Janis Neumann

WizardStyles
he/him

[email protected]

About

  • TTRPG actual play GM, player & producer

  • Game designer

  • German living in Switzerland

  • Working as a data scientist by day

  • Legal guardian of two cats (Merry & Pippin)

  • Friend of all goblins

And just to get this out of the way, fuck transphobes, fuck fascists, they are fascists, it is a genocide,
Black lives matter, AI art is theft and kills the environment, do what you can to make things better.
If you can agree with the above, we're friends now.

Current & Upcoming

Interests

  • Games: Blades in the Dark and other Forged in the Dark games, Carved from Brindlewood, The One Ring, Red Markets, Outgunned and Household, Mappa Mundi, Lancer & Icon.

  • Themes: Anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, ecology and conservation, liminality and uncertainty, mortality and legacy, memories and how we construct our realities, revolution and upheaval, crime, intrigue.

  • Goblins, vampires, fey creatures and weird little guys.

  • Tolkien, Alien and Star Wars are really the only big media properties I have enough of an interest in to play a game using them but I am very interested in those three.

  • If there's any time travel going on or it's a game about playing law enforcement or military as purely heroic I'm not interested.

  • I won't GM D&D on stream but do enjoy playing it.

Past Appearances

Unsinkable (GM)
Paint The Town Red
4 sessions
StarCrawlRPG

Character art (busts) of five vampires, with a negative of the Titanic in the background.

Last Train To Bremen (Cock)
Last Train To Bremen
One shot
Helpactionneeded

Screenshot of the game in progress.

Calamity! in the Household (GM)
Household
One shot
HeyCalamityyy

A screenshot of a game of Household in progress.

Murder They Wrote (GM)
Brindlewood Bay
One shot
StarCrawlRPG

A screenshot of a game of Brindlewood Bay in progress.

The Devil's Dealers (GM)
Blades in the Dark
6 sessions
StarCrawlRPG

Group shot of the Devil's Dealers, a gang of criminals and the player characters of the campaign of the same name.

Upcoming

  • Junior Detectives, a Carved from Brindlewood game of young amateur sleuths and their adventures

  • (Unofficial) supplements for The One Ring 2e

Swamp Goblin Mysteries

A zero prep, one page RPG based on the Carved from Brindlewood framework.
You're goblins, you're in a swamp, you solve mysteries!For one GM, 2-4 goblins, and one 2-4 hour session,
probably closer to 2 than 4.

A goblin sleuth with a rat pet.

Merry

A tabby cat with big green eyes sitting upright in half profile.

Pippin

A small tabby cat with a pink nose lying on a cat tree and stretching his toe beans.

Merry and Pippin

The same cats as above as kittens lying on a shelf together, eyes closed.