Largest RPGs

• END DATE: Jun 13, 2025 at 8:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014)
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $299 + S/H for the PDF, audiobook, and print versions of the slipcase, books, maps, GM screen, and more. There’s also a pay over time option for this pledge level
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? For character levels 1 to 20, this is a huge dungeon delve. The campaign page shares that this is the 5e version of their “Guinness World Record-winning dungeon crawl.” Coming as 4 books with over 1,600 pages, this is all 5e dungeon to crawl. Originally released 21 years ago by AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group), this campaign updates the contents for 5e (2014 with a “free 2024 Conversion Guide PDF to all backers”). If the idea of a massive dungeon with levels upon levels and rooms upon rooms alongside maps and more appeals to your gaming table, check out this Backerkit campaign page for more details.

Cosmic Dark from Graham Walmsley

• END DATE: Tue, June 17 2025 6:00 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £36 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is weird space horror from the creator of Cthulhu Dark. In the 180-page core rulebook, you’ll start playing without the need to create the characters of the world first, those elements will be generated during gameplay. You work for an amoral company that has sent you deep into space. Across six scenarios, you’ll learn about the corporation, the horrors of space, and more. If you want a space horror game where you start playing without the need to invent characters before play begins, check out this Kickstarter page.

Neon City Outlaws from Scratchpad Publishing

• END DATE: Thu, June 12 2025 12:49 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): “Neon City Outlaws builds off of the game structure of Dusk City Outlaws”
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $90 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the two books, GM screen, slipcase, and more
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Cyberpunk heists in a city that you’ll design as you play through the game, Neon City Outlaws brings a chrome-twinged version of Dusk City Outlaws to your gaming table. The campaign provides the 240-page hardcover Neon City Outlaws: Core Rulebook as well as the 96-page perfect-bound Neon City Outlaws: Setting Book. In this game, each job/adventure is self-contained, but can be strung together to form a campaign. The campaign page points out a few elements that sets this game apart from other cyberpunk offerings: You build the megacity as you play, you change bodies as needed, VR for all, and a mechanic that lets you influence the coming cyberpunk revolution. If you want to try out a cyberpunk RPG made of connected one-shots, this may be for you.

Setting Off! Any Character, Any Setting, Any Way from Tim Leiner

• END DATE: Jun 13, 2025 at 9:00am EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €45 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the core rulebook plus additional PDFs
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Setting Off! offers a setting agnostic, universal RPG system for your game of choice. Claiming the ability to work with fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, this game promises modular character creation, intuitive mechanics, and more to let you conquer all genres. Using skill trees, you’ll be able to accomplish all tasks including spellcasting. For the characters, there are attributes and origins allowing you to create an elf-draconian or the like. If you want a universal system with rules for exploration, conversation, combat, crafting, housing, romance, and naval combat, this game may speak to you. Check out the Backerkit campaign page to learn more.

Songfall Survivors Relaunched from Genesis of Legend Publishing

• END DATE: Wed, June 11 2025 10:24 PM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): After the War
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: CA $15 for the PDF of the book
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Building on After the War, a sci-fi RPG of “memetic horror and rebuilding in the aftermath of galactic conflict.” Billions died in the war with some of the reminder gathering on a world to create a peaceful, safe future. This sourcebook expands on those ideas. Songfall Survivors brings 240 pages of lore and rules to your game. This book gets deeper into the history of the universe, the war, its aftermath, and the factions that dominate what remains. If you’re a fan of sci-fi in which hope is the only way forward, this campaign may be for you.

Royal Society of Mythology from Fainting Goat Games

• END DATE: Fri, June 13 2025 8:42 AM EDT.
• SYSTEM(S): Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $7 for the PDF version of the book and the POD discount coupon
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? All of the world’s myths, stories, and nightmares are true, if you know where to look. The Royal Society of Mythology knows the truth about dragons and the fey, and so does that rivals. In this 34-page setting book, you’ll learn how to hunt and study the myths, learn what they mean and how they can serve our world, or destroy it. At the same time, you’re competing with factions to control this information. If you’re a fan of research into mysteries, this Savage Worlds setting may be right up your alley.

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