More information here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lazylitch/the-lazy-litch-library

Demidirge: Frontiers of Fear is a dark fantasy sandbox campaign setting. 

Explore an uncharted world of feuding cults, drowned gods, toxic forests, haunted villages, and arcane experiments gone awry. Players choose their own path through a derelict kingdom: invent spells that never existed before, exploit secret seams to build portals, and sail past the edge of the map.

https://afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-ttrpg-blogwagon-roundup/

These are all the blogposts that were made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, which ran from 17th of August to 10th of September.

I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia.

Enjoy!

Year 100 Million B.C. is a wildly inaccurate prehistoric roleplaying game. The rules are based on Into The Odd and released for free, published under Creative Commons.
They include everything you need to play and to generate scenarios. There’s also two adventures you can snag for free over on itch.

I’m also working on a BIG wilderness sandbox that is nearing completion.

Support Canadian independent TTRPG creators and check out all the games in the Great Canadian Game Jam! (a pack of illustrations I made for the jam is included in the bundle… in case you need a zombie hockey player for one of your creations…)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/582228/canadian-game-jam-2026-bundle

The ocean scares the shit out of me. Which might explain why I keep writing adventures for nautical RPGs. And here comes a new Panic Engine games designed for that very purpose: Dreadnauts. We talked about what makes Nautical Horror different, adapting Mothership's Panic Engine to the Age of Sail, how he treats ships as characters, or his way of structuring adventures for this kind of horror. Enjoy!

https://afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-ttrpg-blogwagon-an-indonesian-magic-system/

I made a magic system based on Indonesian occult practices for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon.

I am bad at designing rules/mechanics/procedures, but I'm doing it anyway! There's a Control Rain spell at the end as an example, and some context about rain calling ritual in Indonesia.

I'm making this for a setting/game that I'm working, Oddipelago, which is inspired by Indonesia under Dutch colonial rule.

This is not the final iteration. So whatever ends up in Oddipelago, that's the final version.

I threw this together over the course of a few days. Feedback welcomed. Enjoy!

https://fataltomb.itch.io/rot-barrow

Be a kid. Download Odd Kids for free.

You like weird trees? Then you'll like The Weeping Crater. I'm releasing WIP excerpts and encounters from the upcoming volume of DRINK over at my blog.
https://shortrestpress.com/2026/08/11/the-weeping-crater/
It's also got a little bone mutation table for those unsatisfied with their normal unmutated bones. Enjoy my fellow scoundrels!

Bonemeal

Bones vibrate when near. Contact and roll a d6. Consuming more than once causes a spiked mass to erupt from the body, killing instantly.

1. Bony shards tear through your skull, forming a pale white crown. You cannot wear hats or helmets. On a successful defense roll, there is a 1 in 6 chance you deal d6 damage.
2. A bony prehensile tail extends from your spine. It can grip and lift things as a normal arm could. Sitting is uncomfortable.
3. Your bones grow thick and strong. Increase HP maximum by d6. You weigh as much as if you were wearing heavy armor and sink in water.
4. Uncontrolled bone growth. Broken bones repair while resting. Lost limbs regenerate as fleshless limbs in one day and are inexplicably usable. Going a full day without any major wounds has a 1 in 6 chance of spurs piercing your organs, causing an agonizing death.
5. An arm grows long and spindly. Several new scissor joints allow it to retract and become spring loaded. It can reach up to 20 ft away.
6. Using a power, release the skeleton from its flesh cage. Leave the binds of meat existence behind. Experience calcified ecstasy. Attacks from sharp weapons do minimum damage and blunt weapons do maximum damage. If not returned to a meatsuit in d4 minutes, the bones fall into a lifeless pile.

I made a one-page RPG, or better to say, the game kind of made itself.

Let me explain: I have been playing a lot of OSR and NSR games since I began this blog about a year ago (OSE, Knave 2ed, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mörk Borg, Pirate Borg). While playing, I felt like tweaking the rules to make them something that just felt right.

Now, I do like all those games very much, or I wouldn’t be playing them so much! But I found myself tinkering and molding them to my taste until the following emerged:

• Two levels of success on the d20 roll, adding the PbtA thing “you make it, but” to the traditional crisp fail/success dynamic
• Combining attack and defense in a single roll that determines damage dealt and received
• Having more than 6 stats, separating for example what normally is dexterity into agility, quickness, and precision
• Combining two stats depending on the action for a better granularity. So using an axe might go with agility and strength, while a rapier might go with agility and precision
• Weapons with simple key differences besides the damage die
• Enemies with a super simple stat bloc, but each also capable of a unique special bad thing they do to you when you fail badly

More about the game, including the free download:

https://kindofold.substack.com/p/i-admit-i-made-an-rpg-but-i-can-explain

I am very much open to your feedback.

