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I'm Shelby, also known as threepod. I'm a narrative designer who thinks games can offer uniquely transformative experiences for marginalized people. I try to make games that I would've loved as a kid, and I refuse to ever stop making rpgs.
Zoo Rush!
If you like Acehearts check out...
Ace Objections   - a two to three player game about being asexual in a relationship
Romantic   - System Neutral Microgames for Asexual Characters
OCCULTEAS   - Build your shop, make tea, do witch stuff.
Scrapyard Junkbots   - A scrappy arcano-tech RPG about robots in the aftermath of the Arcane Apocalypse.
The Adventurer   - A solo story writing game
HTML and ePub ttrpg creation.   - An introduction to creating ttrpg content for web and ereader using pandoc.
Wandering Merchants Zine   - A system-neutral ttrpg zine of soulsborne-inspired wandering merchants
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Handling Police in Monsterhearts   - A one-page play-aid for Monsterhearts 2e
galactic 2e   - a game of rebellion, relationships, and war among the stars.
Random Table   - The most important random table for yout game night!
The Queen Returns   - A solo rpg about the fate of a country in the Queens absence .
If you like Otherland check out...
The Small Old Kingdom of Somnaire   - System-free pocket zine setting about a strange, mostly dead country
NUKED!   - A Radioactive Knave Hack!
HIS RED HAND   - A game of fallen angels and a world that hates them.
An Altogether Different River   - A GM-less storygame about returning home and grappling with what has changed
PYTHIA   - A game about losing yourself.
As Above, So Below   - A Picaresque Adventure Game
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
Ithaca in the Cards   - A blackjack-driven story game of doomed travelers
Candlelight   - Journey through the dark forest of the afterlife
Homebound   - An anthology of games about home and going away
Monsterhearts: All Too Human   - Four new Skins for Avery Alder's Monsterhearts 2.
Lost Post   - A Lost and Found solo journaling game about the journey of a Lost Letter.
If you like This Book is Haunted check out...
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
Life on the homestead   - A solo journaling rpg
5-min-machine   - a micro solo rpg
Roommates: I'm Just Not Sure   - A Solo Journaling Game
DAGGER!   - A micro-RPG that fits on a single index card
Looking after an orbiting rock   - a solo journaling game
A Monster Ate My Book!   - A solo-journaling game on a bookmark.
A Tale Before You Go   - A solo journaling game
The Lay Of Our Land   - A solo journaling game about the ephemeral things in life and in the world, based on Lost and Found SRD
Whispers in the Walls   - a solo journaling game you play in the dark