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  • [Actual Play] Devil John on KSUA

    Critical Hits is a roleplaying podcast and/or radio show on KSUA (which seems to be college radio in Fairbanks, Alaska). In March, they played The Devil, John Moulton (q.v.) and I enjoyed listening to it.

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  • [Monthly Monster] Grell Alchemy

    Grell Alchemy is my game for the month of April, where you play hideous tentacled monsters attempting to use alchemy to understand the world you find yourselves in.

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  • [Actual Play] The Devil, John Moulton, again

    The Liberation Industries podcast is doing a second playthrough of The Devil, John Moulton. So far there are two parts posted: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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  • [Actual Play] So Now You’re a Time Traveler

    The Party of One podcast played So No You’re a Time Traveler, my two page time travel game.

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  • [Actual Play] Tricks and Treats

    The Weekly Affirmations YouTube channel played Tricks and Treats (my Halloween Lasers and Feelings hack) and it was weird and funny like a comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.

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  • [Actual Plays] The Devil John Moulton

    I decided that I should keep track of places where my games have been discussed or played online. So here are some places where I have seen my game, The Devil, John Moulton, played or talked about in some way: Actual Play Liberation Industries has a 4 part series of play in podcast form: Part…

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  • Tricks and Treats!

    Tricks and Treats is a simple little hack I made of John Harper’s Lasers and Feelings. You play Halloween-ish creatures that are horrifying but also somehow cute and/or loveable. The one night a year you can interact with others without problem is on Halloween night. But something is threatening to ruin your one pleasing day…

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  • The chronicle of the downfall of the evil emperor Terenghast at the hands of his many wives, as related in an obscure 12th century Alsatian herbalism text recently translated into English for the first time

    The chronicle of the downfall of the evil emperor Terenghast at the hands of his many wives, as related in an obscure 12th century Alsatian herbalism text recently translated into English for the first time (A game for the 2016 200 Word RPG challenge.) Emperor Terenghast conquers many kingdoms, forcing noblewomen to marry him against…

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  • Al Amarja Today!

    I wanted to GM a short campaign of Over the Edge, the classic rpg of surreal conspiracies. The biggest problem with the game, I figured, was that there was no clear core activity for the PCs to pursue as a group. So I decided to frame the game with the PCs as journalists, working for…

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  • Mesopotamians revision

    I revised Mesopotamians slightly, so that it is now a complete rpg on 16 cards (printed double sided) or 32 cards (single sided). You know, the game I wrote about ancient undead warlords seeking fame and fortune as an indie band, based on a song by They Might Be Giants and the Indie Mixtape anthology.

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