tragedy
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Under the Snowflakes and Stars
For the Dice Exploder podcast’s Game Exploder game jam, I created a mashup game, combining the achingly beautiful setting from the indie game classic Polaris with the rules from the much more recent cult hit Under the Autumn Strangely. Combining the two gives us Under the Snowflakes and Stars.
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Rusałka is now Pay-What-You-Want
Rusałka is the best game I’ve ever made. It’s been out for a year now. To mark that anniversary, I’m making the game Pay-What-You-Want. If you’d be interested in a cool GMless game about sad, dark fairy tales and drowned women, you should check it out. You can dowload it above for free, or get…
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The Lonely Giant in In*Die RPG Zine
My solo journal writing game about a melancholy giant is available in the In*Die Zine of RPGs, now available on Itch or DrivethruRPG. https://indie-zine.itch.io/indie-zine-september-2020 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/328505/indie-zine–September-2020
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Falling Forever Into Oblivion
You were a pair of interstellar explorers. You traveled the galaxy together, and you cared about each other deeply. While studying a black hole, you separated in two small scout vessels to examine the black hole’s accretion disk. Somehow, one of the ships was knocked out of its controlled orbit. The ship, and the explorer…
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[200 Word RPG] Gambling on the River Styx
Written for the 2017 200 Word RPG challenge. This started as an offhand joke, but became a real game. Gambling on the River Styx To cross the river Styx, you owe Charon two pennies. Penniless ghosts play mahjong on the riverbank to win passage. Place a skeleton nearby. That’s Charon, waiting for you. Place six…
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Star Level 10!
Star Level 10 is a simple little freeform larp I wrote in collaboration with my daughter Madeline. It was initially created for the 2016 Golden Cobra Challenge. It’s a heartwarming tale about being dead, and about the pain of stepping on a d4.
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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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Ghost Lines Dark
An afternoon of hacking gave me Ghost Lines Dark, largely because Messers Harper and Walmsley had already done all the hard work.