A playful tool to make your TTRPG moments weird, whimsical, and wondrous. Skip the tired tropes and turn any plain creature, place, event, or item into something worth remembering!
Ever feel like your encounters and descriptions keep falling back on the same old tropes? Like you’re pulling from a well-worn bag of ideas, and what comes out feels… fine, but not quite magical?
Weird, Whimsy & Wonder is a creative tool for TTRPG game masters and solo players who want to break free from the expected and summon something more memorable: strange, moving, or mysterious. It helps you craft moments that feel out of place in the best possible way, evoking awe, delight, eeriness, or curiosity.
An 80+ page book with filled with vibrant art and flexible tools
You can use it in multiple ways: prepping for a session, improvising at the table, or as you play solo. In any case, this book helps you transform the mundane: you take ordinary creatures, places, items, or events, and reimagine them as something dreamlike, uncanny, or majestic. You can even start from a blank page and let the tables inspire you to craft those delightfully bizarre situations.
With a tightly-knit procedure made of simple, flexible tools, you’ll start from a seed and quickly grow it into something you wouldn’t have thought of on your own.
Your usual random tables are starting to feel flat, and you want to transform their results into something truly unique.
You’re playing solo and want to surprise yourself with an unexpected scene that sparks delight, awe, or discomfort.
You’re prepping a session and want to make a location feel magical, alive, or deeply strange.
You need a break from the tone of your current adventure and want to inject a burst of joy, mystery, or weirdness.
You’re designing a treasure and want it to feel like a relic no one else has ever seen.
You’re improvising an NPC and want to pull the right levers to make them unforgettable, odd, or oddly charming.
You’re crafting an encounter that needs to show off—whether that means setting the tone, raising the stakes, or spotlighting the eerie nature of a monster or the grandeur of your world.
You have a blank page and five minutes to prep, and just need that first spark to get your imagination rolling.
Here's how it works:
See it in action:
Prefer reading?
Check out this write-up on my newsletter. it walks through the thought process behind the tool and includes a full example of how to use it.
A tightly-knit procedure. With easy-to-follow steps, you can elevate mundane creatures, places, items and people to truly unforgettable moments while prepping for a session or improvising on the spot.
A flexible set of tables. Instead of offering a set of premade entries that would limit the mileage you would get from this tool, you will find a series of inspiring tables that will help you craft endless combinations, including a Seed table with 648 unique single word prompts to get you going.
Guide on three different flavors. Strangeness can take many shapes. This toolkit offers guidance so you strike the right tone you are going for: uncanny and eerie (Weird), dreamlike and playful (Whimsy), or majestic and awe-inspiring (Wonder).
Weirdify everything!
All the tables you need!
SEEDS: 648 evocative single-word prompts to spark your imagination during any step of the process.
SUBJECTS: 12 different things you can change in a scene, like people, places, items, and more.
TRAITS: 36 aspects of your Subject that you can change, from scale or material, to purpose or customs, all with detailed explanations and examples of use.
SHIFT: 18 ways you can change your subject's traits, expressed via single-word action prompts.
FRAMING: 18 aspects of a scene you can highlight to bring your new creation to life.
All of this, packed into an 80+ page, hardcover book—richly illustrated, in vibrant color, and filled with clear, step-by-step guidance to help you use the tables and land the exact tone you’re aiming for.
Spread mockup with a title page and initial steps of the main procedure
The Art
For the first time in any of my games, the book will feature my own art. I decided to learn how to draw a few months ago, and I thought that having a clear goal—like this project—would be a great motivation to keep pushing. It is my hope you can appreciate the wackiness and honesty of what I am going for here. I am literally learning as I go. Here's how the cover art came to be:
Weirdness taking shape
Combined with my own illustrations, I am repurposing public domain images and incorporating them into my art, in a mix of photobashing, tracing and reinterpretation. Here's an example of a piece of public domain art I used to give this fish a face:
Behold the fishdude
I am also going to draw graphic elements on some of the pages that have less of a cognitive load (don't worry, pages with detailed procedures are kept cleaner so the text can communicate efficiently).
