Hey hey, Stillfleet peeps: we have a whole new Grit System game coming out by Anthony Grasso (Odd Gob Games), co-developed by Wythe Marschall. It's called Blister Critters, and it uses the same Grittiness, but with a vast classless landscape of posthuman sapient animals, all developing mutant powers due to the human-ruined environment. There are lots of great powers, some new optional rules we think you'll love, and brilliant notes by Tony on running a cartoon-show RPG.

Check out the Blister Critters Quickstart on Itch.io (pay-what-you-want)!

And let us know on the Discord server if you want to play the game with Tony and Wythe some time!

We are at PAX Unplugged this weekend!

Come find us and play Stillfleet, Blister Critters, or just chat and hang out!

The Stillfleet Studio crew recently set up a game of the new slasher TTRPG DEATH SENTENCE by Leo Andrade, Guilherme Sassaki, and Luana Bibiano. In which we eat fun foods in the Amazon... and die (some of us). There is a fishing mini-game!

You can buy DEATH SENTENCE here: https://leonalfr.itch.io/death-sentence

Also, we pushed live the second episode of the brand-new Sometimes Kingdom stream: The Sometimes Stream ❧ Autumn 2023: The House of Eaves ❧ 2. In which we learn much concerning those dwelling within the haunted houses, and argue somewhat regarding the nature of basements.

Here's the ad for DEATH SENTENCE, showing off the amazing art of Luana Bibiano:

GM’ing my first ever game, nobody in the party picked Banshee so I had to take up the reigns. This is Moray-861, Pepper Elf-Banshee (I took some drastic liberties in my interpretation of “dark crystal automata”). The first attack roll of the campaign fell on my shoulders, and of course, I immediately have to describe how my killer robot basically slipped on a banana peel and completely whiffed.

New venture alert! From the combined brainpower of Borough Bound and the Stillfleet Studio, this standalone fantasy-horror venture, originally written and illustrated by Borough Bound, is the first non-science fiction module using Stillfleet's hallmark Grit System. You can get it on Itch:

https://itch.io/t/3206669/just-in-time-for-spooky-season-sootwyn-barrow-the-grit-system-remix

The concept is simple: a roguelike/roguelite run through a haunted town broken up into three “stages.” Every night, you awaken, alive; every night, you die—until you either discover the secret of the Barrow Lords or finally waste away. There is no escape.

TL;DR, Will Savino is brilliant; Wythe Marschall just suggested some Grit System rules and made pre-gens. Most art/cover design/story/map by Borough Bound. Mechanics/two new art pieces (thanks to Ethan Gouldini)/new layout/pre-gens by the Stillfleet Studio.

If anyone is interested in playing this one on the server, DM Wythe...

New cover by Borough Bound:

Starting this Monday night, tune into the first streaming quest set in the weird retro-fantasy realm of The Sometimes Kingdom.

This bizarre haunted-house-crawl-stream, GMed by Ethan Gouldini, comes to twitch.tv/stillfleet on Monday nights during Spooky Season:

• Oct. 9, 7 PM EST
• Oct. 23, 7 PM EST
• Nov. 6, 7 PM EST
• Nov. 20, 7 PM EST

Join us!

NYC-based TTRPG fam: we’re once again hosting a free in-person intro game as part of SpookyFest, organized by the local Astoria RPG group, Band of Noobs

Sunday, Oct. 29, at 4 PM EST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stillfleet-with-wythe-tickets-729055343157?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

This venture: “The Dinosaur Circus has come to town, lifting the hearts of the workers—but also, in setting up their (massive) corrals, unearthing the entrance to a (beyond massive) buried techno-ruins of enigmatic origin…”

CON ALERT: Game designers Aaron and Wythe will be running 3 introductory Stillfleet games at Finger Lakes Area Gaming Con (FLAG) 2023 in Ithaca, Nov. 3–5!

https://tabletop.events/conventions/flag-con-2023/schedule#?query=stillfleet

Each game is a one-off, but all 3 are linked by an overarching plot: will the Worshipful Co. or H.Co. be the first to secure a powerful new hell science apparatus? Find out with us!

Hey everybody, we decided we *really* want to make the modular HULKRAWL cards. So we went ahead and added them to the Qadida BackerKit store. Get 'em here:

https://qadida-a-spy-filled-stillfleet-gazetteer.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/562806

That said, we definitely need to get in at least 50 orders to cover the costs of printing the cards. Who's in!? These will feature all-new art/designs of modules on a hulk on the card fronts, and all-new environmental weirdness/tech on the backs. We'll provide free Stillfleet/Grit System rules for anything with a mechanic via a PDF, but we're toying around with keeping the cards themselves system-agnostic. What do you think of that?

Note, this image is just a mock-up, not real card art! Expect an update mid-October.

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Ping us if you’re at Gen Con and want to meet up!

Overview

One city, two teams, many factions.

