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Hi there! I’m Kay Marlow Allen, a game designer, poet, and publisher based in Massachusetts, and this is my teeny tiny studio. I’m currently open to freelance editing & game writing inquiries, and I’m also available for interviews, podcast appearances, collaborations, and zine trades! I send out a free bimonthly newsletter about play and creativity called Saturn Peach! If you'd like to receive essays and sneak peeks into my design process, you can sign up right here.  I’m interested in sharing the mundanity and the magic of the everyday, and my work creates spaces for resting, reflecting, and connecting.
The Asterin
Your Friend in Witchcraft
A Vast Expanse of Sky
Heroic Verse
Morning Walk
Colossal
Gossamer Dawn
The Bleeding Mother And All Her Saints
Endless Summer
Psychonaut: A Songbirds Gift/Curse
Learnèd Creatures
The Rootling
Nectar
Behold My Grand & Glorious Hat and Weep
The Retiree
Interplanetary Dinner Party
As the World Falls Down
& With My Anger I Will Grow
Dream Quilt
Contact Sports
& In My Rapture I Will Bloom
If you like HOME - Mech x Kaiju Mapmaking RPG check out...
The Small Old Kingdom of Somnaire   - System-free pocket zine setting about a strange, mostly dead country
Runecairn: Core Rules   - Soulslike Norse fantasy tabletop role-playing game
PALLID JAILOR: A Class for MÖRK BORG   - You are a jailor - far from home on an endless pursuit. For Mork Borg.
Wandering Dreams   - A solo storytelling RPG zine of eldritch horror and exploring the unknown.
Fellowship 2nd Edition - A Tabletop Adventure Game   - Work together to build a world you must then save from evil.
Penumbra: A Trophy Dark Incursion   - Only the poison can save them
Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition   - Build a new world in the ruins of the future.
Runecairn Wardensaga   - Norse fantasy Soulslike tabletop role-playing game
going rogue 2e   - a gm-less ttrpg inspired by rogue one, about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice
Beneath the Broken Sword   - An introductory dungeon crawl adventure for Runecairn
Time To Kill   - You've got time to kill, before it's time to kill.
The Sealed Library   - You are the last librarian. What can you save before the fire?
If you like SLUDGELANDS check out...
Village Witch Post   - A postcard game for a witch writing letters about her new home.
Patchwork World Sixth Edition   - Weird fantasy PbtA with no playbooks & no stats
Primal Quest - Essentials   - A Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game
Penicillin Issue #1   - Weird RPG Zine
NETWORK 23 [ENG] revised edition   - Weird and Wonderful cyberpunk.
Advanced Let's Play Pretend 2nd Edition   - An introductory RPG that fits on a business card
The Doomlands   - Micro Setting
DAGGER!   - A micro-RPG that fits on a single index card
Endsville: An Unorthodox Setting Guide   - An unrthodox setting guide to the weird-fantasy city of Endsville.
HANDEGG: a one page setting   - a one page setting
We Deal in Lead   - A weird west wanders adventure game
You Are In A (Noun) Fight   - A postcard-sized fight
If you like A State of Being check out...
Swamp Renewal   - Welcome to the Forgotten Quag.
Body Witness to the Sword   - A Little Coffin
The Retro Hack   - A different OSR
Dieku System - Dunjön RPG Beta   - A rules light system in the OSR style of play
Friends in Striped Clothes and Shiny Armours   - 6 Troika! Backgrounds
Odds and Ends Issue 1   - A science fantasy TTRPG zine
Cairn Essentials   - A fantastical adventure game combining Old School Essentials and Cairn
DUR-FU   - Martial arts rules options for the DURF RPG
The Voyage appendix   - Old school simple rules for Hex map generation, voyage and exploration
Weapon FX System (1 Page Addon)   - Include Weapon Effects in OSR Games
Iron Sword   - a sword-and-sorcery rpg with an iron core within
Punth: A Primer   - A mechanically-guided setting for Tabletop RPGs