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Cantrip Fantasy is a simple, easy-to-learn tabletop roleplaying system. It was designed for people who’d like to play something like that big, brand-name fantasy game but feel overwhelmed by big, fat books full of rules. This system was also created for people who don’t like being limited to the character options in those books, and would like to create their own.
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Welcome to Issue Five: Quaranzine Part 2
If you haven’t read Issue Four, I need to tell you that this is not an issue packed with advice converting the classic board game Pandemic in to a tabletop roleplaying scenario, nor is it a devoted to Max Max-style post-apocalyptic settings. Sorry. It’s the second of three issues that I’ve put together in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. I’ve... [click here for more] |
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Welcome to Issue Four: Quaranzine Part 1
A bit of clarification before we begin: This is not an issue packed with advice on running modern-day medical thrillers, developing post-apocalyptic fantasies, or rules for deadly viruses. Sorry. It’s the first of three issues that I’ve put together in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. During this period of social distancing and self-isolation,... [click here for more] |
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in this issue:
fandom as religion - In the past decade fandom has become contentious and un-fun. With the mainstreaming of things formerly relegated to the fringes, is there any reason to continue supporting an increasingly toxic fan culture?
novel-style character profiles - A character sheet is only good for the game system it was created for, but a character profile... [click here for more] |
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In This Issue:
The Soft Reboot
Revisiting the Black Box Movement
RPG Manual Cost as Barrier to Entry
Game Design: The Man in the Arena
Do What You Can
Black Box: Everything is a Remix
Politics in Roleplaying Settings
Black Box and Remix Culture
Freebies, Trolls, and What Have You
Guide Instead of Gamemaster
System Rather Than Rules
Why “Player” Is In But “Game” Is Out
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Welcome to Issue Six: Quaranzine Part 3
If you’re experiencing a bit of deja vu, then you’ve already read Issue Four and Issue Five. Thanks! For those just tuning in, this “quaranzine” special is not an issue packed with advice recreating the 1995 medical disaster movie Outbreak at your tabletop. Nor does it delve into the possible armor class protection offed by hazmat suits. Sorry. It’s... [click here for more] |
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in this issue:
The Necessity of Kindness - Rather than write about horror as originally planned, I decided to focus on being pleasant to one another instead. There is no tabletop roleplaying without people. Play nice.
Paladins Revisited - We think of paladins as holy warriors, but what if we came at them from a more romantic perspective? Rather than devotion... [click here for more] |
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in this issue:
why do a wrestling issue? - If you don’t care about professional wrestling, why are you reading this issue? Well, it’s about unarmed combat, improvised weapons, character development, and storytelling. That’s RPG material right there.
characters: wrestler archetypes - How to make RPG characters inspired by professional wrestling. Whether you’re... [click here for more] |
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In This Issue:
Welcome to Issue Zero - It’s a game system! It’s a zine about tabletop roleplaying! It’s both! An introduction to the Hippogryph project, what to expect in this issue, and what you can look forward to in future issues.
How to Create Things - From characters to magic items to worlds, a unified system for creating all of the elements that go into... [click here for more] |
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Adventure Generator: A minimalist 96-page toolkit for creating memorable stories usable with any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
This Adventure Generator is a reusable toolkit for any tabletop fantasy roleplaying system or setting. With only a few die rolls you’ll have an outline for an exciting story with clear objectives and a distinct beginning, middle,... [click here for more] |
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Adventure Generator 2: A minimalist 96-page toolkit for creating memorable stories usable with any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
10 More Adventure Outlines! This second volume Adventure Generator is a reusable toolkit for any tabletop fantasy roleplaying system or setting. With only a few die rolls you’ll have an outline for an exciting... [click here for more] |
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Building Adventures: A minimalist 96-page guide to creating memorable stories for any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
Like any other form of fiction, a tabletop roleplaying adventure works best when there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. Player characters can pursue a goal without being railroaded into one specific way of achieving it. That same goal prevents characters... [click here for more] |
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Building Characters: A minimalist 96-page guide to creating memorable characters for any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
Tabletop roleplaying is about characters. It’s something so fundamental and obvious that it’s often taken for granted. If your tastes run toward the wargaming end of the spectrum, a character is your game piece, the way that you interface with the system.... [click here for more] |
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Building Monsters: A minimalist 96-page guide to creating memorable adversaries for any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
Books filled with pregenerated monsters are a staple of tabletop roleplaying. Not just for fantasy, either. Modern horror needs its share of terrifying creatures. Science fiction needs aliens and extradimensional beings. Even superheroes get their share of strange mutations... [click here for more] |
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Building Theme: A minimalist 96-page guide to creating memorable stories for any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
When discussing any other form of storytelling, the concept of theme will eventually come up. It doesn’t matter if the medium is a novel, a film, a television series, even a comic book or a song. The people having the discussion might be writers, readers, critics, or academics.... [click here for more] |
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A minimalist 96-page guide to help you create memorable settings for any tabletop roleplaying system.
