Egg Embry

RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Mutants & Masterminds 4e, Dark Matter, SEWER SCUM, and more This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between February 26 to March 11, which includes the tail end of Zine Month / ZineQuest on Kickstarter / ZineTopia on Backerkit. Despite t...

At EN World, it's time to discuss TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns for Mutants & Masterminds 4e, Dark Matter (5e), SEWER SCUM (Borg 1980s action movie New York City), and more with a number of gamer comments at EN World about these projects.
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Is Superheroic Fantasy D&D’s Future? A Complete Class Compendium Conversation Let’s look at the compendium, give my impressions, and talk to its creator about whether he wrote superheroic fantasy or the reader is reinterpreting his work.

At Geek Native, I review Mike Myler's Backerkit project, Complete Class Compendium, and ask if this is a book supporting all fantasy or is this a gateway to superheroic fantasy?
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Complete Class Compendium Conversation – An Interview With Mike Myler Mike Myler is an Ennie Award-winning freelancer who has worked for Cubicle 7, Legendary Games, and many other publishers including EN Publishing. His list of books for D&D and Level Up: Advanced Fifth...

At EN World, Mike Myler and I talk about his latest book, the Complete Class Compendium for 5e and A5E. #dnd5e
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Do people subscribe to Knights of the Dinner Table? Well if you do, Netcrawl made it inside the covers. Thanks @eggembry.bsky.social for the review!

Here Are 2026's Most Anticipated TTRPGs... As Voted By You! The nominations were nominated, and the votes were voted, and now we have the final results: this year's official most anticipated TTRPGs--as voted by you! Well, a few thousand of you. Just like we d...

From EN World, the most anticipated TTRPGs coming in 2026!
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Pinball Crawl Classics!, Trainted Grail, Circe's Guide to Aeaea, and more For my first article of 2026, here's a crowdfunding sampler of campaigns that close between January 29 and February 11. There are 5e, DCC, OSE, and more options for your gaming table. Old-School Adv...

At EN World, I look at RPGs based on pinball machines, Percy Jackson, King Arthur, 90s horror, magic candy, and more!
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Thundercats, Toon 2e, Meshline, and more Happy New Year! This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between January 15 and 28. This article includes games that run on 5e, OSE adventures, and original gaming engines as wel...

Happy New Year! At EN World, I look at the upcoming ThunderCats RPG, Toon 2e, an OSR adventure, an OSR setting sourcebook, an homage to Scooby-Doo, a one-page RPG, and more.
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Grim Subclasses, BX Advanced Bestiary, Enchanted Trinkets, and more Merry Christmas! If you’re taking a break from celebrating the holiday, consider these crowdfunding offerings from the near-future before their campaigns close between January 8 and 14. This time of y...

It's Christmas Eve and, at EN World, we open and review some #TTRPG crowdfunding projects!
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It's Time to VOTE for your MOST ANTICIPATED TTRPG of 2026! As we do every year, it's time to vote for the most anticipated tabletop roleplaying game of the coming year! Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Legend in the Mist). Previous winners ...

It's that time of year, pick the upcoming 2026 TTRPGs you're most excited about and vote for them at EN WORLD!
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SMÖRK BORG has gone SMÖRK at DriveThruRPG! I wrote an adventure for the episode book and Kristopher Neal McClanahan made some SMÖRKTASTIC art for it! Go, get your SMÖRK on! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Draw Steel, KING MORG, Enchanted Trinkets, and more This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between New Year’s Day and January 7. Among the offerings is the most profitable crowdfunding of the holiday season: Draw Steel: Crack th...

At EN World, I look at the latest #crowdfunding for Matt Colville's Draw Steel as well as KING MORG, an interesting sci-fi adventure, 5e books, and more.
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The Fox Chronicles #1 & 2 / A Sci-Fi Action Adventure The continuous adventures of Autumn Fox. 30-plus pages full of excitement and intrigue.

Robert Jeffrey and Tony Cade's #comicbooks The Fox Chronicles 1 and 2 are available on #Kickstarter. Looking forward to reading this bit of sci-fi awesomeness!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fox...

Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2026 As I do every year, I'm taking nominations for the MOST ANTICIPATED RPG poll for the coming year. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Legend in the Mist). Previous winners include 13th...

At EN World, it's time to nominate and link your 2 most anticipated standalone tabletop RPGs debuting in 2026! #TTRPG
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – DarkSpace, Vault 5e, Gary’s Appendix, and more In addition to the below sampler, from now through December 1, 2025, Backerkit is running a promotion, their Holiday Market featuring Monte Cook Games, Goodman Games, Pelgrane Press, Green Ronin Publi...

Before Thanksgiving, I look at #TTRPG #crowdfunding projects like DarkSpace, Vault 5e, Gary’s Appendix, Beast, Loke Battlemats, and more.
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Mausritter Junk City, Ghost in the Shell, ALADIA, and more You’ll find 5e adventures, a review of the main Mausritter Month offering on Backerkit, OSR offerings, and a Forged in the Dark variant. Mausritter Junk City from Exalted Funeral Press / Games Omni...

