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Martina "Sparkle" Magdová (Remorkér) Interview - Kalusa: The Enchanted City

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 I did editing for the intro adventure of a project that's now live on Backerkit ! It's a post-modern fantasy city setting inspired by Prague, full of cats, and the adventure is a complex story of a ship and its sailors/passengers across 4 different moments in its history. I spoke with Sparkle, the lead writer on the project, about Prague's influence on her work, the importance of diversity, and the experience of translation, both across languages and systems. The team is based in Czechia, so they first translated the 60-page preview into English themselves, then had me revise it for clarity and cultural sensitivity. It was a fascinating experience to work on a translation project, and the worldbuilding has a distinctive combination of tones: both whimsy - talking cats! dust fairies! a magical being made of doormats! did I mention the cats! - and real darkness - inequality, debt bondage, suicide. It feels like if Terry Pratchett wrote about darker themes in addition to the ...
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Fantasy Factions and Ideologies

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I think fantasy political ideologies should be hard to map onto real world political ideologies. This is inspired by Disco Elysium and Esoteric Ebb, both very very very good games about politics that nevertheless feel somewhat politically unimaginative. So have some new fantasy and sci fi ideologies and factions.
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DRGE (Dice Roller Game Engine)

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I created this game in 2018, my first completed game. It is presented below, untouched.
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Jay Dragon (Steve Jackson Games/Possum Creek Games) Interview - Seven Part Pact

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  I recently spoke with Jay Dragon, the creator of Seven Part Pact, Wanderhome, and Yazeba’s B&B about Seven Part Pact, which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter for more than a million dollars. We spoke the final day of the Kickstarter, and I asked her questions about summoning 1,001 imps, gnostic esotericism, mechanical maximalism, invisible womanhood, and more. 
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Marja: The City of Roots

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Welcome to Marja, the city of roots. Please enjoy your stay. Still Life (2025). Collage by me. 
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Make A Manifesto, Damn You

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  Make A Manifesto, Damn You I made this for Manifesto Jam 2026 . For a full free art version, check it out on itch.io here .
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Some Mechanics (and Character Sheet!) For A Game About The Mongolian Empire

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Between this post and the classes post, you can now make your own character for my Mongolian Empire-inspired game if you want!
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Triangulation: a Psychological Horror Game About Families

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  Triangulation A GM-less game for 4-6 players. Requires a tarot deck and explanatory book (or knowledgeable card reader), pens, and paper. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This is a psychological horror, dark comedy game about a dysfunctional family having a very bad time.
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Patrick Stuart (False Machine) Interview - The Doom of the Dark

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Patrick Stuart of False Machine infamy has a Kickstarter out! The Doom of the Dark, a real-time, high-concept adventure for Tunnels & Trolls.  It's now in stretch goal mode for the next week. I asked him some questions about it!
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Lore and Factions of the Endless Plains (For a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

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Here is some of the worldbuilding from my in-development game, By the Will of Dusassu. Also a name generation table! Name your god-spirit or character from my last blog posts! Flesh them out with lore! View from the Plane (2024). Collage by me.
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Tradlife: A psychological horror solo TTRPG

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You are a tradwife. You’ve given up your career to invest in your feminine energy. Your husband is providing for you; you’re living a beautiful, soft life; and your kids are just so photogenic. Thank goodness nothing could possibly go wrong.
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Make Your Own God-Spirits (for a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

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You are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by your former brethren, the cursed Shü Ebsö. It is only by the will of the sky god Dusassu and the host of lesser spirit-gods of grain, wolf, and copper that you all will survive the misty Endless Plains with no herd save the horses you escaped on. But you are the Rodnu Ebsö, and you will survive. A sandbox steppecrawl game of religion, survival, and discovery inspired by Genghis Khan's early life.   Starlight (2024). Collage by me.
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20 Classes for a TTRPG about the Mongolian Empire

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I am working on a TTRPG. Here are its classes!
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Poetry Break

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This poetry isn't new. Most of it is years old, in fact. But hey, who cares, let's have a poetry break. I'm working on a secret project for other game designers right now, so I don't have any progress to report from designing Dusassu or energy to make other blog posts. So let's have ourselves a little poetry break!
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Weather Worm Adventure I: A review of Deluge at Drizzle Distillery

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Happy New Year, everyone! As a yearly wrap-up, the Vienna Supergroup put together a Review Round Robin, where we each reviewed a game or adventure of another's choosing. For me, that was Deluge at Drizzle Distillery by Centaur Games , assigned to me by Xaosseed . So here’s everyone’s favorite category of game, a Weather Worm Adventure, reviewed to ring in the new year.
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