Generic Games aka Michael Sands

@genericgamesnz.bsky.social

Home of Monster of the Week and other games by me. Home is https://genericgames.co.nz/

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Everything for Monster of the Week in one bundle! Great game, great price! This is one of my favorite urban fantasy games because switching the Playbooks can give a different experience every time and there is a playbook for so many different comics, novels, TV series and films!

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Cats messing with your games is nothing new. Saw this on a 17th century Japanese screen at the National Museum of Asian Art in DC.

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Just in time for spooky season! Power up your Monster of the Week game with the one-two punch of The Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit.
More Hunter playbooks, Team playbooks, Weird moves and new ways to shine a bright spotlight on your character's fearless deeds.
evilhat.com/product/slay...

On the left, a triptych of Monster of the Week characters: a person in a long trenchcoat sprouts tentacles from their mouth, eyes, and ears, a woman suspended from a zipline points twin pistols straight down and fires them, a shirtless bald man stands with his back to us, his spin covered in cybernetic implants. On the right, mockups of the Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week. Caption: Upgrade your arsenal.
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Playtest Material is at 71/75 subscribers. This is genuinely amazing; thank you to everyone. I think we'll pass 75, and will keep the drive going! The bigger our base is, the more we can support everyone involved with the magazine *and* think about lowering the cost of future issues.

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Catching up on emails and work and I come across this in a newsletter from a past client. Please DM me. Lack of that sort of DMs is part of the reason my mind's been a mess lately.

"Juan Ochoa, who I met on Bluesky and only later realized was a certified badass in the Tabletop Roleplaying illustration world. He did work for one of my favorite TTRPGs, Monster of the Week. Had I known that, I probably would have been too scared to DM him."
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Orbital Funk Princess™ is DRM-free and comes on physical media (the horror!). There's really nothing stopping you from playing. Nothing. At all.

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Orbital Funk Princess (by Jamie Sands) is one of my favorite mystery concepts in the Tome of Mysteries supplement for Monster of the Week, centered on a mysteriously super-addictive video game (the aforementioned OFP). Coming up with direction for Kurt Komoda's artpiece for it was a trip.

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I am deeply sympathetic to the challenges that come with trying to write a very brief RPG, because on an instinctive level, so much of it is "You just do the thing. You know. The fucking thing. COME ON MAN. Just. Do. The. Thing. ARGH, why do you make it so goddamned complicated???"

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Inspired by Final Fantasy X, the Xenoblade Chronicles and more, Rangers of a Broken World is coming soon!
Fend off the Noble Demons, Horrors, and Automata which stalk the land and weave your magic to nurture the seeds of hope.
Sign here up to get notified on launch:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Three heroes travel on a swirling disc of magic. An arcanist in purple robes wears round black glasses and gestures with one palm out, summoning the magic disc as her human-faced bird familiar flutters nearby. An infiltrator in a billowy red shirt, black pants steadies himself by putting a hand on the arcanist's shoulder. He braces his other hand on the arm of cavalier. She wears a tan shirt and orange tunic. She is mounted atop a large horned pegasus and draws a golden arrow for her bow. Caption: Coming soon to BackerKit.
@genericgamesnz.bsky.social

Oh no! I have been ambushed by a new game to design! Thinking about how to do something capturing the vibe of Slow Horses… (This is my wife’s fault. She should know better than to say “You could make a game about X”)

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