Cats Have No Lord

What happens when a toxic man forcibly marries a murderous vampiress?

A PERFECT WIFE is an adventure of contemporary supernatural horror, featuring the Malaysian pontianak, set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur.

A TTRPG zine with art by Amanda Lee Franck and Scrap World, layout design by David Blandy, and text + design (+ some art) by me!

This is also a fundraiser! Everybody working on the zine is part of a visual art exhibition called WEIRD HOPE ENGINES, happening in Nottingham in March 2025. Proceeds from our zine will go towards paying for air tickets and travel expenses to get me and Scrap and Amanda to the UK.

SUPPORT US >>>HERE<<<

(Draft layout)

The zine version of A PERFECT WIFE is an expanded, up-punched version of the adventure I posted on this blog:

Sharper-drawn setting details and locations;

A shift away from a genericised Asian city, to Kuala Lumpur specifically;

Double the number of NPCs;

Player-character background packages;

A less-straightforward string of clues, for more satisfying investigative play;

Proper cartography and better art.

To wit, here's Sara from the blog post:

And here is Sara, in the zine:

But that's just my art; strictly dilettante-grade stuff.

You are here for Amanda and Scrap, who both contribute sick, hand-painted, full-colour art to the adventure, oozing with moody dread:

I mean, come on.

We hope that all this is enough to entice you to back us. As of writing, we've already raised enough for a print run of the zine (with a fold-out of the location, and A5 art prints of Amanda's and Scrap's paintings), but we still need help with the flights-and-travel fundraising bit.

SUPPORT US >>>HERE<<<

Still not convinced? What's it gonna take?

You know what? I'll write something for you. I'll write you a bespoke NPC, that you can use your game, when you play A PERFECT WIFE at your table.

I'll even make art of this NPC for you. Original hand-drawn pen art which I'll physically mail to you.

I'm not joking. This---alongside the option of having Amanda draw you a creepy (maybe cute) owl---is literally one of the add-ons you can append to your backer rewards on the Kickstarter.

(The show that we will all be part of. More info here.)

If it sounds like I'm begging---I am.

I've admired Scrap and Amanda for years. What a privilege to have worked with them on this zine, to have them make art from my words, my imagination.

It would be a dream turned real for me to be able to meet them for the first time, and thank them in person.

Won’t Someone Think of the d100 Polearms? is a free toolkit for crafting unique polearms for use in tabletop roleplaying games. It is system neutral, and it will be up to you to assign stats that make sense for the polearms in your system of choice.

In this toolkit you will find three tables to roll on to create a polearm:

1. A table of 100 blade designs based on historical polearms!

2. A table of 100 special qualities (Angry, Wise, Invisible, Cabbage)!

3. A table of 100 (mostly) decorative shafts!

Now, go forth and fill your games with a bounty of the most useful yet most underappreciated type of weapon ever to grace the pages of our hobby!

Something resembling a dryad if it was funnelled through a cube trash compactor

When The Walls Fall is a dice-stacking world building tool which focuses on building and toppling a dice tower from a set of polyhedral dice and generating a mighty long fallen city.

I've finished the second edition and I'll hopefully have physical copies at Dragonmeet 2023! (And maybe in a retailer after that... 👀)

Goblin Mail here we go! The Goblins are ready and we are jumping the cliff! Share around if you want. 😊 #TTRPG #Troika

here, there, be monsters!

Play as a diverse crew of monstrous, anomalous or just generally odd beings, fighting against those who would use, abuse or even annihilate you. Create and populate your own supernatural underworld, abnormal gang and extra-dimensional haven. Hunt monster hunters! Punch nazi occultists! Eat the rich! Protect each other! Fight back! Here, there, be monsters!

writing, design and layout by wendi yu with original art by Lino Arruda

Is official spooky season over? Yes. Does it have to be? No. Am I refusing to let it die? Yes.