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Games by Ian Mauldin
If you are interested in hiring me for any of these things, I'd love to talk with you about your project. Tabletop games are the perfect medium to learn more about yourself through pretending to be someone else. I have a great love for collaborative storytelling, and my aim is to design games that encourage folks to step just outside of their comfort zones and play in new ways.
Light Side
Confluence
Bid Around the Bush
Veteran Improvements (Monster of the Week)
If you like Supers: EMERGE check out...
SW//NG   - A game about Power, Responsibility, and the Past you can't avoid
onomancy   - a system-agnostic modular ruleset for campaign games
Aurora   - A Modular TTRPG of Oracles & Overcoming
Cairn Adventurer's Guide   - Modular Rules & Procedures for Cairn RPG.
The Coolest Combat System - A MOSAIC Strict System   - A modular polyhedral dice set based combat system for TTRPG designers.
EMPOWER   - A system-agnostic module to support a more creative use of superpowers.
Dear Great Cthulhu, PLEASE Stop Giving Me Superpowers!   - A tabletop roleplaying game about superpowers, cosmic horror, and the importance of community.
DOMINOES   - Modular Roleplaying in the Bronze Age of Comics
Total//Effect SRD   - A modular, versatile ruleset.
FRAME   - Gamers are the worst.
5 Second Rule   - What would you do with a superpower that's limited by 5 seconds?
EMERGE8 SRD   - For TTRPGs you design as you play.
If you like Beyond Super: Life Behind The Mask check out...
Dragonhearts   - A GMless TTRPG about the clash of over-sized personalities between shapeshifters who can assume human or dragon form
Live. Love. Die. Remember.   - An RPG of memories and mecha love
Anyone Can Wear the Mask (Ultimate Edition)   - A game about a superhero, a supervillain, and the city they share.
T-DEF   - A GMless mini-zine game where you pit your troopers against alien invaders!
A Weekend in the Country   - A murder mystery for one or more players
Sentinel   - A solo journaling game about a place of great power and its lone guardian.
RPG Snacks #1: RAYCATS!™   - A micro-RPG about TOTALLY RAD nuclear-mutant cats!
Longshot City   - The Superhero RPG
Welcome To Waypoint   - A Superhero Solo RPG
Black Skies For Babylon   - The worlds greatest combat tragedy RPG
going rogue 2e   - a gm-less ttrpg inspired by rogue one, about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice
zoetrope   - a superhero universe creation game
If you like Le cartomance check out...
Branching Streams   - A supplement of additional game seeds and hacks for An Altogether Different River
Journey through Goblinland   - Prophesied heroes must cross Goblinland to end the war… Too bad for them! You’re goblins! Stop them!
What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting   - Stalking Those Who Stalk The Night
Rivals   - A two player game  about competitive story telling
odyssey   - a one-page rpg where everyone plays one person on a long and challenging journey home.
Un long voyage   - Un storygame à propos de liens et de liberté
Chroniques Oubliées Cape et d'épée (CO-K)   - Une adaptation du système Chroniques Oubliées pour jouer des aventures Cape et d'Epée
Your Distant Voice   - Un jeu de rôle sentimental en solitaire, basé sur le système Follow the Lead.
Triptych: Art Horror TTRPG   - a storygame of a painting and its macabre secret
Qidan : le Tigre et le Dragon (v2)   - Un jeu de rôle de sabres et d'aventures, tiré de Lasers&Feelings
Sonja et Conan contre les Ninjas   - Un jeu de rôle pour créer des histoire épiques dans l'esprit des pulps et série Z
ERRANCE   - a one-page game (zine?) about forced departure, roaming and hopes