Games I’ve worked on, in various states.
This page holds the One Convo Cards for tabletop gamers with auditory processing issues, hearing loss, or who want to make their tables accessible to everyone. How do you use them? Print these out, cut them, and place them on the gaming table, or give them out, one per player. Scroll down for PDFs with […]
I wrote the Fathom and the Knights of Callisto settings for Heroic Dark Deluxe. In The Knights of Callisto, you’re a mecha pilot facing down against giant monsters living on one of Jupiter’s moons. Excellent anime-esque heroic struggle! In Fathom, you play an aquatic person (mermaids!) whose minor conflicts with land-dwellers pale in comparison to […]
A D&D 5th edition combat encounter for Tier 3 characters. At the final confrontation with the Arch-sorcerer Esunell the Blue(Ess OO nel), the party must disrupt his ritual to create the Chaos Knife! Credits Stephanie Bryant is a writer, game designer, bassist, knitter, and scrum master for Roll20. You can also find her on twitter: […]
This is a short game for several players about non-verbal communication and literal electrical resistance. Written with Toby Strauss and available in the Love & Resistance anthology of games.
Buzz and Fly is a Lasers & Feelings hack where you play a bee in a beehive. You can download it right here, for free. It’s CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. I started writing it at the end of June, 2020, set it aside while taking care of some travel and family stuff, and finished writing […]
Passport is a game I wrote with Toby Strauss. It’s a play-by-postal story game. Posting it now because Nick Golding posted his Love Letters and I remembered hey, we made a thing! Passport You will need: 2 or more players 1 small notebook (a moleskin cahier is perfect) Stamps and envelopes We are going on […]
As we all know, the collective for “clown” is “a horror of clowns.” Last month, I wrote “Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me” for Trilemma Games’ Patreon-sponsored blog. You can find it here for free to use and enjoy in your games. It’s a deviously clownish adventure about a town that suffers from dangerous insomnia after […]
I contributed the Pseudodragon entry in the Baby Bestiary, vol. 2! (Print | PDF) This was such a fun project to work on! Metal Weave Games posted asking for last-minute contributors after a couple of theirs backed out, and I jumped at the chance. I love pseudodragons, and had a lot of fun researching old monster manuals […]
I contributed the zombie events to the Book of Changing Years by Pelgrane Press. My entries are in the agent log for “Engineer Pritesh.” I had a ton of fun writing both this timeline, as well as the adventure that formed its inspiration. Now that Timewatch is officially out, I may use the SRD to publish it !
Threadbare is a role-playing game about being a broken toy in a post-apocalyptic broken world. It funded on Kickstarter in under 24 hours and ultimately raised over $11,000, with 7 stretch goals. It’s available on DriveThruRPG and Indie Press Revolution. I participate in Bits & Mortar, so if you buy a hard copy at a con […]
Earlier this year, a couple of editors put out a call for submissions to their small anthology of LGBT-written/themed games. A friend of mine did some brainstorming and wrote Mx. Universe, a live action role-playing game about being non-binary and getting fashion policed. There was a small prize pool for certain categories, and I’m pleased to […]
I contributed the 3-part campaign Mythics in Spaaace! for David Schirduan’s Mythic Mortals RPG about big fights and overpowered mythical beings. It was a lot of fun to write and playtest, and I made up a pretty solid structure for the adventure.
In 2014, I participated in the Secret Santicore swap. My dungeon the Golem Spa (or Golem Complex as it was printed) was an interesting take on an ancient underground assembly lab for a gigantic metal golem… and its female companion. I wrote about it a bit here when it was released in early 2015. You can download […]
Here’s The Ruins of Shelley’s World. Click the html version, or watch the slideshow!
