Rat Wave Game House
Kayla Dice is a writer and artist whose RPG work explores the themes of alienation and connection. Acclaimed for her character-focused and emotionally charged games, in 2023 Kayla was named a winner of the Diana Jones Emerging Designer program.
Kayla lives in London and has done so for over a decade. She performs stand-up comedy, from a seated position, under her shoot name of Kayla MacQuarrie.
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A game about jousting.
A tarot powered night club escape, set to music.
A tarot-powered musical rpg about an overnight success struggling with a Faustian pact.
A fantasy workplace action drama, played with No Dice and No Masters
A GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards.
A Belonging outside Belonging ttrpg starring mentally ill swamp things in a deprived commuter town.
2026
A game about jousting.
2025
A hard-boiled single player roleplaying game and playlist builder, powered by Tarot.
A tarot powered night club escape, set to music.
A tarot-powered musical rpg about an overnight success struggling with a Faustian pact.
A narrative map-making game, inspired by Seven Samurai.
a TTRPG beat-em-up for two players, with playing cards
2024
A heated rivalry simulator, for 3-6 players including a Narrator.
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
A tale of two people fated to duel, for a Narrator and two sworn rivals.
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
A hexcrawling beat-em-up for two players, using a deck of playing cards.
Games Kayla Worked On
A tactical mountain-climbing RPG, powered by tarot.
Super-powered Misfits Resisting the Doomed Future
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 TTRPG beat-em-up for two players, with playing cards
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.