I've designed a number of tabletop roleplaying games over the years, the last two of which are available here. My gaming experience started with the Fighting Fantasy books, then I moved onto AD&D and D&D. Then AD&D 2nd Edition came out, and soon after that we started playing other game systems.

YAGS is my current system of choice, and is a fully GPL'd tabletop roleplaying game. I started designing it in 1995, and it's been used on and off since then. Currently, I'm focusing on modern and science fiction, but it started life as a fantasy game system for my new campaign world. It's relatively generic, but is designed to be modular rather than having a single set of rules.

The system has its own site, which can be found at https://yags-rpg.net/.

Myths was the system that I wrote after I fell out with AD&D. It was designed to fit my AD&D campaign world at the time, so started very similar to AD&D in feel. It had no character classes and levels, a highly flexible magic system and used a roundless combat system.

It has some details here.

This was a system I wrote whilst at school which didn't get very far. As the name suggests, it was based on the Elite computer game, using a system a bit like Rolemaster. I have no records of this system.

The first ever true roleplaying game I played was one I wrote based on the Fighting Fantasy game books. I was ten or eleven at the time, and it was a mishmash of Doctor Who, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was probably very similar to FF, but used the idea of me taking the part of the book, and the other players running through whatever adventure I came up with.

Then someone brought in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and we all moved to that.

• Ars Magica
• GURPS Rules
• Pathfinder
• Traveller

Trying to build a list of the RPGs I've played.

1. AD&D/D&D/2nd/3rd
2. Maelstrom
3. Rolemaster
4. Star Wars D6
5. Boot Hill
6. Ars Magica
7. MERP
8. Judge Dredd
9. Recon
10. WHFRP
11. Pendragon
12. Runequest
13. Earthdawn
14. Pathfinder
15. Vampire
16. TORG
17. Amber
18. Traveller
19. Legend of the Five Rings
20. Edge of the Empire
21. Delta Green
22. Cthulhu
23. GURPS
24. Conan 2D20
25. d20 Modern
26. True20
27. Dark Heresy
28. Blades in the Dark
29. BESM
30. Bushido
31. Eclipse Phase
32. Alternity
33. Cyberpunk
34. Shadowrun
35. Twilight2000
36. Paranoia
37. Fading Suns
38. Zweihander
39. D6 Adventure
40. The Laundry Files
41. The One Ring
42. Deadlands
43. Talislanta
44. Space 1889
45. Shadows of Esteren
46. Kult
47. 7th Sea
48. Chill
49. Over the Edge
50. Gumshoe
51. Aliens