Snakes not included

My homie Forrest is GMing our game of Mothership and I'm making hella little comics about how we get boned by the horrors of space.

Since its been out for a bit, I wanted to share a compilation of the illustrations I did for Little Wolves in full! Thanks again to Dinoberry!!! I had so much fun doing these and am still rlly happy how they turned out 🥺💕

Little Wizards: A simple game about *little wizards* on different magical islands. It's designed for kids, but we played it as an adult group and it was nice to solve problems without smash-fireball-violence like we normally tend to. I'd love to run it as a Kikis delivery service type of story someday.

Knights of Underbed: can also be played by kids; you play as toys and stuffed animals protecting children from nightmare monsters while they are asleep, as well as travelling through the dreamlands to go on adventures. I asked my players to create characters based on plushies from their own childhood and it's possible to make it more creepy and dark if you want to.

Wanderhome: You're probably already familiar with this one if you know about Yazebas

Animon: according to Dicebreaker, it's 'the perfect tabletop RPG for Pokemon and Digimon fans'

Sprout Quest: a game about tiny people living a calm life as caretakers of the natural world, leaving their villages to venture into the wilderness

Arjenta, junk mage kissed by the Drowned Queen

Hey! Are you also obsessed with stories where you can never go home? Or maybe stories where you can technically go to the place you once called home, but you’ve been so irrevocably changed by your journey that it’s now unrecognizable to you?

Back Again from the Broken Land is a short Powered by the Apocalypse game of small adventurers sharing stories on a long walk home. It is meant to be played in one to three sessions. The game is inspired by the emotional, even bittersweet, stretches of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

You are small people who walked into a big war. The Doomslord’s forces were gathered in the Broken Land, and your fellowship unexpectedly played a key role in the Doomslord’s fall. Now, laden with stories to tell and burdens to bear, you set off on the journey home. But the Doomslord’s Hunters are still out there, and it’s a long way to walk… Back Again from the Broken Land.

As with most Powered by the Apocalypse games, Back Again from the Broken Land starts off with players and the GM collaboratively creating the world by answering a series of questions.

One of the main mechanics of the game are Burdens. Burdens represent the unfinished business that weighs the characters down even after the Doomslord has been defeated. These are the things that are preventing you from going home. Each playbook has one that they start out with, and characters can gain or lose Burdens throughout play.

Back Again from the Broken Land does a fantastic job of cultivating an atmosphere of both melancholy and hope. Your characters have gone through something terrible, and are still not safe from it. But they’re together, and are going to help each other finish the journey and get back home. 

[English first, poi in italiano]

This game's setting is everything. This literal sea of trees is an incredible work of worldbuilding, making it a vibrant, deep and nuanced expanse that makes you want to find out more about it, and, while there's plenty of lore to build your own tales, making your own and adding to the setting is what it's all about. The character's Aspects, Drives and Mires are quite a storytelling engine, and the Aspects in particular you can choose from during character creation are a blast. To the point that every character we made, didn't matter if we focused on synergies, weirdness or coolness, we always got an entertaining result that made their scenes special. The system uses Forged in the Dark's dice resolution mechanic, almost, but applied more traditionally, and there's quite a bit of bookkeeping to keep track of on the character sheets. You also have to make one for your party's chainsaw-prowed ship and its crew, that will mostly come into play during Exploration scenes. I also really appreciated how character can add their own Discoveries during their journeys by putting together a Map and a Whisper (living ideas that take root in your characters, begging to become a Story), adding to the setting themselves. One of my favorite details are the languages, though, as skill in those doesn't just determine your fluency, but also, and more importantly, your knowledge of the associated culture.

L'ambientazione di questo gioco è tutto. Questo letterale mare di alberi è un'incredibile opera di worldbuilding, una distesa profonda, vibrante e piena di sfumature che ti stimola ad esplorarla e, benché fornisca già una base più che sufficiente, aggiungere le vostre è il vero fulcro di questo gioco. Gli Aspetti, Moventi e Pantani dei personaggi sono degli ottimi motori di narrazione, gli Aspetti fra cui scegliere, poi, sono particolarmente spassosi. Al punto che ogni personaggio che abbiamo fatto, indipendentemente che ci concentrassimo sulle sinergie, la stranezza o l'eccesso, abbiamo sempre ottenuto dei risultati giocabili che rendevano speciali le scene in cui entravano in gioco. La risoluzione delle azioni usa la meccanica dei dadi dei Forged in the Dark, ma applicata in modo più tradizionale e le schede necessitano un po' di contabilità da parte dei giocatori. Contando inoltre che anche la nave del gruppo con la sua ciurma e prua a motosega necessita una scheda, che entra in gioco principalmente nelle scene di Esplorazione. Ho veramente apprezzato anche come i personaggi possano aggiungere le loro Scoperte mettendo insieme una Mappa e un Sussurro (idee viventi che si infiltrano nella loro mente e cercano di diventare una Storia), facendogli creare elementi nell'ambientazione. Per finire, uno dei miei dettagli preferiti sono stati i Linguaggi, che non rappresentano soltanto la padronanza dello stesso, ma anche quanto il personaggio conosce della cultura ed essi legata.

By Ulrich Kiesow, Werner Fuchs, Hans Joachim Alpers

The Dark Eye is a high fantasy RPG that uses a 3d20 system. It is set in the fictional world of Ethra with the continent Aventuria being the most classic campaign setting.

It has 40 years of content so the world is very developed, they have a shitton of books and extra stuff and back when I played it I was introduced to a special software for character creation because it's *a lot* with all the steps and options.

By Free League Publishing

Vaesen is a horror game that takes place in 19th century Scandinavia, and is inspired by Scandinavian folklore. You are part of the Society, and organisation who solve mysteries around conflict between human an vaesen. These vaesen are creatures of stories, who either help or hinder human, but are unseen by most. There are those that can see them though, Thursday's Children who are blessed (or cursed) with The Sight. With time more and more conflicts appear between vaesen and the humans who live nearby, as industrialisation pushes civilisation further and further into nature and the supernatural seems to grow stronger.

Vaesen is based on the book "Vaesen: Spirits and Monsters of Scandinavian Folklore" by Johan Egerkrans, and uses the Year Zero Engine. The game alternates between solving mysteries and dealing with whatever problems appear at your base, Castle Gyllencreutz in Upsala, Sweden.

(Poll Runner note : There is a french translation, and as a bonus, the translators did a bestiary book dedicated to my region. Nice touch)

Google AI is sometimes stupid (Ft. Hrothgar, my Delta Green PC + his daughter Hygd + @theroyalzealot's NPC Ulysses Fisher)

Here are some bonuses!

By Grant Howitt

You are a bear, trying to steal honey from a convention. You also have a little hat.