TTRPG Rules
Here you’ll find a link to a short document outlining the rules created for a new roleplaying game called ‘Death Dealing Dungeons’.
What I wanted to capture with this game was a bit of the fast dice brutality of the old Fighting Fantasy gamebooks mixed with the endless onslaught of Gauntlet, and spend a bit of time crafting a story behind it all.
The second example is a slower, play-by-mail game based on the Orbital Drift campaign I’ve written for Those Dark Places.
Players assume the roles of NPCs in their final moments before the actual campaign begins.
It’s the type of game system that can lend itself to many other scenarios, which I’ll be expanding on at a later date.
Samples
Death Dealing Dungeons
Sample TTRPG Design
A WIP dungeon crawler with simplified d6 rules.
Message in a Bottle
Sample TTRPG Design
A play-by-mail add-on for Orbital Drift
Theo Priestley – Narrative Designer and Game Writer
Video game narrative designer and game writer. Creator of tabletop and play-by-mail roleplaying games. Screenwriter and speculative fiction author.