A blade in the dead of night.

A gunshot covered by rolling thunder.

A drop of poison in one of a hundred glasses.

Traverse the ages and deal death to your targets in this solo or co-operative game. Use deadly weapons, time-travel trickery, and your wits and cunning to strike and make your getaway. But be careful not to disrupt the timeline too much, or you might find yourself on the sharp end of your own dagger...

• Solo Play: Featuring oracles to inspire you, to flesh out your adventures, and sculpt the challenges that await. Keep a journal of your actions and their conseuquences, and revisit them as you travel back in time to land the perfect strike.
• Novice to Master Assassin: Two d6s, pen and paper, and this small rulebook are all you need to get started. Prove your ability to expand your arsenal, learn to keep calm under pressure, and execute your plan with surgical precision.
• A Clean Getaway: Plan your escape and live to fight another day. Be warned, cause too many changes to history (or the future) and your next target will be your past self!

Created for PocketQuest 2026.
Compatible with Better Late Than Never, the time-travelling courier game.

Here at Better Late Than Never, our job is to deliver parcels to people who need them, when they need them.

You see we're not just delivering any old mail here, oh no. Our packages are time-sensitive and time-travelling. They must arrive precisely when they are required: be it tomorrow morning, one hundred years from now, yesterday, or in an age long-since past.

To aid you in this task, we have equipped you with a state-of-the-art bicycular time machine, a temporal-displacement carryall, and a nice smart uniform.

In this solo or co-operative game, you must use any and all means at your disposal to track down the recipient, identify their moment of need, and deliver to them their ever so valuable parcel.

But be warned! Your presence and actions could disrupt the timeline as we know it. Take the utmost care not to be discovered as a time traveller, nor to make significant changes either to history or to the future.

Now prime your time core and don your uniform; good luck out there!

Compatible with Time to Kill: Get away with murder across the ages.

Created for PocketQuest 2026.

The Island is a sandbox setting for Vampire: The Masquerade.

An isolated island, off the map, frozen somewhere in the 1950s. A dozen vampires have lived there for decades under the guise of a psychiatric hospital, ruled by a puppet Duke whom no one dares tell that he isn’t truly in charge. They all suffer from a derangement. They’ve all grown accustomed to it. They’ve all forgotten, or almost all, that things could be different.

Tonight, strangers landed. They thought they would leave at the next sunset.

This book contains:

• A living setting with its factions, layered secrets, and NPCs whose obsessions evolve

• A guide to derangements

• Random tables

• Two scenarios

• Two stories: a doctor’s investigation and a vampire’s journal

The island awaits you. It has always waited. It will wait some more.

Compatible with all editions of Vampire: The Masquerade.

DM Essentials #138: 10 Ranger Guide Encounters

In most games, the guide is just a shortcut. You pay, they lead, you arrive. A simple transaction.

But a ranger who leads strangers through the wild does not just know the path. They carry the weight of every life entrusted to them. They must judge who can keep up, who will panic, who will betray. They have lost travellers before – to rivers that rose too fast, to bandits they did not see, to storms that came without warning. They still see the faces of those they could not save. A guide is not a guardian, but they are the one who has to live with the loss.

DM Essentials #138 gives you ten ways to make ranger guides feel burdened, skilled, and morally complex. They are not walking maps. They are the ones who lead – and who bear the cost when the trail turns deadly.

What's Inside?

The Guide's World (Short Essay): Who they are, what they carry, and why every traveller is a weight on their shoulders.

10 Encounters on the Trail: Each one gives you a situation, the truth behind it, and a way for the players to respond.

- The Lost Party – A guide lost a child, an elder, or a foolhardy adventurer. They are terrified of being blamed. Help find them before dark.
- The Ambush – Bandits have set a trap. The guide spotted it just in time. Trust their instincts, or ignore them?
- The Betrayal – The guide has been turned – by debt, by threat. They are leading the party into a trap. Confront them, or spring the trap on them?
- The Confession – "I have lost travellers before. Three of them. I still see their faces."
- The Rival – Two guides, one fee. Choose, and the other will remember.
- The Storm – Push forward or turn back? There is no right answer. The guide fears making the wrong call.
- The Shortcut – A cave, a creature, a risk. Save three days – or walk into danger.
- The Denial – A bridge that looks safe. The guide refuses to cross. They know something the party does not.
- The Legacy – An old guide, dying. "I never lost a soul. But I lost myself somewhere along the way."
- The Choice – Lead the party, or lead a family of refugees. Someone will be left behind. The guide cannot choose alone.

Quick Reference Table: Roll d10 and get a full encounter hook in seconds.

Who This Is For:

- DMs who want travel to feel like a responsibility, not a montage
- Players who think a guide is just a hireling until they see one weeping at a grave
- Anyone who understands that the person who leads you through the dark is the one who carries the guilt if you do not make it

ENTER THE ARCVERSE

More DM Essentials, adventures, and settings at the link below.

The trail is narrow. The guide is waiting. They have led a hundred travellers before you. They remember every face they could not save. Will you trust them, or will you walk alone?

