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50 Years of Text Games

“An exceptional survey of the form... thoroughly researched and full of joy.” —Emily Short (Galatea) “An awesome exploration of the long history of the genre.” —Nick Walton (AI Dungeon) Since a winter morning in 1971 when a teacher wheeled a teletype into his classroom to debut a game about the Oregon Trail, people have been telling interactive stories on digital platforms. From text adventures to VR poetry, MUDS to mobile romance sims, and chatbots to roguelikes, these games without...

$$19.95EPUB, Kindle, PDF
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All Three Downcrawl Decks [BUNDLE]

This special bundle product contains the following titles: Both Downcrawl Decks (Base + Even Deeper)Regular price: $34.95Bundle price: $32.95Format: Card(s)Both Downcrawl prompt decks in a custom tuckbox! Want twice the fun for your Downcrawl 2E campaign? Get both the Downcrawl Deck and the Even Deeper Deck together, save a few $$, and get a custom tuckbox for your cards as well. The Downcrawl Decks lets you get a quick result...

$$49.90
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Archives of the Sky

*** 2019 ENnie Award "Judges’ Spotlight" Winner! *** A million years from now, humanity has spread across the galaxy and taken countless forms. Vast empires have come and gone like waves against an unimaginable shore. But some strange voyagers chose to remain outside the churn of civilizations, pursuing a greater purpose. When a new force comes to the galaxy, will these eternal wanderers remain who they are--or, at long last, change? Archives of the Sky is a tabletop storytelling game with...

$$16.20PDF
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Archives of the Sky (Free Version)

A million years from now, humanity has spread across the galaxy and taken countless forms. Vast empires have come and gone like the cresting of waves. But some strange voyagers chose to remain outside the churn of civilizations, pursuing a greater purpose. When a new force comes to the galaxy, will these eternal wanderers remain who they are--or, at long last, change? Archives of the Sky is a tabletop storytelling game with an epic sci-fi backdrop and a focus on very human stories. No...

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Both Downcrawl Decks (Base + Even Deeper)

Both Downcrawl prompt decks in a custom tuckbox! Want twice the fun for your Downcrawl 2E campaign? Get both the Downcrawl Deck and the Even Deeper Deck together, save a few $$, and get a custom tuckbox for your cards as well. The Downcrawl Decks lets you get a quick result from nearly any table in the Downcrawl 2E book in seconds, making ideas much quicker and more spontaneous to generate than looking up a table and rolling dice. The combo deck features 72 premium tarot-sized cards...

$$19.95
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Downcrawl 1E

A new edition of Downcrawl is here! Click here to find out more... This page is for legacy Downcrawl 1E. Downcrawl is a system to help gamemasters run randomly generated, open-ended adventures in a weird and fantastical underworld called The Deep, Deep Down: a place so far from the surface that the sun and sky are only legends, and so vast that no bounds can be placed on its dimensions or contents. Compatible with any fantasy roleplaying system, Downcrawl contains rules for taking dangerous...

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Downcrawl 1E Bundle [BUNDLE]

A new edition of Downcrawl is here! (And the hardcover edition of Downcrawl 2E contains the contents of Ten Down, in print for the first time ever!) Click here to find out more... The products below are for legacy Downcrawl 1E. This special bundle product contains the following titles: Downcrawl 1ERegular price: $10.95Bundle price: $8.95Format: Watermarked PDFA new edition of Downcrawl is here! Click here to find out more... This page is...

$$12.90PDF
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Downcrawl 1E: Ten Down

A new edition of Downcrawl is here! (And the hardcover edition now includes the contents of 10 Down, in print for the first time ever!) Click here to find out more... This page is for a product originally designed for legacy Downcrawl 1E; but it's compatible with any version of Downcrawl or other roleplaying systems. Get ready to explore ten new weird and wonderful destinations for Downcrawl or any other subterranean campaign: thirty pages of exciting new Volumes that can be dropped into...

$$4.95PDF
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Downcrawl 2E

Explore cursed mazes. Build stalactite cities. Get addicted to mushrooms. Welcome Down. Downcrawl is a tabletop roleplaying toolkit that helps you build and explore a weird, wondrous underworld so far from the surface that the sun and sky are only legend. Compatible with any TTRPG system, or as a complete standalone game, Downcrawl offers evocative prompts to generate new places, peoples, and encounters on the fly, and helps improvise stories of dangerous journeys, curious creatures, and...

$$19.95Digital, PDF
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Downcrawl 2E Preview: Journey Rules

Enjoy this free preview of the Journey Rules in Downcrawl 2E! Explore cursed mazes. Build stalactite cities. Get addicted to mushrooms. Welcome Down. What is Downcrawl? It's a toolkit to help you build and explore a weird, wondrous underworld at your table. Compatible as an add-on to any fantasy roleplaying game, or with its own standalone engine, Downcrawl supports of a variety of play styles including traditional play, group play with no GM, or Solo play, and focuses on enabling...

