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There’s a bunch of cool RPG zines happening right now. I’m going to thread a few I’m aware of here.

First: The Demon Collective, 4 horror RPG adventures written, illustrated, and edited by trans and non binary gamers.
kickstarter.com/projects/gmdk/…
D.I.R.G.E Ezine, Diversity in Roleplaying Game Experiences. A focus on world building, design, and art.
kickstarter.com/projects/reign…
DEAD HALT, Set in 1996, DEAD HALT is a TableTop Roleplaying Game where players will attempt to survive among the absurd technology and ridiculous mechanical creatures of a quirky megalithic Hotel. “Clunk Punk”
kickstarter.com/projects/zonwa…
Exodus, Based on Avery Alder's Belonging Outside Belonging system, Exodus is inspired by Ezra Furman's 2018 album Transangelic Exodus, itself a "queer outlaw saga". The game is for 2-4 players, with no dice and no GM.
kickstarter.com/projects/fadin…
Powered by the DREAMR, a PbtA RPG Zinequest. In POWERED by the DREAMR, you are the Dreamr with power over dreams and nightmares. When awake, you are an everyperson, an individual with no supernatural distinction.
kickstarter.com/projects/eggem…
A Pound of Flesh is a toolkit for building your own run-down, back-water, black market space station for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. And all in a compact zine format.
kickstarter.com/projects/gerdl…
Two Apocalypse World Zines
Extended playbooks not in the book + Apocalypse World for Young Adults.
kickstarter.com/projects/22667…
RPG Design Zine
“The RPG Design Zine is a cut-and-paste zine distilling what I've learned in the 13+ years I've been designing roleplaying games into a how-to guide. “
kickstarter.com/projects/ndpao…
Creature Feature Quarterly, A monster zine for the OSR DnD crowd. 13 new monsters with lots of fluff to read, adventure seeds, paper miniatures and VTT tokens.
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M.N.S.T.R, An easy to pick up and play TTRPG about moving goods along silk road style trade routes through a hazardous and magical world.
kck.st/2RxYhRg
Bad Wizards Club, A 32 page zine, full of illustrations, short stories, and comics about wizards who aren't very good at being wizards.
kck.st/2Wtt4SW
Patchwork World, Baroque-Romantic fantasy RPG zines for any system.
kck.st/2S30ol5
What Happened At Wyvren Rock? Bring High Strangeness to Your High Fantasy RPG Setting. This zine features close encounters, aliens, and other fantastic weirdness!
kck.st/2S2JTWt
CATS & CATS is a very smol game; the rule book and character sheet fit on the front and back of one sheet of paper. Breaking from standard traditional d20 RPG mechanics, this game utilizes only 1c6.
kck.st/2BhKXuW
Tome & Wish You Were Here.
This campaign is raising funds for not one but three RPG zines: Tome - a system-agnostic supplement for fantasy RPGs. Wish You Were Here -a compilation of postcard and zine games from my Patreon in 2018
and Return to Sender
kickstarter.com/projects/adamx…
Silver Swords, covering many subjects, such as settings, dungeons, and monsters, and systems such as 5e and Hero Kids.
kickstarter.com/projects/stron…
Girl Underground has launched! Girl Underground is a tabletop roleplaying game for 3–5 players about a curious girl in a wondrous world, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Labyrinth, The Wizard of Oz, Spirited Away and similar tales.
kickstarter.com/projects/jesse…
Skill Points is a zine focused on learning skills by playing role-playing games. It includes contributions from seven game designers, each of whom takes a different approach to the theme...
kickstarter.com/projects/60336…
The Grind, From the minds that bring you Mordite Mondays… comes a new zine, jam-packed with stories, one-page adventures, adventure ideas, monsters, items, town locations, NPCs, and oodles of content to expand your Torchbearer RPG campaign.
kickstarter.com/projects/mordi…
A Rasp Of Sand, A Rasp of Sand (AROS) is a tabletop RPG love letter to Roguelite games. Included is an introduction to the world of AROS, over fifty monsters, a multitude of rooms, an armory of magical items and mechanics for the "Sand" legacy system.
kickstarter.com/projects/dasta…
The Playmakers, a collection of interviews and unique look at some of the key people who help shape the public play of roleplaying games today.
kickstarter.com/projects/15918…
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Miseries & Misfortunes—The Unhappy Fruits—will technically be a hack of Moldvay D&D, it will be a complete self-contained game...with a mitigation mechanic (similar to Deeds points), a new morale system for the gunpowder age, a wealth system...

kickstarter.com/projects/burni…
Strings is a zine metagame and metasystem for TTRPGs that asks the question: what does a character hold onto as death approaches.
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Other Magic, a real world magic system for RPGs.

kickstarter.com/projects/12333…
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There is a lot of things to be excited about in the #tabletop #rpg games hobby. As much as we need to be critical of text, and folks making games, there's a lot to be thankful for as well. Particular if you're privileged enough to have a gaming group where you can try new stuff.
Being a part of the @GauntletRPG has allowed me to play 50 systems this year. 50!!!! Roll20 forums and in-person groups in Calgary, Alberta had me fucking starving for other systems because all anyone played with Saga Star Wars, Pathfinder, and D&D--and those games aren't for me.
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@GauntletRPG Symbaroum last night was great! I didn’t expect such a good starter adventure. Somewhat disillusions you as the colonizers escaping their dying land and going into a new one, where indigenous folks are already about.

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I played Trophy last night on @GauntletRPG Hangouts by @jesseross. It was super fun and good! You play folks going into a haunted and deadly forest, seeking treasure. Built on the Cthulh Dark engine, this iteration is much more interesting to me. (Thread)
For one, I am just more interested in this concept, where the endgame is becoming a part of the forest you’re trying to rob for the characters’ gain; playing to lose. You have rituals you can do that are in keeping with this dark fantasy, such as hollow, /2
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