Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Steve Jackson Games is relaunching Toon, the game where you get to play an animated character of your design from Saturday morning cartoons. Recreate a facsimile (or mockery) of your favorite cartoon character, all for $20 for the PDF! If you want a softcover of the rules, you can get that for $35 ($45 with shipping to the USA), which will also get you the PDF. In this game you can't get killed, you just fall down and will be back in the next scene.

Every character has a Schtick, a form of superpower, much like Popeye's spinach gives him temporary super-strength. Your toon has characteristics of Smarts, Brawn, Chutzpah, and Zip, you also have to decide Species, though you don't have to be organic or Earth-based. You wanna be a Martian? Go for it! You wanna be a toaster, or cloud, or imaginary friend? Why not! In this game, the game master is called the Animator, for obvious reasons.

The Backerkit project is open for another 16 days, and is already massively overfunded. They are projecting fulfillment by the end of next year. Presumably that's a massive overprojection and it will be filled well before then.

A family game of silliness suitable for ages six and up! And not for gamers who take things crazily serious. ;-) If someone is incapable of sticking their tongue thoroughly in their cheek, they really ought to witness a game before diving in, and there's really not much preventing them from jumping in in the middle of a session.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/toon-the-cartoon-roleplaying-game

Running through the end of the month, it's blown past its initial funding goal of £12,000 and is close to doubling it. For about $37US, you get the rules and all stretch goals in PDF, add $10~ and get them in print.

They expect everything to ship early next year, so I'm guessing they have everything almost in final production stages.

The Kickstarter page also includes a link to the C&S quickstart rules on DriveThruRPG if you care to check them out. The game has been around forever, I remember friends playing it in the early '80s back when I worked at Flying Buffalo.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cns5/chivalry-and-sorcery-the-medieval-role-playing-game/

A very good article on letting your players help define an RPG campaign setting. You can use the same technique for expanding player character backgrounds.

I definitely want to use this the next time I start an RPG campaign.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/wiki/index.php/%22Johnstoning%22:_Collaborative_Campaign_Creation

It even breaks down as to who has met God and which ones are GLBT. Interesting stuff, something I'm going to have to look at more closely. I only wish they'd alphabetized the lists.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html