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game designs for your game design

ASCII Map Editor for tile-based games with dungeon generator.

brainstorm ideas for games

Quick and free fantasy maps for your role playing games

Let our monsters love, let our heroes fail

A manifesto about the ways we hurt each other.

failure can and should be fun

a game to use until you make your own

Fill in the blanks and be your own designer

A creative activity. It's not a game, but it's an activity about tabletop RPGs.

how much information can we extract from a single roll

A Side Game to play along your favorite RPG

Guide to hacking games based on Blades in the Dark

Anti-Sisyphus guest issue by John geary

Oldschool Dungeon Crawler Gamebook created for the NanoGenMo

A little tool that makes up TTRPG names

To be read from time to time.

a faux academic discussion about group consensus

Affinity Publisher + A. InDesign (one-page micro-TTRPG template)

A handy-dandy generator/prompt for making micro-RPGs

Collaboratively design your own larp

a set of rules for designing games

An RPG Generator based on What's So Cool About Outer Space?

An essay about how to make tabletop games capture genre fiction

A primer for amateur designers to make their first Blades in the Dark hack

A short essay on how start making games for free! (with template links)

An essay by a philosophy Ph.D. on games, philosophy, and the connections between them

A heuristic theory for modeling and visualizing effects on player interactions of various game designs.