other people’s games

  • Scrabblenauts

    Scrabblenauts is a game that appeared, fully formed, in my mind the first time I played Scribblenauts two years ago. Now, as part of Jonathan Walton’s Stage One game design event, I actually had a reason to write it out.

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  • Return to Maniac Mansion

    Return to Maniac Mansion is a game I made for Johnathan Walton’s Stage One. It’s a fictional internal memo among some unnamed Lucasarts employees, and also a playable roleplaying game.

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  • [D&D 4e] Amaranthus Hawkweed, Pixie Ranger

    It’s not his fault that the raid on Cripple’s Gate went wrong, but he’s fighting as best as he can to get back to the Feywild and get his rookie subordinate fixed up. Amaranthus has been doing this sort of thing for too long, and he’s getting too old for this shit. Amaranthus Hawkweed is

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  • [InSpectres/Inspace AP] “In Theory”

    We have been talking about playing InSpace (the scifi variant for InSpectres) for a while now. We made characters over a month ago, but work schedules and real life hassles have been getting in the way, preventing the actual play. finally, though, the stars aligned last night and everyone was available, so the Second Chance

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  • [D&D 4e] Lutums

    Another monster from the 2nd edition Monstrous Compendium – Spelljammer Appendix, updated to 4e. No added backstory this time. Lutum mudshadow Level 9 lurker Medium elemental animate (ooze, shapechanger, earth) 400 xp Initiative +14 Perception +7 HP 75 Bloodied 37 AC 20 Fort 20 Ref 22 Will 22 Immune petrification, resist 10 poison Move 7

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  • Manna Hotel LARP PCs

    Characters from the Manna Hotel LARP.

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  • [Playtest report] The Big Fiasco at the Manna Hotel LARP

    I made a LARP using Fiasco playsets. It worked pretty well, but not perfectly.

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  • [InSpectres] The Second Chance

    Soon hopefully, we’ll be playing Inspectres , specifically the InSpace mod that makes the game into a space opera science fiction mystery game. Anyway, check out the character sheet I made for the ship the PCs will be on: The Second Chance

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  • Twisted Space

    A D&D encounter about actually using non-Euclidean geometry at the gaming table.

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  • Bad Habits

    Bad Habits A Fiasco playset I made, wherein kindly old nuns viciously gossip and backstab each other.

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