March 7, 2025: Enthusiastic Crowdfunding Notes!

With exclamation points and everything!

Lede graf: My friend Jim Zub is crowdfunding a collection of his Skullkickers stories. If you like silly violence (Munchkin fans, I'm looking at you!), the adventures of Shorty and Baldy are right up your alley. (In fact, we actually DID a Munchkin Skullkickers mini-supplement a few years back. That's how I met Jim.) This is already funded. You have nothing to lose but your mind.

Main graf: The Lorescape campaign has launched on Kickstarter. Is it strong? Hoo, boy, it is strong and not slowing down. It funded inside 15 minutes. After just a couple of days, it's closing in on $300,000. For those who missed my earlier plug, Lorescape is a terrain tile system that gives hexes the respect they deserve! It's a very good design, precision molded so they lock together solidly but separate easily, printed in a large (and already growing) variety of designs. My assignment for this week – as though I had just one! – is to rough out plans for Ogre/GEV and Melee/Wizard sets. It could happen. (Full disclosure: I am not just a frothing enthusiast, but an investor in this startup.)

Call-to-action graf: Anyhow, if a really good terrain tile set sounds like a thing you could use, get over there and support. Lorescape is going to be the new gold standard. I kid you not.

Closing graf: And let me renew the pat on the back for Steven, Nikki, and the whole crowdfunding team here, and my thanks to the authors, the British Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone, for Fighting Fantasy. That Kickstarter is over $220K now and is still rolling away just fine. Fighting Fantasy was the first solo fantasy adventure series to hit the mass market, and still IMHO the best, and now it's back in the US, and whether you are a long-time enthusiast or completely new to the concept, these are fun. We have five books in the original release, and we're going to keep on releasing more for years and years! So please support us right here.

Sig line: -- Steve Jackson