Game Design

Meet the Parasite, one of the monsters in our horror one-shot for The Persistence. We're looking for GMs and players to join a free beta test.

A spell list is a menu. Treat spells as sentences instead, a verb on an object, and a handful of symbols covers a near-infinite range.

Every fantasy world I imagined came out like wallpaper — colourful, busy, and thin. The problem wasn't a lack of imagination. It was bandwidth.

A rules-obsessed game master, a blow-up over fudged dice, and the table I walked away from — the origin of a system built on immersion first, rules a distant third.