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Tales of Menace & Mystery

Our 4th proprietary role-playing game of 2024 is finally here: the riveting pulp adventure game Tales of Menace & Mystery! Comes in a 180p hardcover or softcover book, in glorious full color, as well as in a handy downloadable PDF, which you get for free if you buy the printed version. Contains a whopping 15 adventures, sure to satisfy your craving for adventure for many many months. Buy it  here!

 2024-12-27

social media frenzy:
Unboxing Menace & Mystery

Arriving just as it should, with great drama and fanfare, just before the strike of midnight (OK, before the end of the year): our 4th brand new, proprietary roleplaying game of 2024, Tales of Menace & Mystery. Watch the unboxing video here and check out the exciting world of pulp adventure of the 1930s!

 2024-12-27

social media frenzy:
RandomWorlds visit the North Pole

Creator Al Spader went on RandomWorlds and delved into the rich setting of The North Pole, as described in the brand new book for our Once Upon storybook RPG. Read the full transcript here!

 2024-12-27

social media frenzy:
Ashland on Really Dicey!

Ashland creator Troy Mepyans was featured on the Really Dicey YouTube channel and walked through the many ins and outs of this exciting post-apocalyptic RPG from The Yellow Hand. Watch the clip here, and buy the game here!

 2024-12-27

Welcome to the North Pole!

Yellow Hand cheerfully invite you to visit The North Pole! In A Believer's Guide to the North Pole, you will find everything you need to run sessions for our Once Upon storybook RPG, set in this magical realm of Christmas. Prepare the eggnog and the gingerbread cookies and set your sights on the North Star. The guide is 66 pages in full color and contains a complete adventure. Buy it  here!

 2024-12-16

Triple Threat

Yellow Hand stalwarts Al Spader and Michael Dismuke joined Star Trek Adventures line editor Jim Johnson to talk about Sentience, the 2d20 Robot Roleplaying Game. It's an hour long, very fun and engaging conversation with lots of exploratory ideas. Catch the video here, on Star Trek Adventures: Continuing Conversations!

 2024-11-30

Heed the Call

The Yellow Hand proudly launch our very first adventure in our new Call of Cthulhu product line. The White Circle is a classic 1920s CoC scenario, set in St. Paul, Minnesota. It features a dark conspiracy driven by a sinister cabal, and is written by esteemed Yellow Hand alum Jonas Morian. Check it out here

 2024-11-15

Ashland Q&A 

Yellow Hand alum Troy Mepyans, designer of the Ashland 2d20 post-apocalyptic RPG, spent time on RandomWorlds doing a very thorough Q&A. Recommended for anyone who's interested in the game! Find the transcript here

 2024-11-15

Welcome to Ashland!

The Yellow Hand proudly announce our fourth complete role-playing game, the post-apocalyptic phenomenon that is Ashland. This game takes you to a devastated Earth of  2423, where the population has dwindled and been divided into the wilderness-dwelling Ashlanders, the domed-city-inhabitants of the Metropoli, and the submerged civilization of Oceanica. Ashland is our 2nd RPG based on a licensed version of Modiphius' acclaimed 2d20 system.  Grab your copy of Ashland, hot off the press, right here.

 2024-11-02

Publish Your Own Adventures

Yellow Hand alum Jonas Morian gave a well received talk on how to publish your own adventures, especially for Call of Cthulhu through the Miskatonic Repository, at the Lund 1920 gaming convention in the southern Swedish city of Lund. Watch the lecture here! (Swedish only unfortunately.) More about the convention here.

 2024-10-27

Al Talks Games with Dave

Al Spader got an opportunity to dive deep into his experience creating Sentience on the YouTube channel Games with Dave. It made for an interesting, thoughtful 1h conversation – check it out here!

 2024-10-14

Modiphius + The Yellow Hand

The Yellow Hand can proudly announce our first official, commercial license: we have partnered with Modiphius to license their acclaimed 2d20 system. First out will be t a new edition of our Sentience 2d20 Robot RPG , and our post-apocalyptic game Ashland will follow soon. Read the press release here!

 2024-10-10

The Awakening is Coming!

The moment you've all been waiting for, robots and humans alike: the Awakening is nigh! Sentience the Robot Role-Playing Game is now on Kickstarter, in a revised and greatly expanded Kickstarter edition, in print for the very first time! Dont miss it, sign up to follow the campaign here!

