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Dreams Fevered!

This is something I've been working on off-and-on for the past month or so now, and I'm excited to share it with all of you. It's a Belonging Outside Belonging game (ala Dream Apart or Dream Askew)...

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100$ A Month (and other matters)

Wow, thank you so much everyone. I know in a cosmic sense that number is pretty small, but I can't articulate how much it means to me. This morning, I was crunching the numbers on what "having a pa...

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The Rake is on Itch.io!

I just put The Rake, a game I posted on here a while ago, onto Itch.io. Go check it out! For patrons, the discount linked for Games For Lost People will also work for The Rake...

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New Product on Itch!

Hi all, here's a new collection of games I've released! 

Games for Lost People is a collection of nine short, 1 page RPGs I've written over the past year. These are games in a traditiona...

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Development 18 - Apologies to Memories OR False Authenticity

Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist

Keep on loving, keep on fighting

And hold on, hold on

Hold on for your life

Queerness is equ...

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Development 17 - 3 Ways Not To Build a Labyrinth

 I've spent the last month or so reviewing Wayfinder game submissions for the summer, working with the Story Board to find the games we think are best for the summer. While reading the games, ...

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January Projects Summary

Hi All,

This is gonna be a new series of posts that is a monthly update on the games I'm currently designing and working on. The finished projects are available to my 3$ or more backers, and ...

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Development 16 - Survival OR Fetishizing Aesthetics

Larp has something I'd like to call a problem of Fetishizing Aesthetic. Blasphemy from me, of course, as someone who spent a lot of the past few years writing about the aesthetic power of experiences....

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This Will Kill That: In Dreams of Notre-Dame (Part 1)

Hey all, 

I know I mentioned this a while ago, and it's been my main project for the past month or so. I don't have a lot to show for it at the moment, but I've been doing a lot of research and...

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The Notre-Dame Project and Life Updates

Hi all! 

For my patrons, you've probably noticed I haven't been around for a while. Don't worry, I haven't given up writing! Schoolwork and depression has had me down, but I've recently begun a...

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Development 15 - Embracing Moments of Contemplation

This has been sitting in my drafts for a week. It felt good to finally sit down and finish it up. 

All week, I've had Monet on my mind. Maybe it's because I feel disconnected from natu...

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Development 14 - Where's The Story?

The summer whizzed by, and I've stumbled out the other side of it, having done a lot less work for all of you than I would've liked. I will be publishing a complete write-up of Motherlode View Post

Development 13 - The Ethics of Ogres

Hi all! There were some credit card issues with Patreon this month, and it would mean a lot if you could check your credit card information and make sure everything is okay. I got significantly le...

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Development 12 - Spacing is the Placing

The greatest privilege of LARP writing I am afforded by working for Wayfinder is the ability to write for large tracks of land (this is a lie, there are many more advantages, but this sure is a nice o...

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Emerging from the Pit!

I'd like to thank everyone for sticking with me while we went through that hiatus. I just ran an adventure game at Woodstock Day School, along with a bunch of games at DexCon, and attended Staff Week ...

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Partition City Work and Miscellaneous Thoughts

Hi all,

I just wrote my first Wayfinder game in who-knows-how-long. Well, really I re-wrote it, as I first ran it in 2014, and am finally revisiting it for some future project. The game is called View Post

Promethean: The Unborn - Basic Rules and the Frankenstein

Hi everyone!

No Development article for this week, but that's because I've been working on this! It's the basic, updated rules for Promethean: The Unborn (my PbtA version of World of Darkness), alon...

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Development 11 - Tables and Pre-Provided Information

Ah, setbacks. I've been working heavily on Promethean: The Unborn (with some awesome developments that I'm so excited to show you. Unfortunately, I lost my compu...

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Development 10 - LARPing with the Land

Happy birthday me! Yesterday was my birthday, and I'm finding that it's very hard to get articles out on Friday with the current summer schedule. Expect articles on Saturday from here on out, like...

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Devilking - A Card Game for LARPs

I don't know if you've ever tried teaching people how to play Poker or Blackjack in game, but it's an infuriating process. It's also a pain to want to be able to play a character who's good at cheatin...

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Stuck in Development 01: Serious LARP Fragments

Hi all. I know every single post I make is about finals week, but that's because I've finally cleared the hump. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean I'm free. I promise ...

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200 Word RPG - How To Make A Magic Forest

I just got off the phone with a friend of mine, talking about safety in a LARP I'm working on. I have a lot of plans, especially as I can feel finals leaving and I gain time to work on things like The...

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Development 09 - Diversity vs. Queerness

Apologies for the late development post. The next one's going to be late also. I finished work on The Last Days of Solomon late last night, and I currently really ought to be working on my final p...

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We're Queer & In A Field - 200 Word RPG

Looks like I'm in the running!

This is a great opportunity, both for me to practice In...

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200 Word RPG - Reach Heaven by Violence

Yes, it's finals week, and yes, I have to release The Last Days of Solomon on Friday. But I have a free hour and I want to practice making things! I made this 1 page PDF / image of one of the...

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Development 08 - The Magic Circle and Its Discontents

Apologies for the late post - I've been away at the Living Games Conference all weekend (a truly wonderful, amazing experience) and thus had no time to write absolutely anything. However, I've come aw...

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What 200 Word RPG to Submit?

200 Word RPG season is approaching! I'm not writing any more I don't think (for now) (until the mood strikes me once more), but I want to submit one of the ones I have written. Which one?

You can fi...

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200 Word RPGs

Hey everyone,

Living Games Conference is in just a few days (which means my Development blog post might be weird), Finals is happening and won't stop happening, and Solomon is being released to the ...

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Development 07 - Moderators of Fiction

There's a big debate happening on Twitter right now (as there almost always is) about the nature of GMing in tabletop games. For those unfamiliar, the structure of a tabletop game like Dungeons and Dr...

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Last Days of Solomon - the Mysterious Deals

The Far Merchant is one of my favorite Character Cards we've made for Solomon - short demons that dress in rags and robes, selling strange and ominous objects to whoever is willing to pay their prices...

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