Yvris Burke is the designer of the solo RPG Bumbling, and in that game, you’re a bee, a baby bumble bee. Inspired by a love for actual reality TV, in Drama Llamas, Yvris is doing what she knows – reality TV.
Zine Quest Articles
Check out all our coverage of Zine Quest. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs.
Dodgeball the RPG: The game nobody wanted (and will be made anyway)
Humankind has explored the solar systems, and we are not alone. In the busy galaxy, humanity is small and fragile compared to other alien territories, but we’re in the galactic council, and they use dodgeball to settle conflicts.
the_bookmarked RPG: Turn books from your shelves into spellbooks
the_bookmarked uses bookmarks with instructions on how to shape words found on real-life books from your shelves which reprogram robots.
Odd Gobs: Survive a pocket-sized RPG of the gig economy and cyberpunk
One player is the GigL Master (GM), who creates the gigs for the Goblins PCs, who then have to travel the sprawling metropolis and perform their tasks.
Kill Kindness: Fight the alt-right Christofascist government in post-apocalyptic Florida
Characters must build a web of spies, overthrow the company and kill an immortal. That’s all.
Ghost: A solo RPG journalling game of melancholy
Structured a bit like a choose-your-own-adventure game, Alice He’s Ghost is a journalling game, an RPG zine, that explores themes of place and melancholy. At some point in the game, a ghost will appear.
Facility: A Breathless-powered RPG with amnesiac prisoners escaping a labyrinth
Sent by the shadowy proctors that run the Facility, each of the eight Nemesis machines acts as the primary antagonist of the test subjects, with eight different styles of hunting and killing.
Vincent Baker takes The Thief and the Necromancer to Kickstarter
The Thief & the Necromancer is the fourth game in The Wizard’s Grimoire zine series. It’s a complete, stand-alone game; you don’t need any of the other issues to play it.
Dread Shores & Black Horizons: We stand on the brink of cataclysm
Though the omens chime of certain doom, there are those that seek these nodes for their own gain. Cults of all sizes rise and rally around the confluence of arcana found in these treasures, locations, and abominations.
Monsters! Try before you buy Tales from the Dungeon
Skylar Simmons on BlackBoxGames has backed 540 Kickstarters, and Monsters! is their second creation. It’s just possible that karma is on BBG’s side here.
