Gasmasks & Goblins

In Gasmasks & Goblins, players adopt a squaddie in the goblin infantry during a Great War between the elfin courts of fairyland. It is your job to safely see them through their career in the muddy trenches that have replaced the hedge-labyrinths of old.

Adapting the tense dungeon-crawling of B/X to a WW1 context, dungeon corridors become trenches, stone chambers become bunkers, and your 10' pole becomes a rifle.

I use some "depth crawl" mechanics from Emily Allen's work for procedural missions, as well as her heart-rate tension system from Deep Morphean Transmissions, and the combat is heavily inspired by Chris McDowall's Into the Odd.

Created in the summer of 2021, Gasmasks & Goblins is the first role-playing thing I've made that feels like a stand-alone "product", even if it's just a light-weight 14-page sketch of a zine.

Be warned that this isn't exactly a "complete" product: a lot of work would be needed to run a campaign using just this zine. But if anyone does get something out of it, let me know and I might be inspired to work further on an expanded Gasmasks & Goblins project!