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Ashton McAllan

Hi! I’m Ash and I’m a gamemaster, game designer, streamer, and occasional code witch. I focus on systemic narratives, small and indie games, and supporting diverse and marginalized voices.

You can hire me to GM roleplaying games for you!

My Channel

Twitch – Youtube
On my channel you will find:

Roguelikes and other procgen games
Game design sessions
Tabletop Roleplaying Games

I Am Not Trying To Kill You is a show where I run a variety of different RPGs and storygames with friends and members of the ttrpg community. Sometimes we do one-shots, some times we do campaigns. We always have fun.

The Splintering Wheel is an ongoing “Westmarches” style Dungeon World campaign where the cast changes week to week.

My Roleplaying Games:

The Republic — The Republic, a game about element bending social justice warriors.

Between Dreams — Between Dreams, a game about reclaiming intimacy in the haunted everyday.

Goblin Heart — Goblin Heart, a game about being a group of goblins together.

In Which We Live And Breathe — In Which We Live And Breathe, a properly cyberpunk fantasy game.

Antiquarian Adventures — Antiquarian Adventures, a treasure hunting TTRPG.

Oracle — Oracle, a fortune telling roleplaying game.

Footprints — Footprints, a game about leaving marks on places and things.

It's Personal — It’s Personal, a game about messy assassin relationships

Goblins In A Trenchcoat — Goblins In A Trenchcoat, a game to be played on twitter.

Psycheball — Psycheball, A game about psychic battlesport in cyberspace.

My Other Roleplaying Game Work:

Breakfast Cult Roll20 Sheets

5e Variant Humans — 5e Variant Humans, a variant that makes humans in 5e interesting.

Traits for 5e — Traits for 5e, a manageable replacement for inspiration.

Item Drop 5e Treasure Tables — Item Drop 5e Treasure Tables, a way of generating treasure items with history.

AshtonHand Clocks — Hand Drawn Clocks for AW/Blades in Roll20

Lonely Engines — An experimental nano-game about robots finding connection in surprising places.

Digital Games:

The Garden Embassy — The Garden Embassy: an Exceptional Story for Fallen London

The Felined Eccentric — The Felined Eccentric: an officer for Sunless Skies

Fallen London: Daylight — Daylight: an Exceptional Story for Fallen London

Amygdala — Amygdala, a disembodied head roguelike platformer.

Monadnock — Monadnock, a puzzle game about trust.

We Are Seeds — We Are Seeds, an ARG about growing a garden of hope together.

Storyspirit — Storyspirit, a Minecraft mod adding quests, dungeons, and minibosses.

Polearms for Caves Of Qud — Polearms for Caves Of Qud.

Broken Mountains — Broken Mountains, A sidescrolling-shooter-as-music-video-clip

Infinite Ski Run — An infinite scrolling ski game.

😍❤️️🐟 — 😍❤️️🐟, a dating memory game made for Emojiam

Zoo Bingo — Zoo Bingo, a way to play pokemon snap in real life.