kickstarter – Page 47

And now, for something completely different. And show-off-my-geekness-y!

Let me take a moment or two off from what is becoming an epic eye-rolling session at the Internet to show off a couple of treasures that have arrived in the mail. First off, from Studio Foglio:

That’s the medal and signed card from their second-to-last Kickstarter. Notice that I’ve saved some space there: there’s a reason for that. Anyway, then there’s this fun stuff from Howard Tayler…

Absolutely had to have the “Not my circus, not my monkeys” challenge coin. Absolutely. Also, note that those two Tagon Toughs coins are Series One. Only the people who… were lucky enough to hit the critical time window, honestly… were able to snap those up.

There may be something wrong with my #nerdrage.

I can’t seem to muster it up when it comes to dealing with Kickstarter delays. And it’s just Kickstarter; product delays in other situations gets the irrationally intense petulant anger operating just fine (although I carefully hide it, because, you know, it’s really lame). Weird.

No, seriously, I’m not even losing my sh*t about the OGRE delays. Then again, I figured that the original December 2012 delivery date was an exercise in wishful thinking crack-smoking anyway.

The “Skin Horse Volume 4” Kickstarter.

In case you were not aware, Skin Horse is one of my favorite webcomics*. So I’m a sucker for their Kickstarters.

…And that’s pretty much it. No doubt to Shaenon’s perpetual bemusement.

Moe Lane

*Monster of the Week is pretty boss, too. This is just one example of why.

Detroit Robocop statue to go to the bronze works.

The statue continues its journey.

That is just undeniably neat, I think.

10 days to go on the “RPGs are Evil – Dark Dungeons: The Movie!” Kickstarter.

If the Kickstarter gets to $18.5K, they add Cthulhu & the Mythos to the movie (which the Jack Chick website itself will tell you is real).

Again: I feel that this is a good Kickstarter to back, and I have done so.

New KSer: Torment: “Tides of Numenera.”

When I saw the “Torment: Tides of Numenera” (Planescape-ish videogame, via Penny Arcade) KickStarter, I found it interesting enough…

…but this is what really sold me on the concept:

“Colin McComb will issue a video apology for the most embarrassing work of his career: 2nd Edition D&Ds Complete Book of Elves.” I checked with my wife – she’s the AD&D DM of the household – and yea, indeed, that work was remarkably bad. Apparently, and according to the book, there was no better way to spend one’s life than to be an elf; failure to be one was a cruel, cruel fate.

(pause)

Well, I guess that explains the Thalmor.

Hey, look. Schlock Mercenary Challenge Coin Kickstarter.

And Howard Tayler had precisely ZERO idea as to how popular numbered Schlock Mercenary commemorative coins would turn out to be. Better get ’em fast, because he’s already run out of the low-numbered ones (after ten minutes), and the first run of coins will only go up to #999…

I endorse “The Specialists Chapter 1 & 2” Kickstarter.

I read The Specialists regularly: it’s an alt-history WWII superhero comic that doesn’t take the ‘Well, they all canceled each other out’ path that a lot of superhero comics have. The Kickstarter is here…

…and I recommend backing it. I recommend reading the webcomic too, actually.

Walp. Guess I’m going to take advantage of that GUMSHOE OGL thing, then.

(Stands for ‘Open Game License.’)

Since the Hillfolk Kickstarter is now funded at 50K, Robin Laws will presumably be releasing the game system for public use.

Which means that I have a personal side project to work on, now. Heh. I haven’t done amateur gameworld design in years, thanks to various things; this should be interesting.

It would be really, really nice if @RobinDLaws’ Hillfolk Kickstarter hit 50K.

Hillfolk: DramaSystem roleplaying by Robin D. Laws

It’d be totally sweet if the GUMSHOE RPG went Open Game License, so that I could do this supplement that I’ve been letting coagulate in my head for the last week or so.

Totally, totally sweet.