Other People’s Games

  • One thing I don’t love, about a game that I *do* love

    I love Dialect as a roleplaying game. I love the language creation as a tool for telling a story of a culture, and the unique perspective on society that emerges because of that. Nearly every piece of the game is carefully thought out and plays very well at the table. But there’s a little flaw…

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  • Sealing the Fate

    Sealing the Fate is a hack I made of Stealing the Throne by Nick Bate. I made the hack for the Stealing the Jam game jam. In it, the high stakes science fiction mecha heist of Stealing the Throne is reimagined as a secret occult ritual to manipulate the fate of the Chosen One, then…

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  • Border Striders

    Border Striders is an interesting one-page RPG, which came to my attention because it lists my own game Mesopotamians as mechanical inspiration.

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  • Hellhound On My Trail

    I’ve got to keep movin’, blues fallin’ down like hail, (…) And the day keeps on worrin’ me, there’s a hellhound on my trail —Hellhound On My Trail, Robert Johnson In 1929, the world ended. Some folks in Washington and Wall Street did something or other that meant nobody could work no more. You don’t…

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  • The Lonely Giant in In*Die RPG Zine

    My solo journal writing game about a melancholy giant is available in the In*Die Zine of RPGs, now available on Itch or DrivethruRPG. https://indie-zine.itch.io/indie-zine-september-2020 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/328505/indie-zine–September-2020

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  • Urban Legend

    For the Folklore Jam 2020 I wrote a Descended From the Queen game about a ghost of uncertain character. Is she a tragic figure or a horrible monster? You will have to play the game to find out.

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  • Le Millionnaire Excentrique

    Gulix translated my game Eccentric Millionaire into French. If you’re a francophone and/or wish to play with francophones, perhaps you’d like to check out the translated version of the game.

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  • A new trick for Swords Without Master

    Long Memory a new trick for Swords Without Master Before the Overplayer begins a new phase, you may demand the next phase be framed as a flashback, to events before the story began. Instead of the usual tones, the tones for this phase are Naive Optimism and Ominous Foreboding.

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  • Sophie’s Pokemon Game!

    This is a card based Pokemon RPG I made for my daughter’s birthday several years ago. At the time, I never got around to writing the actual rules down. Recently my kids remembered this game’s existence and became really excited by it, which was enough to convince me to rite up some extremely sketchy rules…

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  • Tricks and Treats!

    Tricks and Treats is a simple little hack I made of John Harper’s Lasers and Feelings. You play Halloween-ish creatures that are horrifying but also somehow cute and/or loveable. The one night a year you can interact with others without problem is on Halloween night. But something is threatening to ruin your one pleasing day…

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