There is never anything wrong with more duck miniatures, and Ducks of War will give you your fill of 15th and 16th century duck warriors.
It's their second Kickstarter, and the figures for The Silver Feather Adventure Guild are also available in this campaign as an add-on.
After 37 other Kickstarters, the good folks at Macrocosm kept things oddly simple for their latest Kickstarter, Space Dwarves.
Two leaders, two mourning space dwarves with a tombstone, and a random mercenary dwarf.
It's not the most affordable campaign, and after years of eating the Royal Mail costs, they've finally upped the shipping from the UK. I'll still bite.
There are those games that raise up my hope in the world, and let it crash down upon my soul.
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Hackmaster, now on Kickstarter from Kenzer and Company, is exactly what I expected, and I should not complain in the least.
Nostalgia might make me wish I just went with the new edition....
I've already sung the praises of Macrocosm through their webstore, they go out and start up yet another one of their efficient Kickstarters.
Space Dwarves Auto Rifles 2nd Squad by Macrocosm is simply six more resin figures to augment my Gnomish Space Mar... er... your sci-fi army of choice.
As I always mention, Macrocosm is my favorite, perhaps only, manufacturer I trust from that side of the pond. Large or small, I have a great track record getting my rewards safely to Pennsylvania.
Brigade Games is at it again with another unique range of historical figures: Yangtze Patrol - Adventures in War Torn China - 28mm Minis
Study. Party. Fight evil. So what is ETU? East Texas University is a college horror setting for the Savage Worlds roleplaying game. It takes place at a small but renowned college in the fantastic Southern climate of Pinebox, Texas. Pinebox has been the epicenter of supernatural disturbances for generations. But nobody really believes in that stuff, so students still flock to ETU thanks to generous scholarships, prestigious courses, and the active social scene…even if not everyone survives their college experience. Players must contend with annoying roommates, murderous professors, and things that go bump in the night...all while trying to maintain good grades and graduate! Enroll at your own risk. The original East Texas University released in 2014 for Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition. Savage Worlds has evolved since then to the Adventure Edition (SWADE), so now ETU is offering a refresher course!
While I haven't played the original in its original form, I have used the plethora of adventures for 20-year old Illuminati University (IOU) game, and the ones I haven't been able to use would make great material for multiple themes of strangeness and horror.
There's not much that's been tickling my fancy on Kickstarter recently. This doesn't hit many of my buttons either, but Idols of the Neon Dark: A D&D 5e K-Pop Adventure and Setting does that the tropes of something recently popular and puts them in an easily digestible form of Dungeons and Dragons.
...and let's be honest, the music you can play in the background is pretty addictive.
Another quick and fun Kickstarter by Macrocosm, Monsters and Hunters is a small collection of monsters and some sci-fi hunters to track them down.
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With delivery scheduled for April (and Macrocosm is great on their delivery dates), these might kick-off a continuation of our Death Planet Iota Fistful of Lead game.
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Another great entry from BackerKit's #ZineTopia2026 is Food & Evil, the tabletop roleplaying game where you don’t hunt demons…you are the demons. Your party runs a food truck, serves questionable cuisine, gathers cursed ingredients, and causes just enough chaos to keep business booming.
With the lack of #Zinequest projects hitting my personal demographic, I ventured over to Backerkit to find their own February promotion, #Zinetopia2026
There's a little more hope in the universe.
Space Cats is a fun RPG where everyone is playing a crew of curious space adventurers, flying across the universe, taking jobs everywhere trying to pay off a monumental debt.
Over the last years, February has meant the glut of small and smaller press books on crowdfunding in celebration of #Zinquest. I'll admit I've been distracted by the #RPGCampaignToolChallenge , but in my review of the first eleven days of the camapign, there's not much on Kickstarter that interests me, or even gets to motivated something cool.
Luckily War Pig: A GM-less TTRPG of Chaos and Goblins has stopped that pattern.
I get a lot of emails from the the companies that I've backed Kickstarters for. I always take a peak, and many times the newest campaign isn't for me.
Initially I didn't add two and two together with Fainting Goats and their latest campaign for Starbeards! for Savage Worlds.
Then I saw the artwork.
Friend of the Blog and Award Winning GM Mike Lung made me aware of an upcoming Kickstarter that was promoted by Dragon Bait Miniatures.
They might be small, and it's only one sculpt by Dave Soderquiest, but the idea of Assyrian Gnomes tweaks my interest in the right way.
If not for anything else, but the potential for puns at the table!
I'll be honest, December has been a large pile of suck. A handful of job interviews, a larger pile of rejections for mostly "filler" positions, and a LOT of driving to see the kids up in Albany. There's a moment in those drives where the Spotify playlist just soothes my black heart and fractured soul.
Additional bummers?
No children around this year helping me make my Kjottbollar (Swedish Meathballs) and Limpa and other breads.
Nobody coming over Christmas Eve for dinner (Christmas Eve is always the superior holiday to Christmas Day), then me transporting them back to their Mother after pancakes Christmas.
