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THE RAPID AND THE RIGHTEOUS

 I love the Fast and Furious series, although not really the second film and definitely not the third, my god no. But most of them are pretty good. 

Anyway: I wrote a love-letter ...

BIG GAY ORCS is out now

Hey! I'm super-happy to announce that Big Gay Orcs is now on public release. In it, you'll play big, tough, sensitive and heartbroken orcs trapped in a fortress that's being overrun by your enemies. W...

ADVENTURE DICE!

Here's January's game, ADVENTURE DICE. It's a super rules-lite storytelling game designed, primarily, for kids to tell stories together - or for adults to tell stories with kids.  (Or, honestly, ...

WE THREE KINGS, an Xmas RPG

Hello! You know how I was talking about releasing that spaceship game earlier this month? Well, it's Christmas, and I decided that I wanted to write a Christmas game instead. 

Which means that ...

[THIS IS] NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR

Hey folks,

SO. I've sent out the physical rewards to those that should have 'em; if you don't have yours by this time next week, start getting furious and drop me a line.

I've been hard at wor...

The Golden Sea

Hi folks. So this month's game is The Golden Sea - and it's a D20 system, and fantasy at that, if you can imagine such a thing. 

The front page details the setting - a sand-covered land ...

The Witch is Dead - Preview

http://imgur.com/gallery/bKRcf

Hello! I'm happy to announce the title of (and let you take a sneak peek at) my next game: THE ...

FORCE-BLADE PUNK

This is a preview of the sort of thing you can expect with the one-page RPG model. I wrote Force-Blade Punk a while ago, and I figured it needed an update.

Not everything will be this art-heavy or t...

THINGS ARE CHANGING AROUND HERE.

Hello! I've been neglecting this Patreon for far too long, and focusing on big projects rather than small ones. So, to that end - I've given it an overhaul. I'm moving from big, multiple-page games th...

Unbound - world-building, player-led, high-action roleplay

Hi Patreons,

Blimey, it's been a while! The reason it's been a while, mind you, is because I've been working on something very special for a very long time. It's called UNBOUND, and it's fantast...

Goblin Quest Kickstarter

Hello! My Kickstarter for Goblin Quest, a tabletop RPG of fatal ineptitude, is live. We're doing really well, and we're just about to unlock the £8,000 goal. You should totally get in on this. Here'...

Hello lovely Patrons, So - things have been quiet, lately, haven't they? The reason for this is that I am working on a BIG SECRET RPG PROJECT with ACTUAL PUBLISHERS. It's very exciting! It also means...

EXPLOSIONS: The RPG - PLAYTEST

They said it couldn't be done. They said it SHOULDN'T be done. They said, Grant, stop doing that, put it down, put THAT DOWN GRANT SO HELP ME GOD Anyway: I have written a game in which you all play e...

Rewards re-jig

I'm changing my Patreon rewards structure around a bit. When I started out, I figured I'd be running off daft little 10-page RPGs and sending them to my friends. This has succeeded more than I'd ever...

Havoc Brigade video review

This weekend, I got up bright and early on Sunday and ran an exhibition game of Havoc Brigade for the chaps at Indie+ (http://indiepl...

Physical Copies - sent!

So - after some frantic resizing of maps and re-jigging of text, I'm happy to confirm that the remaining physical copies of HAVOC BRIGADE and THE HOMECOMING COLLECTION 2014 are now being printed! I'm...

PHYSICAL COPY UPDATE: MagCloud

UPDATE ON SHIPPING AND PRINTING: After yesterday's disappointment, I've taken a look at alternative methods for shipping your games out - and MagCloud seem to offer something that'll fit. By shrinkin...

THE HOMECOMING COLLECTION 2014 - out now!

New game! New GAMES! 4 new games, right here, right now, for your viewing pleasure. The file is attached on the upper right, there. Download it, and take a look. The four games are: - WIZARD BATTLE ...

The Homecoming Collection 2014 is going to be a little late. This is because an a perfectionist. Or, rather - after releasing the preview text for WIZARD BATTLE HATS, I realised that it wasn't much f...

WIZARD BATTLE HATS preview

Hopefully - if everything goes to plan - I'll publish the HOMECOMING COLLECTION 2014 early next week. To whet your appetite, I've attached a PDF of the first game, WIZARD BATTLE HATS. (It's up there o...

The Homecoming Collection - Artist confirmed

While I was on holiday in the UK, I wrote four games. They're short, and very silly, and they deal in some weird experimental stuff. I'm happy to announce that I've commissioned the stellar artist Ig...

Brain Fizz Episode 4: On Giant Stompy Robots

Hello! It's been a while since I did one of these. Imagine my brain is a dog, and ideas are... I dunno. Passing cars. Most of the time a car goes past, I have a good old bark about it, but let it go....

Havoc Brigade video

Here, as promised, is a short video explaining some of the design decisions behind Havoc Brigade. Notably the ways that I encourage you to steal things and make lots of noise during play. - G

Havoc Brigade playlist

Hello! If you play Havoc Brigade and you have access to Spotify, then you might like to take a look at this playlist I've put together for the game. I had a good think about what sort of music would...

HAVOC BRIGADE

My new game, Havoc Brigade, is out today! It's a chaotic one-shot game about orcs on a dangerous mission in a human city. It comes with a pre-generated scenario and characters, so all you need to play...

The In-flight Collection

I am about to get on a plane for 22 hours. I am going to deal with the stress of doing such a thing by writing as many short roleplaying games as I can. Here's what I want from you - ideas. Stupid id...

ORC HIJINKS YES Playtest ACTIVATE

Hello! I've just put the finishing touches to the latest draft of ORC HIJINKS YES, a game about orcs going on a stupid mission and doing really stupid things. I think - I'm not sure but I THINK - I m...

Brain Fizz, Episode 4

No Brain Fizz this week, as I've been in Melbourne pretending to be The Tattered Marching King all weekend. (See image; I'm the one at the back with the mask he made himself from found materials) How...

Brain Fizz, Episode 3

I've got my next game sorted out. It's none of the ones I've mentioned before. (That's just kind of how I roll.) What I've found, over the few months that I've been releasing games, is that I have a ...

Brain Fizz, Episode 2

Things are busy in the Howitt household at the moment. In addition to having some Actual Work to do (I mean, I'm writing about computer games, it's only JUST actual work), we've just finished running ...