Zorro Kickstarter - Just Three Days Left

The Kickstarter for Zorro: The Roleplaying Game closes in three days; it's met its target of $15,000.00 but it needs a few more backers to reach a cool $25,000.00.

The game is based on West End's d6 - the same system for the venerable Star Wars roleplaying game - which is awesome, with some added story-gamey features - which is completely meh for this blogger.

But ¡Cristo! It's Zorro, in a system which doesn't suck, and this fanboy is ready to get his black mask on and kick some Spanish cul.

Cavaliers of Mars on Kickstarter

Looks purty.

The Queen's Cavaliers Kickstarter Is Live

With my son's baseball team deep in the playoff chase and All Stars just around the corner, I failed to notice that The Queen's Cavaliers Kickstarter is live at last.

Since it's already fully funded, that early backer excitement and mystery is put to bed, unfortunately, but hey, sometimes a sure thing is just what you're looking for.

Given Caoimhe's track record and the way she's approached this project to date, I'll put my own rep on the line and say. unlike so many other crowd-sourced roleplaying game projects, this is a no-risk Kickstarter - you'll get exactly what you back, and in a timely fashion.

The Queen's Cavaliers Kickstarter Preview

A preview of the The Queen's Cavaliers Kickstarter is up, and designer Caoimhe Ora Snow is taking feedback on the preview in a thread at Big Puprle.

Caoimhe was kind enough to share some background on TQC here on RBE last year.

Another Solo Gaming Resource

Another day, another Kickstarter, this time for the The Covetous Poet's Adventure Creator and Solo GM Guidebook, "A supplement to help tabletop roleplaying GMs create adventures and to allow players to play solo games with any RPG as both GM and PC."

The Covetous Poet's Adventure Creator and Solo GM Guidebook is a new supplement for roleplayers meant to help both those who write (or want to start writing!) their own adventures, as well as solo roleplayers looking for more engaging stories and well structured narratives in their games

I tend to be a little leery of any roleplaying game book that puts 'telling a story' at the forefront, but that phrase means many different things to different people, so I'm not going to judge a book by its marketing blurb, especially give how much I enjoy using solo gaming products as a source of refereeing inspiration.

How Not to Write Ad Copy

A war- and strategy game about condottieri? Right in my wheelhouse.

This game about condottieri?

This is a game that plays just as well with 2 players as it does with 8. You recieve fully customizable armies ready for medieval warfare, and you also receive Sterritt Strategy’s unique terrain system. Great for any gamer who thinks chess could use more realism, Diplomacy© and Risk© lack tactical skill, or might not have the time or space for classic War Games with miniatures. This is for gamers who want a strategic platform that they can tailor to their an hour of leisure time, the rainy afternoon or their multiple weekend long campaigns.

More realistic than chess, and more tactical than Diplomacy? Have you guys ever played Diplomacy?

These 5 ½ inch hexagonal boards make map making both quick and fun;no two battles will be the same, while allowing for easy map recreation. All Hex Boards are made to fit with any rotation and by using the interior gold numbers allow players start their armies, objectives and other entities on any uniquely designed map without having opposing armies land directly on top of each other when starting your conflict.

Each edition comes with a varied selection of these boards, and over the years we plan to increase our selection of prints for the boards to further enable players to easily expand play in the many years to come.

Also all of our Hex Boards are water resistant. This is to ensure board longevity even with some of your clumsiest friends. While it won't protect from stains like grape juice or red wine, it will protect against all manner of damp conditions.

While one of my first considerations in choosing a board game is how resistant the board is to "all manner of damp conditions" - grape juice or red wine excepted, of course - I'm also interested in games in which the terrain is more varied and depicted with some greater amount of panache than shades of green hexes against a green hex background.

There may be a really great game in here somewhere, but the copy does nothing to tell me what's great about it, and if they're relying on the pictures of the rather boring modular boards and utterly pedestrian counters to sell me on it, well, sorry, that's not going to get it done.

I want to spend my money on a game about condottieri, guys. I am your target market. But you gotta up your game.

Kickstarter: Tavern Cards - Less Than $800 to Go!

Over $4200.00 pledged, leaving less than $800.00 to go to make Tavern Cards a reality.

That's just sixty gamers pledging for a single deck each to put it over the top. Please help spread the word.

Saturday Night Link Dump

Sharing the love from around the blogosphere . . .

Vintage Wargaming has a novel idea for a randomizer: a roulette wheel.

Lurking Rythmically, by way of How to Succeed in RPGs or Die Trying has a post on Julie D'Aubigny, a real-life woman duelist among her many other talents.

d20 Pirates has a Mediterranean galley with stats and deck plans for your d20 gaming pleasure.

By way of Original Edition Fantasy, CLANG a 'revolutionary' fencing video game Kickstarter by author Neal Stephenson.

Enjoy.