I'm Dylan Baird. I work full-time, I'm a husband & step-dad, so game design
A company based on a pun of "Barely Trying" just because I only have so much energy in me.
My "Big-Book" projects (Click the images to learn more)
The World of Spheres
That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG
That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG
The World of Spheres weighs in around 225 pages, with over two dozen excel tabs of tables and charts, and is my crunchiest most intricate game to date. It will include a full world book.
That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG
That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG
That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG
That TIGR, as I am calling it, is my - still meaty book - that will be more rules-lite and theme heavy. The game layers players playing players in a game-world.
WIP Board Game, Fantasy Ruins: Enemies and Exploration
F.R.E.E. is a Deck-Building Dungeon Crawler inspired by Delicious in Dungeon
I don't just write large-book RPGs, I have a fully designed board game that has a hand-made physical copy. I need to play-test it to get the mechanics refined, but I have run demo sessions successfully and the game is a lot of fun.
You deck-build as a Hero Archetype, which limits what tools you can use, and the premise is you have one deck to spend in town, which is your coffers, and one deck to use when exploring the Dungeons, your equipment. To refresh (shuffle your equipment deck back from the discard pile after use) you need to eat Rations.
I am actively play-testing this when able.
You can also click the Advanced Dungeon Card to learn more about this game.
