Canvas Temple Publishing is an independent, creator-owned press producing original tabletop games, speculative fiction, and small-batch gaming terrain.

Founded by writer and game designer Jon Compton, Canvas Temple began as a home for historically grounded board wargames. The company is now expanding into roleplaying and miniatures gaming, science-fiction novels, setting books, campaigns, supplements, and creator-produced 3D-printed terrain.

Deadwake

Deadwake is the heart of the current tabletop line: a post-apocalyptic science-fiction setting built for roleplaying, miniatures play, narrative campaigns, and fiction. Its books explore a fractured future shaped by lost civilizations, unstable technologies, competing ideologies, and the struggle to remain human amid forces that continually redefine humanity.

Original Fiction

Canvas Temple also publishes original speculative fiction, including the Lazarus Cycle and other novels and collections concerned with war, power, technology, identity, and the futures humanity may create.

Creator-Made Terrain

Our 3D-printed gaming terrain is produced in small batches for tabletop roleplaying and miniatures games. Each piece is selected or designed to provide a distinctive environment for play rather than simply filling space on the table.

Independent by Design

Everything offered through Canvas Temple is written, designed, published, or produced by the company. There are no outside product lines or anonymous suppliers (for 3D printed terrain, we print the terrain, but are licensed by the creator to do so). Canvas Temple exists to create original work, publish it on its own terms, and place it directly into the hands of readers and players.

The company’s remaining boxed historical wargames continue to be offered as final-stock legacy titles while the Deadwake, fiction, and terrain lines grow.