Cover art is complete for The Baron's Grip! I'll probably still play with the text, but the art (by the wonderful Jamie Douglas) is solid. If you would like to play as mice fighting to free their home from the oppressive rule of an evil badger with an gang of henchrats, delving into dungeons to find magic items, recruit NPCs, and collect the funds to raise an army, you should check out The Baron's Grip.
"Yes, your god is real. And so is every other one."
A Surprising Concordance of Opinion is a civilization-grade starship that has been aspace for nearly a millennium. Its mission, unchanged through the centuries, is to make contact with newly space-faring worlds in order to introduce them to the multitude of beings that they may encounter as they travel the cosmos, including the many phyla of deity-scale organisms.
Knowledge of such creatures often results in drastic religious shifts among contacted species. Sent out as a drone, crewed only by its dual AIs Jedediah and Ctesiphon, it has since accrued several billion passengers from the civilizations that it has enlightened. These passengers live out their lives as apathetic observers of the Surprising's endeavors, their lust for exploration and discovery quenched by a glimpse into their utter insignificance.
Teaser illustration for my upcoming Mausritter campaign, part of Mausritter Month on BackerKit. Travel through Willowshade forest, delving into dungeons, allying with NPCs, and manipulating factions in your quest to free your hometown from the terrible rule of Baron Marfont.
Milk Bar: post-soviet sci-fi roleplaying in a poland that never was
Milk Bar: Cut Your (Milk) Teeth Edition is a 52-page condensed version of the full roleplaying game containing everything you need to get started playing immediately. There are only 200 copies of this one out in the world so get yours as soon as you can!
The Cut Your (Milk) Teeth Edition features:
Quick, simplified rules in the old school tradition.,
32 Character backgrounds, including vibes-heavy descriptions and burdens.,
Unique city setting in a retro-futuristic, alternate-timeline post-Soviet Communist Poland.,
Artifacts from the Belt. You can't have a condemned government research base without weird artifacts.,
Progression system tied to basebuilding. Want to stitch up those wounds? You better build an Infirmary and find a Doctor. Your Milk Bar is your home base.,
Logistics. Building a community isn't easy: set up trade routes and gather vehicles to set your Milk Bar up for success.,
Rules for exploring supernatural, changing spaces. Steel nuts in hand, stalk the wilderness.,
A Bestiary featuring robotniks and supernatural creatures.,
Pierogi. How many other games have a favourite pieróg table as part of character creation?
Milk Bar is inspired by Roadside Picnic, Annihilation, Stalker, Control, Pacific Drive, Disco Elysium, and Death Stranding.
Full edition coming soon.
You can also grab a text-only, entirely free version at the link below if you want to check it out!
After Ameripol pushed too hard, cut too many corners, and ignored one-too-many warning lights, The Belt was shorn in half and their sick exp
I have a new store for my physical books and zines!
Home of APOCALYPSE FRAME, Valiant Horizon, and more!
New to this store: I'm now selling APOCALYPSE FRAME softbacks: This is a square-backed, staple-bound softback that sits nice on your shelf AND lays flat really well!
You can also get my existing offerings (APOCALYPSE FRAME hardbacks, Valiant Horizon softbacks, Corpslayers zines) there.
Rosethorn Keep, Notebook Limited Edition is available now on the Dreamware Press webstore!
It's the same content as the full art version available on Space Penguin Ink and the PDFs available on itch.io but printed on uncoated paper in a plain-text ascii art format, perfect for marking up and writing on! It comes with 3 sets of tracking sheets in the back of the notebook, more pages of notes and grids, and a printable PDF version of the tracking sheets for when you need more.
Rosethorn Keep is a solo TTRPG where you acquire companions and complete dungeons in order to upgrade your castle, under the looming threat of the Demon Lord. When your castle is built and your companions are ready, can you defeat him before he thrusts the world into darkness?
Rosethorn Keep features
Hours of solo play goodness
A game that requires only d6s to play
Infinitely replayable - give it another go and recruit more team members
Gratuitous mockups of an adventure that will probably never get printed. But I think they look nice. The Mountain of Power, a free pamphlet adventure with stats for OSE (or B/X D&D), coming to the Appx N Jam on Itch this week.
Made a little isometric map for the Appx N Jam on itch. A wizard has taken over a dwarven temple inside a mountain. He has carved the floors and walls into intricate circuit boards, filling the channels with melted down dwarven gold, creating a massive electronic machine powered by the unending lightning storm raging above the mountain. When complete, the Lectrolich will flip the switch that jump starts all of the dwarves in the temple’s crypts to create an undead army.