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Games by Joe Young
Joe Young is an award-winning analog games designer from Cincinnati, Ohio. By supporting Joe Young on itch, you support him going out into the world, writing games about things he finds interesting. His design experience includes contributing to and publishing the Black Folder, a limited run small games digest distributed at GenCon 2018, collaborating on “The Words and Deeds of the Chain of Tlachic”, a system-agnostic campaign frame Kickstarted during the first Zinequest, and contributing to various  projects, including "Paper Arcade Volume 1", "Skirmish", and the upcoming "The Exquisite Corpse in Maggots' Keep".
Wreck Diver Basic Training
Fiefdom Workshop: Year One Pass
Homeward Dark
SKIRMISH: The War Rages On
SLAIN
Fiefdom Workshop: Lake Rikata
Lost Halves
RED TRAILS by Joe Young
Salazar Road
If you like Character Archetypes check out...
DORF   - a DURF adventure
ZURF   - Hex crawl for DURF
KLAS   - Weird Archetypes for DURF
Patchwork World Sixth Edition   - Weird fantasy PbtA with no playbooks & no stats
STAR DURF   - A Space Adventure Toolkit for DURF
Session Zero   - A deck based character creation game.
Rogueland   - A 36 page rules-light, tabletop rpg, with player-facing, roll-high, d20 mechanics. Compatible with other OSR games.
SERF   - A Hireling Supplement for DURF
A Visit To San Sibilia   - A solo journaling game about visiting an ever changing city
APOCALYPSE FRAME   - An Illuminated Mecha RPG.
1-6 Oozes in the Dark   - A print-and-play micro-module for 5e
Shepherds   - A JRPG-inspired tabletop RPG about doing the right thing
If you like to the moon and back check out...
Princess with a Cursed Sword   - A solo journaling game
Roommates: I'm Just Not Sure   - A Solo Journaling Game
The Lovers   - a romantic tarot game for two
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
Knowing You   - A Two Player Prompt Based RPG exploring a romantic relationship broken beyond repair.
Reverie   - a supplement for firebrands
Looking after an orbiting rock   - a solo journaling game
The One   - A solo tabletop RPG about relationships in a weird fantasy city.
At The Ace Hotel   - A journaling game of self-discovery for one writer.
Home Cooking   - A game of love, care, and food
A Tale Before You Go   - A solo journaling game
If you like Dark and Lonely Stars check out...
Transmission for Them   - a solo journaling game about lovers lost in space
Outward Bound   - A game of space exploration, inter-species cooperation and weird anomalies, based on the Four Points RPG System.
Trash Planet (1e)   - Have you ever wanted to know what would come of all the junk? Play this to find out!
TERMINATION SHOCK   - A tabletop RPG of exhilarating confusion in a poorly-signposted future.
First Dig 2 Graves   - The storytelling game of deadly rivalry for two players.
Mothership: A Pound of Flesh   - ...Sooner or later...Everyone pays... A space station toolkit for the Mothership RPG.
Chess: Two Kingdoms   - A chess based storytelling game for 2 players.
Lasers & Feelings   - One page, one-shot, easily hackable rpg
Harder They Fall   - Earth-shaking battles for the fate of the world, played with dominoes
Starcana   - Cosmic Fantasy Roleplay
Planetary Loop   - Travel the system as everything ends. Then start again.
English Eerie Second Edition   - Rural horror storytelling for 1-4 players