Jason Morningstar
Jason Morningstar is an indie role-playing game designer, and the only named person to have won the Diana Jones award twice as of 2013.[1][2] He has also been a Special Guest at Lucca Comics & Games,[3] Dragoncon,[4] and VikingCon.
Games
Jason Morningstar's tabletop role-playing games tend to be GM-less and about things going badly, and published as Bully Pulpit Games. He has also contributed to supplements for GURPS and Trail of Cthulhu, and several games about healthcare.
The Shab-al-Hiri Roach
The game is a GM-less black comedy lampooning academia, and designed for single-session play at the end of which a winner is determined. It is set among the internal politics of a buttoned-down New England college campus in 1919, with the titular roach being a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization. Characters under the control of the roach succeed at tasks more easily, but can not win if they are still under the control of the roach at the game's end.
The game was originally released in the 2005 Game Chef competition, where It placed in the "Inner Circle."[5] It was then published in 2006.
Drowning and Falling
Drowning and falling is a game about dying by drowning and falling, and proceeds from the sale go to ORBIS International.[6] It was published in 2006
Grey Ranks
Grey Ranks is a GM-less game about playing child soldiers in the Warsaw Uprising. It was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Diana Jones award.[1] See the Grey Ranks (role-playing game) page for more details.
Fiasco
Fiasco is a is a GM-less game for 3-5 players about creating a heist gone wrong and designed to be played in a two to three hours with no preparation. It was published in 2009 and won the 2011 Diana Jones award.[2] See the Fiasco (role-playing game) page for more details.
Durance
Durance is a is a GM-less game for 3-5 players and designed to be played in the spirit of The Prisoner. It was entered into Game Chef in 2011, and published via Kickstarter in 2012.[7]
The Climb
The Climb is a game about ascending a virgin peak in the Himalayas for six players, and comes with a 91 minute soundtrack the game is played to.[8] It was published in 2013.