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 — 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/[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
Whole New World RPG: ground broken…
Really started putting 'pen to paper' on Whole New World this week. Whole New World is a little different to many RPGs in that your character choices are limited. Now…[...]
d66 Toolkits
I've decided to make more of the d66 Toolkits available for wider use. Over the last few years I've been posting content into forums and collecting what would ostnsibly be…[...]
d66 Cargoes From The Shift
New book time: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/534082/d66-cargoes-from-the-shift d66 Cargoes from the Shift is not another list of "101 random items." This is a manifest of the multiverse — a number of impossible, wondrous,…[...]
Predator / Yautja (Hunter Alien) –for Twilight: 2000 4E
Predator / Yautja (Hunter Alien) – Twilight: 2000 4E Size: Human-sized but taller, 2.2–2.4m, heavily muscled. Armour: Advanced alien composite (counts as Kevlar vest + helmet + full body suit).…[...]
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…[...]
One Page RPG Jam
I released three entries in the One Page RPG Jam 2025 https://lategamer.itch.io/bloom-newborns-in-the-rootsong-grove - A solarpunk hex crawl of blooming growth https://lategamer.itch.io/cyst - A visceral roleplaying game of flesh, fear, and…[...]