Gritty Tabletop Role-Playing
Our flagship role-playing game, Early Dark is grim, grave, and gritty. Can you survive the world of the Hara Sea?
Five civilizations surround the Hara Sea. Each one a rich, realistic collection of communities and cultures.
Otherworldly creatures beautifully illustrated by a diverse group of freelance artists.
The Fantaji Universal Role-Playing Game offers dramatic action and cinematic, character-driven stories.
Any genre, any world. That's the Fantaji promise. The game is as light, lewd, somber, or serious as your group.
We had an excellent time at the STAPLE! Independent Media Expo in dear-sweet Austin, TX, last weekend. Expectations were low, honestly. With most of the exhibitors offering high-quality art prints, indie comics, and other flashy wares; we were a little
This was our first time at ChupacabraCon, which is cool because it was also the first time ChupacabraCon happened. In on the ground floor! Austin has needed its own gaming convention, and we had a great time taking part in
So, the testing of Mazaki No Fantaji in the Playtest Hall was a great success! Again, con-goers were excited for the system and eager to come back to try out a different character or encounter. We had a blast meeting
As we prepare for 16 hours of official playtesting in the First Exposure Hall at GenCon 2013, we are releasing a few more playable characters for your home table, the first being D’Orne, a powerful fighter to help out your
In 1938, Johann Huizinga published a seminal work on play, Homo Ludens. In this text he theorizes what he calls the “magic circle” that surrounds play. This circle is bound spatially, socially, and temporally. Spatial edges of the circle are
Excited to have two tables reserved in the Gaming Room (Coronado Ballroom) at A-Kon this year! Join us from May 31-June 2 in Dallas, TX, for the one-and-only first look at Mazaki No Fantaji, our latest gaming project. We will
Hey, all! Calvin is hopping around Gen Con for the next few days, looking for sweet deals, sweet games, and sweet… you! The booths are a little too expensive for a one-book publisher so everything Anthropos related is happening on
So, we spent four days in Bedford, Texas, this weekend for the North Texas RPG Con, which specializes in old-school RPGs and retro clones. Most everybody was playing Oe, with a few AD&D slots and maybe one 3.5 game. Lots
So, we’re contemplating magic again. Just something in the air, I guess. Admittedly, this begins as pure semantics, but as we all know: Semantics is the beginning of a conversation, not the end. Around the shop the opinion is split.
One of my favorite elements of the Japanese science-fiction/fantasy tradition is the connection between magic and technology.* In the Euro-American tradition, magic is almost always characterized as the romantic opposite of cold technology.** Technology represents the mechanized world, facts, logic,