Worldbuilding can be a lot of fun. Whether you're planning a campaign, designing your own tabletop roleplaying game, or just exercising your creativity with no set purpose in mind, developing a setting of your very own is deeply satisfying. You can spend hours, days, or years adding details and creating... [click here for more] |
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A minimalist 96-page guide with prompts to help you develop settings for any tabletop roleplaying system.
Worldbuilding can be a lot of fun. Whether you're planning a campaign, designing your own tabletop roleplaying game, or just exercising your creativity with no set purpose in mind, developing a setting of your very own is deeply satisfying. You can spend hours, days, or years adding details and... [click here for more] |
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The PDF version has been revised to include photographic examples.
Bullet journaling has become something of a phenomena over the past few years. The ability to combine the calendar functions of a day planner, the utility of to-do lists, and the personal documentation of a diary into a single, easy-to-use notebook is appealing and practical. It’s a simple, efficient,... [click here for more] |
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Running a one-shot or short campaign, and need a system that doesn’t require a lot of prep? Wondering how to introduce roleplaying to people intimidated by big rulebooks? Be ready to play within minutes using Domnio!
Domnio is a 4-page PDF packed with all of the information you need to create characters and run the game. The minimalist presentation uses every bit of space on useful content. ... [click here for more] |
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DoubleZero is a percentile based, skill-driven tabletop roleplaying system. It's a minimalist, 96-page core rulebook that contains everything you need to build characters and run an exciting campaign!
It is designed to emulate the action thriller genre, including things like the John Wick films, the Fast and the Furious franchise, and James Bond movies. You... [click here for more] |
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In Hardboiled Follies, you take on the role of a completely unqualified amateur detective. You and your friends avoid your real problems by taking on cases and going undercover to solve mysteries. Opposing you are the trained and licensed professionals of the Columbia Detective Agency. They who urge you to please stop what you’re doing before you get hurt. You know the truth is that they just... [click here for more] |
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A complete core book inspired by D20 and Fate, a melding of story gaming and traditional tabletop roleplaying.
Hippogryph is a d20-based, story-driven tabletop fantasy roleplaying system. It is the collision of the D20 System and Fate RPG, but like the legendary creature it is more than the sum of its parts. This isn’t off-brand D&D with Fate aspects stapled... [click here for more] |
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Please read this product description carefully. Look at the preview. It's probably not what you'd expect it to be based on the title.
Tabletop roleplaying has instilled in me three things: a love of history, a love of words, and a love of lists. While other people gravitated toward Appendix N, what I loved most about the 1st Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide were... [click here for more] |
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Please read this product description carefully. Look at the preview. It's probably not what you'd expect it to be based on the title.
Can we just take a moment to reflect on what an amazingly pulpy name Trench Johnson is? It sounds as if he should be fighting crime alongside Doc Savage or the Shadow, or getting beaten up in a rain-slick alleyway by Mike Hammer or Sam Spade. I can’t... [click here for more] |
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A Cold War with Mars
Set in a gloriously retro-future 2068, Spectres of Mars follows the Cold War between Earth and the Strangers, a race of incorporeal Martians able to possess human bodies. When the first human explorers accidentally desecrate a sacred dead city on Mars, the Strangers vow revenge and launch a series of reprisals against Earth. These are countered by Myriad, a global... [click here for more] |
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Foragers Guild Fantasy Roleplaying is a high fantasy story game. As members of the Guild, you explore the ancient world of Desteon seeking out powerful artifacts. Opposing you is the Moirologist Society, a secret organization of graverobbers, assassins, and necromancers. Can you keep the dangerous relics of lost civilizations from falling into the wrong hands?
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You hate your job. Your relationship is on the rocks. We won’t even get into your financial woes. Obviously something has to change. What you need is to inject some excitement into your life. The only logical thing to do is to become a private investigator!
In Hardboiled Follies, you take on the role of a completely unqualified amateur detective. You and your... [click here for more] |
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An all new Lighthouse System edition of the giant monster story game!
In a world where giant monsters roam the Earth and alien invaders threaten all of humanity, can the heroes of the Kaiju Patrol manage to find true love?
The first explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki did more than unleash the atomic age. They gave birth to an age of giant atomic monsters! Fallout from... [click here for more] |
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Starlight Manifesto is a space opera story game. As Peacekeepers of the Starlight Union, you have sworn an oath to protect, maintain, and restore peace in the universe. This is done through exploration and discovery, the spreading of diplomacy and education, and as a last resort, through direct military intervention. Service aboard a Peacekeeping vessel tends to be equal parts scientific expedition,... [click here for more] |
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An all new Lighthouse System edition of the space opera story game!