This is the vibe I am going for:
A very colorful spread indeed
I am aiming for this psychedelic, hand-drawn vibe, with no shame, no hiding my squiggly lines. I am giving it my all and I hope it resonates with you for its bare honesty. Oh, and a pledge:
This work was made by humans. No AI or Machine generated works are included in this project. Supporting this project means you are supporting real human beings who have dreams, passions, & bills. Thank you.
Throughout the campaign, I'll share more spreads and pieces of art as I finish them. You'll also get to vote on which public domain images you want to see reinterpret in my style. Check out another example:
Pledge Levels
Pledge rates do not include shipping. This will be charged closer to fulfillment. You can see the shipping rates here.
Digital Whimsy — €13. A PDF copy of the book, plus all digital stretch goals.
Physical Wonder — €27. Physical and digital copies of the book, plus all stretch goals.
Weird & Random — €42. Physical and digital copies of the book. Physical copy of Random Realities. All stretch goals.
Psychedelic Fantasy — €59. Physical and digital copies of the book. Physical copy of Everspark. All stretch goals.
Wondrous Creations — €61. Physical and digital copies of the book. Physical copy of Random Realities. Physical copy of Against the Wind. All stretch goals
Add-ons Only — €1. Get access to the add-on store to buy items à la carte.
Picture this: a sleek, single-page PDF with all the tables you need, right at your fingertips. Click on the corresponding field, and—boom—a new result appears, thanks to a bit of JavaScript magic.
If we reach €5,000, I’ll create an interactive, one-page version of the game that lets you roll the tables directly inside the PDF.
Initial concept layout. Final design will change
€8,000 - Web App
If we reach €8,000, I’ll build a web app version of Weird, Whimsy & Wonder. It’ll give you access to all the tables in a clean, easy-to-use format, perfect for quick inspiration whether you’re on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Mock-up shown for illustrative purposes. Final layout, visuals, and functionality are subject to change.
You'll be able to grab additional copies of the book, as well as part of my back catalogue of games available in physical form through Critical Kit, our partner on this project. You can get them either when you first make your pledge or when you complete the survey after the campaign is closed.
With fixed shipping costs, it doesn't matter how many games you add to your pledge, you'll pay the same to get them to your door.
Here are all the games you can get as an add-on:
Everspark, Against the Wind, Wraithound, Random Realities, Midnight Melodies, Insurgent
We’re partnering with award-winning publisher Critical Kit for this project. They’ll be handling the printing and shipping of all physical books straight to your door.
Founded by ENNIE award-winning writer and designer Tim Roberts (Be Like a Crow, Punk is Dead), Critical Kit is an independent publisher of tabletop roleplaying games—for storytellers, by storytellers.
So here’s my good friend Tim to talk about shipping. Take it away, Tim!
The plan is that we will be 100% fulfilled by February 2026. That means PDFs will be out just before Christmas and the physical stuff will start heading out in January 2026. If anything changes, we'll make sure you know via updates ASAP.
Tariffs: Who knows where these will be when we start fulfilling. That said, books are protected against tariffs in the US - even when they are executive orders. We've tested this theory with several thousands of dollars of game books shipped to the US and not a cent of tariff paid.
The reward pledges do not include shipping. We will collect shipping when you complete your survey. Here are the rates you will pay:
United Kingdom €6. European Union €17. USA & Canada €21. Australia €29. Rest of the World €29.
The Team
Cezar Capacle is a Brazilian tabletop game designer, currently based in Madeira Island.
Creating since 2016, he has dedicated his full time to game design for the past four years, and has released more than 40 games since. His games are known for their light rules and quirky mechanics, offering singular gaming experiences.
Highlights
Finalist as 'Best Indie Game of the Year' on the Crit Awards 2025
Author of Push SRD, a system with more than 5,000 downloads, 80 games made, and translated into 7 languages
Critical Kit is an independent publisher of tabletop role-playing games for storytellers, created by storytellers. From solo journaling RPGs that let you explore strange, beautiful worlds, to fast-paced one-shots and unforgettable campaign settings, our games are designed to spark your imagination and invite you to play differently.
Our bestsellers include Be Like a Crow, a solo RPG about becoming a bird with attitude, and Punk is Dead, a post-apocalyptic love letter to rebellion, noise, and community. We’ve also got bite-sized adventures, crowd-funded creations, and a growing library of third-party titles from some of the most exciting voices in indie gaming.
