Explore the world of Arkelon like never before in this special artbook!
It contains all of the conceptual work that went into the game's beautiful illustrations and characters! 

Through minimal text, the book brings insight on designs, information about the world, and information about how it came to life!

Prairie Dragon Press is proud to continue its first ongoing publication, The Hearth Magazine!

The Hearth Magazine is a bi-monthly digital magazine about the small press and indie TTRPG space, with articles, reviews, games, supplements, and news from contributors around the world.

The Hearth #3 features articles and games from:

• J. D. Harlock

• Muse en Lystrala

• Mila Grish

• Tomas Gimenez Rioja

• Margaux Blanchard

• Kyle Tam

Cover Art by Fernando and Louie Salvaterra (used under license)

You can find out more about The Hearth Magazine, including ad sales, how to pitch, and our artist guidelines on our website. Make sure to read our Commitments to make sure we're a good fit.

**Note: The plain text file for this issue is coming.

Prairie Dragon Press is proud to continue its first ongoing publication, The Hearth Magazine!

The Hearth Magazine is a bi-monthly(ish) digital magazine about the small press and indie TTRPG space, with articles, reviews, games, supplements, and news from contributors around the world.

The Hearth #2 features articles and games from:

• Glenn Buettner

• Julianna Kim

• Julia LaFond

• Samantha Puc

• Sofia Ramos

• Katya Ryabova

• Arisia Santiago

Cover Art by Bryan Syme (“Magic Sax”, used under license)

You can find out more about The Hearth Magazine, including ad sales, how to pitch, and our artist guidelines on our website. Make sure to read our Commitments to make sure we're a good fit.

Prairie Dragon Press proudly welcomes you to its first ongoing publication, The Hearth Magazine!

The Hearth Magazine is a bi-monthly(ish) digital magazine about the small press and indie TTRPG space, with articles, reviews, games, supplements, and news from contributors around the world.

The Hearth #1 features articles from:

• Steph Campbell

• Jonathon Greenall

• Haelley Hogan

• Malachi Lily

• Alejandro de la Piedra

• and Lis Welch

And games by:

• Helena Real

• Robin Small

• and Sebastian Yūe 

Original cover art by Alina Pete.

You can find out more about The Hearth Magazine, including ad sales, how to pitch, and our artist guidelines on our website. Make sure to read our Commitments to make sure we're a good fit.

Welcome to the Wastelands of High Radiation! It has been a couple hundred years since the radiation deaths began. In that time, humanity & co. has scrounged its way up through the irradiated dust in the wreckage & ruins to make an existence again. Pure humans, mutant humanoids, mutant animals, robotics, & cyborgs live along side each other, often with great internal and external friction. Communities fight the elements and erratic weather to grow stunted crops between the ruins of cities. Traders risk the mutant beasts and roving bandits to trade scavenged tech and information along the broken roads. Enigmatic Coalitions (secret cabals and known societies) scheme to enact their agendas from secreted away enclaves. Bunkers open to the surface in want of parts and repairs. Robotics and cyborgs roam the wastes, following ancient programming from a world that doesn't exist.

    All that said, it is neither grim dark, nor wacky gonzo-ness. There is an air of humor about this setting which should stand out because it is not commonplace. People still struggle, but no matter how mutated they are: they're still people, warts and all. Popular video game series about wishing for nuclear winters or wandering the nuclear fallout for vaults to delve should inform the consumer of this setting if you need a reference.

    The Irradiated Reference Pages, Volume 1, is an absolutely densely-packed 16-page document, full of generators, spark tables, & ideas for your gamma-irradiated, post-apocalyptic games & settings. The Irradiated Reference Pages, Volume 1, is designed with the 1978 gamma-irradiated science-fantasy roleplaying game (or the 2nd edition, which is very similar) in mind, but can work very easily with any other system of your choice. The only specifics are the poison intensity tables, but you can use them however you may with ease. Public domain art from the heyday of pulp science fantasy is used, as well. I hope you enjoy this work and get use out of it! Hopefully this is just the first in the Wastelands of High Radiation. Who knows where volume 2 may take us!

Here are some referee screens for Original D&D,. These hew as close as I can get to the rules, with no houserules mixed in. Chainmail was used for combat procedures, missile weapon information, some morale info and maybe one or two very small places, I forget. The relevant references are listed beside the section headings for quick reference in the books. The Alternative Combat System is used alongside Chainmail’s fantastic and non-fantastic combat systems. This is how the books say to do it, so that's how I did it.

There are two main screens:
The first screen has the relevant matrices and tables for combat.  Each of these variants have two additional variants: 3LBB only with no supplements and the second uses variable weapon damage and variable XP from supplement I, GH. Each of these screens come with either the THAC0 attack matrix or the full attack matrix.

The second screen has the relevant procedures for combat, as well as tables and procedures for wilderness adventures. For this screen there is the Chainmail Move/Countermove combat system or a simplified Chainmail combat system based on Sword & Wizardry's alternating phases.

Use whichever of the two screen variants you wish to use with your game.

The screens have dashed lines around the border to make a consistent cutting job as how I use them is to cut them out and use scrapbook photo corner holder thingies and stick them on my referee screen with awesome artwork (shoutout to OSE’s Peter Mullen screens!).

Attached are the pdfs as well as the .odt files. I use LibreOffice, but these should work for those stuck with Microsoft Word or whatever so that you can edit them as you please. Fonts are embedded, otherwise I use Comfortaa Medium and Carlito. Feel free to drop a donation if you think it worthwhile, it will only go to furthering my game habit with indie creators. So far, I've made $18, which is awesome and very much appreciated! If you enjoy these, I also have similar referee screens for AD&D, just click thru my profile. I’ve got some Empire of the Petal Throne ones I’m polishing up, as well.

Before I forget, big shout out to CountingWizard's referee screen, it was a big help in clearing stuff up for me and everyone should check it out, too! Also a big shoutout to slowtrane for bouncing ideas off each other and working out Chainmial, as well as the ClericsWearRingMail and Wargame Culture folks. Go check out their blogs and youtube channels!

I hope this gets a lot of use for folks! Please let me know if you spot any errors or typos, I’m sure there are some. Thanks!

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Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Tyranny and cruelty have spread across the galaxy, and only you can stop it!

Save the Universe is a sci-fi adventure roleplaying game in which the players create their own great galactic menace and then portray the brave heroes battling against it.

Will you be:

• A relentless hunter, seeking revenge against the bloodthirsty admiral who bombed your home planet into oblivion?

• A fallen noble, building a rebellion by forging interstellar alliances between feuding noble families?

• A mysterious seer, searching for cosmic secrets, hoping to find a way to stop a plague of civilization-devouring alien insects?

By the time the pizza is gone, you’ll have an epic saga and a cast of characters. Then you can jump right into the action, with simple, story-focused rules that reduce prep time and reward players for pursuing their personal dramas.

Charge your blaster. Board your starship. Set your course.

Save the Universe.

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A Tier 1 Adventure Starter for Daggerheart

A fog-choked port town is under assault by undead raiders and aquatic monstrosities capturing victims for a sentient ghost ship known as the Bonewaker. Destroy it and its forces will fall, but doing so may require the summoning of an angry sea horror.

What is an Adventure Starter?

An Adventure Starter is a compact, themed toolkit designed to help GMs quickly start a game of Daggerheart. It provides core elements for running a one-shot, including:

• player-facing questions that invite the table to help establish the setting, invent the sea horror, and create the ritual to summon it

• an exciting opening scene

• descriptive moments to support immersion

• ready-to-use NPCs and encounters that can be dropped in as needed

• suggestions for spending Fear outside of combat

• stat blocks for all referenced environments and adversaries,
  including shape-shifting doppelsquid, specters encasing victims in
  spectral crab shells, and the deck of the Bonewaker itself
  

Two versions of the adventure are included. For GMs who prefer improvisational play, the first section presents the opening scene and building blocks to inspire the rest of the session. For GMs who prefer more structure, the second section presents the adventure using the 5 Room Dungeon framework.

The new environment and 9 new adversaries are available for use in the Heart of Daggers Homebrew Vault.

Version 2 (May 12, 2026): Added suggestions for spending Fear outside of combat, with setting-specific examples.

Cover image art by Alderdoodle (alderdoodle.co.uk).

This product includes materials from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 1.0, © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com. There are no previous modifications by others.

Darrington Press™ and the Darrington Press authorized work logo are trademarks of Critical Role, LLC and used with permission.

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A curious witch and cat’s ghost peer into a web-filled basement…

An elderly librarian and a cowboy’s ghost examine the offerings of a suspicious yard sale…

A singular medium and their own ghost board an undead train…

Welcome to the world of Ghost + Human, a GM-less role-playing game for two players.

The Ghost is a tether-bound specter who must balance their connection between the spirit realm and the mortal one.

The Human is an amateur sleuth who can receive messages from their ephemeral companion and act in the physical world. 

Together, they investigate mysteries you help create by filling in the blanks.

Ghost + Human is an all-ages, no-prep, GM-less TTRPG about an amateur sleuth and their spectral companion investigating supernatural mysteries around town.

Built using the Badger + Coyote game system by Pandion Games, the game follows a pair of asymmetrical characters who have different views of the world and thus have different outcome
resolution mechanics. The book is designed to teach the game as it’s being played, providing step-by-step instructions, robust character-creation, and four fill-in-the-blank mysteries to solve.

The Human’s strength is in accomplishing things in the physical world. They can attempt any action they want, but they have a better chance of success if they are doing something in line with their
occupation or trait. The Ghost can help as well.

The Ghost has any supernatural abilities they want, like reading auras, seeing echoes of the past, and communicating with spirits. They just have to remember that to stay near their tether and that they must carefully balance their connections with the physical and spirit realms or they risk becoming permanently incapacitated.

This game was created as part of the Badger + Coyote Game Jam.

