clover

Clover is a game about an adventurous five year old girl and her life and her friends. Her name is Clover. To play the game, you must devote an some time to play it with your friends. In playing, you imagine this girl and her friends in their lives, asking questions and saying what they say and what they do. There is no way to win. You just play because the experience is fun. So don’t play it...
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Homage to Ninshubar

You are all women; you are all slaves. Your goddess — called by many names but here Ninshu or the Lady in Chains — is a slave goddess, captured by alien gods and forced to serve them. She answers the prayers of ants, bees, slaves and prisoners: those whose will is not their own. Homage to Ninshubar (PDF link) is a work in...
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Unforgivable

Your head hurts so much you can barely see. The light is fluorescent and sickly flickering, not enough to fill the darkness. Stand up. Your clothes are filthy, and something smells like old piss. That hissing is the sound of a radio, tuned to a dead channel. Fumble around. Where are you? When you push yourself to your feet the blood rushes from your head and you almost pass out again. There is a...
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Beloved

Beloved is a role-playing game for one player. Your beloved has been kidnapped by monsters. Only you, the hero, can rescue her. [pdf link] Warning: this game may be a...
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High Quality Roleplaying

This is a world of magic, a world of monsters, and most importantly a world of heroes. The heroes of this world ride boldly into battle, they single-handedly take down armies, they fight giants and dragons in hand-to-hand combat, they rescue princesses, and they win kingdoms. They are grand, mighty, and destined from birth. Their deeds are song and legend even as they are done. You are not one of...
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忍

忍 is a role-playing game for 3-6 players, played in individual sessions of 1-2 hours each. The game text assumes that you will string these individual sessions together into an over-arching many session game, but does not assume that you will have the same group of players, or even the same sized group, from session to session. You can easily play the game with who-ever shows up. History The...
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On the Ecology of the Mud Dragon

On the Ecology of the Mud Dragon is a game about stupid little dragons and their stupid little adventures, in the spirit of the old Dragon Magazine backup features and other fantasy-comedy comix. It’s easy to learn, takes only about an hour to play, and is totally hilarious. The book is 38 pages long, profusely illustrated by Kevin Moore, and available for sale for $15 + shipping and...
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Journeying West

I wrote a supplement for Joshua AC Newman’s Under the Bed, which is an excellent game itself, transforming it into a game about the famous Chinese pilgrimage. Follow Tripataka’s journey from Chang’an (modern Xi’an) to India and back in search of Buddhist scriptures, aided by his magical traveling companions. You can buy it here. It costs $3 + $2 shipping ($4...
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XXXXtreme STREET luge

XXXXtreme STREET luge is the revolutionary role-playing game which is rocking both the world of street luge and the world of role-playing games with both hands. Yes, both of them. With both hands. That’s how much it rocks. The game is about XXXXtreme street lugers who vaguely resemble Vin Diesel. There’s also the magazine, XXXXtreme-o-phile, famous for the “Beyond Your Mom With...
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The Drifter’s Escape

The Drifter’s Escape is an anthology of short stories and a role-playing game. Like most anthologies, there is a unified theme to the entries: they are all about the role of the American drifter, and his place in the American landscape. The stories and the game do not intersect except thematically. There are seven stories, ranging in length from three pages to nineteen, and they are all...
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Bliss Stage

Right now, right this moment, right as you read these words, humanity is struck down by an alien force from beyond the limits of our understanding. It is the first blow of a terrible war. Seven years later, armed with a technology you cannot understand and can barely operate, you will strike back. This is how. Bliss Stage is a role-playing game about teenage pilots fighting back against alien...
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Polaris

Polaris is a role-playing game about the dying days of the people, about how their bravest knights struggled against the Mistaken and their sun while the very people that they defended choked themselves in in their own self-indulgence. Polaris has several innovative game mechanics that have often been imitated by never repeated. The entire game is framed and played through use of specific key...
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