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THIS JAM IS FOR TTRPGS (PHYSICAL GAMES) ONLY. 

Anyone who is a TTRPG designer that makes more experimental, experiential, one page, lyric, or micro games knows the review/collection comment "This isn't really a game." "This isn't really a TTRPG." Well, now is the time where we gather all of these  games designers and tell them to make something that is exactly in the same vein as what is said about their own work. 

Really, this jam is about art and pushing up against the boundary of game, poetry, prose, and something that is all of it at once. This jam is about the nature of games as art and how we see them when they step out of our expectations. This jams goal is to help you make something you are proud of no matter how many pages, lore, or (lack of) mechanics.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

  • Something that would make people say "This is not a TTRPG/Game" or "this is barely a TTRPG". You know the comments and reviews folks like to leave on lyric and micro games.
  • can be solo or group play
  • design towards the weird, the mundane, the odd little ephemeral moments of your life. 
  • challange yourself towards new forms of play, there's many schools of thought. Find a new one, have fun.
  • Remember, all of these ARE TTRPGs! Just because you don't like or understand it doesn't mean it's not art and doesn't have something to say.

RULES of CONDUCT:

  • NO GENAI, whatsoever.
  • No Bigots. No MAGA, transphobes, queerphobes, racists, none of it. 
  • Your game MUST be a TTRPG! (Not a video Game!)
  • Submissions can be New (New also counts as getting new layout, new grammar fixes, new art).
  • Multiple submissions are allowed and encouraged.
  • Be polite, be kind

If you'd like, you can join the Jellyfishlines Discord server for ease of communication.

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A quick rules light roguelike Sci-Fi TTRPG
You are never mentioned in any scary stories, time to change that...
Ephemera to assist with spell creation.
Role Playing
Every person is a player. Death is permanent. Results are real. And the goal is to ascend.
A denpa lynchian train-based narrative game
A cursed sandwich generator, contained to 36 words.
Generate otherworldly coffee and change your life.
A solo RPG about dreams that last much longer than a night.
Escape the facility! A game on a bookmark.
pull at it
Role Playing
War of the Worlds - TTRPG Bookmark Jam 2025
A bookmark game
Drift through the arctic ocean for centuries
Create a world where shapes have meaning and take action.
a solo, journaling game about about caring for Cloud Nine
A fortune teller game for when your adventure ends.
Roll Dice, dig deep, find what you yearn for
a shapeshifter’s tale 
of rewriting their own bodys (lyric solo game)
Interactive Fiction
a drawing game for one entity
Yup. What the title says.
A live action role playing game of magic, affirmation, and gossip in the pre-Alpine plains
A tiny divination game for the remnants of your snack
A game for Katie. I hope Gabriel Can find some peace somewhere in here.
Language is power. Cut wisely.