Almost Bedtime Theater

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🎲Dad & creator of all-ages TTRPGs 📚CRIT Award winner: The Librarian's Apprentice solo RPG 🦋ENNIE-nominated: Song of the Scryptwyrm solo RPG 🎙️Family-friendly podcast of kids playing and reviewing role-playing games 🔗 http://bio.link/AlmostBedtimeTheater

CRIT Awards Finalists: Best Solo TTRPG * Pirouette by Michael Sweeney * Odyssey of the Giant by Heltung Storytelling * Song of the Scryptwyrm by Almost Bedtime Theater * Underneath by Seb Pines * Heir of Swords by Yanni Panagiotopoulos
A pencil sketch of a basic map made up of square rooms connected by lines. It’s titled “Training Course,” and notes in the corner read “Vault? Keepers of the Forbidden.”
A map of the contested lands in HOME. A mysterious rift at the center shows where kaiju are appearing. Other locations of interest are also marked, as is a series of three combat sites.
The HOME game book, character sheet, and map, plus dice and a trio of small plastic mech toys.
A series of games available in a vending machine.
A large wooden gaming table with seats for 6 and several sheets and game pieces.
A video showing the folding structure of a small zine titled Ghost Roads and Moon Dust.
A boxed set of cards titled The Red Lion Hotel and a folded subway map titled Meanwhile, In The Subway.
A pair of puppet eyes with slitted pupils and long green ears. One ear has a metal stud earring.
The cover of La Bibliotheque Infinie, which has the title on top of a kaleidoscopic image looking down a pair of an infinite wells of books.
Five sets of puppet eyes: standard, tired, squinty side-eye, vertical slit, and wearing glasses.
A collection of puppet pieces: glove, eyes, hands, arm rod.
A thin book, laying face-down and flat on a table so that both the front and back cover are visible.
A notebook page with the sketch of a plant with needle-like leaves in clusters all along the stem. A second sketch shows the needles curled up against the stem. The text reads: "15:15, Area 3. Needles curl up around stem when disturbed."
A map of the Exclusion Zone with a sketchbook sitting on top of it. On the map is the text: "Corruption: 1." The sketchbook contains a drawing of a spiky aloe vera-like plant. The time - 12:40 - has been scratched out. Handwritten text reads: "13:26; Area 6. Chronological distortion!"
A black book with gold lettering that reads "Siderius Plug's SPINE: Immortality in Ninety Nine Endnotes. Revised Edition."
A gray house cat on her back, displaying her belly spots.
A pile of supplies for playing a solo RPG, including a copy of the game Exclusion Zone Botanist, markers, paper, and a container for dice.
A map for game The Librarian's Apprentice, made with two playing cards. One card is labeled "Cedric's Office" and the other "The Frost Scrolls of Music." The text indicates this is for Table Top Tuesdays, and that a more detailed story can be found on Patreon.
A selection of role playing games set out on a table.
A booth set up with multiple displays of TTRPGs.
A drawing of a shop in a book. The shopkeeper is a green fuzzball with eyes, nose, and two feet standing on a table with a sign that says "All sales final!" Above the shelves it says, "Iz-Ben's Bags and What." The shelves are full of various containers, from bags to boxes to bottles to a bucket. Some have stuff in them; others appear empty. There's also a terrarium on one shelf that appears to have mushrooms growing in it.
A thin cardboard box folded up to look like a book and held closed by a paper band designed to look like a lock on the book. The cover has “Path of the Bookbound” worn on it faintly in pencil.
A prototype of a folding box, open to show sheets of paper.
A copy of the TUMULUS zine, with tentacles on the cover.
Four cardboard boxes stuffed with mailers and a fifth containing additional packages.
Two small goose statues, unpainted and standing in a yard. One is half-hidden by ivy. The other has been damaged and is missing its head.
Three trifold brochures that are labeled as volumes 1, 2, and 3 of The Librarian's Apprentice RPG. A library card for the Great Library is also shown.
A book titled Song of the Scryptwyrm: A Librarian's Apprentice Mystery. A butterfly sits on the cover; its wings have map textures on them.
Two small booklets: the Bonds Between RPG and a journal with stacks of books and a fish bowl on the cover.
A paper dagger with the words Melee, Very Close, Close, and Far printed on it, set in the middle of fantasy minis.
A copy of The Librarian's Apprentice cover and contents, with logos for Gen Con, Indie Press Revolution, and Almost Bedtime Theater, plus the phrase "Booth #449".
A deck of cards and a trio of books. The books are titled “Hidden in the Margins,” “What Lies Beneath,” and “Tangled Blessings: Echoes of the Lost Electives.”
A glasses-wearing goblin with a pile of books, standing next to bookshelves on a forest floor.
A card back that reads "Uncle Igor's Discount Abomination Hut!" and "Two Thumbs Up TM". It has a thumbs-up Like icon with two thumbs on one hand.
A breakdown of the bonuses available if you back physical tiers of both Song of the Scryptwyrm and TTRPGkids' Greeting Games project.
