Teapot Dome Games

not entirely successful

  • [200 Word RPG] Squamous

    Written for the 2017 200 Word RPG Challenge. Squamous You are each eldritch abominations, taking human form for nefarious purposes. Your human vessels are… weak. Disgusting. Meat. Always sweating, defecating, desiring. How do humans tolerate this? Each abomination has a secret eldritch Goal. Write down a noun and a verb. Give the noun to your…

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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] Keeping on the Borderlands

    There are several play by forum games of my Fiasco playset, Keeping on the Borderlands, though I don’t think any actually finished playing. Play by forum is a slow process, prone to failure.

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  • [Actual Play] Deathtrap Dungeon

    Some folks on Facebook tried (and eventually failed) to complete my Parsely game, Deathtrap Dungeon

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  • [Actual Play] Bad Habits

    On the Gosh Darn Fiasco podcast, they played Bad Habits, my Fiasco playset based in a convent.

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  • [Actual Play] Death Takes a Holiday

    At the Bearded Quail blog, they discussed their experiences playing the (original version of) Death Takes a Holiday.

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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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  • [13th Age] A couple monsters

    Here are a few monsters I made for my 13th Age campaign, which may or may not be of use to other people out there. The PCs had recruited a group of dwarven sailors to fight a necromancer dragon, so I needed some monsters for that fight. Probably I made all of these overly complicated.…

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  • Unsupervised Apprentices

    Unsupervised Apprentices is a simple little game I made where you play sorcerous apprentices who can’t quite control your magic. When your wizardly mentor disappears, you probably should find him or her. Or you could just goof off and do all those things you couldn’t get away with while the archmage was around. Either way,…

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  • Mesopotamians

    Mesopotamians is a game I wrote, inspired by the sone The Mesopotamians by They Might Be Giants. It’s part of a charity project by Jonathan Walton to make a bunch of one or two page games inspired by songs and sell those to raise money for charity. It’s a fun game that was fun to…

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