Games to empower and inspire
We create meaningful, quirky, positive, and fun experiences for tabletop gamers
Arcanist Press: Making Meaningful Game Experiences
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We design, write, develop, edit, and layout tabletop content, commission professional art, and publish our games. To cover expenses, we often bring our projects to Kickstarter first. Our most recent project was Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e: over 2500% funded with 917 backers!
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We have a number of products in development for D&D 5e, Savage Worlds, Cypher System, and more. Our first product, Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e, continues to break sales barriers, becoming an Adamantine seller after only a few months. Since then, we've released several more books chock full of playable ancestries and c
We have a number of products in development for D&D 5e, Savage Worlds, Cypher System, and more. Our first product, Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e, continues to break sales barriers, becoming an Adamantine seller after only a few months. Since then, we've released several more books chock full of playable ancestries and cultures, so be sure to check those out as well.
Next up from Arcanist is Epic Supers, an original superhero game system, coming in 2021. Epic Supers lets players feel like their favorite heroes from comics and film. You can make virtually any hero you can imagine, choosing from a vast selection of superpowers. And with the simple, step-by-step character creation guide, you can make your hero is less than ten minutes.
Epic Heroes is easy to learn, with elegant, clear rules that make your heroic encounters flow, so you can focus on the fun! It features classic genre elements, like secret identities and hidden bases, as well as mechanics to promote role-play and interaction, like connections and morale. And team combo moves make play at the table more interactive and collaborative than ever. Epic Heroes: it’s easy to learn and play, true to the genre, and, most of all, fun!
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About Us
Arcanist Press began as a way for Gwendolyn and Amy Marshall - avid gamers and published authors - to share their passion for creating games with others. The Doctors Marshall have big plans to design, write, and produce tabletop roleplaying game content for a variety of systems, including the fifth edition of the world's most popular role
Arcanist Press began as a way for Gwendolyn and Amy Marshall - avid gamers and published authors - to share their passion for creating games with others. The Doctors Marshall have big plans to design, write, and produce tabletop roleplaying game content for a variety of systems, including the fifth edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game, as well as their own original system.
With multiple titles in progress and destined for DriveThruRPG, Kickstarter, Patreon, and more, Arcanist Press has big plans for your games!