I love the Fast and Furious series, although not really the second film and definitely not the third, my god no. But most of them are pretty good.
Anyway: I wrote a love-letter to them, and to Mr Vin Diesel, in roleplaying-game form.
You should definitely watch an F&...
2017-06-22 11:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! I'm super-happy to announce that Big Gay Orcs is now on public release. In it, you'll play big, tough, sensitive and heartbroken orcs trapped in a fortress that's being overrun by your enemies. Will you stay, and sell your lives dearly? Will you find love, here, at the end of everything? Will y...
2017-04-27 10:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's January's game, ADVENTURE DICE. It's a super rules-lite storytelling game designed, primarily, for kids to tell stories together - or for adults to tell stories with kids. (Or, honestly, just adults all together. It's a ludicrously simple system with a lot of output.)
It comes with fo...
2017-01-12 22:15:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! You know how I was talking about releasing that spaceship game earlier this month? Well, it's Christmas, and I decided that I wanted to write a Christmas game instead.
Which means that a) [This is] Not a Place of Honour will be released in January, or whenever I finish the damned thin...
2016-12-21 08:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
SO. I've sent out the physical rewards to those that should have 'em; if you don't have yours by this time next week, start getting furious and drop me a line.
I've been hard at work on The Spire (the next big game I'm releasing, hopefully in Winter 2017) but also ticking away on ...
2016-12-14 09:43:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks. So this month's game is The Golden Sea - and it's a D20 system, and fantasy at that, if you can imagine such a thing.
The front page details the setting - a sand-covered land where folk live in the tops of ancient skyscrapers and statues - as well as rules for making your ch...
2016-11-02 13:49:50 +0000 UTC View Posthttp://imgur.com/gallery/bKRcf
Hello! I'm happy to announce the title of (and let you take a sneak peek at) my next game: THE WITCH IS DEAD. The pitch is in the image above; it's a murder revenge fantasy in which you are one o...
2016-09-30 22:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a preview of the sort of thing you can expect with the one-page RPG model. I wrote Force-Blade Punk a while ago, and I figured it needed an update.
Not everything will be this art-heavy or text-light, I imagine. But this is the sort of thing we're dealing with here.
2016-09-26 11:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I've been neglecting this Patreon for far too long, and focusing on big projects rather than small ones. So, to that end - I've given it an overhaul. I'm moving from big, multiple-page games that cost too much to print to smaller, one-page quick-burst games. I'm looking forward to making more...
2016-09-25 19:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreons,
Blimey, it's been a while! The reason it's been a while, mind you, is because I've been working on something very special for a very long time. It's called UNBOUND, and it's fantastic - it's a universal roleplaying game with an emphasis on world-building, cinematic combat, a...
2016-03-24 16:30:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! My Kickstarter for Goblin Quest, a tabletop RPG of fatal ineptitude, is live. We're doing really well, and we're just about to unlock the £8,000 goal. You should totally get in on this. Here's the link: 2014-08-25 22:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons, So - things have been quiet, lately, haven't they? The reason for this is that I am working on a BIG SECRET RPG PROJECT with ACTUAL PUBLISHERS. It's very exciting! It also means that I can't devote a lot of brainspace (or, more importantly, playtest time) to my indie projects....
2014-08-05 06:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post
They said it couldn't be done. They said it SHOULDN'T be done. They said, Grant, stop doing that, put it down, put THAT DOWN GRANT SO HELP ME GOD Anyway: I have written a game in which you all play explosions. One of you talks through a cheesy 80's action flick while the others try their best to ...
2014-07-14 12:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm changing my Patreon rewards structure around a bit. When I started out, I figured I'd be running off daft little 10-page RPGs and sending them to my friends. This has succeeded more than I'd ever imagined it would; and I've progressed up to 60-page rulebooks with full colour art and character p...
2014-06-26 06:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This weekend, I got up bright and early on Sunday and ran an exhibition game of Havoc Brigade for the chaps at Indie+ (http://indieplus.org/doku.php) through Google Hangouts. They did a quick video review of it, which is linked b...
