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my “little” crossover is finally finished!

i hope you like it :)

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As your party approaches a giant tall-limbed creature with the long face of a borzoi dog and the body of a hollow train, she leans over and apologizes. She carries a magical lantern on her collar, but the light has been snuffed out. Her lantern has run out of magic oil and without it Borzoi Bullet Train cannot cross the ethereal bridge that lies between The Starlight Central Station and your party's next destination. There should have been a new shipment of oil delivered, but it's lost somewhere in this sprawling transit network. Will your group of adventurers ever be able to find it?

Get your tickets ready and buckle up, ‘cause this month’s ttrpg postcard dungeon is The Starlight Switchyard! Help solve problems for these vehicular cutie critters and make your way through the switchyard’s winding paths. A little bit inspired by Studio Ghibli's Catbus creature, transit maps, and more. ✨

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I have a three-part set of announcements!

Up first, I've started a Patreon, with a post up there explaining the benefits and also my motivations.

This ties into the next announcement, I've put two playtest drafts of games up on there!

The Gallant and the Virtuous is a game about jousting, with a tragic and fatal end.

I'm with the Damned is a musical tarot game about a band setting off on tour after making a deal with the devil.

Those are available to all patrons. Finally I have a new game out. "Once again, we are defeated" is a narrative map-making game about dangerous outsiders protecting a village from an approaching army. It's a second edition of a game I released two years, I really dug the original game but found there were difficulties pitching and explaining the game. I created this second edition for inclusion in the upcoming Out of the Fold and Other Games collection

So this is live on Itch but Patrons at a fiver and up get it for free.

There's never been a better time to be a fan of Kayla!

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Now at IPR: Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop

2023 ARPIA Awards Best Rules System Winner Finalist for Dicebreaker's RPG of the Year 2023

On a River, you are a bookseller, paddling your floating bookshop up and downstream to various towns along the Riverbank. How did you come across the bookshop? Was it gifted to you or did you happen to chance upon it?

Your days are filled with customers, leaks and the irritating nook beetles that bury into the pages of your books. Make friends with regular customers to the bookshop, experience the River as she moves through the different seasons, visit and explore various towns, go fishing in the River's rich waters. Throughout the year, the seasons change and holidays give the chance for you to join in celebrations and festivities with the animalfolk. Floating Bookshop is set in a fully formed world with its own unique seasons, holidays and customs.

Floating Bookshop is a solo journalling game played with a pack of playing cards, a 20 and 6 sided dice. Record your daily goings-about in the bookshop, make note of the weather, and the customers that both delight and annoy you.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Fox-Curios-Floating-Bookshop-Print-PDF.html

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I think my two Belonging outside Belonging games compliment each other in a fun way

To Embrace a Swamp Creature is about my early twenties while PSYCHODUNGEON is about my late twenties

Swamp Creature is about a town while PSYCHODUNGEON is about a city, Swamp Creature is about friends, PSYCHODUNGEON is about co-workers, and they both have austerity and mental illness in common

What I'm saying is I don't think I can write another BoB game until I'm in my thirties

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Consider Kayla

The nomination period for the CRiT Awards is open and cause I did heaps of stuff last year I'm very eligible and considerable (as in, there's much to consider).

For Your Consideration

Best GMless TTRPG - PSYCHODUNGEON

Best Multiplayer TTRPG - Transgender Deathmatch Legend II

Best Indie TTRPG - Either of the above or any of the other games I released last year if they were your favorite

Best Podcast Host - Kayla Dice (Game Soup or This is Your Lifepath)

Best Legacy Podcast - This is Your Lifepath

(so Lifepath's first season started over two years ago, though admittedly the second season was entirely contained to last year)

Best Upcoming Podcast - Game Soup

But yeah everything I released last year, plus Transgender Deathmatch Legend II, is eligible so if you have any favourites I haven't mentioned I'd still appreciate the nod.

Like obviously awards aren't a be all end all, but I have been struggling with seeing the worth in what I make lately and awards, or at least consideration, is one way of remembering it's not all noise in the dark.

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Dungeon Crawl Bundle

From now (3/3/25) to later (4/3/25), the Dungeon Crawling TTRPG Bundle will be live.

Thirty five games, twenty five creators, every possible interpretation of dungeon crawl.

My game's about liminal marine bus stations. Others are about the stone age, dreams, BLAME!!, pokemon, tiny mice, and more.

Every purchase supports indie designers and helps us make more ttrpg stuff.

