There was never any other kind of club. From the moment the idea of this game popped into my head, it was Rocket Club. I don’t know if the title came first or the image of a scrappy kid with a homemade jetpack, but it was middle-schoolers with rockets from the start.
Rocket Club, by Em Hubbard, is a game of precocious, rocket-obsessed middle schoolersfacing a dangerous alien invasion while grappling with their ownvolatile emotions. Sign up to playtest here. Rocket Club is a tabletop roleplaying game designed for 3–6 players, with one taking on the role of Guide. It uses a novel resolution mechanic where each […]
Welcome to the 14th post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … Dragons might be my favorite inhabitants of Amylte, and for the life of me I have no idea where their idea first came from. Much like the dragons themselves, I suppose, they […]
Welcome to the 13th post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … If you’ve read the first Design Diary in the whole series, then you’ll know that Amylte, the world of Rangers of a Broken World, was inspired by efforts to reclaim the old […]
Welcome to the 12th post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … Most paranormal researchers believe there are three (maybe four depending on what you think about poltergeist activity) types of hauntings: human spirits, non-human spirits, and “recordings”. It’s this last kind that directly […]
Welcome to the 11th post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … This is another one of those things that’s just shamelessly my brand, I’m afraid. I have a lifelong interest in demonology. In Amylte, there exist creatures that are terrifyingly close to being […]
Welcome to the tenth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … The Magus seemed obvious to me at first, but the more I worked with it, the less obvious I wanted it to be. The desert is a difficult place to survive, certainly, […]
Streets of Jade: the Green Bone Saga RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game about martial and political battles between gangster clans wielding supernatural prowess from wŭxiá legend.
Welcome to the ninth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … I was running a roleplaying game for some people, one of whom I’d never played with before. He was playing a kind of a rogue archetype, and sure enough, he immediately separated […]
Welcome to the eighth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … The Coral Coast, the Tracker, and Volcanic Sceafing, are my absolute babies. Tracker is my Problem Child, the class I had to work on and rework and rework again until it ended […]