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

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

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