My Work

This page includes my published works, freelance writing credits, and editing credits.
You can find a complete list of my published works at brightbardgames.com

Game Design

Axolotl with a Gun, 2nd Edition: 2nd edition printing of Axolotl with a Gun that improves and expands core rules and adventure writing, including new, arcade-style coin-operated game mechanics. Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool.

Axolotl with a Gun, Armed and Dangerous: A companion zine for Axolotl with a Gun that adds new character creation options (Guns, hobbies, ultimate moves) and includes 2 new adventures + GMless and duet alternate game modes. Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool.

Longsword, Glock, Bat, Taser, 2nd Edition: 2nd edition printing of LGBT that improves and expands core rules, adventures, and more. Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool.

Mushie Missions***: Mushie Missions is a whimsical one-shot tabletop roleplaying game about tiny mushrooms on a big mission to host the quarterly picnic for little guys™. Travel the forest together, invite creatures great and small to the picnic, and make sure every last detail is just so for the shindig tomorrow night. GMless, full polyhedral set dice mechanics. ***2026 ENNIE-nominated “Best Family Game”.

Tipsy Whispers: Tipsy Whispers is a roll and write tabletop roleplaying game about a speakeasy full of immortal prohibition partiers beneath the floorboards of your aging home. Roll the dice to explore this mysterious purveyor of otherworldly libations, keep their secret, fill their stores, and perhaps join them for an eternity of revelry.  If your house can handle the partying, that is. GMless, d6, journaling.

Bonds Between (2025)***: Crowdfunding during Zine Quest 2025, a cozy, card-altering duet TTRPG about neotenic dragons turning their considerable magic to home improvement projects in run-down lairs and building relationships with neighboring dragons. Duet, Playing Cards, Collage, Journaling. ***2026 CRIT award finalist, “Best GMless Game”

Trash to Treasure (2024)***: Trash to Treasure is an ENNIE award-winning, short-form, eco- fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about magical girl trash goblins fighting pollution and corporate greed. Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool. ***2026 Judge’s Spotlight ENNIE award winner.

Axolotl with a Gun (2024): Axolotl with a Gun, 2nd Edition is a coin-operated, arcade-style one-shot TTRPG about adorable amphibians fighting evil robots and AI bent on exploiting their wetland habitat for its precious resources. Leverage your cute hobbies and an immaculately maintained arsenals of lead-spitters to fight back against the horrors and keep your swamp and its residents safe from harm! Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool.

LGBT/Longsword, Glock, Bat, Taser (2024): A slice-of-life tabletop roleplaying game about queer experience. It’s 3 days to Pride, you’re super gay, and you’ve got a cool weapon. Work together with your friends to have the best Pride ever. Havoc Engine hack, d6 dice pool.

I Crave the Loop (2024): A snack-powered, roguelike tabletop game about a hungry ghost cat and the midnight snacker they haunt. Evade and outwit an insatiable, cat-shaped horror that lives in your house and hungers not for your sanity, but your late-night cereal loops (Or regional equivalent). d6 dice pool + snack tokens.

Crash Café (2023): A tri-fold, 1-page RPG about running a café with your green-eared goblin buddies. Snack on anything that looks even kind of tasty, succumb to your inner goblin chaos, and somehow impress the local food faeries into giving you a 5-star rating. Roll and write, full polyhedral set.

Terminus (2023): A tarot-powered, solo RPG in which you play the dying ghost of a liminal or public space. Relive your remaining memories as a final visitor passes through your boundaries. Journaling, Tarot Cards.

Beloved (2022): A duet journaling game of ritual romance for your Beloved. Played on your anniversary and every day. Journaling.

Create & Chaos (2021): A Lasers and Feelings hack about sentient doodles helping their artist through art block. d6 Dice Pool.

Monsters & Microphones (2021): A Lasers and Feelings hack about monsters living out their Scott Pilgrim vs. the World battle of the band dreams. Get your monster band together and rock your opposition out of the running! d6 Dice Pool.

Kobolds & Trench Coats (2021): Kobolds and Trench Coats is a one-shot roleplaying game about kobolds getting up to mischief and mayhem in search of their stolen shinies. Pesky fantasy adventurers and other monsters keep nicking stuff from your carefully organized cave, so there's only one thing to do: stack on each other's shoulders, don your signature magical trench coat, and steal it all back.  d6 Dice Pool.

Writing

LOOT (Spencer Campbell, 2024) - Diceless, card-based LUMEN system hack. Adventure Writing.

Monsterhearts: Brave New Worlds (Creatively Queer Press, 2022) - Supplement for Monsterhearts. Adventure writing.

Mall Kids 2023 (Matthew Gravelyn, 2023) - Supplement for Mall Kids, d6 system (Matthew Gravelyn 2023). Supplemental writing on adventures and rules.

Editing

The Peddler’s Prize - Beak, Feather, and Bone hack (Graftbound Press, 2024)

Frogworld - Mork Borg supplement (Exalted Funeral, 2024)

The Wagadu Chronicles - 5th Edition Supplement (Twin Drums, 2023). No active links to this remain, Twin Drums appears to have gone out of business. I can provide a .pdf on request for portfolio purposes.

The Far Horizon’s Guide to Cults- Essays and Resources (Far Horizons Co-op, 2023)

Mall Kids 2023 - Supplement for Mall Kids, d6 system (Matthew Gravelyn 2023)

Bard RPG - Original System (Tattered Bear, 2023)

Caregiver - Original Solo RPG, d6 system (Eran Aviram, 2023)

Dread Revels - MÖRK BORG supplement (Dylan Mangini, 2022)

Furries in 5th Edition - 5th Edition Supplement (Daniel Nimitz, 2022)

House of the Hollow - MÖRK BORG supplement (Dylan Mangini, 2022)

Menagerie of the Void - Original Solo RPG (Eran Aviram, 2021)

Tapestry- Original System (Matthew Gravelyn, 2021)

Short Games Digest #8 - Games Digest (San Jenaro Co-op, now Far Horizons Co-op, 2021)

Articles of the Arcana - Troika Supplement (Matthew Gravelyn 2020)

Short Games Digest #7 - Games Digest (San Jenaro Co-op, now Far Horizons Co-op, 2020)