The long awaited 'Book of Schemes' is now available to buy.
A complete city, and inspired by the medieval city-states of the Hanseatic league, this book is not a fairy tale. It is not about heroes and heroines. It is certainly not about standing up to and overcoming evil. This book is about...
To usher in the Year of the Dragon, we're holding a New Year sale, reducing all items bought on our webstore by 15% (https://thedesignmechanism.com/) from 12 midnight, 1st January, until 12 midnight on the 7th January. So if there's a book you've been holding back on, or want to make a new year...
The new, revised, expanded, ORC-licensed edition of Mythras Imperative is now available - just in time for Christmas.
While the game and mechanics are fundamentally the same, we've tweaked a few rules, made errata corrections, and fully integrated rules for firearms, vehicles, new character...
The pirate calling himself Triton has laid siege to The Golden Horn, paralysing sea traffic into the Queen of Cities. Meanwhile, in a small monastery a mute slave has sought refuge from a terrible tragedy; elsewhere, an old and determined cult is seeking the return of a treasure stolen several...
It's here...
Classic Fantasy Imperative introduces roleplayers to old-school dungeoneering and high adventure through the lens of the Mythras rule system. A complete game, with all you need for play (barring dice), Classic Fantasy Imperative provides full character creation, with four classes...
Two new - and long anticipated - releases, now available!
Mythras Factions
Mythras Factions provides rules for creating and running factions of any size or complexity; from street gangs to international corporations. These can then be used as backdrops within a Mythras campaign, or even used as...
Kia orana! May health be with you!
This, the traditional greeting of the Oceanian people, can be heard throughout a region covering a vast triangle with sides measuring over 10,000 kilometres. At the three corners of this triangle lie the Hawai'ian Archipelago in the north, the continental...
The Predestination Engine & Other Stories is our first scenario collection for Casting the Runes. These seven investigations take the characters across the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th Century, from London to Edinburgh, and involve them in hauntings, summonings, strange rites, macabre...
As we move into Autumn (or Fall, if you prefer), we thought we'd share with you the covers of several upcoming books for Mythras and Casting the Runes. We're aiming to release most of these before the end of the year, and will also be providing sneak peaks of the contents to our newsletter...
If you subscribe to our newsletter, there's some news coming in the next 48 hours. If you don't subscribe to our Newsletter and don't want to miss out, then now's a good time to join...
Roleplayers for Ukraine is a special online convention running on Saturday and Sunday, 2-3rd April, aimed at raising funds to help the people of Ukraine in this terrible time.
https://warhorn.net/events/role-players-for-ukraine
I'm representing TDM and will be running an extended version of...
As Destined (our new superhero RPG) nears readiness, we thought we'd give you a peek under its hood.
This preview is from our pre-proofed files, so doesn't have the 'page XX references' resolved yet, but it does give you a good idea of Destined's scope, look and feel.
More news to come on the...
An epic Classic Fantasy adventure set in the shifting deserts of Aegypt!
Something foul is lurking beneath the sands of, and a horror of the ancient world is about to be reborn!
While investigating the disappearance of a nomad clan, the characters uncover a sinister plot that threatens all of...
The giantess Tadc and her bear companion, Terrorpaw, have seized a group of terrified villagers and hold them in Tadc's lair. A rescue party has been assembled to free the villagers and end the giantess's reign of fear over the land.
The third in our series of Combat Training modules, Brace...
In the year 1765 BC, King Zimri-Lim of Mari emerged from a planning session with his aides and summoned his personal scribe. As he paced the courtyard in his palace in the city of Tuttul, he dictated a letter to the scribe, who used the cut end of a reed to press the message into a warm clay...
It's the final few hours of the Mythras settings Bundle of Holding. This is a really brilliant deal on a bunch of brilliants PDFs (including Luther Arkwright and Lyonesse), and with a contribution of the amount raised going to a brilliant charitable cause (Direct Relief, which supplies PPE to...
For all Luther Arkwright fans out there...
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Three River Studios Options Bryan Talbot’s Graphic Novel Series The Adventures of Luther Arkwrightand Heart of Empire
London, 28 April 2021: Three River Studios today announces it has optioned the rights to...
Our latest scenario for Mythras is 'A Bird in the Hand', a dangerous adventure set on Monster Island, involving the characters in the theft of a strange and unique bird from the clutches of a local rogue. But theft has consequences, and on Monster Island, those consequences can be dire. The...
"fantastic and thorough, almost compendium-like adaptation of a classic fantastical setting, one that is likely to feel almost familiar to many gamers, because even if they have not read the novels, they will have encountered its influence on Dungeons & Dragons."...
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