This TTRPG crowdfunding sampler looks at projects using d20-based rules like D&D, Pathfinder, Old-School Essentials, Shadowdark, and Tales of the Valiant as well as other rulesets like Daggerheart, Lancer, and more.
This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between May 21 to June 3 including a new BREAK!! sourcebook, Legendary monsters, and a prose anthology as well as books using Old-School Essentials, Daggerheart, Shadowdark RPG, and Lancer RPG. In addition, this week Kickstarter introduced a new subcategory of “Games”, “TTRPG.” Before, roleplaying games were found within the “Tabletop Games” category, so it’s great to see them get their own space.
BREAK!! the anime inspired tabletop RPG is back! from Grey Wizard
- END DATE: Thu, May 28 2026 9:48 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): BREAK!!
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: £50 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the adventure and GM screen
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This campaign offers another chance to obtain the core rulebook for the Ennie Award winning BREAK!! as well as a new 200-page companion, START. BREAK!! is an anime and fantasy video game inspired TTRPG that uses a d20. The core rulebook won a 2024 Ennie Award for Best Family Game / Product. The new START companion is a tutorial that introduces you to the rules, playing, and creating your own adventures. If you love JRPG, anime, and d20 rules, this Kickstarter may speak to you.
Nordic Monsters: A Bestiary of Scandinavian Legends from Legendary Games
- END DATE: Thu, May 21 2026 9:00 PM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e, Tales of the Valiant, Pathfinder 1e, and Pathfinder 2e
- PROJECT TYPE: Sourcebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $29 + S/H for the PDF and softcover versions of the book in the system of your choice
- AI STATEMENT: “Legendary Games Products Are Always 100% Human-Created!”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Legendary Games offers up a new book of monsters, these inspired by Scandinavian myths. Nearly 80 creatures with Legendary’s usual quality with multiple types across a variety of CRs, all inspired by legends from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. They’re offering the usual systems – Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e, Pathfinder 1e, and Pathfinder 2e – as well as something new, Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press, which is a great way to say Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. If you want more monsters for your campaign, this book may be a welcome addition with options like Fenris Wolf, Fafnir, Grendel, Gryla, Yule Cat, jotuns, trolls, linnorms, valkyries, snake-spitting syöjätär, guardian vörðr spirits, piru plague maiden, and the illhveli demon-whales.
Citadel of the Sun Kings from Silverarm
- END DATE: Tue, May 19 2026 10:37 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Old-School Essentials
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $49 + S/H for the PDF and print versions of the book
- AI STATEMENT: “Human made”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is an OSE desert sandbox setting plagued by an “ancient fungal doom beneath the sands.” Within these 101 pages, you’ll find a crossroads caravan town, a hexcrawl, 6 dungeons, new monsters, fun fungus, and more. If you want a new desert with a secret for your OSR campaign, this hexcrawl might speak to you.
The New Unknown | a sci-fi role playing game from EuryDice – Echoes of Ink
- END DATE: Thu, May 28 2026 10:00 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Daggerheart
- PROJECT TYPE: Core rulebook
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: €50 for the PDF and POD (discounted) versions of the core rulebook, Space Combat & Space Ships, and print cards
- AI STATEMENT: “We are not using generative AI in creating any content for TNU. This is a product made by humans for humans.”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Built from the Daggerheart SRD, The New Unknown uses Critical Roles’ engine to tell sci-fi adventures. Designed to be compatible with various sci-fi campaign frames, the rulebook can be used for any type of sci-fi though there are four settings included. The creators emphasize that these are not reskins of fantasy ideas but purpose-built science fiction ideas, so this isn’t “Daggerheart In Space,” but something better conceived. With classes, domains, spaceships, space combat rules, adversaries, and more, you’ll have enough to enjoy whichever setting you choose. If you’re a fan of science fiction and Daggerheart, this Kickstarter is worth a look.
Pass the Torch – Campaign for Lancer from Ironclad Escapades
- END DATE: Thu, May 21 2026 9:48 AM EDT.
- SYSTEM(S): Lancer RPG
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventure
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $50 for the PDF of Pass the Torch – Acts 1, 2, & 3
- AI STATEMENT: “This Kickstarter is all about art and artists! Art is crucial for bringing books like these to life. Good art isn’t cheap, nor should it be; artists need to make a living! Recent years have been exceptionally difficult for artists with AI systems rampantly stealing their work and flooding communities with endless slop. Artists need our support now more than ever!”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Lancer is a fun mud-and-lasers TTRPG about giant mechs in a world brought low. This third-party adventure, Pass the Torch, covers 3 books and 12 levels of play. In the far future of Lancer, a nanite swarm, the Argent Plague, is destroying the universe. Civilization will fall unless you can unite the factions and fight back. If you’re a Lancer fan, this third-party adventure can be found on Kickstarter.
Dark Double Feature: 3PP Horror Adventures for ShadowdarkRPG from Ham & Egg Publishing
- END DATE: May 22, 2026 at 3:00pm EDT.
- CROWDFUNDING ON: Backerkit
- SYSTEM(S): Shadowdark RPG
- PROJECT TYPE: Adventures
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $55 + S/H for the PDF and RPG zine versions of Of A Harmonious Nature and Nothing Left To Lose as well as a miniature
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? Two Shadowdark RPG zines, offering different subgenres of horrific adventures. Of A Harmonious Nature (OaHN) is folk horror and Nothing Left To Lose (NLtL) is a dungeon crawl, each for levels 3 to 5. OaHN is described as the “best parts of an A24 film in the Hammer Horror style.” NLtL is inspired by “SAW in H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle.” Not your normal touchpoints for adventures using d20s, which promises interesting sessions. If you’re a fan of Shadowdark and horror movies, this Backerkit is ready to receive you.
Tales from Whitechapel: An Anthology from Battlefield Press
- END DATE: Thu, May 21 2026 7:27 PM EDT.
- PROJECT TYPE: Fiction
- MOST POPULAR PLEDGE: $10 for the PDF of the book
- AI STATEMENT: “Battlefield Press does not use AI in the production of text or art. Use of AI takes away from the amazing creators that we are able to contract in both fiction and Role Playing.”
- WHY SPOTLIGHT THIS CAMPAIGN? This is a prose anthology based on Battlefield Press’ Gaslight Victorian Fantasy setting. This 122-page book includes a map of Whitechapel, the stomping grounds of Jack the Ripper. Stories come from “August Hahn (Lonewolf RPG, Sisterhood of the Blade), Ken Spencer (Rocket Age!), Kellie Kate, Tracy Reeves, Daryl F. Mallet (Star Trek: The Next Generation), and George Sartiano (Tales from the Front)” with edits by Daryl F. Mallett and a foreword by the great Philip Reed, all wrapped in a cover by William W. Connors. These stories include Sherlock Holmes, a fine dining vampire, the Ripper himself, and more. If you like Victorian Fantasy, the TTRPG or the subgenre, this anthology is waiting to be read.
See you next week.
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