So. I don't have a working printer, or a working scanner, at the moment. Which means that this was printed on crappy internet cafe paper and scanned with my phone, so my apologies for the fact that...
2019-06-21 15:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis isn't my normal sort of thing; it's very storygame, Not a whole bundle of mechanics. I hope you like it.
When I read 2019-05-20 10:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Or: BSPI:TGMDF for short. Or BEAUTIFUL SPACE PIRATES for middle.
It's a rough-and-tumble game about being handsome, dashing and vicious; of star-skimmers and laser-flintlocks; of falling madl...
2019-04-12 15:46:32 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to write a game where the main mechanic was causing distractions to help other characters, even if what they're doing is creating distractions themselves. Kobolds seemed like an excellent ...
2019-03-13 14:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostA serious one this month - it can't all be party goats and justice trams, after all. This is WAKE, a game about playing coma patients in a shared, violent dreamscape where you're always at risk of ...
2019-02-18 14:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostYou're a cheeky little goat and you want to party.
In other news, I'm running late on sending out the physical copies - I moved house at the start of January so everything's been up in the ai...
2019-01-15 17:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostDecember's game is TRAMFORCE, an RPG about fighting crime on the mean streets of post-Brexit Britain. It's not quite what you'd expect. (Or, rather: if you've read my other games, it's probably exactl...
2018-12-11 15:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostNovember's one-page game is RETROGRADE. (Thanks to Chris Taylor for coming up with the name.) I wanted to make a game inspired by the Mega Drive game Flashback, or more broadly, any sort of cyberpunk ...
2018-11-05 17:02:22 +0000 UTC View PostYOU'RE A SKELETON. You're on an adventure. People keep hitting you and your bits keep flying off, but you're having a good time.
(This game was originally written in a slightly different forma...
2018-10-18 12:37:47 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember's one-page game is THE FIVE, a game about knights battling a vile and insidious corruption that's spread across the land since their Queen died. It uses a heavily modified variant of the DEA...
2018-09-26 10:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I posted in the wrong Patreon this morning; you might have received a message saying you've been charged for an episode of my podcast Hearty Dice Friends. I've deleted the post and none...
2018-09-24 07:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe subtitle is: REGENCY LADIES AND GIANT ROBOTS POWERED BY ELDRITCH CURSES, which I think explains everything you need to know?
Anyway, much love,
- G
2018-08-23 14:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostYou're a raccoon and you're involved in the dangerous world of illegal LA street racing. Except: you can't drive a car on your own, so you need to team up to do it. But no conferring.
Good luc...
2018-07-19 14:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's game is UNFINISHED BUSINESS, a game in which you play an intangible ghost who must possess luckless souls to achieve your single driving aim - to get revenge on your killers. It uses 2D8 ...
2018-06-22 10:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's one-page RPG time again! This month's game is THE BEAST, a game about hunting down a nightmare creature that can break you in half without really trying.
I've attached the raw text as well as t...
2018-05-17 15:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Me and Chris recorded a bonus episode of our podcast, Hearty Dice Friends, in which we documented our design process for this month's game. If you're interested in learning about how we do it, take a ...
2018-04-26 20:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis game was suggested on Hearty Dice Friends, a podcast that I do with my co-author Chris Taylor. 2018-04-16 16:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
So.
I've been reading the brilliant Turn to 400 blog, now sadly stopped, which focused on playing through and reviewing F...
2018-03-14 17:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary's game is No More Room In Hell! It's a survival horror game with four GMs and four players, with those roles rotating throughout play. Although it started out as a zombie horror game...
2018-02-22 14:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's game is GIANT GODDAMN ROBOTS, a mech fighting game that involves throwing dice and cards at pictures of enemy robots!
GGR isn't really like anything I've written before: although you
LAST CHRISTMAS is a game of time-travelling festive ghosts trying to avert global societal collapse. I wrote it with help from Chris Taylor and Charles Dickens.
N.B. I consider the Muppets version o...
2017-12-09 16:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm experimenting with doing layout on my computer rather than by hand - it might be easier, or it might end up being a lot more work than writing it down. I dunno. We'll see.
Anyway, here's a redes...
2017-11-26 20:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostIn response to some folks saying TRASHKIN was hard to read (and I legit don't blame you, I can barely read it and I wrote the damn thing) here's a PDF of the Google Doc I used to write it in the first...
2017-11-26 10:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Chris and I got together this morning and wrote up the back page content for DEAD CHANNEL, October's game, which takes the theme and runs with it: it plays as normal, but each character has an additio...
2017-11-22 12:02:39 +0000 UTC View Post
TRASHKIN is a game of kinda rubbish fantasy races doing kinda rubbish stuff. Incredibly (and also unwisely?) I have included two different schools of magic in this one-page game.
Also attached...
2017-11-18 17:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to all of my new patrons off the back of Critical Role's Honey Heist game.
I've had several people ask me how to get hold of the ...
2017-11-18 15:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
I'm one half of Hearty Dice Friends, a gaming advice podcast. This week we had a bonus episode in which Chris and I design a game on mic, and it's turned out pretty good!
If you want...
2017-11-15 21:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The behemoth has arrived.
Brace yourselves for incoming print copies.
Much love,
- G
2017-11-03 12:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostKeep posting in the wrong Patreon. Guess that's what I get for doing this on Monday morning.
- G
2017-09-04 09:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post