To play this game, you will need:

• 3 six-sided (3d6) dice

• Copies of the character sheets

• Something to write with

Content

The PDF consists of the rules, 4 mysteries to solve, and character sheets.  The Online Resources document includes a link to the Google Doc version of the game for use with screen readers.

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You have discovered Pagewaker.

Bind it to yourself and you can use its power to enter your favorite books, but only six times. How will you change the course of the story? How will it change you?

Pagewaker is a solo game on a bookmark that was created for the 2025 TTRPG Bookmark Jam.

The most interesting day of a man's life is the day when it ends. But this isn't a place for ordinary men. This is a place for the strong, the worthy, and those willing to compromise everything. 

In short, Gratitude  is a storytelling game about trying to please an unknowable god-being in the hopes of being able to leave this terrible place. Once you die – and you will die – you might return as a Haunt, a pale shade of what you were in life. And you will turn against those you most recently called friend.

This is a game about losing everything. 

This is a game about being grateful for what you have. 

The Game

Gratitude was originally released as part of ZineQuest 2021.

Gratitude is a 60-page zine that includes elements of body horror and cosic horror. Players mix-and-match abilities from various factions and travel to complete quests, while sacrificing pieces of themselves that we so often take for granted.

Body horror involves violating the sanctity of mind and body. It is about reminding us that we are made of meat and can suffer terrible physical trauma. It is about flesh being torn off, displayed, and invaded.

Cosmic horror is about reminding us that we are small and insignificant. It is about not being able to make a difference on the world around us, about not being remembered. It is a reminder that we are small and that we are temporary.

This game may not be for you.

The World

Years ago, something changed. The atmosphere itself became toxic to testosterone. The results were sudden and unpleasant.

The Culling killed 30% of people worldwide as the air turned against them. They choked on nothing all at once. Perhaps someone from a different vantage point could have seen a pattern, a trend...something. Maybe an Overseer knows. Or maybe it really was just cursed luck.

In any case, those who survived were left frail, impotent, and brittle-boned. Science solved the problems of reproduction, and mobility, and vast societal changes were immediately implemented to account for the Culled. But the damage cannot be so easily waved away. Many of the Culled who are left are human only by tradition— genetically evolved, selectively bred, and labratorially tampered with to evolve beyond whatever attributes the environment seems to hate. They are husks who survive with drugs and machinery, standing in open defiance against an atmosphere that hates them.

The world is ruled by unknowable beings known as Overseers, and most people believe that the only way to leave is to gain favor with these beings. Players can steal power from five factions, but each power requires a sacrifice. The factions are:

• The Prophets, who believe they can understand the Overseers and interpret their desires. Some of them have learned to siphon power from the Overseers – power they can barely control, power that can break body and mind alike.

• The Grayfolk, who have forsaken both color and personal identity to create art in a wasteland. They run a museum where entry requires the donning of glasses that filter out color.

• The Worldbreakers, hackers who have found ways to modify the source code of reality itself. Their understanding is limited, but sometimes they get the effects they desire.

• The Bobbinscallers, who believe —not entirely incorrectly —that they can summon and control the 30-foot-tall Golden Retrievers that are the favored pets of the Overseers.

• The Atoners, masochistic tank-clerics who believe they are being punished for grievous crimes they only half remember.

Years ago, Zebra Marks was able to procure a single female Golden Retriever for an Overseer. That dog, Bobbins, has since been cloned and bred for size. Each of the enormous dogs that roam the world are clones of that original dog. All of them love to play, and none of them realize how big they are. It is forbidden to harm or interfere with the dogs in any way. 

As a reward for this deed, Zebra Marks now works as a tax consultant in a reality indistinguishable from Omaha, Nebraska in 1997. She thanks the Overseers every day for the banality in which she resides.

Mechanics

Gratitude uses a simple, hackable resolution system: in the middle of the table sits a d6. This is the Fear Die. Whenever you attempt an action, you roll a d6 and try to get equal to or greater than the Fear Die. If you succeed, the Fear Die increases by 1. If you fail, you take damage equal to the number shown on the Fear Die.

Death is rarely the end for characters in Gratitude, merely a setback. You can never die permanently without your own explicit consent. Rather, most of the time you make a sacrifice — your ability to hear out of one ear, a favorite memory, the names of your children — and you come back, resetting the Fear Die to one.

If you do choose death, your friends must fight the corpse that used to be you, and you return as a Haunt. You're not out of the game, rather you become an observer who can spend Haunt Dice to replace either the rolls of your friends, or the Fear Die itself.

Inspiration

Gratitude: a horror game is the product of people who have consumed media their entire lives. We probably aren't capable of properly identifying every inspiration, but some stick out:

•  Y: The Last Man, a comic by Brian K. Vaughan. The setting would not exist without this seed having been planted in my mind over a decade ago.

• The RPGs Heart and Dread. The former for tone, the latter for its simplicity of mechanics.

•  Idlewild by Nick Sagan. This book has influenced everything I've ever made to some degree, and this project is no different. The concept of Elsewhere  is inspired by this book.

•  My dopey chocolate lab, Lacy, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. This game is full of giant friendly dogs who have no idea how big they are, and I love them all.

MausTiki es mini-ambientación para Mausritter donde se explica como son los roedores de las islas del Pacífico y se describe Kaona Iole, una comunidad de kiores (ratas del Pacífico) situada en una playa de una isla del Pacífico.

Incluye una aventura larga donde tus kiores deberán aplacar la ira de los dioses si quieren que su playa sobreviva a la amenaza del volcán.

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About this game

You are the Watcher. When all options have been exhausted, when no one else can answer the call, you are summoned.

You must pet sit.

You are allergic to cats.

You are Mx. Cuddles, the best and greatest of your kind. Many travel
from afar just for the chance to touch your plush, silky belly.

Your most loyal follower has gone missing, and in their place is a
usurper who refuses to show proper deference to a creature of your
sublime grace.

You must show this interloper who rules this home.

You Can (Not) Pet the Cat! is a 2-player, GM-less RPG. One player is the Watcher who must pet sit until their friend returns. The other player is Mx. Cuddles, who demands pets. Will you resist giving the kitty the Good Scritches or are they too cute to deny?

Credits

This work is based on Caltrop Core, published by Titanomachy RPG (https://bsky.app/profile/titanomachyrpg.com) (https://titanomachyRPG.itch.io) . The Caltrop Core SRD is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

About this game

You are a Rancher. You are also a Night Creature, a being that's not quite human. One day, a Weary Newcomer appears, seeking rest and (not) romance. Yet, when your eyes meet, neither can look away...

Rancher's Romance is a solo RPG created for the 1 Page RPG Jam. You play as a Reclusive Rancher who's more focused on maintaining their ranch than trying to find love, but with the arrival of a Weary Newcomer, you may just change your mind. A small wrinkle(?) is the fact that you are a Night Creature, which is something most people don't bring up on the first date.

Encounter Events and try to connect with the Newcomer, or maybe you'll decide the life of a lone cowpoke is what suits you best. Roll the die and find out!

Credits

One-page RPG format inspired by Oliver Darkshire's one-page RPGs (@deathbybadger)

Huetopia & the amazing TTRPG Designers

This special bundle product contains the following titles:

• Body Swap by the Big Top - a body-swapping night at the funfair!

• Welcome to the Hereafter Hotel - a haunted house mystery with an 80s twist!

• Mermaid Bay: Go Where the People Aren't - because your hunters deserve a beach holiday mystery!

• Knocking on Daemon's Door - a potential world-ending big bad mystery!

These mysteries are made for use with the Monster of the Week RPG by Michael Sands.

Last Pine is not like other places. Sure, it may seem like just another small town, but there are all kinds of weird things going on that the adults never seem to notice. You try to tell your parents and they just brush you off. Teachers? Same thing. It’s goofed up. So you and your friends have decided that if the adults won’t do anything about it, you will. You’re here to investigate all the weird things happening and, if you can, put a stop to them.

What is This?

A lightweight version of Bump in the Dark based on Slugblaster Turbo X by Mikey Hamm. Designed for une-shot and short series play in the style of Scooby-Doo (particularly the 2010 series Mystery, Incorporated), Gravity Falls, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, Paper Girls,  or maybe even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The game focuses on kids and teens investigating supernatural mysteries around the town of Last Pine, Ontonagon. Perfect for convention play or as a lead-in to a full campaign.

Inside, You'll Find:

• All you need to run and play the game contained on only three pages

• Easy but flexible rules for creating your own  monster hunting teen

• Scene prompts to provide fitting epilogues or dramatic downtimes

• A no-prep starting scenario to run or reskin

Faire Season is a GMless and Diceless tabletop roleplaying game that uses the Belonging Outside Belonging system. It draws the players into the colorful world of Middle Ages historical reenactment and Renaissance Faires. In the midst of a dreamy and escapist week long costumed camping event, they will find themselves drawn into a series of strange supernatural occurrences. A quest that is  spun from ancient primal magic, and the very power of imagination itself: The Dream. 

Can these everyday people embracing their idealized selves of a mythic past survive a true quest of myth and magic? Will they be able to make it to pack down on the dawn of the Event's final day?

Only The Dream knows...

Content Warning: Explores Adult Themes including Sexuality, Drug Use, Bullying, and Hazing.

This is the Ashcan for Faire Season Second Edition.
It includes new rules for long term and asymmetrical play via The Steward and The Quest Clock guidelines. This expanded and updated iteration of the game moves beyond the classic Belonging Outside Belonging style to bring in more robust mechanics. For now, the ashcan is B&W, has minimal formatting, and no interior art for ease of printing. Yet it is fully playable!

Stay tuned for updates as a crowdfunding campaign to Commission for art, layout, and editing for Faire Season 2e is in the planning stages. 