Reviewing Mausritter Month, Into the Cess and Citadel, ALADIA: The Pyramid Scheme for 5E, Alpha Star Magazine, GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE, and more #crowdfunding #TTRPG projects.
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Ending Friday night at midnight ET. In Our Dreams Awake #1 to #3 (of 4) ends on Kickstarter. Join our dream!

Update 9: About 36 Hours Left! · In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic This is the dream.This is a nightmare.This is reality. Every indy comic book project inhabits the intersection where all three of those states meet and shake hands. Telling the story is the dream. Fin...

In the latest update, John Robert McGuire thanks the backers and talks about a Fack Raines' comic book project, Wishful Thinking #1-4.
The Kickstarter for In Our Dreams Awake #1 to #3 ends on Friday at 11:59PM ET. #dreampunk #comicbook
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Update 15: Update #15: Happy Halloween! · Scarred Lands Player's Guide for Savage Worlds Hello all! It's Halloween, so I will be taking some time this evening to accompany my grandkids as they go on a quest for candy. Since I'll be tied up later, I figured it would be best to get this upd...

Over at Travis Legge's Scarred Lands (SWADE) Kickstarter, he shared a write-up about In Our Dreams Awake in his Halloween update. #comicbooks #dreampunk #cyberpunk
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More wonderful people talking about In Our Dreams Awake!

Check out Issue #3 over at Kickstarter!

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#steampunk
#cyberpunk
#kickstarter
#indiecomics
#comics
#indycomics
#kickstartercomics

Update 7: It's the Last Week! What's this? Another Podcast Appearance! · In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic I'm currently in the mode of the same sentence running through my brain in two very different ways:

In Our Dreams Awake issues 1 to 3 (of 4)! John Robert McGuire talks on another podcast about this #dreampunk #comicbook Kickstarter ends on Friday!
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In Our Dreams Awake #3 is funded! John Robert McGuire shares another podcast in which he discusses the #ComicBook, and talk about Travis Legge's latest Kickstarter for Scarred Lands (SWADE). #dreampunk
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In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

In Our Dreams Awake #1 to #3 - A #Dreampunk #ComicBook - reached its funding goal on #Kickstarter. Thanks to everyone who believes in this dream! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

The restless nights...
The dreams call to him...
Or is this the dream...
And the other reality?

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#dreampunk
#indycomics
#comics
#cyberpunk
#steampunk

In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

In Our Dreams Awake #3 (of 4 #dreampunk #comicbooks) is close to funding, 16% to go! Check out the story of Jason Byron, a fantasy artist/cyberpunk gangster that can't wake up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

John Robert McGuire talks about the cats of In Our Dreams Awake #2 and #3. How did #cyberpunk cats land in this #comicbook? Rolands Kalniņš drew these pets into this #dreampunk comic, and they rock! Check out the story including links to the Kickstarter campaign.
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RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Pendragon, Dark Forest, RAGNABORG, and more This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between November 6 to 12. Beyond this sampling, there are two notable events occurring in the ecosystem of TTRPG crowdfunding. After acqu...

At EN World, I talk about #TTRPG #crowdfunding projects like Pendragon Classic, Dark Forest, RagnaBorg, Fizzwip's Treasury, Cosmic Corsairs, Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG, Under the Shadow of the Noon-Day Witch, WRASTLEVANIA, The Spy Game, and more.
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Under the Shadow of the Noon-Day Witch is an OSR adventure with greed, political intrigue, and magic by John "Hambone" McGuire. In his update, he discusses the Sickest Witch RPG, Brian Colin's Vast Grimm Kickstarter, and the #comicbook, In Our Dreams Awake. www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

In the Fantasy World, the Magi have need of a painter to help record the strange craft which has crashed in their lands...

But this knowledge comes with a price.

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#dreampunk
#indycomics
#comics
#cyberpunk
#steampunk

Update 3: The Other John McGuire’s TTRPG Kickstarter - UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NOON-DAY WITCH · In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic With a limited number of names to choose from, there's bound to be more than one person with the same moniker. In Our Dreams Awake features two visions of Jason Byron, one a painter in a fantasy world...

In the latest update for John Robert McGuire's #comicbook Kickstarter, we talk about the other John McGuire's #TTRPG Kickstarter for UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NOON-DAY WITCH. #TheManyJohnMcGuires
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Invincible RPG: Reviewing The Quickstart With A Comic Artist & An Author A tabletop roleplaying game based on Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Skybound Entertainment and Free League Publishing are partnering to tran...

At EN World, I talk to comic book artist Steven Cummings (Star Wars: Mandalorian) and comic book author John McGuire about the free Invincible RPG quickstart. #ComicBook #Kickstarter
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