Innocent Goblin

Introducing The Hawthorne Effect! A new solo or duet TTRPG with a creepy old computer application vibe about surveillance, uncovering conspiracies, and how people react when they discover they're being observed. Surveil your subjects and slowly uncover a grand conspiracy you can choose to either help or hinder.

During your play you'll have to figure out what your subjects are up to, and just why your institute has you observing them.

Hawthorne Effect will be crowdfunding in February

More info below!

INTRODUCING THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT!

A TTRPG about surveillance, uncovering conspiracies, and how we act once we know we're being observed!

The Hawthorne Effect can be played both solo or two player with letter writing.

Come and uncover the grand conspiracy on February 1st on Kickstarter

https://itch.io/s/173618/support-what-haunts-us

All of this money will go towards What Haunts Us, allowing me to pay the editor, layout designer, and extra writers!

The games include Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto, Pirouette, and the What Haunts Us beta!

I've added a ton of community copies so anyone can pick it up!

What Haunts Us is a ghost hunting TTRPG that will be kickstarting from Halloween 2025!

It focuses on the emotional core of hauntings as well as those who investigate them. Players investigate haunted locations, help ghosts move on, and try to survive their dangerous life long enough to fulfil their own unfinished business, before they become the very thing they dedicated their life to hunting. 

I wanted to run through some of the things that excite me about it!

Something haunting will be happening soon!

Keep your eyes peeled agent, your expertise will be needed!

Sometimes you just have to start your ghost hunting TTRPG Kickstarter campaign on the spooky day!

What Haunts Us, The modern ghost hunting TTRPG will now be crowdfunding from Halloween!

I've been working on a modern ghost hunting TTRPG for a while now and it's finally at a point where I can start showing people it!

What Haunts Us is a ghost hunting TTRPG that focuses on the emotional core of hauntings as well as those who investigate them. Hunt ghosts, help them move on, and survive long enough to complete your unfinished business before you become the thing you dedicated your like to hunting.

I'm really excited for the way it merges horror and emotional distress to create super sympathetic ghosts whilst still allowing for that creepy horror movie vibes!

Also the aesthetic is super exciting for me, our layout designer is doing amazing work to deliver a messy casefile vibe, lot's of stationary and scraps of information

Pirouette is a solo journaling #ballet game where you play as a dancer performing for an eldritch horror

Experience the dread of rising tension as you try to land a Grand Jete en Tournant

Pirouette was designed with the advice and guidance of a professional ballet dancer, ensuring it feels authentic to the art of ballet whilst mixing in the tension, horror, and emotional core of the journaling experience!

Crowdfundr.com/Pirouette

Opening on the 1st February, come and join the performance of a lifetime!

crowdfundr.com/pirouette

The Kaiju Love You!

A TTRPG where you use bubble wrap to represent your path of destruction through a city. Become a Kaiju, fight monsters and go on dates.

Because big hulking monsters have even bigger hearts

I have been thinking of this game for over a year and I am so glad I have finally completed it!

The Kaiju Love You! by InnocentGoblin (itch.io)

2023 has been a wild ride for me. so much has happened but for game design this year I have:

🎲Revamped and redesigned 10 games I'd previously published

🎲Designed 4 new TTRPGs 

🎲Homebrewed 3 DnD adventures (+ a few more that is unpublished)

🎲Designed a further 3 games that need working on

That feels like not much at all but knowing that all of these were passion projects, I am so happy to have game design in my life.

Very soon I will have been doing this for 2 whole years and it's hardly become a potential career yet but I have met so many amazing people in that time, I've experience so much unconditional support from people I can't wait to get to know more!