Sean Nittner

Striking a Chord

Welcome to the second post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … Whenever designing a game, or a setting and ruleset for an existing game, I always want to get weird with magic. I was never satisfied with spell lists after getting my fill […]

The Melted World

Welcome to the first (of many to come) in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … I was listening to a podcast (Dan Carlin’s excellent Hardcore History) late one night, back when I was working graveyard shift surveillance. The host mentioned the munitions still buried […]

Blades ’68 Playtest

Blades ’68 is an official supplement for Blades in the Dark, moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s.  Across the Shattered Isles, it is the Age of Consensus. Superstition has been replaced by the superior values of science, conformity, and consumerism. It is a world at peace. Or that’s what they try to tell […]

Dice Pool

A streaming series of GM advice to help you get that game off the shelf and onto the table. Tips & tricks from expert GMs for running Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and Fate. We’ve invited some of the most prolific and talented GMs we know to share their […]

Rangers of a Broken World

Horrors, Noble Demons, and Automata stalk the land. You are a Ranger, divinely tasked to protect humanity. Draw on the power of your Deilith, spend Scatter, and weave Spell Notes to fight these threats. Playtesting is complete and post-playtest revisions are underway now.

GODKILLER: Last Hope

Official GODKILLER Show about Viciously Queer Devotion, “GODKILLER: Last Hope,” to Premiere on June 29 About Transplanar RPG: Transplanar RPG is an all-transgender, people of color-led actual play channel telling dark fantasy stories in an original non-colonial, anti-orientalist multiverse. The ENNIE-nominated, CRIT Award-sweeping channel has been featured in Polygon, Dicebreaker, and Gizmodo and discussed on NPR, The New York Times, and […]

Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth

Update 6/20/2025 Sad news: we are canceling the Tomb Raider RPG project. Due to creative differences we couldn’t get our vision to gel with the licensor’s, so we’ve chosen to part ways.  The stellar team designing this game put their hearts into making this an exciting, dynamic RPG of adventure and exploration.  We’re proud of […]

Abyssal

Abyssal by Ash Cheshire and Lara Turner Abyssal is a Forged in the Dark role-playing game about humans, monsters, and the people in between. In this game, you will play a group of no-longerfully-human, not-yet-fully-monsters, called Liminals—people who have been touched by supernatural forces, but not entirely overcome by them—who are working together to accomplish […]

As the Sun Forever Sets

As the Sun Forever Sets by Riley Daniels. As the Sun Forever Sets is a Forged in the Dark game about a group of ordinary Victorian people embroiled in the chaos of Britain as it collapses under the overwhelming weight of an invasion from Mars. Where our players go, how they’ll survive these extreme circumstances, […]