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Dreams developed animation series Noguchi’s Bell launches Kickstarter at Future Games Show
August 27th - via: gamesradar.com
The show follows a young samurai called Noguchi Michio who comes across a strange Ramen seller in the desert while looking for a temple housing a great sword master. The latest trailer promises much bigger settings though, as well as a mysterious bad guy that Noguchi seems to have a deeper connection to. (Read More)
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Backpack Keeps Hikers Cool With ‘Nano-Polymer’ Tubes
August 26th - via: gearjunkie.com
Need a backpack to beat the (ever-increasing) heat? 19°N Hawai’i builds a climate change solution right into its new Honu Cooling Pack. Created by a team in Hawai’i, the pack carries 60 feet of patented active-cooling tubing in the small day pack. It helps wearers stay cool by passing cold fluid over the wearer’s chest. (Read More)
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: 'The Little Flower Shop Dice Game'
August 26th - via: geekdad.com
The Little Flower Shop Dice Game is for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 30 minutes to play. This is a dice-based version of The Little Flower Shop, a card game published in 2018; it has the same theme, but the mechanics are new. The Little Flower Shop Dice Game was designed by Stephen Finn and published by Dr. Finn’s Games, with illustrations by Akha Hulzebos. (Read More)
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The Herbalist’s Primer is a crash course in magical botany
August 26th - via: dicebreaker.com
Flex both green thumbs during the next tabletop session with the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic supplement describing 100 different plants pulled from the real world with magical, medical and mundane uses detailed. The tome, currently on Kickstarter, is meant to aid nature-aligned characters, such as druids, witches and clerics, or provide inspiration for GMs. (Read More)
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The Price of Coal weaves a historical story of labour rights
August 26th - via: dicebreaker.com
Live through a period of rising tensions just before the US government sent federal troops to quash a workers’ uprising in new card-based storytelling RPG The Price of Coal, whose setting draws on the real events surrounding the Battle of Blue Mountain in 1921. (Read More)
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Dino Photo Adventure Jurassic Snap Begins Kickstarter, Aims for 2023 Launch
August 26th - via: vrfocus.com
There has been some interesting virtual reality (VR) focused Kickstarter crowd-funding campaigns of late and this week welcomes another into the fold. French indie team Dreamirl has just launched one for Jurassic Snap, a chilled-out experience all about photographing dinosaurs, the aim is to raise €30,000 EUR with an official launch taking place in 2023. (Read More)
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New Unofficial D&D 5e Supplement from Kobold Press Now On Kickstarter
August 25th - via: geektyrant.com
Kobold Press has another new unofficial Dungeons & Dragons 5e supplement Tome of Heroes on Kickstarter. This book sounds like it is jam packed with tons of new character options, available in hardcover, PDF, and major VTT forms including Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, and Shard Tabletop which is great as it gives you a lot of options for where you want to build a new character. (Read More)
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Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: North America Kickstarter
August 24th - via: themarysue.com
Yesterday, the Kickstarter for the fifth installment of the Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales series launched. Previous installments included African folktales, Asian folktales, European folktales, and folklore from the Pacific, with this next installment focusing on North American folktales. (Read More)
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Dark Sun spiritual successor Red Dawn presents a new wasteland setting for D&D 5E
August 24th - via: dicebreaker.com
Inspired by the Dark Sun campaign for D&D 5E - a popular setting which took place in a scorched land called Athas - Red Dawn features a world that was once an idyllic place of magic and wonder, before becoming a harsh wasteland filled with corruption and danger. (Read More)
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#787 – 1-2-3 Cheese! [Preview]
August 23rd - via: whatsericplaying.com
In 1-2-3 Cheese!, players have goofed. Anton the mouse led them into a heist, but the heist has not … gone well. It’s time to get out, but there’s unfortunately no honor among thieves! You’ve got to dump your crumbs and get out of there. If you dump your crumbs on someone else and they get caught? Well, that’s their problem, right? Drop your cards, cheese your friends, and get out with your big score (Read More)
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FilmNeverDie Unveils the CP800: A $2,750 Auto Rotary Drum Film Processor
August 23rd - via: petapixel.com
Melbourne, Australia-based professional photo lab & retail store FilmNeverDie has announced the new Compact Processor 800 (CP800) through a Kickstarter campaign. The new automated rotary drum film processor is capable of handling black & white, color, slide, and motion picture film. (Read More)
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Help Crowdfund Death in the Mouth: Original Horror By People of Color
August 23rd - via: dreadcentral.com
This work will feature 20 stories spanning from the distant past to the far future, real and fictive worlds, all while exploring new and unique manifestations of horror. Each story will also be accompanied by an original black-and-white illustration by a unique artist. (Read More)
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