The d66 Toolkits
A reminder that we have all sorts of d66 Toolkit Products: d66 Toolkit: The Book of Hauntings is a system-neutral horror compendium featuring 36 richly written supernatural encounters designed to…[...]
Mind Games — A Rules-Light Guide to Playing in the Culture
Mind Games is a compact, open, system-agnostic toolkit for running stories inspired by Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels. It focuses on the top level world-building for running Culture-inspired stories at…[...]
New Substack
I've recently added a substack which should be one more place to read my screed https://lategamer.substack.com/[...]
Almost Invincible….
The Invincible QuickStart arrived this week and, hot on the tails of it, we discovered that the system has some obvious homage to TSR's Marvel Super Heroes and, if I…[...]
New: The Naturalists Guide to the Lost World: Dinosaurs in Vaesen
A Jungle Beyond Time. A Sky Full of Teeth. A Mystery Waiting to Swallow You. “There was a time when men believed the world was mapped. They were wrong.” Lost…[...]
Why use a different system?
As mentioned elsewhere I’m about to start a Witcher campaign at my local club. I’m going to use YZE rather than Interlock though. Why? Well that’s the Interlock character sheet…[...]
Current Discounts at Lategaming
I've got some Discount Links for Late Gaming books at DTRPG: DRY LAND: $6.99 reduced to $2.30 PERMAFROST: $7.00 reduced to $1.50 RISE OF R'LYEH: $12.99 reduced to $6.50 d66…[...]
Support Indie RPGs
In response to this post on Reddit. Please don't take this as any more than a spirited devils advocate in the spirit of debate and jocularity. I'm not disagreeing with…[...]
VTT woes
So, someone asked about a T2000 game today but specified they weren't interested in paying. Odd request, I thought, but I could run one. "So, it's not apocalypse sorrow, the…[...]
The Map for Xiangguo
This map is based on the 1402 Kangnido map, drawn by Korean scholars. I've overlabelled it freehand with some details (those aren't in the finished version obviously). Welcome to Xiángguó…[...]
Updates and content
It's worth noting that I have scads of content on the Patreon and heaps of it for free. http://patreon.com/lategaming[...]
Domination….no, not what you’re thinking.
I was a fan of Domination (the RPG) for a while. It was published by Starchilde Publications in 1989. Starchilde also made another game I really liked: Justifiers (and I…[...]
Humanydyne ReadThru at the RPGPub
I was faintly annoyed that the English translation was never completed and Google Translate really struggled. So...I'm doing a slightly AI assisted read-through of the book. https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/humanydyne-a-rather-mechanistic-readthrough.11211/[...]
Interview on Randomworlds.
Tonight I was interviewed by the Harboiled GMshoe, Dan Davenport https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/qa-matt-johnston-rise-of-rlyeh/ We talked about the recent release of Rise of R’lyeh and touched on some recent books we have released.…[...]
One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Communists in the Funhouse
So, where did this one come from? Communists in the Funhouse is a euphemism used in Denmark to describe a woman who's at a certain stage of her menstrual cycle.…[...]
One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Talking to Dragons – an Earthsea-inspired RPG
So far I’ve posted two entries for the Jam The first is....Talking to Dragons This is the base system for "Tales of Distant Lands" and could be considered a QuickStart…[...]
Culture….and reimagining Trek
On one of the forums was the question about building Star Trek from scratch. Of course there's always Frontier. but I#d really like to run a Culture game ? What…[...]
Apocalyptic Endgame: The Gloom, a supplement for Twilight 2000
Get it now on DTRPG "Everything looks like a monster in the fog." - Aki Bahrampour INTRODUCTION: As the last offensive failed, the brass decided to wheel out their last,…[...]
FASERIP generator
Back when I was running the Watchtower New England game using Marvel Super Heroes' FASERIP system, I wrote a simple character generator. I found it recently, and thought I'd pop…[...]
Whither Krull?
In this 1983 science-fantasy movie, the planet Krull is invaded by an extraterrestrial conqueror known as The Beast who moves his space-capable stone dwelling (the Black Fortress) from planet to…[...]