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  • Ludonarrative Dissidents

    I was *very* surprised to hear my game The Mystery Creature of Claytonsville, PA talked about on the Ludonarrative Dissidents podcast episode about card mechanics in RPGs. https://anchor.fm/ludonarrative-dissidents/episodes/Card-Mechanics-in-RPGs-Season-2-Episode-0-e1lbj26 It’s probably worth your time to listen to it even without my game being mentioned.

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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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  • Game Chef ingredients are up, and I’ve been thinking about them for a while. ( http://game-chef.com/ ) I had an idea for a game about druids writing a reality-altering book, but I’m not really very enthused by it. I may return to it later, but right now my brain is more interested in this potential…

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  • Card drafting for character creation

    Here’s a thing that I tried in The Devil, John Moulton and Medical Bay Three. Creating a character works like card drafting in 7 Wonders or a booster draft Magic: The Gathering tournament. Each player gets a hand of cards, each of which has a piece of background information on it and some mechanical effect…

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