If interested in seeing how it plays now, check out these  Faire Season Actual Play one shots facilitated by Okami:

TTeaRPG Feywild Frolick

Follow the Leader Podcast 

Pocket Dragon Pub

I've been playing TTRPGs with my kiddo for as long as I can remember. About a year ago, when they turned eight, they wanted to create their own game. At the time, I was about two years into the final development of my own TTRPG, Guild Chronicles.

Lanternlight grew out of the games that we played as a family. It's designed to be flexible, creative, narratively-focused, and quick to learn. If you're looking for a game that you can play as a family, Lanternlight is a great place to start.

What makes this game great for kids?

• uses only six-sided dice (d6) and only requires counting (no sums)

• has no game terms to memorize

• can be adapted to any setting or genre on the fly

• has no distinct rules for combat 

Physical copies

The first physical copies of Lanternlight were sold at Anika's elementary school winter marketplace in 2025. They'll be for sale at PAX East in 2026. The book can also be purchased online!

Community copies

In collaboration with Lyndhurst Free Press and the Lyndhurst Education and Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), we're thrilled to offer free community copies of Lanternlight. If you work in a school or community setting and want to bring games to the folks you work with, you are welcome to download a community copy of the game. 

If the cost of the game is prohibitive and a barrier to enjoying it with your family, you are also welcome to download a community copy of the game.

Design credits

The system was developed through a process of iteration and collaborative play, with Anika (age nine) deciding what was working and what was not. 

Other lightweight d6 systems that Anika had played (like Atlas Games' Magical Kitties Save the Day and Michael Low's Stories RPG) were influential in its foundational design.

Andrew (Anika's parent) articulated the rules in text. Anika, in turn, edited and revised the written rules.

Anika created all of the artwork in the book and had the final say on layout decisions. 

The example of play was a retelling of an adventure that was undertaken by Anika, their mother Monique, and Andrew.

You can learn more about Lanternlight at https://lyndhurstadvocacy.org/lanternlight/

You are a high school student with a secret. You attend what seems to be a typical high school, but it can be unparalleled in its weirdness. Humans wander its halls beset with strange urges, their bodies slowly morphing into alien things, their minds befuddled by ineffable desires; despite this, each student believes themselves to be the only one in school undergoing such transformations. And all this is just normal teen hormones, before we even mention the eldritch horrors that lurk in the shadows and grow within their bodies!

Will you CONFORM or TRANSFORM?

2025 Crit Awards Finalist for Best Indie TTRPG

It's 1994 in the region of the fictional Ontonagon Peninsula known as "Iron Country," a belt of mining towns barely clinging to life. These towns are surrounded on all sides by the Sylvan Wilds, a forest known for old-growth pines and strange happenings. All of Iron Country seems to be teeming with the supernatural, a fact those in power would like to conceal.

You are a hunter, and you’ve promised to keep regular people safe from the horrors in the darkness. You will investigate the strange happenings going on throughout Iron Country, attempting to put the pieces together and stop the monsters before people get hurt. Will you be able to stop the malevolent forces before their power grows too strong to contain? Will you stand strong with your found family and community or will you sacrifice yourself to spare the ones you love? Will you be lost trying to find solace wherever you can?

Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of supernatural mystery and action-packed showdowns with regular folk caught in the middle. It's a game about chosen family, protecting your community, and standing up to the forces (mundane and supernatural alike) that want to tear down all you've built.

The Revised Edition is re-imagined with updated rules to streamline play and provide support for GMs and players. The game features a new approach to downtime, expanded information on more than 25 factions, guidance on changing the game, more oracles and roll tables, and tons of newly commissioned art.

Praise for the Game

"While Forged in the Dark may have been written for heists, Bump in the Dark shows how it shines for monster hunting and investigation, and Last Pine is a place that needs monster hunters. Jex's take on Iron Country may challenge Stephen King's Maine for one of my favorite horror locales." - Richard Ruane, ENNIE-winning author of Moonlight on Roseville Beach and Sherwood

"Bump in the Dark is my go-to RPG for urban fantasy. If I ever want found family paranormal stories like Buffy, Night in the Woods, or Supernatural, I reach for this game." - Michael Elliott, Not Writing Games 

"Bump in the Dark cuts right to the good stuff, never losing sight of juicy character drama amidst all the action and intrigue. The emergent mystery mechanics are a fantastically simple way for your table to engage in complex, dramatic investigations while letting the (complex, dramatic) player characters shine." - Sarah Bolling, contributing writer to Brindlewood Bay, The Between, and Public Access

 "With Bump in the Dark, Jex Thomas has bottled pristine small-town horror into a delicious, retro TTRPG. Like Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Alan Wake before it, the game isn’t actually about hunting really, really cool monsters. It’s about hanging out with the local weirdos, shining a light on the evils of late-stage capitalism, radicalizing a small community, and, ultimately, sabotaging the plans of the Reaganite elite… with the help of really, really cool monsters. Which, frankly, absolutely kicks ass." - Mynar Lenahan, cohost of Inside The Table: A Tabletop RPG Talk Show

Play Information

• 4-15+ sessions

• 2-4 hours per session

• 2-5 players including GM

Not suitable for those under 16 years of age.

Subject matter includes violence, sacrifice, supernatural horror, monsters, gore, chosen family, class conflict, and economic inequality.

Find Actual Play, Reviews, Resources, and More Visit lastpinepress.com

Live your dream of engaging in a proper rap battle between your biggest rival! You know you have the talent, passion and the applause of a loving audience, so what are you waiting for?

This game is dedicated to my friend, Dare, who took the time to teach me about the Kendrick and Drake Beef.

FIST: TACTICS is a miniatures tabletop skirmish game based on the fantastic FIST Ultra Edition. This standalone total conversion will have you and your friends create their own SQUAD of FIST Operatives and combat them against each other in chaotic tactical skirmishes!

Yes that's correct. I took a rules-light TTRPG and turned it into a miniatures war game for the FIST: ULTRA JAM.

It's not all OSP, you're dropping in with

• Easy rules for a Stealth-focused skirmish game.

• A Unique "Alarm Phase" system to allow for stealthy and loud play styles.

• 72 Traits from FIST Ultra made compatible with FIST TACTICS.

• 14 Items for your Operatives to trick and trap their enemies.

• Rules for creating your own missions, with examples.

• Rules for scoring games and for campaign economics.

• 5 Optional rules to add even more strategy to your games.

• Cover art by Javier.

• Original art by Chris Sketch, Miffix, Pai_Takoyaki, and myself.

• A Form-Fillable Sheet for managing your SQUADs.

• Item Token sheets for printout and digital play.

Licensing

The text of FIST: TACTICS by Kameron Watson is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://claymorerpgs.itch.io/fist. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

A Celestial Expansion for Guild Chronicles 

The Starcatcher's Manual is an expansion for Guild Chronicles™, a highly cooperative, flexible, dynamic tabletop roleplaying game published by Lyndhurst Free Press. This short book is a licensed expansion for Guild Chronicles and was created by The Scribblers, a group of young, neurodivergent interns that were integral to the creation of the Guild Chronicles Core Rules. Within this book you will find:

• a complex new Archetype, intended to force players to adapt and think out of the box

• a few new creatures, related to Verden's constellations, that Storytellers can use to challenge (or help) their players

• expanded lore for Verden, opening more story opportunities

Keep looking to the skies!

The Archduke’s Manual of Fun is a Guild Chronicles™ expansion, designed to align with the lore of Verden and augment the Core Rules without affecting game balance. While have ensured us that all content has been balanced and somewhat thoroughly playtested. Make sure your group and Storyteller are on board before you use rules from any expansions.

This manual introduces a new way to customize your character: Themes! A modification of pre-existing classes into something new and flavorful. It also contains whimsical monsters for storytellers, and everyone's favorite thing for an expansion to include: 𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢. 

This is material created by with publishing support from the Lyndhurst Free Press. The Scribblers' tangible forms (outside of Verden) are magnificent, young, neurodivergent interns, integral to the development of Guild Chronicles.

Physical copies now available

Not satisfied with pixels? We've got you covered! You can buy the Archduke's Manual of Fun online!

Paragons: The Roleplaying Game is a fun and dynamic superhero game where you play as up-and-coming heroes (called Paragons) who strive to make a name for themselves. You can learn to play in as little as an hour!

Paragons: The Roleplaying Game key features:

• Official setting material for the world of Paragons

• 8 character archetypes and 60+ unique abilities

• An original d6 dice pool system that is easy to learn and fun to play

• Inspired by animated superhero movies and shows

This PDF contains 131 pages, with gorgeous art, tools and rules to help game masters build their campaign and create compelling villains, and so much more! It is screen reader compatible.

Step into the world of Paragons and save the day!

Welcome to World Wide Wrestling: Second Edition! This award-winning game of professional wrestling action enables you to create your own professional wrestling franchise through play, showcasing satisfying and surprising storylines. It’s about feuds, championships, betrayal, and righteous victory. It’s about the clash of good and evil on the grandest stage. It’s about whether you’ve got what it takes. And, in the end, it’s about what the audience thinks of your efforts. 

Community Copies: Free community copies of WWW2E are available to anyone who finds the list price a barrier. These copies are made possible by regular sales: every purchase at list price adds 1 free community copy.

About The Game

In World Wide Wrestling, Creative (the GM role) sets up the show, orders the card and books the matches ahead of time. The players choose archtypical pro wrestling Gimmicks, like the Monster, the Veteran, the Luchador, and so on as the base for their character. Wrestlers play through what Creative has planned, but they have the ability and autonomy to pursue their own feuds, set up their own matches and swerve Creative's booking. Creative's job is to make it look like that was the plan all along. Characters are the wrestler as a professional; this means that you play out both their on-screen costumed persona, and their backstage efforts to maintain and progress their careers (and the ways the two effect each other).

Through play focused equally on action in the squared circle and events behind the scenes, you will discover who has what it takes to become a wrestling legend.

