2014

  • Diagrams are like dungeons built out of abstract concepts.

    One thing I was trying to do when making Medical Bay Three was to make it a game where the player didn’t have to know anything about being a doctor to play a doctor in the game. Everything you need to know is on the patient’s chart: it lists a variety of diseases common to…

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  • The Devil, John Moulton

    The Devil, John Moulton is a game I wrote about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west. To play, you’ll need these cards for character generation and this character sheet .

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  • Medical Bay Three

    “Four years of pre-med, four years of medical school, one year of residency, years of professional experience back on Earth and all the memory downloads about extraterrestrial culture have all taught you this: you don’t know anything about what you’re doing. Not here, anyway. On the Sphere, everything is weird and different. The Sphere is…

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  • My quick and dirty Over the Edge/World of Dungeons hack

    I wanted to play Over the Edge, but I can’t stop tinkering with the mechanics of the game. So I combined Over the Edge and World of Dungeons to make my quick and dirty Over the Edge/World of Dungeons hack. It works like this: PCs have the same traits as normal a normal Over the…

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  • Playtest: ‘Devil John’ Moulton

    Long story short: We playtested another game a few days ago. It went really well. It was horrible and weird and violent and darkly funny and amoral in all the ways the game was supposed to be. (You know, like a Garth Ennis written comic or a Quentin Tarantino film.) The PCs rode into poor,…

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