Hello! Two things:
1) I've mailed out all the packages including Uncanny Rally, Big Bang Superstars and Cluedon't - UK people should have 'em by today, and everyone else should receive them within the next fortnight.
2) This month's game may be a little late. It'll still arrive in September BUT it's changed from a one-page game into a charming little booklet, so it needs a bit more ...
2021-09-17 09:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Quick update: For those of you who get physical copies of the games, I've just sent off Uncanny Rally, Big Bang Superstars and Cluedon't off to Mixam. I should get the prints next week!
Sasha had two ideas for roleplaying games: something about ADD and something about Himbos. (And also: shimbos, thembos, etc.) I went for the easier option.
For the uninitiated: ...
2021-08-20 16:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostCreating games with other designers has been an interesting experience, and the most interesting part of it so far has been trying to keep up with Chloe Mashiter's tremendous, no-brakes-downhill, feverish trumpet solo of a mind. They have multiple ideas per second, and most of those ideas are pretty good.
We sat in my gar...
2021-07-22 16:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a collaboration with Nathan Blades, who you can find @phantomartsent on Twitter or arslingua.co.uk not on Twitter.
BIG BANG SUPERSTARS started out as something a bit more poignant. We were working w...
2021-06-24 12:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostHELLO AND WELCOME to my first of twelve collaborations - a game I made with Chris McDowall about trying to talk normally whilst being unable to talk normally and, if you do something weird, your arm turns into a big cannon which causes problems at your new job. Something which we all have experience of, I'm sure.
(If you want to learn more about Chris McDowall, and why wouldn't you, you c...
2021-05-20 15:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostTo physical backers: I'm sorry that I haven't sent out the paper copies of the games for the last three months yet. All the back pages are done but I'm going to send out all four of them later on this month - Once Upon a Crime, Predestined, Administrative Carnage and FETCH, which is attached below. All the back pages are written and illustrated and ready to go to the printers.
I've made t...
2021-04-15 09:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostRight, so:
I've been doing this "one game a month" malarkey for five years, now. I've only missed one month out of the many available - two months, if you count the 20,000-word Adventure Calendar as missing a month, which I don't, so there. I'm up to 52 or so.
I often joke that I ran out of ideas about three months in, and while that isn't true, it's getting harder to come up ...
2021-04-05 10:09:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a sequel, of sorts, to NICE MARINES - in this you play a group of assistants, gofers and general dogsbodies for a Space Marine who's stomping about doing a battle. It's kind of a cross between Warhammer and Paranoia, both of which I obviously have a fondness for.
I hope you have fun, and that at least one of you survives and gets a promotion!
I'm going to be changing up the ...
2021-03-19 18:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-one years after the release of the first film and a FULL DECADE after the most recent installment came out, I've just now worked out how to make Final Destination into a game. Excellent timing, Grant.
Hope you like it - it's very straightforward, very few moving parts, and mainly designed as a way to build gruesome co-incidental manslaughter machines where a horse runs into a bunch...
2021-02-22 11:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Please enjoy this game, a sort of focused evolution of Trashkin I suppose, where you play objectionable bastards who are invading a charming fairytale kingdom to try and steal as much as they can. The more you steal, the more powerful you become (but the more trouble you can get in).
For those of you who are awaiting physical copies of games - apologies for the delay. W...
2021-01-11 12:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a long time since I've done an Animal Crime game. This might be my last one. I hope you like it - you're a bird who intends to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, and if you need any more impetus to read the game, you're on the wrong Patreon.
Much love,
- Grant
P.S. I've updated the game with some info on different card values, and what to do with Jokers...
2020-11-23 13:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostFans of my work will recognise the core of this game is Honey Heist (I even wrote it at the top in case non-fans of my work see it) - and I have a few reasons for that.
1) I've never worked with the Honey Heist rules-set before! It's fun, and I felt like it worked well for this.
2) I came up with the title first and the rest kind of fell into place.
3) I'm working on something...
2020-10-21 15:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostYOU are a teenage girl who has to deal with all the regular worries of people your age - getting good grades at school, the expectations of the adults around you, falling in and out of love, and staying abreast of all the latest news about your friends. And as if that’s not enough, when you get too stressed, you transform into a skyscraper-sized monster and start demolishing the city! Can...
2020-09-22 13:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostI read INTO THE WYRD AND WILD last week (again) and I felt inspired by it - I wanted to make something similar but smaller, about a specific location and the broken humans that inhabit it.
A lot of my games are about concepts that can be maneuvered into a variety of locations and this is the opposite of that. It's about a small party of outcasts venturing into named woods, and the p...
2020-08-24 12:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to write a game about being 15.
Then I put goblins in it because you need to keep things like that at arm's length, you know?
Anyway.
- Grant
2020-07-22 17:24:37 +0000 UTC View PostYou know how football originated, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football
Well: I wrote a game about it. Also: a game that emulates schlocky sports films where the rival team cheats all the time but no-one stops them. Also: a game where the rules are determined by whacked-out...
