tarot

  • Sealing the Fate

    Sealing the Fate is a hack I made of Stealing the Throne by Nick Bate. I made the hack for the Stealing the Jam game jam. In it, the high stakes science fiction mecha heist of Stealing the Throne is reimagined as a secret occult ritual to manipulate the fate of the Chosen One, then…

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  • Wish You Were Here

    Wish You Were Here is an episotolary RPG for two players that I wrote, about mourning the dead, Tarot card interpretation and set collection.

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  • [Monthly Monster] Saurials of the Two Worlds

    This was originally supposed to be June’s monthly monster game, but it got away from me. Anyway, Saurials of the Two Worlds is a game about anthropomorphic dinosaur people trying to build a new life in an unfamiliar land. It turned out to be more effective in play than I had expected. The inter-relationship between…

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  • [Monthly Monster] The Unbroken Circle

    The Unbroken Circle is a game I wrote about githzerai journeying across the endless planes seeking a new home for their people.

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  • Nameless Horror version 0.2

    I made an update to my old nameless horror game. In the process, I expanded the rules several times over. But it plays much better now! Nameless Horror 0.2 core rules Nameless Horror Scenarios Yes / No cards and Questioner card I haven’t substantially changed the oracle deck, so that’s still cool to use.

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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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  • Baba Yaga’s Dancing Hut

    Baba Yaga’s Dancing Hut is a little game I wrote about Russian fairy tales as a quick game design refresher. This version of the game is still pretty rough, but it playtested pretty well. (as always, there is a lot I’d like to tweak about the game.) I’m still using a modified Deck of Many…

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  • [Serpent’s Nest] Consulting the Oracles

    Much of the game is built out of iterating a specific set of actions: One player draws a card from a deck of Tarot cards and asks a question. That player picks two players to offer interpretations of the card and how it applies to the current situation. Then the asking player picks one interpretation…

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  • Nameless Horror

    This is an outdated version of the game. It’s fun to play, but you will probably get better results playing this updated version, with like actual rules for danger and death. Maybe at some point in the future this game will get a title. Until then, it’s just a simple little GMless horror game. The…

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  • The Alchemists of Pwang

    Background The alchemists of Pwang commit soul staining sins in an effort to cleanse their souls. Unfortunately, no one in Pwang can be sure what the gods approve of and what they do not, at least while they live. Miracles Take a tarot deck, separate the minor arcana from the major arcana. Shuffle both decks.…

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