You have two dice: Demon and Child, and they feud for reign of your soul. Your band of misfits: a twelve year-old-girl, a punk teen, a trans anarchist, (you know the type) accidentally opened a gate to Hell. Now you have to slog through the abode of the damned and back. But beware! As a volatile delinquent, you risk losing your balance between your inner demon and your inner child. Don't give up. Don't give in. DON'T LOSE CONTROL

In this game you

• risk losing control in order to roll bigger dice
• undergo demonic transformations
• spend your resource to unleash high-octane powers
• tear fiends limb from limb
• recover your resource
• then repeat. 

All the rules you need for fast-paced, powerful, EASY combat on one page! Including 3 badass classes, 4 types of bloodthirsty fiends, a handy difficulty chart, and exciting optional rules!

This is my debut tabletop project! I really hope everyone enjoys it 🖤 I wanted to make a game where you could play teenagers with big weapons, glowing eyes, and really cool hair. Where everything was meant to go off the rails.

PLAYLIST

At every step of Demon Child's creation I drew upon music for inspiration. It is at the heart of this project. When I run my games, I start a song at the start of combat, and make sure to finish combat before it loops enough to become annoying.

https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/5585cl73BlPwqMXvx3IZ6Y?utm_source=generator&theme=0

INSPIRATIONS

STYLE

Riot grrrl for the feminist punk movement and zines such as Tobi Vail's: 'Jigsaw' and Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman's: 'Girl Germs'.

"A joy of loud driving chaotic music is part of me, part of my sexuality, and no one can theorize that away."
-Terri Sutton, “Women, Sex, & Rock ‘n’ Roll”, Puncture 1989

Nimona and Sucker Punch for creating iconic and inspiring demon children.

Mork Borg for teaching me to pack a punch into every inch

DOOM 2016. RIP. AND. TEAR.

MECHANICS

The demon-child scale was inspired by:

• Grant Howitt's Honey Heist and The Witch House for their simple two stat 'corruption' mechanics.
• Avatar Legends by Magpie Games for their balance track mechanics (principles and losing your balance).
• David Black's Black Hack for their usage die mechanics.

The combat was inspired by:

• Chris McDowall's rules-lite combat from Into the Odd.
• Lumen by Spencer Campbell. It's worth a read for any rpg designer and illuminates the combat in Demon Child.

This game is Illuminated by LUMEN, based on the LUMEN RPG system designed by Spencer Campbell, Gila RPGs. This game is in no way affiliated with Spencer Campbell or Gila RPGs.

GAME LICENSE

The text of Demon Child is Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. See the Creator Kit for a full copy of the Game License, and much much more! Get started making Demon Child content today!

ATTRIBUTION

💜💜💜 Art created by Althea Sara 💜💜💜

Photocopy Noise Textures from Indieground Design available at https://indieground.net/. Such material is licensed under their Freebies License available at https://indieground.net/licenses/#freebies-faq and has been modified.

Free license assets 1, 2, and 3 by kues1 on Freepik

Demon Child Fonts

• Sketched Cassius Broken by Manfred Klein
• Typo by FontPanda

Itch.io banner gif fonts:

• Sketched Cassius Broken by Manfred Klein
• Cantara Gotica by Manfred Klein
• Monks Writing by Manfred Klein
• Blackletter by HPLHS Prop Fonts
  
• JSL Blackletter by Jeffrey S. Lee
• Blackwood Castle by Dieter Steffmann
• Child Chat by Rizal Khurasan

DONATE

I made this project free because fuck capitalism but if you've read this far and are in a position to support my rpg creating endeavors please please donate! It is deeply appreciated 💞