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Valraven: The Chronicles of Blood and Iron
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Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern
Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern is a collection of small games for groups of three or more players. You play a retired adventurer running a tavern and settling down in a town. Put down the sword and pick up the ladle.
Dread Minotaur of Dawnfell
A D&D 5e adventure of 40+ pages featuring Dawnfell, the city of labyrinths for a party of 4-6 characters of levels 3-5. Digital/VTT tabletop maps, combat cards, paper miniatures, and a GM friendly format are all included!
Fragged Nexus - A companion app for Fragged Empire ttRPG
Browser-based character management system for Fragged Empire ttRPG. Character and item creation, progression, damage and equipment tracking, homebrew support and native import-export functionality to integrate with other VTT systems (especially Foundry).
Playing God: A TTRPG of Gods, Creation, Titans, and Deicide
An original tabletop roleplaying game inspired by real-world and fantasy mythologies. Take the role of one or more gods in a campaign setting you build as you play! It works with or without a GM and with any number of players, even solo play!
Knight: An Avalon RPG
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Calendar of Many Adventures 2025
The Calendar of Many Adventures 2025 is a wall calendar with 12 playable battle maps and a month per page view calendar. It also has 12 full 5E PDF adventures written for the maps! And you get a digital copy of all the maps to play online.
The King's Poisoner
The King's Poisoner is a thrilling pick-up-and-play tabletop roleplaying game of court intrigue, romance and murder. With no prep or games master required, 3–8 players can open the box and create a memorable experience in 1–2 hours!
Distal, a merciless d20 fantasy RPG
Distal is a d20 fantasy RPG where the battles scar you, your decisions define you, and each triumph is earned. If you love building characters you can get attached to, or are a GM wanting more meaningful stakes at the table, you'll dig Distal.
Restless Encounters - TTRPG Encounter Ideas For A Night's Watch
The party makes camp, sets their watches, then you as the GM roll a random encounter... what happens? With this deck of encounter ideas, each of the 50+ cards has a detailed encounter idea more interesting than 'you hear 1d4 giant rats in the corner'.
5 Massive RPG Battlemap Books (Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk)
Elevate your RPG and miniature gaming nights with our 5 Massive Battlemap Books to choose from. Available in printed form with a Massive A2 Size map book to display on your gaming table and used with miniatures. FoundryVTT and Roll20 modules available.
The One That Got Away - A zero level tournament funnel adventure. Let's go fishing!
The One That Got Away is a DCC fishing adventure designed for 10 to 20 zero-level PCs or 5 to 8 first level PCs. PCs accumulate points based on their ability to survive encounters and haul in record-breaking catches.
Rapscallion: Strange Pirate Roleplaying on the Great Sea!
Rapscallion is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you play a rambunctious crew of pirates, testing their luck against the unpredictable winds of Fate on the Great Sea—a unique setting featuring terrifying leviathans, living books, and magic aplenty.
Endless Encounters: Wilderness
Could your tabletop games use more exciting adventures in the wild? Join us! Endless Encounters: Wilderness is an encounter and adventure generator for 5th Edition D&D and Classic D&D (B/X, 1e, S&W, etc)!
Knights of Dust and Neon
Strange, dark times call for strange, dark heroes—and these three new titles for the Cypher System deliver! Plus great pledge options for gamers trying out the Cypher System for the first time.
Mystified! A Flabbergasted expansion
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The Substratum Protocol
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Battle Mage Farmer: Tales of the Ecclesia (D&D 5e Adventure and Novella)
Explore the world of Battle Mage Farmer in this D&D 5e compatible adventure. Play as members of the Ecclesia as you journey through the countryside, rooting out the necromancer threatening the peaceful village of Fairford.
Fatum - GM's Oracle
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The Jagged Edge Hideaway Goblin Box
Queen Bargnot leads the Jagged Edge Bandits in pillaging caravans. Before her rise, the goblins struggled, attacking only weak travelers in unorganized strikes. When she killed her boss and became the band’s self-proclaimed queen, everything changed.
On Its Way
Eldritch: the Book of Madness
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Distal, a merciless d20 fantasy RPG
Distal is a d20 fantasy RPG where the battles scar you, your decisions define you, and each triumph is earned. If you love building characters you can get attached to, or are a GM wanting more meaningful stakes at the table, you'll dig Distal.
