Category: misc games

In The Skeletons the players are skeletal guardians of a tomb. Threatened by an invader, the skeletons spring to life to stop them. Then they return to rest. When resting, the players lie down in a dark room, in complete silence.

We have started a game of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire. And not just any game: a three-party game with thirteen players. We’re on round three of ten and I’m already humbled, inspired, and in awe of what the players are creating.

Star Crossed is a 2019 roleplaying game by Alex Roberts. It’s for two people interested in playing out a romance. You might know it for its use of a Jenga tower, much like Dread. The tower of wooden blocks serves a similar purpose here, making the game’s tension tangible.

We played CY_BORG as a double feature, a two act game played over back to back days. I wanted to see how the classic cyberpunk fiction narrative would work.

Blood Borg is a modern, urban vampire take on Mörk Borg. It’s set in 198X, with players taking on the role of vampiric punks facing the society’s oppression as much as their own animal urges.

Corp Borg brings Borg to modern times, where capitalism has made deals with the devils, and the world is ending in an infernal, capitalist frenzy. Players are cogs in a corporate machine that is literally killing the society, or the world. But a better world without these corporations can be glimpsed.

I had always wanted to interject more of Philip K Dick into the game. […] What if the two Vissers with similar themes but very different details were in alternate dimensions, and their worlds would overlap for a brief time? How could that work?

Bad Sex is about roleplaying explicit, but bad, sex scenes, with the goal of driving maximum discomfort, embarrassment, and bleed – the characters’ frustration, shame, and awkwardness transferring to the players.

I started running the 1984 Call of Cthulhu campaign, Masks of Nyarlathotep. The version we’re playing is the 2014 “remaster”, which adds a whole introductory adventure and generally tidies up things.