Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for July! Just like every year, July is a lull prior to GenCon really revving everything up. Most larger publishers will hold announcements until the con, making July a little bit sparse in comparison. That said, this month may not have any major publisher campaigns but it does have a number of interesting entries. Interested in archaeology, cosmic horror, or making deals with the devil? Come right this way, we may have something for you.
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Crowdfunding Carnival: June, 2025
Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for June! While the majors are away, the indies will play, and now is a solid rush of projects from some smaller names even as the big guys get ready for the next big con. There were a pretty big number of campaigns to pare down from, but I think the ones I chose are pretty solid. And, despite a lack of new games from those big names, there is one new license to check out and a couple follow-on campaigns. Let’s begin.
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Wandering Blades Review: Old School Tech, Wuxia Style
Highly skilled martial artists roam the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppression. Heroism, action, melodrama! These are the hallmarks of the wuxia genre, and when they show up in the tabletop sphere they tend to come with a pretty big set of rules and no small amount of actual magic. In this case, though, we have a game trying to use old school renaissance-style mechanics to enable wuxia genre conventions: Wandering Blades!
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Crowdfunding Carnival: May, 2025
Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for May! It’s spring, and the buds on the trees have burst open into green leaves. Similarly, the post-ZineQuest hangover is over and RPG campaigns are bursting forth all over Kickstarter and BackerKit. Want a game about fishing, or making jam? How about a three-book space opera extravaganza? There’s lot’s to check out this month, so let’s get to it.
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Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for April! The world outside is crazy, so come on in and take a gander at some quality, handpicked RPG campaigns. We’re seeing some solid activity from major players this month, albeit maybe too much activity from some. And then there are of course a number of fantastic indie campaigns, covering the fae, werewolves, kids with weird powers, and more. Check it out!
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Hero Forge Custom Dice Kickstarter Review
Hero Forge did its first Kickstarter more than ten years ago to launch a custom miniature printing business, and launched a second one to bring color to their minis. In between and after the fact the platform has continued to add more and more options to their catalog: new items, species, materials, and so on. Now Hero Forge has a third crowdfunding effort, and it’s focused on what you use to determine your miniature’s fate: the dice.
Crowdfunding Carnival: March, 2025
Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for March! We’re in the post-zine nowhere zone, where backers and creators alike have a little bit of a hangover. Even so, there are still some interesting games to talk about. March and April have become a key campaign window for larger publishers after zine enthusiasts put them on blast for trying to campaign during Zine Quest (even if such campaigning may have been a net positive), so even in the early part of the month I have a number of campaigns and early campaign notices that all seemed to show up in my inbox exactly on February 28th. This means that even though there’s a smaller number of campaigns this month, we’re still seeing at least two major licensed campaign pushes. It’s even possible one of the two might be worth backing!
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Welcome back to the Crowdfunding Carnival! Zine Quest this year has been very active, so we’ve got more zines to look at in the usual categories. In addition, I’ve done a brief look back at February of 2020, which in addition to having some mainline games was the inaugural year of Cannibal Halfling’s Zine Quest coverage.
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Weekend Update: 2/8/2025
Welcome to the Cannibal Halfling Weekend Update! Start your weekend with a chunk of RPG news from the past week. We have the week’s top sellers, industry news stories, something from the archives, and discussions from elsewhere online.
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Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for February! You know what time it is…it’s ZineQuest time! Kickstarter’s celebration of small-format RPGs is settling back into a regular cadence, with 2025 being the second ‘normal’ year after two relatively abnormal ones given scheduling and, well, Web3. Just like last year I’m going to do a quick overview of the full-sized campaigns running and then dive headlong into the zines, categorizing them into full games, supplements, and RPG-adjacent or system-agnostic materials. In two weeks time we’ll do it all again, covering the zines we don’t get to or that haven’t started campaigning this week, and instead of covering major campaigns we’ll go over the five-year retrospective, looking at ZineQuest 2020.
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