Punk tribute and wacky TTRPG with self-generating story dungeon The Average Trooper: Skeleton Meyhem. It’s hard to see how well it’s doing, with no reviews on DTRPG or metal badges.
However, Coffee Run: A Misadventure, an adventure, is doing well in Zine Quest. The zine from Vitali Demura, a self-labelled deviant game master, is on track to hit its funding target and comes from Uzhhorod in Ukraine. You can see progress on Kickstarter.
The adventure keeps with the punk approach and the self-generating story. It’s a story about coffee, too, about getting coffee, and it has a skeleton twist.
We’re told we can start as the lowest of the low skeleton troopers and become whatever we want to – perhaps by attaching body parts!
A limited edition three-colour zine and a print-cut-scan technique will be deployed to get that gritty feel. There are three areas to explore plus on-the-fly generators, a fold-out map, new enemies, new pentagrams and a new shroom skeleton type.
Most of all, I suspect the punk vibe of the zine is luring all these backers in.
The Necropolis needs you, trooper! Explore THE CITY, THE WILD, and the wicked THE HERO CAMP. It is all up to you to save the undead realm. Of course, don’t forget to turn on that f*cken loud music and prepare your highlighters! It is going to be an adventure!!!
Backers at €7 get the Coffee Run: Misadventure adventure in PDF with the Skeletonsheet and access to some add-ons, including the core rules.
The physical zine is added, and worldwide shipping is offered for the €19 pledge tier, the next one up.
At €34, there’s also the physical edition of the core Average Trooper: Skeleton Mayhem in the rewards.
An impressive tally of the physical and digital zines, a Wake Up Kich patch, a pin Ugo Scream, Mayhem Highlighters, a dust cover latch and four printed skeletonsheets are added at €44.
The t-shirt joins the groaning pile of skeleton koo at €74, although it unlocks as an add-on in previous tiers.
There is even a €666 option for the hardcore of one backer-only.
The Coffee Run PDF is expected out this October, but the rest in about a year, February 2025, with the Kickstarter running until the 2nd of March.
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