Showing posts with label GM-free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GM-free. Show all posts
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Tenure or an eldritch roach in my head?

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I am pretty sure that my experiences with Jason Morningstar's designs started with Shab-al-Hiri Roach. He's designed Fiasco, which I...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Ancient Committee is an odd beast

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I read Ancient Committee is an Emo Band! (I'll just call it Ancient after this) because I needed a distraction while trying to write a b...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Laughing while Drowning and Falling

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Since I have been going through a bit of a Jason Morningstar phase lately, all thanks to the Grey Ranks which I will write about fairly soon...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Ocean as a game and a discussion

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I recently reread Ocean, partly to get myself back into reading RPGs for fun. I first read it when I was just starting to explore indie game...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Baron Munchausen - no prep, no GM, all fun!

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a game that has cast a long shadow over my gaming life and it's also had a heck of a...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Looking forward to someday getting lost in The House of Unusual Size

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The House of Unusual Size is not my favorite entry in the Free RPG's Harder Than Granite contest from back in 2013. (That's a toss u...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Microscope - building a history

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Microscope has been the GM-free RPG I have played the most over the past couple years. Quite frankly, it's the RPG that I've played ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Final Girl, your own schlock horror movie

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While I have yet to play The Final Girl, it's been a game that has been discussed in my circles for years. And, while its focus isn...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Vast and Starlit helps you develop your very own cold and uncaring universe

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Imagine, if you will, that you are an escaped convict from an intergalactic prison. You and your fellow escaped convicts have managed to t...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Choose Your Own Adventure is not GM-free

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In my researching GM-free systems, I came across the idea that gamebooks, like Choose Your Own Adventure books, are GM-free systems.  Wh...
Monday, March 21, 2016

A Trip to the Moon creates a safe environment to tell a sweet story

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The entire time I was reading A Trip to the Moon by Matthijs Holter, I had 'I'm Your Light in the Night Sky' from the Pajaminals...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Astrorobbers is a tiny RPG that might be too minimalist

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While I had been looking for Astrorobbers after Alessandro Piroddi referred to it in his design notes for The Name of God, I stumbled upon i...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Campaign for Name of God ends with a ton of extra goodies

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The Kickstarter for the Name of God has come to a close and it has passed and flying colors. Tons of stretch goals were met which means that...
Monday, March 14, 2016

What we talk about while sinking into the ocean

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In my endless quest for a quirky little role-playing games, the next game that I stumbled across is Until We Sink by Magnus Jakobsson. While...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Lexicon - an RPG about creating your own wiki

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Lexicon is a game that was just recommended to me by Russ Williams, all around brilliant member of BGG. Between my interest in GM free syste...
Monday, March 7, 2016

More thoughts on games without masters

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After looking at the Name of God, I got curious as to how many GM–free systems I have played over the years. As it turns out, I have played...

After actually reading The Name of God

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After enough people asked how exactly The Name of God worked, I wrote to Alessandro Piroddi to get permission to get the PDF of the first ed...