Shin Megami Tensei - The Roleplaying Game: Tokyo Conception is a deep yet accessible TTRPG for 3-5 players + 1 GM that perfectly captures themes of the original Shin Megami Tensei(TM) video game series, allowing players to wield familiar spells such as Agi and Megido against legendary demons like Jack Frost, Metatron, and the Moirae Sisters. Tokyo Conception further preserves the franchise's essence by incorporating staple elements such as demon negotiation, the Affinity system, and punishing status ailments like Poison and Stun while also introducing more typical TTRPG mechanics such as critical hits, fumbles, and exploding dice, to ensure encounters are both challenging and rewarding.

Tokyo Conception is based on the world of Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne(TM). The game designers have recreated every region with great attention to detail. The book offers nearly 100 pages of stats for every demon, including bosses like Ahriman, Baal Avatar, Noah, and Kagutsuchi itself, and plenty of seeds for brand-new adventures. For video game enthusiasts who enjoy Japanese RPGs and are interested in exploring the world of tabletop roleplaying games, Tokyo Conception is an excellent starting point, as no prior knowledge of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise is needed to enjoy the game. For existing and seasoned TTPRG enthusiasts, Tokyo Conception contains plenty of familiar gameplay features, compelling pre-made scenarios, engaging mechanics, and a deep character advancement system that can be played over days, weeks, months, or longer!

Convictor Drive: Armored by Grief is a Kamen Rider-inspired Japanese tabletop roleplaying game set in a futuristic Yokohama, Japan. As employees of DRIVE Private Security, players become pilots of powerful exoframe suits known as Convictors. To unleash their Convictors' devastating attacks, characters must channel the pain of past traumas and use their grief as a wellspring of power. In this episodic game, players investigate crimes, undertake missions, and engage in grid-based combat to dismantle criminal masterminds. Players will ascend the ranks of DRIVE, customize their Convictor suits, and tap into the profound emotions of personal tragedies to triumph against all odds.

A cozy, all-ages, rules-light TTRPG about witches and their apprentices inspired by Studio Ghibli films and featuring relaxing gameplay, an original d6 system, beautiful anime art, and engaging mechanics.

Eldritch Escape: Tokyo is a game set in modern-day Tokyo, where you play as an ordinary person hunting a giant monster. There's no heavy firepower, or guns, or elite soldiers in Eldritch Escape: Tokyo. The people risking their lives to fight the monsters were, just a little while ago, normal, everyday people. Because of this, the first time you play the game, you'll probably die almost instantly. Even after you get used to it, you'll probably still die a lot.

--But that's okay.

Because in Eldritch Escape: Tokyo, you have a partner who'll revive you each time the monster kills you. You'll be brought back to life, whether you want to come back or not, and sent out to fight the monster once more. And as you keep dying and coming back to life, you'll learn a little bit more about the monster that killed you, eventually finding the monster's weak points and how to defeat it.

But don't trust your partner too much.

And remember, after coming back to life so many times, there's no guarantee you'll be the same person you were before this all started.

At only 23 years old, Edelweiss loses her ability to speak in the wake of a life-altering diagnosis. Grieving the loss of her old life, she travels across the sea to visit the small island where her grandparents live, hoping to find healing, and most of all, her voice. She longs for someone who will listen to her, even when she can't speak.

The quiet, peaceful island days fly by, and Edelweiss begins to find healing through the inhabitants of the island. But will she be able to reclaim her voice, or it will become yet another thing her diagnosis has stolen from her?

Silent Edelweiss is a lyrical novel that tells the story of a woman who lost her voice and found herself in the silence. Poetry and prose weave together to create a mesmerizing story that captures both the vulnerable intimacy of a poetry collection and the emotional journey of a novel.

High atop the rugged mountains,

she sits.

The limestone through which she grew

has scraped away at her

and left her voice ragged.

The howling wind and the falling snow

drown out every word

she has tried to say.

Despite the world that seeks to hush her,

the silent edelweiss

still has a message to convey.

Submerged in a toxic relationship and disconnected from everyone, she turns to the sea to decide her fate. Its decision? Toss her to the sea witch.

Malaya is cursed. In her family, every girl's first love ends in death after falling for someone evil. Good thing Malaya's dream guy isn't monstrous.

Except the curse is real and preventing Malaya from noticing how much he has gaslit and isolated her until she can't be saved. With no other options, the sea witch is the only one to help her.

Bartering her voice for a new life where she and her abusive boyfriend never met, Malaya accidentally swaps places with an alternate timeline version of herself who never made her mistakes. As she tries to undo the switch, the sea witch uses Malaya's voice to unleash Filipino monsters into the worlds.

Can a champion, an alternate timeline sister, and Malaya fight these beasts and stop the sea witch before she destroys both timelines?

Welcome to the thrilling world of Steam Build Riders, a two-player tabletop RPG set in the exhilarating realm of steampunk rally raids. Players become a duo known as Riders, consisting of a Driver who expertly steers a steam-powered vehicle and a Navigator who not only handles the armaments but also offers crucial support from the passenger seat. Together, they navigate a story filled with no-holds-barred rally raids, enjoying a narrative where anything goes.

This game is divided into two distinct phases: the 'City Phase, ' where players prepare their machines and depict everyday life in the steampunk city of 'Laminepolis, ' and the 'Rally Phase, ' where they take their custom-built machines to compete in the rally. During the City Phase, players gather custom parts for their machines and experience the outlaw life in a steampunk setting, enjoying a variety of events in Laminepolis. The Rally Phase is filled with challenges as players, in their custom machines, overcome enemy attacks, difficult terrain, and unexpected monster encounters, all through teamwork.

