other people’s games
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Border Striders
Border Striders is an interesting one-page RPG, which came to my attention because it lists my own game Mesopotamians as mechanical inspiration.
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The Lonely Giant in In*Die RPG Zine
My solo journal writing game about a melancholy giant is available in the In*Die Zine of RPGs, now available on Itch or DrivethruRPG. https://indie-zine.itch.io/indie-zine-september-2020 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/328505/indie-zine–September-2020
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A new trick for Swords Without Master
Long Memory a new trick for Swords Without Master Before the Overplayer begins a new phase, you may demand the next phase be framed as a flashback, to events before the story began. Instead of the usual tones, the tones for this phase are Naive Optimism and Ominous Foreboding.
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Mystery Town
Mystery Town is a simple little freeform game I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday, inspired by Gravity Falls, Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion and other funny, weird, mysterious fiction that she and I enjoy together. (Mechanically, it’s a straightforward hack of A Town With Pep! by Epistolary Richard, which is itself derived from Swords without…
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[Actual Play] Bad Habits
On the Gosh Darn Fiasco podcast, they played Bad Habits, my Fiasco playset based in a convent.
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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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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…