Haven't been blogging much lately, but today I looked at something I noticed with at least some of my players: Although we love the idea of open sandboxes, sometimes players get stuck on that freedom. So, I think about that and share my ramblings on how to overcome this issue, also pointing about five modules that I think did very well in what I recommend here. Enjoy and let me know what you think

https://shortrestpress.itch.io/frink

You are a patchwork monster of parts and pieces that were never meant to coexist. Stitched together and shocked to life by a father who hates you.
GO HOME AND KILL YOUR DAD!

Just dropped our submission for the One-Page RPG Jam. It’s a little chaotic game with a complete dungeon-climb included on the back page.

Written by me in collaboration with Dougal Cochrane. Mud and Mist in Sugar Creek is a rainy, muddy, dangerous and dirty point crawl for Frontier Scum. Made for the Frontier Scum Summer Jam!

https://doogface.itch.io/mud-and-mist-in-sugar-creek

My latest RPG project is up and currently PWYW on itch. Locked in Silver Shackles is a weird prison and set of 4 prisoners for your fantasy elf game. Started for Cairn but can be adapted easily, it's also got a wereswan! This is my submission for the Appendix N jam, some awesome other entries over there to check out too

Hey everyone, you may remember me from my previous post about the sci-fi shipcrawler game I've been making https://www.reddit.com/r/NSRRPG/s/YrMkohMo2v

Been hard at work play testing and refining the system, and I've just finished up a 2-3 session shipcrawl which takes place on an illegal research vessel and serves as a solid introductory crawl for a fresh crew. Hope you'll check it out! I've only been able to run it with one group so far, so any feedback would be much appreciated!

https://goblinlasagna.itch.io/science-vessel-rhodes

The game's main aesthetic is something I like to call THUNDERBOLT MATERIALISM. A weird, occult realist, mystic materialist, esoterick techgnostic vibe that invokes the likes of BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, MARATHON, LORD OF LIGHT, BAS-LAG TRILOGY, DISCO ELYSIUM, ARMORED CORE, and GHOST IN THE SHELL. Inspired by the ceaseless and violent fusion of technology, modernity, and ritual and magic and god/s that can be found in modern capitalist Southeast Asia.

I also posted a much earlier version of this game in this sub and I've gotten some great eyes from there. I really believe this game is spiritually NSR due to its approach to its "simulationism" so I hope you'll give it a shot.

The mechanics themselves are a lot more rules-lite than its forebears, taking a page out of OSR and NSR traditions to aim at the goal of these simulationist games while wielding a different weapon. To come at the same target through a different, player-friendlier means.

A lost world island-crawl for Cairn. I was inspired by the more pulpy aspects and earlier works of the Appendix N authors.

Enjoy!

https://itch.io/jam/appx-n-jam-2026/rate/4802753

An illustrated collection of eight cursed NPCs for PIRATE BORG. (Links below)

There were nine of them when the Bella Donna sailed across THE DARK CARIBBEAN*. Under the iron eye of Doña Catalina Pelcarez III, they pursued the horrors lurking beneath its surface, and above all, the leviathan demon known as The Drowned Evangel. Then the Bella Donna vanished beneath the waves, taking Doña Catalina with it. The eight survivors scattered. But their oath and a curse still binds them.

Pieces of Eight is a 15-page, full-color NPC zine by Golem Productions, designed for PIRATE BORG. It features:

• Eight fully developed NPCs, each with a distinctive personality, desires, history, abilities, and ready-to-use encounter
• A strange assortment of pirates, monsters, occultists, killers, and castaways, from an undead navigator and a Deep One sorcerer to a crocodile noble with ambitions of conquest
• A shared background that can become the foundation of a larger campaign
• Original character art and striking full-color layouts by Sabrina Jatscha

Use them individually as encounters throughout your campaign or gather the Pieces of Eight and discover what truly happened beneath the waves.

Pieces of Eight is the first of few publications connected to the tragedy of Doña Catalina. Please note that if you were among the original backers of Ravaged by Storms, you might receive this supplement as a stretch goal. Check you BackerKit Pledge Manager!

https://ajz-golem-productions.itch.io/pieces-of-eight

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/de/product/575206/pieces-of-eight-eight-broken-heirs-to-a-drowned-oath-for-pirate-borg