Gloomhaven RPG campaign launches this summer, plans more than 600 minis

Gloomhaven : The Role Playing GameThe crowdfunding campaign for, a tabletop RPG based on the award-winning series of board games will begin on 20 June. Hosted on Backerkit’s new crowdfunding platform, the TTRPG will expand the world created by Isaac Childres with eight ancestries, 16 classes, and a line of more than 600 miniatures compatible with all previous games. The announcement took place on Tuesday on TwitterAnd in a post on a website, with two video trailers.

The original crowdfunding campaign was launched in 2015. Gloomhaven is a nearly 20-pound campaign in a box — complete with a world map to explore, legacy-style secrets to unlock, and a novel diceless combat system. Since its launch in 2004, the system has been reinvented several times. Once as a version digital of the game, and once as an expansion and sequel to that original boardgame. The latest release is, FrosthavenThe campaign raised almost $13 million in 2020. It should be readily available for purchase at the retail level.

The video trailer shows that the film is a success. Gloomhaven : The RPGFans will still be able to use the card-based and diceless game system they are familiar with.

“This isn’t just Gloomhaven,” says the narrator of the video trailer. “This is a newly developed system that integrates the card management stamina system into the role-playing experience, so your cards help guide what you do both in and out of combat.”

Tuesday’s announcement also teased a line of hundreds of miniatures, all of which have been painstakingly reproduced based on the original drawings by the team at Cephalofair Games. The core Gloomhaven Miniatures The set includes 250 of these figures.

“Our team has been hard at work for the last 2 years sculpting and lining up product partners to bring you the quality and value you expect and are excited to share the final results in June,” the company said in a blog post. “With thematic poses, sculpted bases, and high levels of quality control — we hope you will be pleased with the final results.”

Cephalofair was contacted by Polygon to get more information.