Tabletop role-playing games

Tabletop RPGs.

Systems to play. Stories to inhabit.

Before video games, I designed tabletop role-playing games. I wrote the rules, built the scenarios, designed the character sheets and created maps across six tabletop projects, from heroic fantasy to cyberpunk.

It is where I learned most of what I now do in game and narrative design: giving every player a personal reason to be at the table, hiding information in the right places, and tuning numbers so that choices matter.

Games: 6 tabletop projects
Work: Rules · Scenarios · Characters · Maps
Genres: Fantasy · Sci-fi · Pirates · Post-apocalypse · Cyberpunk

Illustrated Käarde map · my coastlines, AI-assisted textures

01 / 06Heroic fantasy · Campaign

Käarde — The role-playing game

System under redesign

A heroic-fantasy universe of nine regions and many mythologies, with its own rules, races and pantheon.

Role

Game Designer
Writer
Map creation

Selected work

Game-master scenarios

What I designed

First version: a complete d100 system (attributes, twenty-two secondary capacities, stances, conditions, experience). Solid, but too close to classic tabletop RPGs
A lighter "roleplay" version: roll 2d20 under Skill + Principle. The game master chooses how the character acts, the player chooses why (Duty, Faith, Justice, Truth…)
What stays: Passion, which widens critical ranges when a character is truly involved, and Blessing / Curse dice that switch to the other side once used
In progress: letting Käarde’s cosmology drive the rules, so the system makes players live what makes the universe unique

Base rules (first version)

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Original document in French

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02 / 06Heroic fantasy · Halloween · One-shot

Tiny Tales 1 — Halloween: Cursed Pumpkins

The kingdom of Evehndor is cursed and its king has been turned into a monster. A delegation sets out to save him.

Role

Game Designer
Writer
Map creation

Selected work

Scenario
Game maps

What I designed

Five ready-to-play characters, each with a backstory, a roleplay note and personal themes
Character sheet built on health, psy and mana points, three themes, four skills (20 / 15 / 15 / 10 %) and four characteristics with two specialities each
Passives and gifts that cost psy points, plus about twenty secondary capacities rolled on a d20

Character sheets

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Original document in French

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03 / 06Science fiction · One-shot

Tiny Tales 2 — A Space Story

Tension rises between the Continuum and the dignitaries, and a rumour says the missing president is still alive. A group of unlikely allies sets out to find him.

Role

Game Designer
Writer
Map creation

Selected work

Game maps

What I designed

A five-step scenario: rescue from a prison ship, a space journey, a landing, the trek to the president's planet and a final battle
Five characters, each with a personal motive and a secret to join the group, plus a separate "knowledge" sheet for what each one knows
Playable species with their own rules: psykers, droids with no hit points, cyborgs and augmented humans

Map-by-map scenario

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Original document in French

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04 / 06Pirates · Fantasy · One-shot

Tiny Tales 3 — A Pirate Story: the Amulet of Amanbhad

Captain Jack Bellingham needs a map that leads to the amulet of Amanbhad, and the players must obtain it before time runs out.

Role

Game Designer
Writer
Level Designer

Selected work

Level design in TaleSpire

What I designed

A board-by-board scenario: the island of Luks and its two taverns, the port, the village and a castle guarding three stones
Game master tools: a 25-minute countdown, branching NPC lines, numbered search tables, prices and percentage modifiers (bribery, charm, bargaining)
Level design of the session maps, built in TaleSpire
Secret information per player, with diverging goals (revenge, escape, contracts) that create tension at the table

Map-by-map scenario

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Original document in French

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05 / 06Post-apocalyptic · Zombies · One-shot

Tiny Tales 4 — A Post-Apocalyptic Story

In the besieged city of Brive, overrun by the infected, a rescue team must reach a scientist who is searching for an antidote to the Strakh virus.

Role

Game Designer
Writer
Map creation

Selected work

Rules

What I designed

A full universe: an ancient virus found under Siberian ice, collapsed countries, clans and autonomous cities, and an unstable cure with growing side effects
A map-by-map scenario with simple and rare loot lists
A different rules system: seven Principles (cowardice, duty, domination, faith, trickery, justice, truth) and skills with specialisations and maluses

Universe and details

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Original document in French

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06 / 06Cyberpunk · Science fiction

Cyberpunk 2077 — Tabletop adaptation

In progress · Unofficial fan project

A tabletop role-playing system set in the universe of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. It is an unofficial fan project, still being written.

Role

Game Designer
Writer

Selected work

What I designed

Six characteristics out of 40, each with three specialities, plus seven Principles out of 50
A roll uses two d100: no success is a failure, one is a success and both are a great success
A character sheet organised around body implant zones and a currency, and five archetypes in male and female versions (soldier, intelligence agent, netrunner, ripperdoc, engineer)

Rules

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Original document in French

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The images are pages from my original documents (character sheets, scenario pages), shown as a sample of my work.