System

World Wide Wrestling is Powered by the Apocalypse. A simple 2d6+stat modifier system resolves the wrestlers iconic actions, like Working the Audience, Cutting a Promo and in-ring Wrestling. Play is mostly conversation, punctuated by occasional rolls and resolutions of the outcomes. The Gimmicks are broad templates customized by the player to suit their wrestling character, and characters advance over time by working matches with their biggest rivals, getting over with the audience and gaining championships. Advancement comes in the form of raising stats, gaining valets or managers, gaining custom Moves and maneuvers, changing Gimmick to evolve the character over time, and more.

History

The World Wide Wrestling RPG was originally published in 2015, and it’s been amazing to hear all of the exciting stories from players as they’ve clashed in the ring, played out incredible feuds and explored the reaches of Parts Unknown.

The Second Edition brings in material from everything released for the original game, refines of the core play experience based on years of play, and includes new rules to support long-term play and going outside the ring, guest essays, guidance for narrating wrestling matches, example Promotions, match stipulations and more!

Game Features:

• Supports large and small groups, irregular attendance, drop-in guest stars and one-shot play.

• Quick character generation based on wrestling archetypes.

• Play a single wrestling show in two hours, and then link shows together into an ongoing Season of play, treating the Promotion as a character as well.

• In-ring action system channels your descriptive creativity to make engaging and entertaining matches.

• Rules support building and maintaining feuds, getting over, gaining more fans, changing Gimmicks over time, building tag teams and stables, moving behind the scenes, and much more!

• Text contains nine helpful short essays on professional wrestling, roleplaying and how the two interact.

• Built from the ground up to support both roleplayers who are into wrestling and wrestling fans who want to try this roleplaying thing out. This game is accessible to both hardcore and casual wrestling fans.

• Digital bundle contains the rulebook in screen-ready PDF, EPUB ebook and two text formats for screen readers, and home-printable Gimmick sheets and play aids in PDF

Godstorm is a tactical ttrpg that emphasizes movement and magical powers. Players are known as marked ones which are people with a magical blessing bestowed by a mysterious entity. They seek to further uncover the mysterys of these marks or hone in on the power it grants them. Marked ones will use short range teleports known as blinks, magical spells, devastating melee strikes, and precise ranged attacks to overcome the opposition.

Godstorm is currently in the Alpha state which is stable but still needs more time in the oven to iron out some roleplay systems and some final touches. The Beta/Manuscript is planned for Q4 2026 with the final release planned for Q4 2027

In the far north west, on the edge of civilisation, lays the wild-lands of Greymarsh. A mix of arable fields, forest, hills, mires and scrub. Frequently raided but fiercely defended.

Brave adventurers come here to seek fame, glory and gold...many disappear into the wilds and are never seen again

Featuring 6 player classes, two gods, three spell levels with rules to make your own, a starting region and everything you need to create your own fantasy rpg campaign from level 1 to 10. Greymarsh is a role playing game built on ideas from the early years of gaming, you will need pen, paper, six sided dice and your imagination to explore the wonders, as well as the dire perils, of a mythical fantasy realm of your creation.

The game recreates the feel of what a classic fantasy rpg could have been in 1974

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Also includes GM1a (a short introductionary adventure), an FAQ, PC sheet and a spell creation spreadsheet

The map of GreyMarsh was created with Wonderdraft, all other art was by the author

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Adventures

GMA1 The Lost Shrine of Tekphi (included with core rules)

GMA2 The Wizard Tower

Hwær cwom mearg?

Hwær cwom mago?

Hwær cwom maþþumgyfa?

Hwær cwom symbla gesetu?

Hwær sindon seledreamas?

Eala beorht bune!

Eala byrnwiga!

Eala þeodnes þrym!

Source; The Wanderer

Wealth dies, kinsmen die. Cattle die and the wheat, too.

But this thing never dies: word-fame!

Word-fame never dies for he that achieves it well.

Source; Hávamál

Challenge your Wyrd and become legend

Maersung is roughly set in a pseudo historical, mythical and magical version of the Dark Ages, centered around Anglo Saxon Britain.

A rules lite narrative fantasy role playing game that uses d10s,

PCs are created via 8 background professions.

Includes a separate PDF for an adventure; The Feast of Saer Galan (36 Pages)

MA2 is now available

Ælf Wuduweald - Trebormills Games

Get all the first Volume subclass creations of Wizwrong in one collection! Includes; Dragonblood Barbarian, Rebellion Bard, Spirits Cleric, Fey court Druid, Sentient Steel Fighter, Oil Monk, Fellowship Paladin, Falconsoar Ranger, Jester Rogue, Living Leyline Sorcerer, Extraterrestrial Patron Warlock, and Hat Trick Wizard!

Make fools of your foes through comical deceptions and acrobatic attacks. Jesters can make every battle a joke, humiliating foes with trickery and pantomime.

Channel the magic within the land itself through your connection to its leylines. Your innate magic draws power from the leylines that connect magical sources beneath the earth. Your connection to these leylines allows your magic to become empowered by the forces of nature itself.

Unleash the draconian fury of the mighty dragon elders. Whether from bathing in the blood of dragons you’ve slain, or your lineage bearing the blood of ancient dragons, your primal fury is now imbued with the power and pride of all powerful dragons. Barbarians of the Dragonblood path channel draconic power through themselves, becoming the mighty wyrms they have hunted.

Slip and slide in and out of battle, using oils to enhance your grappling techniques.

Warriors of Oil have mastered creating special oils that empower their wrestling techniques, while making it harder for their foes to strike them back. Warriors of oil escape from the pincers of their foes, and slide right back into the fray in fluid motions.

Become the medium that guides the spirits of the departs to and from this realm.

Spirit clerics act as the shepherds of souls, harness the power of the ethereal to guide spirits back to the afterlife. Whether the means be compassionate or by forth though, depends entirely on the mood of the spirits themselves.

Cette aventure prend place à Paris et se concentre sur la relation contrariée de PJs amoureux entre le moment de sa révélation jusqu'à celui où quelqu'un vient frapper à la porte du PJ protestant, dans la nuit du 23 au 24 août 1572 alors que débute le massacre de la Saint Barthélémy.

Le scénario est présenté sous forme de "transmission", un format non scripté inauguré par TechNoir permettant de rebondir aisément tout en étant facile à intégrer pour la MJ. Il est complètement système agnostique et propose 4 PJs pré-décrits dont 2 doivent être joués.

Au vu des thèmes sensibles abordés (extrêmisme religieux, violences,...), il est très fortement recommandé d'utiliser des outils de sécurité émotionnelle adaptés aux besoins du groupe (carte X, lignes et voiles, Script Change...).

Il s'agit d'une transmission créée par KrisDoC et Ohtar Celebrin.

Perroquets et Jambes de bois est un jeu de pirates motorisé par Quest.

Il propose:

• plusieurs Rôles (dont un Rôle par lae MJ)

• un Profil de Contexte permettant d'établir l'approche retenue pour les thèmes de Sexisme, Esclavage,  Colonialisme, Historicité et Surnaturel

• quelques tables aléatoires

C'est une version beta de 26 pages.

Fight in tandem with your flying companion, attacking acrobatically as you do. Falconsaor Rangers use acrobatic feats to fight alongside their avian familiars. These flying companions in turn help their rangers by extracting elements of their foes to weaken their prey, or empower their master.

Réforme et Rapière est une version allégée du système de Te Deum pour un massacre avec des éléments de narration partagée.

Réforme et Rapière nécessite le livre de base de Te Deum pour un massacre (quelque soit l'édition) pour être utilisé.

Align yourself with the seelie or unseelie courts. Which one? Whichever!

A fey’s allegiance is a fickle thing. Druids of the fey courts shift their allegiance between the courts of the seelie and unseelie fey on a whim, channel whimsical and dark tricks depending on who they currently draw their power from, but never truly making up their mind on which to pledge to.

Champion the will of anarchy and strike back at rules and establishment. Bards of Rebellion use their music and fury to inspire populations to rebel against oppressors and tyrants. Many a revolution was begun the rousing songs of these bards. Rebellion bards will challenge power and rule, and instill a righteous rage in the people around them.

You have the power of God and friendship by your side. Fellowship Paladins value their their allies over anything else, standing resolute to defend their lives, and empower them to protect each other as well.

Awaken the life within your weapon and grow stronger together. Whether by pure coincidence, or by destiny’s hand, these fighters have acquired a living weapon of great potential. By fighting together, both the weapon and wielder can become legends, battling as one.

Serve the unknowable will of alien beings from beyond the stars. Whether the result of an abduction, or a mistaken communication by bizarre means with stellar beings, your patron is an alien creature from outer space. Your patron has granted you access to strange alien technology, unheard of by earthly creatures.

Pull a collection of tricks out of your magical hat. Beyond wands and staves, a wizards most iconic feature is their oversized hats, of which Hat Trick Wizards make their secret weapon and source of power. Wizards of Hat Tricks are full of surprises; reaching into their magical hats and pulling out items and spells that amaze and surprise friend and foe, and mayhaps even the Wizard themselves.

SALVAGE RITES is a 56-page toolkit for the ENNIE award-winning Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. This module comes packed with easy-to-use resources to quickly generate your own derelict spaceship scenarios when creating your next adventure. Build beyond the basics and create starships that challenge your players and draw them in to face your darkest horrors in space.

Inside you'll find:

• Derelict Scenario Generator: Create in-depth starship scenarios with ease, building a challenging and engaging setting to drop your darkest Horrors into. Use numerous random generator tables to define and inspire your adventure-writing process.

• Derelict Layout Generator: Rustle up some dice and embrace the chaos with a quick-and-dirty dice drop ship layout generator. Comes complete with suggested ship designs.

• Derelict Frames: Pre-generated ships scenarios with a variety of prompts to build your own module out of. Possible Save, Solve, Secure objectives included

• [MODULE] Machine Variant: Send your players on a nail-biting journey across a broken spaceship as the derelict degrades around them. 

