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Kayla Dice is a writer-designer of TTRPGs, releasing one of a kind games focusing on themes of alienation and connection under the label of Rat Wave Game House. She is a former wrestler, comedian and teacher and a current podcaster. Kayla was named a winner of the 2023 Diana Jones Emerging Designer program and is the creator of cult classics like Transgender Deathmatch Legend, PSYCHODUNGEON and much more.

Kayla Dice lives in London and has done so for over a decade so she’s probably here for the long haul.

Physical copies of Rat Wave Game House books are available here. Subscribe to Kayla's Patreon for early access, free games and discount prices.

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You can find general links and a monthly blog at ratwave.uk

Follow Me in the Night: A Curse on the Radio

$10

A hard-boiled single player roleplaying game and playlist builder, powered by Tarot.

Rat Wave Game House

Caught in the Remix

$10

A tarot powered night club escape, set to music.

Rat Wave Game House

I'm with the Damned

$10

A tarot-powered musical rpg about an overnight success struggling with a Faustian pact.

Rat Wave Game House

$15

A fantasy workplace action drama, played with No Dice and No Masters

Rat Wave Game House

Out of the Fold

$15

A GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards.

Rat Wave Game House

To Embrace a Swamp Creature

$15

A Belonging outside Belonging ttrpg starring mentally ill swamp things in a deprived commuter town.

Rat Wave Game House

2025

Follow Me in the Night: A Curse on the Radio

A hard-boiled single player roleplaying game and playlist builder, powered by Tarot.

Rat Wave Game House

Caught in the Remix

A tarot powered night club escape, set to music.

Rat Wave Game House

I'm with the Damned

A tarot-powered musical rpg about an overnight success struggling with a Faustian pact.

Rat Wave Game House

Once again, we are defeated (Second Edition)

A narrative map-making game, inspired by Seven Samurai.

Rat Wave Game House

Transgender Deathmatch Legend II

a TTRPG beat-em-up for two players, with playing cards

Rat Wave Game House

2024

Nemesis Retribution

A heated rivalry simulator, for 3-6 players including a Narrator.

Rat Wave Game House

A fantasy workplace action drama, played with No Dice and No Masters

Rat Wave Game House

Out of the Fold

A GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards.

Rat Wave Game House

The Folly of the World (for Hieronymus)

A strange worldscape, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Rat Wave Game House

Ritual Magic for Besties

A slice-of-life urban fantasy tarot-based game.

Rat Wave Game House

Negotiate the dangerous lives of cosmic cowboys slinging divine power.

Rat Wave Game House

2023

A digital pirate action TTRPG of epic stakes and grave consequences. Inspired by the Matrix.

Rat Wave Game House

An Illustrator's Guide to the Dreamtlands

A solo journaling and sketching game where you venture through a surrealist dreamscape.

Rat Wave Game House

Thirty Foes: OR Once again, we are defeated

A storytelling/map-making game of pyrrhic victory, inspired by Seven Samurai

Rat Wave Game House

The Ballad of the Bastard and the Tinkerer

A tale of two people fated to duel, for a Narrator and two sworn rivals.

Rat Wave Game House

The Infinite Dancefloor

A ttrpg of escape and bad nights, set to music. Inspired by Time Flies by Ladyhawke.

Rat Wave Game House

The Man We Knew (An Orbital Blues adventure)

A noirish thriller for sad space cowboys. A sudden death, an old friend and a dangerous racket.

Rat Wave Game House

2022

Old Gods and Young Guns

A system-agnostic setting guide for the space fantasy western world, inspired by Jack Kirby's New Gods.

Rat Wave Game House

Forecaster: The Body You Share

A roleplaying fighting game of selves-discovery.

Rat Wave Game House

Fear the Taste of Blood

An assymetric ttrpg inspired by classic movie monsters, for 1-3 players

Rat Wave Game House

Transgender Deathmatch Legend 1

A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.

Rat Wave Game House

Guest Writing

Orbital Blues: Rogue Anthems

The collection of eight short pamphlet adventures

SoulMuppet Publishing

fight for your life for the entertainment of the ultra-rich in this fast-paced RPG

Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western RPG

A play to lose RPG where your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights fail to stop the apocalypse.

SoulMuppet Publishing

The Levanté Papers

Fantasy essays Big Magic don't want you to read

Biscuit Fund Games

The Fight Card System

Transgender Deathmatch Legend II

a TTRPG beat-em-up for two players, with playing cards

Rat Wave Game House

Forecaster: The Body You Share

A roleplaying fighting game of selves-discovery.

Rat Wave Game House

The Fight Card System - Design Kit/SRD

Guide for making games with trick taking combat, based on Transgender Deathmatch Legend.

Rat Wave Game House

Transgender Deathmatch Legend 1

A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.

Rat Wave Game House

A trick-taking, role-playing, bone crunching fighting game.

Rat Wave Game House