One unearthly night, a ray of colourless light descended from the stars, and under its warping radiance, creatures unlike any the world has ever seen were born. They do not know the world, and they do not know themselves. Unfortunately for the world, they’re quick learners!
Star-spawned is a GMless, oneshot-oriented tabletop RPG in which you don’t know what your own traits do when play begins. The names of each group’s stats are randomly generated using morpheme chaining, and characters are created while having absolutely no idea what they mean; figuring that out forms the greater part of play.
This is the official version 1.0 release. If you’ve been following along during playtesting, the only major differences between this version and playtest draft 0.4 consist of formatting and typographic fixes and some reorganisation of the random lookup tables in the back of the book.
Credit where credit is due goes out to @pomrania for beta reading, @catgirlhell for graphic design, @counterclockworkminds and their crew for playtesting, and far too many names than can feasibly be listed here for suggesting entries for the random milieu tables and stress-testing the stat name generator to make sure it won’t easily spit out any slurs, swear words, and/or results that sound like they might be a kind of penis – check the “Credits & Acknowledgements” section for the full list!
Star-spawned can be obtained at the link above, or right here.
Hey, folks. Cerebos: The Crystal City and Costume Fairy Adventures are 50% off for itch.io’s Creator Day Sale. The preceding link leads to a bundle containing everything that’s on sale, but you can also get the same discount on each item individually by clicking through to it.
Cerebos is a surrealist travelogue game written by Zach Welhouse (and edited by me) about a group of amnesiac travellers riding a train to the titular Crystal City, with plenty of strange stops along the way.
Costume Fairy Adventures, meanwhile, is one of the earliest games I worked on from back in 2013; it’s about, well, fairies. In costumes. Having adventures. (Look, I freely admit it’s not a creative title.)
If you’ve ever been terribly curious to check out either one, now’s your chance. All of my smaller games(Radical Catgirl Anarchy, Olaf Hits the Dragon with his Sword, Jellyfish Felonies, Sinister Hovering Orb, and To Serve) are already pay-what-you-want, so there’s no sense putting them on sale, but they are included in the “100% of all sales go to the creator” thing that’s running today, so if you just happened to pay what you want today in particular, that sure would be convenient!
Hey, folks. To Serve is out of public playtest and has been officially released! For those just joining us, To Serve is a tabletop roleplaying game where one player will take on the role of a questing Knight, and the other 2–4 players will assume the roles of the various Servants who make up the Knight’s retinue. Throughout your travels, many challenges will be overcome through the Servants’ careful preparation and occasional direct interference, and the Knight will – of course – receive all the accolades.
Radical Catgirl Anarchy has been updated to version 1.2. This is a minor revision that brings the game in line with the most current licensing terms for Lasers & Feelings. As these terms permit commercial use, it’s now possible to donate when downloading the game (though it’s pay-what-you-want, so you can still get it for free).
Cerebos: The Crystal City, a tabletop roleplaying game about magic trains, lost memories, and the intersection thereof, is available in print-on-demand softcover via DriveThruRPG. Whether you’ve been waiting for this day or you’re just hearing about it for the first time, you can now get your hands on Cerebos in the literal sense!
(If you previously backed the crowdfunding campaign at the PDF-only level, don’t forget to claim your discount code.)
Cerebos: The Crystal City leaves early access today! This tabletop game of memory, attachment, and magic(?) trains was successfully crowdfunded in April of this year, and today’s update marks its full public release. If you’re into trains, deserts, magical realism, the looming spectre of mortality, and/or talking about your feelings, Cerebos may be the roleplaying game for you.
An art teaser from the forthcoming version 1.0 release of Cerebos: The Crystal City, a tabletop RPG of memory, attachment and magic trains currently available in early access via itch.io and DriveThruRPG. This piece – courtesy of the very talented Kaninchanbau – depicts the game’s Conductors; each journey to Cerebos will have a single Conductor, and each Conductor carries with them a set of special rules that defines the journey’s genre, ranging from the cheerful Mr. Wumpus’s “All-Ages Fairy Tale”, to the enigmatic Duke Akira’s “Surreal Anime Bildungsroman”, to the gruesome Grimlight’s “Folk Horror”. (No points for guessing who’s who!)
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is a minor update that addresses reported legibility issues in version
1.0, particularly with respect to the small-caps effect used for
Attribute names.
Main body font changed from “Poppins” to “Raleway”
Attribute names now use true small-caps (i.e., rather than faking it by reducing the font size)
Improved formatting of footnotes
Minor clarification to how the GM allocates Ill-Gotten Gains
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![Cerebos: The Crystal City has been updated to version 1.01 – you can find the changelog here, or under the cut. Illustration by Madeleine Ember.
[[MORE]]Note: page numbers refer to the PDF version of the game.
Core Rulebook
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