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Thanks for checking out my page! My name is James, and I am a solo designer who likes to make innovative games that you can play with just pencil and paper. Science Fiction and Fantasy are the two genres that interest me most, usually I design what I find fun and interesting! Take a look around, hopefully you'll find something you like. Find Out More To stay up to date with what I'm creating, check out: paperdicegames.
Distress Calls for Space RPGS
13 Dwarves and a Burglar
Dungeon Builder - Pamphlet
Star Solo - Free Version
Dwarf Mine
Dwarf Mine: Beyond the Mountain
GridHack - Free Version
The Astronaut - a playbook for Wanderhome   - The dark is beautiful, deep, terrifying — and necessary. Without the dark, we would not see the stars shine.
The Construct - a playbook for Wanderhome   - You were crafted by talented paws and imbued with life through unknown means.
Faire Season   - A Dream within a Game.
The Model Village - a nature for Wanderhome   - The Model Village is a place to appreciate the Hæthland from on high, or inspect it intensely as close as you can get.
Where Love Once Thrived - a nature for Wanderhome   - A place to reflect and maybe celebrate love for its own sake, rather than find it doesn’t live up to your expectations
The Librarian - a playbook for Wanderhome   - You are a keeper of books and sometimes of silences.
The Library - a nature for Wanderhome   - The Library is a place to meet, research, or maybe find that elusive book.
Wanderhome Reference Document   - Intended to help people run Wanderhome, and shows one way the game and play sessions could be run.
The Home Builder Wanderhome Playbook   - Construct the dream home for you and others in this indie material for Wanderhome
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
Pocket Wanderhome   - A business card-size version of Wanderhome, for when you are travelling on the road.
The Forsaken - a playbook for Wanderhome   - A Wanderhome playbook exploring trauma and healing.
If you like You Are Ill, a lyric game check out...
Games of the Decade   - A Game to determine my Games of the Decade
AFTER THE STORM   - A solo writing game about poetry and survival.
you are now ooze   - a small game for oozes, or anyone expecting to be ooze in the future
Meet The Untrue   - a microgame anthology about meeting fantasy halfway
Esoteric   - All I can tell you is within the text.
Sigils   - A tabletop game/meditation for one or more players
How to Say Goodbye   - a game about saying goodbye
A Game About Throwing Tantrums   - By an (ex)-problem child. A lyric game exploring explosive pain.
the kind of Song the Sea makes   - Two rituals of shared vulnerability and music
Did People Come Up With Names Immediately? Does the Limitations of the Jam also Cover The Title?   - It's a game, trust me
Lunar Conversations   - minigame for ttrpgs or life
101 Games for Survival   - 101 solo lyrical games about making it through a terrible time
If you like JOLENE check out...
Cursed Lands   - A short RPG about adventures and curses
Wandering Dreams   - A solo storytelling RPG zine of eldritch horror and exploring the unknown.
Super Detention Club   - A 1 page RPG about super powers, detention and high school!
Dredge   - A solo journaling game about sailing eldritch waters and pulling up odd items.
TATTOO   - An RPG, a party game, & a hack of Taboo. (Yes, that Taboo.)
Damn the Man, Save the Music!   - A roleplaying game about music, growing up, and dreaming big in a world that wants to make you small.
Her Odyssey   - A solo journaling RPG about a wanderer trying to return home - or find a new home.
DO NOT READ THIS GAME!   - Please, I'm begging you!
A Fool's Errand   - Solo-Journaling game about the futile effort of trying to warn a king about their inevitable destruction
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
The Beast   - Die alone in some godforsaken forest.
Unincorporated   - A game of petty small-town drama