Monday, February 27, 2023

Haunting - Game Pitch

 


Haunting is a two player game about a sentient House that wants to devour its occupants. The players will work together to tell the story of those who dare to live in the house, the changes they make and how the house inevitably becomes vacant once more. 

The supernatural events of the game are recorded in a journal or through drawing the house itself (either designing one yourself or using the handy play sheet that we've made for the game). Are you brave enough to tell such stories? The house is waiting… 

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Art of OSR Design with Singing Flame

 



Singing Flame is a small publishing company based in New York City who love making zines, adventures, and supplements compatible with tabletop roleplaying games, including titles such as DNGN, Aquilus, Night Land, and Xanadu. 

Vasili Kaliman shared his journey into the gaming hobby, and his return to it with DCC. From there he went on to create Aquilus, the science fantasy publication for the OSR. 

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Monday, February 20, 2023

Subversion - Game Pitch

 


In the Subversion tabletop roleplaying game, you and your friends play as envoys, representatives of your communities taking direct action to serve and save the people around you. But there’s a catch. Both your character, and the community they are a part of, have values that are important to them. Trying to subvert the oppressive world around you while also holding true to the values you and your community care about, isn’t an easy task. 

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Feathertail Falls - Game Pitch

 

Feathertail Falls is a mouse-fantasy TTRPG zine that builds on the free Mausritter rules, a deceptively simple system perfectly suited for mouse-sized expeditions. The zine's adventurous yet melancholy tone is inspired by Over the Garden Wall, Hilda and Studio Ghibli's Arrietty, as well as the art of Júlia Sardà.

The adventures take place in the Feathertail Forest, a place little mice pups might know from bedtime stories, about mice that dream to fly. When you start to explore it, you will find that the unwelcoming forest has been petrified in time. It is up to you to decide if and how to reawaken it, and to deal with the consequences as you discover more of the forest's secrets. 

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Friday, February 10, 2023

Drama Llamas - Game Pitch

 

Drama Llamas is a narrative driven TTRPG about reality TV competition shows. Easy to plan and easy to play, the game contains everything you need to create (or recreate) the reality franchise of your dreams. Packed with genre tropes and chaos-generating mechanics, all with an absurdist, llama-flavoured twist. 
You and your friends will play as cast of fame-hungry llamas, eager to grab the spotlight and snatch the big prize. You'll complete challenges, create drama, form alliances, sabotage your fellow contestants, and expose your deepest darkest secrets. 

Keep an eye on your drama score, though - toxic llamas never prosper! Gather 3-5 players plus a GM, or "Producer", create your llama contestants and compete for the grand prize while generating heaps of delicious drama. This game is 90% role play, 10% strategy, 0% combat (unless the drama gets really out of hand!) 

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The Bastardized Classics - Game Pitch

 

Bastardized Classics seek to recreate classic modules with a modern sensibility. Experience adventures as old as the hobby in a compact format, with a rules-lite design ethos. 

Designed with Micah Anderson’s Bastards. system in mind, Bastardized Classics are easily adapted to any version of dragon games. Vault of Doom reimagines the much acclaimed S1 Tomb of Horrors, while Peak of Woe gives a new set of eyes to the wonderful S2 White Plume Mountain. Vale of Stars and Cave of Fiends are set to release Summer 2023. 

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Monday, February 6, 2023

Ailing Away - Game Pitch

 

AILING AWAY is a solo mystery game with historical romantic elements. It's like CLUE but it's meant for one player, you get to kiss some of the suspects, and there's no board to set up.

All you need to play is a copy of the rulebook, a deck of standard playing cards, a pair of ten-sided dice, and writing implements of your choosing. Players may choose to use the detective's journal bundled with the rulebook, but it is optional. 

This game uses a standalone system designed to exploit the theme of this title. It is intended to be played solo, but could easily be played one-on-one with a single player and a game master. Every suspect is a potential friend or romantic partner, but one of them will die at random before the game begins. The player's goal is to find out who killed them, and why. Each time players try to learn a secret, they put either their social standing or their precarious health at risk. The consequences for failure can be very high: muddling detectives might be be sent home with tarnished reputations or even die of tuberculosis. Fostering relationships with each character in AILING AWAY is critical to a detective's success. 

Alternatively, players can improve their odds by submitting themselves to the spa-hotel's curative treatments, or by giving gifts to the suspects they are interviewing.

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Saturday, February 4, 2023

These Stars Will Guide You Home - Game Pitch


These Stars Will Guide You is a solo journaling game of a group of sailors exploring an archipelago in search of a new home.

You are their captain, a famous navigator trained in the art of finding your away by looking at the stars. You know which stars to look for, the long-forgotten wisdom that each of them will guide you to at least one island. But will you decide on a new home before your ships are beyond repair? What will the poems written about this journey say? 

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