Mystery and Meaning
Explore rituals, signs, and consequences in occult roleplaying. Build stories around belief and reaction with Lightspress narrative tools.
Why Lightspress Is Done with Sales
After a frustrating experience with confused customers, entitled messages, and misread announcements, Lightspress is ending all public sales. Here’s why—and what’s changing.
Secrets, Schemes, and Social Conflict
Use secrets, schemes, and social tension to drive modern roleplaying stories. Build pressure without violence with Lightspress narrative tools.
DriveThruRPG Catalog Update [PLEASE READ]
Select Lightspress titles are 30% off as they're retired from DriveThruRPG. Learn which books are leaving and how bundle pricing works.
Magic as a Story Catalyst
Use magic to create story, not solve it. Explore narrative-driven spells and consequences in fantasy roleplaying with Lightspress.
The Space Between Stories
A real story about what happens between adventures, and why Lightspress roleplaying books leave space for imagination, memory, and change.
The Power of Mythic Storytelling
On May the Fourth, Lightspress releases Galactic Fantasy, a genre sourcebook inspired by mythic storytelling and classic space opera. This editorial reflects on the narrative legacy of Star Wars and the future of meaningful science fantasy roleplaying.
Now Available: Galactic Fantasy
Explore mythic empires, sacred relics, and emotional storytelling across the stars. This galactic fantasy sourcebook offers worldbuilding tools, character traits, and campaign support for narrative-first roleplaying using The Simple Approach.
The Purpose of Modern Stories in Roleplaying
Discover how Lightspress modern roleplaying books build meaning from the everyday. Explore stories shaped by memory, choice, and imagination.
Now Available: Summoned Omens
Summoned Omens is a system-agnostic narrative guide for fantasy roleplaying. It explores summoning spells as moments of memory, debt, and consequence. Includes tools for framing, character creation, worldbuilding, and story hooks. Perfect for any setting where magic answers—and remembers.
Payment Options and Security at Lightspress
Lightspress accepts Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Apple Pay, Klarna, and more. All transactions are protected by PCI-DSS compliant processors to ensure your privacy and security.
What Makes a Lightspress Fantasy Book Different
Lightspress fantasy books offer frameworks for players to build living worlds shaped by imagination, memory, and choice. Discover the difference.
Now Available: Prismatic Omens
Explore Prismatic Omens, a narrative guide for fantasy roleplaying. Treat prismatic spray as a story event filled with chaos, memory, and transformation. Perfect for worldbuilding, adventure design, and character development.
Myths, Memory, and Adventure
Lightspress historical roleplaying books feature rich leather brown covers and a Medusa emblem. Explore pirates, Victoriana, medieval worlds, and myth-driven eras where memory and imagination create new adventures.
Now Available: Polymorph Omens
Explore Polymorph Omens, a narrative guide for fantasy roleplaying. Treat polymorph spells as story events full of transformation, memory, and consequence. Perfect for worldbuilding, adventure design, and character development.
Classic Stories, Endless Adventures
Lightspress literary roleplaying books feature deep purple covers and a stack of books. Adaptations of classic novels and explorations of timeless themes offer new adventures, character depth, and imaginative storytelling.
Now Available: Invisible Omens
Invisible Omens offers a system-agnostic narrative guide to invisibility spells for fantasy roleplaying. Explore story complications, worldbuilding prompts, and adventure hooks shaped by absence, unseen presence, and silent consequences.
To Hopeful Futures
Lightspress science fiction roleplaying books feature hopeful blue covers and retro-modern star imagery. Space opera, post apocalyptic, and cyberpunk settings built around imagination, survival, and better futures.
Now Available: Destroyed Omens
Explore the narrative power of disintegration with Destroyed Omens, a system-agnostic roleplaying sourcebook. Discover how erasure shapes memory, alters worlds, and deepens story with character ideas, story complications, worldbuilding prompts, and adventure hooks. Let absence guide what happens next.
The Pentagram Marks the Place
Lightspress occult roleplaying books explore horror, magical realism, urban fantasy, and supernatural storytelling. These stories carry fear, hope, truth, and imagination in equal measure. Discover the occult line today.