Welcome. My name is Orestis Avlonitis, and I’m the designer and writer of this sci-fi horror tabletop RPG, Whalefall.

Whalefall has taken many, many shapes for me. It’s been a Dungeons and Dragons homebrew, a Fallout ttrpg adaptation, a piece of lore in a novel, and a thousand and one other things. This idea has been cooking for so long, the metaphorical pot has boiled over and now there’s Whalefall all over the counters and floors.

I love role playing games, and not just because I suffer from a debilitating condition known as stupid fingers which makes me bad at other games. The only thing I love more than 0-20 KD or falling off the same ledge for the 13th time is making my own games.

I started making my own games when I was in grade school. I would bring in stacks and stacks of loose leaf and graph paper -countries and units and modifiers scribbled on paper in a pale imitation of Civ 3. I would come home and work on my version of Runescape, or craft my own Fablehaven preserve.

For me, its all about pen and paper.

There’s just something to the tangible, physical feeling of writing something down, making a change on a stat list, checking off an ability, physically making my character’s HP go down when they get hit - every hit another swipe of the eraser.

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