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Games by riley rethal
hi, i'm riley! i'm a jewish pharmacy student with a passion for tabletop rpgs and critical theory. i write games that encourage collaborative play and explore relationships between people, ideals, and society. i am a strong believer that all communication is collaborative, all art is interactive, and that games and stories are vital to help us imagine the future that late capitalism has taken away our ability to see. every game i've ever written is somehow related to marxist alienation and adhd. community copies are available for all of my paid games.
free space: nova
sky-writing
a star in a machine
fallen gods
Arise.
in orbit
venture
odyssey
resonance and echoes
zoetrope
ayekah
PUNCHGO!
lobsters of the left
love
all's fair.
synthesis
chat pack
sing it again
link
Pen Pals
the riot starts
a small collection of short games
even more spiders!
it's been a long, long time
galactic 2e
Venture & Dungeon
mark out!
Doikayt: A Jewish TTRPG Anthology
some kind of courtship
it's been a long time coming
galactic: cyberpunk
THE FAN
ogygia
cabins & campfires
best day ever!
dusk to midnight
The Labyrinth
summer camp dialect backdrop
say what you mean
If you like Alien Advertising Agency check out...
Renewal & Riot   - A hopepunk-themed Lasers and Feelings hack for 2-5 players
BORP Survival Guide:   - How to survive Undead, Aliens, Monsters and Myths. End of the world survival.
Dracula Owes You Money   - Dracula Owes You Money, and you're going to get it back.
The Creature Comes for Us   - A card-drawing game for 1+ players. Create a world, a menace to threaten it, heroes to fight it, and then do battle.
In the Margins   - A meta solo journaling game of marginalia
One Page Solo Engine   - A minimal, all-in-one toolkit to play your favorite tabletop RPGs without a GM.
SHITBIRDS   - Ask yourself, “What would someone who sucks do right now?” Do that.
Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour   - Tend To The World, Tend To Your Hearts
Ezra's Guide to Magic or Otherwise Significant Objects   - Make magic items
The Fae Queens   - An OSR mini zine about faeries who are actually aliens.
Bear   - A solo role-playing game designed to be played anytime, anywhere
The Price Others Pay   - A short ritual for figuring out how (or whether) to charge money for your creation.
If you like Beutekunst check out...
Caltrop Core v1.2   - An Introductory TTRPG Design SRD
Space Train Space Heist   - A high-octane, single session, 3-5 player GM-less, Forged In The Dark, goof of a game about space robbing a space train.
ROYAL BLOOD   - Beautiful tarot heist tabletop roleplaying game.
Score   - Big heists, small zine.
Novel Story   - A Solo RPG About the Life of a Novel
Hard Wired Island   - Retrofuture cyberpunk, inspired by 90s anime.
World of Blades   - A Blades in the Dark / World of Dungeons hack.
What's So Cool About Hulijings?   - A tiny little system for playing heisting tricksters
Capybara Capers   - A daring game of trust and thievery.
MindExplorer   - A solo ttrpg inspired by 90s educational software
BRIGHTHAMMER   - Rules Light High Fantasy Roleplaying
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
If you like Good Faeries Bad Faeries check out...
Climbing the Witch's Tower   - A Rooted in Trophy game of Fairytale Horror
My One True Wish   - a solo ttrpg tarot based game about dialoguing with your heart’s desire
The Young Witch & the Witch's Bird   - 2 New Witchy Playbooks for Under Hollow Hills
Unreality/Strictness -- The Single-Page Version   - A Six Elements Storytelling Game For 1-2 Players
In Dreaming Avalon   - A roleplaying party game of Arthurian Knights and Shakespearean Fairies
Mostly Harmless Meetings   - Random countryside encounters for TTRPGs inspired by English flora, fauna and folklore
The Gloaming Diaries   - A fairytale game about what you find in the woods and what you become there.
Beneath the Wishing Tree   - A solo tarot game about wishes and the beings who grant them.
Meguey & Vincent's PbtA Eye-Openers   - A suite of small games designed to show how far PbtA can go.
Cicadas   - A supplement of brief and beautiful lives for the Gloaming Diaries
What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting   - Stalking Those Who Stalk The Night
Vespers   - A supplement of dreams and nightmares in the wood for The Gloaming Diaries.