• New Arms and Weapons: Derelict-inspired armaments give your players the equipment they need to fight for survival. 

• Fresh Horrors: Find out what dwells within the crafts lost to deep space. Each horror has been designed with multiple layers, providing depth to how they can be deployed.

Once you were ordinary elves, dwarves, humans or perhaps halflings. Something happened to change that. Now you flee across Faerûn and beyond, pursued by adventurers intent on your destruction. 

This free setting for Nowhere Home lets players explore a classic D&D world from a new perspective. 

Art by Alderdoodle. 

A GMless and diceless game for 2 or more players. 

You were once a regular human with family, friends, and community like everyone else. Something happened to change all that. You became something monstrous—something which saw you driven from your home. Now you and your companions travel the land seeking fellowship and belonging. Is there a place for monsters like you? 

Nowhere Home has its origins as a pamphlet-sized Wanderhome hack. This edition retains the storytelling focus alongside many new features across 40+ pages. 

• Expanded character creation with suggested powers, weaknesses, and guided backstory development

• Options for character advancement 

• Inspiration for  locations, NPCs, and narrative complications 

• Four premade settings: the medieval fantasy Dark Age, urban fantasy Lonely Road, futuristic Neon Highway and spacefaring Galaxy Hoppers

Additional Resources 

• Fanmade character keeper  

• Free Forgotten Realms setting 

Have you got a game world you've been playing in for ages but it needs some fleshing out?

Are there a bunch of groups vying for power in your big city and you want to find a fun way to determine how the balance of power lies?

Does your setting need some internal development to really bring it to life?

Based on the Beak, Feather & Bone SRD, this game gives you a way to build out your world and develop communities within it organically, all the while creating your own stories and lore to fill in the gaps.

It's a very simple game that can easily go alongside any other system or setting (although the default in the book is a sci-fi city, you could easily adapt it to a fantasy town, space colony, post-apocalyptic
wasteland or anything really!). You don't need to have drawing skills or to do any complicated maths - all that's required is a simple pre-drawn map, some way to colour it in, a standard deck of playing cards and somewhere to take notes.

Maps can be easily created using the Watabou map generator.

Simply choose or create some factions/communities and then take turns drawing cards, picking locations from the map to claim and write down the DNA of it based on the card chosen:

Data

What is this place? How would a non-player character describe it? What is it used for? What is it called or referred to as?

Nerves

What is it connected to. Is it of historical or industrial significance? Who or what passes through this? Is another faction or the ruling party involved in it?

Acquisition

How did this building come to be part of this faction's territory? Do they now own it or simply occupy it? Is their possession open or is it a cover for secretive operations there?

Also, add some amazing NPCs to your world whenever you pull a face card and create some wonderful characters to feature in gameplay when you return to play the game you're doing this for.

This project was originally conceived to help flesh out the world of the Cybertopia Actual Play podcast and videos of the game being played by the cast are available on my YouTube here!

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to soar amongst the clouds like an eagle? Swing through the trees like a monkey? Leap amongst the ocean waves like a dolphin? What if you could do all of those things in one single character?

Well you're in luck! With the Overgrown TTRPG you can be that dolphin-eagle-monkey! Or an octopus-dog-wasp. Or hippo-koala-snake. What are your favourite 3 animals? Merge them into one creature and play as them!

(despite appearances, absolutely no generative AI was used in any way at all during the creation of any Overgrown content - all of these weird and wonderful creatures were handcrafted from license-free images, mostly from Pixabay, using Photoshop, and the files are all available on request!)

Overgrown is a rules-lite naturepunk TTRPG in which you create and play as rapidly evolving hybrids of literally any animal you can think of. Roam a far-future world where nature has fought back against humanity AND WON. Explore a jungle covered planet, trek vast continent stretching forests and delve into the dank swamplands where a dark element is arising to threaten life itself.

This all-ages game is a work of collaborative fiction between the players and game-runner, where you build up communities and locations together and craft your own unique story. The intuitive system allows you to have a character made in minutes and to fully understand how to play within that very first session. Just roll a 20 sided die for whatever action you wish to take and add modifiers for each animal feature you can justify using at the time. Check out the fun random character generator @BasiliskOnline made for the game here: https://basiliskonline.itch.io/overgrown-character-generator

There are some small extra mechanics on top of that, including assists, prep, and opposed actions but the fun really begins with crits: every natural 20 on the die unlocks a new animal feature relevant to the roll, whether suddenly gaining claws to climb with or gills to breathe underwater or a shell to defend against those darn gorilla-rhino-bees!

Here you can see a playthrough of a special Halloween one-shot of Overgrown, played for a U-rated stream, giving a perfect example of how the game could be played for all ages and still be family friendly: https://youtu.be/nUnGYdLmc0E?si=MRSRp4_NIdgsiXGs

For more info, regular updates and general chat, please find me over on BlueSky @bennewbon.itch.io (or discord under the same handle)

Testimonials:

Michael Robbins:
"Overgrown’s mechanics are extremely well put together.
They are very easy to pick up, but verbose enough to allow for a
fantastic range of actions. Your imagination is the only limit! One
of the best parts of Overgrown is the variety. You can do anything
you can imagine with practically any combination of animals. The
best part of Overgrown, for me, is the disability accessible options!
Ben has really come through for those of us with sight and vision
problems. Once you have this much variety and excitement, it’s
hard to go back to a more complex but less versatile system."

Nick Udell:
"I got into a swordfight with a gopher while
we both leapt through the sea like dolphins.
I was a bear and a bee. 10/10"

This bundle includes two treatises on play: Dungeon & Dilemmas which looks at the more narrative properties of dungeon design and Unchained Mysteries which presents a more character driven alternative to the classic clue-chain scenario structure.

Welcome to the proud steam boat
Belle of the Bog!

A mirthful adventure site for Dragonbane and other old-school roleplaying systems. Join the strange captain and mysterious crew of the raucous steamboat that just made harbor in the fishing village of Cypress. There's lavish prizes to be won for those brave enough to roll the dice.

“Gosh, Belle of the Bog is a damned good module. I’m really impressed, given this is the author Tom Lagier’s first major effort. The unique setting is refreshing, it’s well organised, it’s interactive and full of fun and interesting characters, the visual design and especially the maps are excellent.”

- Idle Cartulary on the Playful Void

All Aboard the Belle!

The players begin in the fishing town of Cypress during the triennial spring festival, the Fête Debenet. On the first night of celebrations, a strange boat makes harbor and her captain invites revellers aboard.

The party-goers that return talk of elaborate cocktails, a hoppin' jazz band, delicious food, and abundant gambling. But something seems a little off about the festivities. Some townsfolk have gone missing, and others don't seem quite right after their time aboard.

The adventure begins on the third and final day of the Fête, as your players board the Belle of the Bog to get to the bottom of things.

What's in the book?

• 77 A5 pages of enchanted steamboat adventure.

• Hand-drawn maps of the four-decked Belle of the Bog paddle-steamer, including VTT-ready player maps.

• 28 keyed locations throughout the boat, with minimap.

• 14 whimsical NPCs with full details on behavior and motive, each with a background and quest hook.

• Two D20 random encounter tables for different circumstances on the Belle.

• 6 hooks to get the adventure going.

• Two different procedures for escalating circumstances on the Belle to keep the pressure high.

• Tables for random gamblers and crew members.

• 4 new monsters, including the bogmangler and skin-changing beaudag.

• Two gambling games - Bugs & Brutes, played with dice, and Guts, played with cards.

• 9 fully detailed magical items for navigating the land of the fae.

• 8 fabulous prizes for gamblers (or thieves) skilled enough to win them.

• Random tables for trash, trinkets, plants, food, and drink.

• An additional procedure for fishing, including a full page of fishables.

• Four pregenerated characters, with more available in an included PDF.

• 25 original black-and-white illustrations.

• PDF is bookmarked and internally linked.

What inspired this module?

Mark Twain, especially Life on the Mississippi, ghost and swamp tours in New Orleans, boo hag stories from the Gullah Geechee culture, Vaesen, the Brothers Grimm, Anansi stories.

About Taller Tales

"The Belle of The Bog" is my first full-length adventure module. It's been a passion project born out of my love for the Dragonbane system, my desire to tell some classic American stories, and my passion for lighthearted and whimsical characters. New Orleans is one of my favorite cities and the romance of classic steamboat adventures blended with a fairytale backdrop is something I think people will really enjoy.

The Gossamer Labyrinth is a short, system-neutral procedure for generating a fairy hedge maze within the realm of Dreams that your players must escape. Can they find an exit before they run out of Dream Dust and wake with nothing? Or will they keep the wonderful treasures they discover within?

The maze itself is generated using a deck of playing cards ensuring a unique experience for repeat visitors.

Included is the maze-making and exploration procedure, 52 room descriptions, 24 rumors and 24 treasures (6 per suit), full of fantastic NPCs, puzzling riddles, dangerous traps, and the makings of a whole Dream-based adventure.

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, along with individuals, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

You are exploring a tomb in search of a mirror fabled to foretell the future. You discover the tomb is inhabited by an undead queen and her spectral knights. In your exploration you have learned that she was murdered by the patriarchal structures of her own holy order. The method of her execution has denied her eternal rest. She plans murderous vengeance against the living but offers mercy under two conditions. First, help install her as an eternal monarch upon the religious throne. Second, eradicate the bloodline of those who betrayed her. What do you do?

Dungeons & Dilemmas is a collection of system agnostic techniques for designing dungeon-based adventures that engage the players on an emotional and ethical level. The process within approaches dungeons as their own unique narrative structure, and individual encounters as moral puzzles.

Dungeons & Dilemmas treats deeper emotional engagement as an additional dimension of play on top of the exploration, hazard avoidance, monster fighting, treasure collection and other traditional elements of fantasy adventure games. All the ideas, tools, and techniques presented speak to the strengths of existing rule systems in common use. GMs and players won't have to hand-wave away or house rule their games to accommodate this material.

