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My misadventures in game design and making. Who am I? Programmer, Christian. Recovered lawyer. Musician. Games Scholar. Programmer. Nerd. Terrible, but enthusiastic Golfer. I make train games, and roguelikes. My train games are mostly print and play board games. I've recently loved Chicago Express and 18xx games, and that's influenced a bunch of my game design. My roguelikes feature exploring particular ideas - often for the 7drl game jam. For a video game soundtrack - drop me a line! I would desperately love to write an Ennio Morricone style soundtrack for a Sergeo Leone inspired western game.
18Dracula
Uncle Lachlan's 18 Christmas Eve
The Emu Bay Railway Company
If you like Gauge (WIP) check out...
Phanta   - A rules-lite 2-6 player RPG about surviving after the destruction of earth
Red Snow - the first encounter   - Solo, survival horror,  writing game
BORP Survival Guide:   - How to survive Undead, Aliens, Monsters and Myths. End of the world survival.
What Lies Within   - A Survival Horror Table Top Role Playing Game
FURIOUS ROADS - Minimal Post-Apocalypse   - Enjoy fast and frenzied action while you strive to survive in a desolate wasteland.
Breathless - System Reference Document   - An SRD for creating Breathless games.
Endure   - a survival roleplaying game
Where Silence Has Lease   - A deck-based tabletop roleplaying game of frontier survival.
in pitch we are preserved   - a one page survival game for one or more players
Come Home   - A three player GMless diceless storytelling TTRPG about finding home
SINS - The RPG - PDF   - The Award-Winning Supernatural Post-Apocalyptic RPG
No Nut November   - Squirrels of the Post-Apocalypse
Spiral Dice Hackers' Guide   - A guide to using Spiral Dice in your games
Lay On Hands   - A solo, dexterity TTRPG about being a weird healer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
TTRPG Design Lenses   - A deck of design lenses for designing and playtesting ttrpgs or other physical games
Splat 2: Adventures in Cyberspace   - Essays about TTRPGs, the internet, and remote play
FEVERPIT   - a tabletop miniature deathmatch game
Lay On Hands SRD   - A System Reference Document for Lay On Hands
Inventing Incantations: A How-to Guide for the Modern Spellcaster   - a solo, micro-rpg / how-to guide
Fight City - The Role-Playing Game   - Take it to the streets! Fight!
The Legend of Forbidden Song   - A supplement for The Legend of the Forgotten Ballad RPG.
Notorious   - A solo RPG of hardscrabble bounty hunting amid intergalactic war.
Tales from the Junior Ganymede   - A small trick-taking TTRPG
The Adventurer   - A solo story writing game
If you like ZOMBIES, BRAINS & 2D6 check out...
Primal Quest - Essentials   - A Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game
Pulka!   - A casual Troika! hack.
Swordquest - Micro Edition   - A One Page Fantasy Adventure Game
SLEDGEHAMMER   - Rules Light Grim Dark Fantasy RPG
The Electrum Archive - Free Rules   - Free rules-light science-fantasy RPG
BRIGHTHAMMER   - Rules Light High Fantasy Roleplaying
Æthernet   - A Rules Light, Occultech Horror Science-Fantasy RPG
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Core Rules   - Streamlines Neo OSR Rules for Pulp Fantasy Sword & Sorcery Adventures
The Mutants of Ixx   - Paper-&-pen roleplaying in the mutant apocalypse!
Kosmosaurs   - An RPG about Dinosaurs who protect the Galaxy from Evil Forces
Errant   - A rules-light, procedure-heavy RPG in the old school tradition.
Down and Out in Dredgeburg   - You have died and woken up in the city of Dredgeburg, a twisted city of the Underworld!