Feyre & Loathing: A Fey Horror One-Shot Where Manners Kill
Feyre & Loathing is a fey horror one-shot for 5e — a 2-3 hour dinner-party nightmare for 2-3…
A One-Author Press · Forged for the Table
Zero-prep 5e One-shots You Can Run Tonight.
Dense, ready-to-run adventures for two or three players. Read it on the train, run it after dinner — no homework.
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102 titles in print & PDF
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The Forge
Every title is a complete, self-contained adventure — pick a cover and you’re ready to run tonight.
One-Shot Adventures
The Last Train to Hellion: A Weird West D&D One-Shot for Small Groups
The Last Train to Hellion is a Weird West D&D one-shot for 2–3 players at levels 2–3 —…
The 100-Room Citadel: A Replayable 5e Megadungeon for Small Groups
The 100-Room Citadel is a replayable 5e megadungeon for 2-3 players: 100 rooms, five zones, and a fresh…
The Last Hearth Review: A Cozy Horror One-Shot for Small Groups
The Last Hearth is a cozy horror one-shot for D&D 5e: a zero-prep, 2-3 hour adventure for 2-3…
The Harvest Home: A Corn King One-Shot for Small 5e Groups
A Corn King one-shot for 5e: a kind village crowns a willing king at midnight and burns him…
The Tournament of Ashes: A Haunted Tournament One-Shot for 5e
A haunted tournament one-shot for 5e: drag your small group into a dead knights' cursed joust in this…
The Crimson Wake: A Pirate D&D One-Shot for Small Groups
The Crimson Wake is a pirate D&D one-shot for 2–3 players at levels 2–3 — a 2–3 hour…
Legend of the Dungeon Core Landlord, Book 2: Collective Bargaining
Legend of the Dungeon Core Landlord is back, and in Book Two the toughest monster Nate Halloway has…
The Ember Tide: A DnD 5e Wildfire One-Shot Adventure for Small Groups
The Ember Tide is a ready-to-run D&D 5e one-shot for 2-3 players. Outrun a spreading wildfire through a…
Legend of the Dungeon Core Landlord, Book 1: A Dungeon-Building LitRPG
Legend of the Dungeon Core Landlord asks a question we’d somehow never thought to ask in all our…
First Day at Spellhaven: A Magic School One-Shot Where the Pranks Bite Back
First Day at Spellhaven is a cozy 5e magic school one-shot for 2-3 players: protect a nervous first-year…
Quakes: An Underground Monster One-Shot for Small Groups
Quakes is an underground monster one-shot for 5e — a zero-prep survival-horror adventure for 2–3 players where the…
Twisted Fairy Tales
Breadcrumbs Review: A Hansel and Gretel D&D Adventure That Turns the Fairy Tale Inside Out
Breadcrumbs is a Hansel and Gretel D&D adventure for 1-3 players—dark fairy tale one-shot where the witch is…
Pay the Piper: A Dark D&D 5e Fairy Tale One-Shot for Small Groups
Pay the Piper is a D&D 5e fairy tale one-shot for 2-3 players. A dark retelling of the…
The Name of Rumpelstiltskin: A D&D 5e Fairy Tale One-Shot Where Every Choice Has a Price
The Name of Rumpelstiltskin is a D&D 5e fairy tale one-shot for 2-3 players. A dying king, a…
The Twelve Dancing Princesses: A D&D 5e Fairy Tale One-Shot That Turns the Story on Its Head
The Twelve Dancing Princesses is a D&D 5e fairy tale one shot for 2-3 players. A morally complex…
Solo & Duet
MINDSCOURGE: A Mind Flayer Solo RPG Where Losing Your Mind Is Worse Than Dying
MINDSCOURGE: A Mind Flayer Solo RPG Where Losing Your Mind Is Worse Than Dying You are githyanki. Your…
D&D Date Night for Two: The Goblin’s Guide to Courtship
Skip the prep and the DM. The Goblin's Guide to Courtship is a 5e-compatible D&D date night adventure…
Half-Pint Review: The Solo Halfling RPG Game You Can Play Tonight
Half-Pint is a solo halfling RPG game of stealth and small-time crime. No DM required. Play free online…
Goblin Defense D&D 5e: The Other Side of the Door
The Other Side of the Door: Goblin Defense D&D 5e One-Shot You’ve kicked down a thousand dungeon doors.…
Deep Delving: Ultimate Solo Dungeon Crawler Game Guide
Deep Delving: The Ultimate Solo Dungeon Crawler Game for Quick, Tactical Adventures Looking for a solo dungeon crawler…
The Founding Collection
The first 28 adventures, one download.
Everything we forged in our first two months — January & February 2026 — collected in one print-ready PDF. 28 complete adventures: one-shots, twisted tales, and solo crawlers.
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Tried at Real Tables
Game Masters keep coming back for the same reason: it runs.
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Find Your Line
Each series is its own world. Pick a shelf and follow it.
Series I
One-Shot Adventures
Run-tonight 5e for two or three. Horror, heist, kaiju, cosmic dread — pick a night, pick a tone.
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Series II
Twisted Fairy Tales
Dark fables turned playable. Goblin courtship, warring pets, and imps with contracts to keep.
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A Free Table Personality Quiz
Discover Your Dungeon Master Type
DMs and players both. Answer a few very-real table questions, get your named archetype and four-letter code, and find out who you'd click with on the other side of the screen.
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From the Workshop
Field notes, design diaries, and free short fiction — a deep backlog of stories from the table.
Blog
What Kind of Dungeon Master Are You? The Story Behind Our Table Personality Test
Every corner of the internet has a personality test. You have been sorted into a Hogwarts house, flattened into four Myers-Briggs letters, and told which Star Wars character…
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GameLit vs LitRPG: What’s the Difference?
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 6 min read GameLit vs LitRPG comes down to one…
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LitRPG Web Novels: How to Read the Genre Free on Royal Road
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 7 min read LitRPG web novels are free, serialized versions…
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Best LitRPG Audiobooks: 10 Series That Shine in Audio
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 7 min read The best LitRPG audiobooks start with Dungeon…
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Base-Building LitRPG: Why Crafting and Building Books Took Over
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 7 min read Base-building LitRPG is the subgenre where progression…
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Dungeon Core Books: The Complete Guide to LitRPG’s Strangest Subgenre
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 8 min read Dungeon core books are LitRPG novels where…
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12 Books Like Dungeon Crawler Carl (What to Read Next)
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 8 min read The best books like Dungeon Crawler Carl…
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Best LitRPG Series: 12 Sagas Worth Bingeing in 2026
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 9 min read The best LitRPG series right now are…
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What Is LitRPG? The Genre Where Game Rules Are Real
By Anvil N Ink Publishing · Updated July 2026 · 7 min read LitRPG (literary role-playing game) is a fiction…
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