Issue 94: July 4, 2022
We've got a great variety of games for you to explore this summer. From plant girls to sword lesbians, psychopomps to actual play performers to check out, we hope you'll find something to give you a breather from the weight of the world.
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Crowdfunding Happening Now
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Plant Girl Game published by Sly Robot Games
Plant Girl Game is a tabletop roleplaying game about a family of adventurous plant children working together to prevent an ecological disaster in their community.
You don’t have to be a girl, but you do have to be a plant. Your character’s gender is not essential to the game. In fact, the real plant girl is your mom—the kind-hearted witch who grows children in her garden.
Your mother’s garden is crowded with succulents and sometimes—when the timing is just right, when your whole family is ready—one of those succulents emerges from the garden as a human child. This is how you came to be: you climbed out of the soil, between the ages of ten and thirteen, and found your family ready to love you.
You’re tied to the land, to the soil and the water that fed you. Any threat to your town’s ecosystem is a threat to your family’s way of life—and your town is on the brink of ecological disaster. Your family must work together to protect yourselves and your community at large. See how your garden grows here.
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The Rumor Broker’s Ledger of Names: An NPC Compendium published by Games Unbound
The Rumor Broker’s Ledger of Names is a collection of 50 non-player characters (NPCs) created with intricate backstory, personal motivations, and full rules for where they can be encountered as well as what they might do for the party if so inclined. Need a message delivered? Looking for a safe haven? Want to find out more about that curse? Well, the Rumor has it…
This compendium of contacts are from all manner of backgrounds, various wealth levels, and degrees of power, making them easy to include in any game no matter the level of the characters. They are created by an incredibly talented and wide-ranging group of authors and illustrated by skilled and varied artists to bring your game to life with different cultures, perspectives, and experiences. Each NPC contact has a developed personality, with their own likes, dislikes, and desires. Every contact comes complete with plot hooks and hidden secrets that can enrich any story, as well as stat blocks and detailed mechanics covering what skills they can bring to the table.
Meet someone new here.
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Games on Mote
Mote is a text-centered, real-time storytelling platform that magically weaves what you and your friends write into a living story, currently in open beta. If you want to try it out, there is a selection of games designed specifically for use on Mote, including Tidal Heist (where you’ll retrieve an ancient, powerful artifact stolen from your homeland of Atlantis) by Avery Alder and As Per Your Instructions (where, as overworked demigods, you must finish building a world to spec) by Yeonsoo Julian Kim. Explore a new way to play here.
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A One Page Paladin/Cleric-Only Tabletop Roleplaying Game by Ethan H. Reynolds
You have been forsaken by the Chapel of Light and forced from its ranks. You are excommunicated, but still have the powers of Light at your fingertips. They have ordered you to seek salvation and redeem yourself by journeying into the world and helping others. Will you seek salvation? Or will you forsake the Chapel and be on your own path
Play as a Paladin or Cleric in this easy to learn and innovative single-page TTRPG. Command powerful spells, level your character, and seek out the Light to redeem or soul…or reject it and embrace the Dark. Walk your hard road here.
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Tea and Crumpets by C. A. McKinney
Deep in the heart of Central City, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Normal citizens are suddenly changing into strange, flowery monsters with flower-based powers! But to what end? Why are they here? And why are they working for Earl Grey, the elusive thief? Gather your friends, get your transformation sequence out of the way, and get ready to monologue every time you use a power here.
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Advanced Lovers & Lesbians published by Evil Hat
Draw your sword and bare your heart with new character types, fresh settings, and even more ways to enjoy the Thirsty Sword Lesbians roleplaying game! Lace up your skates and settle old scores in a wasteland roller derby, explore the jungles of Venus as part of a planet-roving band of futuristic battle bards, or pick up your favorite Arthurian legend and MAKE. IT. GAY.
Crafted by an all-star team assembled from the best and brightest of the indie RPG scene, Advanced Lovers and Lesbians shines a spotlight on the game’s universal themes of found family and deep emotional connections. Innovative new playbooks and alternate rules offer novel story arcs for your next game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Take your gay to the next level here.
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Patreons and Other Subscriptions
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ThatGamerCher
ThatGamerCher is the founder and CEO of founder of Cautionary Games, a Black-owned, female-owned company dedicated to designing and producing high quality tabletop gaming products. Besides being a TTRPG performer, digital gamer and a variety streamer on Twitch, she’s also a professional stage, screen and voiceover actor. Help send her to GenCon here.
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Valiant Dorian
Valiant Dorian AKA Otso SpiritBear (he/him/his) is a bisexual and trans desi Actual Play Performer, GM and Twitch Variety Streamer. He plays Voska on Transplanar RPG's The Second Stranger D&D Actual Play. He loves portraying the beautiful aches of the heartbroken. Help him produce his own AP stream here.
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Games You Might Have Missed
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Sundo by Pamela Punzalan
Sundo is a roleplaying game about death, memories, what our dearly departed leave behind in their wake, and letting go. Players will get to take on the role of psychopomps under the command of Death. What complicates this situation is that psychopomps were once mortals, and do not remember their past. Ferrying the dead to where they Belong, occasionally dislodges memories of What Once Was. To remember one’s self, however, is against the Rules. Death always comes for those who break the Rules, even if the Breakers belong to Them.
At one point in the game, the players will be called upon to choose. Will they let go of who they were and stay as they are, or will they hold their memories close even if it could mean their destruction? Choose your way here.
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Modo Okulto by arisia
Modo Okulto is a pen-and-paper RPG based on John Harper's Lasers & Feelings about secret societies using eldritch magic to combat the Spanish colonial government. Use what tools you have to resist here.
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