As humanity spreads out among the stars, it begins to discover questions about its own origins. Not only are there other intelligent species improbably similar to humans, there are hints that older, more technologically advanced beings may have had a hand in our development. Who they are, what exactly they have done, and why they... [click here for more] |
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In this collection, we’ll show you how to utilize various creature types in your worldbuilding endeavors. You’ll see how they can influence character, setting, and story elements. By the end, you’ll understand how to make animals, monsters, and assorted horrors into an essential, useful, and entertaining part of your tabletop roleplaying campaign.
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In this collection of best-selling titles, we’ll show you how to utilize the different schools of arcane magic in your worldbuilding endeavors. You’ll see how they can influence character, setting, and story elements. By the end, you’ll understand how to make each category of spellcasting into an essential, useful, and entertaining part of your tabletop roleplaying campaign.
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In this collection of best-selling titles, we’ll show you how to utilize various environments in your worldbuilding endeavors. You’ll see how they can influence character, setting, and story elements. By the end, you’ll understand how to make various kinds of terrain into an essential, useful, and entertaining part of your tabletop roleplaying campaign.
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3 Best Selling Titles to Help You Plan and Structure Adventures!
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Adventure Generator Vol. 1 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $3.99 Format: PDF Adventure Generator: A minimalist 96-page toolkit for creating memorable stories usable with any tabletop roleplaying system or setting.
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In a Bitter Rivals adventure, the player characters will be called upon to compete against an adversary that is their equal in nearly every way. The nature of the competition can... [click here for more] |
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Use strange beings and alien creatures in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
People frequently want to add Lovecraftian horrors to their fantasy games, but they’ve been there since the beginning. Thing that are beyond the day-to-day existence of a standard high fantasy setting. Creatures so strange that their aims and desires are unfathomable. Beings that are so unlike... [click here for more] |
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Use Protective Magic in Character Development, Adventure Design, and Worldbuilding
Abjuration comes from the Latin word abjurare, which translates as “to forswear”. As a category of magic, its purpose is protection and defense. The definition of abjuration magic has expanded over time to include spells that act as armor, prevent magical intrusion, and banish... [click here for more] |
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Use transmutation magic in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
The magnum opus, or Great Work, of alchemy is the transmutation of base metals like lead into precious metals like gold. This is arguably the foundation of alteration and transmutation magic in fantasy roleplaying. The ability to turn one thing into another, even temporarily, can be both useful and frightening.... [click here for more] |
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Use Ordinary Animals in Character Development, Adventure Design, and Worldbuilding
Let’s be honest and admit that ordinary animals don’t get the love they deserve in fantasy roleplaying games. In fiction, as in real life, we love a cute cat or a precocious dog. They’ve got personality. Other beasts, like horses, rabbits, and monkeys, get a lot of affection. At the table,... [click here for more] |
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Use the highest order of good beings in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
Divine beings don’t get the attention they deserve in fantasy roleplaying games. They should somehow play a larger role than they do in the cosmology of our favorite fictional universes, given that they are the extraplanar exemplars of all that is right and good in the multiverse.... [click here for more] |
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Use centers of trade and culture in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
A city can be a lot of things. It might be a crossroads, the place where trade routes converge and merchants ply their trade. Some see it as a place of opportunity, to gain wealth and power, politically and otherwise. Others find it to be center of culture and the arts. It can be a refuge, where those... [click here for more] |
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Use the ability to call forth and command forces in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
The word conjure stems from the Latin coniurare, to swear together or conspire. It means to command an oath, as in a pledge of duty or loyalty. Around the 14th century it took on the magical connotation of constraining a demon or spirit, forcing it to do that caster’s bidding.... [click here for more] |
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Use artificial creatures in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
Constructs are artificially created creatures. Typically mindless, they are programmed to obey their creator. Because they are technically not living, they lack the weaknesses of hired henchmen and mortal monsters. They are unfeeling, relentless, and can be virtually unstoppable. That’s what makes constructs... [click here for more] |
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Use dry and barren terrain in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
We think of the desert as a barren, hostile environment. It’s become synonymous with heat and sand. There is precious little water to be found, which results in a dearth of plant and animal life. What does live there is adapted for the climate, which often means it’s as dangerous as its environment.... [click here for more] |
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Use Magical Insight in Character Development, Adventure Design, and Worldbuilding
Divination comes from the Latin word divinare, which translates as “to be inspired by God”. As a category of magic, its purpose is to help the caster gain insight, if not direct answers, to a wide variety of situations. The definition of divination magic has expanded over time to include... [click here for more] |
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Use iconic monsters in character development, worldbuilding, and adventures!
Dragons exist in folklore as far back as ancient Mesopotamia. Massive, serpent-like creatures can be found in the legends and mythologies of Egypt, Greece, and Northern Europe. In Western cultures, the image of the fearsome, fire-breathing dragon first appeared in the Middle Ages, an amalgam of the various traditions... [click here for more] |
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