SQUISH!

The doorway to the Dungeon yawns darkly before you like the maw of some gargantuan creature. You cross the ominous threshold and advance into the first of many dark and dangerous tunnels. Traps, hazards and monstrous adversaries await inside...

Whatever your motives and aspirations, you know that a small creature such as yourself has no chance of surviving the Dungeon without help. For this reason you have secured the services of some adventuring Companions! What dangers await you? Will you and your Party survive, or are you destined to get… SQUISHED?

Squish! is a solo / co-operative dungeon crawl journaling game in which you take on the role of a small and very squishy little character, trying to traverse a dungeon.
In order to survive you'll have to recruit a number of Companions, be they Adventurers from the outside world or some of the Dungeon's own Denizens.
You'll move through the Dungeon by rolling dice and going forwards or backwards on a list of narrative prompts. Your Companions will spend points from their limited Stat pools or perform Luck Rolls to attempt their various feats throughout your journey.

Squish! includes a treasure trove of roll tables which you'll be using to generate Companions, Spells, Magic Items, and more. All you need to play is the game document, a handful of six-sided dice and some note-keeping materials, but Squish! also provides Character and Companion Sheets.

Squish! is based on the Passkey System, and heavily inspired by Tim Hutchings' Thousand Year Old Vampire, as well as the Fighting Fantasy series of adventure game-books, created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

You are free to create hacks, supplements and adventure modules based on Squish!, for personal and commercial use, so long as you include appropriate attribution:

Squish! designed and authored by Tom Fummo of Penflower Ink, 2024 - www.penflower-ink.com.

This game is NOT for resale.

Squish! does not invite or legitimise the introduction of bigotry at the table. You may NOT create supplements or adventure modules based on Squish! if you also intend it to promote discrimination based on colour, species, appearance, disability, faith, sex or gender. Both illustrated and text only game documents include the full license information, as well as a link to a curated list of TTRPG safety tools, which you can also find here.

- Squish! -
A traditionally hand-illustrated PDF, with bookmarks, page hyperlinks and table of contents. Colour-blind friendly (black & white).

- Squish! (Text Only) -
A printer and colour-blind friendly text only version of the game document, with page hyperlinks, bookmarks and tagged for screen-readers.

- Character and Companion Sheets (Form Fillable) -
Form-fillable traditionally hand-illustrated character sheets for digital use.

I have done my best to set everything up correctly, also with regards to accessibility.
If there are any issues with the documents, please let me know. Thanks and have fun!

I am working on making physical copies of the game available as a paperback book via print-on-demand. I'll be sharing updates on this as soon as they come. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the game in its current form!