Christopher John Eggett is a writer, editor and game designer. Previously he was the editor of Tabletop Gaming Magazine, a monthly print magazine all about board games and roleplaying games. Chris wrote, commissioned and edited nearly 40 issues of the magazine. Chris has made one-and-a-bit games, which you can find for free or very cheap on itch.io. Chris launched Ada Press Games with his partner. They have crowdfunded two games: The Taming of the Slugiraffe and The Frankenstein Society Meeting Handbook. He has played too many games. For a while, Chris interned for Linen Press, and edited the Sabateour Award shortlisted May We Borrow Your Country. He used to write a weekly literary newsletter, Etch To Their Own. Chris sometimes writes poetry, short stories and essays.
Tabletop, Pen-and-Paper, Analog, Physical Games
I make games under the games publishing imprint, Ada Press. We make a little games which are crowdfunded through sites like Kickstater, or released through platforms like Itch.io. We make roleplaying games, party games, board games and even hex-and-counter wargames.
Poems, Short Stories, Novels and a little bit of Editing
I’ve wasted a lot of good time writing poetry, short stories and novels. You can find them all on the next page, and most of them are free to read. Imagine that, words, free to read, from a professional writer? It must be a closing down sale on the concept of poetry.
A Newsletter About Poetry? In This Economy?!
I used to write a newsletter about poetry which I would send to you every Friday. I did this for two-and-bit years straight. These are archived on this very website, and you can go read them here.
Wow, you sound so great to be around. I feel lucky to be me meeting you through this website. Is there somewhere a little more private we could go and talk?
That’s so kind of you to say. I’ve always tried to present my best face while people are looking. You can always talk to me privately in this little spot I know. You might have heard of it, it’s called my inbox. Click the button below to send me an email. I love emails.
A Wild Chris Appears (On Podcasts)
I’ve been places. Mainly on podcasts, video stuff, occassionaly in the paper. This is also where I link to a few things I’ve recorded myself, including interviews and podcasts that I’ve hosted.
Ada Press Games
Updates about the little roleplaying games that we love to make
A Review
They’re so mad I’d just like to share a few bits from the ‘release’ of OTHERSHIP into the wild. Firstly, did you see this very kind review? Jason is right. It doesn’t have any right to be good at all. It’s just a couple of pages of words and drawings! Jason shouts out the system…
OTHERSHIP
Dying in rotten space hulks has never been on so few pages using so few dice (citation needed) If there’s one-to-three things I hear people say about Mothership over and over, it’s “oh I would love to play it, but it’s simply too rules heavy” and “I’m really not sure if I can deal with…
Home Is Where The Art Is
A brief list of new stuff Things have happened. These are the things: I have been reviewing games again! For the excellent TTRPG store Tabletop Bookshelf. They’re doing a good job of curation over there, so it’s just wall to wall bangers. Here’s two reviews so far: WHAT LIES BENEATH. Is this the Dark Souls…
Slow Play
Games at no pace
The Ballard Of Big Sexy Map
I’ve been doing science. On twitter. I’ve been running a series of silly polls where I gather votes to complete the statement “every ttrpg should come with…” I think this urge came from me thinking about whether every roleplaying game, like nearly every modern board game, should come with a solo mode as standard. Years…
Good Idea #2 – Tunnel Goons
10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don’t Change Color, Kitty) by Emperor X, released 12 May 2014 the audiobook for everyone’s favorite generational worldbuilding game In matters of sex, Philip Larkin was late getting away. On his 23rd birthday, he wrote defeatedly to Kingsley Amis: ‘I really do not think it likely…
Good Idea #1 – No Hexes, No Masters
No measuring tape, no hexes, no masters I’ve recently had the pleasure of playing the new Adventures of Robin Hood (Kosmos) board game. I covered it back in issue 55 for Tabletop Gaming magazine. I interviewed Michael Menzel for the piece. You can watch the public version of that interview (which was quite early in…
This will feel more important when I am dead
Tom Waits Product Development and Market Readiness Checklist
In Tom Wait’s seminal guide to product development Step Right Up (1979, Small Change) he explains what great products do. We’ve synthesised his work into this simple checklist. Ideally, any product you wish to release to market would have at least 50% of these boxes ticked. ☐ Everyone’s a winner☐ Bargains galore☐ One tenth of…
A word on men: DRAGONS
Here be dragons, cars, robots, boats, trains, books, flowers, horses, dogs, clothes, jewellery etc. We have to face the fact and this mostly applies to men, or at least, definataly applies to men in my experience, that: there is one thing that you loved in your childhood that you are going to spend the rest…
Etch to their own
Everyone makes a mark somewhere
Love, Bring Myself
For the month of April, which is national poetry month somewhere, I am exchanging poems with a friend every day, using a little of the previous poem in the next. This means sometimes using odd automatic or found-text style tricks like using translation tools, or breaking up a line and writing out from each. The…
Another last day
Another Last Day by Alex Lemon is a kind of self-apocalypse in a way we’re all familiar with — the sense that yes, this is all going to end and there’s not much to do about it, so taking an affirmative stance on the end of the world is the closest thing to satisfying control we can…
On Being Grateful, Delayed
I have been feeling particularly full of life this week, and very grateful for it. You can come across some good luck and find yourself being suspicious about enjoying it or acting on it, but I am glad that I have people around me who gently guide me back to more gentle places in my…
C J EGGETT | Writer & Game Designer 