TroyPress
RPGs • Interactive Fiction • Card Games • Miscellaneous
RPGs
- The Best-Delayed Plans is an ebook discussing preparation techniques for Game Masters.
- BLUELITE is a streamlined schematic hack of Holmes Basic.
- Fantastic Worlds collects many of the best writings from the Dungeon World Syllabus into one volume.
- 5E Skill System for Fantasy PbtA Games allows you to easily incorporate skills with your playbooks.
- Hard-Knock World is a streamlined tabletop roleplaying game where players adventure to learn new skills at the metaphorical ‘school of hard knocks’: advancement is open-ended, using broad fictional descriptions.
- Melee, Missiles & Magic is my homage to the first edition of Tunnels & Trolls and is a streamlined 9-page 3d6 TTRPG suitable for solitaire adventures, GM-ed games, or for writing gamebooks.
- Reflections on PbtA Design is a collection of essays that explores many facets of PbtA games.
- Uncommon World provides the most popular alternatives to Dungeon World moves, while maintaining compatibility with all the third-party material.
Interactive Fiction / Gamebooks
- A New Life in Auspele is my tribute to classic CYOA books, but with fewer sudden deaths.
- Suddenly an Ogre is a short gamebook using the Dungeon World system.
- Under the Blood-Mountain is a modern gamebook with a unique combat and inventory system.
Card Games
- How to Design Card Games outlines an agile development approach to creating card games, with examples and design challenges.
- Melee in the Mines is a 36-card microgame of tactical combat.
Miscellaneous
- Axis & Allies 1941 - ABC Variant are optional rules that streamline play while adding Technology Cards, to show how the rules of combat changed over the course of World War II.
- Castle Conquests is a one-page print-and-play game where 2 to 4 players try to besiege and capture castles worth the most victory points.
- Fith is my stack-based conlang, a fictional alien language difficult for humans.
- My web site has more card games, RPGs, and other types of games.
Essays and Reviews of Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPGs
A Polynesian Artlang
Dangers & Discoveries for 88 Places for Your Fantasy PbtA Games
Express Rules and R&D Cards
Streamlined Schematic TTRPG for Level 1-3 PCs
Using agile development to make card games
A mashup of WoDu & 5E for Dungeon World and its hacks
A stack-based conlang
Open-Source Fantasy PbtA
A Dungeon World Gamebook
A print-and-play 36-card game of tactical combat
An homage to first edition Tunnels & Trolls
A print-and-play game of sieges
A solitaire-adventure gamebook
An Anthology of Resources for Fantasy PbtA Games
Adventurers master new skills learnt from the game world