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Now available from As If Books:

Vidome 123 – a DayTrippers Adventure

Drir is a planet of poisonous swirling mists and intense humidity. Wisps and dark clouds of blue and green gases drift casually about without mixing, like oil and water, creating layers of shadow and subtle motion as far as the eye can see in all directions....

Luminarium Two: Bright Manifest

Who would you hurt to achieve justice? Former war hero Jenna Ridley, seeking a new rebellion Intergalactic fugitive Trevor McVee, out to avenge his father's murder Shape-shifting killer Windicott Ames, fearful he'll never find peace As their dark paths lead...

ImageLabs User Guide

Covering all aspects of image generation from basic prompt engineering to advanced operations like inpainting and style conversions, the ImageLabs User Guide is your quick-start to creating your own AI-assisted original content today, using the ImageLabs AI...

Less Little – a DayTrippers Adventure

On a routine Exploration mission for a reality-hopping travel agency, the crew encounters a Flux Storm and something goes horribly wrong. The PCs find themselves in a comedic and surreal situation, dealing with a cast of neurotic NPCs, trapped in a world...

Pocket Things

Pocket Things is a silly little storygame for people with pockets, and things in them. Guest appearances by Chuck Norris possible, but not guaranteed. NOW AVAILABLE AT: DrivethruRPG Itch.io

Watch the World Die

Watch the World Die is a collaborative narrative game allowing any number of players to create their own custom apocalypse. There are no winners, and everybody loses. Get ready to ruin everything. Are you planning a post-apocalyptic campaign? WTWD can help...

DayTrippers Core Rules

Inspired by the surrealistic science fiction of Moebius, Moorcock, Rucker, Weinbaum, Heinlein, Vance, and other masters of weirdness, the DayTrippers system can be used for either "GM-Lite" collaborative play or heavily-prepped campaigns. The system uses d6s...

Black Hole Run – a DayTrippers Adventure

The PCs travel to the survey station Perdurabo: a mobile space laboratory in orbit around a stellar black hole. Their mission is to perform a series of temporal resistance experiments just outside the Event Horizon – a dangerously near approach that has...

UbiquiCity 2: UnderCurrents

Beneath the smartglass towers, hovering drones and digital advertisements of Union City's corporate elite, life on the streets follows its own cyber-organic rhythms... » Powerful corporations fight wars through proxies, and digital reality is the battlefield...

COLLUDIUM ONE

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

Under the As If imprint, I write, edit and publish fiction (mostly of the speculative variety) and games (mostly of the roleplaying variety).

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Publishing Services

Preparation of your manuscript for publication in both print and electronic formats

Game Consultation

In-depth analysis and suggestions for improvement of game rules and organization

Documentation

Concise and comprehensive manuals and guides for your software or group activity

As If Websites

A surreal science-fiction reality-hopping roleplaying game

DayTrippersRPG.com

A directory of indie RPGs and storygames

Fictioneers.net

A collaborative anthology set in a fractopian world

UbiquiCity.com

A vision of the future, not utopian or dystopian, but fractured

ThisIsFractopia.com

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ImageLabs User Guide

ImageLabs User Guide

Covering all aspects of image generation from basic prompt engineering to advanced operations like inpainting and style conversions, the ImageLabs User Guide is your quick-start to creating your own AI-assisted original content today, using the ImageLabs AI Editor....

Anthropic Partnership

Anthropic Partnership

I've been accepted to the partners program at Anthropic, makers of the "Claude" AI. With access to the API and remote capabilities, you can look forward to groundbreaking new developments in interactive fiction bots and generative experiences, including the next...

DayTrippers GM Bot

DayTrippers GM Bot

DayTrippers GM Bot — Now On Poe!  Want to play a game but nobody's available to GM?  Come meet the GM Bot, and play some DayTrippers! https://poe.com/DayTrippersGM  

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Original Content

Fiction, nonfiction, technical articles, website content and marketing copy for the small and weird

Editorial Services

Proofreading, Line Editing, Copy Editing, Developmental Editing and Consulting for works of fiction

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Information Architecture

Organization of content for optimal concision and understanding, on the web or in print

Publishing Services

Preparation of your manuscript for publication in both print and electronic formats

Game Consultation

In-depth analysis and suggestions for improvement of game rules and organization

Documentation

Concise and comprehensive manuals and guides for your software or group activity

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As If Books publishes fiction (mostly of the speculative variety)
and games (mostly of the roleplaying variety).