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Games by Jason Ermer
My work is about celebrating the joy of exploration and discovery. I delight in crafting interactive problem-solving experiences to challenge, entertain, and delight an audience. These themes run through both my professional life as an educator, and my recreational life as a facilitator and designer of storytelling games.
Gold Dragon
Chronicle of the Calcified Customers
Eyes of the Slime Lord
Courting Alliances
Invaders From Planet X
Tintinnabulism
Chronicle of the Homesick Hammer
Enter the Octagon
Chronicle of the Ghastly Gangsters
Chronicles of the Everflame Collective
Cube of Doom
Chronicle of the Floating Fortress
Dinopark
Chronicle of the Problematic Pastries
Chronicle of the Runaway Ruminant
Sharing Adventures
Chronicle of the Lost Loot
Phytotoxin
Sharkbite's Sunken Stash
Outlaws of Crooked Gulch
Robot Reboot
Curse of Count Vincula
Chronicle of the Withering Woodlands
Chronicle of the Broken Beacon
If you like Rovers & Riches check out...
Grave   - A soulslike RPG hacked from Knave
Birds Love Dirt!   - Be a bird, play in the dirt, have fun
HEXROLL   - Randomly generated sandbox for old-school roleplaying games
A Response to the Esteemed Dr. Crackpot   - A game of academic squabbles for two or more players
THE MARTIAL CULT of BLOOD KNIGHT GAIUS   - a gothic horror/martial arts OSR adventure
Beyond The Borderlands #2   - A series of dungeons and monsters for tabletop adventures!
The Witch's Almanac   - A magical game of solo exploration.
Rakehell - Issue One: The Rift of Mar-Milloir   - a KNAVE zine
The Third Sector   - A Mothership Sandbox Campaign
The Suntouched Tomb   - A tomb bound by nostalgia and indulgence
Fever Swamp   - A swamp-crawl sandbox adventure for D&D
Traveler's Trunk: Magical Emporium   - 30 New Magical items for fantasy RPGs
If you like Again We Rise check out...
SW//NG   - A game about Power, Responsibility, and the Past you can't avoid
What's This, Where's This?   - A Caltrop Core RPG About Exploration
The Dreaded and the Deep   - A nautical terror Caltrop Core game.
Wasters   - A post apocalyptic OSR inspired Caltrop Core game of survival, scavenging and exploration.
Escape to Willowbrook Woods   - A mini adventure made using Caltrop Core, and inspired by cartoons such as 'The Animals of Farthing Wood'!
In an Instant   - At the end of everything, what's worth remembering?
ASPHALT AQUARIUM   - The Unofficial Street Sharks TTRPG
RETRO: Save the Night   - A 4 Page Caltrop Core Synthwave Adventure
Crystal Souls: A Caltrop Core Game   - Science fantasy action adventure powered by Caltrop Core
Toys and Terrors   - A TTRPG where you are a toy charged with going to the Nightmare Realm to bring back your Child's Joy.
Where the Sky's as Red as Honey   - The Queen is dead; what's next?
The Creature   - A Solo TTRPG about rebuilding yourself
If you like Strangers in the Night check out...
Armour Astir: Encore   - Eight additional playbooks for Armour Astir: Advent.
Amor Astir   - A romance toolkit for Armour Astir: Advent.
Patchwork World Sixth Edition   - Weird fantasy PbtA with no playbooks & no stats
Your Care Is...: A Wanderhome Supplement   - A collection of playbooks for Wanderhome
The Selkie Envoy: An Ironsworn Adventure   - An Ironsworn adventure of ice and peril
Reivdene-Upon-The-Moss   - An advent calendar adventure setting
The Mole: An Armour Astir Advent Playbook   - A Support playbook for Armour Astir: Advent. Embed yourself in the enemy, make friends, betray everyone.
The Reaper - Armour Astir: Advent Playbook   - Deliver justice for the dead in Armour Astir: Advent.
Rearguard   - Five revolutionary playbooks for Beam Saber
Armour Astir: Advent   - Revolutionary mechs and magic, powered by the apocalypse.
Tiny Library   - A deck of 50 single-card RPGs from dozens of different creators
To keep ghosts alive   - A solo journaling roleplaying ritual about the subjects of our love and how the memory of them will fade in time.