Lapis and Greenstone

An attempt at promoting my TTRPG designs, those of others. Sometimes an opinion might escape containment.

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Hey, I'm a UK-based TTRPG designer, among other things. This is my sideblog because I am really bad at self promotion. We'll see how that goes.

I tend to make most of my games in their entirety, including layout, illustrations etc. I am the kind of person who thinks of making creative content, whether prose or illustration, with LLMs to be absolutely fucking ridiculous, just to be utterly crystal clear on that point.

I appreciate game jams a lot because they help give me deadlines to structure myself around, so a lot of what's on my itch, found here, was designed for one TTRPG design jam or another. At least at the point I'm posting this.

I also have a lot more covers designed for TTRPGs than I've actually finished or published. I leave the question of whether this is the equivalent of people imagining their OCs doing cool shit rather than writing up to the reader.

The kind of TTRPGs that I try to make tend to be pretty variable, in all honesty, but I am definitely that person who thinks 2 pages of rules and 50 pages of character creation options is an ideal ratio. I also tend to like making TTRPGs that examine layered personas and explore how complex characters can emerge that way.

I also like to give my TTRPGs grounding in something, sometimes absurdly specifically, or maybe try to look at how we ground things to begin with.

Some covers from 2025 I made and liked to round this off.

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The You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam is running at the moment, so I made this. A game you can't play, which doesn't exist, heavily inspired by Wipeout and that big 90s focus on extreme sports. Honestly was quite nice just to design without having to make things come together to make sense.

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This is likely my last TTRPG-related thing by the end of 2025- I've been making 8 page microsetting zines since the start of the year, and this is one I started way back in March and just got too distracted to finish.

It's part of a connected series of science-fantasy microsettings in a star system with a cursed star that I really ought to figure out an overarching name for at some stage...

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Onomastos by Daeres

A small game about gods and cosmological forces

Something I made for an unofficial Nobilis design jam, inspired equally unofficially by the Quinn's Quest Play to Find Out episodes in which Jenna K. Moran's Nobilis 2nd Edition was played (to find out).

I've always respected Nobilis enormously since I first encountered the Big White Book in the 00s, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, even if I very much did not understand it at the time. But even at that point, I kind of didn't need to understand it to feel it was incredibly cool.

So, someone mentions a Nobilis jam is happening, I can't not design something for it. And so here's Onomastos, a game about awakening as a god.

It's pretty different to my usual TTRPGs in most ways. As much as I like a good 'thou' and an underused Middle English word here and there. But I hope it gives someone some unexpected delight, and maybe even a fun thing to play.