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  • [Monthly Monster] It’s Hard to be a Flumph

    It’s Hard to Be a Flumph is a little hand-drawn game I made about how difficult it is to be a flying psychic jellyfish thing. For decades, they have been treated as pitiful jokes, but these noble creatures only want to fight for justice and law. But no one in town will take them seriously,…

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  • [Monthly Monster] A Day at the Beach

    For September’s monster game, I made A Day at the Beach, a fairly silly game where players collectively control an algoid, a collection of sentient moss formed into a roughly human shape. You’re trying to hide your swamp plant nature, so you’re taken on a human disguise. And to maintain your disguise, you’ve found yourself…

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  • [Monthly Monster] Dungeon Roommates

    For this year’s 200 Word RPG Challenge and for this month’s monster themed game, I made this game about monsters trying to live together.

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  • [Monthly Monster] The Bullywug Princess

    I’m continuing my effort to make a little game about a weird D&D monster each month of 2018. The Bullywug Princess is a little game I made. It combines loathsome frogpeople, reality TV satire, hidden role mechanics and fairy tale parody in one game. And it mostly works!

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  • [Monthly Monster] February – The Mind of God

    Continuing my effort to make a game about a weird D&D monster for every month of 2018, The Mind of God is a silly game I made about playing hollyphants, winged elephant messengers from god, dealing with an increasingly forgetful and confused god’s commands.

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  • [200 Word RPG] Squamous

    Written for the 2017 200 Word RPG Challenge. Squamous You are each eldritch abominations, taking human form for nefarious purposes. Your human vessels areā€¦ weak. Disgusting. Meat. Always sweating, defecating, desiring. How do humans tolerate this? Each abomination has a secret eldritch Goal. Write down a noun and a verb. Give the noun to your…

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  • The Imposters anthology

    My microgame LOVEINT has been expanded and revised to be included in The Imposters anthology, currently on Kickstarer. If you like any of my games, or any weird little games about conspiracies and paranoia, then you should consider backing it.

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  • [Actual Play] Science Comics

    There’s a play-by-forum game of Science Comics, my Fiasco playset, over on RPGgeek.com.

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  • [Actual Play] Keeping on the Borderlands

    There are several play by forum games of my Fiasco playset, Keeping on the Borderlands, though I don’t think any actually finished playing. Play by forum is a slow process, prone to failure.

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  • Silent Film Larp

    For my wife’s birthday this year, I created a silent film larp, where the players are part of a failing movie company during the silent film era. And in the process of playing, you actually create your own silent movie, the “original” lost version of a more recent, more popular movie we’re all familiar with.…

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