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Xander Hinners @lxnrhinners

Hi! I'm Xander. I make tabletop games (with and without roleplay), often experimenting with new approaches to exploring what mechanics can do, and how to help players generate compelling narratives without needing a degree in story structure.

All of these games can be obtained for free, though money always helps. But really, all I want is for you to have a good time with these! It would mean the absolute WORLD to me if you played any of my games. If you do, please let me know!

Fairytale Follies: A Re-Roller System Game

$4

a simple storygame of nursery rhyme nonsense

$4

Be hero-y things. Do hero-y things.

$2.22

A coin-based time-loop story-game

$4

A simple swashbuckling storytelling game

Ammo Box: Assorted Bxllets

$4

Forty weird powerful bullet types for [BXLLET> and a tool to use them

What's So Cool About Being Tiny?

$4

A small RPG about small people having small adventures

Take-Along Games

$3

Two index-card RPGs, to take with you wherever you go

Free Stuff

These are smaller-scale projects I don't charge for, to offer something back to the rich game design community.

Mise en Abyme: a Recursively Played Game

A game about characters who play a game about characters who play a game about characters who play a game about...

A compact yet prolific superpower generation tool

Store memories away from prying eyes and fingers

Double Dozen: 24 24-Word RPGs

A heaping buffet of bite-size games

Funky Stuff

These projects are weird, experimental, half-baked, or otherwise reminiscent of monsters in a scientist's lab.

A collection of bookmark-sized book-centric RPGs

Some rumors are worth the risk. Other rumors ARE the risk.

Punch Town: The Town of Punches

A block-flinging RPG where punching can solve literally any problem, somehow!

Of course you are. What else could you be?

Things I've contributed to

These are projects I helped with by providing design, art, layout, or other material input. Check them out!

A Game Of Quick-Wit Betrayal

Castle of Memories

A solo-TTRPG about exploring a castle and finding lost memories

Purple Moon Games

A fantasy RPG set in the World of Memory and Magic

Purple Moon Games