Welcome to Peter Schweighofer's latest publishing endeavor. Griffon Publishing Studio aims to disseminate Schweig's self-published game materials (roleplaying games as well as war and board games) through the PDF medium. Schweig's roleplaying game materials use the innovative Any-System Key, allowing you to adapt his sourcebooks and scenarios to your favorite game engine. The Any-System Key  describes character skills and task difficulties in terms that easily translate into different game systems. These terms do not link into any one game engine, but serve as general guidelines to give readers an overall sense of how they fit within their own game’s stat and difficulty scale. Any-System Key publications provide settings, characters, adventures, and other source material you can easily adapt to your favorite roleplaying game. Download the free Any-System Key  PDF (146k) now. Test this adaptable system with a free medieval scenario, The Village War (802k PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these files. Free downloads offer a glimpse of some of Schweig's past work and a sampling of his varied interests. Many appeared on Schweig's original site, Griffon's Aerie.

In Memoriam:

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Veteran game designer, writer, and editor Peter Schweighofer founded Griffon Publishing Studio as a means to market his own sourcebooks and games to the adventure gaming hobby, including his two flagship products, the sourcebook Pulp Egypt and the adventure collection Heroes of Rura-Tonga.

Known for writing and editing numerous Star Wars roleplaying game products for West End Games, he has designed such period sourcebooks as Weird War II: Afrika Korpse for Pinnacle Entertainment Group’s Weird Wars series and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook for West End Games’ Indiana Jones roleplaying game. He continues creating and publishing rolelplaying game materials and developing family games with historical themes. Read Schweig's bibliography.

Schweig Releases Operation Drumbeat Solitaire U-boat Game

October 17, 2012 -- Game designer Peter Schweighofer recently released Operation Drumbeat: A Solitaire Wargame of U-Boats Prowling America’s Shores, currently available through the Griffon Publishing Studio e-storefront at WargamesVault.com. The table-driven wargame puts players in the roles of German u-boat commanders in the opening months of 1942 when America seemed unprepared for war and German long-range Type IX u-boats preyed on American shipping along the East Coast. Continue reading....
 

DISPATCH May  2013
Course Evaluation

We’ve finished an article and map diagrams for our submission to Wicked North Games’ d6 Magazine and now move on to a month of diverse tasks that may help set our course for the immediate future. Projects under consideration include further developing our fantasy roleplaying game rules (now that the final stage of playtesting is complete), sending an Egyptian-themed abstract board game out to playtesting... Read more....

Keep checking for upcoming news about Griffon Publishing Studio releases and activities. Read past posts at the Studio News Archive.
 

Our Roleplaying Game Books...

In 1982 a 13-year old who’d just seen some neighborhood kids play Dungeons & Dragons created his own game in which knights and wizards explored underground catacombs, defeated monsters, and took their treasure. This book represents a refined version of those rules appropriate for kids interested in transitioning from traditional board games to a more imaginative form of structured play. Creatures & Caverns is a very basic “roleplaying” game in which players explore subterranean labyrinths, using imaginary heroes to defeat monsters they encounter and collect their treasure. Although it uses a map like a board in a traditional game, it also enables players to assume the roles of knights and wizards exploring underground. These heroes use an arsenal of weapons and spells to slay monsters; die rolls often decide their fate, determining whether they strike their foes and fend off attacks. Creatures & Caverns 2nd Edition includes all the rules needed to play, character sheets for knights and wizards, a bestiary of monsters to fight, guidelines for creating new foes, notes on traps and treasures, experience rules for improving characters, and two ready-to-play scenarios.
 

A 104-page roleplaying game supplement presenting source material outlining elements for a 1930s pulp campaign in the South Pacific and five, full-length scenarios. Heroes of Rura-Tonga includes more than 30 pages outlining elements for a 1930s pulp campaign in the South Pacific:

• Description of Rura-Tonga, its history, environs, and inhabitants.
• Overview of political developments affecting the region.
• Information on period seaplanes, including the Grumman G-21.
• Briefings on Japanese forces operating in the area.
• Six archetypical heroes to use as pregenerated characters or templates for original characters.
• Five full-length scenarios set in this exotic locale.

This Any-System Key sourcebook contains material gamemasters can use to create pulp adventures in Egypt: general travel information, campaign themes, locations, gamemaster characters, and scenario ideas:

• A “Visitors Guide to Egypt” suitable for orienting gamemasters and familiarizing players with common knowledge of the setting.
• A chapter with Egyptian exotica,  the mysterious places, supernatural occurrences, magical artifacts, and mythical beasts, along with adventure ideas.
• A chapter for running three themed campaigns in Egypt—archaeology, espionage, and criminal—including a full campaign outline for each.
• Appendices detailing suitable character archetypes for pulp Egyptian campaigns, a random artifact generator system, and a list of book, film, and music resources. 

   "This is called a Griffin because it is a winged quadruped. This kind of wild animal is born in Hyperborean parts, or in mountains. All its bodily members are like a lion's, but its wings and mask are like an eagle's. It is vehemently hostile to horses. But it will also tear to pieces any human beings which it happens to come across."