Kickstarter: White Box Cyclopedia

James M. Spahn is currently raising money on Kickstarter for White Box: Cyclopedia, which could easily be THE definitive book if you are into fantasy roleplaying inspired by the original D&D (also known as 0e). It will contain modernized rules based on original D&D (before Greyhawk) with many modern additions and optional rules for referees’ which allow endless customization. You’ll not only get the three basic classes, but also many new ones. There will be new heritages, over 200 monsters, rules for strongholds and seafaring, and much, much more.

I love James’ work and this is a project I gladly supported in a heartbeat. In fact, I plan to use this for my next campaign! At the time of this writing over 36,000 dollars have been raised by almost 800 people. The goal of initially $ 5000 have been raised in mere minutes. As far as I understand is the PDF version of the White Box Cyclopedia already ready to go and will probably sent out to backers as soon as the fundraising has ended in 22 days.

If you are interested in old-school gaming, I highly recommend you checking Whitebox Cyclopedia out on Kickstarter.

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.