Homestead Creature Handbook (5e + PF2e)
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Advanced Armory 2nd Edition
A series of card-based expansions for tabletop action RPG boardgames. We can offer equipment, armor, weapons, potions, and magic items. We have a treasure deck for looting dungeons, and even an evil wizard deck to keep those dungeons fun and challenging.
Beyond the Beasts: Monster Cards for Endless Adventures!
"Beyond the Beasts" offers diverse decks of monsters for 5e, fostering dynamic encounters without rigid Challenge Ratings. Each deck contains adaptable statblocks, rich lore & environmental details, enabling GMs to easily create such encounters.
Playing God: A TTRPG of Gods, Creation, Titans, and Deicide
An original tabletop roleplaying game inspired by real-world and fantasy mythologies. Take the role of one or more gods in a campaign setting you build as you play! It works with or without a GM and with any number of players, even solo play!
Battle Mage Farmer: Tales of the Ecclesia (D&D 5e Adventure and Novella)
Explore the world of Battle Mage Farmer in this D&D 5e compatible adventure. Play as members of the Ecclesia as you journey through the countryside, rooting out the necromancer threatening the peaceful village of Fairford.
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The Night Clerk: an architectural horror TTRPG scenario zine
A full color illustrated zine of architectural horror, suitable for any modern tabletop RPG system, Escape the labyrinth of the Hotel before the Mystery Guest finds you. Written by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio.
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Project Update: Sneak Peek: Heritage and Upbringing
I've got another sneak peek for you today! Backers will have access to the current draft version of Chapter 3 and 4 on Tuesday, but let's get a quick look at a few bits dealing with two important choices you make when creating your new character.
A character is how a player engages with a game of At the Gates. Players create characters to act as avatars within the game world. The player makes decisions for the character and uses them to experience the rich environment available in the game. Characters go on thrilling adventures, engage in political intrigue, spy on enemies, fight monsters, foment uprisings, engage in piracy, and so much more at the hands of the players controlling them.
The first steps in making a character for At the Gates include selecting three Paths.
The first Path you choose is your Heritage. This determines what nation your character comes from — if any — and what kind of advantages that conveys to them. When you pick your Heritage Path, you will choose one of two perks, which represent the kind of focus your character’s family had in that society. This will grant them Attributes and Skills based on the traditional training and education someone from that nation and background is likely to have.
Evesian
Perk: Magic Touched
Skills: Esoterica, Leadership, Persuasion, Science
Perk: Saltborn
Skills: Athletics, Culture, Larceny, PilotÂ
Vitrumarian
Perk: Sandborn
Skills: Artistry, Larceny, Persuasion, Survival
Perk: Revolutionary
Skills: Athletics, Culture, Leadership, Persuasion
Next Step: Select your Upbringing.
Bootstrapped
Skills: Larceny, Leadership, and Persuasion
Legacy
Skills: Culture, Leadership, and Persuasion
We'll learn about all of the Heritage and Upbringing options on Tuesday, along with the important third Path of your Profession! And we'll learn how to assign your dots and finishing designing your characters, and also about new stuff like Advanced Professions!!
So, let's continue to spread the word and invite our friends and friendly gamers to join in on this campaign! We've come a long way so far in this first week, but we still have many weeks ahead -- and much more of the manuscript to share!
Our next update on Tuesday will feature the current drafts of chapters 3 and 4. Backers will have access to the complete manuscript before we reach the end - before any pledges are processed or payments collected. It's about the most risk-free way of learning about the game as exists. So join in if you haven't, and let's see if we can't unlock some more Stretch Goals before we get to the final chapter!
#AtTheGates
Project Update: 837% - 846 backers, thank you so much !
We're proud that you liked our game proposal, and we hope you'll enjoy all the great content we'll soon be delivering!
Thanks again for your support!
Be swift and merciless, knights
Project Update: Dice preview!
First off: Our vendor for the custom dice has sent over a shot of the first run as he's been spinning up production. They look fantastic.
Remember, the Chef's Bundle and Golden Years Bundle each include one of these custom dice (one die, not all eight as pictured here). If you are pledged for a different tier that includes a physical book, you can add on the die and custom coin.
If you want one of these super cute d6's, now is a great time to update your pledge. (Unfortunately, due to logistics reasons, you can't add-on the die & coin to a pledge that only has digital items - for instance, if you pledge for just the PDF or the PDF & Roll20.)
It's the final week of the campaign.
Your support has exceeded our humble expectations and we're so excited to be bringing Stewpot to market. Our stretch goals at this point are about paying it forward to the creators who gave so much of their time and talent to make this the cute, chill game the precious gem that it is. We're currently on the brink of a 30% bonus, with that increasing by ten percent for each additional $10k we raise.
