TTRPG

Index Card RPG started as a table habit that turned into a ruleset. Hankerin Ferinale built it around what he already used to run sessions fast. He told one interviewer that he “lived and died by index cards,” using them for notes and even terrain, then wrote a system that “celebrated the cards.” The game

Free League Publishing continues to prove that in the ALIEN universe, the greatest horror is the lengths that humans will go to survive. Following the launch of the Evolved Edition (2nd Edition) in late 2025, the publisher has doubled down on the “Cinematic” format that made the original system a hit. The spearhead of this

Old-School Essentials sits near the center of today’s Old School Renaissance: a modern rules presentation that closely resembles the 1981 Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert boxed sets (often shortened to B/X.) The series comes from Gavin Norman and his publisher Necrotic Gnome, updating those classic rules for modern tabletops. The Old-School Essentials Classic Game

In the cold vacuum of space, it’s not just the Xenomorphs that evolve. Five years after the original 2019 release of ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game redefined tabletop horror, Free League Publishing has returned to the frontier with the Evolved Edition. Released in November 2025, this updated line brings new design, updated mechanics, and an overall

Mothership is a tabletop roleplaying game about blue-collar survival in deep space. Crews take jobs, push their luck, and try to survive the rigors of deep space. Designer and illustrator Sean McCoy launched the game as a small zine at Origins Game Fair in 2018. Tuesday Knight Games publishes it, with the original release now

The Caribbean of the eighteenth century has long been sanitized by cinema, reduced to a theater of swashbuckling heroics and predictable triumphs. Pirate Borg, a tabletop role-playing game conceived by Luke Stratton (known professionally as Limithron), serves as a violent corrective to that mythology. It is a work of “art-punk” nihilism that reimagines the Age

In the landscape of tabletop roleplaying, few settings carry as much cultural weight—and as much potential for terror—as Lewis Carroll’s Victorian dreamscape.Wonderland A Fantasy Role Playing Setting, released on November 12, 2024, bypasses childhood fables entirely. This 224-page tome reimagines the Rabbit Hole as a fractured, lethal megadungeon where logic serves as a weapon and

In the rigid social ecosystem of 1813 England, a single misplaced word at a ball can be more socially fatal than a duel at dawn. It is this tension—the juxtaposition of polite society against the primal, cosmic indifference of the Great Old Ones—that forms the backbone of Regency Cthulhu: Dark Designs in Jane Austen’s England.

Colostle – A Solo Tabletop Role Playing Experience Nich Angell’s Colostle begins with an architectural impossibility and treats it not as allegory but as environment. The game’s world exists entirely inside a single structure: a castle of such scale that seas, cities, plains, and ruins occupy its interior. There is no exterior geography, no sky

A Dialogue With Its Own Future The Cyberpunk role-playing game has always existed in dialogue with its own future. Mike Pondsmith’s original tabletop designs imagined a world of privatized violence and personal augmentation decades before those ideas became fixtures of popular science fiction. What began in the late 1980s as a tabletop role-playing game became

To open the manual for CY_BORG is to invite a digital infection into the room. Created by Christian Sahlén and Johan Nohr of the Stockholm-based collective Stockholm Kartell, CY_BORG offers a broken, neon, visceral playground for improvisation. It is a work of industrial noise and glitch art. A world where the megacity of Cy is

Brindlewood Bay Tabletop RPG Tired of the usual role playing tropes? Try a dive into Brindlewood Bay, a TTRPG where cozy murder mysteries meet Lovecraftian horror in a picturesque New England town. This tabletop RPG takes elements of Agatha Christie’s novels, David Lynch’s surrealist Americana, and a Golden Girls sensibility to create a unique mystery

The Star Trek franchise has been a staple in RPG gaming for several decades. With its deep world-building and exploration of the final frontier, Star Trek has been adapted into various tabletop RPG games over the years. Among these adaptations, Star Trek Adventures stands out as one of the best. Developed by Modiphius, the game

Rimspace Planet Generator Just in time for my dive into Mothership TTRPG comes a resource that I didn’t know I needed this much – the Rimspace Planet Generaor. Created by Ian Yusem with the help of Meredith Silver, Matt Umland, and Liam Stevens, this app creates planets for the Mothership companion book Hull Breach Vol. 1. Part