2014-06-25 23:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostSo - after some frantic resizing of maps and re-jigging of text, I'm happy to confirm that the remaining physical copies of HAVOC BRIGADE and THE HOMECOMING COLLECTION 2014 are now being printed! I'm told that they'll take about 3 weeks to reach you - although, if you're in the US or the UK, it sho...
2014-06-25 05:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE ON SHIPPING AND PRINTING: After yesterday's disappointment, I've taken a look at alternative methods for shipping your games out - and MagCloud seem to offer something that'll fit. By shrinking my games down to a digest size (something along the lines of old Citadel Journals) and having them...
2014-06-05 01:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
New game! New GAMES! 4 new games, right here, right now, for your viewing pleasure. The file is attached on the upper right, there. Download it, and take a look. The four games are: - WIZARD BATTLE HATS - rewritten from the preview text, this game is now not only about wearing as many hats as poss...
2014-06-04 08:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Homecoming Collection 2014 is going to be a little late. This is because an a perfectionist. Or, rather - after releasing the preview text for WIZARD BATTLE HATS, I realised that it wasn't much fun, and just boiled down to a fairly boring exchange of damage until one side fell over. So I'm re...
2014-06-02 06:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully - if everything goes to plan - I'll publish the HOMECOMING COLLECTION 2014 early next week. To whet your appetite, I've attached a PDF of the first game, WIZARD BATTLE HATS. (It's up there on the top right.) WIZARD BATTLE HATS is the first RPG that's written in the style of a DRUNK GUY at...
2014-05-26 09:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
While I was on holiday in the UK, I wrote four games. They're short, and very silly, and they deal in some weird experimental stuff. I'm happy to announce that I've commissioned the stellar artist IguanaMouth (here's the wildly successful comic she did that brought her to my attention - 2014-05-23 22:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! It's been a while since I did one of these. Imagine my brain is a dog, and ideas are... I dunno. Passing cars. Most of the time a car goes past, I have a good old bark about it, but let it go. But sometimes I try to chase that bastard down good and proper, and I throw myself after it in a ma...
2014-05-21 02:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Here, as promised, is a short video explaining some of the design decisions behind Havoc Brigade. Notably the ways that I encourage you to steal things and make lots of noise during play. - G
2014-05-19 07:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! If you play Havoc Brigade and you have access to Spotify, then you might like to take a look at this playlist I've put together for the game. I had a good think about what sort of music would suit the mad-cap, brutal antics of orcs on a rampage, and I settled on Gypsy Punk. There's somethin...
2014-05-15 23:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My new game, Havoc Brigade, is out today! It's a chaotic one-shot game about orcs on a dangerous mission in a human city. It comes with a pre-generated scenario and characters, so all you need to play is a fistful of dice and some friends willing to cause a ruckus. Things have been a bit slow here ...
2014-05-14 03:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostI am about to get on a plane for 22 hours. I am going to deal with the stress of doing such a thing by writing as many short roleplaying games as I can. Here's what I want from you - ideas. Stupid ideas. Good ideas. Bad ideas. Concepts. Jokes. Puns. Weird restrictions on dice and rules. Unusual mec...
2014-04-06 23:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I've just put the finishing touches to the latest draft of ORC HIJINKS YES, a game about orcs going on a stupid mission and doing really stupid things. I think - I'm not sure but I THINK - I might have made a system where every single player can just create unconnected distractions all at on...
2014-03-20 00:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post
No Brain Fizz this week, as I've been in Melbourne pretending to be The Tattered Marching King all weekend. (See image; I'm the one at the back with the mask he made himself from found materials) However; will hopefully get ORC HIJINKS YES (need a new title for that, it's in danger of sticking) int...
2014-03-13 22:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got my next game sorted out. It's none of the ones I've mentioned before. (That's just kind of how I roll.) What I've found, over the few months that I've been releasing games, is that I have a load of ideas at once and they all bubble and boil around, and then one just BURSTS to the surface a...
2014-03-05 00:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are busy in the Howitt household at the moment. In addition to having some Actual Work to do (I mean, I'm writing about computer games, it's only JUST actual work), we've just finished running Journey to the End of the Night, a city-wide chase game, and we're gearing up for Spirits Walk in Me...
2014-02-26 01:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post