Issue #101: December 9, 2022
In this issue, we bring you the Kickstarter for a resource to supplement your D&D games, new games from Lumpley Games, & Jeeyon Shim, as well as Golden Cobra award winners, Jennifer Allaway and Katherine Belisle. In Patreons we have a source for free GM-resources, and a creator of art and games. Finally, in Games You Might Have Missed, Rosenstrasse, Seven Wonders: A story game anthology, and Unheroes. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
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Crowdfunding Happening Now
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Tales of New Edan by Anzi
Tales of New Edan is a supplement for 5e by Anzi, a small studio of diverse content creators making games and webcomics for "the scorned, the lost, and the forgotten." From the campaign page: "New Edan is designed to be a world of narrative story telling, allowing players to have the player character they've always wanted to possess and build them within a new sandbox of wonder and magic. With new genasi types, subclasses and a Divine Pantheon that keeps the world turning." Tales of New Edan is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
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The Longest Rest is vivid, suspenseful game for four players and one game facilitator warps the classic “tavern scene” fantasy setting into a wild, volatile mirror of fantasy genre storytelling. Together, they will play to find out whether they fight tooth and claw to escape the tavern, or if they surrender to its embrace and become a part of it forever.
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Casting off Tyranny is a play-by-mail keepsake game where players are citizens of a country while it is being invaded by an occupying force. In order to fight back and defend their homeland, players will collect information from newspapers, knit secret codes into garments to communicate that information, and mail it to another player who needs to know. Players will then use the information they decode from sending secret messages to take actions to liberate their home country. The game ends when either the occupying army takes the whole country, or when the resistance has driven the occupying army entirely from their lands.
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There is a traveling circus under the Hollow Hills.
It travels by moonlight, small wagons creaking in the night silence. It travels lost roads, where fireflies and whisps hover to watch it pass, where goblins peer down from their treebranch perches, and owls. It travels the night world and the day world, fairyland and the living earth, and places otherwise, and no border can keep it. It has mysteries to pose, drama to perform, it has music, juggling, acts of death-defying peril, pratfall comedy. It has dangerous secrets to tell.
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Patreons and Other Subscriptions
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Lisa's TTRPG Library
Lisa is creating free, printable TTRPG resources, like spell trackers, tavern menus (so you aren't limited to "Bring me ale and sausauge!" when you all meet a stranger in a tavern to begin your adventure), maps and weapon cards. The stated goal is to remove barriers to entry for new players and GMs. You can find her Patreon here.
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Alison Huang is creating Games, Art, and TTRPG Content
Alison Huang (She/Her) is a queer game creator and artist, bringing her perspective to TTRPGs. She does not typically charge for her projects, and having the support of patrons allows her to continue to create games and content exploring queer themes and other facets of the human experience. You can find her Patreon here.
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Games You Might Have Missed
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Rosenstrasse by Moyra Turkington & Jessica Hammer
Rosenstrasse is a tabletop freeform scenario with a strongly defined historical story weaving the lives of four pairs of men and women bound by love under the tightening chokehold of Nazi Germany. Players will work through two characters to deeply explore two of these relationships as the clock ticks towards WWII and the Final Solution. Ideologies will be challenged, marriages tested, personal losses will be grave, and they will have to hold tightly together to see it through. The stories of these eight people will converge in a historic moment of terrifying civic defiance.
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Seven Wonders: A story game anthology - Pelgrane Press.
Seven Wonders is a collection of stand-alone story games from UK-based games designers, which focus on characterisation and inter-character drama, and use improvisational techniques to tell innovative, compelling tales.
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Unheroes by Joanna Piancastelli
Unheroes is about a group of superheroes from Herotopia who tried to save the world and messed up big time. Panicking, they changed reality so supers never existed, heroes or villains, and ended up living in our world with almost no memory of who they used to be. But they do remember something, and when their powers begin to return they realise something's wrong. They need to figure out what happened, and ultimately decide if they want to leave things as they are now, or go back were and try to deal with the fallout of their mistake.
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