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Have you played THE ZONE ?

By Raph D'Amico

Surreal horror play-to-lose RPG. Based on media like Annihilation and Stalker, you play as an expedition into an exclusion zone from which no one has ever returned. Watch yourself mutate as your team tries to reach the Center of the Zone in order to have your greatest wish granted.

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AFTERBIRTH OF THE SHADOW KING (2023) Sci-Fi/Post-Apocalyptic Horror Expansion by Rowan A. for Austin Ramsay's FitD mecha game Beam Saber.

WRITING, LAYOUT, ILLUSTRATION

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Have you played PRINT WEAVER ?

By N. L. Morrison

Print Weaver combines an approachable form of palmistry and high fantasy roleplay in a gothic soulslike tabletop game for 2-7 players.

Take up the mantle of an immortal Traveler, caught in the loop of infinite revival by the handmaidens of Providence. Levelless and classless, your Traveler's abilities are based on your own fingerprint patterns. Delve treacherous ruins, drain monsters of their ink-sodden blood, find new ways to die, and live again with a shadow at your heels.

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As you may have heard, we're hard at work preparing for the crowdfunding launch of Little Wolves, a folk-tale TTRPG about shapeshifter werewolves in The Enchanted Forest.

With the project launching on May 14th, our focus has been on creating a playable free demo and getting some awesome art done. 

And speaking of that awesome art, here's a work-in-progress peek at a piece depicting all four of the fae queens by the wonderful Grendel Menz!

The Queens & Courts of The Forest

A WIP piece of art by Grendel Menz, depicting the four queens.

The Enchanted Forest is home to the fae courts, with 4 of them being the focus in Little Wolves. Lead by their communities and named for their queens, the courts of the Witch, Pumpkin, Troll and Mermaid each tend to The Forest in their own way, and have found harmony among each other and their respective elements of Wind, Fire, Earth and Water.

Each character has ties to one of these courts that affect the elements they’re strong and weak in, and each court and element grants a different kind of Mark when you perform favors or overcome Elemental Trials.

Grendel’s depictions of the 4 queens are phenomenal, and soon enough we’ll be telling you more about each of the individual courts, their queens, and the many denizens you’ll meet on your adventures! 

For now, we'll leave you with a look at two of the work-in-progress designs of the four queens themselves! If we hit our "more art" stretch goal, Grendel will be doing full-page pieces of each queen to be paired with their bio and information about their court!

Selene the Witch Queen and Nayeli the Mermaid Queen.

That's all about the Queens and Courts for now~

In the coming weeks, we'll be talking more about the courts, the elements, and every other aspect of Little Wolves leading up to the crowdfunding launch on May 14th. Stay tuned, and follow the project for more!

Want to see Little Wolves in action?

Nevyn will be running a session of Little Wolves on the Plus One EXP Twitch channel tomorrow night, February 28th, starting at 7pm central! Be there, and be ready to howl~ 

Click here to learn more & follow the project on BackerKit!

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Listen Up RPG Nerds

Since it’s Black History Month, I’m making sure you folks know about Mike Pondsmith.

Mike designed, amongst other things, Cyberpunk 2020 and its wonderful spin-off Cybergeneration. He designed the critically-acclaimed Castle Falkenstein. A black man kicked off interest in two incredibly white-dominated genres in a white-dominated hobby is a remarkable achievement.

Which is why it bugs me that I didn’t know he was black until a couple of years ago. I figure the least I can do is make sure other folks know too.

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Tacticians of Ahm is itchfunding NOW!

For the last year or so, I've been designing and playtesting Tacticians of Ahm, a game inspired by tactical combat roleplaying designs meant to keep classic grid-n-minis TTRPG combat but to reinvent it in a way that keeps it fast and exciting without slowing your entire session down to a crawl!

Pick up the rulebook and get all future updates for free HERE!

Tacticians of Ahm is a tactical combat-focused tabletop roleplaying game in the corrupt3d fantasy world of Ahm. A bit-rotten blight has appeared in the Northern Sea and from it flows the Corrupt1on, fractured light and shattered shapes sowing chaos across the realm. As Tacticians, you alone are prepared to face the darkness spreading across the lands and reunite the scattered peoples of Ahm.

Unique Elements of Tacticians of Ahm:

Always-hit, set-damage grid-based combat!

