LizzieStark 🥚 EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES

Maybe also a word or two on the prep/space required?

Thanks for playing them. There is a deep bench of games like this by other amazing designers if you ever want more suggestions! (And please share if you find more; we’re always interested in standing on the shoulders of giants!!!)

PS. Pretty sure that the Algonquin Round Table was famous for its games of Mafia. There's a tradition at the Yaddo Colony, at least, that supposedly dates back to Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote's time there, IIRC.

Slow Walk by Six of Hounds Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious party game.

A very relevant (and very good) game from Six of Hounds @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social - now available!

I am going to use this in my class next fall!

Grab it here:
sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

The Broadcast by Six of Hounds Tell the truth and you'll doom yourself, but maybe save the nation. An absurd larp about journalists and dictators.

We're honored and delighted.

If games about dictatorship interest you, we've got another one called The Broadcast, a satire about press censorship. It's quite funny to play...but also brutal.

sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast

Slow Walk by Six of Hounds Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

It'd be an honor. <3

@jmstar.bsky.social and I have a new game out, about cute animals committing SABOTAGE in a way that maintains plausible deniability. Check it out!

Wish I did. There is, of course, Atzor in the early 1900s. I sometimes wonder where Mafia first popped up too. But the historical antecedents run real deep and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were many more to discover!

Come join @karenpinchin.bsky.social and me next Friday, online at the Creative Nonfiction Collective, for playful ways to get that nonfiction manuscript off your desk and into the world! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/programming/...

The Broadcast by Six of Hounds Tell the truth and you'll doom yourself, but maybe save the nation. An absurd larp about journalists and dictators.

Reminder—@jmstar and I made a short, wickedly comic larp about a crew of newscasters weathering censorship.

sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast

This book is 🔥🔥🔥

ARTSEDGE Games: Romeo &amp; Juliet LARP A Live-Action Role Playing guide based on the ball at the end of Act I of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Students use the pre-determined traits of their assigned characters to improvise withi

@bjarcore.bsky.social and I wrote a Romeo and Juliet larp for the Kennedy Center.
issuu.com/artsedge/doc...

And Sam Liberty made Forsooth, which proceduralizes Shakespeare.
medium.com/the-playable...

A herd of goostifs. Magical goodness flock with the butt of a mastiff.

@jmstar.bsky.social and I are designing a game with the tentative title “We Cannot Contain the Spider Baby.”

Heh heh heh. Love being an egg correspondent

Opinion | Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the state of the United States. A national shortage means more than just sticker shock. Eggs feed our collective soul.

Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the US. My latest, in the Washington Post. #ovatures

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, I think there’s a little bit of common sense here. You come to the States and then you decide you don’t like those paper straws that some of the stores are selling and you start protesting or complaining about paper straws – I mean, we’re obviously not going to yank a visa over that. I think it crosses a line – think about it this way. No one has a right to a visa. These are things that we decide. We deny visas every day for all kinds of reasons all over the world. We deny visas because we think people might overstay. We deny visas because the country they come from are people that historically overstay. We deny visas every day, and we can revoke visas. If you have the power to deny, you have the power to revoke.

Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...

Ominous icon of a wolf with the words "Slow Walk" beneath it.

Six of Hounds (Me and @lizziestark.bsky.social) is looking for folks to playtest a small activism game called Slow Walk. It's for 2-9 participants/1-2 hours and requires in-person play. We need some external testing. Let us know if you are interested!

How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco Egg dishes are a flavor of home. We want them the way our fathers or mothers or grandparents made them. An egg conjures memories of learning to cook for many of us, since making eggs is perfect for…

The price of eggs is high…but not yet gold rush egg high, as I reported a couple years back.
#dozenovatures #egg

lithub.com/how-a-war-ov...

Cards from a larp in playtest, designed to look like ID cards for forest animals.

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I are working on a new game and I got to playtest it at Larp Shack so that's pretty good. I always want a first playtest to be like "this is perfect and you are geniuses" but that does not happen, so I'll take "you learned a lot and have much more work to do".

No, no, no, no, no. Dorothy Allison can’t be gone. It is too soon.

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ARTSEDGE Games: Romeo & Juliet LARP A Live-Action Role Playing guide based on the ball at the end of Act I of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Students use the pre-determined traits of their assigned characters to improvise withi...

Link to the Romeo & Juliet larp script. issuu.com/artsedge/doc...

Sam Liberty has an awesome Shakespeare tabletop called Forsooth! My class loved it.

Sluga by Six of Hounds A dinner party with (Baba) Yaga.

Ever wanted to attend a spooky surreal dinner party? Check out @jmstar.bsky.social and my new scenario, Sluga.

sixofhounds.itch.io/sluga

Ha. I'd love to. What kind of high budget romance character would you be?

To The Bitter End| Events | Sinking Ship Creations Everything has to end sometime. A role-play experience coming Nov 2024.

Ever wanted to star in a romantic indie film? This fall in NYC you can, as Sinking Ship Creations brings Bjarke Pedersen and my two person larp To The Bitter End to NYC this November. Bring a friend, and dare to fall in love and lose it.

www.sinkingshipcreations.com/bitter-end

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #949,532!

Not too impressive, but I guess I’m one in a million (ten million?)

Did you miss #GenerationAnalog2024 panel with @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social? Lizzie and Jason discussed how the pandemic dramatically changed their design process, and how it continues to impact their practice and community. #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCl...

Our 24-25 Larp Season - Coming to New York! This fall, Sinking Ship Creations returns with a six-event season, showcasing top designers from around the world. Each larp will be staged

Sinking Ship is doing a whole season of larps this fall and it is such an interesting approach to presenting this material. @randylubin.com and I wrote a game that is invariably excellent and will involve a boat ride to the place where Hamilton got got. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/larp-se...