I've finished up my entry for the Late-Stage Capitalism Jam over on itch My Gods Are Algorithms, And They Are Hungry - A GM-less, competitive, storytelling game about influencers in a post-human world. It's set in a future where the world is ruled by mysterious, inscrutable AI gods. The players are Influencers, people who try … Continue reading My Gods Are Algorithms, And They Are Hungry
Last year I joined a itch game jam called the Pleasure-Not-Business Card Game Jam, where participants created a RPG game or supplement that would fit on a business card. For my entry I created a little sci-fi game called Planck. It's essentially a Cepheus Engine\Quantum Engine system stripped down to its bare essentials. It's designed … Continue reading Character sheet for Planck, a business card RPG
Last year I released Buffalo Commons, my hack of 2600 about park rangers flying airships over a near-future Great Plains, slowly being returned to its wild prairie state. I've just added a quick update to the project. A few typos have been fixed, and I've added a fillable character sheet and airship sheet. Buffalo Commons … Continue reading Quick update to Buffalo Commons
Over on itch.io, there's this game jam that just concluded. It's called the MÖRK BORG Album Crawl: Jam Session 2: ALBUM CRAWL ROCKS THE 80s. The idea behind this jam is that the designers would create something for the indie OSR RPG Mörk Borg that was based on a musical album from the 1980s. The … Continue reading Mörk Borg, Cyndi Lauper, and the music of the 1980s
There's a game jam that's going to end in less than a day over on itch. It's called Applied Hope: the Solarpunk & Utopias Jam. It's about creating RPG materials set in hopeful or utopian futures. I've made my entry - Buffalo Commons. It's about park rangers flying zeppelins in the skies of the Great … Continue reading Buffalo Commons: Park Rangers in Zeppelins
I recently posted a submission for the 2021 On-Page Game Jam over on itch.io. The theme of this jam was to make a one page RPG about the concept of borders. I ended up making a game called Fiction is What We Flee. The basic concept is that players can travel into fictional worlds and … Continue reading Design Notes for a one-page RPG: Fiction is What We Flee
There's about a day left in the OSE Class Jam over on itch. It's a 72-hour game jam where everyone creates a new class for Old School Essentials. The theme is Seaside Adventures I've created an aquatic, squid-headed race-as-class called the Squidfolk. They shoot ink clouds. https://ng76.itch.io/squidfolk
I'm continuing my work on an entry for the TroikaFest! 2021 Game Jam over on itch.io. I've already posted a few PC Backgrounds for my Barsoom: 1960 setting. I'm now posting a few of the Enemies. Enemies for Barsoom: 1960 Plant-Men Kept by Issus Cultists in hidden greenhouses, these hulking plant humanoids are used as … Continue reading WIP: Troika! Enemies for Barsoom: 1960
I've been working on an entry for the TroikaFest! 2021 Game Jam over on itch.io. I've decided to expand on Bad Barsoom, a micro-setting I created for a previous Troika! game jam. It's set on the Mars or (Barsoom) of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I've decided that during the mid-twentieth century, long past the time of … Continue reading WIP: Barsoom 1960 – Cold War on a Red Planet for Troika!
So there's a game jam over on itch called The End is Near: It's the Mörk Borg 24 Hour Misery Jam. The entrants were given a prompt, specifically one of the many prophecies from the Mörk Borg rule book. The designers are given 24 hours to create an adventure or supplement based on the selected … Continue reading Cultus Incendium – an apocalyptic cult for Mörk Borg
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