Teapot Dome Games

my games

  • [Monthly Monster] A Day at the Beach

    For September’s monster game, I made A Day at the Beach, a fairly silly game where players collectively control an algoid, a collection of sentient moss formed into a roughly human shape. You’re trying to hide your swamp plant nature, so you’re taken on a human disguise. And to maintain your disguise, you’ve found yourself…

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  • [Monthly Monster] Dungeon Roommates

    For this year’s 200 Word RPG Challenge and for this month’s monster themed game, I made this game about monsters trying to live together.

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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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  • [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] February – The Mind of God

    Continuing my effort to make a game about a weird D&D monster for every month of 2018, The Mind of God is a silly game I made about playing hollyphants, winged elephant messengers from god, dealing with an increasingly forgetful and confused god’s commands.

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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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  • 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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  • The Imposters anthology

    My microgame LOVEINT has been expanded and revised to be included in The Imposters anthology, currently on Kickstarer. If you like any of my games, or any weird little games about conspiracies and paranoia, then you should consider backing it.

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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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