They tell me the last guy to have seen a sunrise died last week. For as long as anyone else can remember, Necropolis has been shrouded in mists. You can wander the alleys or drive down the highways, but you always end up back downtown. No one knows when exactly the mists came or what they're made of. Some say it's an experiment in nanotech gone wrong, others say it's the souls of the dead, shredded by The Powers That Be like a legally damning document.

I know what you're thinking: But what about the matrix? A hacker friend of mine said it was like one giant private network. Everything is all wired together in a closed information loop. Hell, Necropolis even has its own private satellite beaming down remixes of decades old sitcoms. There are rumors that sometimes heavily encrypted but badly scrambled packets seem to slip in from.... Outside.

I once heard a story about a guy who very briefly managed to login to a system that seemed to be Outside. I wish I could tell you that he went mad and killed his own family after being possessed by some kind of demon. It was worse. He put on a suit and got a job; said he liked being "comfortable."

It doesn't matter whether the streets are in meatspace or cyberspace, it's as if the rest of the damn world just isn't there.

The rumors all say the corps are run by liches and vampires, but from what I've seen those guys are just middle managers punch drunk on petty power. The real answers, if there are answers to be had, lie with The Powers That Be. Whomever... or whatever... occupy those weird reflective obelisks downtown.. We call them "office towers'', but what kind of office building has no windows and no doors?

By now you might be wondering how anyone copes here in Necropolis. Most just get up, get to work, get home and get some sleep, just to do it all over again the next day. But a few of us... we have a different plan...

Get Out.

Necropolis is a cyber-gothic setting for The Sprawl. The player characters are cyberpunk professionals fighting corporations in a seemingly inescapable city which is possibly run by supernatural forces. To help establish this slight shift in focus, new moves for both the players and the MC are introduced as well as three new playbooks: The Sourcerer, The Necrotech, and The Mistwalker.

Requires The Sprawl core game to play:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171286/The-Sprawl----MIDNIGHT

The Abbot of a local monastery is found drowned in his bath. Tortured cries are heard nightly from a locked tower the Abbot had previously declared forbidden. A desperate monk seems to have something to say but they are sworn to a vow of silence. There have been reports of a ghostly child seen walking the grounds. What is going on? But more importantly…

What do you do?

Unchained Mysteries is a three part, system agnostic, critical examination of mystery scenarios for role-playing games. The first part deconstructs the popular linear or branching scene structure whereby a mystery unfolds as the players follow a chain of clues from one scene to the next. It's a hard look at the creative limits, unfair demands, lack of uncertainty and removal of player agency in this common scenario format.

The second part discusses rebuilding the very idea of a mystery from the ground up. It starts from the premise that role-playing is its own unique medium not beholden to the constraints, assumptions, structures, and tropes of other media. Proceeding from the heart of a dramatic mystery, a desperate crime, a scenario is built outward through a vibrant cast of supporting characters impacted by that crime. The methodology results in a scenario that is teeming with unresolved dramatic tension.

The final part discusses the practical execution of the scenario in play. The focus is to move away from the idea of concrete clues and planned reveals. Instead the focus is shifted to active and motivated supporting characters that bring the player characters into their crises. The mystery is no longer an inert thing to be discovered but rather a set of conflicts still in motion and desperate for resolution.

Also Available In Italian!

Thanks to the generous work of a friend, Unchained Mysteries now includes an Italian translation. The Files labeled - ITA contain the translated text.

The Extraordinarily Horrible Children of Raven’s Hollow is a storytelling card game for three to ten players. In the beginning, players assume the role of cruel and creepy children engaging in potentially fatal mischief with each other and the adults of Raven’s Hollow. As the children begin to meet their untimely demise they are replaced by angry ravens who interfere with the surviving children. In the end, there will be only one child left facing the mob of outraged adults and the judgment of the ravens.

The Setting

The village of Raven’s Hollow is an anachronistic pastiche of medieval fairy tale and 19th Century Gothic. It is surrounded by a dark forest and there is a gloomy coastal region nearby. There isn’t much in the way of magic and monsters but folklore abounds..

Components

• Location Cards (36): Players will have a hand of these. They are used both to establish where the current vignette is taking place and to resolve the outcome of the action within it.

• Adult Cards (16): These represent the adults who live in the village of Raven’s Hollow. They can both help and oppose the children.

• Children Cards (10): At the start of the game, each player will be playing one of these characters. Each child has a unique ability available to them on their turn.

• Raven Cards (10): When a player’s child is eliminated from the game the player draws a raven card and continues to play the game as that raven. Like children, each raven has a unique ability.

Inspiration

• Edward Gorey’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies”

• Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”

• Roman Dirge’s “Lenore” comics.

Why The Bare Bones Edition?

This game has been done for several years. In that time I’ve mostly been agonizing over production costs and methods. It recently occurred to me that this has been a massive distraction. Beyond the prompts provided by the game, you don't need your aesthetics superseded by mine.

The files included in this edition of the game have been created to be printer ink friendly. You can print the entire game, including the required card deck on just a handful of pages purely in black and white. It is everything you need to play in minimal format.

Will There Ever Be A Fancier Version?

Maybe. I haven’t ruled out doing a nicer, fully illustrated version of the game at some point down the road. But the game is here and available for you to play right now.

The Files

Print the following files double sided, flip on short-side.

• Bare Bones Print And Play Deck Loose.pdf - The individual cards are spaced out a bit.

• Bare Bones Print And Play Deck Tight.pdf - The individual cards are closer together.

There's an optional play mat that is 33x17 when assembled. The .pdf is six 8.5x11 sheets of paper with the play mat cut up across them.

• Bare Bones Playmat Poster.pdf

The following files are for screen viewing.

• Bare Bones Rules Pages.pdf

• Bare Bones Rules Spreads.pdf

• Bare Bones Playmat.pdf - The play mat as one long image.

A mercenary company storms into an ancient library and demands access to a forbidden tome. When they are refused they begin to set fire to the collection of books and scrolls. What could be so valuable it's worth destroying a thousand years of knowledge?

Love Songs of the Death Goddess is a scenario compatible with The Black Sword Hack. The scenario features:

• A tragic backstory involving love, death, betrayal, and the forging of a terrible weapon.
• An epic poem that inspires love (of death).
• A cast of colorful NPCs including a ruthless mercenary, a cunning spy, a desperate warrior, a heartbroken monk, a living statue, and an undead priestess.
• A series of mysterious locations including an ancient library, a mountain monastery, and an abandoned lighthouse.
• A non-linear, highly reactive structure driven by the players' curiosity and values.

Haunted

A Game About Murder And What Comes After...

Have you ever, even for a moment, flirted with the idea of killing someone? Have you ever wondered how that would change you? Would you still see their face in the crowd? Would you still hear their voice on the wind? Would you be haunted?

Haunted is a role-playing game about an ambitious murderer being stalked by the ghost of their victim. The game requires at least three players.

Player Roles

• One player is the murderer.
• One player is the ghost.
• The rest of the players are supporting characters.

Flow of the Game

• The game flows as a series of scenes.
• Scenes generally focus on the murderer pursing their ambition or revealing problems caused by the victim's death.
• In every scene, the murderer can see and hear the ghost.
• Tensions between characters are resolved using a simple dice mechanic.
• During conflicts the ghost can intervene with supernatural effects.
• The game ends when the murderer fulfills their ambition or is forever thwarted from doing so.

OSRaon Icon Pack is an asset pack designed for OSR map making. This top-down icon pack currently includes 235 icons across 19 categories:

• Decoration

• Misc

• Bedroom

• Bath

• Camping

• Dungeon

• Weapons

• Library

• Nature

• Storage

• Seating

• Kitchen

• Temple

• Sigils

• Graveyard

• Lighting

• Laboratory

• Forge

• Village

The pack itself includes a .afassets file for importing into affinity designer as well as .png and .svg assets for importing into various map making software or digital tabletops. An example map is included in the zipfile to get a feel for how I use the icons.

Why did you make this?

I've been making several adventure maps in a highly-printable black-and-white OSR style, and I could not find an icon pack that I really liked which had simple icons that were easy to identify both in a PDF and print. There are several ones that fit a good hand-drawn style, but I wanted to go with something a bit more clean. Thus, iconset! I hope you all find the icons useful. My eventual goal is to continue to add icons as I need them for my own map making and keep making updates.

What can I do with the Icons?

• Use for personal use on VTTs or in map making.

• Use in a commercial project as part of the final product (for example, any maps you make with the icons on them may be used) so long as you give attribution to the icon pack.

• Remix the icons and create new ones and distribute those icons.

What can't I do with the icons?

• Don't redistribute them as-is. Don't try to sell them on the Roll20 marketplace, please.   ❤️

How do I use this thing?

I'll be publishing tutorials over here: https://help.cthonicstudios.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-do-i-use-the-icons-with-dungeonscrawl

Jeffrey Koch Stock Art is provided to aid publishing companies, large and small, in creating high-quality products. In addition, the line is perfect for adding fresh new content to the seasoned publisher's art library and aiding in keeping design budgets manageable.

Erwin Selwin has a bit of a problem on his hands, and your ragtag team of dungeon crawlers is poised to provide just the solution - or create an even more problems. Grab your torches and head into the depths in this short 1st level adventure for Shadowdark RPG and leave with maybe a few new friends.

This 8 page mini adventure contains:

• Devilish Machinations

• A broken man who really loves cabbage

• A hell hound named Scrabbles

• The finest in Diabolic Treasure and Traps alike

• 2 New Items - one Magical, one Alchemical (and delicious)

Background

The Unearned Halls is a 1st Level Adventure for Shadowdark RPG that I created as part of a small creative writing exercise. The process posts for the adventure can be found here: https://cthonicstudios.com/tag/unearned+halls

ARRHENIUS is a narrative-based adventure, exploration, and combat tabletop roleplaying game that places players into the boots, hide wraps, and synthetic skin of humanity’s far future descendants as they try to make it through the harsh and unforgiving world of the next Ice Age in the year 100,000.

