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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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  • [Actual Play] Death Takes a Holiday

    At the Bearded Quail blog, they discussed their experiences playing the (original version of) Death Takes a Holiday.

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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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  • 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…

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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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  • Interstellar Diplomacy

    Interstellar Diplomacy is a freeform-ish game I wrote as an entrant into the Golden Cobra Challenge. You play alien diplomats, meeting on earth to decide whether or not war will destroy the galaxy.

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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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  • [Game Chef] Afterlife, Incorporated final draft

    I think that my Game Chef entry is about as done as it is going to get. So here is Afterlife, Incorporated.

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  • [Game Chef] Afterlife, Incorporated

    It’s Game Chef time again! You know, where people from around the globe take a limited amount of time and a list of ingredients to make the best rough draft of a game that they can. This year, I didn’t expect to make a game. I was more excited by other projects. But then yesterday…

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