My tabletop role-playing games are created for people who want more than number-crunching, loot-chasing, and empty combat. These games are designed to feel cinematic, dangerous, imaginative, dramatic, and meaningful.
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Jackās Cinematic d12
Jackās Cinematic d12 is my tabletop role-playing game ruleset built around the idea that the Game Master and players are not merely moving pieces across a board. They are creating a movie, novel, or dramatic series together at the table. The system uses a twelve-sided die, fast rulings, cinematic judgment, dangerous consequences, and dramatic realism. The goal is not to simulate every inch of reality, but to create scenes that feel intense, believable, and worth remembering. Jackās Cinematic d12 is designed for Game Masters who want freedom, speed, story, and consequence. It avoids the worst parts of bloated rules systems while still giving players enough structure to make decisions matter.
šKingsmark
Kingsmark is a medieval heroic fantasy tabletop role-playing game powered by Jackās Cinematic d12, set in the vast world of Sylva, with seven continents, more than 100 countries, ancient kingdoms, dangerous wilderness, legendary monsters, political intrigue, and powerful magic. Players create extraordinary characters who explore forgotten ruins, undertake dangerous Contracts, confront supernatural horrors, navigate royal conspiracies, and forge their own destinies. Featuring cinematic combat, realistic weapons and armor, detailed Physical Wounds and Mental Trauma, 17 Character Classes, and 24 Schools of Magic, Kingsmark combines extensive character development with straightforward d12 mechanics. Designed for mature audiences, it emphasizes realism, meaningful consequences, moral choices, and the creation of adventures worthy of novels and motion pictures. Purchase a digital copy of Kingsmark: Player’s Handbook, First Edition, or explore the game and its rules at Kingsmark.games.
RIVET
RIVET is a dark, industrial, post-apocalyptic horror setting built around survival, military action, psychological pressure, monstrous threats, and the terrifying presence of the USM Judgment: a massive war machine standing against enemies too large and too strange for ordinary warfare. RIVET is not simple science fiction. It is a brutal world of steel, trauma, dust, alarms, wreckage, sacrifice, survival, and the question of what remains human when humanity itself has become monstrous. The setting is designed for players who want a serious, cinematic campaign where every mission feels dangerous and every victory feels earned. In Development.
Shadowrun JCd12
Shadowrun JCd12 is a free manual showing how the world, tone, and concepts of Shadowrun can be adapted to Jackās Cinematic d12. It is for Game Masters and players who love cyberpunk fantasy but want a faster, cleaner, more cinematic rules engine. This adaptation keeps the attitude, danger, magic, technology, corporations, street-level desperation, and mission-based structure that make cyberpunk fantasy exciting, while translating the gameplay into a ruleset focused on speed, consequence, and dramatic action. Shadowrun JCd12 is not meant to replace imagination with bookkeeping. It is meant to help the table move quickly, make hard choices, and create scenes that feel like a brutal cyberpunk action film. In Development.
Stop Playing Video Games & Succeed
I love games, but I believe tabletop role-playing games are far healthier than most video games. Video games often isolate people, trap them in dopamine loops, reward wasted time, and train the mind to chase artificial achievement instead of real accomplishment. TTRPGs are different. A good tabletop game requires conversation, imagination, memory, judgment, humor, planning, creativity, social skill, and cooperation. You are not staring silently at a screen while an algorithm feeds you stimulation. You are creating stories with real people. That is one reason I wrote Stop Playing Video Games & Succeed. The book challenges men to stop pouring their strength, attention, and ambition into digital illusions and start using their minds, time, and discipline for something real.
If you are trying to escape video game addiction but still love fantasy, action, strategy, and adventure, tabletop role-playing games may be a better path. They exercise the imagination, strengthen social interaction, and turn gaming into a creative act instead of passive consumption.
