Games by Matthijs Holter
Deep immersion. Moral tension.
GM: Optional.
Experimental tabletop RPGs where every player shapes the story. Sometimes there's a GM. Sometimes there isn't. Always, there's creative authority for everyone at the table.
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Experimental games, deep immersion, and stories where every player shapes the fiction.
The Roots of Soledad
A card-driven narrative RPG set in a forgotten South American village, where fortune-telling mechanics build stories across a full campaign.
No GM. Every session picks up where the last one left off, and the stories get more tangled the longer you play. Published by NessunDove.
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B-sides
Thirty-five experimental games from 2005 to 2017, collected in two volumes. The inaugural Hyperfictive release.
Mostly GM-less, mostly shared-authority, mostly short.
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Gather Party
A free session scheduler for RPG groups. Players mark their availability, and the calendar finds the dates that work. No login required.
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Build interactive relationship maps for your RPG characters. Drag, connect, and color-code the web of alliances, rivalries, and secrets at your table.
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Matthijs Holter
I've been making tabletop RPGs since 2005, mostly in Norway, mostly with people who wanted to see how far you could push what a game is. Freeform play, shared authority, no GM. Some of my games have characters. Some don't. One is just a sentence.
Hyperfictive is where I show you my stuff. Some of it is self-published, some published by others. If you know, you know. If not, play them and find out.
On Substack I write about designing these games, and about what happens when you give every player at the table real authority over the fiction.
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New releases, design notes, and the occasional behind-the-scenes look at how I make games.