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Folktales

A collection of 92 issues

Songs from the Tall Grass: Ultraviolet Grasslands Edition

Overview Songs From The Tall Grass is a UVG module for 3–6 players, where a caravan chases a mythic melody—the Tall Grass Shanty—across the Ultraviolet Grasslands. The song, a fragmented archive of lost stars and bone dust, promises revelation but risks biomagical corruption. The journey spans three

A Playable Folktale: The Polling Core’s Silence

A Playable Folktale for drifters, hyperpigs, and a core that lost its vote. This is not a system to save or a core to conquer. It is a mirror for what voted, what silenced, and what hums in the Glitter Band’s cracks. What You Need * 2–6 participants * A

The Hue Directive

A Playable Folktale of Color and Return Premise In a world drained of color, where joy is inefficient and emotion a risk, workers drift through cubicle wastelands under humming fluorescents. Beige is the law. Beige is safe. Beige forgets. But you remember—something. A feeling. A shade. A song not

The Cart in Yellow

A Carcosan Annotation of The De Minimis Lament Introduction: Welcome to Neo-Carcosa Neo-Carcosa is not a place. It is a mood you scroll into. A realm of velvet glitches and half-priced selves. In Neo-Carcosa, your daemons are not metaphor. They are customer service avatars who know your traumas by SKU.

Steely Dan: Navigators of the Eldritch Newport

A TiGGR One-Shot by The Grey Ledger Society, 2025 Genre: Cosmic Horror / Jazz Rock Scene: Newport Jazz Festival, 1976—a labyrinth of pulsing tents, non-Euclidean stages, and starlit dissonance. Goal: Perform a “perfect set” of three songs from fractured realities to seal a cosmic rift before the Cosmic Conductor claims

Valthorne: Remembered in Drift

A Designer’s Diary on Building a City That Hums Back Opening Reflection: Why Build a City Like This? Every RPG setting is a mirror—some cracked, some polished—reflecting our anxieties, our dreams, our unspoken wars. But what if a city could be more than a shadow of our

Valthorne: Making It Yours

A Guide to RPGs and Folktales Valthorne, the desert gigapolis where the Living Law thrums through its people’s emotions, is a setting that thrives on mythic resonance and communal storytelling. Its psychic procedural vibe—part Law & Order, part desert folklore—makes it a perfect canvas for roleplaying games

The De Minimis Lament

A Surreal Operetta in Six Acts and One Interlude Act I: The Cart Before the Spell A solitary aria in the glow of midnight commerce Rena: I know you’re not real, Kaleidos. But you flickered beside the “Free Shipping” tag. I bought two dresses. They aren’t clothes. They’

Valthorne: A Reflective Journey Through the City of Living Law

Beneath the relentless sun of a desert plain, where ley lines hum beneath cobblestone streets and adobe spires glow with rune-lit warmth, Valthorne sprawls—a gigapolis that listens, a city that feels. Over the course of our journey into Valthorne: City of Living Law, we’ve woven a mythic civic

TiGGR: The Pulse Beneath the Stars

“They said it was just interference. But we heard it—clear and strange and alive.” This story is inspired by the brilliance of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars in 1967. It’s for anyone who ever listened closely when no one else would. Best played on a quiet night