Inaugural Hyperfictive Release
B-sides
Experimental tabletop RPGs, made and played between 2005 and 2017.
Twenty years. Thirty-five games. Two volumes.
For years I kept making smaller games on the side. One-shots, competition entries, things I wrote in an evening to test an idea. Most of them give every player creative authority over the fiction. Most work without a GM. A few probably shouldn't work at all, and are interesting for that reason.
B-sides collects thirty-five of them, in two volumes, from 2005 to 2017. It's the first time any of this has been gathered in one place. If you run short-form games, teach design, or like to see what a rule can do when it isn't trying to be marketable, this is for you.
Volume 1 · 2005–2010
B-sides Volume 1
Nineteen experimental tabletop RPGs from 2005 to 2010, mostly GM-less, mostly shared-authority, mostly short.
These are the games from the jeepform years and the Story Games forum years. Competition entries, one-shots, games I wrote to test a single idea or to prove something to myself. Some have no characters. Some make you feel powerless on purpose. One is a fifteen-minute game about celebrity without content.
Play them, steal from them, or just read them to see where the edges were.
Volume 2 · 2011–2017 · Also available
B-sides Volume 2
Sixteen experimental tabletop RPGs from 2011 to 2017.
Shorter games, more personal, closer to the bone.
A proper write-up lands in a few weeks. If you want it now, it's there.
Launch notes and design posts
On the Hyperfictive Substack: launch notes, design posts, and the occasional short essay on shared authority and what a rule can do. Usually once or twice a month.
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