riley rethal
hi, i'm riley! i'm a jewish pharmacy student with a passion for tabletop rpgs and critical theory.
i write games that encourage collaborative play and explore relationships between people, ideals, and society. i am a strong believer that all communication is collaborative, all art is interactive, and that games and stories are vital to help us imagine the future that late capitalism has taken away our ability to see. every game i've ever written is somehow related to marxist alienation and adhd.
community copies are available for all of my paid games.
two tabletop roleplaying games with a new perspective on the traditional high fantasy genre.
a game of rebellion, relationships, and war among the stars.
A collection of tabletop RPGs written and illustrated by Jews about the ways we see our Judaism.
a gmless rpg about revolution and community in the capitalist hell of the underworld.
a gmless rpg about doomed soldiers in a losing war.
a two-player game about a reunion.
you were cast out of olympus. it is time to claw your way back to godhood.
a two-player rpg about piloting a mech and sharing a mind.
a superhero universe creation game
a two-player game of obsessive rivalry and final confrontation
a two-player letter-writing game about fraught wizards.
a two-player letter-writing game about observation and communication.
not quite games.
three poems about tragic figures of greek mythos.
a pbta poem inspired by hadestown
an incomplete guide to creating a kickstarter campaign.
some lines i wrote a while ago.
projects i was involved in.
A pastoral fantasy tabletop RPG about traveling animal-folk and the way they change with the seasons.
Additional playbooks, natures, and recipes for the world of Wanderhome.
A collaborative storytelling game about magic, revenge, and inevitable death.
A game of iconic spaceships & infamous captains.
Rooms & Selves for The Treasure At The End Of This Dungeon etc. etc.
an immortal coming-of-age story of belonging outside belonging
a 1+ player ttrpg about music, road trips, and finding yourself.
A collection of ttrpgs based on the lyrics of Townes Van Zandt
supplements.
an expansion for galactic 2e for cyberpunk stories
an incursion for trophy dark.
an interstitial playbook about knowing the worlds you're in as fiction.
a backdrop for dialect where you play counselors at a summer camp.
smaller games.
a zine collection of mini-rpgs about meta, perspective, and meaning.
a one-page rpg where everyone plays one person on a long and challenging journey home.
A Spindlewheel game for one Summoner and one Spirit.
a ttrpg that uses bingo to tell a story, inspired by star wars
a weird little business card fighting game.
a letter-writing game about pen pals.
a two-player rpg about love in a time of war.
a two-player spindlewheel mini-game about an immortal prisoner on a paradise island and their various visitors.
an rpg based on into the spider-verse! finally, a game for all your spidersona needs
a different kind of roll.
a two person rpg about longing from a distance.
a game about camp counselors
a game of extraordinary summer fun!
a game about creating stories out of the things we cannot reach.
a two-player rpg about dancing with your past
a gmless rpg about industrialization and society.
