The 23rd Letter: Psilence is Golden
We recently completed a 23rd Letter playtest scenario during our online Friday Night game. Kris, the player of Harry, wrote a nice AP for the sessions: 23rd Letter AP The…[...]
Time Killers: An Example of Play
Time Killers was released this week as part of PocketQuest 2026. It's a standalone game but, as always, if there's an upswell of support or people want more missions, we…[...]
Coming Soon: Time Killers – a PocketQuest 2026 game
Late Gaming Announces Time Killers for PocketQuest 2026 Late Gaming is pleased to announce Time Killers, a compact tabletop roleplaying game created for PocketQuest 2026 and powered by the AME…[...]
To All Gentlemen, Ladies, Adventurers, and Persons of Curious Disposition
Be it known that Burning Frontier, now abroad in a Playtest-Beta Edition under the Lategaming imprint, shall henceforth be removed and brought under the proper care and governance of Arcane…[...]
Sensitivity Report for Burning Frontier
I got the report back from Sarah, the sensitivity reader I hired for Burning Frontier. (more…)[...]
d66 Toolkit: Encounters from the Burning Frontier
This book presents a collection of encounters designed for play in the North American frontier during the mid-eighteenth century. These scenes, characters, and situations are intended to help Game Masters…[...]
Burning Frontier: Intro
Welcome to the Burning Frontier The forests of northern New York swallow armies whole. Set during the height of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Burning Frontier is a historical…[...]
Burning Frontier: Lydia Straus of Black Creek
As we finished the first draft text of Burning Frontier this week (and sent it off to the Sensitivity Editor for their red pen), it seemed appropriate to post some…[...]
Interview with RandomWorlds
Sunday night we were interviewed on the RandomWorlds Discord by Full Transcipt: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/qa-matt-johnston-aj-rogers-shifters-arcane-manifold-engine/ [1:00 PM]Matt | Lategaming.com: Hey folks, I’m Matt, game designer and general nerd. I’ve been writing RPGs…[...]
Shifters: The Vampirs
A vampire is what remains when a person fails to finish dying. The body stops. The mind collapses. But something of the individual persists. Not the soul, if such a…[...]
AME SRD released
Shifters is based on the AME system, which has just been released as an SRD by Arcane Manifold. You can read the license here and also get the latest version…[...]
Shifters Ashcan – New Game Coming Soon
The Shifters ashcan is going live in a few days. Free for Patreon subbers but otherwise available on DrivethruRPG and itch.io Shifters is a modern occult horror roleplaying game about…[...]
MAJESTIC BETA
OK, it's not finished, the art isn't even there yet, but it's a working draft. This is the first iteration which uses the AME (Arcane Manifold Engine). It's very much…[...]
From One Page to a Body: The Evolution of Hollow Shells
Hollow Shells started life as a one-page RPG. At the time, it was a tight little experiment about scavenging bodies in a dead world, bolting on parts, and seeing what…[...]
Something has been unearthed…
...and everything will change.[...]
System Thoughts – YZE and what comes after
As many of you may already have noticed, I like writing books and systems. It’s my yum. Some people relax by baking. I relax by arguing with probability curves. Over…[...]
New Release: d66 Toolkit – the Book of Hauntings
d66 Toolkit: The Book of Hauntings is a system-neutral horror compendium featuring 36 richly written supernatural encounters designed to unsettle, disturb, and linger in the imagination long after the session…[...]
Mind Games: The Problem of Playing in the Culture
One of the core tensions when running RPGs set in the Culture is the brutal, almost comedic disparity of power between the various strata of beings. From the bottom up:…[...]
PIONEER, by Mongoose Publishing…
Pioneer, by Mongoose Publishing, is a grounded, near-future space exploration RPG where players take on the roles of astronauts, engineers, scientists, and mission specialists operating at the edge of human…[...]
New Release: d66 Toolkit: Pioneering Space Adventures.
Pioneering Space Adventures is a toolkit of grounded, near-future mission hooks for hard science-fiction play. No aliens. No hyperspace. Just people, machines, politics, and pressure. From EVA failures and orbital…[...]