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The first issue was for STALKER: The SciFi Roleplaying Game, the second for the ‘Nordic Dreaming’ style of play – games like Draug, Itras By and the Society of Dreamers. The idea of the fanzine is to focus on a different game or school of games every issue. I love these games.
Black Dog Dérive (Machineries of Joy: Issue 1)
Nørwegian Surreal (Machineries of Joy: Issue 2)
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Liminal Horror   - A Modern Horror TTRPG
Locus   - Personal Horror Roleplaying game.
Definitely Wizards   - A TTRPG about not being a wizard
RUNE   - A solo soulslike TTRPG
Quests Over Coffee   - Solo dice and card quest game over a cup of coffee.
Ironsworn: Starforged   - The standalone, sci-fi evolution of the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game
Domains Horror Roleplaying System Rulebook   - Narrative Horror TTRPG
Stoneburner   - Solo-friendly sci-fantasy RPG of demon hunting and community building in a dwarven asteroid mine.
Lilliputian: Adventure On the Open Seas   - A Tiny Game of Huge Adventure.
Gentleman Bandit | Western Cantos I   - A dark Western poetry RPG for 1+
Hack n Slash   - Pocket-sized Dungeon Crawler TTRPG
Nexalis   - Explore a bright fantasy world of a thousand isles
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The Ambulatory Temple   - A One-Page Dungeon
The Small Old Kingdom of Somnaire   - System-free pocket zine setting about a strange, mostly dead country
Unseen Hall   - A One Page Dungeon
Sangam: Academy of Poets   - a system neutral one shot
Swords Under The Sun   - Blades in the Dark meet Dungeon World
BOWLER   - A System-Neutral Autumnal Horror Adventure
Beach Episode   - leave your grief at the beach
Melting Pot   - One Page Dungeon
Into the Icebound Caves   - A one-page dungeon for fantasy TTRPG's
Bodies In Flight   - A system neutral adventure
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
The Pine Barrens   - System-neutral Setting & Adventure
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The Gardener is Dead   - A GMless storytelling TTRPG about tending to a haunted garden. For Groups or solo play.
Hard Wired Island   - Retrofuture cyberpunk, inspired by 90s anime.
Menagerie of the Void   - A storytelling game for one player, the newly-appointed keeper of an ancient zoo created by a long-gone society.
Curse of the Emerald Sea   - A sandbox swashbuckling setting for Knave
Our Armistice   - An intimate experience for two about Heroes, Lovers, and Home
Hard Wired Island Preview   - Retrofuture Cyberpunk
Rolling with Laughter   - A high fantasy adventure gone very wrong
Fungal Forest   - A short adventure for Cairn
Oh, Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend's Birthday Present Inside   - A quick-play game about a hairy situation.
Breakfast Cult   - A game about school days and the end of days.
Wander and other business card RPGs   - Business Card sized RPGs
A Garden of Pomegranates   - A TTRPG of occultism and shenanigans.