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Post-apocalyptic Escapades
Lunatic Larry has ate too many mushrooms and riled up the local cannibals and bikers. Stop him from distributing kiloliters of his cult's shroom tea to create an army of hallucinating marauders. One way or another.

Fight your way through strongmen, cannibals, and feral beasts as you survive the remains of a poisoned world as randomly generated maps and goals ensure no two games are the same.

Playtime ranges from 15 mins-2 hours, depending on if you're chased down and killed by the first enemy you encounter or if the task turns into a grueling enterprise. ~30 mins is average.

Includes the core game, rule sheet, quick start, glossaries, and 'The Night Time is the Right Time'. TGC print edition includes a d10 and exclusive print edition of 'The Night Time is the Right Time'.

Post-apocalyptic Escapades: The Lurker Expansion
A creature people call 'The Lurker' has moved into the forest around Vicksburg, leading a motley band of animals in raids against farmers and travelers. The rumor is that it can control the forest dwellers and is either a demon or military experiment. The Mayor of Vicksburg doesn't care what it is and only wants it gone so townsfolk can return to a normal life.

Post-apocalyptic Escapades of Heroes & Scrubs: The Night Time is the Right Time
A motley crew led by a whiny beastmaster named Bastle has been tasked with bringing an end to Larry's cult and their shroom tea production. And even they don't think they'll make it.

Post-apocalyptic Escapades of Heroes & Scrubs: The Creature
A scavenging team led by a herbalist called Leaf runs into disaster. First, one of their party is killed by giant bees, and then one is eviscerated by something in the dark. Little do they know, the thing hunting them is also being hunted.

Dis the Rhyme
Race a 30-second timer to complete a line for a randomly generated Rhyme Scheme, using more words than your competitors. Fail to finish a line or finish a line that doesn't fit the Rhyme Scheme and get a Buster Mark. Remove Buster Marks by dissing yourself or other players.

DriveThruCards: https://www.drivethrucards.com/browse/pub/6913/Ephiroll-Productions
The Game Crafter: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/jeremiah-donaldson
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ephiroll

Music clips from 'The Wasteland' by Ross Bugden
https://youtu.be/5eAalHA1bAc

Post-apocalyptic Escapades
A story generator.
Take out Larry or his shroom operation. And don't get killed or anything.
1-5 players
Aged 17+
30 mins-2 hours playtime

On TheGameCrafter: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/post-apocalyptic-escapades
PnP format on DriveThruCards: https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/400631/Postapocalyptic-Escapades
Digital format on Tabletopia: https://tabletopia.com/games/post-apocalyptic-escapades

Coming Nov 1st, 2022.Lunatic Larry has ate too many mushrooms and riled up the local cannibals and bikers. Stop him from distributing kiloliters of his cult's shroom tea to create an army of hallucinating marauders. One way or another.Fight your way through strongmen, cannibals, and feral beasts as you survive the remains of a poisoned world as randomly generated maps and goals ensure no two games are the same.

Playtime ranges from 15 mins-2 hours, depending on if you're chased down and killed by the first enemy you encounter or if the task turns into a grueling enterprise. ~30 mins is average.

Print edition includes the core game, rule sheet, quick start, glossaries, D10 die, and an exclusive print edition of 'The Night Time is the Right Time'.

Rated 17+ for drug use and adult situations.

Dr. Lovedeath or: How I Was Made to Roll Up My Sleeve and Love the Jab

An insane President uses a horse worm pandemic to push draconian laws and do exactly what his handlers want.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09J1QX1Q6
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1108742
DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/372400/Dr-Lovedeath-or-How-I-Was-Made-to-Roll-Up-My-Sleeve-and-Love-the-Jab

Three stoners witness the Second Coming of Jesus, smoke with him, and convince him the world should be flooded again.

Free on Smashwords and DriveThruFiction.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1079045
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/353452/Highlelujah

