#Hit Point Press

[sheydgarden]

so thrilled to be able to announce this incredible box set of darkly funny Jewish TTRPG games - written & designed by Lucian Kahn (Visigoths vs. Mall Goths) and illustrated by yours truly! Jewish liches taking on antisemitic fantasy tropes, a chaotic "vampire bat" mitzvah, and the drinking songs of a bootlegging bubbe in 1930s New York - there's something here for everyone. funded in under 2 hours, but there's still plenty of time for you to get a copy!

"If I Were a Lich, Man" on Kickstarter

[ID: promotional image for the Jewish TTRPG game box set "If I Were A Lich, Man" showing the illustrated game box and a set of 4 dreidels. text at the top reads "Hit Point Press" and "LIVE ON KICKSTARTER" at the bottom]

[marvelousbelladonna]

Y’all I just keep falling more in love

[another-rpg-sideblog]

If I Were a Lich, Man is a trilogy of funny Jewish roleplaying games about creative resistance against authoritarianism. The villains in the stories of our oppressors become the heroes in our play.

Written and illustrated by a team of avant-garde Jewish designers.

Recommended for fans of What We Do in the Shadows, Russian Doll, and Young Frankenstein.

IF I WERE A LICH, MAN

Players: 4

Time: 1 hour

Tone: Tense; Tragicomedy (think Fiddler on the Roof meets Waiting for Godot)

Especially Fun For: Activist Groups, Debate Clubs, Friendly Game Nights, Families, Hebrew School

Summary: A family of Jewish-coded Liches debate strategies for community survival against the murderous lawful good paladins. Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons and the Passover Seder.

Gameplay: Roleplay as one of four Lich siblings, Gantz, Shtel, Halb or Nisht. Spin a dreidel to determine the character that will commence the Lich community debate on phylacteries and the paladin threat. What fate will you decide for the Lich community?

                             Wooden Dreidels with Metallic Red Foil

SAME BAT TIME, SAME BAT MITZVAH

Players: 7-13

Time: 1 hour

Tone: Goofy

Especially Fun For: Parties, Drama Groups, Hebrew School

Summary: On the way to Ruthie’s Bat Mitzvah, a guest was bitten by a vampire bat and is transforming into a vampire during the formal reception.

Gameplay: Roleplay as Ruthie or one of her guests, celebrating her Bat Mitzvah, coming-of-age Jewish ceremony. During the reception, guests start to act strange... stranger than typical awkward thirteen-year-olds at a dance party. Some might say thirsty? Will you be able to stop the mishigas before the night is over?

                                                 Character Cards

                                                        Bat Cards

GRANDMA’S DRINKING SONG

Players: 4

Time: 2-3 hours

Tone: Happy; Melodramatic Musical Comedy

Especially Fun For: Friendly Game Nights, Families, Drama Groups

Summary: A singing game about a matriarchal Jewish family of bootleggers during Prohibition. Inspired by Lucian's family’s true stories.

                                      Fill-in-the-blank drinking song.

Gameplay: Role play as Bertha, the booze boss, or one of her 3 teenage grandchildren: Harriet (a reckless flirt), Yetta (ambitious and moody), Or Marvin (awkward, impulsive, and secretly gay). Throughout the game, you will gradually create a family drinking song together as you take turns roleplaying a series of scenes. With emotions running high, what kind of mischief will you get up to while creating your familial bootlegging song?

                                                  Scene Cards

Who Are These Games For?

This trilogy is an offering to Jews, but everyone’s invited to play regardless of cultural or religious background. Players from other marginalized communities are especially encouraged to join the fun. Come to play with a willingness to engage with Jewish culture’s ancient tradition of using humor to address serious topics.

The gaming style is improvisational and collaborative, with a unique blend of tabletop and live action systems. There are no winners or losers, in the tradition of freeform and drama games.They can all be played at home, in a classroom, in a theatre, or online, and require between one and three hours. They don’t need a  separate facilitator or game master; everyone can play a character. For ages teens and up.

Kickstarter campaign ends: Thu, March 9 2023 8:01 PM UTC +00:00

Website: [Hit Point Press] [facebook] [twitter] [instagram]

[eleonorpiteira]

Celestacean I painted for Hit Point Press 🐋

[shadeykris]

Heart Beam!

Animated spell card for Hit Point Press (2020) 3/8

[lethendralis-paints]

I can now show pieces I painted for the Hit Point Press 'Big Bads'! Honoured to be among the incredibly talented people creating the TTRPG materials! Let's start with the spooky vial of Distilled Nightmares AD: Brain Walters

[sillustrate]

Bellowing Wilds World Map For Fool's Gold: Into The Bellowing Wilds by Hit Point Press

Commissions open Portfolio: https://s-illustrations.com/

[rudybold]

Hit Point Press truly knows how to market to me, look at this kobold band!!

[hiromicota]

It’s a super busy day in RPG fundraising! I know of THREE excellent titles that just launched.

Constellation vol. 1! It’s a RPG zine anthology that collects 12 different games by cool designers!

The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! It’s based on N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy, and you can play the QuickStart that I wrote and developed now!

Realms of Pugmire second edition! It’s a brand new and OGL–free edition of the best fantasy game where you can be good dogs, trying to make the world a better place. 

[garnet77]

We are in need of more people, as despite how many we have not even a third are on at the same time. All due to not everyone sharing the same time zones.

Guild Moto: “May your soul shine bright,

and be reborn!”-Etreon Former Guildmaster and founder of the guild

[a-heart-of-kyber]

I believe we're now on 2 years and 7months since I backed the Deck of Many Animated Tarot deck Kickstarter and I have received no physical items.

Truly plausible we'll get to 3years not gonna lie.

[sheydgarden]

got to do a special edition wrap-around cover for the Hit Point Press re-release of Lucian Kahn's award-winning, 2-player TTRPG Dead Friend! my assignment was to keep the same general composition as the original cover, but introduce a new summoner & new summoned friend. really enjoying working in this greyscale + spot red palette!

[ID: illustrated front and back cover featuring a woman in a frilly 19th century dress recoiling from a multi-armed, cloaked, ghostly skeleton spirit hovering over a pentagram, surrounded by candles.]

[wheniscriticalrole]

Estimated dates and times added:

SINK! from Hit Point Press

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[valldoesdnd]

This look awesome! 

A cover illustration for a brand new HitPointPress Big Bad, THE RECTIFICATION ENGINE ! This celestial foe and its adventure will be available today on Kickstarter.

If you're interested in learning more, don't hesitate to check out the campaign right here : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hitpointpress/big-bads?ref=2lh8o1 !

[shadeykris]

Animated spell card for Hit Point Press (2020) 2/8

[canadianlucifer]

Sometimes I get a fictional little guy in my head and I have to draw them to release them