Tuesday, 9 December 2025

XIAO! LONG! BAO! ~ Release + The Inspirations behind my Dim-Sum Adventure!

https://xiaofang64.itch.io/xiao-long-bao
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/546911/xiao-long-bao-a-mothership-scenario

Officially the 1st Rank peer-rated module of the Fall TripTech² 2025 Game Jam and winner of awards for: Most Favorable, Community Select & Thematic Excellence!

Xiao! Long! Bao! is a trendy new grub spot on Prospero's Dream that serves home-made dim sum. Customers agree: Head Chef Uncle Bao makes the best soup dumplings this side of the Milky Way.
    But… There's a reason Uncle Bao keeps his secret recipe so close to his chest, and there’s a reason his competitors are dying to steal it. D’ya wanna learn how the mincemeat is made? The truth will make you sick to your stomach…

Xiao! Long! Bao! is a trifold sci-fi horror scenario designed for use with the Mothership RPG 1e (Tuesday Knight Games). This download includes:

  • Trifold PDF in both colour and Black & White for convenient printing
  • Map image files, in GM/Player-facing formats, top-down and perspective styles
  • Bonus art, including beauty shots of the secret monster and X!L!B!'s mascot, Bao Boy!
  • An mp4 of the X!L!B! ad- use it as an immersive TV spot!

Thursday, 6 November 2025

New Release: The Worm's Embrace (Schopenhauer and Dealing with the Essential Emptiness of the World)

 

"The Agony of the Devoured creature is always far greater than the Pleasure of the Devourer"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

(Content Warning: Depression, Self-harm, Suicide)

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Hyperspace is a fickle mistress.

The Noumenal was a colony ship delivering food and medicine that disappeared 6 years ago. 2 weeks ago, it was detected in Rimspace. The engines aren’t turning, and nobody is responding to hails. And yet, systems are online, and the hull doesn’t bear a scratch. It’s up to you and your crew to investigate.

A pitiless Void awaits you, and it has an appetite for Despair. Hold your composure, or you may end up as worm food

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https://xiaofang64.itch.io/the-worms-embrace 

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/540909/the-worm-s-embrace-a-mothership-scenario

Thursday, 16 October 2025

New Release: Monkey King for Mothership 1e (Journeying to the West, Remembering Jane Goodall)

 


The Sales Patter:

When you buy cerebral slickware from Feng-Huang Industries, you’re buying a product that has been through several generations of primate tests before it ever touches human grey matter. That’s the FHI guarantee!

    FHI’s primate test subjects, such as those on the forest moon of Faa Saan, are given ample space to roam in natural conditions. And since last year, FHI has made a zero-euthanasia pledge across all its testing facilities. That's why FHI is considered by industry watchdogs to be the gold standard for humane research practices!

   ... The primates don’t agree.

Download Here:

https://xiaofang64.itch.io/monkey-king

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/538808/monkey-king-a-mothership-scenario 

Thursday, 2 October 2025

HEAD GAMES ~ (Spooky Month Throwback! Fun with Gourds and Severed Heads)

 HEAD GAMES, a Hallowe'en One-Shot 

Looking for a hallowe'en one-shot/short adventure you can run at your D&D table? You can nab HEAD GAMES from DMsguild right here!

This is an adventure about losing your head, literally! The mysterious Head-Taker has rocked the little village of Diggerby Hill. Discover their true identity and motive behind their Head-Taking, and enjoy new rules for becoming a Pumpkinhead as well as a new spooky sport: Deathball!


 The Blog Post, Minor Spoilers

 Of all the stuff I've put out on DMsguild, I had maybe some of the most fun brainstorming and running HEAD GAMES. Inspiration comes in bursts and the pieces for this one all fell into place at the right time. It's inspired by stories in which people have their heads chopped off and replaced by a gourd- Sleepy Hollow being the obvious one, but the Mayan Hero Twins legend (in which one gets their head replaced by a gourd) is a specific and strong influence too.

There's something both visceral and comic to me about a story where getting your head chopped off is, like, an inconvenience. It's gonzo and reckless in a way that the D&D rules don't exactly allow for- which is why, of course, it was necessary to make some rules of my own. I gave players the option ahead of time to get beheaded, and thankfully I had volunteers who were willing to give it a go.
 
On another level, I enjoy the flagrant disregard for biology that it entails. The scientific mind insists: you can't replace the head, can you? You can replace everything but the head, right? Because the head has the brain, and the brain is where you are, isn't it? When you defy that logic, you're catapulted into a folkloric mode of thinking instead, which I find to be a more agreeable framework for fantasy-horror. 
 
Plus I had so much fun with these renders! The distressed pumpkinface makes me smile: 
 
  
 

Double Post: Three Nights at Castle Fear and Shen-Yi: Sunslayer!

  Been neglecting to update on the blog so here's a double-post for two trifolds I made recently, along with some thoughts I had while ...