The Trinket Keeper Kelle scours the dregs of the New Capital for Little Gods left in waste bins and trash heaps. Kelle staves away isolation from a dead love and a ruined store by his relentless hunt. Grab the PDF on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/worldsbywatt...

Leonid serves as the family doctor and tutor for the Low Prince Avrey. Unknown to the family, Leonid reports on signs in hopes that Avrey might take the crown in the aftermath of a rebellion. For now, Leonid attempts to instill his populist political leanings in an unwitting ally.

Cloud Empress is at Gen Con, IPR Booth #449, Hall K. Go grab your box set of my Nausicaa-inspired TTRPG if you're in Indy.

With dragons hunted near extinction, the Ox King sends a wounded dragon to his heir, the twenty-seventh in line of succession. Hand-watercolored piece by pbbeta for my TTRPG Burial Cloud.

After 1.5 years of hard work, Rust Wings, my Ghibli-inspired adventure TTRPG using Mausritter's rules, is live on Kickstarter. Come help make this upbeat and joyous exploration of resistance, ecological survival, and teenage joy a success. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

I'm launching a new Ghibli-inspired Mausritter setting on Kickstarter March 3rd. Play as a group of teens exploring abandoned megacities filled with rebelling robots while avoiding the authoritarian military. Follow using the link below: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

Kickstarters live or die by the success of their first 24 hours. I'm giving everyone who backs my upcoming Ghibli-inspired adventure TTRPG Rust Wings on the first day a free grumpy frog character portrait. Follow below to be notified on launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

More art from my upcoming roleplaying game Rust Wings! We're trying to capture the precarious wonder of abandoned places. Illustration by Shay Heath. Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

New "Mega Arm" for Rust Wings by Theo Cox. Each PC gets one keepsake card during character creation. With the Mega Arm, you'll be able to pass any Strength Save once per game session. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

Here’s the card backs for the item deck in my upcoming TTRPG Rust Wings. I’m trying to capture this decaying playground for the teenage PCs to explore while avoiding the military state that regulates their lives.

On Tuesday, I received the first copies of Cloud Empress: Life & Death from the factory. The limited edition skull boxes are thick and beautiful (they have a lot of content to hold)!

Working on the covers of the spring Cloud Empress zine collection. This one is called “Bodyhopping in Polite Society.” What do you all think?

I made a new cantankerous couple of old winter lovers to answer PCs' questions about the world in the new Cloud Empress newsletter expansion. Download a copy here: open.substack.com/pub/worldsby...

First Cloud Empress Winter Jam entry submitted today! You can see the game entries as they come in here: itch.io/jam/cloud-em...

Here's a pic of the cover template available for the 'winter-themed' January Cloud Empress game jam! Stay tuned for more information and 3rd party assets.

Bitter Knight charts the slow path between change and decay. It holds a revered place having lived hundreds of years. Part fungal growth, part embalmed corpse, symbiotes like Bitter Knight grapple with fragmented memories while attempting to live in harmony with more fragile human neighbors.

If folks want something fun to do today instead of ruminating (or at least want to ruminate while playing a solo TTRPG), I just made Hot Stuff on Shore Leave free. Download your copy of a Mothership module full of hot sauce and hookups on DriveThruRPG. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

An unusual group of zealots called Spiderlings devote themselves to the King of Cobwebs. They wait in a spore spire called the Desolate Daughter. Disorganized and distant, a few enterprising members sell spiritual visions of the landscape from a bird's eye view to travelers for provisions.

Hey all I’m watt. I make ttrpgs about climate change, queer identity, and science fantasy. You can follow me here for weekly Cloud Empress artwork and news about upcoming projects! bsky.app/profile/worl...

Bravo City's Wardens still guard the fallen sky prison they once operated. Abandoned for death by an absent Emperor, the BC Wardens extort travelers for their most precious possessions as a matter of right.

Lexicon the Bodyhopper is a font of information in the Living Lands. She trades secrets for fresh corpses used to extend an unnaturally long lifespan. Lexicon patiently hunts travelers who break deals, standing over enemies in the dim midnight with a smile of an unrecognizable face.

Slip Riders travel to and from the Living Lands through tears in timespace returning with secrets from pasts, futures, and times that will not come, burdened with what they have witnessed. Art by @pbbeta.bsky.social

Got this treasure in the mail recently! Cloud Empress won a (highly biased) 2023 meatie award from @meatcastlegameware.com The Meatcastle stickers are chrome icing on the cake!

Gaspar the Hungry, makes an appearance in the upcoming adventure "Funeral for the Anti-Saint." A pragmatic leader in the Order of the Broken Bread, Gaspar knows victory will be paved in Farmerling and Cloudling blood alike.

The Land of the Dead, will be a 50-page, stand-alone setting hexcrawl expansion where players will explore a landscape of ash navigating the destruction from the impact of a fallen cloud city.

The Land of the Living, will be a 50-page, stand-alone setting hexcrawl expansion where players will explore a shifting landscape pushed and pulled by huge spore towers and endless rifts in time and space.

The books take place a few months after the events of the setting book Land of Cicadas as we follow the Cloud Empress West and North.

Wandering Judges in the Lowland Wastes are called on by villages to resolve petty arguments and more serious harms. Far from legal figures, judges hold authority based on their reputation and wisdom alone - and are consequently well-fed and cared for between difficult miles on the road.

Tonight, my first group of playtesters for Cloud Empress 2024 content will meet Luffi the Wise. Luffi was Genevieve, the Anti-Saint's former apprentice, but never managed to master chalk magic like her mentor. She panics when the news comes Genevieve has died.

The free Cloud Empress introductory adventure "Last Voyage of the Bean Barge," is live on DriveThruRPG. Make your way from above the acid clouds through the heart of the Century Brood to the polluted farmland below on wobbly bean barge.