Wet Ink Games – Michele Lee

Psychic Kids TTRPG released

Happy Monday, folks! I’m trying to get back on a regular blogging schedule (ha!)

I’ve already talked about Wet Ink Games’ Psychic Kids when the Kickstarted launched, but now it’s been released on DriverThruRPG and I’ve run a session at GenCon.

A lot of people come to the idea of kids with psychic powers and a mysterious institute that is after them from Stranger Things, or maybe X-Files. Maybe even X-Men. But I came to the concept from this series:

I was a huge fan of teeny-bopper horror growing up. Christopher Pike, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Caroline B. Cooney…but L.J. Smith was my favorite. And while Vampire Diaries has had it’s explosion in popularity it was never my favorite. (I’m not a huge fan of love triangles, and I found Elena to be…less than appealing as a lead character.) Dark Visions was another of Smith’s trilogies, the last she wrote, I believe, that centered on a young artists whose drawings showed the future and the strange, sinister Institute that gathered kids like her.

The session I ran at GenCon had a sillier feel, as the none of the characters were teens, but were rather younger children who had never really been able to be children, and were not at all intimidated or fearful of their power. I ran both my adventure and one from the book, which blended seamlessly, and we all had wild fun.

Psychic Kids would be a great tabletop game for a family or kids of all ages and could be adjusted to be more light hearted like my game ran, or a more serious and sinister (a la Stranger Things) game. It’s only $10 at DriveThruRPG and all you need to play is some six sided dice and a deck of cards.

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February 15

New Kickstarter: Psychic Kids

Wet Ink Games has launched a new Kickstarter that I’m a part of. Psychic Kids, the next Indie RPG from Wet Ink Games is NOW LIVE on Kickstarter! Use the powers of your mind to flee the agents of the Facility and find your way to the last place you felt safe.

Both my daughter and I have written for this game and we’ll be running adventures for it at GenCon this year. You can back it here.

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February 11

2023 Gencon Games

Heckin’ Good Doggos Save Everything

Thursday August 3, 2023, 4pm-8pm

2-8 players, 6+ (Very Kid Friendly)

Play beloved family dogs (or street mutts with hearts of gold) looking to save their humans from terrible perils like men with hats, and stonky cat schemes to take over the world. (Or just the neighborhood, but still!)

This game will cover character creation and multiple adventure scenarios for Wet Ink Games’ Heckin’ Good Doggos. We will be focusing on mundane adventures and challenges from the core rule set.

I will provide dice, character sheets, and pencils for this game. More information on the game is here. You can purchase it here.

Never Going Home- Tears in the Sea

Friday August 4, 2023, 2pm-6pm

2-6 Players, 18+

Join the German crew of U-19 as they track down the secrets of PROJECT RIPTIDE aboard the cursed U-boat that still carries the flesh of her last crew.

This game will cover character creation and as much of the NGH Mission Folio Tears in the Sea as we can manage in the time block.

I will provide dice, character sheets, and pencils for this game. More information on the game is here. You can purchase it here.

**The Psychic Kids will launch soon on Kickstarter.**

Psychic Kids- Lost in the Woods

Saturday August 5, 2023, 6pm-10pm

2-6 Players, 13+

Last night you escaped from The Facility, and now you’re hunting down the very idea of home, all from clues found through the Facility and half remembered dreams of a five year old with precognition. But The Facility sits deep in a strange woods, miles from cities you don’t know how to function in. And you’re just a bunch of kids, with a legion of adult agents after you.

I will provide dice, character sheets, and pencils for this game.

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February 20

Gen Con Games for 2022

GenCon 2022 is August 4-7th this year. I will be once again running games for Wet Ink Games at the IGDN room.

Here are the sessions I am signing up to run (final times pending.) This page will change as more things are finalized.

Heckin’ Good Doggos Save Everything

2-6 players, 6+ (Very Kid Friendly)

This game will cover character creation and multiple adventure scenarios for Wet Ink Games’ Heckin’ Good Doggos. We will be focusing on mundane adventures and challenges from the core rule set.

Super Good Doggos Save the World

2-6 players, 6+ (Very Kid Friendly)

When aliens attack these secretly super powered dogs must step up to save the world, but most importantly their families, from strange creatures who want to claim Earth’s resources for their own.

This game will cover character creation and multiple adventure scenarios for Wet Ink Games’ Heckin’ Good Doggos. We will be focusing on the Super Dogs expansion, playing super powered canines saving the world.

Never Going Home- Tears in the Sea

Join the German crew of U-19 as they track down the secrets of PROJECT RIPTIDE aboard the cursed U-boat that still carries the flesh of her last crew.

This game will cover character creation and as much of the NGH Mission Folio Tears in the Sea as we can manage in the time block.

Finally: If you bring pictures of your pets (print or digital) to my Gencon games you will start with extra “experience”. (The +One system uses a playing card system for experience.)

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January 25

Heckin’ Good Doggos from Wet Ink Games

Update: We are completely funded and now working on “Fetch” Goals!!

Heckin’ Good Doggos is now live on Kickstarter! This family friendly TTRPG features dogs doing dog stuff. I wrote the alternative setting Super Good Doggos, which was tons of fun. Our top Tier is already sold out! Back and follow here.

The authors and artists involved wrote new bios from our pets’ points of view. Here is mine:

Michele Lee is a fiction author and game designer, and avid rescuer of life forms of all kinds. By day she assists the Dreaded V-E-T, thief of toenails and injector of weird serums. She also works with PBSF and Bluegrass Doberman Rescues in Louisville, KY (probably to make up for whatever terrors she aids in in the “Surgery suite”.) She is owned by four dogs, Astrid (Official Assistant to Mom), Georgie, Ursa, and Thea, and one tiny dragon goddess, Zelda.

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