11.14.24 Update v1.1: Fixed a few errors and updated the cover design.
Flik Silverpen's Guide to the Ravenwood (FSG 26) is a sandbox hexcrawl adventure through a gloomy forest filled with haunting ghosts, cursed ravenfolk, cowardly elves, and chaotic witches. Players can c...
2024-11-01 03:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The Dragon Town and the Darkness Below Kickstarter campaign ends on Wednesday, October 23rd at 8pm Eastern. I'm so happy with how this campaign has gone and cannot wai...
2024-10-22 02:29:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's zine is Flik Silverpen's Guide to the Ravenwood - a weird and dangerous sandbox setting!! Travel north of the Shadespear Mountains (chapter 5 of Dragon Town and the Darkness Below) into a dark and twisted forest filled with strange talking birds, p...
2024-10-14 07:27:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A terrible floating castle appears, the moon covers the sun, your village suffers a foul curse. The infamous demon lord, Nikolas Von Shroud, has arrived. You have 13 days until the sun returns and everyone in the village turns to dust… or suffers an even worse fate.
Castle Gloomshroud is a spooky, Castlevania-inspired...
2024-09-30 23:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
What a crazy day! I launched the Dragon Town and the Darkness Below Kickstarter campaign a few hours ago and it's already funded (in less than 2 hours!) And already on its way to the second stretch goal! If you haven't checked out the page yet (and the intro animation, had a lot of fun making that!) definitely have a look:
This month we're heading into spooky season with a dungeon crawl through a Vampire Lord's castle! A foul curse has befallen the village and it's up to a group of brave adventurers to defeat the evil vampire before everyone turns to dust.
Castle Gloomshroud will be available for Hero and Legend tier patrons at the end o...
2024-09-20 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The hardcover collection of Dragon Town and the Darkness Below (FSG 1 - 10) is coming to Kickstarter on September 24th!
This crowdfunding campaign is to help pay for a really high-quality book (nice...
2024-09-10 02:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post
An experiment in a Legionary Secret Facility has gone wrong! The Rebels have a chance to sneak in, steal some valuable intel, and cause some chaos. But they must move quickly because the Legion is on their way!
The Legion's Foil is a starter adventure for Star Borg. Players will uncover the mystery behind the strange ap...
2024-09-01 00:26:10 +0000 UTC View Post
[[UPDATE 8.14.24: v1.1 - Rules clarifications and corrections.]]
It only takes one brave hero to save the galaxy! The Star Borg Solo Rules have everything you need to run an exciting session (or entire campaign!) of Star Borg all by yourself. Rule adjustments, oracles, random tables, and prompts ma...
2024-07-28 22:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
There's been a change of plans - We've decided to release an additional Star Borg zine!
This month Kyle and I are collaborating with Perplexing Ruins 2024-07-15 22:44:48 +0000 UTC View Post
A galaxy far far away is yours to create! Fill it with hordes of Legionary soldiers, dangerous bounty hunters, greedy space pirates, conniving crime lords, and giant alien monstrosities!
The Star Borg Galaxy Master Guide is filled with GM rules, enemy and ship stat blocks, extra equipment and abili...
2024-06-30 19:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Galactic Legion threatens the One Billion Worlds with a destructive fist. It's up to you, a group of scrappy rebels, to stop them - no matter how high the odds are stacked against you!
Star Borg is a Star Wars inspired hack of Mork Borg, a rules-light TTR...
2024-05-31 01:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm teaming up with my pal, Kyle Latino (of Map Crow fame) to work on a Star Wars inspired hack of Mork Borg! Here's the plan:
May - The Star Borg rulebook with 6 character classes, items, and ship combat!
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2024-05-04 22:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen's Guide to Little Weirdos (FSG 25) is a collection of 25 strange, absurd, and small NPCs ready to drop right into your fantasy TTRPG adventures. These little weirdos work great for random encounters, adventure hooks, or any time you need to come up with an interesting NPC in a pinch. Some would even make fun pl...
2024-05-01 00:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's zine is Flik Silverpen's Guide to Little Weirdos! A collection of 25 unique and strange, small-sized NPCs ready to drop into your fantasy tabletop roleplaying game. There's a halfling vigilante, disembodied foot, froglin squire, mind-swapped homunculus, teleporting imp, giant gnat, and L...
