TroyPress

RPGs • Interactive Fiction • Card Games • Miscellaneous

RPGs

• The Best-Delayed Plans is an ebook discussing preparation techniques for Game Masters.
• BLUELITE is a streamlined schematic hack of Holmes Basic.
• Fantastic Worlds collects many of the best writings from the Dungeon World Syllabus into one volume.
• 5E Skill System for Fantasy PbtA Games allows you to easily incorporate skills with your playbooks.
• Hard-Knock World is a streamlined tabletop roleplaying game where players adventure to learn new skills at the metaphorical ‘school of hard knocks’: advancement is open-ended, using broad fictional descriptions.
• Melee, Missiles & Magic is my homage to the first edition of Tunnels & Trolls and is a streamlined 9-page 3d6 TTRPG suitable for solitaire adventures, GM-ed games, or for writing gamebooks.
• Planet of the Week is my science-fiction PbtA game inspired by Star Trek, Stargate, and other episodic TV shows.
• Reflections on PbtA Design is a collection of essays that explores many facets of PbtA games.
• Uncommon World provides the most popular alternatives to Dungeon World moves, while maintaining compatibility with all the third-party material.

Interactive Fiction / Gamebooks

• A New Life in Auspele is my tribute to classic CYOA books, but with fewer sudden deaths.
• Suddenly an Ogre is a short gamebook using the Dungeon World system.
• Under the Blood-Red Mountain is a modern gamebook with a unique combat and inventory system.

Card Games

• How to Design Card Games outlines an agile approach to creating card games (physical games, not apps), with examples and design challenges. 
• Melee in the Mines is a 36-card microgame of tactical combat.
• Solitaire Square is a surprisingly addictive online game that requires you to place cards from a deck of cards numbered 1 to 80 into a 6x6 grid in ascending order. 

Miscellaneous

• Axis & Allies 1941 - ABC Variant are optional rules that streamline play while adding Technology Cards, to show how the rules of combat changed over the course of World War II.
• Castle Conquests is a one-page print-and-play game where 2 to 4 players try to besiege and capture castles worth the most victory points.
  
• Fith is my stack-based conlang, a fictional alien language difficult for humans.
• My web site has more card games, RPGs, and other types of games.