Class-specific attack patterns, abilities, and more!

Easy-to-use weapon and ability diagrams!

Rules light out-of-combat play using a single d20!

A digital fantasy world corrupting with age!

You know it's a video game, but your characters don't!

If videos are more your speed, check out this intro to the game:

Inspired by video games like Into the Breach, Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem, Tacticians of Ahm was created out of a desire to maintain the rewarding tactical choices and big dramatic moments of traditional grid-n-minis TTRPG combat without slowing the pace of play by removing as many of the frustrating aspects of play as possible and streamlining the rest. Combat is fast and furious! You can always easily read your abilities, know the damage you will do (and when you can do it), and more.

Check the Itch page for more info and pick up the game!

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Games For Gaza Bundle

First off, it is impossible to overstate how packed with feature length ttrpgs this thing is.

Monster Care Squad, Extreme Meatpunks Forever, Crow Island, i'm sorry did you say street magic, Cybermetal 2012, A Sunless Space, Mourn, Disk Masters, Okcryptid, Paris Gondo And The Life Saving Magic Of Inventorying, Neon Nights, Apocalypse Frame, Alone On A Journey, TEN MILLION HP PLANET, Anamnesis, Doikayt: A Jewish TTRPG Anthology, Beam Saber, and more.

Also, there's a bunch of video games. I'm less familiar with them, but I recognize Arcade Spirits, and there's other visual novels too.

And most importantly, sales from this bundle go to the organization Medical Aid For Palestinians, which is providing necessary aid in a humanitarian crisis.

I have games in here too, but you'll have to find them, and that won't be easy given how many incredible titles there are.

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RIG Cover Art Reveal

By Galen Pejeau

Galen did the first pass of the dead core art which you can see in the early previews of RIG, and then blew me the fuck away with this cover art.

If you wanna find out more you know the drill: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/notwriting/rig-0

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My creepy little tiefling Tragedy : )

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With TSS coming up I thought it was the perfect excuse to make myself a new character so here’s Alvah! She’s a reborn tiefling grave cleric who strives to work against the natural order, trying to achieve eternity for all 👁️⚰️🤍

It’s been a while since I made myself a character and I've had my eye on grave cleric for some time now, plus don’t have many tieflings so this was the perfect opportunity to finally make a character that was both!

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A dead rig.

For a dead world.

A single player souls-like mech rpg.

Coming soon.

Click the link to be notified when the project goes live.

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One giant tabletop map in ink & watercolors on A2 paper.

This was a custom piece for a DnD homebrew campaign setting, and so much fun to make - especially all the little critter drawings!

If you’re interested in something similar for your own game or book, let me know!

commissions

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A Gathering Storm for Cairn is out

Hopefully it works this time because I managed to crash the editor. A Gathering Storm is an adventure for Cairn. It probably takes about 2 sessions unless your players really don't like talking to people. There is a village that will have to be abandoned if nobody figures out why it won't stop raining, because the rains are flooding everything. There's a strange and isolated monastery with a famous library which is being weirdly unhelpful to anyone who comes around asking questions. There's a forest which is also a god. Most of the adventure takes place in this forest.

This is my first time doing not just all of the writing and layout but also the art. It took way too long but I'm pretty proud of the results. There's no dungeon crawling, but it is very exploration focused. There are also hooks to start a larger campaign based on these locations, a bunch of new bestiary entries, and tables of 36 books, 24 names, and 10 types of merchants.

You can find the pdf on #itchio https://seedling.itch.io/a-gathering-storm-cairn

or on #DriveThruRPG : https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/437505/A-Gathering-Storm--Cairn

You can also get physical copies from the Cairn store: https://store.cairnrpg.com/products/a-gathering-storm

Third Kingdom Games: https://www.thirdkingdomgames.com/product-page/a-gathering-storm

And (soon) Ratti Incantati, in Canada (will update when they're available there): https://rattiincantati.com/

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

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A squad of mechs for the actual-play Beamsaber game CalazCon!

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The Megaflora Grotto Battle Map

Rooty’s mysterious new battle map just went up on 2-Minute Tabletop! It’s a 32x22 pool of water surrounded by enormous plants, not all of which are peaceful… 

→ Download it on 2-Minute Tabletop