Welcome to my little home in the small web! I mostly publish games and the occasional blog post, but every now and again I’ll post a tech thing. Feel free to poke around as you please, and there’s an RSS feed if you want 🙂
Unless otherwise specified on either their page or in the source, all games on this website are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and all software projects are released under the licenses in their codebases.
Tabletop Games
Ikaros
A roleplaying game where sacrifice is the only way forward. This game came out of my efforts to run a game that feels like a cross between Mausritter and Burning Wheel using a system heavily inspired by Fate.
Hespera
Hespera is a light tabletop RPG, designed to play occult sci-fi. It plays like a cross between Lasers and Feelings and Mouse Guard.
HTML | PDF | ePub | Character sheet
You Are Cordially Invited…
A one-shot TTRPG where you play ex-assassins trying to help their friends have the perfect wedding. The rules for this are based off an unfinished game that I made for a gam jam where the players are minotaurs trying to escape Crete.
Keep Going
Inspired by all the amazing art that people made of their own pets helping guide Tater Tot through the Rainbow Bridge after his passing, Keep Going is a one-page RPG about pets helping each other navigate their way through the afterlife to get to the Rainbow Bridge. Made for the One-Page RPG Jam 2023.
Let’s Get Down To Business
Let’s Get Down To Business is a micro-RPG designed to fit onto a single folded business card, using a novel diceless resolution system. Needs playtesting.
Wizard Cards
Wizard Cards is a two-player card game I made up in a weekend because I was on vacation and the weather was bad. Very loosely based off a game (called Dungeon Cards, I think) that one of my friends made up when we were younger.
Pine SRD
SRD for running simple comedic one-shots, based off the rules of You Are Cordially Invited. If you end up making a game based off this SRD, drop me a line!
Posts
Tarot-based initiative
This is a completely untested tarot-based initiative system
I posted on Mastodon earlier
this month. Since my main RPG group is on hiatus for the holidays, leaving me
without easy access to victims playtesters, I figured I might as well post
it here so I don’t lose track of it! If you end up trying it out, please reach
out to me at Mastodon or
Bluesky to let me know how it
worked for you!
View full post | December 21, 2024 | untested ttrpg
Advanced Mazes & Rats (playtest 1)
I’ve been spending my free time the past few weeks working on what it might look like if Maze Rats got the AD&D treatment, and while the first playtest was fun, I’m not sure if I’m going to revisit the project. I always hate for things to become abandoned in secrecy, so I’m gonna just dump all the rules and the character sheet here. The rules are really just more notes than anything actually well laid out, so if anything is confusing, feel free to reach out on Mastodon.
View full post | September 2, 2024 | abandoned ttrpg
🌕 Thinkin’ about the sun and the moon…
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about the sun the moon recently. Not the heavenly bodies (well, I always think about those, but not more than usual!), but rather a die mechanic I’ve been noodling on that I’ve been calling “sun and moon dice” or “celestial dice” until I either think of a better name, or, more probably, decide this name is fine and give up on thinking of a new one.
View full post | August 10, 2024 | abandoned ttrpg
🪐 Hespera 2e - Playtest 1 released!
Whew! After a few months of off and on work (mostly off), the first Hespera 2e playtest is here! You can find the rules here, and the character sheet here. I’m super stoked about this edition of the game, but I’m also a little worried because Hespera has always been my lightweight game, and the Ikaros ruleset that it’s based off of now is decidedly middleweight.
View full post | June 17, 2024 | untested ttrpg
🌲 Pine SRD
While I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the Hespera 2e playtest recently, that hasn’t stopped me from wanting to make an official SRD for the system that I used in You Are Cordially Invited and Labyrinth Break!, an as-yet-and-probably-always-unpublished game about minotaurs trying to escape Crete. So I figured, why not just go ahead and release that official SRD now, as a little palate cleanser? Presenting: the Pine SRD!
View full post | May 19, 2024 | ttrpg
🌹 Red Rose Poker
I’ve been thinking a lot about different poker variants ever since Balatro came out, and more specifically thinking about how different variants of poker manage public and private information, and how different varieties have differing amounts of player interaction. After noodling on this off and on for a while, I think I’ve come up with a pretty fun variant of five card draw (my favorite game of poker) that works in the public knowledge and shared pool of Texas Hold ‘Em, while also increasing player interaction.
View full post | May 4, 2024 | other_games
🃏 Hand of Exhaustion
Earlier this month, Prismatic Wasteland put out a blog post challenging people to come up with a new mechanic, give it a name, and post it by the end of the month. I have not done this. Instead, I’m taking this opportunity to post a resolution system I had kicked around for a few days back in 2018, because even though I’ve never ended up using it for anything, I think it’s kinda neat, and if I don’t publish it now then I probably never will. I call it Hand of Exhaustion.
View full post | January 10, 2024 | untested ttrpg
🤠 Ikaros: Showdown
An Ikaros supplement for playing Hunt: Showdown. Hunt: Showdown and like half the enemy names in here are registered trademarks of Crytek and are used here without permission.
View full post | March 26, 2023 | ttrpg
Browser Games
The Wanderer
Short storybook browser game I made for eevee’s Games Made Quick 1.5. Rough around the edges, but I was in a rush.
Tools
Generic RPG tools
Tools for third party games
All items in this section created without permission of the creators and with no claim to ownership.