Gloomhaven: the role-playing game, an open-world role-playing game based on the popular award-winning board game series, is launching a crowdfunding campaign on June 20. 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 over 600 miniatures compatible with all previous games. The announcement was made on Tuesday on Twitter and in a blog postin addition to a few video trailers on Youtube.
Launched as a crowdfunding campaign in 2015, the original Gloomhaven is a nearly £20 campaign in a box – complete with a world map to explore, ancient secrets to unlock and a new dice-less combat system. That system has been reinterpreted several times since that launch, once as a digital version of the original game and also as a series of sequel board games and expansions. The latest release, Frost harborgrossed nearly $13 million in 2020 and should be available at retail soon.
According to the video trailer Gloomhaven: the RPG will utilize the same dice-less, card-based system that fans are already familiar with.
‘This is no coincidence 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 what you do, both in and out of battle.”
Tuesday’s announcement also teased a series of hundreds of miniatures, all of which have been painstakingly reproduced from the original drawings by the team at Cephalofair Games. The core Miniatures of Gloomhaven set will contain 250 of those figures.
“Our team has been hard at work over the last 2 years shaping and lining up product partners to bring you the quality and value you expect and we are excited to share the final results in June,” said the company in a blog post. “With thematic poses, sculpted bases and a high level of quality control – we hope you’ll be pleased with the final results.”
Polygon has contacted Cephalofair for more information.