Play as the nomadic ekavir, the subterranean dorrem, the muters of the great continental dome cities, the digital humans known as ozzits, or as scabs, the scavengers of the fallen megametropolises. There are high-tech ruins to loot and explore. There are mutant mercenaries and feral AI to escape, befriend... or romance? No judgement. The ruined future is yours to explore!

The core rulebook for "ARRHENIUS - An Icecore Roleplaying Game" is 190 pages of loot, lore, creatures, and more.

Grab the core rulebooks for all five of our RPGs. Ephemeris 2.0, Rocks on the Other Side, The Battle for Turtle Island, The Divided States of America, and Domain of the Dragons.

Grab all of the titles for the Rocks on the Other Side RPG.

Mercs, Mages and Monsters

A skill based TTRPG using a 3d8 roll under system. Set in the grim-lite yet humorous fantasy kingdom of Yogath.

Contents

An overview of the general mechanics, combat, a small sampling of creatures, and more.

One-Shot and six (6) pre-gen characters.

Core Rulebook now available on DriveThruRPG and RPG Trader

Core Rulebook

'Mercs, Mages and Monsters' is a skill based, 3d8 roll under system set in the kingdom of Yogath. Players act as Members of a Guild, hired to do all manner of job, limited only by your own moral compass.

While this is fully finished and play ready, we will be updating it as time goes on, refining the systems based on your feedback and adding new ones as well. We also plan to release a campaign in the future.

We have a vision for the world of Yogath and its Mad Child King, this is only the begining.

Package Includes:

Core Rulebook (Pages and Spread)

Blank Character Sheet (PDF Fillable and printable)

GM Cheat Sheet

Map of Yogath

Every game needs creatures to challenge the characters, and
Ephemeris 2.0 is no different. Step inside this tome and learn about new
species that are on the edge of space travel, other creatures that can
threaten the characters on a variety of worlds, and learn about
creatures that live amongst the stars…and even creatures that live in
hyperspace.
Discover the celestial wyrm, the mosicans, asteroid mites, and so much
more!

Grab all of the titles for the Ephemeris 2.0 RPG.

Shady Vines Village is a fully flushed out village with an entire town full of NPCs for your hunters to interact with, assist with mysteries, and more! 

If ever there was a town where “things like that just happen here sometimes,” it’s Shady Vines Village. A rural town has drawn the attention of monster hunters for decades, with on-going weird occurrences of supernatural phenomenon that seemingly never stop. Maybe it’s the cheap rent and cost of living, but residents of Shady Vines are dedicated to the town. They’ve lived there for generations and refuse to leave. 

The biggest hallmark of Shady Vines is the feeling that it is out of place and time. Despite being 2024, Shady Vines still has a video rental store, drive-in movie theater, and unexplainable occult landmarks! 

Four unique adventures to start a campaign or use as one-shot adventures for players: 

Up, Up & Away:  Shady Vines Village is terrorized by an unknown entity that plucks its victims out of thin air. Is it aliens? Is it demons? Where do the victims go? 

Chaos Follows: A charismatic visitor invites the town of Shady Vines Village to a big all-town party. The problem becomes that chaos seems to follow him wherever he goes, and chaos… kills. 

Pizza Kills: A new drug blurs line between reality and… another reality, where people keep dying without rational explanation. 

It Lurks in Shadows: A mysterious figure in the shadows is spreading through the town of Shady Village Vines. 

Additional Content: 

• Town locations 

• Occult Locations to use for mysteries 

• NPCs to populate the town of Shady Vines Village 

Written for the Queer Game Jam and inspired by Netflix's Q-Force and Comedy Central's Drawn Together, as well as games like Blades in the Dark, Masks, F.L.A.M.E. Agents is a queer secret agent game in a cyberpunk setting. A vibrant world of mystery and intrigue, Agents are sent on missions that can determine the trajectory of things to come. 

Build on the Charge system, this fast paced, narrative driven game allows players to explore the metropolis of Rainbow Heights and content with World Forces like the Drag Guild, Chaos Collective, and Techno-Magicians. 

This game can be played as a one-shot adventure or a longer campaign! 

Updates coming soon: 

• Agent Missions (pre-made adventures)

• Additional Agent Dossiers 

You’ve had a lot of life experience, like a LOT of life experience. You’ve seen more things in a single weekend than most people see in a life time. 

Or, at least that’s what you want people to believe. 

Inspired by notable characters like Alexis Rose (Schitt’s Creek), Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls), Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place), Jean-Ralphio (Parks & Rec).

This game works to determine if your character has truly lived the life they claim, or if they’ve just been lying through life. 

Every character starts in the middle of the adventure track and over the course of the game will move closer to being a well-traveled storyteller or a complete work of fiction. 

A one card variant of free kreigspiel that replaces the gm with the ambiguity of interpretation.

A game about how all competitive games are ultimately collaborative.

Tear it all down!

You’re citizens of the recently built freedom city of Yagriowana, a triumph of the Dark Enlightenment’s greatest minds. Your life is highly surveilled, every purchase tracked, and every movement packaged into sellable data. This is all you’ve ever known, but you’ve recently awoken to the true horrors of Yagriowana. Can you stop the Committee and the CEO monarch Henry Tennesley? Or will you be brought back into line through the city’s oppressive systems?

Game Features:

• Breathless play in a dystopian setting

• RepuScore system changes your standing

• Fully standalone

On the brink of producing a cure for death itself, a priceless compound was stolen from the pharmaceutical juggernaut MONARCH BIOTECH.  

Based on the myth of Chang'e THE OLD DUST is a precise mixture of Facility Crawl, Social Intrigue, and Chemical Puzzle Box. Suitable for 1 - 2 sessions, players will investigate BLACKSITE YUEGONG-2, a research lab established by brilliant botanist Dr. Edi Chang for the development of a modern Elixir of Immortality.

Will your crew survive what remains of the facility's test subjects?

Printable Role and Trait cards for FIST: Ultra.

Use these cards to create FIST: Ultra characters in a flash! Just draw 1 Role cards and 2 Trait cards, and you instantly have a character! No need to roll d666 to look up traits on a table and copy down abilities -- instead, they are right there in front of you!

Instructions:

1. Print cards on 8.5" x 11" US letter paper

2. Cut out individual cards using scissors or a paper cutter

3. Sleeve cards in standard card sleeves (2.5" x 3.5"), optionally backed using bulk playing cards or old trading card

4. Shuffle up and deal!

Credits:

• FIST: Ultra Edition by CLAYMORE, released under CC BY-SA 4.0

• FIST: Ultra JSON data by ululu

A terraforming engine fallen from orbital debris above the arid planet Deepgrit has transformed Dogwater Gulch into a bountiful paradise, but a colossal monster terrorizing the canyon has the nearby
town of Porthull gripped with fear. Claim the bounty on the beast’s head before someone else does, or before the monster finds you first.

The Demon of Dogwater Gulch is a one-shot adventure for one GM and 3 to 5 players designed as the perfect introduction to Lancer, featuring:

• A sandbox monster hunt in a race against the clock

• A climactic showdown combat that changes depending on the players’ actions, including a battle map and NPC tokens

• Advice for adapting the adventure for continued play

• Advice for running the adventure at higher license levels

This adventure was made as part of the Lancer One-Shot Module Jam.

For best results, ensure that your PDF reader is set to view the PDF as a book with side-by-side pages. Otherwise, use the "spreads" version of the PDF.

Credits and acknowledgements:

• Writing, Layout, & Cartography: Ben Torell (gordianblade.com)

• Editing: Tim B. (congas.blog)

• Cover Illustration: Owen M. Good (peoplemaking.games/@q_bit)

• Playtesters: Megan Carlquist, Owen M. Good, William Hatch, Chris Patterson, Jenn Riley, Logan "Locksteady" Smith, Brad Williams

• Combat Map: Lancer Map Creation Tool (interpoint-station.itch.io/lancer-map-creation-tool)

• Token Images: Retrograde Minis (retrogrademinis.com)

• Hex Map Assets: David Baumgart (dgbaumgart.com)

"Made by Humans" logo courtesy of Lone Archivist used under CC BY 4.0. This work is AI-Free. It does not include content or media that was AI or Machine Generated. Supporting this work means supporting real people.

The Demon of Dogwater Gulch is not an official Lancer product; it is a third party work, and is not affiliated with Massif Press. The Demon of Dogwater Gulch is published via the Lancer Third Party License.

Copyright © 2025 Ben Torell. Lancer is copyright Massif Press.

This newest adventure from WatcherDM is a collaboration with our friend Ethan Myers (Lyres for Hire). He sends us on a fun-filled adventure to a moon that isn't quite what it seems. A small colony of dwarves is mining this "moon" for a strange proto-material that mimics precious metals. During their excavation they have contracted some strange malady that turns them to goo and addles their minds.

Features

• 4 Unique Adventure Hooks.

• 5 Unique Monster stat blocks.

• 2 Unique Magic Items.

• A 5(ish) room dungeon on the moon.

• 12 Full Color illustrations.

 A Gathering Storm is an adventure for Cairn and similar OSR games.

• 24 page half-letter sized zine

• Designed for Cairn, a free OSR system

• Full colour zine with custom art and maps (made by me!)

The game is designed to be suitable for both new and experienced characters, with a focus on exploration, mystery and discovery. The town and monastery are also designed to be good starting points for further adventures.

The text is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Physical copies are available at the following places:

• The Cairn store in the US

• Third Kingdom Games in the US

• (Soon) Ratti Incantati in Canada

Content notes: Violence, including violence against wild animals; natural disasters; religious cults. Some random tables feature altered states of mind, although without affecting player agency.

