Tabletop RPG Publisher
Deep immersion. Moral tension.
GM: Optional.
Experimental tabletop RPGs where every player shapes the story. Sometimes there's a GM. Sometimes there isn't. Always, there's creative authority for everyone at the table.
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Experimental games, deep immersion, and stories where every player shapes the fiction. Sign up for the newsletter to hear about new releases.
B-sides
Thirty-five experimental games from 2005 to 2017, collected in two volumes. The inaugural Hyperfictive release.
Mostly GM-less, mostly shared-authority, mostly short.
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Hexcrawl Series
Hexcrawl Campaign Style Guidebook
A practitioner's guide to running wilderness exploration campaigns. System-agnostic methods that work with D&D 5e, Shadowdark, Cairn, Dragonbane, and anything else you play. Read it in one evening, run your first hexcrawl next week.
- Exploration turns, hex mapping, encounter tables, faction management
- Complete starter region: The Thornwall Frontier
Hexcrawl Campaign
Style Guidebook
Coming 2026: Book 2 — Encounter Design · Book 3 — Worldbuilding
About
Matthijs Holter
My tabletop RPGs give every player creative authority over the fiction. Most of them work without a GM.
Hyperfictive is a personal imprint. The games published here exist on their own terms, outside market categories.
On Substack, I write about designing these games and why shared authority changes the way stories work at the table.
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