extraterrestrial exploration
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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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[Actual Play] Longshot
The Liberation Industries podcast did a series of Actual Play recordings of Longshot, my 2010 Game Chef entry. The game seems to still hold up pretty well, and I enjoyed hearing how their game went. You can hear the recordings here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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A Shadow Among Shadows
Here’s a game I made over the summer, inspired by but not entered into Game Chef, but I never got around to posting it here. It’s a mashup or Archipelago and some boardgame mechanics, where you explore an abandoned space ship. A Shadow Among Shadows
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Medical Bay Three
“Four years of pre-med, four years of medical school, one year of residency, years of professional experience back on Earth and all the memory downloads about extraterrestrial culture have all taught you this: you don’t know anything about what you’re doing. Not here, anyway. On the Sphere, everything is weird and different. The Sphere is…
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[Doodles and Dragons] Vast and Starlit
Epidiah Ravachol is selling a microgame via self-addressed stamped envelope. To buy it, you mail him a dollar and a picture that you drew. These are the pictures that I drew. Sometime in the next few days I’ll mail them to him.
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[D&D] Tao Zi, Githzerai Avenger
Tao Zi is my current D&D 4e PC, a Githzerai Avenger who has been exiled to the mortal world for mysterious reasons.