Live now on BackerKit as part of Mausritter Month. Mechritter is a modular expansion/sandbox setting that turns Mausritter into a game of urban mouse and machine roleplaying!

Featuring squabbling high street gangs operating out the walls of chain stores, crafty machines made of litter, a mysterious fox and more interested in your mecha pieces, and more!

Build your mecha using individual stickers to represent each body part, with a really neat system created by Laurie O'Connel. Illustrated by Gustavo Folleto and featuring stickers by Yanahn.

We're well over halfway to funded now. Laurie's posted an update over on the BackerKit which includes a preview of a new sticker sheet.

The new edition of Follow Me in the Night is out now on Itch. This is the third game in my musical trilogy releases. It's a tarot based solo game and playlist builder, casting you as a sleepless wanderer on strange streets.

You find yourself haunted by ghosts, powered by music and bad memories and drawn from the Major Arcana. You're walking the streets trying to vanish the ghosts. There's a feeling of someone following you. This might just all be the sleep deprivation. You might find answers in the night, following the radio, wandering through a grid of the Minor Arcana, or it might consume you.

(also theres some alternative versions in the backmatter including a few different variations to make it a group game)

Hey there's a game coming to Kickstarter soon that I think looks really cool, and it's been struggling for attention a little bit.

Full Send is a doomed mountaineering game by Laurie O'Connel (the creator of trans necromancer game Lichcraft and Hieronymus amongst other things). You build a summit from the Major Arcana and then face individual obstacles in a trick taking game using the Minor Arcana. The climbers are working together to survive the mountain, but competing for the glory. They're trying to juggle their lives and friends with the call of the summit air.

I'm not unbiased here. I'm doing some photo collage tarot cards for the game. But I've read the full preview and I really think this game is worth your time. If you enjoyed the stuff I did with trick taking on Transgender Deathmatch Legend or have enjoyed other cars based games this deserves your attention.

There are also some unbiased testimonials on the page as well so you don't have to just listen to me. But also, c'mon, listen to me.

Serving Up Disaster is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) for 2–6 players about a famous yet divisive TV Chef visiting various failing restaurants across the country, Identifying Problems and working with the Staff to transform the struggling restaurant into a successful business. 

This game was inspired by binge-watching too many episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, and builds on tools from the Brindlewood Bay game engine by Jason Cordova.

Each session takes place in a new location, with a new set of characters, but will always follow the same 5 act structure:

Throughout each session Chef will help this new set of characters come to terms with their Problems to (hopefully) have a sucessful relaunch night and a bright future for the restaurant.

Launching on Kickstarter August 1st!

This looks like chaos in the best way possible.

Cursed by your evil stepmother? Fair Folk steal you name?

Look no further than Small Fates: Fairy Tale Curse Solutions Scratch-Off Cards! You buy it to break it!

Scratch off to reveal one of fourteen curse solutions sourced directly from stories and old fairy tales - but beware, the old stories are not always gentle. Are you brave enough to end your curse? (Aka, I finally got them up for sale! :D Please buy my silly weird thing)

Serving Up Disaster is a TTRPG about a famous yet divisive TV Chef visiting various failing restaurants across the country.

In this game, one player facilitates play, arbitrates the rules, frames scenes, and portrays the character of “Chef”. In each session of play, Chef visits a new location with a whole new restaurant, with the aim of helping its Staff change their bad attitudes, repair their broken relationships, and overcome their intractable problems, to ensure a successful relaunch night, and a bright future of the restaurant.

The other players act as the Staff of the restaurant, playing out their characters’ desires and disasters as they work with Chef to turn their business around.

This game was inspired by binge-watching too many episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, and builds on tools from the Brindlewood Bay game engine.

This is an ashcan version that I'm putting out to hopefully raise some funds to pay for a proper editior / layout artists etc.

big fan of urban fantasy and similar genres because theres nothing funnier to me than a setting where youve got people fighting with enchanted blades and bows and hopping around doing magic tricks but you can also just hit a demon with your car if you feel like it

There's this very specific urban fantasy trope which is "processing the newfound horrors and wonders of the universe in a 24/7 diner" that gets me every time

What if I told you…

There's A TTRPG For That!

