mythical

  • Fairyland Confidential

    “It was a fairyland case. I hate fairyland cases. Once magic gets involved in a case, you never know what is real and what is illusion. Who is acting on their own free will? Who’s been enchanted? It’s always a mess to sort out. But no matter how much I swear off the faerie cases,…

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  • Rusałka on Bored Ghost podcast

    The Bored Ghost podcast played a game of my still unreleased game Rusałka. You can listen to the first half of their session here. Unfortunately, the audio files for the second half of the game were lost to technological problems. But the first half of the session gives you a good idea how the game…

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  • [Monthly Monster] The Lands Within the Wind

    The Lands Within the Wind is a game I made about faerie lords, exiled from the fey realm and forcd to wander the desert as confused, violent nightmare creatures. If you can slaughter enough creatures in the sand wastes, you may be able to restore yourselves to your rightful place of power. I made this…

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  • Star Level 10!

    Star Level 10 is a simple little freeform larp I wrote in collaboration with my daughter Madeline. It was initially created for the 2016 Golden Cobra Challenge. It’s a heartwarming tale about being dead, and about the pain of stepping on a d4.

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  • Mesopotamians revision

    I revised Mesopotamians slightly, so that it is now a complete rpg on 16 cards (printed double sided) or 32 cards (single sided). You know, the game I wrote about ancient undead warlords seeking fame and fortune as an indie band, based on a song by They Might Be Giants and the Indie Mixtape anthology.

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  • [13th Age] More monsters

    These were more things I created for my _13th Age_ campaign but never got a chance to use them. Maybe someone else will find some use for them. Contarius 1st level kenku necromancer Initiative +3 AC 12 PD 11 MD 14. Hollow Bones: Critical threat range for attacks against Contarius is expanded by 2. HP:…

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  • I Pray God Will Curse the Writer

    I Pray God Will Curse the Writer is a live action roleplaying game I wrote, inspired by bits of the Hastur mythos as described by Robert Chambers, John Tynes, Dennis Detwiller and Robin Laws. All the larp files in one .zip file Cast member character sheets Inhabitant of Carcosa character sheets Answer cards Whisper Labyrinth…

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  • Mesopotamians

    Mesopotamians is a game I wrote, inspired by the sone The Mesopotamians by They Might Be Giants. It’s part of a charity project by Jonathan Walton to make a bunch of one or two page games inspired by songs and sell those to raise money for charity. It’s a fun game that was fun 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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  • [Death Takes a Holiday] Major Revision

    I’ve been working to revise an old game of mine into a version that I’m more happy with. So I took another mechanic that I’ve been using and jammed the game into that. And now you have an exciting new version of Death Takes a Holiday, my game of substitute Grim Reapers finding that Death’s…

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