Christmas Eve: With my sister visiting her in-laws in the Great White North this year, I packed up the food and drove down to Easton to visit my mother. I took care of stuff around the house, ran her errands, including a trip to Wal-Mart I never thought I'd return from, and we ate. Basic. Simple. She enjoyed the food but did NOT have a good day. Sixty years of smoking have caught up like gangbusters.
We didn't exchange gifts, but one arrived when I got home on the perfect day to count it as one.
Palladium had a Kickstarter for a new, expanded edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. Two years later, eight months late, and a $25 flat shipping charge for the core book, my copy of the rules arrived two days earlier than projected. Trust me, I'm well aware of Palladium as a whole, and their Kickstarter history, so I'm not surprised, just miffed enough. But it's in my hands, and if that's not a Christmas miracle, nothing is.
Early Christmas morning, I recovered from a night of full-strength egg nog, and trekked the three and a half hour drive to see the kids, with a cooler full of bread and meatballs, two stockings, and a single wrapped gift.
I almost miss those early days of K-Mart/Wal-Mart Layaway, paying off the balance, and figuring out the logistics of it all. Most of it nowadays is Ulta, Sephora, and Barnes & Noble, so most of it fits in the stocking.
The lone gift too big for a stocking was A Place For All My Books for Maja.
Most of the gifts for dear old Dad were gag or food related, but I did get a few gaming-centric or -adjacent gifts.
The Hermit in the Garden by Gordon Campbell. A light romp through the history of hermits from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome. It was referenced in Episode #675 of Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff back in November and seemed like a perfect purchase.
Paints. I had specifically requested Citadel Seraphim Sepia wash, since I recently had an accident with one of the older, big bottles, and could not find it in stock at the last four stores I frequented. They actually have a Warhammer store within twenty minutes, and every was on stock (and allegedly on sale... although thirty-five years of history might bias be on believing that claim from the girls.
Not one for just getting an $8 jar of paint, they also got me
Zandri Dust - A Desert-y Tomb Kings color. I'm half-tempted to use it on my American Teddy Bears.
Mournfang Brown (Air-brush sized pot) - Brown is my favorite painting color, in all its shades, so I'll try it out. A little miffed the GW guys didn't question them (a simple "Do you have an airbrush machine?") but perhaps that is gatekeeping... from the hobby or the profit margin.
Nihilakh Oxide - A Necron corrosion color. All of the paints I can certainly use. (Michael's has been rubbish this past year, and they are strongly anti-Hobby Lobby, so I can't expect other sources.)
Christmas Playing Cards - When we played our Christmas Game this year, I mentioned my displeasure with the Gilded/Pulp style playing cards we were using for Fistful of Lead. Millie took that to heart and got me "Home for the Holidays" Bicycle deck. Very clean, gently themed... and guaranteed to be used for the Christmas games in the future, and hopefully more.
Glitter Ducks - We certainly had a bit of a duck theme this year (with one more discovered and added t other painting queue, see one of next year's posts for that one. Apparently I missed the Glitter Quacks at Five Below, but Millie did not. They're cute, plentiful, and after discovering Fishing28, I'm certain we can make a Duckin' 28 game. Worst case I'll collaborate with the young lady running a larger scale duck game at HMGS/Historicon.
Oh, and despite me packing a tote-full of games, we kept ourselves busy (and bruised) playing Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizaa repeatedly.
Outside of grabbing another copy of A Place for All My Books for my sister and husband after their return to Canada, I'm satisfied with my haul....
Scratch that, despite the distance and irregularity of my visits, my Dad Christmas List has never changed.
Buy Hades some rock salt. Check the skies for porcine aviators. Anything is possible after Steve Jackson Games has finally announced Toon 2nd Edition, currently crowdfunding now on Backerkit!
Want classic-styled sci-fi minis and break the Imperial Guard patriarchy.
You can start with Space Amazons, now on Kickstarter from Red Bard Games.
Back a lifetime ago, when Sigmar was barely a whisper said by players who knew way too much lore, I wanted to build a certain rat army. And to be honest, those mid-90's boxed sets were just the pinnacle of eye candy to draw people into the hobby. Alas, as I researched things, I became more and more despondent, because to build an decent army beyond all the (literal) bells and whistles, I needed decent troop levies that weren't from the $10 plastic boxes. And "Stormrats" and "Rat Slaves" in pewter purchased two to a pack were prohibitively expensive.
Thankfully I got some actual play with some figures during the Mordheim years, but they hold a special place in my heart.
So you can understand the warmth in my heart as I see the Kickstarter for Rat Storm Rising by Curtis Fell. Thirteen classically styled rats in 28mm cast in resin, that can be swapped out as you need them.
Fainting Goat Games has already unleashed Cocaine Owlbear onto the world. They've now expanded it with the Cocaine Owlbear Holiday Special, now on Backerkit.
From the campaign:
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