Chris Longhurst

Lets you tell THAC0-style stories but shorn of as much problematic baggage as possible.

Pathfinder 2e is good.

If you're coming from Lancer and want an interesting fantasy system Beacon is, for my money, better -- but it is very much 'Lancer but fantasy' so if you want to try something different, nothing wrong with PF2.

Ah. Well in that case I recommend Fellowship. It should provide a similar storyline experience to D&D but with a very different system.

I would say it gives an idea of what's possible in the sense that it shows how good fantasy RPGs can be, rather than by changing genre or any fundamental stuff.

5 days, £99.

That's 5 physical copies or 9 pdfs.

If you're an experienced GM 5e is really easy to run and if they want D&D that's probably the one they want.

Turn your back on D&D and a full dozen games doing things you could never imagine will immediately reveal themselves to your gaze.

Been thinking about this on and off all day and I have no idea.

Despite its economic power, design-wise D&D 5e is a speck in one corner of a piece of paper the size of Birmingham. You don't need to pick four games to show that off, you just need to persuade people to look away from That One Game.

Maybe we should start writing utopian stories but calling them 'Torment Nexus' in the hope that some media-illiterate billionaire will try to build it.

Starting to plan a new show for next year, and I have a question for #TTRPG designers - what's something that you love to see from someone who runs an AP of your game/what are some things that AP runners do that you feel support you as a game designer?

All the familiars

I like to know about them, but running the game at all is a good start.

Gravity: A Roleplaying Game A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.

6 days, £139 to go.

That's 7 physical copies or 12 pdfs.

An altered copy of the "Sandbender's Storm" card from the game Magic the Gathering. "Bender" has been sharoied over, as has every word in the card text except for all the 'd's. It's meant to evoke the notes of the song "Sandstorm" by Darude.

Self-inserts are one thing. I feel like asking people to stat *themselves* up in a game is a minefield it's not worth attempting to traverse.

Yeah, it's more 'bringing the other world here' than us going there.

And as far as I can tell, nobody remembers those.

The Magical Land of Yeld Discover a new world of adventure in this all-ages tabletop roleplaying game! Created for players 8 years and older, The Magical Land of Yeld is a multi-session game built to empower kids and adults t...

Oh, and Magical Land of Yeld, borrowing from the Narnia proto-isekai style.

yeldstuff.com

The End of the World Announcing a New Roleplaying Game Line of Horror and Survival

Oh yeah, here we go, from the distant past of 2014.

www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2014...

There was a series of games a while back about playing through various end of the world scenarios *as yourselves* which is sort of isekai-adjacent.

Also Fellowship has an isekai class as well.

Cover for Mud Ghost Estate Redux, depicting a derelict block tower at night, seen from a wide angle perspective from the ground. The bottom left corner reads "Just launched on Kickstarter".

Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by the urban legends and folklore of Hong Kong. 👻
The Redux edition is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

Another staple of the 1980s that's almost entirely gone: dog shit in the streets!

Ok, did a post sort of in response to this... A retrospective on the games I've played this year. Less of a series of awards, and more some general rambling thoughts, but here they are!

#Endies2025

castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/endi...

No one gets into creative work because they want to run a business.

Funnily enough, I have a completely different game inspired by the lore of Elden Ring. (Or at least the parts I saw while I was playing it.)

Working on my sales pitch.

luv 2 business expense games I wanted anyway

(Although to be fair if you have £500 to burn there are plenty of people more deserving of it than me. Go throw it at Rainbow Railroad or something.)

Gravity: A Roleplaying Game A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.

One week, £195 to go before funding. That's 10 people who want a physical book, 17 who want the pdf, or one generous person with £500 to spare.

The guy on my left would ask anyone who looked at his stall "Have you heard of [my game]?" and when they said no, would launch into the longer sales pitch.

I need to figure out how to pitch my games when literally the only thing they all have in common is that I made them.

@queerwizard.co.uk I think you were looking for map work this morning, weren't you?

Observing the people on either side of me seemed to indicate that a strong, brief pitch is really helpful.