Fashion isn’t something that I usually follow or write about. This Tumblr, however, I thought you’d appreciate. Dungeons and Fashion is a selection of outfits inspired by D&D monsters and character classes.

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Sign up for the Gnome Stew blog’s email list for a chance to win DriveThruRPG gift certificates and two RPG ebooks.

Select PDFs from Kenzer & Co. are on sale for 15-30% off.

For the next week everything at Noble Knight Games is at least 10% off. (Well maybe a little less than a week. I think they sent me the email yesterday.)

Scallywags from Gamewright will be debuting at Origins Game Fair in a beginner-level tournament. Prizes will include copies of the game before it’s available in stores.

Avalon Games’ e-book products will be half-off on May 21st.

Everything for sale on Chaosium’s website is 30% off through the 28th.

On Amazon, LEGO Ramses Return is available for only $3.11 and Qwirkle for $17.94.

Father Geek is giving away Dark Horse from Knight Works.

Thanks, Mail Carrier is giving away Classic Battleship Movie Edition and a KRE-O Battleship Combat Chopper set from Hasbro.

My Four Monkeys is giving away Distraction from ThinkFun.

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Crowdfunding has become a major trend in the tabletop games industry. It’s allowed both startup and established game-makers to produce products that otherwise they could not have. And it’s given consumers a forum for voicing their opinions and voting with their dollars before resources are committed to manufacturing.

Discovering what projects are out there, however, has become an increasingly difficult process as the numbers have increased. Many of you, I know, looked forward to our weekly Kickstarter roundup, and some expressed disappointment when it recently lapsed. To be honest, maintaining it takes a lot of work. But we love the games!

So now we’re proud to announce the relaunch of our comprehensive list of all Kickstarter and Indiegogo game projects. We’re going to keep it on its own page (see up top where it says “Kickstarter“), to make it easier to access at any time. Check it out. I think you’ll like all the added features. You can now search the table, as well as sort by project name, dollars raised, percent funded, or closing date. You can even export the data or download a spreadsheet with more information.

If you like it, tell your friends.

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Ravensburger Digital will soon be releasing Scotland Yard(Also known as Mister X) for the iPad and iPhone as a universal app. The game is for 3 -6 players playing locally, over wifi, or over bluetooth. The game also features a single player mode, HD graphics for devices with retina display, and has a new setting for London by night.

I’ve actually never played Scotland Yard, so this looks like it’ll be the perfect opportunity for me to give it a whirl.

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We’re in the last round of playing Off Your Rocker and still having a great time! Don’t miss your chance to win this fun party game. Or you could back Off Your Rocker on Kickstarter.

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Chess sets are pretty common test pieces for 3-D printers. But Joe Larson has gone one better with his specs posted to the MakerBot community site, Thingiverse. The pieces of Joe’s Action Chess can be assembled in to a fighting robot—checkmate.

[via Digital Trends]

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Purple Pawn has been on the forefront of covering Kickstarter game projects for some time. With the explosion in both the number and scope of projects, however, that coverage must evolve. We hope to bring back shortly our comprehensive list of projects. In the meantime, though, we’re going to test a weekly roundup of Kickstarter game news that highlights interesting projects, major achievements, sneak peeks, and related stuff from around the web. Please let us know what you think of this approach.

Finished and Finishing

Zombicide successfully funded on Sunday with just over $780,000—39 times its goal! Ogre Designer’s Edition is at $715,000 with about a day-and-a-half left.

Interesting Projects

Ace of Spies is a spy-themed card game set in the 1920s. It’s the first project of new game publisher Albino Dragon, a venture of sometimes contributor to Purple Pawn, Richard Bliss (also currently an advertiser). Watch their intro video. It’s my favorite so far.

Another project with a connection to this site is Off Your Rocker from Stratus Games. It’s a party game, which honestly is not usually my thing. However, we’re currently running a giveaway of Off Your Rocker for Stratus, and as part of that have been playing a version of the game over on our Play page. It’s been a lot of fun!

Polynesian Adventure is the project of a recent business school graduate and Hawaii resident. It’s supposed to teach Polynesian culture but is just roll-and-move—or more precisely, draw-card-and-move, like Candy Land. [Reminds me of a story I did 4 years ago.] It’s passed the 50 percent mark but only has 7 days left to go.

Gen Con or Bust is fiction author Patrick Stutzman’s attempt to finance a trip to Gen Con. He’s been before but can’t afford it this year. He’s asking for $2,250.

Lots of people talk about the difficulties of dealing with sexism, classism, racism, violence, and historical realism in fantasy games. The Farewell to Fear project is trying to address that with a sophisticated “progressive post-fantasy roleplaying game”. Not simply changing the skin color of NPCs, Farewell to Fear presents a medieval-style setting undergoing social revolution.

Think punk rock meets fantasy. Bad Religion meets Tolkien, boot to face.

With the Global GameSpace project, creator Curtis Lacy is hoping to develop a cross-platform, virtual-tabletop application for playing board games over the internet. He plans to give away the software when it’s finished but needs $40,000 to make it happen.

Interesting projects show up on Indiegogo too. One of them is Sharks With Lasers, a game in which the players’ secret agent trainees must dodge sharks, and their lasers, on the way to an island.

Stuff From Around the Web

Lisa Stevens, CEO of Paizo, talked about crowdfunding on a Gamerati Google+ Hangout and teased about a possible Kickstarter project launching soon. Could the Pathfinder Online Technology Demo from Goblin Works be what she was referring to?

On BoardGameGeek, one user is maintaining a GeekList of the top 10 most funded board game projects on Kickstarter.

Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced that it will announce next week (really) a Kickstarter project for a new Savage Worlds RPG setting.

On Troll in the Corner, Nick reminds donors to be cautious with crowdfunding, noting that there’s no guarantee of quality for supported projects.

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The city of Evansville installed a new life-sized chess board (in the hopes to get people outdoors and more active). Columbus already has one. But St. Louis has them both beat with the world’s largest chess piece—14½ feet tall.

Matthew Fishbein won the Maine State Chess Championship but is only 14 years old.

The president of the World Chess Federation held diplomatic talks with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (perhaps at the request of the Russian government) and asked him not to retaliate against rebel regions of the country. In contrast, a 10 year old Tunisian refused to play against an Israeli opponent in the World School Chess Championship.

A World Chess Championship title match opens Thursday between defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel. The contest will take place in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia and proceed for 12 games over 3 weeks.

The 2012 U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women’s Championships started Tuesday in St. Louis. In the former, 12 players are competing in an 11 game round-robin tournament. In the latter, 10 players in a 9 game round-robin.

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Last week I mentioned a few sites giving away games from Minion Games. Fortress AT is another.

Wired’s GeekDad and Schemer (social activity recommendation service?) are giving away five sets of five games.

To get 75% off closeout titles from Out of the Box Publishing use the code, “DEALS”. Also, the company is running a contest to give away Faux•Cabulary Expansion 1.

Preorder the new print-run of Get Bit direct from Mayday Games for 20% off.

And last, but definitely most important, check out Purple Pawn’s very own Play page for an opportunity to win Off Your Rocker from Stratus Games.

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Come visit our Play page and join us in a game of Off Your Rocker. Guess our quirks for a chance to win a copy of the game. Plus, figuring out what’s wrong with us has been a lot of fun!

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