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The Mothhouse is a solo journaling game I just published.

You are the last keeper of a stone house on a ridge between the living and the departed. Moths arrive at night with remnants of messages. You tend the lamps, keep a ledger of what they bring, and decide what to send back before the ridge gives way.

Play is structured in nights: roll a d6, draw from a standard 52-card deck, and answer that card's prompt. All 52 prompts are in the book, with a dice-only variant if you have no cards, plus an oil track and journal pages. Nine printable pages, $5.

https://araphelworks.itch.io/mothhouse

Some of the text and graphics were made with generative AI, which is disclosed on the project page.

I also published a small set of printable sheets for fantasy tabletop campaigns.

The Campaign Folio is system-neutral. You label the attribute boxes to match the game you are playing, and leave blank what you do not need. No proprietary terms, and no locked-in math.

It is seven letter-size, printer-friendly pages: a two-page character sheet, an NPC tracker, a session log, a quest and rumor tracker, a loot and inventory sheet, and a hex-grid world map with a legend and notes. Print only the pages you need, and copy them for the table.

https://araphelworks.itch.io/campaign-folio

The listing is marked as using generative AI for some text and graphics.

I just published The Mothhouse.

You keep a stone house on a narrowing ridge between the living and the departed. At night the moths come, carrying remnants of messages: a name, a question, a farewell, a debt. You tend the lamps, write what they leave, and decide what, if anything, to send back.

It is a solo journaling game played in nights. Each night you roll a d6 to tend the lamps, then draw a playing card and answer its prompt. There are 52 original prompts, one for every card in a standard deck, plus hardships, mercies, an oil track that will eventually run dry, and journal sheets. A session can be one evening, or a string of short sittings over a couple of weeks.

You need the PDF, a 52-card deck, one six-sided die, and something to write with. A dice-only variant is included if you have no cards. Nine printer-friendly letter-size pages.

https://araphelworks.itch.io/mothhouse

The listing is marked as using generative AI for some text and graphics.