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DUNGEONSCRAWL - THE PALACE OF THE BRIAR PRINCE
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 it looks even more zine-y than normal.ANYWAY.This game has a micro OSR system on the left hand sid...
THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR
This 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 This Place Is Not A Place Of Honour it really inspired me; I love the idea of one civilization exploring the ruins of another, and how a game of telephone played over mill...
BEAUTIFUL SPACE PIRATES IN: "The Galaxy's Most Dangerous Funeral!"
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 madly in love with a crystal horse and having it die in your arms.I know it says "Part One of a six-part s...
KOBOLD ENDEAVOUR
I 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 fit, once I'd hammered out the core mechanics. Please enjoy playing the MIGHTY DRAGON KING: I r...
WAKE.
A 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 being snuffed out like a candle to fuel someone else's wicked plans. As the basic game is a...
GOAT CRASHERS
You'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 air a little! I'm all set up now, so I'm going to sort out printing October, November and De...
TRAMFORCE
December'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 exactly what you'd expect? Anyway.)Also, cause it's Christmas, the PDF downloa...
RETROGRADE
November'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 thing where people leave messages for themselves before losing their memories and having to lear...
ADVENTURE SKELETONS
YOU'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 format for Chris Longhurst's Kickstarter, Tales of the Talking Skeletons. Unfortunately, Chris'...
THE FIVE
September'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 DEAD CHANNEL ruleset, and hopefully you'll be able to use it to tell stories of sacrifice, ...
Don't worry, the mistake is solved
Hello!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 of you will be charged, so no worries there.If you'd like to hear me and co-designer Chris guff ...
PRIDE AND EXTREME PREJUDICE
The subtitle is: REGENCY LADIES AND GIANT ROBOTS POWERED BY ELDRITCH CURSES, which I think explains everything you need to know?Anyway, much love,- G
CRASH PANDAS
You'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 luck!- GP.S. I've put in three versions: a plain PDF document, a cut-and-paste layout of printed...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
This 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 to resolve actions, because I feel like the noble D8 doesn't get enough love.This one's ...
THE BEAST
It'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 the hand-written, illustrated version - it's pretty small in some places so it might be ...
Listen to how we design games.
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 listen!- Grant
JASON STATHAM'S BIG VACATION
This game was suggested on Hearty Dice Friends, a podcast that I do with my co-author Chris Taylor. You can listen to it here!In JSBV, you play a group of elite operatives with one mission: make sure that Jason Statham has a nice holiday.We recorded the design session too, and we'll be releasing...
STREETS OF KARAZUN
So.I've been reading the brilliant Turn to 400 blog, now sadly stopped, which focused on playing through and reviewing Fighting Fantasy books with a loving, if critical, eye. It's fun stuff.I also played an FF book with my nephew, and jeez it was dull.But: I wanted to recreate that sort of g...
No More Room In Hell
February'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 (which is where the title came from) it could be used to tell stories of people sneaking out of occu...
GIANT GODDAMN ROBOTS
This 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 can use it for roleplaying (and there's a "Stuff other than giant robot combat, for s...
LAST CHRISTMAS
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 of A Christmas Carol to be more canonical than the original, but I have left the "summon homonculi&#...
JUSTIFIED ANXIETY redesign
I'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 redesign of JUSTIFIED ANXIETY, a game which comes so close to infringing copyright I should prob...
TRASHKIN plain text
In 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 place.
DEAD CHANNEL HOPPERS
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 additional problem on their injury list that forces a channel change. The show changes, but the charact...
TRASHKIN
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 as a PDF, because I have a scanner now!EDIT: After a playtest, I have updated the system to V 1.2. I can'...
HONEY HEIST spell list
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 spell list that Marisha uses in the episode. The spell list (which contains 36 stupid spells) is part of my back-page...
Games design podcast
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 to listen to more episodes of HDF, check out our other Patreon here: patreon.com/heartydicefriends- G
IT IS HERE.
The behemoth has arrived.Brace yourselves for incoming print copies.Much love,- G
Did it again
Keep posting in the wrong Patreon. Guess that's what I get for doing this on Monday morning.- G
Oops!
Just saw that I uploaded something meant for my other Patreon (Hearty Dice Friends) to this one! Apologies. I'll make sure none of you are charged, and I've deleted the offending post.- Grant
