Sam Tempest

Hi to all my new followers! I make RPGs with my brother @willtempest.bsky.social. We released our first two projects this year. Saint Magnus and Frogmen! You can download them for free over on our itch: tempestrpg.itch.io

@gravegoodspub.bsky.social You are going to drive me insane.

UKGE organisers for the low low price of FREE I will teach you professional community contact skills AND how to not fuck up your marketing. If any journalists or content creators are going this year please help us be loud about it.

TAGS Fest 2026 is TOMORROW! See you soon at Out of the Blue Drill Hall for a day of indie publishing, games, and talks!

Excellent local (to Cornwall) organisation using D&D and boardgames to help kids build confidence/social skills could do with help moving to bigger premises. I've met these guys and they're *lovely*. www.gofundme.com/f/help-roll-...

The Flood Bell Tolls in Saint Magnus contains everything you need to run a campaign. Fight guards and gangers for territory in the Swell. Rid desperate villages in the Dredge of ghosts. Abandon self-preservation entirely and venture out into the Mudflats. PWYW tempestrpg.itch.io/saint-magnus #TTRPG

The city is overrun. The Chytrid Fungus has turned its civilians into flesh-eating monsters. You're unarmed and cut off from command, but you're never alone. Grab a fresh batch of bionics, attachments, innate abilities and unique weapons in a multi-session adventure for your Frogmen. bit.ly/4x890qy

The Berserker wanders aimlessly. There is little relief in the sunder of clay. Hardback: www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page... #TTRPG

Procyon City is available on our website! It's a love letter to PS1 horror games. In the physical edition, you get a 50+ page mini campaign, a ringbound A4 mapbook, 25 character sheets, and cut and colour standees and scenery. Time to dig out the felt tips! Physical edition: bit.ly/4x890qy #TTRPG

Venture into the abandoned oppidum Strang Beorn in search of something worth plundering. Strang Beorn is a 50+ page, fully illustrated, haunted hillfort dungeon delve for #MORKBORG. www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page... #TTRPG

Frogmen is a co-operative #TTRPG skirmish game for a GM and 2+ players. Set up quick-to-play operations that the whole table builds together and take the fight to the Skorps! Download it for free! tempestrpg.itch.io/frogmen

Gulls fly south over caul-fat waves and salt-spray spit from the malevolent sea. They find more welcome behind the Blessed Breaker, picking at discarded carcasses in the canals of the Swell. Everything washes down there eventually, living or dead.  tempestrpg.itch.io/saint-magnus #TTRPG

Absolutely delighted to see this rolled out! Ontos are new to the trade show circuit, and so I've felt a bit apprehensive when giving this as feedback to the various organisers.

Sketchbook

I will be at Questival on Oct 3 exhibiting and running a completely free workshop on how to make your own Romantasy solo RPG (using our Chapters rule set). You'll get a free workbook and printed copy of the SRD 🥰 Places are limited so if you're interested, book now: questival.uk/products/rom...

Wanna see something wild? A third-party Mothership KS estimated to ship in Sept '24 just dropped an update that it's still not done, won't be Mothership anymore, will be riddled with AI now, and no they won't be refunding anyone. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

Uploaded a new comic! Somewhere In The Shadows is now available to read on my website www.willtempest.com/shorts/somew...

Get in. Secure the objective. Get out. It can really be that simple - if you have a good team at your back. Build your United Amphibian Military Command crew in Frogmen: www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page... #ttrpg #roleplaying

📢 Exhibitor announcement: GRAVE GOODS (@gravegoodspub.bsky.social). “Grave Goods is a team of independent TTRPG creators. We design systems, settings and adventures, with every single page written and illustrated by human hands.” 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

We’re SO happy to be back at TAGS this year, it’s one of our absolute favourites and the team deliver such a wonderful event every time

Loving Mythic Bastionland

It's finally RELEASED! I made a free, romantasy-first SRD for designing solo narrative/journalling games: CHAPTERS. Here’s the core of what it does, why I built it this way, and how it keeps a story moving without pre-writing where that story has to go. 

Mothership Month is back this year, with one big caveat: no crowdfunding, no new releases. Instead we're investing back in the community: For starters: the Jump-9 Writers Grant will invest $9k in 3 new writers to help them each create a Mothership zine. www.failuretolerated.com/mothership-m...

