Janis Neumann

WizardStyles
he/him

[email protected]

About

  • TTRPG actual play GM, player & producer

  • Game designer

  • German living in Switzerland

  • Working as a data platform lead by day

  • Legal guardian of two cats (Merry & Pippin)

  • Not subtle.

  • Friend of all goblins

Fuck fascists, fuck transphobes, Black Lives Matter, genAI art is theft, 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. Still looking for a tactical RPG that really does what I want it to.

  • 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.

  • 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 don't entirely hate it.

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.