Rite of Passage was the adventure written by myself and Mitchell Wallace that won the Symbaroum Adventure Contest. It has been given beautiful art and layout, and you can get it free in all its glory here! The adventure is takes place in the dark fantasy world of Symbaroum; it follows a mostly unexplored side of the setting, the barbarian tribes in the dangerous Davokar forest. You get to explore the traditions and culture of the different tribes as the player characters go t

Several months ago at a tiny RPG convention in Baltimore I met Laura Ketcham, a talented local artist. After talking with her at her booth, I purchased a print of her Pack of Horrors, a set of cards with unique, creepy system-agnostic monsters for tabletop RPGs; flipping through them fills my mind with ideas of using them in a game. I may try using them as a form of in-game tarot cards. The GM would present the players with a eerie fortune teller or royal soothsayer. With som

If you haven’t heard of the award-winning survival horror RPG system Dread, check it out. It builds tension by using a jenga tower to determine who lives and who dies, and the characters are built by the players each answering a unique questionnaire. Recently, I had an awful, vivid nightmare about being on a space shuttle, trapped with these small, awful teddy bears. Teddy bears with human teeth, who just wanted love. So naturally, I made a horror RPG scenario about it. “We w

Enjoy the free PDF for Joneen the Untarnished! It includes the stats for the poor changeling’s great and terrible demonic form. Feel free to give feedback! #darkfantasy #RPGs #RPG #ShadowoftheDemonLord #tabletopRPGs

–EDIT: Rite of Passage won the contest! It will be produced into a full official adventure for Symbaroum, with full layout and art!– Mitchell Wallace (of Penny for a Tale) came to me with the Symbaroum Adventure Contest and suggested a collaboration. All together, Mitch and I are very proud of our Symbaroum adventure Rite of Passage. If you like the free adventure, please vote for it here It began with some hard muffins and tea, we started to work on a scenario that could be

In the scenario book Petersen’s Abominations for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, there is a chilling scenario called Panacea that involves characters, each for their own reasons, investigating a strange medical corporation ZyMedBio. This company seems to have produced a miracle cure; but if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Throughout the scenario, the investigators are taunted by a strange digital voice, bringing up painful parts of their history or offering them s

James Vail has made his brutal horror RPG free today only (April 24, 2019) for the first 666 people! The game is intuitive and provides a tense survival horror experience, and can easily be used with other settings. Dark Fantasy/Survival-Horror RPG Xas Irkalla is free for today from rpg #RPGs #RPG #tabletopRPGs #roleplayinggames #free

Shadow of the Demon Lord (SotDL) is a tremendous game. I love how dark it is, how the combat is rapid and intense, there are enemies that are genuinely challenging, and player characters aren’t always assumed to win every encounter. Characters start as fragile commoners, and growing into powerful forces to be reckoned with. If you haven’t seen it, I created a free SotDL Player Cheat Sheet (and printer-friendly version) with things new players to the system often forget or mis

The talented Mitchell Wallace has started an RPG streaming channel A Penny For A Tale on Twitch! They are playing the cheesy scifi B-movie RPG called They Came From Beneath the Sea. Join in to the stream to experience monsters and terrible cheesy action! #RPGs #Actualplay #RPG #Twitch #tabletopRPGs #TCFBTS #roleplayinggames

Now you can surprise players in your Shadow of the Demon Lord games with the classic mimic monster! Complete with lore for how mimics fit into the world and random tables for both mundane and unique forms. SotDL Mimic PDF here! This is also available at the Somniac Delusions GitHub page! Image from vempirick on Deviant Art. #RPGs #SotDL #RPG #ShadowoftheDemonLord #tabletopRPGs #roleplayinggames

“Hey, what’s up with this map we found? It’s sicking to my hand… wait, now it’s turning green! Is it moving?! Oh crap…” When I saw skullfungus’ amazing map, I knew I had to color it. A version of the colored map with slimy lettering is here. Note that the font is called Dripping Cool and can be found here. #RPGs #RPG #fantasymap #DungeonsandDragons #dungeonmap #roleplayinggames

The Good Friends of Jackson Elias are doing a contest for 1930s Pulp Cthulhu characters that could fit into their world-spanning Two-Headed Serpent campaign for Call of Cthulhu, using the Pulp Cthulhu rules. This is my entry. The world was not kind to Varsha Ghosh. Back in Kolkata, India, Varsha was beautiful. Patient. Kind. She was fifteen and he was twenty-four when he offered to marry her. She refused. The next day Varsha was beaten in an alley by his friends. Her bruises

This map was created with GIMP and Inkscape and is licensed Creative Commons Attribution (That means you can use this map for whatever you want, even commercially as long as you give attribution). All the icons are from the people at http://game-icons.net/ who have so many awesome free icons that are released under a Creative Commons – Attribution license also. #creativecommons #DungeonsandDragons #fantasymap #RPG