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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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  • [Actual Plays] The Devil John Moulton

    I decided that I should keep track of places where my games have been discussed or played online. So here are some places where I have seen my game, The Devil, John Moulton, played or talked about in some way: Actual Play Liberation Industries has a 4 part series of play in podcast form: Part…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Playtest: ‘Devil John’ Moulton

    Long story short: We playtested another game a few days ago. It went really well. It was horrible and weird and violent and darkly funny and amoral in all the ways the game was supposed to be. (You know, like a Garth Ennis written comic or a Quentin Tarantino film.) The PCs rode into poor,…

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  • So Now You’re a Time Traveler

    So Now You’re A Time Traveler I wrote a simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum. It’s called So Now You’re a Time Traveler. It was pretty fun when we tried it out.

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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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