My Games
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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 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] 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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Sophie’s Pokemon Game!
This is a card based Pokemon RPG I made for my daughter’s birthday several years ago. At the time, I never got around to writing the actual rules down. Recently my kids remembered this game’s existence and became really excited by it, which was enough to convince me to rite up some extremely sketchy rules…
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Mystery Town
Mystery Town is a simple little freeform game I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday, inspired by Gravity Falls, Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion and other funny, weird, mysterious fiction that she and I enjoy together. (Mechanically, it’s a straightforward hack of A Town With Pep! by Epistolary Richard, which is itself derived from Swords without…
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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…