Laughing Leviathan

Being trapped in a magical forest that wants to eat or enslave you until you love it has never been so fun! I am pleased to announce that I'm finally releasing this little adventure out into the wild on  Drivethrurpg  and  Itch.io . I'm not DONE -done with it, and will still probably make edits and updates and additions in the future, but it's finally at a point where I want to share it with everyone else.  The adventure started out as something I was calling a decadungeon : a twelve-sided 3d map, so that the actual forest itself was a non-euclidean space that connected various locations together in a non-linear fashion. You can get the rough drafts of the maps here. Over the course of writing, and after a few playtests, I realized as novel as it looked and sounded, it didn't really help make the adventure more fun to play, and in the end that's really all that matters to me. I'll definitely use that for a future adventure though, so don't fre...

The Marked Level XP HD AV* ST Slots Groups Raises 1 0 1+1 10 6 1 2 - 2 2,000 2 10 7 1 2 1 3 4,000 2+1 11 8 2 2 1 4 8,000 3 11 9 2 3 2 5 16,000 4 11 10 2 3 2 6 32,000 4+1 12 11 3 3 3 7 64,000 5 12 12 3 4 3 8 128,000 6 13 13 3 4 4 9 256,000 6+1 13 14 4 4 4 10   512,000 7 13 15 4 5 5 Marked characters share a special relationship or bond with either a Patron : a higher power, deity ,  or mysterious supernatural force far beyond their grasp. Sometimes they undertake these bonds willingly, while others fall into these connections through less than blessed means. They have received some type of gift or curse from a being many magnitudes more powerful than themselves. In addition to choosing a vocation, the Marked chooses what higher power they have a relationship with, and each day ...

And so the mission begins, as the adventurers escort an archaeologist on what promises to be the biggest discovery of her career, and possibly the last. Meet the boys: Toshiro Nagi  - The sensible and practical exorcist that hails from the quiet  Tensia Town .  Furio  - A mysterious assassin with a shadowy past.  Ezo Ashara  - The lion-maned  Beastfolk who finds himself very far from home.  Rev - A heavily armored knight of few words.  And we're off with a late morning start thanks to Furio needing to sleep off some injuries, while Toshiro meets with the other two shmucks seasoned adventurers that have also been hired on as security detail: Ezo and Rev . Over brunch, Sigma Delmar , the head archaeologist and financier of this excursion, goes over the details of the assignment: after a two-day trek along the Dimnaya Stream , the group will set up shop in a newly discovered Old Architect seed-vault, where Sigma will spend as mu...

Whitehack, written by Christian Mehrstam (and available here ) is billed as "a complete fantasy role-playing game in 64 pages" and wholly lives up to that claim. It takes core gameplay ideas and inspiration from an older era of tabletop games and approaches them with newer, distilled game design sensibilities boasting being able to "run 40+ years of material in the world's first rules tradition..." The core mechanic is d20 roll-under attribute (e.g. if you have a Strength score of 12, and you're attempting to crush a tomato can, you would have to roll 12 or under to succeed). As someone who started playing D&D during the 3.5 era, having to retrain my mind to understand 'low is good and 20 is the worst ' was a fun little game in itself. Another interesting difference between Whitehack and most modern d20 games is that "Attack" rolls and "Saving Throws" have their own stat that also have to be rolled under to succeed (AV or ...

It's shaping up to be the coldest winter Brezim has ever seen, and two men find themselves far, far from home.  Meet our poor, lost souls adventurers:  Toshiro - The sensible and practical exorcist that hails from the quiet Tensia Town .  Furio - A mysterious assassin with a shadowy past.  A local researcher who specializes in old architect ruins, one red-haired Sigma Delmar , has finally secured funding from the Whiteyes Institute to investigate an old unsecured bunker near the Dimnaya stream. Our aforementioned fellows have been sent to accompany her and provide any extra security she may need on this project. Allegedly, this bunker houses an untouched seed vault left behind by the Old Architects .  Our expedition starts in the middle of the winter season, just twelve days after the Winter Solstice . Furio and Toshiro share a wool-covered snowjeepney, driven by Rufus Scarborough , an honest man who runs a taxi line from the metropolit...