A tarot-sized card that looks like an old envelope with “The Forbidden” scrawled on it. It’s stamped “Warning: Time Looped.”
A Library Bingo card, with activities like "Escape the Thing Below," "Care for your familiar," and "Donate a book."
Overall text: Song of the Scryptwyrm. A solo mystery game in an infinite library. Launching March 2025 on Backerkit. There is also a rotating card. The back is a mapping document for Shifting Stacks Mapwrights with the slogan is “Accurate. Reliable. Not lizards.” A complicated design shows a path from the library section Taught by Firelight to the section Whispered to Mirrors. There’s a stop in the middle at a gift shop. Notes at the bottom indicate it was created on 17-09-772, is valid through 17-11-772, and was created by A.L.B. An ink stamp indicates the map is Quality Certified. The front features a symbol drawn over a block of text and the words: “The Companion, Trust, Collaboration, Familiarity, Betrayal.” The word “Yes” is rubber stamped onto it as well.
Text: A postcard from Bloomhold. Thanks, Rene! Image: An old postcard with photo of a plant. A symbol is painted over the photo, along with the words "The Message." Written on the outside edge of the postcard are the words "Illumination, Deception, Warning, Confusion." The word "Yes" is rubber stamped on it as well. There is also a sticker on the postcard that reads: "Cina B. Age 63. Exhibit Sealer. The Old Garden, Tier 1, Lot 3. Notes: excitement, found family, Bloomhold's first days, bats. The back of the postcard has a block of text that reads "Bloomhold's Old Garden is a graveyard located near the local verdant anomaly. Eating of the plants that grow there passes along memories from the interred."
An image of a d20 as a crescent moon on a starry background, with the words Almost Bedtime Theater below it.
The text reads: Song of the Scryptwyrm. An solo mystery game in an infinite library. Launching March 2025 on Backerkit. The back of a worn envelope can be seen with a symbol brushed onto it with black ink. Written on the back are the words “The Forbidden. Temptation. Lost. Peril. Revelation.” There are faint pencil markings where someone has done some math on it, and a rubber stamp has been used to add the words “No And.” It is sealed with a piece of red tape that reads: “Do not read before written.” An image of the front of the envelope is partially shown; it’s stamped with the message “Warning: Time Looped.” There is also a square piece of paper that has a design stamped on it. A butterfly with map designs on its wings sits in the middle. In a circle around the design are letters: esf in dse cre tsch an ge rul
The text reads: Song of the Scryptwyrm. An solo mystery game in an infinite library. Launching March 2025 on Backerkit. The back of a worn envelope can be seen with a symbol brushed onto it with black ink. Written on the back are the words “The Forbidden. Temptation. Lost. Peril. Revelation.” There are faint pencil markings where someone has done some math on it, and a rubber stamp has been used to add the words “No And.” It is sealed with a piece of red tape that reads: “Do not read before written.” An image of the front of the envelope is partially shown; it’s stamped with the message “Warning: Time Looped.” There is also a square piece of paper that has a design stamped on it. A butterfly with map designs on its wings sits in the middle. In a circle around the design are letters: esf in dse cre tsch an ge rul
The back of a worn envelope with a symbol brushed onto it with black ink. Written on the back are the words “The Forbidden. Temptation. Lost. Peril. Revelation.” There are faint pencil markings where someone has done some math on it, and a rubber stamp has been used to add the words “No And.” It is sealed with a piece of red tape that reads: “Do not read before written.”
A mapping document for Shifting Stacks Mapwrights with the slogan is “Accurate. Reliable. Not lizards.” A complicated design shows a path from the library section Taught by Firelight to the section Whispered to Mirrors. There’s a stop in the middle at a gift shop. Notes at the bottom indicate it was created on 17-09-772, is valid through 17-11-772, and was created by A.L.B. An ink stamp indicates the map is Quality Certified.
A series of symbols that are dance notation from the 1680s.
Two books are displayed. The first is “The Library: a Fragile History” by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The second is “Urgent: 2nd Class” by Nick Bantock.
A leather book cover, magnifying glass, and hand sketched drawings. The title reads "The Librarian's Apprentice, Field Notes of Colby Lowery"
A page from an old book that reads “Once upon a time in the infinite and ever-changing Great Library, a memory was stolen from the Scryptwyrm.” A butterfly with wings marked with sections from a map of the moon’s surface sits upon a library card to the Great Library.
A butterfly with blue and yellow wings created from a vintage map of the moon. It is sitting on street map.
A selection of fruit, cheeses, and roasted veggies in front of a GM screen that reads “Beware of the smiling Dungeon Master.”
A weathered journal page with multiple crab-like constructs, with scribbled notes about each.
A two-page spread from Song of the Scryptwyrm, showing some filler text, a drawing of a library room, and a card that says "This is your game now; change it any way you want. If you're having fun, you're playing it right!"
A pair of books. One is titled Outsiders, the other Notorious.