Meet new friends on a starship, space station, or distant moon in this system-agnostic TTRPG zine! These illustrated characters and settings can be seeds for character creation, campaign preparation, or read as a comic where you supply the plot!
Meet new friends on a starship, space station, or distant moon in this system-agnostic TTRPG zine! These illustrated characters and settings are perfect seeds for character creation and campaign preparation for tabletop roleplaying games, or read as a comic where you supply the plot!
FOLK is a love letter to character generation, fan fiction, and storytelling prompts. The first volume of FOLK (20 Characters to Inspire & Abscond With) was released in 2024 and contained a series of 20 illustrated characters, appellations and descriptions.
FOLK Volume II: Travelers of the Inky Void will feature brand new FOLK from a shared sci-fi setting, as well as setting elements like starships, space stations and moons. Like the FOLK themselves, the setting elements provide poetic beginnings to grab ahold of and leave you to discover where they lead.
More concretely, FOLK Volume II is a black-and-white, staple-bound zine full of system-agnostic illustrations and descriptions of characters, NPCs and environments to seed into your own games. The exact page count is to be determined, but we expect it to be in the range of 32-48 pages, similar to Volume I.
Illustrations by Kate Barbaria Words by Brendan Albano
We’re excited to be participating in Zine Month, and we are grateful for all the community support available to first-time crowdfunders produced by the Zine Month community!
Please note that pledges do not cover shipping fees! Shipping fees will be calculated and collected after the campaign with Backerkit. A survey will be sent out to backers to collect shipping information. You won't receive your rewards if the survey is not completed so please fill them out as soon as you can!
We will most likely ship using USPS. Shipping estimates for the zines to the following locations is approximately:
Portland, OR: Free local pickup
USA: $5-8
CAN, MEX, AUS, EU, UK: $20-25
Everywhere else: $25+
Shipping is subject to change and will be calculated and collected after the campaign. Please note that shipping for The Riso-head and The Collector tiers may be more expensive.
Our projected fulfillment date is May 2025, and we will update backers if that projection changes.
KB+BA is Kate Barbaria and Brendan Albano. We make architecture, art and games in Portland, OR. Our work has been described as “groovy, unpretentious… intimate and elemental” (Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight).
If you’re in the area, come say hello at our monthly meetup Bread and Butter.
This is our first time crowdfunding a project in over a decade, so we’ve had a lot to catch up on! Because FOLK Volume II will be similar in style and will use the same printer as FOLK Volume I, we are confident in our ability to deliver on the creative, design and production aspects of the project.
The team at Backerkit and the Zine Month community have provided a tremendous amount of support for the crowdfunding side of things, and we are confident that while every project contains a few (or more than a few) curve balls, we’re ready to handle them!
