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A collection of 98 issues

Electric Eden: The Tomb of Acetate

An Electric Eden Expansion: Alan Lomax, Lichlord of the Archive Premise Beyond the House of Canon lies a deeper dungeon: a labyrinth not of stone but of wax cylinders, acetate discs, and endless reels of magnetic wire. This is the Tomb of Acetate, where the folklorist-lich Alan Lomax waits—not

Exiled on Couch Street

A Micro-Setting for Paint the Town Red “Every necropolis is a party that ends in fire. The trick is to own the matches. And to start organizing the next party before you strike the first match. But remember: You're not organizing with equals—you're shepherding a

Electric Eden: The House of Canon

A multi-wing dungeon module for Electric Eden Premise Cecil Sharp House has become a living dungeon, an institutional labyrinth where Folknet's power is strongest. Its halls are lined with display cases, curated exhibits, and polished versions of unruly traditions. Within each wing, an overlooked collector is imprisoned, their

Electric Eden Meets The Lost Folk

Well, what have we here? We made a joke, of course. That's what Electric Eden was — and still is — a sharpened stick whittled into a kind of prank, poking at the ambered reliquary of British folk tradition. We wrote a rules-light machine for breaking songs because we wanted

Catspaw, Terrier, Squirrel, Spy: The Machine Towers Over All

A Designer's Essay on Espionage, Subversion, and Play Espionage games usually begin with a lie: you are the protagonist of your story. Players expect agency, meaningful choices, and the power to shape outcomes through clever thinking and decisive action. But the history of intelligence work has always been

In the Belly of the Beast: Subverting Space Horror from the Inside

This essay draws from and speaks to roleplaying traditions across systems, but it holds allegiance to none. The horror described here—of recursive memory, unreliable narration, and collaborative dread—doesn’t require stats to manifest. Whether you're using stress dice, pull towers, or improvised table rituals, the genre

The Spooky Signal

Never mind your typical "house of horrors in space" sci-fi, here's a one-shot with clown shoes, four-fingered balloon-hands, and a countdown timer before everyone becomes an extra in the Chuck E. Cheese juggalo revue. Genre: Carnival Haunted House Sci-Fi Scene: The USS Cotton Candy, a derelict

From Cyberdecks to Stagecoaches

Widescreen Dramas of Morality and Compromise, Set Two Centuries Apart An essay on the unexpected kinship between cyberpunk futures and post-Civil War Westerns At first glance, the neon-soaked streets of 2080 and the dust-choked trails of 1880 seem to share nothing but their aesthetic of decay. One crawls with chrome-limbed

From Chuck Jones in Space to Hank Hill's Propane Zen

A Conversation's Folk Process or How theoretical game criticism became practical creative refusal The Starting Point: Literary Analysis as Game Design We began with a synthesized essay about horror RPGs - the kind of piece that treats tabletop games as serious cultural objects worthy of academic analysis. Recursive

There Is No Outside

A Space Horror Folktale Overview No Outside is a space horror TTRPG module for 3–6 players and a Game Master (GM). The players are crew members of the Anamnesis, a salvage ship that has intercepted a looping distress signal from an unknown source. The ship is not merely a