Support at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ephiroll

One Vote by Jeremiah Donaldson
First published in 2014 by Horroraddicts.net
In the reprint collection 'whatever': https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FUT8EUO
Source frog picture from Unsplash by Stephanie Leblanc
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Marvin's sweaty hand made the registration card soggy. He'd never voted. Anticipation twisted his gut. Soon, he’d help decide the country’s fate for the next several years or longer.
He forced himself towards the booth.
Christ. What party did I register with?
Just vote. It didn't matter who he voted for. Besides, the politicians worked for the same corporations anyway.
He ducked into the booth, almost bowling over the touch screen sitting on a wooden pedestal. Sweat stung his eyes and his vision blurred, so he randomly reached out.
Huge letters flashed: 'THANK YOU FOR VOTING'.
Done. He'd voted.
Marvin hurried out the front door.
He got in his truck and spun some gravel pulling out of the church parking lot. The static filled radio coming from one good speaker made him wish that the Eight Track player hadn’t died 25 years before.
"We interrupt normal broadcasts for a special weather alert…"
He frowned and changed the station.
"Cuba has joined NATO…"
He twisted the knob again.
“Wall Street brokers have started a fund to benefit low income…"
Again.
"We will start pulling troops out of the Middle East immediately...”
The radio died with a final blast of static and left him with the noisy muffler.
Black storm clouds had gathered by the time he pulled into his driveway. He got out and a gust blew the driver’s door shut so hard the window rattled. Trees lining his yard creaked while leaves swirled down.
Massive raindrops pelted him like stones. Something squishy landed on his shoulder and moved to his neck. Marvin shuddered, flicking at the rubbery thing crawling up the back of his head. It fell to the ground and hopped away.
He stomped on the weird blue frog, then looked up and shivered.
Must have fell from the tree.
A thud prompted him to turn. A red frog lay exploded in the middle of the bashed in truck hood.
Dots too large for rain fell from the sky. Something slammed into his forehead, knocking him backwards. He stumbled several steps before tripping to the ground with fluids running down his face. He blinked, wiping thick slime and cold blood off with his shirt while getting up.
A red frog smashed to the ground beside him as the truck windshield shattered.
A small blue one landed on his shoulder. It hopped away and joined other survivors among the bodies in the purple yard.
He made it to the porch before something surprisingly firm slammed into the center of his back. He stumbled, and caught himself with the handrail, stopping long enough to punt the huge blue frog into the yard. He pushed through the front door and leaned against it protectively, as though the amphibians could have turned the knob. His heart pounded so hard he feared a heart attack.
Pots banged against one another as his wife called out. "So, who did you vote for?"

This video goes over how to create a character for the Disturbance Timeline RPG: 2nd Edition.

https://www.ephiroll.com

Post-apocalyptic Escapades BETA
1-5 players
Aged 18+
15 mins-3 hours playtime

DriveThruCards
https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/308919/Postapocalyptic-Escapades-BETA

The Game Crafter
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/post-apocalyptic-escapades

Lunatic Larry has ate too many mushrooms and has riled up the local cannibals and bikers. Stop him from distributing kiloliters of his cult's shroom tea to create an army of hallucinating marauders. One way or another.

Fight your way through strongmen, cannibals, and feral beasts to survive the remains of a poisoned world as randomly generated maps and goals ensure no two games are ever the same.

Play one of 7 characters with different abilities from the Disturbance Timeline RPG and related literature in the card game version of the RPG.

Requires one ten-sided die, counters, and dry erase markers to play. Pen and paper can be used in place of counters and small tokens can be used in place of the marker for map locations.

These area cards were meant to be used with a dry erase marker in their original high gloss format. Lamination or pencil will need to be used to prevent the printing of multiple copies of the print and play beta areas.

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A note from the designer: This beta version (148 total playtest hours and countless revisions in) will be available for free until the production art is started (2021ish). Everyone that downloads this beta version will get the finished files once they're uploaded. I only ask that if you play it, send me any feedback you have (through the Ephiroll Productions FB page or my email [jerry at ephiroll.com]), and you'll get a playtester credit. If there are too many playtester credits, they will appear only at the end of the finished rules video and not on the rules sheet. The finished version of this game will be rated 18+ for nudity, gore, and adult themes and so is this beta version (currently, only the adult themes are present w/o art). Death Derby artists Jon Wells (Core Deck) and Doan Trang (Nature's Rage) are queued for the project. Thanks for playing.--jerry

Jeremiah Donaldson
https://www.ephiroll.com

Music:
Ross Bugden 'The Wasteland'
https://youtu.be/5eAalHA1bAc

A new virus has emerged from the depths of Asia and is sweeping across the world. Lead your science team to stop it while containment is still an option in the card game 'R-Naught'.

1-4 players, aged 12+, 5-15 mins playtime
On The Game Crafter: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/r-naught
On DriveThruCards: https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/307250/RNaught

The PDF version of this game will be free until the current pandemic is over.

Designed by Jeremiah Donaldson
https://www.ephiroll.com

Music by Ross Bugden
'Unstoppable'
https://youtu.be/WuLsHkl_Xuk

A short video showing the differences between the MK1 and MK2 card designs for Death Derby: A Post-apocalyptic Card Game. Win the race. Kill your opponent. Whatever works.

