Reviews from R'lyeh: The Unlikely Hero

 Another review!
Thank you so much.

Read it here
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/companion-chronicles-22-unlikely-hero.html

Reviews from R'lyeh: The Strange Oak

 The Strange Oak got a review!
Very happy it merited a looksee. Hope you check it out too!

https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/companion-chronicles-19-strange-oak.html

A Single Moment played by Sarah's Table.

 

Thank you for trying my game! 
Hope you had fun.



Link here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR3GWUiwd3s

The Unlikely Hero - Companions of Arthur

 
As the Player-knights travel, they come upon a simple bridge over a gentle river. The bridge is an old stone bridge built back in Roman times. The verdant woods flank both ends of the bridge.

As the entourage approaches the bridge, they come upon the sight of a weeping damsel. Her clothes are ragged and dirty. Her hands are held to her face, as if to hold back her sadness which still escapes as dolorous weeping. There does not seem to be any sign of where she had come from. No carriage, no horse.

It seems the Player-knights will have to serve as her unlikely heroes. Or does it?

 The Gamemaster is welcome to add this to any game session as the Player-knights travel.  

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/535469/The-Unlikely-H    ero?src=newest_community

The Strange Oak - a Companions of Arthur Scenario Snippet

The first of many TAGSessions Story Snippets. 

We here at TAGSessions have designed quick and easy scenario snippets which Gamemasters of King Arthur: Pendragon can toss into their existing games to enrich their sessions. These can also be used as additional content in one-shot games.

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A Strange Oak

There is an oak tree deep within the woods. The tree stands in a clearing, with no other trees or bushes within the vicinity. It boasts a wide lush canopy, providing shelter and shade to those who stand beneath its shadow. But unlike other trees, this one has a strangeness to it.



Get the pdf here!

Face to Face Again

 After so long a time of only remote play, we got to play another face-to-face RPG session. The kind GMs of Kabilang Dungeon coordinated with A Rich Tale and Hobby Kaikan for a day of tabletop sessions.   Rocky and I ventured out to play and we had a one-shot session under GM Jod with a few friends.  Jod ran a session of Mythic Bastionland for us, which was quite a treat.  

Playing with us were Stephanie Bryant (who wrote the wonderful Threadbare RPG) and Vajo (who sadly had to leave earlier).  We played knights of  Rhoska, dealing with a messy succession while coming face to face with strange things emerging from the wilds.  

It was quite an interesting game session, with Mythic Bastionland's OSR roots quite evident.  It was interesting how much the feels reminded me of King Arthur's Pendragon.   There were definitely more positive things than negative ones from the experience and Rocky and I are eager to see what we can do to have more face to face sessions back in our lives.

The game also counts among my 12 New Games for 2025, so I'm down to just one more game system to complete the challenge this year!

Only Two Of You Remain

Only Two of You Remain is a game focused on narration and cooperative storytelling. Inspired by A Single Moment by Tobie Abad and such works as Dark Souls and LOST, this RPG allows the Players to tell a grand story of a millennia-long conflict between two powerful beings and their destined confrontation.

I did not know about this game and this was among the One-Page RPG Game Jam 2024.  Happy that my humble creation has inspired more things out there.  May that never end.

Find the game here:
 https://saffronquill.itch.io/only-two-of-you-remain

A Single Moment, in French

A Single Moment, in French.
Thank you to Nicolas 'Gulix' Ronvel for the translation!

La Caravelle

Find more content here too!
https://la-caravelle.itch.io/infos

 https://la-caravelle.itch.io/single-moment-vf

METALMORPHOSIS : one shot session

 Who knew a survival horror game can be so fun?!?! Similar to movies like Cube and Saw, Metalmorphosis invites you to imagine what would you do if you woke up one day and found yourself trapped in a massive machine that seems to be out to kill you?  And worse, you remember NOTHING about who you are!



 Despite some wonkiness with the internet and schedules making the game a tricky prospect, we were able to run through this game as one of the livestreamed shows in Denmother Plays Twitch channel.  Hopefully, the youtube post of that session is up soon so those who missed the stream can watch it.

The game uses a lighter version of the Powered by the Apocalypse system and adds a great randomizer element which empowers both the GM and the players to just focus on the fun!  Loved this game. Wouldn't be against someday trying a mini-campaign with this exploring even the player characters' recovering their memories.

