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…[...]
I've recently added a substack which should be one more place to read my screed https://lategamer.substack.com/[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
It's worth noting that I have scads of content on the Patreon and heaps of it for free. http://patreon.com/lategaming[...]
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…[...]
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/[...]
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.…[...]
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.…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
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,…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
AJ built this YZE dice roller on the site so we have a super quick way of rolling dice and collecting successes. It's the only one that works for Step…[...]