The Best of Zine Month 2025

Everything We’re Currently Obsessing Over

Feb 06, 2025

Happy Zine Month, everybody! For those who don’t know, every February the TTRPG community bands together and spends the entire month highlighting RPG zines and booklet projects. It’s a time where new designers try their hand at making their first game and established designers release that weird little project they’ve been toying with since the previous February. Hence, our special edition Many Sided Newsletter celebrating all the coolest zine projects we’re loving this month! Read on for the MSM team’s top suggestions for what to buy, back, and play during Zine Month. (We’ll be highlighting more Zine Month projects throughout the month so stay tuned for more great TTRPGs to support!)

Horse Majeure: A Comedy TTRPG Zine by Tom Lavery

Game Description: Work together as two people in a horse costume to find a delicious apple.
Format: 8-page foldable zine
Genre: Comedy
Mechanic: d6 Dice, PBTA-esque
Marquee Reward: Print and Play + Maps ($5 CAD, ~$4 USD)

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Mission ImpPAWsible by Stephen Hans

Description: Mission: ImPAWsible is a critically acclaimed improvisational roleplaying game of high stakes and hilarious capers where three raccoons in a trench coat pose as the globe’s greatest super spy to enter the perilous world of international espionage.
Genre: Comedy / Heist / Spy
Format: Zine + Box Set
Mechanics: Dice + Bingo Cards
Rewards: PDF $3 // Physical Zine $11 // BOX SET $27

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Listen to the first episode in our Zine Month interview series on Talk of the Table featuring Horse Majeure and Mission ImPAWsible.

KNIGHT FORLORN – A Soulslike, Roguelike Story TTRPG by Blackfisk Publishing

Description: A collaborative storytelling tabletop role-playing game about a lone wanderer on a futile quest in a withering world.
Genre: Dark, gothic fantasy
Format: 48 page saddle-stitch stapled zine
Mechanics: Playing Cards
Rewards: PDF Pay What you Want // Physical Copy $23

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Bonds Between by Jonathon Boyle

Description: Bonds Between is a cozy, duet roleplaying game about everyday dragons turning their considerable magic to home improvement as they build a hoard, restore a run-down lair, and come to know their bonded neighbor in the process.
Genre: Cozy, Fantasy
Format: Softcover Book
Mechanics: Playing Cards (Wreck Your Deck)
Rewards: PDF $10 // Physical $20 // Mailbox Set $60

Preview Edition (Free)

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Prequel RPG by Ethan Yen and James Quigley

Description: Prequel is a tactical storytelling game for 3-5 players. You are the first group of Heroes that have reached the Evil that rules over the realm. The quest was difficult and full of sacrifice. Despite all this, victory will not meet you. However, the Heroes who come after you may still have a chance, provided you can pave the way.
Genre: Tragic fantasy
Format: 48 Page digest-sized stapled zine
Rewards: PDF $10 // Print $20
Watch a Playthrough: Prequel RPG Playthrough | TTRPGeeks Actual Play

Preview

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Sock Puppets by Kurt Refling

Description: Sock Puppets is a very silly tabletop roleplaying game about a failing children's television series. You and your friends will make a bunch of puppets and then use them to ruin a perfectly good puppet show.
Genre: Comedy, Puppets
Format: 38-page Zine
Rewards: PDF $6 // Physical Zine $14
Watch a Playthrough: Indie RPG Stream with the SDream Team

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Dirtbags! A Sci-Fi Shooter TTRPG by The Dungeon’s Key

Description: Dirtbags! is a sci-fi shooter TTRPG where players take on the role of convicts in a corporate-run dystopian world, coerced into the Military Foundation’s Rehabilitation Incentive Program (R.I.P.) with the promise of freedom and reintegration.
Genre: Sci-fi, Shooter
Format: 60 Page A-5 Softbound Book
Mechanics: d6 Dice Pool
Rewards: PDF $14 // PDF (Plus Adventures) $18 // Physical (Basic) $21 // Physical (Complete): $39

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Universe at Your Door: The Traveller by Lola Johnson

Description: You are on a mission to investigate extrasolar planets, gather and share knowledge, and do no harm. You live on your ship and venture out onto planets to research and interact. As the Traveller, specialist, crew member and former earth dwelling human you make a record of your journey for an Earth that may never see it or hear it.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Solo
Format: A5 Zine
Mechanics: Playing Cards, Prompt-Based
Rewards: PDF $10 // Physical Zine $15

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Oh Patron Mine by Meghan Cross

Description: O Patron Mine is a prompt based solo game about a mundane person, their encounter with a powerful entity, and the contract they entered into together. It can be played either as a standalone game, or as a means to create a backstory for a character before a campaign.
Genre: Fantasy, Tarot-based
Format: Staple-bound Zine
Mechanics: Tarot Cards, Prompt-based
Rewards: PDF $10 // Physical $20

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RELICS + RELIQUARIES PART II by DNGN CLUB

Description: A massive collect3ed anthology of 100+ system-agnostic tools, friends, foes, encounters,items, curses, and more for your favorite TTRPGs.
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Modern, or Horror
Format: 40-page physical zine
Rewards: PDF $10 // Physical Zine $35 // Clubhouse Collections (Tons of Bonus Zines & PDFs) $75

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Fluff n’ Fury - A Cy-Bear Punk TTRPG

Description: Fluff n 'Fury is a rules-light mission based tabletop role-playing game with an emphasis on wacky over-the-top dice rolling mechanics for combat. Build yourself a unique teddy, gather up a crew, and wreak havoc on the rich!
Genre: Sci-fi, Cyberpunk
Mechanics: d6 Dice Pool
Format: 36 page A-5 Zine
Rewards: PDF $7 // Physical Zine $14

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