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Games by John Ayliff
I'm a freelance games writer/narrative designer and solo indie dev creating text-based games and interactive fiction using Twine.
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Lay On Hands   - A solo, dexterity TTRPG about being a weird healer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
Lay On Hands SRD   - A System Reference Document for Lay On Hands
6e   - This is what it looks like.
LUMEN   - Build action packed, illuminated RPGs
Gubat Banwa First Edition   - The Martial Epic Fantasy RPG
EGO   - A game about learning to love yourself
Thousand Empty Light   - A solo Mothership adventure set in an underwater tunnel
As the Sun Forever Sets - Alpha   - Victorian Terror, Betrayal & Martians
Curse of the Emerald Sea   - A sandbox swashbuckling setting for Knave
Spindlewheel   - a tarot-like storytelling game.
OSSUARY   - OSR bastardised as a minimal, play-by-post-friendly system
Together We Go Design Kit   - Third Party License Design Kit & SRD for Down We Go
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Abenteuerspiel!   - Freeform Adventure Game
Tiny Stories   - A Stress-Free, Freeform Storymaking Game
Branching Streams   - A supplement of additional game seeds and hacks for An Altogether Different River
What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting   - Stalking Those Who Stalk The Night
Arch Angel Dating Simulator   - tell the story of how you kiss kiss and fall in love <3
Transmission for Them   - a solo journaling game about lovers lost in space
The Slow Knife   - A game of wretched villains & patient revenge.
The 1914-15 Research Survey of the Los Angeles River Basin Triptych   - Three freeforms played in less than an hour.
Mercury Mirror   - A game about learning the language of things
Shelter   - A two player game about intimacy and fear, in the ruins of a dead world
Tower & Town   - A solo RPG about doing magical research and trying not to get run out of town
Something Is Wrong With This House   - a nightmare tug of war
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Definitely Wizards   - A TTRPG about not being a wizard
This Game Takes Place in Your Home Town   - A horror rpg for two players
Deadly Revelation   - A Murder Mystery Tabletop RPG
GUN COWBOY   - A journaling game of dead outlaws.
You Awaken in a Strange Place   - A Zero-Prep, One-Shot TTRPG for 4 Players
There's A Wolf In Those Woods   - A murder mystery experience for 5-6 players
Murder!   - A Wretched & Alone mystery RPG!
Hints and Hijinx   - The solo mystery game system
Paranormal Inc.   - A gm-less mystery game of paranormal investigation!
A Game Where Death Automatically Loses   - In case of emergency, break glass.
LESBIANS BUILT THIS FARM   - & they keep building it
Sangam: Academy of Poets   - a system neutral one shot