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**A new one shot LUMEN game is now up on Kickstarter!**This is LUMEN.  It's an Creator Kit, a design philosophy, a commentary on my games. It's a toolkit and conversation. If you've seen my game LIGHT, you've seen a piece of LUMEN. If you saw FRAME, and NOVA, you've seen a few more pieces. Now you have the whole thing. Make Your Next RPG Illuminated LUMEN is an RPG system for action packed, power …

**Printed version is now available!** Shine Bright You are a Beacon, an immortal guardian of humanity. Light courses through you, granting you incredible power, and the ability to fight back the darkness that besets humanity from all sides. Strike out on missions across the Sol system. Wield powerful weapons, unleash devastating powers, get all the loot. LIGHT Beacon Edition is the definitive ver…

Shine Bright You are a Beacon, an immortal guardian of the last city on Earth. Human civilization crumbles across the system, but you and your kind are a ray of hope in a dark time.  LIGHT is a rule-lite sci-fi RPG. In it, you play as the immortal Beacons, wielders of weapons and the elements themselves. As a squad, you will go on tactical Strikes, pushing back against the Dark that has begun its…

89%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

89% User Score Based on 2,269 reviews

Take control of your own spaceship, with a vast galaxy to explore, mine, quest, trade, fight and even craft your own weapons. Start small, improve, complete missions, gather allies (or hire mercenaries), grow big and powerful.

Claim a Better Future! In a ruined and terraformed world where most of humanity is under the yoke of a brutal regime, the former workers of a once-remote factory - now known as The Collective - have risen up to create a future of freedom from oppression. You are an Ace - a highly skilled pilot referred from a Division in The Collective and assigned a humanoid combat vehicle known as a Frame. You a…

The award winning RPG of monster hunting has been updated! Get ready for Slayers 1.5. The City sits at the nexus of the world. Once you're inside it, it is the world. Something drives the borders of The City ever-onward, crawling towards the horizon. Urban sprawl made real. Neighborhoods appear and disappear overnight, The City is filled to brim with no shortage of interesting characters, culture…

75%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, monetization

79% User Score Based on 996 reviews

Critic Score 63%Based on 3 reviews

A papercraft roguelike RPG that lets you create any weapon, ability, enemy, and hero imaginable.

**Printed copies of the game are now available!** You are an Engraved. Cursed to wander the shattered world of Obron, you seek the power to take back control of your fate. Explore Realms, kill Rune Lords, and carve the power of fate into your very being. What Is RUNE? RUNE is a solo tabletop RPG inspired by the soulslike genre of video games, including Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. In …

Vibe Check is an illuminated by LUMEN tabletop role-playing game for 3-6 players inspired by The World Ends With You.  Players take on the roles of Players in the Watcher's Game - a week long challenge with the prize being another shot at life, while another player takes on the role of the Game's Master to introduce complications and consequences the Players must overcome as they fight to survive …

Welcome to War of the Pips!  THE GAME War of the Pips is a TABLETOP   ROLE PLAYING   GAME where you can play either by yourself, or with a GM (Game Master) guiding between 1-4   PLAYERS on a fantasy adventure.  This game uses its own OSR-style system, named Pipsqueak. There is an emphasis on:  • Player agency (do as you please) • Resource management (items are valuable, and inventory space limited…