Nieuwe indies: 2006

The Shab-al-Hiri Roach is a dark comedy of manners, lampooning academia and asking players to answer a difficult question - are you willing to swallow a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization?

No?

Even if it will get you tenure [een vaste baan aan de universiteit]?

You are nine years old. You just had a birthday, and your brothers got you a puppy. The three of you are seeing the world from your very own boat. You are the sons of the King of Islandia!

And only you three can stop the war.

A game about children, adults, and ideals.

Shock: Social Science Fiction is a fiction game of culture and future shock. Based on the works of Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Philip K. Dick, the game pushes the players to make stories that matter to them — stories about politics, philosophy, love, and death.

Whose fault was it? Anyone's? Who's the bad guy (or gal)? Either? Both?

Is my lover really an inhuman, pest-ridden, murderous, shape-changing monster?

Don't pretend you never asked those questions.

Breaking up isn't hard to do—but staying alive and sane might be a problem.

Will you drown or will you fall? The choice is yours!

In development since February, the Drowning and Falling Role-Playing Game includes everything you need to slip and plunge into a world of mystery and adventure!* With five character classes, two alignments, over twenty three spells and prayers and fifteen statistics unlike any seen in the history of role-playing, you and your friends will be tossed head-first into thrilling tales limited only by your imagination and certain rules! The Drowning and Falling Role-Playing Game - play it once and you'll never look at drowning and falling in the same way ever again!

*Everything you need not included.

What do your dreams hold? What nightmares lurk in the growing darkness? What strange and twisted realms exist just beyond your sight? What brooding sorcerers commit unspeakable acts, hidden in dank cells beneath the cracked and steaming streets? What unseen beings dwell all around you, real but untouchable?

Find out when you play Mortal Coil.

Mortal Coil is a supernatural role-playing game that allows you to create a world of fantasy, with magic powerful or subtle depending on your desires. You create characters to explore your world, their magic and passion shaping the stories which spring forth from your mind. You decide if you tell a tale of dark supernatural horror, of wise fools and giants, of the secret wars between sorcerous cabals, or of inhuman politics among beings that can never die.

• “Best Friends gets my award for most awesome and elegant currency mechanic.”
  –Paul Czege (My Life with Master)
  
• “The books this year were many and beautiful. The standouts for me – set aside 1001 Nights, which Meg and I designed – the standouts for me were Agon, Best Friends, Hero's Banner, the new Clinton R. Nixon matched set, and Carry.”
  –D. Vincent Baker (Dogs in the Vineyard)
  
• “I enjoyed the Best Friends demo immensely ... I also think that Best Friends will promote dialogue about exasperation with women (from both women and men) that doesn't have to become contempt, and how parody can be a source of insight rather than silliness.”
  –Ron Edwards (Sorcerer, Elfs, Trollbabe)