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Other Games The Itch of Groundhoggoth!

Just to keep my hand in for Spooky Season, I present this hack of Lasers & Feelings, inspired by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the original Gothic Horror literature it draws upon.

In Gentle & Extraordinary, you are a League of remarkable & outstanding individuals, brought together by your shared experiences with the Darkness. Your purpose is to protect ordinary citizens from the denizens of the night, even if it means embracing the Darkness to fight evil with evil. Unfortunately the chairman of the League, Captain Flint, has disappeared, possibly seduced by the power of the night, so now the organisation is in disarray as they attempt to carry on without him.
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Riding the wave of that post-convention energy, I have made two nano games in a Double Feature; please enjoy responsibly.

Let's Just Stay Here
The scene: a bedroom, the floor strewn with discarded armour, weapons and other inventory items. The covers stir over two entangled forms. “We ought to get up…” a voice murmurs; another responds “Five more minutes…” and does something to elicit a giggle from the first. The adventurers are off-the-clock for now.

A game for a couple to play in bed, heavy on improv, light on rules, intimacy is a requirement.

This Card is a Demon
A game on a business card! Print it out, name & describe your Demon, then choose an everyday activity that a person might perform and write it on the card; when someone you're talking to does the thing on the card, pass the card to them and they get all the fun of being possessed! Manipulate your friends! Fight for supremacy over all other Demons!

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I've started writing a series of prompt-driven games using a standard deck of playing cards and a list of statements & questions tied to each card, under the banner title of Foretold.

The first of these is out now; In Its Shadow is a dark tale of Hunters tracking down the supernatural Beast who has dragged its long shadow across the land, bringing darkness in its wake.
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The second in my "Foretold" series of prompt-driven narrative games has been released! "Mile's End" features a group of friends reunting for a pub crawl to relive past glories, open old wounds and put some ghosts to rest, perhaps literally.

Tonight is also the first playtest of my third "Foretold" game, the space-opera narrative "From Earth"!
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Here it is, a long overdue update of Liquid Soap, the daytime soap-opera PbtA 'toy' I wrote a few years back. I've been extremely happy with the response to this game, but there were a few little things that bothered me, namely some ambiguity around a c1740125011674.pngouple of the basic moves and the 'Arcs' system that I felt didn't exploit the full potential of the game.

The new 'Story Arcs' system comes at that idea from a completely different direction, enabling the whole table to choose a set of arcs that suits their game and making them accessible to more of the players instead of just one or two per arc. Drop this new tech into your game then sit back and watch the fireworks!

Along with a little editing here & there that you might not even notice, the new edition provides just a little more support, guidance and clarification for play. Get your friends together and form your own Writers' Room right now so you can start producing the soap opera of your wildest dreams, or nightmares!
 
Never to Die is a game of neglected youth doing awful things, because they don't have anything better to do. It was first playtested back at some popular UK conventions back in 2010, so if you vaguely remember it, yes, it is that game. Please play with care and with love. N2D.png
 
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