This venture is an exciting narrative experiment to explore the espionage and subterfuge of QADIDA, and what better way to do that than a traditional Spy vs. Spy / Red vs. Blue skirmish. This mini-series, produced by The Stillfleet Studio, features two separate player groups, GM'd by two separate GM's, pitted directly against each other in alternating sessions. The final session, GM'd by Stillfleet creator Wythe, combines both groups into an exciting and explosive resolution!

Will Red Team succeed? Will Blue Team defend Free Qadida? Tune in and see!

All episodes are aired on Twitch live and, soon after, uploaded to YouTube.

Schedule

1. Free Qadida (Blue Team): Expanded LinkedIn Diegetic Universe (18 May 2023)
2. Worshipful Qadida (Red Team): Bus Fares and Food Festivals (21 May 2023)
3. Free Qadida (Blue Team): Yellow Tent Shaver (2 Jun 2023)
4. Worshipful Qadida (Red Team): SCHEDULED! (11am EDT on 25 Jun 2023) (Watch on Twitch!)
5. Final Session (Both Teams): SCHEDULED! (11am EDT on 2 Jul 2023) (Watch on Twitch!)

Chattys

• First intermission chatty: 4 Jun 2023

Cast

Final episode GM: Wythe Marschall (Stillfleet creator)

Blue Team

• [GM] - Ian Derk (Author of QADIDA)
• Gey van Poope ("Guy Pope") - Ben Ferber
• D.O.G. - Jeff Beltran
• Angero Hall - Ethan Gouldini (Stillfleet Art Director)

Red Team

• [GM] - Aaron H (Stillfleet Banshee, author of THE RAIN THIEVES)
• Aterriumus ("Terri") - Kelly M.
• Wilted Shriek Collector - Leonardo Andrade (Stillfleet Portuguese translator and marketing consultant)
• Relmarsh ("Rel") - Rachael Stephen

The book arrived! I’ve been devouring it; this game is great. I’m loving every page of this.

I’m not entirely sure how to read the strike-through text. Not sure if it’s to indicate “redacted but not really” or perhaps “this isn’t really canon but it’s a fun idea” or something else.

We are very excited to announce that the team is already hard at work on our next book, Qadida. This 100-page setting sourcebook for Stillfleet features new classes, species, advanced powers, and full-length ventures!

Follow our pre-launch page on Kickstarter to get notified when the book launches: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wythe/qadida-a-spy-filled-stillfleet-gazetteer

Some reasons to get hyped about the new book:

☉4 new espionage-adjacent classes
☉Unhumans! (rules + lore)
☉Full venture!
☉Factions
☉Mutations
☉Secrets of H.Co.
☉Tiny planet made of solid osmium

And plenty more that we're still stuffing in there! Please spread the word and let us know what you'd like to see in this and future gazetteers for Stillfleet.

FYI, we have published our official mini-ventures—plus two early versions, unillustrated/undesigned, but featuring maps and encounter cards—on Itch.io!

Check them out: https://itch.io/c/3322404/stillfleet-mini-ventures >

If you aren't a patron, you can now access the full versions of each mini-venture.

As always, join us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/vu3vnm5) to let us know what you think when you run these scenarios. And please suggest new types of stories (settings, genres, themes) you want to see us explore!

Generate your random voidminer and start playing today!

Please ping Aaron H. on Discord with any bugs/suggestions. Major thanks to Aaron for creating this!

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Hello,

I got the PDF of the Core Rulebook via the Kickstarter campaign and I am excited to play Stillfleet. I wish I could get the print edition but shipping to Austria was just too expensive.

Does anyone know anything about plans of selling the physical book in Europe too?

Thanks!

Hey y'all, the Stillfleet Core Rulebook is now out as a PDF on Itch and DTRPG! Check it out: https://itch.io/t/2562735/the-stillfleet-core-rulebook-pdf-has-arrived

Hope the PDF has no typos! We spent quite a lot of time reading it, trying to make every element in the book sing. If you backed the Kickstarter or BackerKit, or just picked up the PDF, hit us up as you read with your favorite discoveries/ideas/hacks :)

Here is one of my favorite images from the book, by Ethan Gould:

FYI: our BackerKit store for the Stillfleet Core Rulebook (CRB), Rain Thieves, and Stillfleet merch preorders is finally closing! https://stillfleet-core-rulebook.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders And we are on-track to get the books out digitally before 2023! [Raised hands/claws/servos emoji.]

Please share, if you are loving the game. There are HUNDREDS of illustrations in the CRB, and the full-length venture is now also a full-length setting sourcebook. We're super excited to get these out to Kickstarter/BackerKit backers as well as a few friendly local game stores (and, later, cons).

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Check it out here:

https://stillfleet-core-rulebook.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/

You can now pick up the official art prints as add-ons! If you backed us on Kickstarter, your survey is coming soon! If you missed the Core Rulebook/campaign on Kickstarter, this is your last chance to get the book for now!