Recent content by Ben from Periapt Games

Work continues on Overzealous as the Kickstarter campaign continues! I've been tuning up the visuals as I get closer to book production. 🔺 Tweaked the iconography and colour embellishments 🔺 Improved heading fonts 🔺 Changed page number style and placement for readability 🔺 Dialed in the book's...

We’ve just launched! You can become a backer now to help summon this project into reality, and get a print or digital copy of Overzealous. 🔺 Play the game as an exasperated would-be deity, trying to do make do with the cult you’ve been given. Trying to ignore that they’ve called themselves...

Overzealous 👁️ You're a long-forgotten god, ready to manifest in the mortal world 👁️ You have only good intentions 👁️ Watch the formation of a cult of worshippers who aim to summon you 👁️ Try to guide them even though they're weird, squabbling fanatics Your cultists sure are OVERZEALOUS! I'm...

Nope, it was quite a silly game. Time travel was involved, although I don't think we technically used it for that particular problem

We pineapple-cored the planet.

I've read but not played the old GURPS Discworld RPG. There's a good amount of non-combat content in that typical GURPSy way, including lots of character options and some scenarios and adventure seeds. (I backed the new Modiphius one too, and I'm hoping to get time to read through it soon)

AD&D 1e was arguably the first RPG I played: I had got my hands on a mishmash of D&D books from different series and editions, plus a third-party guide, and tried to paper over the cracks.

After a lot of work, ‘Monsters! Horrors & Abominations’ is finally published! A bestiary crammed full of strange and flavourful monsters for D&D 5e/2025, like the... 👹 Primeval godling: Proto-celestial monster with an afflictive aura! 👹 Marrow-froth: Bone ooze hatched up by a butcher demon...

It's launch day! Wizards are bizarre uniquities who carve their own paths through reality like rogue stars. Wiki Articles Are Wizards [citation needed] is my new zine for crafting these characters out of wiki articles, then pitting them against each other in a wizard-off! Available today...

Just a couple of days left in the campaign! My sincere thanks to everyone who's backed so far. Before we finish up, here's a peek at a few draft pages from the zine:

We've hit the campaign halfway point, and I'm very pleased with the level of support! I've recently announced some stretch goals for extra bonus content. Here's a few pictures from recent work on the zine: In a recent post, I talked in a bit more detail about my method for wizard creation...

We have launched! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/wiki-articles-are-wizards-citation-needed spells and protective amulets • wizard cabals • artefacts and their sources • the Great Wizard-Off • the truth about true-names • outré demeanours • archetypal towers • tons of random...

Wizards are disquieting, unique, and steeped in magic. This wizard leaves a trail of fungus wherever he goes, and keeps his spells under glass. [1] That one is nine feet tall and orbited by tiny comets. [2] Another has matchboxes full of slithering tongues, which do his talking for him...

Those old Welsh Piper posts are interesting. I remember reading the blog a few years ago but never got around to doing a deep dive. I should pop it on the reading list.

A petite burglar has been performing impressive heists using SPIRIT POWERS. Theyʼre a SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE. Hired to catch them, a special kind of COUNTER-MEDIUM, whose third eye can see when the SPIRIT WORLD is unclear. An UNCLEARVOYANT, if you will. SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE is a psychic...