Rat Wave Game House
Rat Wave Game House is the design imprint for Kayla Dice. Kayla Dice is a TTRPG creator, dormant comedian, retired wrestler, begrudging podcaster and unleashed oddball living in London. She releases games often focusing on themes of alienation and connection, and she was named a winner of the 2023 Diana Jones Emerging Designer program. Her games feature evocative flavour and straightforward-to-grasp rules.
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You can find general links and an intermittently updating blog at ratwave.uk
A fantasy workplace action drama, played with No Dice and No Masters
A GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards.
A digital pirate action TTRPG of epic stakes and grave consequences. Inspired by the Matrix.
A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.
A Belonging outside Belonging ttrpg starring mentally ill swamp things in a deprived commuter town.
An assymetric ttrpg inspired by classic movie monsters, for 1-3 players
2024
A fantasy workplace action drama, played with No Dice and No Masters
A GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards.
A strange worldscape, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
A slice-of-life urban fantasy tarot-based game.
Negotiate the dangerous lives of cosmic cowboys slinging divine power.
2023
A digital pirate action TTRPG of epic stakes and grave consequences. Inspired by the Matrix.
A solo journaling and sketching game where you venture through a surrealist dreamscape.
A storytelling/map-making game of pyrrhic victory, inspired by Seven Samurai
An introductory adventure for Wild Duelist. For 3 players. A tale of sworn enemies.
A ttrpg of escape and bad nights, set to music. Inspired by Time Flies by Ladyhawke.
A noirish thriller for sad space cowboys. A sudden death, an old friend and a dangerous racket.
2022
A system-agnostic setting guide for the space fantasy western world, inspired by Jack Kirby's New Gods.
A roleplaying fighting game of selves-discovery.
An assymetric ttrpg inspired by classic movie monsters, for 1-3 players
Guide for making games with trick taking combat, based on Transgender Deathmatch Legend.
A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.
2020/2021
A demonic heist game. A hack of Stealing the Throne. Steal back your sold soul.
A solo journaling game about being a horrid monster filling in for Big Red.
A trick-taking, role-playing, bone crunching fighting game.
A medieval action ttrpg about animalfolk warriors travelling to violent duels. Illuminated by LUMEN.
A Lost and Found solo journaling game, where you play a story as you journey from inception to transformation.
A Belonging outside Belonging ttrpg starring mentally ill swamp things in a deprived commuter town.
A solitary game of self-exploration, magic, music and pain.
You a part of a plural system rampaging to rescue the ones you care about. A hack of Invincible Sword Princess.
A Lasers and Feelings hack about friendship, apologising and becoming a volcano.
A Laser and Feelings hack about a gang of disaster gay crab mutants on a mission to kill god.
Guest Writing
The collection of eight short pamphlet adventures
fight for your life for the entertainment of the ultra-rich in this fast-paced RPG
A play to lose RPG where your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights fail to stop the apocalypse.
Fantasy essays Big Magic don't want you to read
The Fight Card System
A procedurally generated hunt through a bitter, mysterious land
A solo rpg about running a wrestling promotion
A roleplaying fighting game of selves-discovery.
Guide for making games with trick taking combat, based on Transgender Deathmatch Legend.
A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.
A trick-taking, role-playing, bone crunching fighting game.
The World of Old Gods and Young Guns
Negotiate the dangerous lives of cosmic cowboys slinging divine power.
A system-agnostic setting guide for the space fantasy western world, inspired by Jack Kirby's New Gods.
A storytelling/map-making game of pyrrhic victory, inspired by Seven Samurai
Wild Duelist
A medieval action ttrpg about animalfolk warriors travelling to violent duels. Illuminated by LUMEN.
An introductory adventure for Wild Duelist. For 3 players. A tale of sworn enemies.