If that first tier were a bit less expensive, I'd jump on that right away...
(11-30-2020, 10:21 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Illuminati Confirmed: the video game version of Illuminati New World Order. Campaign started today; if you pledge today there are bonuses. As I type this it's at $12,000 of a $210,000 goal with 93 backers... and it gained about $1000 and 8 backers while I typed.
Belated update: they decided to stop that campaign and restart it in the new year, late January according to update #9.
But, while we wait, Jennifer Usellis, the Klingon Pop Warrior, has a third* EP of
tlhIngan Hol covers of Terran pop songs:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jen...the-3rd-ep
Funding at US$3000 (nearly there), badges with the translated titles of all five songs at $5000, Pop Warrior emoji stickers at $6000... and at $7500, she'll work through the legal blap to get the Pop Warrior song catalog onto streaming services!
Now how much would you pay?
* I assume the reason I didn't hear about
Warrior Woman and
Fierce Songs when their campaigns ran is because I wasn't yet following Lawrence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute.
A new GURPS RPG Kickstarter, just $6 and already fully funded.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...escription
Steve Jackson Games' GURPS Pyramid Scheme
Pyramid returns with three new issues! GURPS support for fantasy, modern, and sci-fi campaigns! Select one, two, or all three issues!
Gay webcomic 'Go Get a Roomie!' is hosting the third (out of an eventual four) Kickstarter for the recently completed series. $25 + shipping for the softcover, or $70 for the first three books. Already fully funded with 29 days to go.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiv...escription
Steve Jackson Games has a new Kickstarter, this time for two separate projects.
$6 - Illuminated Manuscript. A collection of web, unpublished, and older articles pulled from the company's history. Starting at 24 pages, the zine expands in size as stretch goals are unlocked and we add more articles to the collection!
$12 - 1976 Ogre Playtest Booklet. Constructed from scans of Steve's typewritten and hand-illustrated Ogre playtest set, this saddle-stitched booklet gives you a look at Ogre in its pre-publication form. Have you always wanted to learn more about Steve's first game? This book pulls back the curtains and gives you a version of the game you've not seen before!
$16 - Back both projects.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war...-ogre-1976
Coyote and Crow
Coyote and Crow is a tabletop role playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Instead, advanced civilizations arose over hundreds of years after a massive climate disaster changed the history of the planet. You'll play as adventurers starting out in the city of Cahokia, a bustling, diverse metropolis along the Mississippi River. It's a world of science and spirituality where the future of technology and legends of the past will collide.
Written by a majority Native American team.
Funded in 45 minutes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/712...escription
TOYS THAT TIME FORGOT VOLUME 3 - A(nother) book about unproduced toys, both lost lines and canceled expansions. Now into the home stretch; if they can hit US$45,000 before close of dizziness (11:40AM EST Friday), they'll add the obligatory chapter about
Star Wars toys, specifically a never-made sub-line that would have "touched both the classic trilogy and the initial prequel film".
Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.
Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.
Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source. The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.
Stellaris a boardgame based on the computer game of the same name
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aca...escription
Quote:Based on the acclaimed Stellaris PC game, Stellaris Infinite Legacy offers everything you love about 4x board games with the customization and emergent story that makes the Stellaris PC game special. Stellaris Infinite Legacy is an accessible 2 hour 4x board game for 2-4 players (2-6 with Empires Expansion) with easy rules that grow based on your choices during play.
(03-12-2021, 04:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.
Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.
Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source. The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.
My husband (who is the resident Dice Goblin in our house right now) looked at that one... up to the point he saw the cost ($40 for
one die, not counting shipping), and admitted it was really way too rich for his blood. Especially when I pointed out that, eventually, the things won't hold a charge anymore and then you're down to a really expensive set of resin dice, as I doubt you'll be able to change the cell inside it. Plus, he'd be (gently) mocked by the DM and other player in our game for using them.
That said, they do look really cool. And props for it being Open Source... what you're paying for here is the manufacturing, which is non-trivial.
(03-12-2021, 06:54 PM)LynnInDenver Wrote: [ -> ] (03-12-2021, 04:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.
Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.
Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source. The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.
My husband (who is the resident Dice Goblin in our house right now) looked at that one... up to the point he saw the cost ($40 for one die, not counting shipping), and admitted it was really way too rich for his blood. Especially when I pointed out that, eventually, the things won't hold a charge anymore and then you're down to a really expensive set of resin dice, as I doubt you'll be able to change the cell inside it. Plus, he'd be (gently) mocked by the DM and other player in our game for using them.
That said, they do look really cool. And props for it being Open Source... what you're paying for here is the manufacturing, which is non-trivial.
I've had to set myself a maximum pledge of US$120 on any given campaign (though this doesn't always take shipping into account, particularly if they charge it in the pledge manager), so I couldn't justify a complete set, but I might get 2d6 just for PbtA games (they seem particularly apt for FARFLUNG).
(03-22-2021, 05:06 PM)Mamorien Wrote: [ -> ]42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams
Unbound Publishing Wrote:After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's – over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems.
The book will reproduce in facsimile form extracts from the archive with explanatory text and footnotes to add context. Developed in close association with Adams’s family and literary estate, 42 will be a full-colour, large-format hardback that follows his career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who, through the Hitchhiker years, Dirk Gently, his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire.
This one made national radio in Canada:
Even Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams struggled with writer's block
Onyx Path Publishing has begun a Kickstarter for 'Adventure!', the newest game in their Trinity Continuum RPG line:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200...aying-game
Quote:After the explosion of Doctor Sir Calvin Hammersmith’s “telluric engine” early in the 20th century, people the world over begin to demonstrate extraordinary capabilities. Stalwart individuals with the strength to pull a safe from a wall, or the quickness of hand to pluck a bullet from the air. Mesmerists with the ability to cloud mens’ minds or see visions of distant places. Valiant daredevils with unparalleled skill or luck. Collectively called the Inspired, the newly-formed Æon Society for Gentlemen is on a mission to guide the Inspired, catalog telluric phenomena, and shepherd humanity to a better place.