It's #FreeRPGDay in the UK! Go visit the nice folks at your friendly local games store! (And don't forget, The Flood Bell Tolls in Saint Magnus and Frogmen are always free over at tempestrpg.itch.io)

Another watercolour test for our next @gravegoodspub.bsky.social project

Watercolour test for a new @gravegoodspub.bsky.social project

A hint to an upcoming Grave Goods title, perhaps…?

Sketchbook

Almost time, it's the last weekend to get those preorders in! Final order cutoff for Eclipse of Moths is the 13th. Let your local comic shop know if you want to get your hands on a copy.

The hall is set for a great wedding. Crimson drapes, some of the original blue still visible beneath the splatter, hang heavy from the rafters like the bowels of giant. Hardback: www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page... #TTRPG

The city is overrun. The Chytrid Fungus has turned its civilians into flesh-eating monsters. You're unarmed and cut off from command, but you're never alone. Grab a fresh batch of bionics, attachments, innate abilities and unique weapons in a multi-session adventure for your Frogmen. bit.ly/4x890qy

The Flood Bell Tolls in Saint Magnus contains everything you need to run a campaign. Fight guards and gangers for territory in the Swell. Rid desperate villages in the Dredge of ghosts. Abandon self-preservation entirely and venture out into the Mudflats. PWYW tempestrpg.itch.io/saint-magnus #TTRPG

There’s no time to relax, Frogmen. The Skorps have us on the back foot after Crisis Omega and they’re going on the offensive. They’re sending the deadly Reaver and his destructive renegades to take out the Energy Well at the heart of L.I.L.Y Pad Home Base. tempestrpg.itch.io/red-zero-sha... #TTRPG

There are many fine folk in Saint Magnus who trade, who graft, who know things. Some of them might even help you. Explore an island on the precipice of both drowning and rebellion: gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page/the-flood-bell-tolls-in-saint-magnus

ICYMI, we announced a new game this week - and it's something I've been working on and wanting to share for years: a survival horror #ttrpg inspired by some of my favourite scary video games!

Pirouette has been nominated for best Solo Game and Best Writing! I legit could not be happier!

Do not despair, you sodden wretch. There is fortune to be had in desperation. There are forbidden technologies humming beneath the water, powerful hydromancies mouldering in abandoned villages, and mud-soaked hoards in the bone palaces beyond the wall. tempestrpg.itch.io/saint-magnus #TTRPG

The Berserker wanders aimlessly. There is little relief in the sunder of clay. Hardback: www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page... #TTRPG

I am so excited to finally announce INK RIBBON, a survival horror #ttrpg inspired by video games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alan Wake. I've been working on this for YEARS and I'm so happy to finally be able to talk about it! Shamble over to learn more: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Strang Beorn now available on pittrapshop.com !!!

The rots in deep

Some of the original inks and water colours from Eclipse of Moths. Coming out August by @strangers.bsky.social, available to preorder now! Final orders: 13th July Lunar Product Code: 0626ST1112

My phone takes horrendous pictures, but here's Strang Beorn on sale at @relicandroll.bsky.social ! #TTRPG

Little Worm, my new comic accompanying Eclipse of Moths. The story follows a doomed crew's attempt to resist a terrible sickness on their stranded ship. Published by @strangers.bsky.social Final orders: 13th July Lunar Product Code: 0626ST1112 #comics

MCM, Dragonmeet, and DragonCon take a stance against AI, but the UK’s biggest board game con stays silent - despite pushback from attendees. www.wargamer.com/tabletop-ai-... #UKGE #BoardGames #TTRPG

Procyon City has two new HVTs. The Scourge hunts the Frogmen across the city, he can appear at any time which keeps them looking over their shoulders. The Killer Plant has run rampant across the Botanical Gardens and has a taste for swallowing Frogmen whole! bit.ly/4x890qy #TTRPG

We're (almost) all set up over on @rpg-trader.bsky.social! There are a couple of extra PDFs to upload and then we're done! Find us here: rpg-trader.com/creator/453/...

Some art from Red Zero: Procyon City, our new Frogmen zine. Physical edition comes with cut and colour standee sheets and a ring bound map book! Available here - www.gravegoodspub.co.uk/product-page...

Procyon City is available on our website! It's a love letter to PS1 horror games. In the physical edition, you get a 50+ page mini campaign, a ringbound A4 mapbook, 25 character sheets, and cut and colour standees and scenery. Time to dig out the felt tips! Physical edition: bit.ly/4x890qy #TTRPG