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AETHERHOLD

Tools for the worlds you carry.

Purveyors of printable arcana: GM tools, solo journals, planners, and small brave books for adventurers whose real-world initiative never ends.

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Newest From the Forge

The Solo Adventurer's Journal

Seventeen print-ready sheets for the lone wolf: oracle logs, scene trackers, threads and clues, relationship maps, hex crawls, a tension dial, and our Likelihood Oracle. When you play alone, the notes are not about the story. The notes are the story.

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For Game Masters & Table Tyrants

The Armory

The Busy Nerd line: print-ready tools for people who love running games more than prepping them. Parchment-styled, system-agnostic, and table-tested by a real DM with real regrets.

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GM Toolkit Complete

the whole war chest

Campaign planners, session trackers, worldbuilding sheets, NPC forges, encounter ledgers: everything we make for GMs, bound into one tome.

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The Sub-Bundles

take only what you can carry

Campaign Tools, Characters and NPCs, Combat and Loot, Session Tracking. The toolkit split into lean packs for GMs who know exactly which battle they are losing.

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Essentials

free, yes, actually free

A free starter pack of our most-used sheets. Try the steel before you buy the armory. Missing something? Tell us. The forge takes requests.

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A parent and child watch a golden world of mountains, villages, and a phoenix rise from the pages of an open journal in a candlelit study
Every world needs a keeper.
The hold stands · The forge is lit

For the Smallest Party Members

Big Feelings, Little Paws

Rhyming picture books for ages 4 to 8 about little creatures with very big feelings, and what they do next. Available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

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Knox the Honest Fox

on telling the truth and making things right

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Milli the Resilient Filly

on getting back up

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Abbott the Worried Rabbit

on worry, and the size of it

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Garret the Forgetful Ferret

on making a plan and never giving up

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Brock the Angry Croc

on the big red feeling

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The Whole Shelf

every book, one den

The full collection on Amazon, in paperback and on Kindle.

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Dispatches From the Hold

The Scriptorium

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Part field notes, part grimoire, part letter left on your desk. New tools, good ideas, things worth stealing for your next session, and occasional notes from behind the screen. Written to be kept. Sent only when there is something worth the ink.

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Free. No noise. Leave whenever you like.

The Founder's Mark

The Hold

AetherHold is a one-lantern workshop in Kansas, veteran-owned and founded by a DM, dad, and chronic over-prepper who redesigned his own game sheets until they became tools. Everything here is print-ready, table-tested, and built for the busiest version of you.

The hold stands. The forge is lit.