 2024-10-08

Once Upon a Podcast...

Al Spader recently went on the Dice In Mind podcast to talk about our storybook roleplaying game Once Upon, and a few other things (Sentience, to name but one). Tune in and listen here.

 2024-10-07

Halloween Special Offer

Take 10% off our two Monster of the Week anthologies - just join our email list! Go to this page, click the button and provide the email you use for DriveThru RPG, state which anthology you want, and whether you want it as a digital download, or as a print-on-demand book. Happy Halloween!

 2024-10-04

Once Upon a Really Dicey Interview

Yellow Hand alum Al Spader got together with Manny Ortiz at Really Dicey for an in-depth look at our new Once Upon storybook role-playing game. Check out the interview here!

 2024-10-04

Mörk Borg Playthrough

Our grisly Mörk Borg adventure Manor Most Foul is now available as a 2h playthrough. Watch the shenanigans here!

 2024-09-30

GraniteCon

Check in on The Yellow Hand's Al Spader at GraniteCon this weekend! Visit the website and check out the schedule here!

 2024-09-20

 Once Upon an Interview

Hot on the heels of the long awaited release of our Once Upon storybook RPG, designer Al Spader went on The Final Frontiersmen to discuss the game, and dig into its many layers together with enthusiastic host Bill Barbato. Check out the interview here, get your copy of Once Upon here

 2024-09-15

Once Upon... is now!

The Yellow Hand proudly announce our second proprietary RPG: Once Upon - The Storybook RPG! Once Upon is a quirky, fun role-playing game set in the enchanting world of fairytales. The game uses our innovative d12 Threshold System, and features the rich and fascinating setting of Imaginara, which is a colorful quilt of  engaging fairytale realms. Get Once Upon here

 2024-08-26

The Curse of Scarabinaris

Our Draconicus fantasy RPG receives a major upgrade with our new 92-page campaign The Curse of Scarabinaris, available now from DTRPG. The campaign is set in the eastern kingdom of Artesius and features intrigues between the church of Ortus, the kingdoms of  Artesius and Paquardy, and a bit of tribal action sprinkled in for good measure . Check it out here

 2024-08-05

Sentience Scores Silver

The Sentience Core Rule Book just got certified Silver on DTRPG. This deserves celebrating! Meanwhile, we have great things in the works for the best robot RPG out there. Check it out here

 2024-07-13

Book of Bitter Biles Funded!

BOOYA! Book of Bitter Biles was just funded on Kickstarter, with 3 days remaining! Now, let's shoot for some extra slimy, sludge-inundated stretch-goals! Jump into the glorious goo right here

 2024-06-23

It's Slime Time!

Feast your eyes upon the Book of Bitter Biles in this exquisitely sludgy campaign video: click here

 2024-05-31

Once Upon a Time...

…there was a small independent game publisher who was working on a game set in the magical realm of fairytales. The game was called Once Upon..., and the designers of the game thought it would be awfully clever of them to post a Sneak Preview of the game, so as to make players and GMs excited about it, and long for it to be released – an event that was looming on the horizon. These players and GMs were tasked with a quest to go check out that Preview –  and directed here

 2024-05-29

Back Book of Bitter Biles!

Yellow Hand alumnus Sebastian Barth just launched the Kickstarter campaign for Book of Bitter Biles, a sublime collection of slime and goo featuring more than 90 pages of exquisite full-color art and details on the world of ooze. Also includes an extraordinarily gooey adventure, and plenty of enticing (if sticky) stretchgoals. Back the campaign here

 2024-05-29

Sentience Playthru

The YouTube channel The Final Frontiersmen recently hosted a Sentience playthru with four players. Highly recommended for those who want to get a flavor of the Sentience game! Check it out here.

 2024-05-12

More for Legends of Hârn

Our library of Hârn and HârnMaster PDFs keeps growing! The latest addition is a 30-page article on Travel & Encounters, providing GMs with loads of robust rules and useful tables, plus scores of fun ideas for NPCs that players can encounter.  Download for free here

 2024-04-27

Join us on Discord!

We've so far only been using Discord for internal discussions and meetings, but now we've taken the step and launched our public Discord server. Join us here, and throw any questions you may have at us!

 2024-05-11

Jay’s on Really Dicey!