Where to find Death Derby:
All DD material, including a bundle that includes all the content, can be found at The Game Crafter. https://www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/jeremiah-donaldson

The Core Deck and complete expansions, ie, no randoms (currently Nature's Rage) can be found at DriveThruCards as PDFs or printed versions w/o tuck boxes, printed rules or all the other extras the higher prices at The Game Crafter covers. https://www.drivethrucards.com/browse/pub/6913/Ephiroll-Productions

The last publicly available Mark 1 editions are on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Derby-Post-Apocalyptic-Combat-Racing/dp/B07TW3Z3X8

Music:
Drive by Ross Bugden
https://youtu.be/3pZdZiPnsGs

On denial and excuses regarding problems in the US.

Full text
On Authorsden: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=79586
On Author's Blog: https://ephiroll.com/wordpress/?p=82

Further reading:
Facts vs. Opinion and Fox News-https://community.aarp.org/t5/Politics-Current-Events/FACTS-VS-OPINION-AND-FOX-NEWS/td-p/2017676
Russian Federation: Official Analysis of American Russophobia-https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/04/21/russian-federation-official-analysis-of-american-russophobia/
CBS News Fires Staffer Over Leaked Amy Robach and Jeffrey Epstein Audio-https://www.thewrap.com/cbs-news-fires-staffer-over-leaked-amy-robach-and-jeffrey-epstein-audio/
The US Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. All of Them Must Close.-https://www.thenation.com/article/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close/
The Danger of Imperial Overstretch-https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/15/the-danger-of-imperial-overstretch/
If North Korea and Japan went to war, South Koreans would support Kim Jong-un, says new survey-https://www.rt.com/news/472834-south-korea-kim-versus-japan/
NATO experiencing 'brain death', France's Macron says-https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-nato-france-idINKBN1XH1H9
Iraqi defense minister gives US troops 4 weeks to leave Iraq-https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/iraqi-defense-minister-gives-us-troops-4-weeks-to-leave-iraq/
US troops in Japan banned from drinking after fatal crash-https://apnews.com/5026201eca474b1cbda3aa8560255d72
79 Members Of Congress Have Been In Office For At Least 20 Years-https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/79-members-congress-have-been-office-least-20-years
Deep State Admits They’ve Finally “Gotten a Grip on Trump” Liken Him to George W. Bush-https://thedailycoin.org/2017/09/22/deep-state-admits-theyve-finally-gotten-grip-trump-liken-george-w-bush/
Social Security is running out of money, with benefits on track to be reduced by 2035-https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/social-security-running-money-benefits-track-reduced-2035/story?id=62557507
Congresswoman: Some of My Constituents 'Eat Dog Food When Their Food Stamps Run Out’-https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/congresswoman-some-my-constituents-eat-dog-food-when-their-food-stamps-run-out
Homelessness Among the Elderly Expected to Triple in 10 Years-https://invisiblepeople.tv/homelessness-among-the-elderly-expected-to-triple-in-10-years/
Don't celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a death count in the millions.-https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/05/karl-marx-communism-death-column/578000002/
Wharton’s Adam Grant eviscerates viral Google memo: Differences between men and women are slim to none-https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/adam-grant-on-google-memo-differences-between-sexes-are-slim-to-none.html
UC Berkeley P.D. release names of people arrested at Coulter event-https://www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berkeley-p-d-release-names-of-people-arrested-at-coulter-event
Ninth Amendment-https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/ninth_amendment
Benghazi victims' families file suit against Clinton-https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-benghazi-families-sue-hillary-clinton-20160809-story.html
Hillary on Gaddafi - "we came, we saw, he died."-https://youtu.be/UtH7iv4ip1U
How Airbus finally seized the Boeing 737's title as the world's most popular plane-https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/a320-more-popular-than-737-most-orders/

Why no nation is 'free'.

Full text
On Authorsden: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=79575
On Author's Blog: https://ephiroll.com/wordpress/?p=79

Additional info:
History of United States and Its Alliances: https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2019/04/01/history_of_united_states_and_its_alliances_428.html
Nord Stream 2: Go-ahead for Russian gas pipeline angers Ukraine: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50247793
Free Trade Agreements: https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements
What are Rules of Origin and how do they apply to Free Trade Agreements and tariffs?: https://www.austrade.gov.au/contact/faqs/what-are-rules-of-origin-and-how-do-they-apply-to-free-trade-agreements-and-tariffs
Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/geneva_conventions

Why 'freedom' is a nonsense concept.

