I hung out with the Happy Little Screamers recently, and we taped it. In this hour-long convo we drifted over a range of topics including game design theory, RPG rules & settings, fractopian fiction, cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, anachronistic stone-soup omnipunk,...
In December 2020 I was invited by Lev Lafayette to speak at the "Year of the Stainless Steel Rat" conference on Cyberpunk. My special area of expertise, of course, was tabletop roleplaying games. In my address I traced the history of the genre as it intersected with...
A PlotField is comprised of all objects, characters and locations which may interact in a prepared setting. The PlotField Diagram illustrates the relations between them at a glance. The diagram does not define any actual plot, but describes the field from which a plot...
Last year my weird little parlor game "Watch the World Die" was translated into French by La Caravelle Association. Today I was DMd by a Korean TTRPG player who wants to translate it as well. Watching the World Die is truly a global sport, y'all....
Monsters, ghosts and demons are all real. You know this, because you kill them. Most people have no idea any of this is going on, and you like it that way. Let them sleep peacefully. You're the exception. The oddball. The watcher. The hunter. Fortunately, you're not...
CORE MICRO is a hybrid roleplaying game engine: it uses traditional RPG concepts & narrativist techniques for character-driven emergent story. The design focuses on simplicity, speed, and improvization. Everything is on the same scale. All actions use a single...
Since March of 2017 the DayTrippers campaign at Legends of Tabletop has been a monthly event, with regular podcasts streaming live on YouTube, and edited audio versions (complete with sound effects thanks to host/producer John Haremza) archived at SoundCloud. These...
TABLOO is a free interactive table design and formatting tool for RPG Designers and GameMasters. https://asifproductions.com/tabloo/
COLLUDIUM ONE is a bundle of 17 indie RPGs and storygames by 15 small press designers for less than 40 bucks. Now Available at DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/288957/Colludium-One-small-press-games-BUNDLE
WATCH THE WORLD DIE, my collaborative game of custom apocalypse - has hit SILVER status! That means it's selling at or above the 90th percentile of games available on DrivethruRPG, which deserves a WOOT! You can pick up a copy here:...
I was recently a guest (for the second time!) on one of my favorite podcasts - Fictoplasm - for a discussion with Ralph Lovegrove, who did a great job of making sure I hit all the important bullet points despite my discursive nature. Topics include... • What is...
Fictioneers are designers, facilitators and explorers of collaborative fictional spaces, otherwise known as "Roleplaying Games" and "Storygames." Fictioneers.net is a directory of the games they play, and conversations about the things they do. In addition to its...