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cmykrab risoprint. which means it's not actually cmyk. crab deception!

print available here

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Another lil' dungeon is here! 🐟✨🧙🏽‍♂️

This month’s ttrpg Postcard Dungeon is ✨The Dreaming Temple✨, a mysterious place with ever-flowing waterfalls where slumber wizards practice dream magic and sleepy sorcery~

Wanna get this dungeon (and stickers!) in yer mailbox? Join the Diploberry Dungeon Club anytime this February.

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So I have been making more art for the whalefall fantasy adventure zine - including the titular Giant Whalefall of an Ancient Leviathan deity of renewal and growth

The zine will eventually be ok my itch.io but for now here are some updates

Also the hexcrawl of the continental shelf region before the whalefall in the abyss - which I had a lot of fun writing a depthcrawl table for and filling it with deeply cursed abyssal marinelife - giant siphonophore leviathan, anglerfish, sea cucumbers in the abyssal mud

The continental shelf hexcrawl has lots of big landmarks and regional effects and a big ocean current you can follow or navigate around

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Sometimes, you just need to be a cat for a while.

Catcrawl is crowdfunding on Backerkit for Zine Month (February 4th-21st, 2025)!

Hexcrawl mechanics meet story games (GM-less/solo TTRPG for 1-4 players)

Take turns playing the cat and explore a lovingly detailed apartment map, supported by lots of prompt lists and details

Illustrated with 35+ cat drawings by 17 people from the Plotbunny community (because we love humans and cats, and hate AI)

Written by me and my co-designer Jasmin and to be published by @plotbunnygames (also me)

Be a cute and curious cat. Be a chaotic desaster goblin of a cat. You're the cat - you decide!

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Transgender Deathmatch Legend II is out now on Itch! A beat-em-up/fighting game that uses trick taking card play to resolve combat, designed for two players. Across seven scenarios fight for retribution, cash, justice, survival, glory and more!

Step into the shoes of a hard done by trans wrestler in the city of Slamchester, put the HRT in hurt, and put the hurt on anyone who tries you.

Featuring:

Easy to grasp and intuitively tactical rules

Four Unique Fighting Styles

Seven Hyperviolent Hexcrawl Scenarios

Vibrant and raw photography throughout

Templates and instructions for online play

Alternative Rules Accommodating More Players

Arcade Mode!

Tag Team Turmoil!

(You can still pre-order the physical edition and get your order folded into fulfilment of the initial campaign)

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happy october!! tabletop trick or treat :D? -hmoon

Get TRICKED!

There's a graphic/game designer I met at Dragonmeet last year who designs games as Aethercorp. I thought my business card was pretty good (it is) but his one's even better.

It's a fishing mini game, I'm just going to show you it:

Luke puts just as much charm and attention into all his other work and you should go check out his stuff over at AETHERCORP.GAMES because he's making some really incredible solo LARP style stuff atm and he seems like a lovely person.

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I'm changing how I approach my newsletter this year to make it a little less of a diary of what I've been up to. I'm moving to starting off with a roundup of links to things I've done and then devoting the rest of the post to a blog post.

I'm also trying to cross post the blog bits on my website.

I've kicked off this change with a project announcement that tries to go a bit more into depth than what that usually looks like. I'm talking about my space noir game, what inspired it, a bit about how it will work and what the intention is there, and the moods and emotions I'm trying to create. There's also a real title reveal.

In the proper newsletter I point to some things I'm thinking of writing more blogs on; experiments in minimizing second person address, what noir is going into the mix, how I'm figuring out setting detail, big thoughts about women in noir, bringing in exercises to a game text, a film-informed approach to design and why I hate how the term cinematic is used in tabletop.

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“This is Station XB-1 calling Control, come in Control. A new micro-setting has appeared on Patreon."

The latest micro-setting for our upcoming second collection You Are Here is finished and you’d have to have a pretty cold heart not to be pysched for it. A little bit Stargate, a little bit Dreamscape and a little bit John Carpenter’s The Thing, it’s a great holiday destination for those looking for frozen wastelands, paranoia and fantastically creepy art by longtime-collaborator Cael Lyons. And it’s available to read right this moment!

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When The Walls Fall is a a world building / setting tool which focuses on building and toppling a dice tower from a set of polyhedral dice (d20, d12, 2d10, d8, d6 and, d4) and generating a mighty long fallen city.

Grab a copy to print and play at home, or if you're going to Dragonmeet, you can pick one up at the @soulmuppet stand!