MonsterPunk Live, by ADRENALINE GAMES.

In MonsterPunk Live you play vagabond monster hunters with a video channel, posting your hunts to finance your work. Characters can be made in minutes by picking or rolling a former occupation (like a bartender or street magician) and mentor, equipment, a ritual or two, and your name (Hendrix Frost).

With game systems like Brindlewood Bay and Trophy name-dropped in this game, I have a feeling that your characters are probably fucked. With a name like MonsterPUnk though, strong likelihood that you're hitting things with your car.

#ihunt: The RPG, by Machine Age Productions.

Be a hero. You pick the hours.

iHunt is a story telling game about killing monsters in the gig economy. In it, you play millennials scraping by paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. A gig app called #iHunt offers them more money than they've ever made to hit the streets and kill vampires, werewolves, demons, and anything else that goes bump in the night.

God the horrors are unending but so is the rent. So keep going I guess, and pray that your ex doesn't end up needing help getting out of a vampire's cult.

Monster Heist, by Mantyf.

A one-page RPG for one-shots detailing the adventures of a crew of thieves against impossible (and eldritch) odds. Will they fight just to survive, or will you still try to finish the job? And will you work together, or stab each other in the back?

Something about this game makes me feel like maybe you can play out a Leverage-style heist and then have to process the horrors together over breakfast the next day.

Monster Truckers, by Table Cat Games.

Get behind the wheel of a big rig as a Vampire, Mummy, Werewolf, and more! Monster Truckers is an easy to learn and low prep tabletop role playing game featuring semi truck driving monsters in a post-apocalyptic world. They make deliveries, discover the weird and mysterious stuff, get into scrapes, and maybe help out a few folks as they experience (un)life on the road.

You can practice your trucker slang and also try to survive the apocalypse! Not exactly urban fantasy but you can't tell me that you wouldn't be hanging out at a 24/7 diner in this game.

You can check out a test drive on Itch.io.

What Big Teeth, by Lorc.

Werewolves are cursed to hunt. The curse gave you the strength to take everything you ever wanted. But you've chosen a better path. The nightmare curse may drive you to hunt, but it doesn't care what you hunt. So you and your pack are hunting the other monsters of the night.

By day you survive dead-end jobs and investigate rumours. By night you hunt the monsters you found, drag them into the nightmare and kill them in a climactic action sequence.

So what if you wanted to play the monsters instead? Also what if the game was free?

I've also got an Urban Fantasy tag that you might find interesting…

If you like what I do and want to leave a tip, you can check out my Ko-Fi!

I'd also pitch @wendiyu's Here, There, Be Monsters as a sort of twist entry to this list, because it fits into the Urban Fantasy genre, but has you from the POV of monsters being hunted, rather than the Monster Hunters. It takes cues from a lot of this kind of media, and flips it on its head. Also a it's from a rad designer.

Over on my Patreon I've shared some previews of art from my upcoming game I'm with the Damned, and figured I'd share it here.

I'm with the Damned is a musical tarot-based game about a band setting off on tour after making a Faustian pact with a dark power.

You can get a current playable draft of I'm with the Damned at an Patreon level.

Rat Wave Game House @ratwavekayla and friends are joining us on the Stamp Quest 25 trail! Check out their stall at 3A-813 to get their stamp and games. They're also donating to our fab prize draw! You can find Rat Wave Game House and Twelve Pins Press here: ratwave.uk twelvepinspress.com

Rat Wave Game House and friends will be offering strange and stylish games, full of impactful writing, slick design, and gorgeous visuals. Pick up the latest works from indie darlings Kayla Dice and Laurie O'Connel, the creators of games like PSYCHODUNGEON and Hieronymus, respectively.

my “little” crossover is finally finished!

i hope you like it :)

As your party approaches a giant tall-limbed creature with the long face of a borzoi dog and the body of a hollow train, she leans over and apologizes. She carries a magical lantern on her collar, but the light has been snuffed out. Her lantern has run out of magic oil and without it Borzoi Bullet Train cannot cross the ethereal bridge that lies between The Starlight Central Station and your party's next destination. There should have been a new shipment of oil delivered, but it's lost somewhere in this sprawling transit network. Will your group of adventurers ever be able to find it?

