Ray Fisher, The Ginger GM
Portfolio
Sure, I may talk a big game, but what good is that without some proof, right? Below, find a showcase of the various projects I have published or contributed to.
Creature Curation, Brian Colin
A Grimm Outlook
Vast Grimm is a rules-light, brutal and fast-paced game set in a dying universe where a plague of parasitic wurms has brought humanity to its knees. Players take on the roles of Legionnaires, battered survivors that have banded together to live one more day, or with luck, find a way out of the universe!During the crowdfunding campaign for Vast Grimm’s first published expansions, a community challenge was held - help create a list of items that Legionnaires will find when they inevitably loot some poor sap’s corpse: the d66 Steal from the Dead table that would be printed on the inside rear cover for easy reference. Five of my entries made it into the final product, entries 44 through 52, along the right column! The author, one Mr. Brian Colin, was kind enough to credit myself and the other contributors. This is the first time I had ever seen one of my ideas in a published book. That stirred something in me.
Marren's Musings, Marren McAdam
Lordsworn
Lordsworn is a GMless TTRPG for up to four players that tells stories of desperate survival and comradery at the end of the world. Players take on the role of soldiers, Lordsworn, who swore fealty to one of many Gods during the Cataclysm. That God, and all the others now lay dead. As the world falls to shambles around them, the Lordsworn seek to return to the only place that still makes any sense - Home.I am lucky enough to know Marren through a close friend of mine, so I was rather enthusiastic to support their Kickstarter. At my pledge level, I was awarded the chance to add some names to the Lordsworn name tables at the end of the book. I could not resist the temptation to submit the names of two of my all-time favourite Dungeons & Dragons characters! From now on, folks that play Lordsworn have a chance of embodying Alton Brahams as an Innocent Greenhorn, or Athalos Gallant as the Noble Knight!It’s very cool to think that my characters can go on to have adventures and challenges that I’ll never know about - I just hope they make it home!
As part of a YouTube channel I have with some of my closest friends, myself and The Casual Ones played through a complete Lordsworn adventure with the game’s creator! They were kind enough to walk us through a full game and offer insight into their design process!
Caleb Zane Huett & Sean Ireland, Haunted Table Games
Triangle Agency
In the centre of the city sits a skyscraper much taller than its neighbours and twice as wide. It’s not on any map, and it doesn’t appear in photographs. To those who can see it, the only sign of identity on the entire building is a red triangle right above the number 333. Hanging in the lobby are the glowing words, midway between floor and ceiling without wire or support:STABILIZE REALITY. CONTROL YOURSELF.
During the game's Kickstarter campaign, I GM'd a one-shot of my own design using the ashcan version of the rules. For our contribution, we were credited in the Special Thanks section as the The Casual Ones. The game has changed a bit since then, but the session itself still holds up!
