fantasy game

  • The Alchemists of Pwang

    Background The alchemists of Pwang commit soul staining sins in an effort to cleanse their souls. Unfortunately, no one in Pwang can be sure what the gods approve of and what they do not, at least while they live. Miracles Take a tarot deck, separate the minor arcana from the major arcana. Shuffle both decks.…

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  • Death Takes a Holiday

    UPDATE: I made a major revision to the game, which replaces the core system with something else. You may want to check out that version in addition to/instead of this one. Raw text hosted here, for your convenience. The pretty version is over here because I can’t get it to upload to WordPress.

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  • A World of Fire and Sand

    While reading through old 2nd edition D&D stuff, I got so excited by the Dark Sun campaign setting‘s calendar that I wrote a totally different, weird hippy freeform game to play in Athas. It’s not in any particular way anything like playing Dark Sun using D&D. It’s also completely unplaytested. A World of Fire and…

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  • House of Masks

    House of Masks is a roleplaying game I wrote for the 2008 Game Chef roleplaying game design competition. It won the “Best Game” award. But I wouldn’t suggest playing this version. This is the original version of the game., which reads really nicely, but the playtest was not terribly successful. You should check out the…

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