Twilight Tangents 2.0 – ZOMBI
So, we decided to change some things. Twilight Tangents is by far our best selling book. People just love zombies in Twilight: 2000. It's probably been tempered by the release…[...]
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…[...]
New books!
We released two books this month. PERMAFROST for Twilight 2000. - the horrors of the nuclear winterd66 Horrid Things in an Abandoned Storage Unit Permafrost is a battlefield where 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[...]
Cover for the next book
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Character Profile: Fa Guan Ruò
Character Profile: Fa Guan Ruò Title: Wandering Magistrate of the Outer Provinces Alias: The Ink Blade, The Quiet Seal, Right Hand of the Emperor (future) Rank: Provincial Magistrate (Senior, Unorthodox…[...]
NEW RELEASE: The UFOlogists Field Manual – a Quickstart for MAJESTIC
Step into the shadowy world of conspiracy, cover-ups, and cosmic intrigue with the Ufologists Field Manual, the Quickstart for the upcoming tabletop RPG, MAJESTIC. This essential manual invites players with…[...]
New Release: Short Tales of Distant Lands
Short Tales of Distant Lands Step into a world where magic whispers through ancient forests, shadows hold forgotten secrets, and ordinary lives are touched by the extraordinary. Short Tales of…[...]
New Year Game: Star Trek Adventures in the 2270s
The premise for this game is the post Star Trek the Motion Picture era, but before 2278 when the new red uniforms arrived. Starfleet and the Federation are mid-transition to…[...]
Into Darkness, TALKING TO DRAGONS, book 1 of TALES OF DISTANT LANDS
After their meal, they continued their journey, the forest growing darker and more foreboding as the rain intensified. The compass remained steady, its needle pointing unwaveringly ahead. It was late…[...]
The Crossing
The Wanderer rocked violently, a fragile speck in the vast, storm-beaten waters. Spicer, the captain, stood barefoot at the helm, his wiry frame braced against the ship’s shuddering frame as waves…[...]
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/[...]
New posts on Childbirth and Death in Tales of Distant Lands.
I've done a lot of worldbuilding here and on the RPGPUB but the place where the most content for Tales of Distant Lands lives is on the Patreon. Thers's heaps…[...]
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.…[...]
NEW RELEASE: Rise of R’lyeh – a new post apocalyptic vision
The strange aeons arrived and R'lyeh rose from the dark waters. [caption id="attachment_1745" align="aligncenter" width="353"] Screenshot[/caption] A Dark Past When the darkness came for me, There was no-one who stood…[...]
Tales of Distant Lands – Fights
Drennus is a Privean pirate who fights with a long blade. He's matched against Blackfeather, a Saalian dockworker. Both have seen several scrapes in the past Drennus Body d10, Pirate…[...]