A while back, I backed Elegy for a Dead World on Kickstarter, and it’s already a very rich world of writing prompts! Here is my first story, The Ruins of Byron’s World. I stuck pretty close to the writing prompt and didn’t skip ahead to see what was coming next, so my story is a somewhat predictable […]
Inspired by the GameChef 2015 theme and ingredients. This is a competitive physical game for one or more players. You will need: A note-taking device (notebook or cell phone with notepad app) A path or trail in a natural space (woods, wetlands, park, lake, field) Optional, but useful: A field guide Take a walk or run, […]
Pelgrane Press ran the Dracula Dossier kickstarter. As one of the stretch goals, I was hired to write a scenario for Night’s Black Agents, called Day of the Wehrwolf. Interestingly, the scenario is a standalone module– something you can play independent of the Dracula conspiracy. October, 2015: Day of the Wehrwolf is now available for Kickstarter backers in […]
Restless: A Very Special Holiday Horror This is a palette for J. Walton‘s game Restless (PDF). This palette is, in essence, a pre-defined apocalypse to use to tell your stories. Non-Survivors: The non-survivors are Santa’s Elves, driven mad with obsessive toy-making. They have broken free of the Workshop, overthrown their tyrannical master, and are now turning all the […]
Download as PDF. 日本でのダウンロード (Download in Japanese). Translation by Django. Español (in nanoludoteca: el titulo es Cápsula de Escape Uno). Translation by Juan Manuel Avila. September, 2015 Update: I wrote a blog post for Contessa about the process of designing a quick game! Winner of the 200 Word Challenge. Developer Statement: I woke up after a bad dream and decided […]
This is a hack to use the solo Tiny Dragons RPG and Epyllion together. Your entire Epyllion group must agree to the Tiny Dragon off-table game. Note: Tiny Dragons is a solo game. Epyllion is a group game. This hack attempts to reconcile the two games so you can play them with the same character. Character Sheet Conversion: Epyllion […]
download as PDF. Developer Statement: I ran an Epyllion campaign in 2014 for some friends of mine and their daughter. When the campaign ended, we picked up Dungeon World and decided to play it in Dragonia, but thousands of years later. Most magic is the human kind, but when our heroes encountered a dragon, we started […]
Last year, for my 39th birthday party, I threw a “Red and Wild” birthday party, inspired by To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. In the movie, Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo are drag queens who get stranded in middle America, where they teach others to let their freak flags fly. The movie is beautiful and […]
InvestigateaScene When you investigate a mystery, rolll+…. A Dungeon World and Gumshoe hack to add mystery investigation stories to your Dungeon World games.
Hannibal Crossing the Alps (2/4/14) TimeWatch has detected an anomaly in the continuum! It doesn’t sound too serious, but we’re pretty sure Hannibal wasn’t riding a triceratops over the mountains. Can your team fix it, rookie? Recruitment Drive (3/15/14) “Beware the Ides of March! No, I’m serious, guys– March 15th is, like, seriously a bad-luck day.” […]
MagicalWorldBuilder for printing out at home or reading on a computer ePub for use with many fine ereader devices MOBI for use with Kindles and MobiPocket software. In October, 2004, I posted 30 days of world-building exercises to theNaNoWriMo discussion forums. These are short, 15-minute exercises that can help you make crucial decisions about your world, […]
The Glass of Sand An island for Inverse World which I will release here just as soon as my players are done messing with it!
MusketgearsRPG v. 1.0 This is The Musketgears, a steampunk RPG set in mid-19th century France, during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III. The players take the roles of Codenames: Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and D’artagnan, the espionage successors to the original Musketeers. Now dedicated to protecting the weak and ushering in the Republique, the Musketgears are a […]
Night_of_the_Barrel Story game that fits on a beverage coaster in which you play a beer conspiring against other beers. Submit playtest feedback here!
d3Core “Crunchy” RPG game that fits on a quarter piece of paper and uses one d3 or df. Submit playtest feedback here.
KingsandQueens A deck building game for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. One game lasts 15-20 minutes. Materials: 2 decks of cards with the same backs. Object: To purchase the most queens before the end of the game.