The Logbook Project (Max)
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TTRPG designer, among other things.
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The Logbook Project
The publishing name of Max Hervieux.
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Hi! My name is Max Hervieux, publishing as The Logbook Project. I'm a tabletop rpg designer, and I'm going to use this Pinned thread to make a little guide to my existing stuff to check out.
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Patreon: buff.ly/g7gYwt7
Tumblr: buff.ly/0vxHWUR
Itch: buff.ly/zBqsvcz
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Apocalypsr World is the oddly forgotten Pbta game. If even just for the GM section, you owe it to yourself to get it.
Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Apocalypsr World is the oddly forgotten Pbta game. If even just for the GM section, you owe it to yourself to get it.
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I forget how many folks didn't get to play In A Wicked Age, Poison'd, Under My Skin, 1001 Nights, Sorcerer, Shock, and so many other excellent games with sensuality & sexual content before AW.
ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I forget how many folks didn't get to play In A Wicked Age, Poison'd, Under My Skin, 1001 Nights, Sorcerer, Shock, and so many other excellent games with sensuality & sexual content before AW.
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The older I get I just feel like betting should be illegal. I love sports so much but betting sucks dick. Fuck gambling from now until forever
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The older I get I just feel like betting should be illegal. I love sports so much but betting sucks dick. Fuck gambling from now until forever
As a cook, I have a remarkable disdain for Lopez-Alt's Food Lab. His science is remedial at best, and his "take my wife, PLEASE" tone is so aggressive that I knew he was divorced without looking.
...but his scrambled eggs recipe has fed me like six times in the past month.
...but his scrambled eggs recipe has fed me like six times in the past month.
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
As a cook, I have a remarkable disdain for Lopez-Alt's Food Lab. His science is remedial at best, and his "take my wife, PLEASE" tone is so aggressive that I knew he was divorced without looking.
...but his scrambled eggs recipe has fed me like six times in the past month.
...but his scrambled eggs recipe has fed me like six times in the past month.
My space heroics PbtA game The Shining Void is now Print-on-Demand! Inspired by Mass Effect, Firefly, and GotG, among others, it prioritizes diversity of form and culture, contextual authority (rather than objective hierarchy), and complex team dynamics.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
The Shining Void - The Logbook Project | DriveThruRPG
A Powered by the Apocalypse game about sci-fi action heroes on a spaceship. Modeled on Mass Effect specifically and Star Wars, Star Trek, Dark Matter, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Killjoys generally. ...
www.drivethrurpg.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My space heroics PbtA game The Shining Void is now Print-on-Demand! Inspired by Mass Effect, Firefly, and GotG, among others, it prioritizes diversity of form and culture, contextual authority (rather than objective hierarchy), and complex team dynamics.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
I LOVE starship design, big passion of mine. Offhand, I think I'd say Stargate's ships are particularly remarkable in my memory. The Replicator cruisers comes to mind first. The Odyssey is a little conventional, not unlike the Galactica, but I love its flat and profile.
What’s your favorite film or TV sci fi spacecraft, purely from a visuals & aesthetic perspective, that’s not from Star Wars or Trek? Mine might be the Cygnus from The Black Hole.
The Black Hole (1979): Working on the U.S.S. Cygnus model, in front of a magnificent starfield
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I LOVE starship design, big passion of mine. Offhand, I think I'd say Stargate's ships are particularly remarkable in my memory. The Replicator cruisers comes to mind first. The Odyssey is a little conventional, not unlike the Galactica, but I love its flat and profile.
Making Thanksgiving fun for just me and my partner has always been an activity and opportunity to try some stuff out. Feeling pretty happy with my attempts this year.
Arfid in the house adds personalized challenges, but with care and caution, even a food holiday can be special.
Arfid in the house adds personalized challenges, but with care and caution, even a food holiday can be special.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Making Thanksgiving fun for just me and my partner has always been an activity and opportunity to try some stuff out. Feeling pretty happy with my attempts this year.
Arfid in the house adds personalized challenges, but with care and caution, even a food holiday can be special.
Arfid in the house adds personalized challenges, but with care and caution, even a food holiday can be special.
