Starting October 17 and running to October 30, this jam invites tabletop game writers (both emerging or experienced) to create queer-themed horror content for tabletop gaming.

Tabletop

Anything that would work for analog play is welcome, including OSR games and adventures, traditional RPG games and adventures, storygames, duets, LARPS, solo games, and print-and-play boardgames. If you have something that might be borderline (an RPG or LARP designed for video calls or chat), feel free to include it.  Even fiction and tabletop asset packs are. This includes works in progress, games you've already started working on, and games you've already finished. 

Horror

Horror is a broad, expansive, wide-ranging genre that encompasses John Carpenter's Halloween, Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin,  Katheryn Bigelow's Near Dark, and the entire Hammer horror tradition, as well as the fiction of Clive Barker, Victor Lavalle, Gemma Files, Stephen King, and Daphne du Maurier. Cosmic (whether purist, pulp, or revisionist), gothic, and even noir and crime are welcome.

Queer

I'm not going to check anyone's Queer Identity Card. Your work is welcome as long as it doesn't promote bigotry and is tied to the jam's theme.

Systems and Resources

Other than avoiding systems that give money to homophobic, transphobic, or anti-LGBTQIA individuals and organizations, you can use any system you are comfortable with. If you're concerned about copyright or other IP issues, you can check out Fari Games System Resources Documents from numerous creators or check out this database of openly licensed game systems. If you need commercial art packs, free art, public domain art, type/fonts, or openly licensed cartography?  I've assembled a quick Notion database. If you've got other resources to include, reach out via the community board.  

NSFW Content & Adult Themes

As long as they're within Itch's content guidelines, involve consenting adults, and fit the jam's themes, please feel free to include them as a jam submission.

Charging Money

Definitely! Your submissions can include free projects, PWYW projects, and projects that charge money.

DriveThruRPG Exclusives & Community Content

If you'd like to submit content for a system that would require a Community Content program that's normally exclusive to DriveThru, the advice in this article should work for you without violating the Community Content terms. Essentially, create the product on DriveThru, set up a free Itch product page with no local files, add an external link to your product on DriveThruRPG, explain this in your product description, and submit the Itch page to the jam. You can use the same directions if you are an exclusive creator to DriveThru/OBS. As long as the content for your game isn't hosted or sold on Itch, you should be good.

What's Not Welcome?

This jam isn't a welcoming space for alt-right, white supremacist, transphobic, misogynist, or anti-LGBT+ projects or creators. If you or your entries wouldn't be welcome in the OSR June Jam, they're not welcome here.