Category: Games

  • How to run a Braunstein RPG

    If you’re reading this, you probably already know a little about Braunstein’s role in the history of role playing games. But if you want to read more see Ben Robbins’s article and my list of Braunstein resources. There is no published ruleset for playing Braunstein (the book published by Olde House Rules uses the name…

  • Trypophobia: A System-Neutral Scenario for Horror RPGs

    This scenario should take 2–8 hours to complete and is designed for use with most investigative horror games, such as Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, or Cthulhu Dark. A free PDF version is available from Itch.io (no registration required) or DrivethruRPG (you’ll need an account). What’s Going On Afghanistan war veteran and former opioid addict…

  • Logomancy: A System-Neutral Scenario for Horror RPGs

    This is an existential horror scenario for tabletop role playing games like Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark, Delta Green, or generic systems like Savage Worlds or Genesys. I originally ran it in Delta Green, but it’s designed to be system neutral. If you want a simple, free system to run this with, I recommend the…

  • data.cult: A Weird Corporation for Modern RPG Settings

    This fictional company is part of the Destiny City role playing game setting. data.cult is secretive analytics and data brokerage company founded by former WitchTel employee Raymond Fabrice in the early 2003. data.cult keeps its customer list quiet but includes foreign governments and international corporations. Fabrice had been a linguistics and symbolic logic professor but…

  • WitchTel: A Weird Corporation for Modern RPG Settings

    This fictional company is part of the Destiny City role playing game setting. WitchTel was founded in the early 70s by Alexis and Hamilton Creed. The couple studied mathematics at the University of Berkeley in the 60s, but dropped out amidst the booming counter culture of the times. They were infatuated with New Age philosophy…

  • Destiny City: Introduction

    Destiny City is the most populous city in the Pacific Northwestern United States. With a population of 1,199,450, it’s the 9th largest city in the United States and the third largest on the west coast. Destiny City started as a small logging settlement and grew rapidly after many Chinese people settled there after the anti-Chinese…

  • Destiny City

    Destiny City is both a fictional city and a collection of resources you can use in any modern RPG setting, including urban fantasy, superheroes, horror, or crime campaigns. Setting Info Introduction Pocket Guide to Destiny City Companies Witchtel data.cult Tables D20 Places in a Gentrified Neighborhood and What They Used to Be

  • Mission Driven: Cyberpunk RPG Adventures in the Present Day

    Why another cyberpunk game? Unlike other cyberpunk games, Mission Driven takes place in the modern world, not the future. Nor is it based on an alternate history or a retro-futurist imaging of what people in the 1980s thought 2020 would look like. It’s based on our real world. You can download the playtest version for…

  • Games

    One-Page Games Be the Media: A roleplaying game about documentary filmmakers trying to right wrongs in their communities. The main file is three pages. The first page is a character sheet and all the rules on one page. It’s all you need. There’s also a GM reference sheet with rules and space to write notes…

  • D20 Places in a Gentrified Neighborhood and What They Used to Be

    For use in any urban campaign. d20 places in a gentrified or gentrifying neighborhood. Roll or pick: 1. Trendy restaurant*2. Condos3. Parking lot full of food trucks4. Urban winery5. Coffee shop6. Boutique*7. “Natural” grocery store8. Quantum crystal healing clinic9. Marijuana dispensary10. Bike shop11. Parkour gym12. Climbing gym13. Electric car show room14. Vape lounge15. Upscale pet…