I'm sure they have been for awhile . . . please don't yell at me.
Hello! I'm the Quail of Low Character and Dubious Quality. I'm an academic librarian by day and a tabletop games artisan some of the rest of the time.
What is a tabletop games artisan?
Well, I mean I make tabletop games. Mostly dice games (call them roleplaying games if you must). And, I pretty much always work alone or with a hired artist. (I'm not allergic to teamwork; it just hasn't worked out that way so far).
You can find my work at bad-quail-dot-itch-dot-io.
Right now I'm bouncing between a few different unpublished projects, including:
- Poignard! a heroic dark fantasy dice game. Adventure in a crapsack, grimshit Early Modern world. Stick it to knights and kings. Climb the Tower of Babel. Cap G-d with a wheellock and the power of friendship, JRPG style.
- Mud+Laser, a military baroque science fantasy dice game. Imagine Andor but with the setting sensibilities of Dune.
- Morgenkirk, a pre-war dreamcrawl. Imagine a city in the bubble between the real world and a changeable dream frontier. Now imagine it's in Flanders on the eve of The Great War. Now imagine there's a company trying to build a railroad through the dream frontier to trade with the worlds on the other side. Now imagine you're one of the unlucky individuals hired to fight monsters, exorcise spirits, and generally deal with anything that fucks up that railroad.
That's me!