Steam Build Riders is a tabletop RPG packed with elements of steampunk, rally raids, and buddy action. Its unique features lie in its simple yet deep racing game mechanics, the freedom of storytelling shaped by outlaw characters, and the randomness of dice rolls.

The game rules are both straightforward and profound. Players customize their machines with parts and race them, using only six-sided dice to create a varied gaming experience for each machine and customization. This leads to a refreshing board game experience that can be enjoyed in just over two hours.

The characters in this game are outlaws, eccentric thrill-seekers who take on the high-stakes rally raids for a chance at quick riches. Their adventures are filled with unexpected happenings, and the game's rules reflect this, requiring frequent dice rolls. The roll of the dice might lead to a heist at the police station for parts or a sudden, high-speed leap of the machine (and the steampunk setting is just the perfect backdrop for these amusing stories). For those who wish to immerse themselves in a narrative that's both free-spirited and rebellious, Steam Build Riders is the perfect choice.

Crowned in Melanin is a love letter to blackness. An evocative collection of poetical musings that explores what it means to be black in a country like ours, while also navigating her own womanhood. Crowned offers a very personal reflection of the author's experiences. The struggles and triumphs of walking unapologetically in her melanin, Goddess aura, and taking up notable space as she does so. This powerful collection of poetry, affirmations, and quotes is inspiring, and necessary.

Kedamono Opera is a tabletop roleplaying game that revolves around a dark fairytale world. In this game, humans who are desperate and weak seek the help of powerful and immortal monsters. These monsters are only interested in consuming human souls and satisfying their own desires. The ultimate goal of Kedamono Opera is not to resolve matters efficiently nor to save humans, but to weave a beautiful tale, be it a tragedy or comedy, of your own making.

The whimsical and mystical world of Kedamono Opera is yours to define. However, there are a few guidelines that must be followed. First, the kedamono, which are creatures that include beasts, monsters, and fables, must exist. For them to exist, the Dark Forest must be present in their world. Secondly, humans exist, and they all worship a single god, regardless of who that might be. Lastly, the time period and location should be appropriate for a fairy tale, which is roughly Middle-Age Europe. Beyond these guidelines, the way humans view kedamono (some with hope, others with fear) and how the world enhances your story is at the heart of what matters most in Kedamono Opera.

In Kedamono Opera, players do not play the frail humans seeking aid but rather the kedamono themselves. Designed for 2-3 people, one person will take on the role of the gamemaster, the facilitator of the story, while the others pick from a list of kedamono, like classes or playbooks, each offering a unique set of tools to shape the story to come. Play as a fierce and vicious bear, a lonesome wolf, a sly spider, or even a shark. Each kedamono comes with highly evocative art from Nagabe of both the kedamono's true form and the person-shaped lure they use to speak to humans with.

Although the game's mechanics are simple, they offer great depth due to the Portents system. Using skills or failing trials can apply phrases or sentences to a Kedamono, which *must come true* by the end of the story. Though the GM has final say over how a Portent can be enacted, players are encouraged to come up with unique ways to weave their Portents into the story--or to find ways to rid themselves of them.

What you are holding in your hands is a curious thing. This book is a memoir, although certainly not a traditional one. Call it an 'experimental, intellectual memoir.'

So begins this startling and compelling collection of 40 pieces that reflect the passion, fears, and confusion of a young man trying to make sense of, find meaning in, and discover his place in the world between the ages of 17 and 25. Full of rhythmic, vivid language, Growing Up the Antichrist uses poetry as a starting point to express profound, maddening, and sometimes hilarious emotional truths about the process of growing up in the early 21st century, grappling with nostalgia, and struggling as an outsider (even among the outsiders). Driven by a complex, but enduring, hope and balancing a respect for and distaste of the past, this intellectual memoir goes beyond the author's own backstory to speak to universal experiences that unite us across the generations.

At only 23 years old, Edelweiss loses her ability to speak in the wake of a life-altering diagnosis. Grieving the loss of her old life, she travels across the sea to visit the small island where her grandparents live, hoping to find healing, and most of all, her voice. She longs for someone who will listen to her, even when she can't speak.

The quiet, peaceful island days fly by, and Edelweiss begins to find healing through the inhabitants of the island. But will she be able to reclaim her voice, or will it become yet another thing her diagnosis has stolen from her?

Silent Edelweiss is a lyrical novel that tells the story of a woman who lost her voice and found herself in the silence. Poetry and prose weave together to create a mesmerizing story that captures both the vulnerable intimacy of a poetry collection and the emotional journey of a novel.

High atop the rugged mountains,

she sits.

The limestone through which she grew

has scraped away at her

and left her voice ragged.

The howling wind and the falling snow

drown out every word

she has tried to say.

Despite the world that seeks to hush her,

the silent edelweiss

still has a message to convey.

Over Arms is a rules-light tabletop pen-and-paper role-playing game designed to replicate media like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Persona, FATE, and Shaman King. Over Arms is set in a world where select people can develop an Anima, a powerful psychic manifestation of their own psyche and will. These Anima can assist their User in myriad ways in and out of combat based on the strengths of their unique abilities. In Over Arms, players can expect to weave stories of mystery and intrigue as they discover this new world around them and within.

In a game of Over Arms, player characters will awaken their Anima, a manifestation of one's own will and psyche that is typically born through an incredibly stressful or emotional event. These Anima come equipped with unique special abilities that YOU, the player, will create and utilize both in combat and while interacting with the world that surrounds you. These abilities are learned by your character only through coming to understand the nature of your Anima and working together in tandem. From character and Anima creation to scenarios and combat, Over Arms is rules-light at its core: RPG newbies and seasoned veterans alike can pick it up, read it, and play a game of Over Arms in just a few hours.