Studio Mothmen

Studio Mothmen is a project by three friends from Brighton, UK: Eden Hyde Munday (writer), Tallin Aylward (artist) and Curtis Falkingham (composer and musician).

We started out with Yellow Sails, a dream exploration game we developed for Dream Diary Jam 4. It's been in an unfinished beta state since 2020, but we plan to resume work on it when we have time. Here is a playthrough of the existing content by lol_rust.

We participated in Zine Quest 3 on Kickstarter with Fever Dreams, a surreal tabletop roleplaying game about exorcising bizarre paranormal entities as reality slowly collapses. You can read a review by DiceCourse here. Thank you to all 126 backers who helped us create it!

We are currently working on two tabletop roleplaying game projects, with several new collaborators participating;

• Leviathan, wherein you play as anarchists conspiring to provoke an insurrection against the despotic government of a speculative near-future dystopian city state.
  
  The game features a campaign structure wherein you build up a home base inside a sprawling lawless enclave, from which you go on missions to build Momentum for your growing revolutionary movement while avoiding Heat that can culminate in a devastating military raid. Random events occur between missions, giving the feeling that the setting is alive and that factions act on their own initiative.
  
  The first draft was written in 2024 with reference to Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing system. We plan to redesign the game to run on our own rules engine before beginning playtesting.

• Unravel, a supernatural mystery-horror game that prioritizes character drama and features innovative sanity mechanics; player characters succumb to fatal personality flaws as the stress they undergo weakens their relationships to the things that keep them human. The game uses a dice pool system that rewards risk-taking and creative roleplay.
  
  In our first setting, The Work Is In Good Hands, you play as the victims of a shadowy conspiracy that is blackmailing or coercing people into investigating dangerous paranormal incidents in 1970s Britain. The game is in an alpha development stage at the moment; please get in touch if you'd be interested in running a playtest scenario and providing feedback!