Some of you may be aware of a Kickstarter promotion running this month called Zine Quest, which encourages creators to launch short campaigns aimed at funding small RPG zines. I’ve been hard at work on my campaign, a rules-lite game based on The Borrowers called Under the Floorboards, and the Kickstarter campaign is now live. […]
FREELANCE is now available from the Loot The Room store or from itch.io! Do work. Get Paid. FREELANCE is an adversarial game of arguments, frustration, and ghosting for two players. You are a freelancer who has done work for a client but you have not yet been paid, and the shifty little fuck keeps finding ways to dodge the issue. […]
The Wandmaker is a set of themes designed to accompany The Wandmaker’s Cabin. This download comprises of four files: A Walk In The Woods [3:44] Something Lurking [0:21] Kill It With Fire [3:10] The Wandmaker (Full Score) [6:58] This is a free download. The suggested price is £2.95, but you can enter £0.00 when you download […]
The Wandmaker’s Cabin – New Monster Whatever the reason the adventurer’s have travelled to Celli’s cabin, they may well find that when they arrive there the gnome is no longer alive. This month’s new monster is the Stranglebloom, a plant that germinates inside a living host before erupting from the mouth and throat of the […]
If you missed last week’s map, click here. Celli Dustgrasp’s cabin contains a wealth of treasures in the form of valuable items she uses to create her magical items, and – of course – the items themselves. In the previous post I gave you descriptions of three magical items that characters might find in Celli’s […]
Welcome back to Loot The Room! It’s been a while, but I’m back again with new content and a new schedule. Each month will see me tackling a new theme, creating content that works together to enable you to run a really memorable adventure. The month is broken down into the following posts, all of […]
On Saturday I appeared on The RPG Lab’s Twitch channel with a handful of really talented creators, where we were discussing D&D monsters and attempting to combine some already-existing creatures into something new and interesting. For my mashup I chose to combine two of my favourite monsters – the Purple Worm and the Gelatinous Cube […]
Hello there! You may have noticed some changes around here. The incredibly talented Whipstache of Whipstache Designs has been hard at work doing what I could never do myself, turning this clunky old mess of a site into something sleek and gorgeous that I absolutely love. I’m really, really pleased with how the site looks and functions […]
A guest post from Yubi, DM of The Mortal Path, on the differences between running a game for your friends vs. one for public consumption.
The squat, L-shaped building is nothing special to look at. Inside is a two-storey library that is open to the public at all times of the day and night. No staff appear to work here. At midnight each night, all the books and scrolls in the library magically return to their proper places (including any […]