kota's memex

systems

fields of clover

An RPG I'm working on making.

mausritter

An old school style RPG where you play as little mice.

mothership

A sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in space.

heart

Delving into a nightmare undercity.

wildsea

Play as a pirates crew, but instead of sailing on water sail across the trees.

mythic bastionland

Live and die as a knight of legend. If dnd feels like a nice stable job this is like robbing banks as you descend into madness.

brindlewood bay

A book club of elderly women in a small new england town solving lovecraftian murder mysteries.

dnd

The original role playing game.

moxie

Moxie is a role playing companion designed to gamify challenges.

knave

An influential OSR game featuring a classless system and slot based inventory.

cairn

Inspired heavily by knave, but with lots of clever changes.

https://www.torchbearerrpg.com/

Makes dungeon delving feel real and intense.

https://grahamgentz.itch.io/under-the-autumn-strangely

A storytelling pastoral horror game inspired by over the garden wall.

settings

tol/Tol

A homebrew high fantasy setting I ran in the winter of 2023.

dolmenwood/Dolmenwood

Players journey through tangled woods and mossy bowers, forage for magical mushrooms and herbs, discover rune-carved standing stones and hidden fairy roads, venture into fungal grottoes and forsaken ruins, battle oozing monstrosities, haggle with goblin merchants, and drink tea with fairies.

oz

A 5e or OSR "Wizard of OZ" setting. Very polished and well done. Quite large.

neverland

A 5e or OSR "Neverland" setting. Very polished, same author as OZ.

secret of the black crag

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams." A pirate archipelago adventure.

vaults of vaarn

Set in the far future on earth where the sun is dying. Takes place in a dessert landscape and is a strange mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Very creative setting.

willow

A smaller "haunted forest" setting / adventure. Very well made, could be a starting place or put in a larger fantasy game.

hot springs island

Extremely polished OSR setting. A dark and twisted island.

long winter

It's set in a quaint alpine area in perhaps the 1920s, but with some fantasy elements thrown in.

adventures

the gardens of ynn

Find a wall covered in ivy, vines, moss, or similar, and clear that vegetation away. Using chalk and charcoal draw a realistic door on the surface below. Write upon the door: “Ynn, by way of [the current location]”.

the stygian library

Somewhere in any big enough and old enough library, there will be an unmarked door. It is invariably locked, and probably hidden, perhaps behind a shelf against the wall, beneath wallpaper, in rooms the public are barred from entering, or under a painting or sign. Find it, unlock it, and on the other side the shelves continue.

the black wyrm of brandonsford

A starting adventure set in the town of brandonsford. There's a dragon in the woods. No-one wants to leave the town's walls. With the humans out of the forest, fairies have taken over, and now the goblin king Hogboon seeks to claim the entire forest as his new kingdom. Roughly 1-3 levels, well designed, and easy to expand into a larger campaign.

the waking of willowby hall

A very fun 3rdish level contained adventure in an old manor being attacked by a giant.

tomb robbers of the crystal frontier

An excellent starting adventure, but with a slightly non-standard setting.

witch burner

A small town with lots of terrible things going wrong tries to get the party to find and burn the witch. Same author as long winter and others, but should fit nicely into most d&d campaigns.

wyvern songs

An anthology of four excellent adventures that could be run as one shots or plopped into most fantasy games.

castle xyntillan

A whimsical castle crawl adventure. Packed with cool encounters, adventures, and NPCs.

trilemma adventures

A giant collection of fantasy adventures. Most are one or two pages, but packed with useful info.

through the valley of the manticore

Set in a canyon where a manticore which has acquired several magical items terrorizes the denizens.

https://shop.swordfishislands.com/silent-titans/

A strange mystery adventure that emphasizes narrative play.

https://koobear.itch.io/magpie-treetrunk

A neat mausritter adventure site. An old treetrunk have been used for generation as a headquarters for the famous sky riders and their loyal magpie steeds.

https://palleonpress.itch.io/wands-of-the-whippoorwill-wood

A fairytale setting with a few adventures. For cairn originally.

https://www.themerrymushmen.com/product/nightmare-over-ragged-hollow/

extras

on downtime and demines

An expansion book for OSR style games that gives fun rules and minigames for downtime.

artifices, deceptions and dilemmas

Details about how to build traps and dungeon tricks that are fun to interact with as a player.

bestial ecosystems created by monstrous inhabitation

Gives dozens and dozens of ideas for making a given monster and its lair unique. Lots of rumors and ways to drop hints about different legendary monsters.

wonder and wickedness

An OSR spellbook. Very creative fairytale style spells.

the book of gaub

More OSR spells by the above author. Darker and more wicked.

https://elmc.at/how-to-set-up-and-use-faction-turns/

A really nice guide for running factions in your world. Taking their overarching goals, and splitting them down into small steps which can happen parallel to the players.

https://slowquest.itch.io/fantastic-foraging

Nice little plant and herb foraging supplement.

https://philippa-mort.itch.io/mice-presents

Mice present ideas for mausritter.

https://figcat.com/lists/fantasy-osr-and-nsr-games/#the-list

Nice big list of osr and nsr games.