A customisable index of monsters for tabletop RPGs and a cool sci - fi westerly amusing serial lead the electric charge on this week ’s flavour at all things crowdfunded , but that ’s not all there is – Detective tales do in a Lovecraftian universe , category friendly games about colonising Mars , and brusque fiction anthologies wait !
Header Image Credit : The Monster Alphabet , art by Michael Wilson
Case File: Arkham
This graphic novel follow the story of a hardboiled detective in Lovecraft ’s twisted , damn city of Arkham :
dress in the mid-1940s , Case File : Arkham follows Hank Flynn , a down on his luck individual oculus who is back from the war and now cultivate the mean streets of the most cursed city on Earth — Arkham , Massachusetts . And things only get worse for Flynn when a wealthy uptown socialite hires him to track down an creative person by the name of Pickman . What start as a simple missing persons shell lead Flynn down a benighted itinerary of flesh eat ghouls , vengeful witches , and the notorious Innsmouth mafia .
A $ 10 pledge will get you a PDF of the comedian , as well as some digital bonuses like wallpapers and what have you , while $ 15 get you the forcible variation .
Pangea
What if Earth ’s landmass never burst from Pangea ? This anthology of 14 short stories imagines what bon ton would be like if Humanity live together on a single land mass :
Of course , Pangaea break up a long fourth dimension ago , and because it did , mankind develop in drastically dissimilar climes and circumstance . But what if we twenty - first century type were living in one of the super - continental periods — those qualify by “ lid tectonics ” rather than “ plate architectonics ? ” What would it be like if all of manhood was confine to a single land mass … and had been so confined for all of our record history ?
$ 8 net you a copy of the collection in an due east - pub format for tablets and e - readers , while $ 25 incur you a physical trade wind paperback . Other level include bonus Scripture from some of the collection ’s authors .
Mission to Mars 2049
This neat , menage - focalise board game lets you try and colonise the Red Planet and modernize a novel civilization for near - future humanity :
Mission to Mars 2049 is a folk card game that is set in the near future . In this game you are in control of a human colony go under on Mars , and your objective is to make a water descent post on top of the Martian Polar Ice Cap before any other player does . In rules of order to do that , you will require to have a strategy for larn resources and building your colony faster than anyone else .
The game is already fund , but while the task is still receptive , you could pledge 19 euros can clear you a copy of the board game .
Far Out Volume 2
Sci - fi western webcomic Far Out is bringing more stories to print with a young volume :
Two years after print our first webcomic page online , we now have our first 80 pages book printed , published by Studio Lounak . It is already available in bookstore , and the feedback we are getting from lector is great . So great that only a month after our first photographic print rill , we might already have to go to reprint !
Since 2012 , we could only act part time on this project , make one page of fine art per week . Being comic book readers ourselves , we be intimate how thwarting the wait for an upcoming result or trade can be , that ’s why we desire to release Far Out vol.02 as tight as possible ! In parliamentary procedure to do that , however , we postulate metre , and that ’s where you guys can aid .
You experience the recitation with these – $ 10 gets you a digital copy of both the first and second volume , while $ 20 gets you a forcible copy of the 2nd loudness . $ 40 will get you both forcible volumes bundled together .
The Monster Alphabet
This script gathers an A - Z of various kinds of creatures designed to rive your tabletop adventurers to pieces – and the rule to generate them !
What wicked beasts slosh and gibberish in the farthermost range of your skull ? Unleash your demon with The Monster Alphabet , a compiling of lusus naturae design elements keyed to alphabetic character of the first principle .
A is for Android , B is for Breath Weapon , C is for Crossbreed ! Game masters of any linguistic rule system will happen inspiration for creating strange , new abhorrence : random table of trait , power , and lore ; fear - inspiring illustrations by your pet fantasy artists old and fresh ; and rolling handful of dice on lusus naturae contemporaries table .
$ 12 will get you a PDF of either the Dungeon or Monster collection , $ 24 digital versions of both , and $ 25 the physical adaptation of the Monster ABC’s .
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