Elf Lair Games

Elf Lair Games Welcome to the New Class of Old School! Elf Lair Games is a publisher of unique fiction and tabletop role playing games in Pittsburgh, PA. Stay tuned.

Our flagship products include Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age and Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Elf Lair Games is an "upstart" publisher of unique tabletop roleplaying games. Our flagship product, Spellcraft & Swordplay, is available via print-on-demand and e-book download from DriveThruRPG.com and RPGNow (see "Store" link, below) and we have a number of other game products--role playing and "do-it-yourself" board games--in development.

So I just joined Medium as an experiment. Published a piece of fiction I've been sitting on that I wasn't sure what to d...
08/26/2025

So I just joined Medium as an experiment. Published a piece of fiction I've been sitting on that I wasn't sure what to do with. Take a look, give me a thumbs up or clap or whatever they do over there. It would mean a lot. I understand after I do a bit of writing here I can start monetizing, so...

https://medium.com/p/starlight-676f10f472e5

(Also, feel free to share this around)

by Jason Vey

Hey, folks, if you're looking for something to read, Bill is a FANTASTIC author. He wrote the intro fiction and one of t...
07/08/2025

Hey, folks, if you're looking for something to read, Bill is a FANTASTIC author. He wrote the intro fiction and one of the mini-settings in Thirteen Parsecs and that doesn't even touch on his illustrious career as a primary writer for Palladium Books back in the day. He's got a new superhero novel on Kickstarter right now and he deserves your support. Help him out if you can!

In Hudson City, hero Praetorian, burdened by 75 years of sacrifice, dares a villain to trigger a quantum doomsday device.

Just a reminder, everyone: Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars is now only $25 for the HARDCOVER PRINT EDITIO...
07/01/2025

Just a reminder, everyone: Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars is now only $25 for the HARDCOVER PRINT EDITION! Where else can you get a 288-page HARDCOVER RPG for $25!? Get yours today! It's an ideal chance to get an extra table copy, or get your whole group in on it. Already have it? SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Learn about Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars, the TTRPG of Chosen Ones, WItches, Survivors, and Something Weird!

New Single Page Scenario delivered for Wasted Lands - The Serpent of Uxal-Nar
06/30/2025

New Single Page Scenario delivered for Wasted Lands - The Serpent of Uxal-Nar

The Serpent of Uxal-Nar - Single Page Scenarios - In the dangerous, barren wastes of The Emptiness sit the basalt ruins of Uxal-Nar, an ancient research facility of the o

Mirrors are mysteriously vanishing from public spaces all over the city. People are suddenly finding their memories frac...
06/13/2025

Mirrors are mysteriously vanishing from public spaces all over the city. People are suddenly finding their memories fractured and beset by dreams of a strange, fractured world with sickly yellow skies where shadows move against the laws of physics. The party is hired by a Joanna Oddmuth, wealthy collector to discover what's going on and, if possible, recover a very precious antique mirror that vanished from her collection. An underground artist collective claims the mirrors are “portals for the Veiled," and a dark force is on the rise, seeking to merge two worlds together.

Can you stop the cult of the Yellow Sign from unleashing a sorcerous apocalypse that will hearken the rise of Carcosa on Earth? It's all up to YOU with the first of our Single Page Scenarios for Night Shift®: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars!

Echoes of the Glass Veil - Single Page Scenarios - Mirrors are mysteriously vanishing from public spaces all over the city. People are suddenly finding their memories frac

And the first Single-Page Scenario is up for Wasted Lands: The Menace of Mrugaj! Inspired by the myth of Tiamat and Apsu...
06/12/2025

And the first Single-Page Scenario is up for Wasted Lands: The Menace of Mrugaj! Inspired by the myth of Tiamat and Apsu.

The Menace of Mrugaj - Single Page Scenarios - In the ancient realm of Nabhivarsha, a malevolent sorcerer, Mrugaj, seeks to unleash a dark force. Your heroes are appro

And our SECOND Single Page Scenario is up - this one is Dixie's Last Stand! Written by Timothy S. Brannan, it's set in o...
06/12/2025

And our SECOND Single Page Scenario is up - this one is Dixie's Last Stand! Written by Timothy S. Brannan, it's set in our Space Truckers mini-setting. Can you get Waylon to Dixie's across the Hazard Lands in time to save the truck stop?

Dixie's Last Stand - Single Page Scenarios - Governor Boss has bought up Dixie’s Truck Stop, the most popular hub in the Hazard Lands. Dixie’s got 24 Solar Hours

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are releasing the first of our Single Page Scenarios series today on DriveThruRPG. Single Page Scneario...
06/12/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are releasing the first of our Single Page Scenarios series today on DriveThruRPG. Single Page Scnearios are complete adventures in one page that you can run in a night of play or expand as you like. They contain all the information you need to run a full scenario with minimal work required on the part of the Game Master. We hope to provide a line of these to support all our games: Thirteen Parsecs, Night Shift®, and Wasted Lands!

The first one is Galactic Doomsday, a scenario for Thirteen Parsecs!
And it is live!

Galactic Doomsday! - Single Page Scenarios - The Solar Federation has information that Agents of Xel'Naga, cybernetically-enhanced mercenaries, are constructing a do

Hey, folks! Tomorrow 3/16 at 7 PM EST is my rescheduled appearance on Harmony Ginger's livestream. We'll be talking all ...
03/15/2025

Hey, folks! Tomorrow 3/16 at 7 PM EST is my rescheduled appearance on Harmony Ginger's livestream. We'll be talking all things old school gaming, including my work on Wasted Lands, Night Shift, 13 Parsecs, Amazing Adventures, and Castles & Crusades! Stop in!

Armchair game theorist. I run a lot of D&D and share my thoughts.

03/11/2025

The registration certificate just came through. Night Shift is now a registered trademark ® of Elf Lair, LLC, for the purposes of tabletop gaming products.

01/14/2025

Thirteen Parsecs Form fillable character sheets now available! They are in the "Games" dropdown on every page header (under Thirteen Parsecs) and on the "Freebies" Page. Also added to the Freebies page: Planetary Data File sheet, Starship Data File sheet, and Time Machine Data File sheet. Those latter three are still static - putting form fields in takes time.

Download quick start rules, character sheets, and tons of free resources for your Powered by O.G.R.E.S. ttrpg rules systems games!

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Founded in 2008, We are in some ways tied to the "old school" movement, but we like to think that our product has a much broader appeal, combining modern design philosophy with old-school sensibility. Jason Vey, President and owner, has been freelancing in the RPG industry for over ten years, and has authored for such notable companies as Palladium Books, Misfit Studios, Eden Studios, and Troll Lord Games. Our experience and love for a more open, free style of gaming makes us uniquely qualified to be a leader in what we have termed "The New Class of Old School!"