2024-04-17 06:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen's Guide to Bustling Streets and Unsavory Alleyways (FSG 24) is a collection of 12 city-themed encounters for your fantasy roleplaying game! Goblins on strike, rival adventurers, sentient swords, magic shops, gambling, zombies on fire, dragon attacks, all kinds of fun stuff!
You can download a PDF...
2024-04-01 02:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The Nostalgia Profit is a new one-shot adventure for Goons and Ghosts!
Alganostos, an evil memory-manipulating entity from another dim...
2024-03-01 03:39:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Nostalgia Profit is a new Goons and Ghosts adventure! A mysterious forcefield has descended on the Northpoint Mall and it's up to a group of paranormal exterminators to uncover what evil lurks within.
The adventure asks players to remember their character's fondest childhood memories and then battle against a ...
2024-02-22 05:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post
BIG NEWS! I've spent the last few months putting together a revised hardcover collection of the first ten Flik Silverpen guide books and it's almost ready to launch on Kickstarter! You can watch the process of illustrating the cover and learn a few more details about the project in this video: 2024-02-06 06:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The sequel to Making Maps (FSG 13) is here! Making Maps More Fantastical is filled with step-by-step instructions for adding all kinds of unique icons to your maps. Lakes of lava, crystal shards, portals to distant lands, plus tons of new trees, mountains, towns, and LOTS more!
You can download ...
2024-02-01 04:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's zine is the sequel to Flik Silverpen's Guide to Making Maps! This new guide is chock full of step-by-step instructions for drawing even more fantastical locations for your world maps. We're talking tons of unique trees, mountains, bridges, strange buildings, fire and ice fields, crystal mazes, mushroom forests, m...
2024-01-19 04:53:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The Soggy Ruins of Sentinel Keep is a freebie postcard dungeon I made to include with orders from my online shop. I thought it'd be nice to share here on Patreon as well. If you need a unique location or fun quest for a fiery gemstone to drop into your game, check out the PDF attached at the bottom of this post!
I...
2024-01-09 22:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The Temple of the Waking Thread is a system-neutral one-shot dungeon adventure. If your players need some healing or to bring a friend back to life, this dungeon is a great way to make a full session (or two, or three) out of their quest!
The Velorum Temple is filled with ghosts, giant bugs, ornery acolytes, and a...
2024-01-01 01:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen's Guide to Drawing Monsters is a step-by-step guide for illustrating unique creatures. You don't need any drawing experience! Just a pencil, a piece of paper, a little patience, and the process inside this guidebook.
I hope you have fun sketching up some weird monsters! And please swing by the Di...
2023-12-01 04:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen is back in charge with a new step-by-step process for illustrating your own monsters! Similar to the other drawing guides, Drawing Monsters has instructions for creating a monster "block figure" (like a stick figure but better!) and adding unique features like claws, teeth, horns, tails, wings, and LOTS more. T...
2023-11-13 23:13:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Mad Morvin's Guide to Making Monsters is a step-by-step guide for creating unique creatures to drop into your tabletop roleplaying game. 13 prompts with random tables will help you define your monsters shape, what makes them dangerous, their weakness, companions, and lair, even what they sound like.
I hop...
2023-10-31 05:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you interested in creating some truly unique monsters for your TTRPG adventures? Well Mad Morvin's Guide to Making Monsters (FSG 20) has got you covered!
Mad Morvin's devious questionnaire and wacky random tables will help you dream up an endless supply of weird creatures to fill your dungeons. You'll...
2023-10-19 02:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen's Guide to Miraculous Markets (FSG 19) is a collection of four food-themed magic item shops.
I'm having too much fun making these food-themed magic items for Flik Silverpen's Guide to Miraculous Markets! And I love giving my players magic item cards (they really are the perfect prop for in-person games!) so I thought I'd turn a few of the items from the zine into cards. Check out the process video: 2023-09-17 13:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Flik Silverpen's Guide to Miraculous Markets is a collection of 4 weird restaurants ready to be dropped into your fantasy game! Each market has an assortment of magic food for sale, 35+ items in total. These single use magic items are a exciting way for adventurers to lighten their heavy coin pouches and have fun wit...
2023-09-12 04:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post
