Projects

 

Of Rule & Ruin

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Of Rule & Ruin is a solo tabletop game about ruling a fragile city-state through its most dangerous year.

You will guide your city week by week, managing its economy, military, faith, infrastructure, and foreign relations while unpredictable events reshape the world around you. Disasters strike, factions rise, opportunities appear, and long-term projects demand hard choices about where to spend your limited time and resources.

The game blends strategic planning with procedural storytelling. Seasonal event systems and evolving hex-flower tables ensure that no two cities follow the same path, while permanent upgrades and political decisions leave lasting marks on your rule.

At the end of the year, your city will face an unavoidable final challenge — a defining moment that determines whether your reign is remembered as a golden age… or the last chapter before collapse.

This project delivers a complete, self-contained solo experience designed for thoughtful play, meaningful consequences, and emergent narrative — all in a compact, table-friendly format.

 

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Isle of the Ancients

Isle of the Ancients is an adventure for four to six second level characters. It has been released in both a Dungeon Crawl Classics and a Shadowdark version. In the adventure the party travels to a lost island overrun by dinosaurs and ruled by a mad wizard. While exploring the island the party may encounter a besieged tribe of lizardfolk and Fornax, a potential patron living inside the volcano.

 

Isle of the Ancients for DCC includes the adventure, a new lizardfolk class write-up, and a fully fleshed out patron, including and an invoke patron table, two new spells, and a table for patron taint.

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Isle of the Ancients for Shadowdark includes the adventure, a lizardfolk ancestry, and a new system for your players to bind themselves to a supernatural patron.

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The adventure is now available on Itch.io!

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GOBLINS!

Our first project successfully funded on Kickstarter on February 14th, 2024 for ZINEQUEST. GOBLINS! is a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG compatible supplement that contains three new classes; the goblin, the hobgoblin, and the bugbear.

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The classes were originally created for our home DCC game, which takes place on an island whose control is divided between a human empire and an anarcho-communist group of goblinoids called the Hob Collective.

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The goblin is a sneaky character who can backstab like a thief and has a unique luck mechanic.

The hobgoblin excels at fighting in formation and can use its deed die to protect its allies.

The bugbear likes to be in charge and can grant its allies bonuses that they can use to attack or defend themselves.

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The zine is now available for download on Itch.io and you can pick up a physical copy from the Goodman Games webstore.