DM Essentials #137: 10 Ranger Blight-Walker Encounters

In most games, corrupted land is just a hazard. You take poison damage, maybe fight a monster, then move on. The land heals offscreen.

But a ranger who walks into the blight does not walk out unchanged. Their skin grows pale, their eyes clouded, their cough never quite leaving. They are marked by the land they try to save. The work is slow, dangerous, and often hopeless. They carry the corruption with them – in their lungs, in their scars, in the slow decay of their own body. They fight what cannot be healed, knowing that the best they can hope for is to slow the spread.

DM Essentials #137 gives you ten ways to make blight-walkers feel desperate, self‑sacrificing, and quietly tragic. They are not heroes – they are the ones who go where no one else will, and they pay the price.

What's Inside?

The Blight-Walker's World (Short Essay): What the corruption does, how it marks those who fight it, and why the work never ends.

10 Encounters in the Poisoned Land: Each one gives you a situation, the truth behind it, and a way for the players to respond.

- The Wound – A ranger is sick, marked by the blight, running out of time. "I have been tracking it for months. It is moving faster now."
- The Source – They have found the heart of the corruption. They are too weak to face it alone. The party must decide to help.
- The Quarantine – A village is infected. The ranger has sealed the gates. "No one leaves. The blight cannot spread."
- The Sacrifice – "I will go alone. I am already marked. I have nothing left to lose." They expect to die.
- The Cure – A rare herb that grows only in the blight's heart. It might save the land. It might kill the one who retrieves it.
- The Confession – "I am not just tracking the blight. I am infected. I have weeks, maybe less."
- The Creature – A twisted monster that was once a person. The ranger knew them. "They did not get out in time."
- The Deserter – A ranger who abandoned their post. "I could not watch it spread anymore. I am a coward." They are not – they are broken.
- The Legacy – An old blight-walker dying of the corruption. "I did not win. But I did not run."
- The Choice – The source is a single creature, a child, a sleeping power. Destroy it, and the blight releases all at once. Leave it, and it spreads slowly. There is no good choice.

Quick Reference Table: Roll d10 and get a full encounter hook in seconds.

Who This Is For:

- DMs who want environmental horror to feel like a losing battle, not a quest
- Players who think a ranger is just a survival expert until they meet one who is slowly rotting from the inside
- Anyone who understands that some wounds do not heal – and that the ones who fight them are never the same

ENTER THE ARCVERSE

More DM Essentials, adventures, and settings at the link below.

The trees weep black sap. The ground is soft with rot. The ranger coughs blood into a rag. How far will you follow them into the dark?

The wheat used to sing.

In the village of Aevyn Fields, twilight breezes drew lullabies from endless plains of violet and silver grain. The copper-skinned villagers, starlight caught in their eyes even on the cloudiest nights, lived in quiet harmony with a land that hummed beneath their feet. Every newborn took its first breath in time with the soil. Every harvest answered a song older than memory.

Tonight, the song has soured.

Shadows move through the rows. The ground trembles. Hushed rumors crowd the tavern, of fallen stars, of constellations devoured, of a hermit by the sea cliffs who speaks to dead things and keeps maps that scream when touched. Out past the fields, in a doorway lit by no fire, Wary Jorks waits with riddles he will not explain.

A path opens to the caves. Some paths lead upward. Some downward. Some only inward.

Will your party follow?

What's Inside

A complete, ready-to-run opening adventure for a tabletop campaign of folklore, mystery, and cosmic dread. Packed onto a print-friendly two-page spread designed for fast reference at the table.

• A fully realized village, its people, and the strange ecology of the singing fields
• Two 1d6 rumor tables to seed paranoia and intrigue at the tavern
• An evocative NPC encounter with the hermit, complete with riddles for the players to chew on
• A multi-chamber dungeon site beneath the sea cliffs, featuring puzzles of silence, rhythm, and resonance
• An original creature, the Stellavore Hound, a gaunt wolfhound fractured with pulsing starlight, plus a fully statted environmental hazard
• Curated treasure: a shard of black crystal that flickers with distant suns, a hallucinogenic root, a cloak that drinks the void, and more
• Hand-drawn maps and atmospheric layout, designed by Eon Fontes-May
• Words and structure by Griseo Lupus

At the Table

• Suggested Party: Level 1, 3 to 5 players
• Genre: Space Fantasy
• Format: 2-page spread, print and digital friendly
• System: Light, portable stat blocks ready to drop into most OSR and rules-light fantasy systems

A Mystery Worth Investigating

This is the first chapter of the StellaMagus Primer, a campaign of small villages and enormous skies, where the answers a party finds may matter less than the questions they were brave enough to ask. Perfect as a one-shot, a campaign opener, or a side detour into something stranger than your players were prepared for.

Stars burn. One hides.

Will your party find it before the silence finds them?

