Drintera® is a lore-rich fantasy TTRPG setting inspired by world cultures and heroic mythology.
The gods have proclaimed the Age of Destiny. Adventurers, stride forth to claim your place in legend!
Magic in Drintera makes narrative sense, not rational sense. Enchantments can take hold of the very land to create places of wonder—or dread. As in the legend of the Fisher King, a great tragedy that strikes a royal house can bring a curse upon the entire kingdom. As in the legend, a heroic quest can lift the curse. That’s why Drintera will always need heroes.
The many lands and cultures of Drintera are written by a diverse international team.
We’re building Drintera month by month as a PDF magazine. Each issue contains 20+ pages of creative fuel for the game master: nations, factions, gods and sects, legends, adventure locations, story ideas, villains, and creature lore, and game master advice.
Buy single issues at our shop, or back our Kickstarter to save up to 20% off the cover price.
Homebrew Friendly
You can use Drintera as the basis for your fantasy roleplaying campaign or borrow your favorite lore to enrich your homebrew world.
Free samples
Check out our free wiki on World Anvil, and free Issue #1.
Design Principles
Deep lore: Our freelancers are history, folklore, anthropology, and science geeks. They create deep lore that's fun to read.
Heroic ideals: Drawing inspiration from heroic mythology, Drintera encourages players to create heroes we can admire.
Multicultural: We actively recruit writers who are literate in non-European cultures. We’ve had a diverse team since the beginning.
A Canvas for Creativity: Our aim is to light the fire of creativity. We want to make it fun and easy for a GM to build a campaign in Drintera and make it their own.
Inclusive: Drintera is for gamers of all ages. It strives to dispense with unwanted baggage from 20th century pulp fantasy, such as sexism and racism. We’ve had diverse creators since the very beginning.
Original Art
Our talented team of artists creates breathtaking illustrations to bring Drintera to life. Each issue contains at least 3 pieces of original full-color fantasy art. Stretch goals unlock more illustrations per issue.
Shewstone Publishing uses licensed stock art and public domain illustrations to round out each issue. All art is made by humans. We never use AI generated "art".
Is Drintera Right for You?
Drintera is for you if:
You want to support a diverse team of freelance TTRPG writers and illustrators.
Reading RPG world lore is fun for you.
You want plausible conflicts that go beyond good vs. evil.
You want a world shaped by mythology where magic follows narrative logic.
You view the setting as a canvas for your own creative storytelling (or you just want to borrow cool ideas).
Drintera is probably not your cup of tea if:
You prefer a grimdark tone and want your heroes to be dark, too.
You'd miss drow elves, the Underdark, and other intellectual property from Dungeons & Dragons.
You're looking for ready-to-play adventures with full game statistics. You can use fit published adventures into Drintera, but our products are about world lore and creative inspiration.