Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for November! We’re heading into the end of the year, and for multiple reasons it’s a great time to put the real world to the side and check out some games! November was a pretty big month; nearly 20 campaigns passed my deck and needed to be narrowed down to make this article. So though I say it every month, it’s certainly true this month: While every campaign I cover here is solid and interesting, many of the ones I didn’t have space for are too. We’ve also seen another big month for Backerkit, with a bumper crop of intriguing games making the upstart crowdfunding platform an equally (if not perhaps more) intriguing place to look for new games as Kickstarter.

We’re ready to start, though! We’re going to cover a few major campaigns by some of the big guys, though we really only have one (maybe two) standalone games to talk about. Then, we have a good number of indies. Cross-collabs, solo games and tarot mechanics await you below.

Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for July! July is the summer doldrums in the RPG world, no doubt about that. With GenCon in early August, a large portion of the design world shifts the timelines of their games so that they have either announcements for GenCon, or something to sell at GenCon. As a result, product announcements, be those releases or crowdfunding, rarely if ever happen in July; the potential benefits of waiting just a few weeks are too much. As a result, this article will not hit the target of ten campaigns; the designers aiming to put forth original RPGs are exactly the ones who would benefit the most by using GenCon as a platform.

Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for March! We do have a bit of ZineQuest drop when it comes to crowdfunding in the late winter and early spring, but that doesn’t mean people are stopping. There are eight campaigns we’re going to discuss today, in addition to looking back to March of 2019. Of particular note is Backerkit; the up and coming platform is still contributing campaigns at a steady trickle, including one major and two indie campaigns this month. That’s more than can be said of any of the other platforms we began investigating when this series shifted from Kickstarter Wonk to Crowdfunding Carnival, at least unless you expand your scope to include 5e shovelware and oddly pornographic mini models. Nonetheless, the Kickstarter/Backerkit crowdfunding world that we live in is getting us some big supplements, dragon riders, the Gilded Age, and a superhero retroclone. Let’s take a look.