A Single Moment, A Second Moment featured in RPG with DBJ

Was surprised to find this very in-depth review of my two books, A Single Moment, and A Second Moment, which honestly nearly brought me to happy tears.  The evident excitement in how each portion of the rules, each playset, and each chapter is explored, I really appreciate how comprehensive the DBJ studies the goals of the game and the structure of its rules.  Thank you so much for really digging deep and seeing the gems embedded in the game.

Come watch the review!
ALL the FEELS || A SINGLE MOMENT || TTRPGs that use Emotions + Mechanics

YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW : One shot session

Had a wonderful session of pulp action and mystery this week with three players joining me in exploring this tiny game written by John Wick.

Pulp has always been a genre of heroic storytelling which I always enjoyed.  The way science, romance, and action blend so well with mystery and magic brings so much happiness in my heart.

We had a game where the heroes gathered to mourn the loss of a major hero, only to realize that his secret antagonist was one of the closest and dear friends.

It was definitely a game system that needs people ready to embrace shared narrative control.  And offers quite an experience for possible long-time play.

And yay, another game to my 12 New Games for the Year!

 

They Talk Back : The Walking Dead

 
Hard choices.

Unrelenting threats. No guarantees. Stay quiet. Stay sharp. Stay alive. THEY TALK BACK.

This is a 13-episode mini-campaign of The Walking Dead the RPG. I'm running it for Denmotherplays on Twitch every Wednesday for the next few weeks. Very excited to run these for this mixed group of players (some I've run for before like Denmother and Sin who were in the Changeling the Dreaming game I ran for them, while others are playing with me for the very first time). This is also the first of my 12 New Games Each Year personal challenge. And unlike most games I've run, this is completely off-the-cuff sandbox in approach with me doing as little to no prep as possible. Hope you all enjoy this horror romp!

Hello 2025

 First of, wishing you all a Happy New Year!  

Here begins a whole new year of opportunities, challenges, and memories to embrace.  For the few of you who continue to remain subscribed to this blog, lemme share some updates that I owe you.

Let me begin with apologies.  I have been tremendously less productive in the tabletop rpg side of my life when it comes to writing games and supplements.  To be honest, I was actually quite eager to start writing for The Companions of Arthur.  Ever since we first were told of this Community Creator opportunity to eventually launch, I had been quite excited to get the fingers typing out a few supplements for King Arthur: Pendragon.

But sadly, trauma still reared its ugly head and I found myself second-guessing each page I wrote, fearing what new details might be nitpicked or what may be taken out of context.  In the end, I stopped writing and ended up shucking the file into the TO DO folder.

I refocused my brain and at least got it moving in other directions.   I've been busy working on my graphic novel, DILIMAN GENERATION NOW, which is a standalone "sequel" to my first graphic novel way back in 1997.  For those who might be curious about it, you can check out the 30-page teaser here:  https://globalcomix.com/c/diliman-generation-now

It might not be for everyone, but it is definitely something that I feel very attached to and I hope you enjoy it.  Just bear in mind, it is a comic meant for mature audiences.

Also, completed this year's 12 New Games for 2024 Challenge!

I like making sure I try at least 12 different game systems, or incarnations of game systems, to better experience how different games can give one a different experience.  Too often, people end up getting trapped in the "this game system is my favorite and it can do everything I want" mindset, which leads them to just modding the same system over and over again for different fluff.  But that just sadly ignores the wealth of creativity and opportunities that are out there.   I don't think others will easily adapt my mindset in this.  But I do know I used to believe the World of Darkness Storyteller system was the ONLY system I ever needed to enjoy gaming forever.   And boy am I grateful to have broken free from that self-limiting mindset.  I started this self-challenge in 2013.  So yeah, I've played more than 100 different game systems in the last decade of doing this.  And trust me when I say I've definitely expanded my horizons.

Also, was able to complete the 6x6 Challenge.

This challenge was about running at least six sessions of six different RPGs.  I actually did more with a few other mini-campaigns which I ran but didn't count among them.  A new challenge has been offered for this year, but I don't know if I'll embrace it as I realize it.. kind of fights against the one-shot mentality of the 12 New Games Challenge I already do.

So here's to more games this 2025.  

But only after we've successfully moved.