Here’s an updated one:

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Join Zak Barouh | LEAF & LANCE's Membership Hi, I'm Zak Barouh. I'm a writer and Tabletop RPG designer. My latest big release is Animon Story, and TTRPG about Kids & their Monster friends!

Consider becoming a Ko-fi Member to support my ongoing work and get immediate access to a vast backlog of monthly releases.

Alongside Foundtown, there are over 30 releases available to all Members. You can get all that right away at the £5 tier and it makes a huge difference to me!

The cover of Animon Story: Foundtown, featuring a quaint town street with a cafe in the background. In the foreground is the animon Robotanist, a machine holding a watering can with a terrarium in his body.

Find lost animon and build a community where they can thrive in 🏘️Foundtown, the latest Animon Story release for Ko-fi Members!

This is a bumper-sized release featuring Digimon World-inspired town building optional rules, and fits right into the Outer Bounds - a setting being developed across 2026!

Join Zak Barouh | LEAF & LANCE's Membership Hi, I'm Zak Barouh. I'm a writer and Tabletop RPG designer. My latest big release is Animon Story, and TTRPG about Kids & their Monster friends!

Consider becoming a Ko-fi Member to support my ongoing work and get immediate access to a vast backlog of monthly releases.

Alongside Foundtown, there are over 30 releases available to all Members. You can get all that right away at the £5 tier and it makes a huge difference to me!

The cover of Animon Story: Foundtown, featuring a quaint town street with a cafe in the background. In the foreground is the animon Robotanist, a machine holding a watering can with a terrarium in his body.

Find lost animon and build a community where they can thrive in 🏘️Foundtown, the latest Animon Story release for Ko-fi Members!

This is a bumper-sized release featuring Digimon World-inspired town building optional rules, and fits right into the Outer Bounds - a setting being developed across 2026!

a screenshot from episode 38 of the Digimon Adventure anime reboot that came out in 2020. it shows the character Gabumon being crucified. this is after he is kidnapped by Mephistomon, a fallen angel digimon, & then ritualistically sacrificed to try and resurrect an ancient evil god digimon named Milleniumon. this was in the cartoon. they showed this to children.

today we give thanks to Gabumon, who long ago digi-died for our digi-sins 🙏

Image of Digimon Gabumon tied to cross

Remember what He did for us on this Easter Sunday

Here's my April Fools promise, the BREAK?? entries may be silly but they will always be fully functional rules!

ZakBFree - Twitch Test Stream with WOBBLEDOGS!

I am live, testing the stream setup, chatting, and playing Wobbledogs!

www.twitch.tv/zakbfree

Traveller 5e The oldest and most influential sci-fi TTRPG of all time meets the world’s most popular roleplaying game, with a complete 5e conversion by World’s Largest RPGs.

ttrpg world and the larger hobby game world: reckoning with crowdfunding smoke and mirrors and having frank discussions about what it takes to make art on these platforms and artificial funding goals

traveller 5e: lol

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Happy trans day of visibility!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Merlin's Miscellany (Romance of the Perilous Land) by Trollish Delver Games New rules and material for Romance of the Perilous Land

Merlin's Miscellany, a new rules supplement for Romance of the Perilous Land, is now available on itch and dtrpg
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How exciting!

Over half the respondents in the TTGDA survey indicated they used AI in some way.

You losers. You're creatives.

Create.

A Doomsong TTRPG corebook splayed open to show the heretical lineage of the gods (splash of colours indicate heresy). Above it on the table, a skull with the Cross of the Immortal etched into its forehead.

Two books on a table. One is ash-white and the other is charcoal black. The white book is the Doomsong core book and the black book is a full length campaign.

One of the rare Doomsong special editions: red faux-leather cover with gold acrylic applied by hand in the debossed Doomcoin pattern.

A page of macabre art from the interior. A large stag with ornate antlers stands astride a ruined wagon. This art drew inspiration from both the Screaming Antelope in Kingdom Death and the film called The Ritual, two pieces of culture that the writer reall loves.

Like we say inside the dustjackets:

The book isn't the end product. Your experience is.

#Doomsong #Booksky #DarkArt #TTRPG

I really can't put this more clearly.

If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on.

There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

I can't wait for BREAK!!KART!!

Or maybe it would be BREAK!! ACCELERATE!!

Come and join us in the new Leaf & Lance Discord!

Somehow I made the day 1 activity into "make a spreadsheet of every rpg you've ever played" - what could be more fun than that?

A Leaf & Lance logo next to text reading: New Discord Server, and the Discord logo.

So, secondary announcement:

Alongside the Leaf & Lance launch, we have a new community Discord server for Animon Story fans and anyone who wants to follow along and hang out with us!

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A logo reading 'Leaf & Lance', with a weathered, natural look, against a green forest background.

I'm delighted to introduce 🍃Leaf & Lance, a new home for the joint creative works of myself and @detheria.bsky.social!

To me, Leaf & Lance means nature, fairytales, and adventure. Stories, and growth. Wonder and peril. My inspirations!

Of course, Leafpig and Lancelotl had a part to play as well 💚

check out the logos I designed for Leaf & Lance studio, fresh out the pot! 🙂

massive thanks to Zak and Leo for trusting me with their designs! I absolutely loved developing these logos - combining icons and characters with letters is always fun!

can't wait to see them featured in L&L games!

A Leaf & Lance logo next to text reading: New Discord Server, and the Discord logo.

So, secondary announcement:

Alongside the Leaf & Lance launch, we have a new community Discord server for Animon Story fans and anyone who wants to follow along and hang out with us!

discord.com/invite/QeCuE...

A monochrome Leaf & Lance banner on a green forest background!

Leo and I are both maintaining individual identities across social media, so Leaf & Lance is not so much a new company than it is a shared project that we're working together on, as we seek to explore new creative territory and expand our offerings!

More news coming shortly - stay tuned!

Banner reading: Leaf & Lance, a new home for Animon Story, and more to come!

For now, Animon Story is still our primary project, and Leaf & Lance is a new home for it. We hope it will be soon joined by other games and more creative projects!

And just to be clear, as Leaf & Lance we are continuing to work alongside Metal Weave Games to publish Animon Story.

Three variations of the Leaf & Lance logo, one in colour, two monochrome, against a green forest background.

Firstly, I must thank @andriylukin.bsky.social for his phenomenal work designing a suite of Leaf & Lance branding. He really understood the assignment and delivered exactly what we wanted!

A logo reading 'Leaf & Lance', with a weathered, natural look, against a green forest background.

I'm delighted to introduce 🍃Leaf & Lance, a new home for the joint creative works of myself and @detheria.bsky.social!

To me, Leaf & Lance means nature, fairytales, and adventure. Stories, and growth. Wonder and peril. My inspirations!

Of course, Leafpig and Lancelotl had a part to play as well 💚

These books, particularly Voices and Powers, I feel are at least on par with Tehanu, the best of Earthsea in my opinion.

Just finished Annals of the Western Shore by Le Guin. I adore Earthsea, but her later writing like this is absolutely astonishing.

Nope, just a coincidence! The game looks cool, been meaning to check it out. What do you think of it so far?