Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony

@lackingceremony.bsky.social

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One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com

A dumpster instruction sign shows a diagram of a whole hand inserted carefully inside of the handle to release a mechanism.
A screenshot from a YouTube video, with a picture of a cluttered coffee table and the caption: "You can and should use design to compensate for shortcomings in your personality."
A draft deck for Magic: the Gathering Online featuring golgari cards with a spider theme, relying on a Rotwidow Pack, a Webweaver Changeling, and four Twin-Silk Spiders.
A magic the gathering draft deck for the Modern Horizons format, featuring rakdos good cards.
A Vintage Cube deck for Magic: the Gathering, featuring Mardu cards including a Mox Ruby, Ajani, Goblin Bombardment, Mayhem Devil, and Forth Eorlingas!
A screenshot of Magic: the Gathering showing green creatures with many counters on them.
The start to a Vintage Cube draft. The cards chosen so far are Strip Mine, Wasteland, Prismatic Vista, Badgermole Cub.
A screenshot of the Magic: the Gathering Online leaderboard for Vintage Cube drafting.
A draft deck for Magic: the Gathering's supreme vintage cube format, featuring Temur cards with a focus on artifact hate.
A game of Magic: the Gathering in which a beefed-up Carnage Interpreter is attacking for lethal damage on turn four.
A blue-black deck in Magic: the Gathering Online's Vintage Cube.
Teach Concentrically: When you teach a game, you want to introduce the core tenets of the play experience, and then build upon that knowledge concentrically, so that every new piece of information feels easy to integrate but continues to expand upon a sense of complex interdependence that cannot be “collapsed” or “resolved” except perhaps through play.
A game of Vintage Cube won by a Null Rod.
A turn one win in Magic Online's Supreme Vintage Cube using Time Vault.
A copy of The Quiet Year box set, open to reveal a book, cards, dice, and tokens.
A twitter screenshot that reads: "let me get this straight... I'm supposed to let the soft animal of my body love what it loves? the same body that's keeping the fucking score???"
A cube draft deck for Magic: the Gathering Online, featuring Naya cards that revolve around recurring a Strip Mine.
A Vintage Cube draft deck in Magic the Gathering Online, featuring green cards with a land recursion strategy.
A Magic Online Vintage Cube deck consisting of green cards with a lands matter theme, supplemented by a few Temur cards: Ancestral Recall, Spell Pierce, Time Walk, Mockingbird, Oko, and Wrenn and Six.
A decklist for the Magic Online Vintage Cube, featuring mostly green cards, including Zuran Orb combo, Titania, and a Strip Mine recursion package.
A painted Warhammer miniature - a space pirate on a jet bike from the Drukhari army.
A very busted dimir deck for Magic Online's vintage cube.
An email excerpt from New Democrat MLA Heather McPherson.
A Magic: the Gathering deck from the Vintage cube format, featuring very powerful cards.
Several Magic: the Gathering cards from a cube draft.
A Magic: the Gathering deck featuring white and black cards, which was assembled during a cube draft.
A price list for Buried Without Ceremony games, with a "sold out" sticker over one of the titles.
A price list for Buried Without Ceremony games, with a "sold out" sticker over one of the titles.
A screenshot from Magic: the Gathering Online, showcasing a fast start with a reanimator deck.
A deck list for a Magic cube draft that is in red and white colours.
A cardboard box with a hand stamped label, for a roleplaying game called The Quiet Year.
A homemade magic card named Lazy Dragonologist with the text "Cockatrices, Dinosaurs, Drakes, Hydras, Manticores, Sphinxes, and Wurms are Dragons."
A magic card. It's a blue card called Atemporal Denial that is a counterspell variant that is a Sorcery and also has Madness.
The Buried Without Ceremony logo of an animal skull in front of a many-coloured wall of bricks.
Quote from Greg Hellings: Hey, I just wanted to tell you how much joy you brought to a table of eight this weekend. I've played many of your games and really loved them all, but today I'm complimenting Going for Broke. The elegance of this game is on another level. No game I've ever played has better done what it's trying to do better than this game, and the fact that you accomplished that with 18 cards and a coin is amazing. I've now played it with four different tables, and it keeps getting better with each play. This last game had the whole table absolutely losing their shit. The game had to stop multiple times just so we could regain some kind of composure. Thank you for such a brilliant design.
A box full of newly-printed copies of a game called Going For Broke, next to tissue paper and bubble mailers for shipping them out.
A platter of deviled eggs next to a quote from the show Severance about "the egg bar."
A quote from Jay Dragon: “Going for Broke combines easy-to-follow mechanics with memorably hilarious characters to make a batshit sitcom that still leaves space for poignant moments. If hollywood won’t make the messy disastrous sitcom about an anarchist co-op/polycule of our dreams then I guess we gotta sit down, flip some coins, and make our own.”
Cover images for all of the Buried Without Ceremony roleplaying games.
An image of five friends sitting on a picnic blanket, chatting. One of the friends has also been turned into a character card for the roleplaying game Going For Broke.
Prototype cards for a roleplaying game.
Two young people sitting on the curb of a parking lot, laughing, eating pizza. The logo for Going For Broke appears in the corner of the image.
An excerpt from a website that reads: Avery Alder is a role-playing game designer whose creations and talks are renowned for their exploration of profound social themes, including queer identities, community, marginalization, and interpersonal relationships. She uses role-playing games as a medium to challenge traditional power dynamics, question perspectives on the body and sexuality, and emphasize the shared responsibility of players in how topics are approached and addressed around the table. Her games encourage players to explore human relationships and intimacy in an introspective and empathetic way. Avery Alder is particularly known for developing the Belonging Outside Belonging system, characterized by its lack of a game master in favor of shared storytelling and an action resolution system rooted in mutual support. The jury awards the prize to Avery Alder for her body of work, coinciding with the 2024 release of the second edition of Monsterhearts in French. Her creativity, which pushes boundaries and redefines conventions, is also evident in The Quiet Year, Dream Askew, and Variations On Your Body. Her influence on the independent role-playing game scene is significant, inspiring numerous games that draw from her innovative ideas.
A prototype of a card-based sitcom roleplaying game named Going For Broke.