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12th Anniversary update coming!  I'm working super hard on a new update with many end of year fixes, improvements and much needed adjustments. I hadn't recieved any feeback from players and found some things that needed to be improved. There will be improved music, improvements to some story scenes, skill improvements (Sound effects and visuals) and scene change improvements and enhancements. A f…

"Village Witch" is a journaling game for 1-2 players where you assume the role of a witch seeking to find a home in a village. The game utilizes a standard deck of cards or tarot cards, a 6-sided die, and a method for recording your story. The objective is to find the perfect village within a year, with the game providing questions and prompts based on card draws. Players can craft their own content or remix the game under a creative commons license.

About the game Behind a façade of rigid propriety, they were drawn into scandalous entanglements... Miss Bernburg’s Finishing School for Young Ladies is a game about the relationships between young ladies at a finishing school in the 1950s. In it, you assume the role of a Homemaker, a Rebel, or a Bookworm and try to create messy entanglements with the other characters: Fall in love with your enemi…

LUMEN is a creator kit and RPG system for action-packed, power fantasy games, inspired by looter shooters, hero shooters, and dungeon crawlers. It offers quick dice rolling, no skill lists, and fast-paced, powerful combat. LUMEN allows you to create your own Illuminated game, emphasizing how you approach tasks and encouraging the excitement of seeing numbers go up.

"Village Witch" is a single-player or optional 2-player journaling game where you play as a witch seeking a village to call home. With a standard deck of cards or tarot cards, a 6-sided die, and a means to record your story, you'll answer questions and use prompts to craft your adventure. The game encourages content creation and remixing under its license.

"Firelights" is a 2-player cooperative role-playing game where players become the last of the Firelights, tasked with guiding the dead back to the underworld. Players traverse through a plague-infested land, igniting old beacons to help the dead reach the Veil. Utilizing only basic gaming materials such as 2 six-sided dice and a deck of cards, Firelights draws inspiration from the Metroivania video game genre for an engaging and challenging experience.

A Game about Unlikely Friendships and Talking Animals, Guided by the Sun By Mitchell Salmon A perfect world begins and ends with me, thinks the ruler of a far-off kingdom. They thought they were the bee’s knees, the cream of the crop. Their face adorned every coin, every poster, every statue. They were the judge and jury of disputes, they christened ships, and kissed babies. Their power was absol…

Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document The Backwater Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document  includes character creation rules, essential rules for gameplay, a pre-generated character sheet, and a blank character sheet. It’s 53 pages and includes sketches of original art for the core rulebook. Want to try the game on your own? Grab our solitaire for free/Pay-What-You-Want. Then create …

Welcome! This is a two-page, printable tool for creating climactic moments of tactics and tension - without combat!  Whether an epic chase, the struggle to save a sinking ship, or a desperate search for a medicinal ingredient, this will help you create collaborative goals and a real sense of drama! As a certified teacher, I find the narrative focus in most TTRPGs to be reductive - the action and …

"Lay On Hands" is a storytelling game zine for one player, where you play as a post-apocalyptic healer with unusual abilities. You explore the wasteland, aid the needy, and battle corrupted forces using a unique oracle system. With its distinct design and challenging gameplay, "Lay On Hands" offers a captivating solo RPG experience, reminiscent of "Ironsworn," "Troika," and "Fallout."