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Folks, I have just released a free DEMO edition of my Narrative RPG Zine, Tales of Kthonic Waters (launching soon this Month for Zinequest 2025 on Kickstarter). Check out the DEMO here.

Embark on a New Weird adventure that stretches the limits of Lovecraftian lore, Anti-Imperialist Satire, and the conventions of Sci-Fi Fantasy. 

What is it? 
+ Over 95+ (and increasing) pages of crunchy, narrative solo RPG in full colour, packed with art, and great writing.
+ Explore a Lovecraftian inspired anti-imperialist satire, with new weird world-building
+ Project is almost entirely complete, it's just waiting for you to manifest it into reality.
+ Certified Meatbag. 100% human made, no Gen AI nonsense

CRUNCHY, BUT NARRATIVE FOCUSED
Crunchy, meaningful mechanics form the backbone of this narrative journaling adventure. 

As a gamer, I often find myself frustrated by the lack of crunchiness in many of my solo RPGs, yet too much crunchiness turns it into a numbers game, which defeats the purpose of a narrative game. 

Tales of Kthonic Waters is my attempt to address those shortcomings in the genre, with something that I myself would want to play.

Thanks so much for the feedback! Sorry about the black background page lol.

You may be interested to know that I am currently working on a sequel to Kthonic Descent. It was going to be the "definitive" version, but then I added too much actual lore, and significantly improved mechanics.

Oh wow. That's amazing. Thanks so much. I have added you on Discord. Now I can truly archive it for posterity lol. 

Yes. Sort of. I intend to create a second edition or a "definitive edition" at least.

1) Part of the difficulty here is that Rage in Hell was designed in Adobe Creative Suite. Unfortunately I have divorced from Adobe (because of their predatory pricing practices. And later on, I took umbrage with their use of AI). So I would be recreating a good chunk of everything in Affinity instead (but that would happen anyway, cuz I need to update the art, etc). 

2) Is Rage in Hell better served as a Zine...or as a Boardgame? That's a question I ask myself. Because it's not that much harder to make it, say, a card game. But would it lose something of itself if it was a boardgame? And if I go a boardgame route...why not just make a new game/sequel? When is a "new edition" too different that it should rightly be a different game? 

So while my mind chew on those questions, I continue to work away on my other TTRPG projects (stay tuned, some really exciting stuff coming).

*whistle* Talk about the perfect combo.

Yes, please do adapt to your play preferences. 

And thank you so much for playing! And for reviewing and commenting (why is nobody commenting ;_;). It means a lot to me and gives me validation for what I do.