Half-bakery

The Half-bakery

The Half-bakery is home to micro projects (bagatelles au Francais) and little crunchy bits of stuff for various systems.

Dungeonautica

Just in case you link straight here, dodging my main page. Dungeonautica is an instance of Risus. If you use anything from it in play and it works out really well, email me your anecdote and I'll enter you in a draw for one of our products.

Fudge Epitaph(362k)

Epitaph is now Legends of the Dark Wheel. The original FUDGE-based Epitaph is still available!. Email vdiakuw at shaw dot ca.

Wheels On Fire RPG
My d10 dice pool system. Don't pretend that you didn't write one too. Of course, this one is about autodueling.

Pirates of Dark Water free RPG(715k)
I confess to having a healthy obsession for 80's cartoons. I watched a great deal of the Pirates of Dark Water with my niece Molly and my nephew Matthew. Then I figured, "What a great chance to get them into gaming!" The Pirates of Dark Water RPG is what I wrote for them.

PoDW RPG now available in HTML format.

The Reverse RPG
In an ordinary RPG the player decides what she wants to do and then a scheme is deployed to determine success or failure. In R2PG the player randomizes the character's action, and then chooses to succeed or fail.

Mandatory Card Based RPG (MCBRPG)
Every designer has one. Most eventually do some spring cleaning of their binders and throw it out. Others move from tiny apartment to tiny house and throw it out. Some grow out of their 'post-adolescent idealistic phase' ...and throw it out. I put mine up here.

High Octane!(48k)
I have enjoyed several sessions of S. John Ross's spiffy Risus. Here is an expansion/elaboration/explication of my own. When I first wrote it I incorporated enough that you almost didn't need the original Risus to play. I've cut it back to plain old supplement level for this incarnation. And I have no idea why I called it High Octane.