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  • [Actual Play] Tricks and Treats

    The Weekly Affirmations YouTube channel played Tricks and Treats (my Halloween Lasers and Feelings hack) and it was weird and funny like a comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.

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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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  • 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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  • [Doodles and Dragons] All the Doodles and more

    In celebration of finishing my year-long effort to draw a cartoon of every single monster in the 2nd Edition AD&D Monstrous Manual, I made a PDF containing a one page World of Dungeons hack along with every one of my cartoons. (If you like the game portion, you should check out the actual World of…

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  • Playtest: Ghost Lines Dark

    We played Ghost Lines Dark last night. There were, of course, a few kinks to get worked out about how Cthulhu Dark relates to Ghost Lines. But it was a lot of fun and seemed to work over all. I stole Judd’s idea of having the PCs be a crew of new recruits mentored by…

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  • Ghost Lines Dark

    An afternoon of hacking gave me Ghost Lines Dark, largely because Messers Harper and Walmsley had already done all the hard work.

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