meanderxander - itch.io

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!

Weaponize your growth and mutate your way to freedom

Topple colossal capitalist contraptions, or die defending your home

$2.22

A coin-based time-loop story-game

Fairytale Follies: A Re-Roller System Game

$4

a simple storygame of nursery rhyme nonsense

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

$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 help show my deep appreciation for the game design community.

Double Dozen: 24 24-Word RPGs

A heaping buffet of bite-size games

Double Double Dozen: 12 48-word TTRPGs

A big stack of small games

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

Funky Stuff

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

A collection of bookmark-sized book-centric RPGs

A game that is very clearly a pipe, and nothing else.

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!

#MyBad #Apology

An Improv Party Game For Problematic Drama-Mongers!

Level 1 Anthology 2025 - How the West Was Lost

The 2025 anthology of indie RPGs published each year for Free RPG Day.

9th Level Games

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