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  • Ocean cheat sheet and cards

    Ocean is a roleplaying game by Jake Richmond, about amnesiacs trying to escape monsters in an abandoned underwater research facility. I made up ocean in a nutshell and some cards to make the game easier to play.

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  • [House of Masks] New playtest version

    House of Masks 0.3 is the latest revision of my (award winning) 2008 Game Chef game. The idea with this one is that it is a series of cards to be read out loud as you play to explain the entire game. (The last few pages are the backs of the first few pages, and…

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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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  • Death Takes a Holiday

    UPDATE: I made a major revision to the game, which replaces the core system with something else. You may want to check out that version in addition to/instead of this one. Raw text hosted here, for your convenience. The pretty version is over here because I can’t get it to upload to WordPress.

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  • Cardenio, again

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  • Department Nine

    A revision of my mythical time travel comedy game from Game Chef 2007.

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  • House of Masks

    House of Masks is a roleplaying game I wrote for the 2008 Game Chef roleplaying game design competition. It won the “Best Game” award. But I wouldn’t suggest playing this version. This is the original version of the game., which reads really nicely, but the playtest was not terribly successful. You should check out the…

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