 | By Hook Or by Crook, or The Gilded Cage
Regular price: $5.99
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Format: Watermarked PDF
| The Basics
"By Hook or by Crook, or The Gilded Cage" is a smallish tabletop role-playing game designed to simulate stories based specifically around the "gilded cage" trope. This trope is probably best exemplified by both the 1967 and 2009 versions of The Prisoner, albeit the two variants have very different takes on the concept. Basically, your protagonists are trapped in a strange but superficially pleasant and accommodating place (which can be physical, metaphysical, or something in between) by a sinister entity or organization with unclear motivations. Their goal, usually, is to escape and/or find out what the heck is going on.
This game requires two or more people to play, plus some tokens (any small thing of which there is a multitude will do, or you can just use tick-marks on pa...
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 | Errant - A Game of Misguided Heroics and Heroic Misadventures
Regular price: $5.99
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Format: Watermarked PDF
| About the Game
Errant is a tabletop / penandpaper storytelling and roleplaying game about quixotic, selfstyled heros and their quixotic adventures and / or misadventures in a world where their gallant labors may or may not actually be needed or appreciated. It usually takes two or more players (one of whom will take on the role of Game Master), some paper, writing utensils, and a handful of six sided dice (or a digital die roller) to play.
MerriamWebster defines quixotic as follows: "foolishly impractical, especially in the persuit of ideals; especially: marked by rash lofty ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action." The word itself derives from a popular piece of 17th century Spanish literature, the title of which translates to "The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha," wri...
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 | Parable of the Pit
Regular price: $4.99
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Format: Watermarked PDF
| The Basics
Parable of the Pit is a decidedly un-heoric “survival horror dungeon crawler” in which the players take on the roles of ordinary people trying to survive and escape an extraordinarily unfriendly place. It aims to emphasize risk-reward, resource management, and creative problem solving.
Notes on the Ashcan
The Ashcan Release contains everything you need to play and run the game. It is mainly an ashcan because I may add art and optional appendices in the future (additional Warden/GM resources, for example), and because I may yet adjust a few things here and there based on feedback, if I receive any. I may also periodically go back to the document and fix any typographical errors or inconsistencies that I hadn't managed to find the first few times around.
Note: Parable of ...
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 | Passage - A Storytelling Exploration Game for Exactly One Player
Regular price: $4.50
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Format: Watermarked PDF
| About the Game
Passage is a bit of a weird one, as the subtitle probably suggests. I began designing this game (or brainstorming tool, or abstract divination system, or whatever you wish to call it) as a sort of challenge, an experiment to see if I could (I did ask myself whether or not I should, and ultimately decided that yes, probably, why not, what else was I going to be doing with all that finite time).
Passage is certainly not the first "single-player" tabletop rpg ever made, and I am sure it won't be the last. Still, you don't see a lot of them out there. Ultimately, the game ended up being focused on storytelling, journaling, and interpreting symbols (not unlike the Tarot or the I-Ching, except applied primarily to the generation of fiction and the exploration of personal mind-s...
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 | Spiral
Regular price: $10.00
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Format: Watermarked PDF
| The Basics
Spiral is a percentile based tabletop/pen-and-paper roleplaying game that was designed to be flexible, accessible, and hackable. It has no default, prescribed genre or setting and should pretty much work for whatever the heck you want it to. Spiral is intended to be welcoming to newcomers while also providing enough for veterans to sink their sharp, vicious teeth into.
It features a flexible and open ended character customization and creation system, a d100 based resolution mechanic, and a modular design that encourages players and Narrators to make their game their own. Spiral occupies a middle ground between "crunch" (complexity) and minimalism. It leaves a lot in the hands of the players themselves. If you like more interpretive, open ended systems like FATE and Cypher, th...
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 | This Town Is Full of Monsters
Regular price: $5.99
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| The Basics
This Town Is Full of Monsters is a freeform tabletop storytelling/roleplaying game about a smallish community beset by mysterious, eldritch forces. There’s always a Town. There are always townsfolk. And, somewhere, everywhere, perhaps in their hearts and minds, perhaps in the swamp or the woods, there are monsters, mysteries, and secrets. If you want to build a Twin Peaks/Stranger Things/Life is Strange/Donnie Darko type story and/or world with the help of a couple of friends or friendly strangers, this game may well be a good fit for you.
This Town Is Full of Monsters is a game about making stuff up and trying to collaboratively piece together something that sort of resembles a semi-cohesive supernatural drama or melodrama out of all sorts of narrative bits and bobs. It is...
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