Games like Liars Eat Well

Space is a huge inconvenience.  It’s big, it’s dangerous, and it is between you and anywhere interesting.  Once upon a time it was so outrageously hazardous that people traveling through it were killed now and then just for being there. Of course today spaceships are safe and sensible and no one dies in old-fashioned ways like “hull depressurization” or “reactor explosion”. Today spaceships are sm…

When adventurers come to town, there is a simple and time-honored checklist. 1. Hide the children. 2. Get out our valuables and put them in a pile. That’s it. That’s the checklist. Then hope they take our things and don’t go looking for our children.  The alternative, of course, is to utter a word of protest, or to stupidly conceal our valuables, or to issue the slightest whiff of resistance. Th…

As you probably know, here at the Time Institute we’ve built enormously expensive machines that generate ultradimensional wormholes and then create Einstein-Rosen bridges that allow us to exchange consciousnesses across time. We manage the destructive positive feedback loop of virtual particles circulating through a wormhole generator by sending returning particles not to their universe of origin …

Magic Circle is the name of a leafy suburban cul-de-sac where a bunch of monsters live The monsters keep a low profile but there’s always something complicating the simple life. This game is about them meeting to address neighborhood problems, both mundane and fantastic. Magic Circle is a tabletop roleplaying game designed by Jason Morningstar. Logistics: Participants: 4-8 players, one of whom lig…

Sure, call it a ghost, that works. A ghost killed your dad. The truth is that there are ultradimensional monsters that can move back and forth across dimensions to fuck with our shit.  Why they do this we do not know, but they have done it throughout recorded history. They are angels and devils and UFOs and bigfoot.  From our point of view it is just senseless, mendacious evil. Now we have machine…

Ten years after an experiment, a group of clones return to the lab for their last moments, all believing they are the original, and the only one that will not die. Denatured is a live-action roleplaying game by Rachel Rudy Logistics: Participants: Four to six people, with six being the ideal, one of whom facilitates.Time: Roughly two hours plus additional time for an introduction and a debrief.Th…

In a fantasy village, witches exist on the margins of society and are treated very badly.  That is why they become witches in the first place. In The Black Drink, they must choose what indignities are worth enduring. Past that limit, they must go to desperate extremes to summon agreeable demons, gain their help, and learn the secret rituals necessary to repay them. These rituals are capricious and…

Spring, 1375 Just after the Feast of the Annunciation Sir William de Cantilupe’s corpse has been found by the side of a road near Grayingham. It was arranged to appear as if he had been attacked by bandits, but the deception was poorly done. De Cantilupe was murdered in a more intimate fashion. In the de Cantilupe manor house in Scotton, Lincolnshire, those who knew him best assemble to remember S…

A year ago Dusia invaded.  There was a war and Dusia won.  Now your village belongs to Lord Gjerch Bravn and his wife, Lady Kløyk Bravn. The Dusians want to bring peace, order, and a sense of normality to the village, by the standards of Dusia. You are not going to like it, but they are in charge now regardless of your feelings. You play people who have lost a war and are being assimilated into …

A Journalist A Vampire A Hunter Some uncomfortable questions A tongue-in-cheek game about monsters who present themselves otherwise. Logistics: Players: Three, one of whom facilitates.Time: An hour or so.Content: Vampires, all variety of vampire shit, journalism.Tone: Probably silly, but possibly tense and sad!Prep: Very light. What's Included? 5 page PDF  Questions? Comment here, or get in tou…