2020-06-19 12:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's another 5e sourcebook. To hell with it - put us in charge of the fucken dungeongame, we'll run it into the goddamn ground but it'd be beautiful, wouldn't it
Much love,
- G+C
2020-05-29 10:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostSpace Marines: eternally popular. But why do we only get to see them do WAR stuff? In NICE MARINES, you play Space Marines tasked with minor diplomatic tasks - but you can't help but destroy almost everything you touch. It's either a stark and enlightening commentary on the military-industrial complex, or a farce about knocking over golden statues and crushing dozens of civilians underneath the...
2020-05-21 16:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostSomething of an experiment, this one - I wanted to see if I could saw off the Resistance System (the one that Chris and I wrote that powers Heart and Spire) into a single page, and also stick some setting in there too.
Sepulchre is a testament to my ability to make paragraphs as small as humanly possible whilst still leaving them vaguely legible. If you're having problems reading th...
2020-04-17 15:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostChris and I collaborated on this one; I hope you like it. It was originally intended as a means of running rules-lite prologue games of Delta Green, but we gave it it's own setting when we released it as a one-pager.
It's... brutal. You get worse and more fragile the longer the game goes on. It's about dying and going mad or maybe surviving? Let's find out together.
- Grant&nb...
2020-03-11 11:51:47 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the deal: you're a badass cyberpunk warrior, and like all badass cyberpunk warriors, you've been betrayed by your employers. They're draining your bank accounts, and without credit, your implants are starting to shut down. Can you enact your terrible revenge before you lose the ability to walk, see or use your hands?
Let's find out!
Have fun,
- Grant
P.S. Got all ...
2020-02-10 17:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt's January, so of course I wrote a game that takes place in August.
This is an attempt to create something softer than my usual stuff - even the anti-establishment stuff is gentle compared to, say, Goat Crashers or Kobold Endeavour. WIDOMH (great acronym Grant) is designed to emulate kids' TV shows: the main characters don't operate on the same level of reality as everyone else, the wor...
2020-01-17 12:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis is an adaptation of a game I wrote many years ago - Sean Bean Quest, which comes as part of the Goblin Quest book. I've overhauled the system to reflect more modern design and given it a proper structure, bringing it from a loose improv storytelling game to a slightly less loose improv storytelling game.
(Also I took out all the maths and I stuck a load of pictures of Sean Bean...
2019-12-07 09:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn this game you play either a vampire or a mortal and, basically, you have terrible relationships with one another. It's written fairly straight, in as much as I haven't written much in the way of explicit gags into the text - I think that the drama and humour will arise naturally out of play. I hope it will, anyway!
The mechanics are inspired by 2019-11-20 15:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A horror game about scouts!
We wanted to do this one as a LARP, ages and ages ago, mainly because pretty much all LARPs are run at scout campsites anyway so it felt like a good fit. We never got past the planning stage, so: now it's a one-page horror game.
Oh, and GM: try to put the player characters in danger as much as possible. They'll thank you for it in the end.
... 2019-10-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWotcher chums, it's time for September's one-page roleplaying game! Tremendously happy to unveil REVERSE BEASTMASTER, a collaboration between me and Nate Crowley. You play a bunch of people who can't help but take orders from animals, but to balance things out, you also play the animals giving the orders.
TIME TO OVERTHROW A ZOO, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT.
2019-09-27 08:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello, so:
I’m going to be pretty busy over the next few months getting Heart to the point where we can publish it. To that end, I’m going to collaborate with Frog Croakley - for the next game, at least - to take some of the strain off me.
Frog - also known as Nate Crowley, the author of The Sea Hates a Coward, house writer at Rock Paper Shotgun and an all-around good p...
2019-09-19 17:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
You probably know about it already.
But on the off-chance you haven't heard yet, I'm doing a Kickstarter for a full-length hard-back illustrated-by-a-professional roleplaying game called Heart: The City Beneath. It's a game about dungeon-crawling, madness, body horror and hope in the darkness beneath the earth, and I'm really proud of what we've managed to do with it so far.
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2019-09-17 12:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostSEXY BATTLE WIZARDS is all well and good, but sometimes you just need some tragic body horror to freshen things up. THE WITCH HOUSE is a prequel to THE WITCH IS DEAD, the very first one-page game I put out through this patreon. You've been taken by the witch, and she's changed you into something less than human. Can you kill her and escape? Probably not. But at least you'll be able to tell a ho...
2019-08-22 11:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostI am proud to announce the release of SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS, a game in which you are sexy battle wizards, and your three stats are SEXY, BATTLE and WIZARD. Instead of healing you drink cocktails and it is possible to literally explode from embarrassment. I hope you like it.
(On the subject of mail-outs: I'm really sorry they're late, I've been trying to work out which is the best print serv...
2019-07-19 09:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post