.dungeon is a tabletop RPG set in a virtual world, is a popular indie and is now a firm crowdfunding success.
The publisher, back from an RPG industry break, is Kickstarting a second edition of the game. There’s about two weeks left to get involved.
The setting is Annwn, a ruin in a dead MMO with retro-graphics and chromatic glare. The pitch is this; it’s like a fantasy roleplaying game but with computer game glitches and cRPG quirks.
Anything you can imagine in your favorite MMO or RPG or video game is possible in .dungeon. That’s what it was built for. Part of the reason the the book is so much bigger than other projects I’ve done, including the original .dungeon, is that I want to show the potential this game has for expanding.
There are dungeons to explore for unique loot to grow your character. Special Roles you can uncover to gain more abilities, even meta-abilities like speed running strats and no-clipping. There’s an amazing equipment list which includes things like an in-game Collectible Card Game, where the holographic foils have magic properties, replacing potions and single-use items. There’s a crafting system that’s simple and intuitive, so you can craft items, start a shop, and sell them.
The backing tiers are straightforward, with the first reward pledge kicking in at $25—those supporters who can promise that much investment gets a PDF copy of the game as a reward.
The physical book is added to the rewards for backers who can offer $50 or more.
At $100, the book is signed, and a personal note will be inside the covers.
A limited run of the original .dungeon is available in the most traditional cRPG format – the floppy disk. That, the PDF and physical book are a very limited tier at $100.
The third $100 option, also limited but with 50 spaces, is the Music for a Dead MMO tier. That includes a 40-minute cassette of a soundtrack, the PDF and the book.
There are tiers at $300 to include the book and a custom boss business card, $400 for a design of your character and then, impressively, $1000 for a one-of-a-kind 3D model of the VR headset on which the fictional .dungeon is supposed to run.
Impressively, the expected delivery of all of this is December 2023.
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