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I have a three-part set of announcements!

Up first, I've started a Patreon, with a post up there explaining the benefits and also my motivations.

This ties into the next announcement, I've put two playtest drafts of games up on there!

The Gallant and the Virtuous is a game about jousting, with a tragic and fatal end.

I'm with the Damned is a musical tarot game about a band setting off on tour after making a deal with the devil.

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Those are available to all patrons. Finally I have a new game out. "Once again, we are defeated" is a narrative map-making game about dangerous outsiders protecting a village from an approaching army. It's a second edition of a game I released two years, I really dug the original game but found there were difficulties pitching and explaining the game. I created this second edition for inclusion in the upcoming Out of the Fold and Other Games collection

So this is live on Itch but Patrons at a fiver and up get it for free.

A narrative map-making game, inspired by Seven Samurai.

There's never been a better time to be a fan of Kayla!

#indie ttrpg #game design #ttrpg #this post is long as hell so i need to remember to plug all these things separately at some point

The Gallant and the Virtuous is now available as a physical book, you can purchase the paperback directly from the Rat Wave Webstore. In this game you play as competitors in jousting tourneys, meeting again and again across years divided by upheaval, until a tragic death brings your game to a close.

Jousting is resolved using a rock-paper-scissors derived mechanic, while your decisions and behaviour in other scenes affects your Doom and Fortune, the metrics which will decide your fates. The game involves collaborative world building elements as every player creates the kingdom their challenger hails from, and will share responsibility for entwining their histories together.

This is a game about what drives someone in a competition. It's about the relationships between people whose desires are in conflict. It's about struggling to find purpose in changing times. It's a game about jousting.

#indie ttrpg #game design #ttrpg #jousting #pretty banger game tbh #check out the demo over on itch if you're on the fence

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sorry if i weirded you out with my messages earlier (remembers im trying to be more self confident) but actually it was normal of me to do so (becomes nervous im acting superior) because i am a human like everybody else and not better than anyone (remembers i am better than some people) except for really bad people (notices the ideological can of worms opened by previous clause) but anyone can work towards self improvement (remembers im trying to be more self confident) like meeee :)

A Fistful of Stars is an adventure/setting book for Orbital Blues where your outlaws will explore the hottest new way to travel: an interste

Currently crowdfunding on BackerKit, A Fistful of Stars is intergalactic space train setting/adventure book. The project is by STATIONS (An Infinity of Ships, I Don't Belong Here), with art by Rob Turpin, layout by Lone Archivist and writing by me!

Step aboard the Green Light Express abd explore its array of high tech grav-carriages, meet eccentric passengers, pick up dangerous exterior maintenance work for spare cash, and explore four great adventures set on the train.

I think trains are really interesting as a setting. The liminality of the space, time spent in transition. The way it puts a class system under the microscope. The way a railroad impacts the communities and environments it cuts through. In western's trains often symbolise a quote unquote idea of progress, they can signify the winding down of the wild west period, and I was interested to see what those semiotics could mean in a space western setting.

That's all stuff I'm exploring in the writing, in the atmosphere and in trying to make the setting a pressure cooker. Adventure wise we've got assassinations, crime scenes, robberies, truly crooked customers and pasts that won't leave their victims alone.

Get a ticket, why don't ya?

#game design #ttrpg #adventure writing #orbital blues

I've released a game about jousting; The Gallant and the Virtuous. You play competitors meeting at tourneys across the years, your encounters separated not just by time but significant turmoil across your land. The game ends with the death of one competitor in what will prove to be the final joust.

A game about jousting.

The GMless game is suitable for 2-5 players. Jousts are decided through a rock-paper-scissors mechanic, while your choices in scenes influence your Doom and Fortune tallies, the keys to your final fate.

Patrons will have seen a few different early drafts of the game as it developed, and patrons at the fiver up level will have received a free key for the game. The game will get a physical print run later in the year, and you can stay tuned into that by either subscribing to my newsletter or becoming a Patron.

creating misfit TTRPGs

#indie ttrpg #game design #ttrpg #jousting

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