This adventure takes place in a remote corner of an important trade route. Here, an ancient forest god is the source of all life, from the strange deep forest to the fields that feed passing travelers. Something has gone terribly wrong, however, and an endless and worsening storm is emanating from the center of the forest. Unless someone can delve into the forest and set things right, the region is doomed.

There are three main areas in this game:

• The adventure starts in the village of Sparrowvale, a village which exists to supply and feed erchants and other travelers, many of whom might want to hire adventurers. 

• The last stop before the forest is The Monastery, one of many belonging to the Order of the Boundless Scroll, known for its library of strange and lost knowledge. Perhaps some key information on what is happening can be found here, but nobody is allowed into the library right now...

• Finally, The Forest, the realm of an ancient god, a place of strangeness and great power, where mortals will only ever be uneasy guests, but from which all life in the region flows.

In addition, this book contains a few random tables that might be of use outside the adventure:

• 36 books you might find in the library

• 24 random names (on top of the many named NPCs)

• 8 random merchants

• 12 things to forage in the woods

Edited by  Ashley Kronebusch.

If an owlbear falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

8.5 by 11 inches, color art in PNG format, (300 DPI). Useable as either a full page interior piece, or to grace the cover of an upcoming adventure module.

John Latta is a professional illustrator whose work has appeared in various indie publications in the OSR, D&D, and Pathfinder spheres, as well as other independent projects like author T. Seris' "Axiom of Infinity: Soul Eater" series and Caley McCready's ElementalD6 RPG.

IMPORTANT Stock Art License
Visit: https://johnlattaart.com/stock-art-commercial-license/ to view license agreement.

"Situated close to the Morgana Morass, the once prosperous city of Blemp was a religious site for medicinal and culinary experts around the dying world. The riches made by merchants, cooks, and herbalists made the most wealthy in Galgenbeck look like paupers. It prospered for a very long time, until it finally fell. Nobody knows how or why this happened, but there are many rumors in the mill. Most blame the inept Mayor for becoming too greedy, draining the city dry, which allowed the now prominent criminal element to rise up. Others blame the strange things that have been flooding in from the Morass: monsters haunting the sewers, beasts taking children in the night, and mushrooms hellbent on taking over the town. It is no wonder Josilfa has started to take notice. Tensions are rising, and its only a matter of time before the city implodes. Maybe there's a way to stop it. Maybe it's better to just let it implode. Only time will tell."

- Excerpt from the Journals of a Madman, Mathias Pfister 

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

He Who Croaks Last is a SVMP Infected (Mörk Borg compatible) adventure module. Included are 40+ pages loaded with content that take your PCs through a horrendous journey filled with: inner city drama, monsters, filthy places, rats, frogs, bad trips, and more. Everything you need to get your PCs trudging through the muck is included:

• New monsters to hunt or be hunted by.

• Plot hooks. Why the hell are your PCs even there?

• Loads of tables with that special tangy SVMP flavor.

• A new class to turn any scvm into a fungai.

• Tips and tricks on how to run the adventure, or how to sneak it into your Mörk Borg campaign.

THE STORY

"There are things worse than giant rats roaming the sewers, and because of those worthless militia, we gotta catch ‘em all." - Thaddeus Dwengal, Master of the Rat Catcher’s Guild

The rule of law that once governed Blemp has eroded away like its unkempt cobblestone streets. Criminals run the city while the officials run away with taxes. Winds from the Morgana Morass blow in more than just hallucinogenic haze. Mushrooms creep out like festering claws from its borders. Rats flee the sewers in droves, scared of whatever has moved out of the mushroom forest. The people are growing increasingly uneasy and threaten to take to the streets. 

Needless to say the city is falling apart. 

SVMP? SUMP? SWAMP? WHAT'S THAT?

However you end up pronouncing it, SVMP is an entire supplement for Mörk Borg. A means to add all that swampy goodness you've been wanting to add to your campaign. It's a fantastic read, and you should definitely check it out here. You don't need to be muckin' around in the SVMP to play this adventure, but it definitely adds to it.

CAN I PLAY THIS WITHOUT MÖRK BORG?

Mörk Borg's rules are lite, you can easily convert them to utilize the rules of your favorite OSR. It'll just take a little bit of elbow grease.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?

Wandering Monster

"HE WHO CROAKS LAST is a delightful lysergic romp through procedurally generated weirdscapes. Chock full of random tables, plot hooks, side quests, and interesting encounters, HWCL provides a wide range of play and material for adventures to come." - Ian SerVaas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dpWPsZs3WM&t=4s

This is a pre-made playset for the endlessly clever Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical Tabletop Roleplaying Game, made by Jar of Eyes, which you can find on their itch.io page.

The world is cruel, and sometimes so are we. Despite this, we’ve banded together to found the Hostel of the Displaced, a home for those of whom society judged are not deserving of one. We are willing to do the things others are not to stay safe and keep a roof over our heads, but recent attention has led outsiders to push for our removal.

Inspired by the discography of the John Darnielle led project, the Mountain Goats, Hostel of the Displaced is the story of a persevering underclass and community fighting to maintain its right to existence and safety while fighting their own demons, and possibly each other. Explore the very human experience of finding joy and connection both in spite of, and because of, the darkness within all of us.

You are a group of deeply jealous human thespians seeking to sabotage the next run of Francis Kitt's immensely successful all-Elcor casting of Hamlet. You will audition as Elcor, only to reveal humans are the truest performers after you've secured the role. You just need to get the role first.

Read excerpts of Shakespeare's Hamlet as humans pretending  to be Elcor, and don't blow your cover. What started as a conversation about one of the best Mass Effect memes proves that brainworms run deep. Completely untested. No GM or dice needed, just tokens and at least one copy of Hamlet.

Sincerely, with a tinge of hopeful expectation. Please provide comments only in the form of Elcor speak.

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible cat. Your parent calls you “Night”, as well as “a void” and “widdle baby snugglefuzz”. On the way home from the dreaded vet, you saw it. the greatest whole salmon you’ve ever seen. and today, you’re going to get out of the house, to the store, and to that salmon. You’ve earned it. There are two important things to know: 1. You play as one of the core drives of a single cat. 2. Acquiring that fish is going to be a trial.

You Are a Cat, and You Suck is a fail-forward, diceless one page TTRPG for 2-4 players and a GM. Players inhabit one of four drives (Hunt, Chonk, Fury, Snoop), and will Yarn Ball-Paw-Claw (or
"Rock-Paper-Scissors") to attempt to do various actions while moving along a cat alignment grid. Can you use your skills, zoomies, and single brain cell to get that salmon, or will you run out of lives and get
caught?

Playtested with Break My Game and at UnPub at PAX Unplugged.

For the Badge is a tabletop role-playing game where you are players at a modern football (i.e. soccer) club; characters will seek to further their own career goals (such as acting as a mentor, solidifying your
legacy, or getting noticed by the coaches) and goals of the club (such as growing the fanbase, avoiding relegation, or preventing the best players from leaving) while also managing life, stressors, and relationships away from the pitch (such as helping your parents downsize, supporting the community, or obtaining a sweet new sponsorship).  Play alternates between matches on the field and downtime in which characters explore scenes in their life off of it.  Inevitably, what happens on the field will affect you off of it, and vice versa.

This is a game for tabletop-curious sports fans and sport-curious role-playing fans including those who love Ted Lasso, Welcome to Wrexham, Hard Knocks, Moneyball, and Blaseball fandom. For the Badge explores the highs, lows, drama, elation, and heartbreak of daily life revolving around sport. The game tells grounded, personal stories of semi-professionals and professionals alike for 2-5 players and 1 Facilitator. You'll need pencils, paper, and a set of polyhedral dice for each player and the Facilitator.

The game has its own unique system, with influences stemming from Forged in the Dark, Powered by the Apocalypse, the Resistance System (Spire/Heart), and Belonging Outside Belonging games. The game has been in development for over 4 years and had dozens of playtests, including multiple campaigns. Now it's ready for the limelight and your thoughts! This is still in development, and may be subject to change.

This Ashcan-Demo of For the Badge includes all of the necessary rules in order to create your own club, footballer(s), and experience the drama yourself, presented in a simple text format.

Features:

• 10 club reputations

• 9 character archetypes

• 22 milestones for each archetype

• 9 positions with 2-3 roles for each

• 16 talents

• 6 constituency sheets to flesh out the world around your club

• 66 pages of rules with 22 additional pages of reference and resource material

The full version of For the Badge includes fleshed out rule explanations, as well as additional Club Reputations, Character Archetypes, Milestones, match modifiers, play formats, variation/optional rules, and tools

Create a world that changes the further you are from what is familiar. Use it for solo gaming, GM prep, GM-less games, drawing maps or worldbuilding just for fun. Use it for stories about fighting dragons, or stories with no fighting at all. Bring the world to life with random tables of everything from abstract social values to legumes.

What do I need?

• At least one six sided die

• Pencil and paper

• Friends and other TTRPG books (optional)

What formats does this come in?

• Small booklets in PDF form, meant to be read electronically, both as pages and spreads.

• A booklet intended for printing on a home printer. Requires trimming down to size, and a stapler or something.

• A PDF version that is text-only and has minimal formatting, beyond headings being marked. It should be possible to navigate it with a screenreader. Let me know if there's a better format for accessibility.

Credits

ART CREDITS: Some interior art by Evlyn Moreau (licensed via her Patreon), Perplexing Ruins (also licensed via his Patreon),  Charles Ferguson-Avery of Feral Indie Studio, and Direquest (from various stock art packs on Dungeon Master’s Guild).

Dice font is Dicier, by Speak the Sky (can be found on itch.io). Other fonts are Vollkorn and Hammersmith One.

Cover by Thomas Novosel (licensed via his Patreon, ThomasNo).
Proofreading done by Walton Wood.