espionage

  • Department Nine on Twitch

    Bard Community College‘s No Masters show dug deep into my back catalog of games to run Department Nine. You can watch their playthrough here.

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  • The Imposters anthology

    My microgame LOVEINT has been expanded and revised to be included in The Imposters anthology, currently on Kickstarer. If you like any of my games, or any weird little games about conspiracies and paranoia, then you should consider backing it.

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  • Al Amarja Today!

    I wanted to GM a short campaign of Over the Edge, the classic rpg of surreal conspiracies. The biggest problem with the game, I figured, was that there was no clear core activity for the PCs to pursue as a group. So I decided to frame the game with the PCs as journalists, working for…

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  • LOVEINT

    LOVEINT (noun) 1. The slang term used by the NSA surveillance analysts to refer to the misuse and abuse of intelligence capabilities to observe the activities of romantic rivals, potential or former lovers. 2. The 200 word RPG I wrote about the same.

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  • Operation CD Kingfisher-3

    Operation CD-Kingfisher-3 is my entry into the annual One Page Dungeon Contest for 2013. It is a system free espionage adventure. It would probably work great in World of Secrets.

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  • World of Secrets

    World of Secrets is my attempt to hack John Harper’s excellent World of Dungeons into doing something it wasn’t intended to do, like running a low-key, morally ambiguous espionage drama. Can your team infiltrate the Pakistani embassy in Paris, get access to their computers and get out before their security notices? Will paranoia and mistrust…

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  • [D&D] Tao Zi, Githzerai Avenger

    Tao Zi is my current D&D 4e PC, a Githzerai Avenger who has been exiled to the mortal world for mysterious reasons.

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  • [D&D 4e] Amaranthus Hawkweed, Pixie Ranger

    It’s not his fault that the raid on Cripple’s Gate went wrong, but he’s fighting as best as he can to get back to the Feywild and get his rookie subordinate fixed up. Amaranthus has been doing this sort of thing for too long, and he’s getting too old for this shit. Amaranthus Hawkweed is…

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  • [Reviews of Games that Don’t Exist] Allegory Mystery

    A review of a game that doesn’t exist, a recursive literary analysis game, where your PCs critique the symbolism inherent in their own lives to influence where the story is headed. Based on the comic.

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  • Shakespeare 2985

    SHAKESPEARE 2985 is a game I wrote for Graham Walmsley’s Alternative Game Chef. It’s a science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners. Yeah, I guess it’s a bit odd.

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