This campaign is being cancelled since it's funding during pre-launch through other contributions. It is being replaced by a campaign for my first solo-journaling TTRPG, A Construct's Nature on Backerkit in July, which you can find here:
The new campaign will include all rewards listed on this page (and some extras), so check it out if you're excited about the games listed here and are ready for A Construct's Nature!
Previous campaign details available for transparency:
TTRPGkids is an ENnie awarded web resource that's ALL about using TTRPGs with and for kids!
The TTRPGkids website includes over 400 articles and resources pages on all-ages friendly TTRPGs so families, educators, facilitators, and friend groups can find everything that they need in one place. It also features work from and supports hundreds of creators throughout the community by raising awareness about their projects.
This is all publicly available and free for the community to use.
I offer this to the community for free use because I want it to help people.
However... there are costs involved with running this website, especially as it has grown and required more advanced systems to help with web security, site responsiveness, spam management, creation tools, and more.
Funds raised from selling games and having site sponsors are what keep this site going, so that's why we're here on Crowdfundr!
I want to continue offering this resource for a long time to come and at a quality that the community deserves, and your support is a huge part of that!
In 2023, the community rallied to support TTRPGkids with covering site costs through a Crowdfundr, very similar to this, and it provided the funds to keep the site going and improve it!
Thanks to that impact, TTRPGkids was able to cover a full year's site costs, run convention booths where I got to interact with the community, and give talks at conferences where I reached A LOT more people!
Now, it's running again as a yearly event to both support the site for the next year and to give you an opportunity to get some cool rewards on discount!
I chose to use my solarpunk games for this year's theme because it's something that I believe in and pursue through TTRPGkids.
Often times, when people talk about "solarpunk", it evokes thoughts of bright green fields tended to by solar powered machines under a crystal clear blue sky or a gleaming futuristic city with foliage sprawling down from the roofs of pristine buildings amidst skyways of flying cars and motorbikes.
While I LOVE the aesthetic, solarpunk is also something that we can actually see in places now. It's the interconnectedness of nature, community, and technology, and I want TTRPGkids to be part of that.
I do what I can with TTRPGkids to support the community with the technology that I have access to, and I try to foster a love of nature and the world through my games.
Partnering to support the community
All classroom-ready TTRPGs supported through reward sponsorships
or unlocked through stretch goals will support the TTRPG educator's
toolkit that I'm developing with Creators Assemble! This non-profit
creates, distributes, and otherwise facilitates educational use of
comics, graphic novels, and TTRPGs, and I am officially partnering
with them for this campaign to support their work!
Fulfilled through DriveThruRPG
This project is being fulfilled through DTRPG to follow better practices for shipping (reduces resources for overseas shipping), stock management, and overall cost allocation.
While the most eco-friendly way to get a game is to use the digital version since it involves no printing and shipping, I also understand that physical books can reach people in different ways and are critical resources to schools and libraries.
Because of that, I still wanted to offer physical books, but I'm using a method that has shown to have good quality and reliability while also giving me options for responsible distribution of small-scale print projects.
About Steph from TTRPGkids
Hello! I'm Steph, the creator and writer
for the TTRPGkids site! This website began as a fun project with
my family and grew into supporting the youth and all-ages focused
TTRPG community.
I am now helping other creators, publishing my own work, playtesting, speaking at conventions, presenting for webinars, and generally doing what I can to build up more resources and awareness centered around all-ages TTRPGs.
In addition to running TTRPGkids, I am a parent to an amazing 5 year old kid and have been a vehicle crash test engineer, worked at NASA, and taught college engineering, so I really enjoy including tech elements in my work!
And thank you for checking out this project, playing TTRPGs with kids, making TTRPGs for kids, and helping to create more resources for youth-focused TTRPGs! I hope that the TTRPGkids.com website can help you find the info that you need for your games!
