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Games by el Stiko
Sometimes I just toy with layout or form-factor for free games by others. The mechanics I tinker with are currently inspired by John Harper and Shawn Tomkin, among others. Hi! I mostly make small, quick games (between 200-500 words) with an emphasis on simple rules and imaginative storytelling between the lines.
Adventure Builder Cards
Rolling in the Shade
Pocket World of Dungeons
Wild Tales
Winsome
If you like SOLO MOFO!! check out...
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Cynastine   - An encounter with two strange communities for Eco Mofos!!
Nauti Mofos!   - Islandcrawl Procedures for Eco Mofos! & Other Odd-likes
An Altogether Different River   - A GM-less storygame about returning home and grappling with what has changed
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
Ithaca in the Cards   - A blackjack-driven story game of doomed travelers
BLOODSPRINT X   - TTRPG Pamphlet : Cyberpunk + Vampires + Bikers
Exhumed   - A soulslike pamphlet RPG and adventure
Temple Of The Bat Serpent   - An old school pamphlet dungeon
Carnelian Riddle in the House of Indolent Blooms   - A pamphlet heist for Troika!
Bloodstone   - Action-Horror pamphlet rpg for one-shot sessions
The Mephitic Laboratory Of The Pescamancer   - A print-n-play pamphlet dungeon
If you like Niche check out...
Curse of the Alta Silva   - Can you survive the night?
Into the Black   - Gig-economy adventures in space.
Word Dungeon   - A Notebook-Worthy Word Game
Telling the Bees   - A storytelling game about the year in the life of a small, farming community, as told to the town's bees.
While We Wait for Death   - While we wait for death to arrive, we tell stories about when they didn't show up.
Told By Starlight   - A storytelling game about drawing constellations and creating mythology
Ritual - The TTRPG of Magic and High Fantasy   - An animist and naturalist TTRPG where magic is accessible to all.
Over Sea, Wander Home   - A sea-worthy and mythic expansion to Jay Dragon's Wanderhome
What's So Cool About Magic Portals?   - A pocket-sized portal game
T-DEF   - A GMless mini-zine game where you pit your troopers against alien invaders!
BROKEN LUCK - a Troika zine   - rpg zine
Dust of the Traveled Road   - a wandering game
If you like Fantastic Medieval Campaigns check out...
Runecairn: Core Rules   - Soulslike Norse fantasy tabletop role-playing game
Swordquest - Micro Edition   - A One Page Fantasy Adventure Game
GROK?!   - An adventure role-playing game
Runecairn Wardensaga   - Norse fantasy Soulslike tabletop role-playing game
Into the Woods...   - A solo role-playing game
Deathless: Deluxe Edition   - A Role-Playing Game of Immortal Warriors
Thálassa   - Mythical Age Role-Playing Game
VERY BIG PUPPY   - a role-playing game
Alone Among the Stars   - A solo roleplaying game about exploring fantastic planets.
Galaxy Goons   - a space fantasy adventure game
Mutants In the Night   - A Forged in the Dark table-top role playing game about finding
Eldritch Gambit   - A Fantasy Role-Playing Toolkit