Idle Cartulary
Hi. I'm Nova and I write tabletop roleplaying games.
Right now, I’m writing lyrical game supplements. My most popular:
- The Tattoopunk Antebible, a voidhearted fantasy setting.
- Ludicrous Compendium a bestiary zine in poetry.
- The Infinite Hack, a version of 5e with infinite hit points.
Under my Small Gods Press imprint, I've published a bucketload of roleplaying games, story games, rituals, and lyric games. They are often about communication, grief and friendship. My most popular:
- Sharehouse, about being young, single and unable to say how you feel.
- The Astronaut's Journal, about being alone on a spacecraft hurtling through deep space.
- Echo Radio, about communicating with another version of yourself across dimensions.
- The Invitation, an exploration of grief and mortality.
If you want a copy in your hands, The Ludicrous Compendium Omnibus and the Tattoopunk Antebible are available in real life at Spear Witch!
For pretty much everything, community copies are available for any person who experiences marginalisation or economic instability. If there isn't one available, contact me and I'll send you a download code.
Enjoy playing,
Idle Cartulary
Idle Cartulary
play 5e, but change these things
An odd bestiary for any fantasy role playing game
An odd bestiary for any fantasy role playing game
A punk anti-bible for your Tattoopunk world
Experimental and Jam Zines
An aelfen game of faer and candel-lyte
Eight short hacks based on popular ttrpgs
"Play is an example of play for the GM"
A participatory essay, and an adventure for any game for 1 or more players
A Complete Handbook of Playbook's for Jared Sinclair's 6E
Small God's Press
A pbta game about the single-minded pursuit of a hidden truth that you have only glimpsed but cannot ignore
A couch game about being young, and single, or about not being able to say how you feel.
Set the canon alight and fire it straight at the Bard.
A group meditation / game-liturgy on grief and the anticipation of loss
A series of rituals to invite in the Spectre that pursues us
A kitchen game about friends and dumplings and memories
A grocery shopping game for celebrating a friend
A coloring-in game for two about figuring out whether you should kiss them
A game for two, of discovering and becoming a place
a 2-player play-by-audio game where you are same character, in parallel worlds
A chain letter game about cooking and consequences
an asynchronous correspondence horror game about loneliness for two spacefarers
A solo meditation / journalling game on grief and the deterioration of the self
A pleasant dream where you make friends with a monster