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  • NaGaDeMon Game First Thoughts

    I have a lot of random ideas for games to make for NaGaDeMon. I might very well try to make something else instead. But here is my initial plan for what to work on: an urban weird fantasy game about democracy, urban politics and the ability to rewrite the laws of physics by majority rule.…

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  • [Not Exactly Gaming] How do you preserve our culture in the face of an apocalypse?

    My father-in-law asked me as a thought experiment what technologies I’d use to preserve civilization in the face of an apocalypse or societal collapse. This is the answer I gave him, which may have gotten out of hand. If nothing else, it was entertaining to me to write and gave me a few cool seeds…

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  • [House of Masks] Version 0.3 playtest

    House of Masks playtest Last night, we played House of Masks for the first time in two or three years. Six players, total play time about two hours to tell a complete, interesting fantasy story. Everybody seemed to have fun, I think, and the fundamentals of the game design mostly seemed to work. (The following…

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  • Dictator LARP

    This was a game I wrote and ran in 2007, about a dictatorship and a deceased dictator. Larp report over here. Introduction Introduction Anselm Bertholf Biali cecyl Clement Eustace Eva Gudrun Jurgen Renata Sabine stanislaw stasio Thought Infected

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  • Shakespeare 2985

    SHAKESPEARE 2985 is a game I wrote for Graham Walmsley’s Alternative Game Chef. It’s a science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners. Yeah, I guess it’s a bit odd.

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  • Wide Stance

    Wide Stance A game I wrote in five minutes as part of a challenge. I kind of like it, though I’ve yet to actually play it.

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  • Fortune Cookies and Nuclear War

    A nano rpg designed to be played in a Chinese restaurant.

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  • Bloody Forks LARP

    A LARP detailing how George Washington started the French and Indian War.

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  • Executive Decision

    A game by Greg Stolze, I made some modifications when I went to run the game myself. Like giving everyone more info on their job and additional agendas to pursue. The President of the United States Secretary of the Treasury Attorney General Director of National Intelligence White House Press Secretary Secretary of Defense Secretary of…

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