About base113
I'm Sean, a former USAF EOD tech, a long-time tabletop gamer, and a fan of cosmic horror and dark humor.
From base113 Games
base113 started with a very simple tabletop roleplaying game from my college days. I started work on that homebrew game, Proteus, back in 2001, and formed base113 Games in 2005 to overhaul the game and its setting. After several revisions it found a home on the Fate Core system, and then I hit a problem: I was never going to play it. I mostly game with my family, and Proteus wasn't a setting they'd enjoy. So in 2018 I put it down, following the old advice to design the game you actually want to play.
The setting I kept coming back to was the Cthulhu Mythos. That became Our Terrible Fate, a system I built on Fate for running Lovecraftian scenarios of all kinds: more flexible than a board game, but friendlier than most horror RPGs. The game led to props, handouts and storage for my own table. Those are in the Workshop, and the game's design notes live on in the archive.
To base113 Designs
base113 Designs grew out of those props. Today the shop makes a few kinds of strange things:
- Miskatonic University: mugs, stickers, a pennant and library goods for a university that only exists in Lovecraft's Arkham.
- EOD: designs from the bomb disposal world, including patent drawings of real EOD equipment, picked from the original filings by someone who used to do the job.
- Tabletop and props: laser-cut storage files for card games, and printable 1920s investigator props for Call of Cthulhu and similar games.
- Strange Dreaming: designs based on my kid's dreams and random conversations. We don't ask follow-up questions.
Every design is my own. If I incorporate the ideas of others, I say so. Physical items are printed and shipped by Printify's print partners (see shipping and production), so each one is made to order, and digital files arrive instantly. Here's how I use AI along the way.
Let's see where this goes...