Check out The Yellow Hand's own Jay Sojdelius on the Really Dicey YouTube channel, talking about the Draconicus RPG! Click here.

 2024-04-28

Sentience Q&A 

RandomWorlds returned to The Yellow Hand after the Draconicus Q&A, and invited us to do the same for Sentience on Discord. Illustrious Sentience designer Al Spader offered an overview, commentary and answers to the most pertinent questions. Find the transcript here

 2024-04-22

Draconicus Quick Start!

Initially released as a free digital download, we are now also releasing a Print-On-Demand version of the Draconicus Quick Start rules. Perfect for players who don't intend to game master, but who want to have a better grasp of the setting and the rules. Read more here

 2024-04-18

Draconicus Q&A 

RandomWorlds is kindly hosting a Draconicus Q&A on Discord this upcoming Tuesday, 4/16 at 7:30pm CT.  Join Draconicus designer Jay Sojdelius and get answers to all your questions (and more) right here

 2024-04-14

Draconicus Q&A Transcript

Missed the Draconicus Q&A session? Don't fret, the full transcript is available here

 2024-04-17

Our first Draconicus adventure!

The Yellow Hand proudly announces our first Draconicus adventure, The Secret of Iraeus. It's an intriguing 34-page full-color scenario that comes both as a downloadable PDF for only $ 2.99, and a print-on-demand book for $9.99. It's brilliantly written by Magnus Seter and Robert Dudock, and richly illustrated by the fabulous Catavic. The story is set in a wilderness location called The Iron Fenlands, and a GM will get at least 2-3 rewarding sessions out of it. Buy it here

 2024-04-08

Kickstarter is getting slimed!

Yellow Hand alumnus Sebastian Barth is launching a Kickstarter for his latest Mörk Borg venture, the deliciously slimy Book of Bitter Biles, with more than 90 pages. Explore the extraordinarily gooey world of slimes and glops and oozes, and make sure to collect them all! Sign up to follow the campaign here, and check out our Mörk Borg products here

 2024-03-26

Draconicus in the news!

Our press release for the newly released Draconicus RPG is posted on Rascal News. You can see it here, and buy the game here

 2024-03-14

Draconicus Unboxing

We finally got the eagerly awaited proofs for the hardcover and softcover versions of the Draconicus Role-Playing Game, and we're happy to announce that we are releasing the game for purchase on DrivethruRPG today! You can view the unboxing video here, and buy the game here

 2024-03-06

Sentience Review

Sentience gets a thorough and quite favorable review on TableTop Journeys. Don't miss it, click here

 2024-02-14

Trek Talk with Al Spader!

Al Spader will join Jim Johnson of Modiphius to talk about his work on Star Trek Adventures on Discord tomorrow, Thursday 2/15 2024. Tune in here! (discord.gg/modiphius)

 2024-02-14

Draconicus on ShelfClutter!

The Draconicus Fantasy Board Game was covered on the YouTube channel ShelfClutter, walking through the ins-and-outs of the game. The video is also posted to our Boardgamegeek page. Check out the video here

 2024-02-03

...aaand we’re off to the races!

The Draconicus Fantasy Board Game crowdfunding campaign is finally launched! The campaign will run for a month and will be supported with various activities, on Gamefound as well as in our social media channels. Join the fun here

 2024-02-01

Draconicus Preview!

The launch of our very first proprietary role-playing game, Draconicus, is drawing near! We hope to be able to make it available during the crowdfunding campaign of the Draconicus boardgame, which happens in February. As a sneak preview, we have prepared a 34-page PDF to give you an idea of what to expect - download it here

 2024-01-22

Mirth, Merriment, Massacre POD!

Yule Them All, our fabulous second outing for Mörk Borg, is now available as a POD booklet in A5 size, just like the original game. A frosty, holiday themed hack and massacre one-shot designed for a handful of players. Every bit as quick, dirty and vile as the PDF edition... Buy it here

 2024-01-19

Sentience on Tabletop Journeys!

The Yellow Hand's Al Spader visits the Tabletop Journeys podcast to talk about the Sentience RPG – check it out!

 2024-01-19

Al’s on Really Dicey!

Check out The Yellow Hand's own Al Spader on the Really Dicey YouTube channel, talking about Terrifying Tales from New England Folklore! Click here.

 2024-01-13