Pretendo Games

Why hasn’t anybody explored this ruin?

Starting #Dungeon23

Early thoughts for #Dungeon23

Thoughts on collecting 2400 for print

2400 terminology update

2400 actual play: Xot

24XX devlog: The SRD

2400 devlog: Battle Moon

2400 devlog: Legends

2400 devlog: Xot

2400 devlog: Resistors

2400 devlog: Habs & Gardens

2400 devlog: Data Loss

2400 devlog: Codebreakers

2400 devlog: Zone

2400 devlog: The Venusian Job

Three layers of RPG rules

2400 devlog: Tempus Diducit

2400 devlog: Emergency Rules

2400 devlog: Orbital Decay

2400 devlog: Exiles

2400 devlog: Project Ikaros

2400 devlog: Eos

2400 devlog: Xenolith

2400 devlog: ALT

2400 devlog: Cosmic Highway

2400 devlog: Inner System Blues

2400 devlogs

Why I keep going back Into the Odd

What Shang-chi can teach GMs about running combat

Running Fate content with Messerspiel

Soulslike campaign suggestions

Combat in 24XX

2400: From old modem to game jam

On a mission from O.D.D.

QZ: Welcome to the Quarantine Zone

How to learn spells in Bastionland

100 O.D.D. items

Collecting magic items with a day job

Change Agents of the O.D.D.

(Un)written rules of play

Pretendo’s first 4 months self-publishing on Itch.io

Down Town draft: Into the Odd meets Blue Blazes

When does it make sense for a hobbyist to publish?

The more you know

Fonts of wisdom

Metatopia Design Diary: Agents of the O.D.D.

Metatopia Design Diary: Nighttide

Agents of the O.D.D. now out in the field

Gauge: A diceless RPG about survival

Hit + Die: A 1 page, 1 HP RPG

Grave 1.0 release notes & alternate rules

Aetherway: Tunnel Goons meets Troika!

Advanced Let’s Play Pretend 2nd Edition

This giant, immortal bug wizard seems like an OK dude

Whitehacking Numenera

Knaves of the Ninth World: A Numenera conversion

MinimalD6 Numenera

Into the Ninth World: Converting Numenera to Into the Odd

Decyphered: Simplified house rules for Numenera & The Strange

5 card blood: Fast-paced combat rules

Playtesting the dullest demonslaying

Exhumed: Pamphlet Dungeon Edition

What AGE taught me about stunts

Searchers of the Untitled: 2 one-page D&Dish games

Play Report: (Soulslike) Veins of the Earth

Design Diary: One (more) foot in the Grave

Rumors, Legends & Lies for a soulslike campaign

Grave: Hacking Knave for soulslike adventure

That time we killed the AntiPhoenix

Play Report: Knave + Stygian Library

Playing RPGs to win

Design Diary: Grave Knave

WIP: Down Town

WIP: Agents of the O.D.D.

WIP: Xenobioddity

Exhumed design diary: Action-packed minutiae

Designer’s block

Dungeons & Dreaming

1d52

20 supernatural backlash effects

Nuka World(s)

Lessons from playtesting once in a blue (super wolf blood) moon

Exploiting Details: An Unfinished System

Designing a Soulslike Action Economy

Setting Up (and Upsetting) Settings

Playtesting Perils

Seven Sorceries

Resleeving Eclipse Phase

The Basilisk Hack

Decyphering Numenera & The Strange

d20 Ways to Nerd Out About Partial Success

Advanced HD&D, 2nd Edition

The (Mostly) Indecipherable Spellbook

Greatest Hits (and Partial Hits on 7–9)

DANGERS, CHILLS & Other Exciting THINGS

Playtest Review: Exhumed

A Selection of Soulslike TTRPGs

Inventory Management

Introduction