Our (New) Place in Space

The Known Third is the mapped slice of the galaxy where things mostly work, mostly make sense, and mostly follow rules. It’s a patchwork of regions - some governed, some chaotic, some pretending to be civilised. It’s where we live, trade, and occasionally explode.

Galactic Geography

The Spire is the bureaucratic centre - dense, humming, and slow. Law here is ambient, culture curated, and innovation reviewed. Change is digested, reshaped, and filed under ‘approved variation.’ Most dissent is processed. Eventually.

The Riftline is a fault in the Wrap used for fast transit. Couriers and smugglers rely on it. Relay 9 offers recovery - at steep prices. Misjumps are rare, and not always fatal.

Power and Influence

The Galactic Union (of Unions) - to give it it’s full, ridiculous title - doesn’t run the galaxy. It regulates it. Slowly, thoroughly, and with a level of documentation that borders on metaphysical.

The Spanpoint Consortium: are fuel barons of the Tides. They own the refineries, the routes, and the repair crews. Pay on time. Don’t clog the intake. They also control docking rights, emergency services, and most of the local news. 

Notable Systems

Spindle Drift is a spiraling debris field with one stable station - Spindle Point. Gravity fluctuates, laws rotate, and docking fees are negotiable. Salvagers love it. Smugglers tolerate it. Philosophers write essays about it. Most visitors leave with parts, stories, or regrets.

Velk’s Folly was once a failed colony, now a thriving trade hub built on charm, scams, and second chances. Velk’s Folly is loud, fast, and full of deals that sound better than they are. Every transaction comes with a story.

Denizens

Humans are bipedal, expressive, and late to the party. Known for improvisation, emotional damage, and naming things that don’t need names. Tend to gesture too much and survive too often.

Daves are human clones. All named Dave. All legally distinct. Genetically stable, emotionally variable. Some are brilliant. Some are terrifying. Most are just Dave. The GUU likes them. No one knows why. They blink in sync and hum when bored.

Tessari are photosynthetic, bioluminescent, and slow to trust. Tessari glow with mood shifts and prefer peace - but carry knives just in case. They speak in layered tones and pause to absorb light mid-conversation.

A fantastic RPG of space pulp, pushed luck, and (carefully ordered) galactic mayhem!

We started with one planet, one moon, one sun, and one species.

Then came fabrication (build anything), cloning (build anyone), and terraforming (build anywhere, even when we shouldn’t).

So we did…

The solar system was colonised, industrialised -  and then vaporised when we activated the Hyperthetical Drive - a machine stitched from theory, fiction, and optimism.

We tore space-time, destroyed Earth, and flung ourselves into the wrap.

We emerged somewhere new, found a planet, retired its peaceful inhabitants, renamed it Earth, and agreed never to speak of this again.

1930. Northern coast of the USSR. A geological survey team discovered a flotilla trapped in ice and dared to step aboard. It was a terrible mistake.

Based on an incredible yet untold story, Ice Fleet will grab you with its cold fingers from the very first moments of the journey. No one is welcome in this dark and mysterious world of permafrost, unsolvable riddles, secrets and death. You are no exception.

Ice Fleet is a tabletop RPG adventure and a slightly modified set of Into the Odd rules. Originally available only as a part of an exclusive LP/CP bundle now you have a chance to get the adventure in a pdf form.

• A unique combination of game and music album that aims to bring your play experience to a completely new level of immersion.

• A whole mysterious derelict steamship with a map and illustration of almost every room.

• Five strange artefacts, powerful but tricky!

• Fearsome beast with its own strategy and brutal appearance.

• Dozen of intriguing NPC with a unique stance and desire to throw into your game.

• Simple rules and Referee Advices for you to jump right into the game.

• Fast character generation with all kinds of start equipment packages.

GOBLINZ (DEMO)

The Classless TTRPG

In Goblinz, you play as an Adventurer who fights monsters and slowly becomes a lil freak™.

As you level up, you draw power from the forces of reality that steadily change you into something similar to the very monsters that you slay.

Who are the real monsters? And who is the real you?

In short GOBLINZ is...

• A tabletop roleplay game with a 2d6 roll high, exploding dice system.
• This demo is for approx. 2–5 players, playing Adventurers with one player acting as their narrative Guide, which many other TTRPGs would refer to as a GM (Game Master) ...so- you can just call them that, a GM.
• A classless progression system, with no level cap, utilising three core skill trees based on Combat, Roleplay & Crafting (the crafting skill tree will be included with the official release ONLY).
• Set in Gostar, a world where fantasy and earth tech meet…and break the rules of both.
• Setting-agnostic: While Gostar is your default playground, this game works in nearly any world you can imagine.
• Focused on player-driven storytelling with natural character progression that leads you to adventure.

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This Demo Includes:

• An introduction into GOBLINZ.
• The base Core Rules.
• Step-by-Step Guide on how to build a character
• A tailored sample of the Combat & Roleplay Skill Trees
• 5 Pregenerated Adventurers.
• A 2-4 hour Adventure.
• A collection of Monsters
• Character Sheets
• A Token Pack
• A Cheat Sheet