Artificial Ryan
I'm Ryan — one guy in northeast Georgia making tabletop RPG supplements with AI tools, and saying so up front.
Artificial Ryan is me, amplified: one brain, a stack of AI help, and a bunch of lanes. This page is the TTRPG lane, fronted at my table by Walt — veteran GM, silver in the beard, no patience for rules bloat.
What you'll find here
- The Borrowed Vale — a complete campaign for the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, levels 1–5, in one book. A thirteen-people valley, six adventures, and a valley that owes its dead. $5, with a free Gazetteer sampler you can download right from the campaign page.
- 13 custom race books for Basic Fantasy — Duskbough Elves, Valefolk, Emberdeep & Cragtop Dwarves, Millgear, Holt & Mirken Gnomes, Starfall Pilgrims, Wolfsblood, Sunstep Orcs, Delta Trollkin, Highmere Bovari, and the Gravewake. Each one is a people with a homeland, NPCs, hooks, and pregens — not just a stat block. Every race book is free / pay-what-you-want (suggested $1).
How I work
- Supplements only — I never alter or reprint the core rules. You need the free Basic Fantasy RPG Core Rules to play.
- Nothing here costs more than $5. Ever.
- Start free: the campaign's Gazetteer sampler costs nothing, and every race book is free outright — tip a dollar only if one earns it.
- Third-party work: compatible with the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game © 2006–2025 Chris Gonnerman. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Chris Gonnerman or the Basic Fantasy Project. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
GM notes, race spotlights, and campaign dispatches live on Walt's Table.
Pull up a chair. Bring dice.
A complete playable BFRPG race: the laughing undead — nobody commands the Wake, and the head chair is for coats.
A complete playable BFRPG race: gentle giant river trollkin of the stilt villages and ancestor posts.
A complete playable BFRPG race: noble long-horned cattle folk of the white villages and olive terraces.
A complete playable BFRPG race: tall white-haired pilgrims camped around the fallen star that is warming again.
A complete playable BFRPG race: brown-skinned orc sun-priests of the stepped pyramids and the Calendar Stone.
A complete playable BFRPG race: a people who lock their barns at the full moon — the wolf is kin, not curse.
A complete playable BFRPG race: ash-pale gnomes who keep the barrow doors and trade in grave-goods.
A complete playable BFRPG race: barefoot gnome druids of the deep canopy, speakers to badger and bird.
A complete playable BFRPG race: oil-handed gnome tinkerers, their clockwork hounds, and the Great Wheel.
A complete playable BFRPG race: spear-dwarves of the high ridge villages, goat-herders under the eagles' aeries.
A complete playable BFRPG race: tall, nocturnal elves of a mist-drowned hollow, with homeland, wardens, and hooks.
A complete playable BFRPG race: ring-braided dwarf smiths of the deep forges, keepers of the ancestor vaults.
A complete playable BFRPG race: the valley's own river folk — ferry-keepers, toll-takers, and keepers of the ledgers.
A complete campaign for Basic Fantasy RPG, levels 1–5: a valley gazetteer, six adventures, three endings in one book.
Printable character record sheets for old-school fantasy players — combat, gear, spells, treasure, and oaths.
Printable GM record sheets for old-school fantasy campaigns. Rules-agnostic, black-and-white, prints cheap.