BLACKACRE: Occult Detective RPG

It is the year 1910 since the reign of divine king Aklen. Most of the world is carved up by massive empires, such as the naval power of Metropol. One such colony under her reign is the Archipelago of Blackacre. You play as a Traveller, one who came to the isles in search of power, wealth or answers.

The capital city of Newport is filled with chain smoking cockney gangsters. The frontiers of the isles with brigands and hermits. The air trembles as technology and unrest cascade through society. Some have formed secret societies, believing that the isles themselves hold the secret of everything from clairvoyance to life eternal.

Play as in a turn-of-the-century gangster in a noir detective story or venture into surreal horror traversing other planes of existence.

The game uses a self-made fork of the FATE roleplaying game system which utilizes 2d6s. It also incorporates some elements from other forks, such as the “Fate of Cthulhu” game. You can come up with your own attributes, although the character creation system is neatly split into tables you can roll on to create a fresh character in just a few minutes.

Blackacre is an RPG and a world-building project that I’ve been working on and off for a few years now and plan to do so in the future. There’s an expansion or two on the way, although it’s too early to give a date when it should be out. It’s my attempt to create a setting that I can use as a basis for future stories, comics and, possibly, games. The core book is out now, free of charge on Itch.io.

BoNE: Bureau of Necessary Exorcisms

Take the role of a skeleton exorcist recruited into a mysterious organisation. In a world where supernatural creatures coexist within mortal society your job is to make those creatures to bugger off. Banish ghosts, file lawsuits against demons, cause time paradoxes! All of this and more await you as an agent of BoNE!

Play as one of three distinct types of skeleton! The resourceful Lucky Bones are able to reroll any check. The agile Hollow Bones can use their wings to cast death from above. The esoteric Weird Bones use arcane magic to bend reality to their will using one of the 36 unique spells.

Be wary though with the last one. Practising magic without a license puts you in the crosshairs of reality cops or permanently rupturing the space-time continuum entirely.

Now available in both English and Russian.

RAID DOGS

The year is 1978. You are members of the Raid Dogs gang and you’ve just arrived to the gambling haven of New Sancre to retrieve the Case. A medium sized stainless steel briefcase that will be the most important heist of your lifetime. Luckily, your Dealer said that it’s located in the “Gambler’s Palm” casino, behind a state-of-the-art security system and a lot of trigger happy guards. No pressure. Your job is simple. Get into the casino without causing too much noise. Get into the Vault. Get out alive and conscious. If you do so, you will be able to take a look inside the Case. Be careful though, one of you may be an undercover cop.

This is a Card-Based TTRPG where you play as one of the four types of criminals in order to rob a casino of a very special suitcase. The person holding the briefcase at the end of the game may dictate what kind of item is found inside. This is a game for 3-5 players and should take between 30-60 minutes to finish. You are going to need a full deck of poker cards with jokers to play. Even the cardboard box for the cards is going to be needed during the course of the game.

MGSA: Magical Girls Smoke Alone

You are part of an order of Sailor Scouts, arcane guardians protecting the mortal plane from monsters. However, while your peers are stationed in scenic Japanese towns or in the Peruvian highlands, you’re stuck in the grimy, industrial city of Syzransk-5. Think of Omsk, Detroit, Birmingham and Xingtai rolled into one terror-blunt.

Now the CEO of Inferno LLC, B. L. Zebub wants to break through the reality barrier and gentrify the town you grew up in into Hell-Deluxe.

Smoke cigarettes without a filter, admire the local junkyard, help office workers procrastinate in their cubical, get the CEO of Hell fired!