Get your tickets ready and buckle up, ‘cause this month’s ttrpg postcard dungeon is The Starlight Switchyard! Help solve problems for these vehicular cutie critters and make your way through the switchyard’s winding paths. A little bit inspired by Studio Ghibli's Catbus creature, transit maps, and more. ✨

I have a three-part set of announcements!

Up first, I've started a Patreon, with a post up there explaining the benefits and also my motivations.

This ties into the next announcement, I've put two playtest drafts of games up on there!

The Gallant and the Virtuous is a game about jousting, with a tragic and fatal end.

I'm with the Damned is a musical tarot game about a band setting off on tour after making a deal with the devil.

Those are available to all patrons. Finally I have a new game out. "Once again, we are defeated" is a narrative map-making game about dangerous outsiders protecting a village from an approaching army. It's a second edition of a game I released two years, I really dug the original game but found there were difficulties pitching and explaining the game. I created this second edition for inclusion in the upcoming Out of the Fold and Other Games collection

So this is live on Itch but Patrons at a fiver and up get it for free.

There's never been a better time to be a fan of Kayla!

Now at IPR: Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop

2023 ARPIA Awards Best Rules System Winner Finalist for Dicebreaker's RPG of the Year 2023

On a River, you are a bookseller, paddling your floating bookshop up and downstream to various towns along the Riverbank. How did you come across the bookshop? Was it gifted to you or did you happen to chance upon it?

Your days are filled with customers, leaks and the irritating nook beetles that bury into the pages of your books. Make friends with regular customers to the bookshop, experience the River as she moves through the different seasons, visit and explore various towns, go fishing in the River's rich waters. Throughout the year, the seasons change and holidays give the chance for you to join in celebrations and festivities with the animalfolk. Floating Bookshop is set in a fully formed world with its own unique seasons, holidays and customs.

Floating Bookshop is a solo journalling game played with a pack of playing cards, a 20 and 6 sided dice. Record your daily goings-about in the bookshop, make note of the weather, and the customers that both delight and annoy you.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Fox-Curios-Floating-Bookshop-Print-PDF.html

I think my two Belonging outside Belonging games compliment each other in a fun way

To Embrace a Swamp Creature is about my early twenties while PSYCHODUNGEON is about my late twenties

Swamp Creature is about a town while PSYCHODUNGEON is about a city, Swamp Creature is about friends, PSYCHODUNGEON is about co-workers, and they both have austerity and mental illness in common

What I'm saying is I don't think I can write another BoB game until I'm in my thirties

Consider Kayla

The nomination period for the CRiT Awards is open and cause I did heaps of stuff last year I'm very eligible and considerable (as in, there's much to consider).

For Your Consideration

Best GMless TTRPG - PSYCHODUNGEON

Best Multiplayer TTRPG - Transgender Deathmatch Legend II

Best Indie TTRPG - Either of the above or any of the other games I released last year if they were your favorite

Best Podcast Host - Kayla Dice (Game Soup or This is Your Lifepath)

Best Legacy Podcast - This is Your Lifepath

(so Lifepath's first season started over two years ago, though admittedly the second season was entirely contained to last year)

Best Upcoming Podcast - Game Soup

But yeah everything I released last year, plus Transgender Deathmatch Legend II, is eligible so if you have any favourites I haven't mentioned I'd still appreciate the nod.

Like obviously awards aren't a be all end all, but I have been struggling with seeing the worth in what I make lately and awards, or at least consideration, is one way of remembering it's not all noise in the dark.

Dungeon Crawl Bundle

From now (3/3/25) to later (4/3/25), the Dungeon Crawling TTRPG Bundle will be live.

Thirty five games, twenty five creators, every possible interpretation of dungeon crawl.

My game's about liminal marine bus stations. Others are about the stone age, dreams, BLAME!!, pokemon, tiny mice, and more.

Every purchase supports indie designers and helps us make more ttrpg stuff.

A lot of cool things in this bundle! Including my own megastrcuture crawler, DEATHGRIND!!MEGASTRUCTURE ~