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Johnstone Metzger

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I make tabletop role-playing games. johnstone (dot) metzger (at) gmail (dot) com. chthonstone.ca

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I once did 2 days of research for a single random table in an adventure module that never got past the notes stage, for a game I never finished.

22.02.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good chance you had the 24 inch wooden Stanley No 0 level they're standing on too (but made in the US instead of Canada).

19.02.2026 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The fish and cat look like they have rockets and the snake's shoulders look like lasers I would guess? I don't remember any of the media anymore.

19.02.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wanted a black background for them so I just grabbed something I had lying around and I thought the red line looked kind of funny.

19.02.2026 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good time to scoop up Girl by Moonlight and various extra bits at a discount.
I'm sure we have community copies available as well (or at least we did last I checked).

19.02.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Available as PWYW, I have made 3 different character sheets; a generic character record sheet for use with Basic/Expert rules or Old-School Essentials, and two sheets for use with Gnydron Supplement 1 (one for monks and one for psionic characters). www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

16.02.2026 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This Gnydron series by Lester is going to be sick. It's got great Arduin energy! check out the first installment here

10.02.2026 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NOW AVAILABLE! Gnydron Supplement 1: Mystic Fantasy.
Compatible with Basic/Expert and Old-School Essentials.
DriveThruRPG (digital): drivethrurpg.com/en/product/549475
Lulu (print on demand): lulu.com/spotlight/patagames
Use NONFICTION15 in Lulu checkout for 15% off (till Feb. 13)

09.02.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Nice!

12.01.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those look really cool actually. Are the hex codes on the backs of the cards?

12.01.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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October 2025: The Company of Monsters Zine Issue 1 | Johnstone Metzger Get more from Johnstone Metzger on Patreon

Currently these are only available on the patreon, but presumably that will change at some point next year.

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

30.12.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Issues 1 and 2 of The Company of Monsters Zine (an rpg).

Issues 1 and 2 of The Company of Monsters Zine (an rpg).

There are two issues actually.

29.12.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Playing a Character in a Familiar Setting (But Shorter) I wrote a post about this topic already but I never felt like it was very successful. So, this is a second attempt at it: Imagine I’m going...

I made my second blog post of the year. But it's really just a revised (and shorter) version of the first.

chthonstone.blogspot.com/2025/12/play...

23.12.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well at least somebody's out there. Is it weird that I don't even care about what they said? It was fully their smug prick attitude that makes me want them to be mocked forever.

22.12.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's too bad I'm not one of the Big Postersβ„’
I could do numbers with dumb jokes like this.

22.12.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, the good ol' murderhobojima genre of rpgs.

21.12.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of a staplebound halfletter-sized zine entitled The Company of monsters Zine #1, depicting a yellow face with only a mouth and a yellow hand, both emerging from bluish rock.

The cover of a staplebound halfletter-sized zine entitled The Company of monsters Zine #1, depicting a yellow face with only a mouth and a yellow hand, both emerging from bluish rock.

I've been away but I'm coming back.

17.12.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of a staplebound halfletter-sized zine entitled The Company of monsters Zine #1, depicting a yellow face with only a mouth and a yellow hand, both emerging from bluish rock.

The cover of a staplebound halfletter-sized zine entitled The Company of monsters Zine #1, depicting a yellow face with only a mouth and a yellow hand, both emerging from bluish rock.

I've been away but I'm coming back.

17.12.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Goblin criminal.

24.10.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Possibly of interest but very obscure: Necromancies and Netherworlds by Darrell Schweizer and Jason Van Hollander. Short stories about a city where a revolution overthrows the ruling priest cast and forces them to auction off carpets that have their gods trapped inside them.

30.09.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.

I've got a new game called We Contain Solitudes that I am putting out today!
You can get it here: sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
It's a 2 player ttrpg about troubled souls stuck in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquy.

01.08.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9

Amazing that not even a month ago I was finally thinking "maybe, at long last, I should start selling my stuff on Itch."

26.07.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each move including its own procedures for calculating a bonus (or building a dice pool) would get around that.

15.07.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope, they require a sign in too, because it's tagged as explicit. The USA hates them "bad words" I guess.

15.07.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You need to log into soundcloud to listen, but if you do here's Through Ultan's Door via The Nightmares Underneath.

14.07.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am basically a nobody, and this is just a suggestion, but if DriveThruRPG want me to see them as the reasonable ones in this situation, I think maybe they should stop trying to drive my audience away from their site, where I sell my games at.

02.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Darn, guess I should have signed up for the Tomb Raider playtest to see what it was all about.

25.06.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Help George Metzger move into a care home., organized by Johnstone Metzger Legendary underground comics creator George Metzger can no longer live at… Johnstone Metzger needs your support for Help George Metzger move into a care home.

I posted an update to my dad's gofundme earlier today, short version is: George is doing well and he's getting good care. Longer version in the link. Thanks to everybody who donated.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-georg...

13.06.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, it's interesting how Delta Green feels so much like copaganda and then the campaigns feel so much like fuck the police.

05.06.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0