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Indie tabletop publisher · Kearny, NJ · Est. 2020

Short runs. Loud games.

Fantasy, horror, westerns and post-apocalypse for the table. Home of 321RPG and Zombie Braineaters! Funded by backers, printed short, drawn by humans we pay and credit by name.

2020Founded
1,000+Backers shipped
20Titles on the shelf
The Ham and the Egg, our mascots, reading a big book with a magnifying glass
Banner art for What Dark Knocking Comes in the Still of the Night, by Zack Giallongo
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What Dark Knocking Comes in the Still of the Night

A black cat scratches two words in the dirt: HELP US. A three-episode adventure in a flip-book. One side is the 321RPG fantasy ruleset. Flip it over and it is a complete 5E conversion with its own front cover. Two games, one spine, no swapped-out tables.

Over the Garden Wall by way of The Dark Crystal. Written for younger players without talking down to them, and for anyone at a table who wants to try something new without buying a second book.

  • Ep. 1Black Cats. Four untested trainees leave ruined Rivenedge and follow a black cat to Ool, where the harvest festival never ends and the mayor never dies.
  • Ep. 2Brown Rats. A merfolk city at the bottom of the ocean, where every poster says the party are criminals.
  • Ep. 3Crawling Bats. The trail out of the water and into the Ember Waste, chasing the last piece of Thoric's Scarab.
The Little Green Rosetta Die

The Little Green Rosetta Die

The first DUAL20: a d20 numbered 0 to 9 and 0+ to 9+. Plain faces read as a 321RPG d10, plus faces as a d20. Cast by hand in translucent green resin by Bellum Creations, capped at 100.

Russ, a resin goblin miniature

Russ & Otus, in resin

The goblins who keep turning up, named for Russ Nicholson and Erol Otus. 27mm for the table, 70mm for the shelf. STLs by Jaycee Fairclough.

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Our systems

Two of ours, plus other people's.

321RPG

321RPG

Formerly 3,2,1...Action! A cinematic d10 system built for short, loud campaigns. Roll under your stat, spend Luck when the scene demands it, bolt on the genre you are playing this month.

No GM here. The person running it is the GR, the Game Runner.

Powered by 5 Alive RPG. Simply deadly.

5 Alive

5AliveRPG, with Super Savage Systems. A survival engine for scenario play: a point-crawl out, then a siege you defend with whatever is nailed down.

Flagship: Zombie Braineaters!

Third-party, on purpose

Folk horror for Sickest Witch. Bleak dungeons for Shadowdark. Y2K public-access weirdness for Weird Heroes of Public Access.

Ham & Egg Publishing takes pride in supporting other indie systems and publishers with innovative adventures and stories with heart.

The catalog

Print copies are on Etsy. PDFs are on DriveThruRPG. Everything ships from Kearny, NJ. US shipping is a flat $2 per order, and free on orders over $35.

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About

Ham & Egg is two guys from New Jersey, making cool stuff without limits on creativity.

Geo Collazo and John "Hambone" McGuire started it in 2020. In practice that has meant horror zines, a d10 system nobody asked us for, a wasteland campaign with dinosaurs in it, and a novel about a girl who renames herself Doom.

Neither of us has taken a salary or a share of profit in six years. It all goes back into the next book.

We print short. A run covers the backers plus a few for the shop. We reprint only when something sells out. No warehouse, no remainder bin.

Art, editing, design and layout are done by people. We hire them, we pay them, and we credit them by name inside the book.

  • Geo CollazoWriting · editing · production
  • John "Hambone" McGuireWriting · mechanics · layout
Get in touch

We answer our own email.

HAEpublishing@gmail.com

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Questions, actual play reports, or a pitch you think fits the line.

Retailers

We sell wholesale to shops, and we will happily send a demo copy of whatever you want to run on a Saturday. Email for terms.

Press

Press kit, review copies and high-res art for the trilogy are ready to go. Ask and we send it.