Full text
On Authorsden: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=79568
On author's blog: https://ephiroll.com/wordpress/?p=74

Further info:
China slams Hong Kong judges after mask ruling, raising pressure on city’s freedoms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/china-admonishes-hong-kong-judiciary-after-mask-ruling-raising-pressure-on-citys-tenuous-freedoms/2019/11/18/3e3999de-0a51-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html
Woman attacked by protesters in Mong Kok, Hong Kong: https://youtu.be/ATO_roCP2BA
HK rioters throw firebombs at residents cleaning streets: https://youtu.be/uFOQB39juLc

Plague: Moss and John
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V4MK8SR
by Jeremiah Donaldson
https://www.ephiroll.com

Contains: Plague, John's Story (from Plague: Aftermath), and Escape (from Plague: Ruination)

An unseen traveler lurked within flight 308 to Paris, France. A traveler that infected everyone aboard and raced across the world while those in charge of its containment denied the real danger. Few escaped the carnage, fewer left any record. Moss Valley was one of them.

Original trailer produced in Nov, 2013 for Plague: Original Cut, updated for Plague: Moss and John.

A little limerick to lighten your day.

A little limerick to lighten your day.

An essay exploring the potential sources of the poison in US politics.

Full text:
Authorsden: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=79503
Author's Blog: https://ephiroll.com/wordpress/?p=68

Further reading:
These are Americans’ favorite insults, by political affiliation: https://qz.com/291533/this-is-how-liberals-and-conservatives-insult-each-other/
Party Affiliation: https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ remark sums up a deplorable election season: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-deplorables-remark-sums-up-a-deplorable-election-season/2016/09/10/78977694-777b-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html
Conservatives, Moderates, Liberals, and Progressives: http://factmyth.com/conservatives-moderates-liberals-and-progressives/
6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/06/30/a-run-down-of-social-medias-effects-on-our-mental-health/#41bc812c2e5a
The Positive and Negative Effects of Identity Politics and the Privilege Lens on Academic Discourse: https://inacrowdedtheater.com/2017/04/29/the-positive-and-negative-effects-of-identity-politics-and-the-privilege-lens-on-academic-discourse/
National Survey on Drug Use and Health: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/nsduh-national-survey-drug-use-and-health
2018 Prescription Drug Abuse Statistics You Need To Know: https://talbottcampus.com/prescription-drug-abuse-statistics/
Zantac Is Voluntarily Recalled After Cancer-Causing Chemical Detected: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/fda-warns-zantac-may-have-carcinogen
Common Medications Can Masquerade as Dementia in Seniors: https://www.beingpatient.com/anticholinergic-medications-dementia-symptoms/
Prescription per capita in the United States by age group 2013: https://www.statista.com/statistics/315476/prescriptions-in-us-per-capita-by-age-group/
The Psychology of Bullying: https://therapycable.com/the-psychology-of-bullying/
US: History of U.S. sanctions shows most haven't worked: https://corpwatch.org/article/us-history-us-sanctions-shows-most-havent-worked
US’s history of sanctions worldwide and how Zimbabwe is affected: https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/05/02/uss-history-sanctions-worldwide-zimbabwe-affected/
Pesticide 'causes frogs to change sex': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm
Environmental exposure to metals and male reproductive hormones: Circulating testosterone is inversely associated with blood molybdenum: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823119/
PFOA and PFOS Cause Lower Sperm Counts and Smaller Penises, Study Finds: https://theintercept.com/2018/11/30/pfoa-and-pfos-cause-lower-sperm-counts-and-smaller-penises-study-finds/
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475.Collapse
The Widening Gap Between the Super-Rich and Other Americans: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30/the-widening-gap-between-the-super-rich-and-other-americans/
Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506
Paying Back Student Loans? It's Hardest for People in These 8 Industries: https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/paying-back-student-loans-its-hardest-for-people-in-these-industries.html/
The Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://academyofideas.com/2017/04/gulag-archipelago-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/
The Rise of the Far Right http://harvardpolitics.com/world/rise-of-far-right/

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

The farce about people you've already met.

Ava has found a charming, smart, and, one day, rich man she wants that has a big problem: his useless brother Wesley that his father wants rid of. But before anyone would take him, he has to be whipped into shape, and Ava knows just the woman for the job in this farce that would make Shakespeare laugh in his grave.

Available anywhere ebooks are sold.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
On Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928592

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Various videos by writer/game designer Jeremiah Donaldson.