playing the villain
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Super Repo
Super Repo is a game I wrote very quickly so that we’d have something to play on Friday. It’s a comedic superhero game, wherein you play people with superpowers who chose to work a mundane job rather than fight crime. The PCs are all repo workers, taking back freeze rays and giant battle robots from…
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Baba Yaga’s Dancing Hut
Baba Yaga’s Dancing Hut is a little game I wrote about Russian fairy tales as a quick game design refresher. This version of the game is still pretty rough, but it playtested pretty well. (as always, there is a lot I’d like to tweak about the game.) I’m still using a modified Deck of Many…
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[Fiasco] Solarman
Have you seen the Asshole Project? It a charity effort to raise money for Amnesty International. They’ll do this by writing up a big book of asshole NPCs for use in Fiasco (or other games), dubbed appropriately enough, The Fiasco Big Book of Assholes. Like a monster manual for your standard RPG, but full of…
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[D&D 4e] Gelatinous Owlbear
Gelatinous Owlbear Level 8 Elite brute Large Aberrant beast XP 700 HP 212 Bloodied 106 AC 20 Fort 23 Reflex 21 Will 18 Speed 5 (cannot shift) Saving throws +2 Action points: 1 Traits: Made of Goo Whenever an adjacent enemy attacks and hits the Gelatinous Owlbear, they take 5 acid damage. Ooze While squeezing,…
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Dictator LARP
This was a game I wrote and ran in 2007, about a dictatorship and a deceased dictator. Larp report over here. Introduction Introduction Anselm Bertholf Biali cecyl Clement Eustace Eva Gudrun Jurgen Renata Sabine stanislaw stasio Thought Infected
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Blackrazor
A few years ago, I ran my wife’s D&D character through the classic module White Plume Mountain. During the game, she recovered the infamous artifact Blackrazor, which came to factor heavily into the campaign. This was in 3.5, but when Wizards of the Coast had a contest updating Blackrazor to 4e, I wrote this up.…
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Shakespeare 2985
SHAKESPEARE 2985 is a game I wrote for Graham Walmsley’s Alternative Game Chef. It’s a science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners. Yeah, I guess it’s a bit odd.
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Wide Stance
Wide Stance A game I wrote in five minutes as part of a challenge. I kind of like it, though I’ve yet to actually play it.