Games

Aketon, Basic Complete

AKETON is a simple TTRPG game engine based on Chainmail and OD&D. The entire core rules are printable as a one-page (front and back) tri-fold.

AKETON, BASIC COMPLETE is the complete collection of the Aketon, Core Rules and all 9 of it’s basic-series supplements (listed below). Each is cleaned up and ready to played together, with more supplements on the way in the 10-series.

Basic Horror, an rpg of supernatural investigation

BASIC HORROR is a modern exploration of simplified survival horror. In it, players take on the roles of regular folks that get caught up investigating otherworldly terrors. It’s built to enable mysteries in the vein of:

  • H.P. Lovecraft, Junji Ito, and Zach Cregger
  • The SCP Foundation
  • Internet Creepypastas

Esoterikon, the Dark Urban Fantasy OSR RPG

Esoterikon is an adaptation of Esoteric Enterprises by Emily Allen for the Aketon RPG system. It’s about mystics, mercenaries, and monsters exploring dark dungeons in the modern day, clearing corners with firearms and stopping (or starting) occult rituals to summon antediluvian abominations. All the while avoiding the law and the ever-present Men-In-Black.

Nameless Cults – EK1
Adds 5 cults for Mystic player characters (or NPCs) to join, ally with, or raid for loot: Van Glaurung, Dis Pater, Saint Judas Thaddeus, Leviathan, and basilisk.api.

Nameless Cults II – EK2
Adds 5 more cults for Mystic player characters (or NPCs) to join, ally with, or raid for loot: The Black Goat, Anassa, Ithaqua, the Void, and Sol Invictus.

Explorer’s Options – EK3
Adds in a new class, along with extended options for equipment, hacking, and a series of background tables for all types of Explorers of the Undercity.

Esoteric Treasures – EK4
Adds downtime activities, home bases, and an array of treasure tables to expand your dungeon loot, ranging from suspicious contraband to actual occult paraphanalia.

Crowns 2nd Edition:
A Perilous OSR RPG

CROWNS 2e is the dark fantasy RPG successor to Crowns 1e, and is bigger and better in every way:

  • Unique combat system, fast and tactical
  • Track Peril as your character gets more afraid
  • Classless advancement, earn over 30+ titles
  • Slot-based inventory management
  • Roll-to-cast spell tables

Title Cards – CR1
Handouts for each of the 36 Titles in the Core Rules along with 6 rules references (3 for Combat, 3 for Camping) each the size of a small card to enhance your games of Crowns 2e.

Adventure Modules for OSR Fantasy Elf-Games

Modular adventures that can be slotted into any game, converted across multiple systems to make it more accessible.

The games listed below the summary are the ones the module has specific versions for, but they can be played with almost any OSR system.

The Abbey Lost of the Trees – DN1
A one-page (front and back) dungeon about a decaying abbey overtaken by a primeval god of nature.
Crowns 2e – Aketon – OSE

Fear the Land Shark – MH1
A one-page, one-shot boss battle for Crowns 2e featuring a fun redesign of a classic fantasy monster. The Bulette or “Land Shark.”
Crowns 2e – Aketon

Mud, Blood, and Stone – HF1
A hex-flower adventure in a swamp featuring trolls, undead, bandits, cultists, and an eidelon.
Crowns 2e

Cave of the Blue Behir – MH2
A one-page, one-shot boss battle for Crowns 2e featuring a fun redesign of a classic fantasy monster. The Behir.
Crowns 2e

Soldiers of Fortune:
A Solo Campaign for OPR

Soldiers of Fortune is a free random campaign generator for OnePageRules‘ hit tabletop wargames Age of Fantasy: Skirmish and Grimdark Future: Firefight. In it, the player (or players) take on the role of a Mercenary Company, setting off to make it rich. It has a quick and responsive enemy AI system, random tables for creating Contracts, and tools for creating your own content.

Crowns RPG 1st Edition:
The Origins of WAE

CROWNS is a tabletop RPG system, tailor-built for fantasy treasure hunters in a dark-age world.

  • It has a unique combat system, that encourages actions beyond just attacking
  • Simplified monsters
  • Classless characters that advance through buying feats with experience points
  • A simple and tight inventory that interacts heavily health/damage during play

Crowns 1e, Feat Cards
Beautifully illustrated cards for every feat, and a booklet that allows you to draw use the cards to create stories and bonds between player characters.

Crowns 1e, Season of Crows
An anthology of rules expansions for Crowns 1e covering everything from black powder weapons, advanced faction rules, warfare, expanded bestiaries, and injury/madness tables.

Currently Developing:

Soldiers of Fortune: Ghost White, a further simplification of SoF’s rules, with its own simple one-page-war-system
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PROJECT: Galaxy, a TTWG about an evil empire and a rebel alliance at war with procedural generation
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PROJECT: Iron, an action-sci-fi TTRPG about mech pilots at the end of the world
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PROJECT: Hero, a superhero-action TTRPG focused on powerful PCs fighting heroically, not OSR/NSR
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PROJECT: Warfighter, a modern action TTRPG focused on modern warfare, compact, and not just D&D with guns
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PROJECT: Nerve, a modern horror TTRPG focused on everyday people fighting back the unexplainable
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PROJECT: Scrap, a TTWG of scrap-heap mechs fighting over oil derricks and fallen satellites on a dying planet