Cryptozoic Kickstarter for the DC Heroes RPG 40th Anniversary

Back in 1985, Mayfair began publishing the DC Heroes RPG. The game has been out of print since the mid-1990s, but Cryptozoic recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to recreate and reprint all the books.

We had to figure out how to create new prints of the books! There are no digital files of the books, so we knew we’d have to recreate them. We had to acquire all the DC Heroes Role-Playing Game products. That meant scouring the internet (hello, eBay!) to find pristine editions of many of the books.

I never played the game, but I have many of the sourcebooks in various conditions.

The Kickstarter prices are way above my budget, but hopefully, Cryptozoic will eventually be able to release high quality PDF versions of the game books.

The Pioneer Plaque Kickstarter

The Pioneer Plaque Kickstarter is one of the more interesting projects I’ve run across on Kickstarter. It’s already over (successfully funded!), but Duane King used the platform to raise money to create replicas of the plaque that accompanied Pioneer 10 when it was launched on March 3, 1972.

Today, there are only three plaques in the universe, two of which are billions of kilometers away from our planet, while the third is in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Now, I’m bringing the plaque back to Earth.

Pioneer Plaque Replica

Ancient Astronaut Mission Patches

This has to be one of the best Kickstarters of all time: NAZCA – Ancient Astronaut Mission Patches.

The NAZCA: Ancient Astronaut Mission Patch Set is a 3-pack of embroidered patches commemorating the ancient space travel missions of intergalactic visitors to Planet Earth.

Not content with merely leaving enigmatic and gargantuan architecture behind, these ancient ambassadors also wanted to immortalize their visits with embroidered patches commemorating these missions.

Each patch features one of their main spaceport landing sites established here on Earth 432,000 years ago: Easter Island Outpost, Sphinx Central and Stonehenge Station.

Easter Island Outpost
Easter Island Outpost

Sphinx Central
Sphinx Central

Stonehenge Station
Stonehenge Station