Meta Sport Games Works is a framework for creating a tabletop “Meta Sport,” a fictional sport that exists within a narrative of a larger game and played with a repurposed version of the larger game’s rules. Using this framework you to...

Here at Gem Room Games we pride ourselves on our game design work, whether we're modifying modern classics like Blades in the Dark and Macchiato Monsters or starting from scratch with games like Neutron Axe. We're compiling this original wo...

Untold Narrative Options is a mechanic pack containing combat and skill check mechanics for Role-Playing Games (RPGs) using a set of hobby dice and a standard Uno card deck. Combat in this system is designed to be fast-paced, team-oriented...

Condition Tagging is a mechanic to to track your resources. It's a mechanic used to push narrative cues. It's a mechanic to tell you how you're feeling today. It's a mechanic to track what you have, and what you don't, but desperately do. T...

A tool for complicating and linking existing character motivations. Cover image: Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

This is guide for creating new variants of the game Premise and includes files for you to quickly create your own templates. About Premise Premise is a lightweight worldbuilding game in which players simultaneously create different parts of...

This is a mechanic for generating a solar system on the fly It uses Solitaire as its base. It is inspired by No Man’s Sky by Hello Games. Nod to Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada, which i found after i had been mulling this idea for a...