Trick's Tales

 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 ...

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.

I created this game in 2018, my first completed game. It is presented below, untouched.

  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. 

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

  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 .

Between this post and the classes post, you can now make your own character for my Mongolian Empire-inspired game if you want!

  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.

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!