Recent content by Ben from Periapt Games

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...