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Downcrawl 2E + Two Adventure Zines [BUNDLE]

This special bundle product contains the following titles: Downcrawl 2ERegular price: $19.95Bundle price: $17.95Format: PDF Explore cursed mazes. Build stalactite cities. Get addicted to mushrooms. Welcome Down. Downcrawl is a tabletop roleplaying toolkit that helps you build and explore a weird, wondrous underworld so far from the surface that the sun and sky are only legend. Compatible with any TTRPG system, or as a complete standalone...

$$28.95Digital, PDF
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Downcrawl Deck

Obsidian dunes. A Land of Mirrors. Paranoid druids. Downcrawl 2E is filled with evocative tables, but finding the right page in the book, rolling dice, and looking up the result takes time. The Downcrawl Deck lets you get a quick result from nearly any table in the book in only seconds, making ideas much quicker and more spontaneous to generate. "One of the most magical delving toolkits I have seen ...Did I mention these are the best solo oracle cards OF ALL TIME?!?!"Youtube Streamer Man...

$$19.95
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Downcrawl Encounter Deck

A crumbling bridge over a river of lava, ancient maps carved deep into every inch of stone. But guarding it, a primal horror of living, angry rock... The Downcrawl Encounter Deck helps you quickly generate unique and interesting story-based encounters for your game of Downcrawl 2E or any subterranean adventure (as well as providing quick results for Fungal Foraging of interesting mushrooms). Drawing from the Encounter Deck replaces the Travel Encounter and Fungal Foraging moves and tables...

$$19.95
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Even Deeper Downcrawl Deck

Scheming squidfolk. A worm-plagued charnelhouse. Silt-choked calderas... The Even Deeper Deck is a second set of prompts for Downcrawl 2E, that effectively replaces most tables in the book with an even stranger set of subterranean prompts. It offers nearly 800 new (and deliciously extra) prompt words for Downcrawl or any other subterranean exploration, in a 36-card deck of premium tarot-sized cards. You can use the Even Deeper Deck to replace the main Downcrawl Deck, or shuffle them together...

$$19.95
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Further Explorations: 50 Years of Text Games

50 Years of Text Games (2023) told the story of the first half century of interactive fiction in a whirlwind tour of fifty text-based computer games, one for each year between 1971 and 2020. Now available as a standalone volume in PDF and EPUB is this companion book, stuffed with extra chapters and bonus materials that couldn't fit in the main volume. Inside you'll find twelve new chapters and 85 pages covering fan favorites, weird microgenres, and fascinating experiments from the realm of...

$$15.56EPUB, Kindle, PDF
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Skycrawl

Get a sneak peek at Downcrawl 2E, the latest iteration of the Crawl system rules! In a weird, whimsical, endless sky, villages cling to small rocky spheres lit by sentient suns, brave souls voyage far beyond the reach of gravity toward rootless mountains in far-flung orbits, and strange skybeasts swim wild through vast and distant twilights. Welcome to the Azure Etern. This supplement for any fantasy roleplaying system gives you the rules and inspiration to run your own hexcrawl-style...

$$10.95Digital, PDF
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Skycrawl Collection [BUNDLE]

This special bundle product contains the following titles. SkycrawlRegular price: $10.95Bundle price: $8.95Format: PDF Get a sneak peek at Downcrawl 2E, the latest iteration of the Crawl system rules! In a weird, whimsical, endless sky, villages cling to small rocky spheres lit by sentient suns, brave souls voyage far beyond the reach of gravity toward rootless mountains in far-flung orbits, and strange skybeasts swim wild through vast and...

$$12.90PDF
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Ten Ports in an Infinite Sky

Get a sneak peek at Downcrawl 2E, the latest iteration of the Crawl system rules! Sail your skyship to ten new wondrous and memorable destinations for Skycrawl or any other airborne campaign. Inside, you'll find a selection of wild new Lands that can be imported into your adventures in distant skies.  Coldroot, a trading port nested in the titanic roots of a dead, icy worldtree The Shattermoon, a conclave of outcasts in the wreckage of poisonous, ruined land The Godwood, a mystical forest of...

$$4.95Digital, PDF
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The Hypogean Solution: Downcrawl Adventure Zine #1

They call it the bubblemuck. In thick and slimy arterial tendrils, it’s been oozing its way into every crack and crevice of the Deep, Deep Down. You’ll have to ride a most unusual railroad, befriend an obsessed mycologist, and find the map to a legendary nexus lost for centuries, if you hope to discover the terrible secret of...  The Hypogean Solution This print-and-play adventure for Downcrawl 2E can be played like a traditional module, but is also designed to work in Impromptu or Solo...

$$6.95Digital, PDF
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Where the Rock Stops: Downcrawl Adventure Zine #2

In the Clutchlands, far below even the Deepest Down, cities and wilderlands cling desperately to an endless roof, suspended over a black and monstrous void. Some call it merely an oversized cavern. Others call it the end of the world. What adventure will you find here in the dark deeps, Where the Rock Stops Descend an ancient brass-bound elevator in a questionable state of repair... Discover the sundry Conveyances of the Clutchlands, required to journey through this vertiginous place,...

$$6.95Digital, PDF
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