For the past year or so, I've been hard at work on a gigantic new game design: DIE in a Dungeon.
It's a solo/cooperative version of the original game design I pulled the DUNGENERATOR dungeon-generating cards out of, and it's probably the coolest thing I've made so far!
If you want to read more about it (and see more cool pictures and art), go here:
I was honored to team up with prolific TTRPG writer Grant Howitt (Spire, Heart, Goblin Quest, Honey Heist) earlier this year to create ORC BORG: a standalone, space-orc-themed, Mork-Borg-powered romp in the form of a big, loud zine!
In it you'll find, amongst other things:
Everything you need to make an obsessive weirdo desperately trying to accelerate the apocalypse
New guns, powered and unpowered melee weapons, and lots of miscellaneous bits and pieces to steal from anyone foolish enough to leave them unguarded on account of being dead
Rules for piloting, fighting and stealing legendary Big Robots such as BANG TEN THOUSAND, MASSIVE PROBLEM, and RUST BITCH
Cybernetic limb replacement rules and a unique orc cyborg class called, ingeniously, the ORCBORG
Guidance for jamming existing dungeon maps into the Derelict to avoid doing any actual prep work
Two new kinds of Power: distilled Technowizardry (Summon a monorail car! 3D-print your dinner!) and yell-powered Orc Prayers (Make guns much louder, and therefore much deadlier! Get twice as big!)
You'll also be able to roll up new orcs on the fly with GENERATORC, a free web-based character generator! They wiggle around and make noises, even!
and it's a deck of cards used to generate dungeons! There are 52 room cards with 60+ pieces of hand-inked art by me, with a clever mechanism that ensures each dungeon is twisty, organic, and full of nice visual prompts for you (or your DM)!
WORMFOOD is a casual twin-stick shooter that injects you into the belly of a giant space-beast and asks you to select targets, rotate and position your bio-ship in order to survive!
It's a tabletop engine-building / resource management game that aims to be quick to play and balance thoughtful planning with a hint of primate-powered chaos.
Each player represents a global superpower in an alternate-dimension 1960s Space Race, hoping to be the first to smash a rocketship into the Moon, thereby claiming it as their own!
The problem:
Nobody has the technology to reach the Moon.
The solution:
Launch those rockets anyway, manned by disposable monkeys, and build them during the journey!
TFDND is a fantasy-themed mini-pod that roams the Seas of Pod, playing a loose role-playing game with other podcasts! PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR A WORLD OF FANTASY AND ADVENTURE! TFDND can be found at https://tfdnd.podbean.com/ or on your favorite podcast app! (If it's not on there now, shoot me a message at tfdnd.rules@gmail.com and I'll rectify the situation.) TFDND can also be found on Twitter @TF_DND!
It is the near future. Mankind has sent their first colonists to Mars. Amid dust storms and equipment failures, lagging morale amongst the crew, and the arrival of an Alien Super-Being, colony commander Major Syrtis has begun to go insane. Deep within Major Syrtis' mind, the forces of Hope, Madness, and the influence of the Super-Being wage a war for control.
TO PLAY, YOU'LL NEED:
- A printed copy of this file (2 pages)
- 3 to 6 Players
- 1 Deck of 54 standard playing cards (including 2 Jokers)
- About 30 minutes
This is a quick, print 'n' play hidden-team game inspired by The Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars film, created for an upcoming FL coloring book. It is meant to be playable with few materials, and is presented as free of charge for the purposes of beta testing.
Please have fun, share it if you like it, and share feedback and questions below!
