RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Avatar Legends, Rise of the Drow, Blades in the Dark, and more

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game—Voyage of the Unity from Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse

• END DATE: Thu, June 19 2025 10:00 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Powered by the Apocalypse (Avatar Legends variant)
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $59 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the 7 booklets in a slipcase plus a map
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This crowdfunding offers a boxed set of 5 linked adventures for your Avatar Legends campaign based on the setting of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Set during the Roku Era – the decades between Fire Lord Sozin’s coronation and Avatar Roku’s wedding – you board a technologically advanced ship created by the Four Nations, the Unity, to tour the world. Adventure follows. This is an officially licensed adventure for a well-loved property, but the secret sauce for the project is Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse. Voyage of the Unity includes adventure booklets in a boxed set alongside in-world items to pass out to your players. Scrolls, maps, cards, coins, and more, all done with Beadle & Grimm’s attention to detail and craftsmanship. If you want a high-end, luxury experience, one that will elevate your Avatar Legends game, this is the Kickstarter you want to get your hands on.

ASTRA ARCANUM: The Roleplaying Game from Metis Media

• END DATE: Sat, June 21 2025 12:00 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): An original system
• PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $200 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the collector’s boxed set featuring books, GM screen, cards, dice, and more
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? From the creators of HISTORICA ARCANUM comes a sci-fi successor. It’s 2473, Earth is a memory, and humanity is trying to redefine itself. Expect space travel, cyborgs, murder, and the quest for humanity’s soul. ASTRA ARCANUM comes in 2 core rulebooks and 3 RPG zines, which promise a system that uses d20 dice pools, targeted “body systems to assign damage to” instead of Hit Points, augmentations, and easy-to-learn rules. The art is outstanding for this project, it alone is work checking out this Kickstarter. If you’re a fan of trying out a d20 dice pool sci-fi with great artwork, check out this project.

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts from Evil Hat Productions

• END DATE: Jun 19, 2025 at 9:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Blades in the Dark
• PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $25 + S/H (USA only) for the PDF and print versions of the book plus a POD discount coupon
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? An expansion for one of the most-popular rules lite RPGs on the market by the creator? Sign me up for 128 pages at a reasonable cost for the PDF, print, and POD option. This book provides new lore for your crew of thieves as well as setting material to define this industrial fantasy setting, and new mechanics. If you’re a fan of Blades in the Dark, this book gives you new ideas and options to make your games more intriguing. Check out the Backerkit campaign page for a link to the current draft of the rules and a free Roll20 quickstart guide.

Slugblaster: Slime, Warp, and Solder from Mythworks

• END DATE: Jun 18, 2025 at 12:00pm EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
• SYSTEM(S): Slugbuster
• PROJECT TYPE: RPG zines
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $49 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the boxed set with the zines
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is an expansion to Slugblaster | Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede, “the award-winning role-playing game about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool.” Three 35-page zines in a box with extras, designed to expand your game of all things that have a kewl eek factor. SLIME is a zine about bugs, WARP is a “mind-bending dream silo of psionics, omega tunnels, and esoteric sciences,” and SOLDER is about tech and monsters. If you’re a fan of Slugblaster, crawl over to this Backerkit to get more.

Rise of the Drow: After the Fall 5E Adventure & Setting from AAW Games

• END DATE: Wed, June 18 2025 9:02 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $66 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of both books
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? The project comes as 96-page Rise of the Drow: After the Fall and 32-page After the Fall: Player’s Guide. The first book is a campaign about rebellion and power in the fallen capital of the Underdark, and the other has drow and drider options to play as. After an invasion by dwarves and funglers, you’re hoping to regain your home. If you love 5e, drow, and mechanics for sabotage, house-based influence, and more, then this Kickstarter.

Hundred Acre Hell for D&D 5E, Shadow of the Demon Lord, OSE from Mike Myler

• END DATE: Fri, June 13 2025 11:59 PM EDT.
• CROWDFUNDING ON: Kickstarter
• SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014 and 2024), Level Up!, Shadow of the Demon Lord, and Old-School Essentials
• PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
• MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 for the PDF version of the book for all 5 gaming systems
• DISCLAIMER: Mike Myler writes for EN Publishing and EN World
• WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Are you a fan of Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, and the Hundred Acre Wood plus 5e? Christopher left the Wood, he left his magic behind, and horrors have come with that absence. This Kickstarter campaign offers an adventure for 5 gaming systems, all centered around the home of Winnie the Pooh.

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