Share the project with your friends and through your various social media and we can boost that pay raise even further. Thank you again, and we'll be back with you next week as the campaign winds up!
Stay tuned for more information in the next update 😊
Project Update: Project Update: Chapter 25 - Production status update - New events cards reveal!!
Pledge Manager Status
New Event Cards
Production Update
Thank you all, and we'll see you in the next update!
I'll be going live today at 5:00pm EDT on the Onyx Path Twitch to play Chrono Trigger and chat with folks about the campaign. Feel free to join me and celebrate launch day!
Project Update: How Distal is built to consider the real humans at your table. A TED talk. Kind of. (Distal)
We designers often forget that: Rulesets don't live in a vacuum.
For background -- I was in the video games industry for 7 years prior to this, running a team of 20, and continuing development of a 10+ year old MMOFPS that had tens of thousands of players logging in every month, and made millions of dollars every year.
That game, PlanetSide 2, was pretty atypical. There was a goal to the game, loosely... an infinite battle where one of three competing factions would conquer a continent (temporarily) before fighting on the next one. But it was mostly a sandbox, where players would gravitate toward a niche they were proficient in (like driving tanks, flying planes, constructing buildings, or playing infantry) and find a way to make the game fun for themselves.
The thing is, that due to the breadth of different playstyles, and loose objectives of the game, you had a lot of conflicting demands from the community. Any update to the game would ultimately come at the cost to someone's fun in one of those niche spaces.
Now consider the world's most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons.
There are as many different ways to play the game as there are people in the world, because each table dynamic is different. It can be rough going to find folks that are on the same wavelength as you, and also want the same things out of the game as you do.
The culture factors into it a lot as well.
Consider the way Gary Gygax played the game 50 years ago, where rulings over rules prevailed (due in part to a lack of existing rules;) to how it's been played since the early 2000s with the invention of Session Zero (and rise of the rules lawyer;) to the even more recent introduction of modern safety tools, and influence media has had on the audience (think Critical Role and Stranger Things.)
Beyond some loose advice in the DMG and PHB and lot of optional rules -- there isn't one "correct" way to play the game. And that's great! It's part of why D&D is the amazing game it is today.
However, D&D hasn't made it any easier to decide how to play the game at your table, either.
The process of finding the "right" people and what they want from a game will most often fall to the GM... and even then -- folks may not know what they want until they start playing, GM included. This can create unnecessary friction at the table, and dissatisfying games (or characters) that feel more like work than play.
If you can get everyone on the same page, right from the start, the more likely you'll be to find success. That's one of Distal's super powers...
We've designed it with the social layer in mind.
During character creation, the background system ensures you will be working with your GM to ensure that your backstory, your contacts, and other character features all come into play, because they are literal game mechanics for you and the GM to grab hold of.
During Session Zero you will be working with the other players at your table, to develop an organization, which helps determine the themes of the game, helps show the GM what you're interested in doing, and is an actual team building exercise that helps you and the GM feel out the player dynamics at the table.
These are just two easy-to-grasp examples... but much of the design of Distal considers your table dynamic, from start to finish, in an effort to set the right expectations.
It's visible in the aspects of the game we emphasize, how we design our character sheets, how you enter initiative, how you progress your character, and every step along the way.
In a game as broad as Distal (or Dungeons & Dragons,) knowing what your players want, and how you can all help each other have fun -- is gold.
If you want to hear more about the game, right from the horse's mouth -- I sat down with the folks at Role Wise recently to talk about it. It was a great interview that I think you'll enjoy a lot, if you're a fan of the TTRPG space as a whole.
Click here to watch.
Let me know what you think! Thanks, folks!
-Wrel
Project Update: Artwork Poll & Shout Outs
At day 2 we are at 550% of our funding goal! Thank you so much for your excitement around this project!
We created a poll to see what our community thinks about the deck artwork for The Oracle Monster Generator. Weigh in on your favorite deck artwork at the bottom of this update.
The poll closes just before our next livestream so check it out before Tuesday morning!
Shout Outs
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homieandthedude/the-wandering-tavern?ref=6alnh5
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/the-world-anvil-publishing/valraven-the-chronicles-of-blood-and-iron/?ref=nord_games
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarsengames/bountyboards?ref=8joshd
We hope you're enjoying the PDF preview and creating lots of cool monsters for your games!
Thank you again for backing our project!
-Chris
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