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My experience with piracy is if someone who was never going to pay for my work turns into a fan that is worth more financially than what I’d lose from that first transaction
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My experience with piracy is if someone who was never going to pay for my work turns into a fan that is worth more financially than what I’d lose from that first transaction
I'm happy to say that I've completed Hegemony, the first postgame Region, for Under Forgotten Stars! Five activities, two lore files, three Dangerous Events, and lots of general lore stuff that bolsters the Expanded Edition content. Really happy with it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I'm happy to say that I've completed Hegemony, the first postgame Region, for Under Forgotten Stars! Five activities, two lore files, three Dangerous Events, and lots of general lore stuff that bolsters the Expanded Edition content. Really happy with it.
Sometimes -- not often, but sometimes -- writing a postgame room for a solo exploration ttrpg involves designing a crossword puzzle whose clues and answers are the lore you've encountered over the course of your adventures
Self-indulgent? Why yes! Fun and interesting? Also yes!
Self-indulgent? Why yes! Fun and interesting? Also yes!
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Sometimes -- not often, but sometimes -- writing a postgame room for a solo exploration ttrpg involves designing a crossword puzzle whose clues and answers are the lore you've encountered over the course of your adventures
Self-indulgent? Why yes! Fun and interesting? Also yes!
Self-indulgent? Why yes! Fun and interesting? Also yes!
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I just released SLUG MODE, my first Mothership pamphlet scenario! It expands on Slug, a psychedelic drug whose users all inhabit a shared virtual space while high - my favorite weird little plot hook from A Pound of Flesh.
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
SLUG MODE: a drug-fueled diversion for Mothership by Thursday Garreau
a trip into the virtual Sluglands
thursday-garreau.itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I just released SLUG MODE, my first Mothership pamphlet scenario! It expands on Slug, a psychedelic drug whose users all inhabit a shared virtual space while high - my favorite weird little plot hook from A Pound of Flesh.
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
Okay, I've finished a third of Hegemony now for Under Forgotten Stars, including designing two puzzles and writing both of the Region's Data Files, which are the lore-heaviest prose. Frankly, the rest should be dramatically easier than those. Fortunately, I love what I wrote for them.
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Okay, I've finished a third of Hegemony now for Under Forgotten Stars, including designing two puzzles and writing both of the Region's Data Files, which are the lore-heaviest prose. Frankly, the rest should be dramatically easier than those. Fortunately, I love what I wrote for them.
In general over the past couple years I've been really celebrating and embracing anticanon, playing with mid-series reinterpretation, and rejecting the past as a limiter on the potential of the future.
This James Bond bullshit source thing is such a strong underscore to that approach.
This James Bond bullshit source thing is such a strong underscore to that approach.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In general over the past couple years I've been really celebrating and embracing anticanon, playing with mid-series reinterpretation, and rejecting the past as a limiter on the potential of the future.
This James Bond bullshit source thing is such a strong underscore to that approach.
This James Bond bullshit source thing is such a strong underscore to that approach.
With the website redesign, I made Vibroblades In The Dark free to the public, rather than hidden in the Patreon Archive!
I made it for a couple friends initially, but it's a simple and sharp Blades reskin for cyberpunk with a few really interesting playbooks.
www.logbook-project.com/other-projec...
I made it for a couple friends initially, but it's a simple and sharp Blades reskin for cyberpunk with a few really interesting playbooks.
www.logbook-project.com/other-projec...
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
With the website redesign, I made Vibroblades In The Dark free to the public, rather than hidden in the Patreon Archive!
I made it for a couple friends initially, but it's a simple and sharp Blades reskin for cyberpunk with a few really interesting playbooks.
www.logbook-project.com/other-projec...
I made it for a couple friends initially, but it's a simple and sharp Blades reskin for cyberpunk with a few really interesting playbooks.
www.logbook-project.com/other-projec...
Okay setting rules for myself: Im not allowed to do re-layout on The Quiet Tower until I finish writing the Hegemony Region for Under Forgotten Stars. I don't get to relay Blood/Lust until I finish all the Regions, leaving just the various Depths.
If I don't do this I'll get distracted very quickly
If I don't do this I'll get distracted very quickly
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Okay setting rules for myself: Im not allowed to do re-layout on The Quiet Tower until I finish writing the Hegemony Region for Under Forgotten Stars. I don't get to relay Blood/Lust until I finish all the Regions, leaving just the various Depths.
If I don't do this I'll get distracted very quickly
If I don't do this I'll get distracted very quickly
It feels disproportionate that a single rating/review of "good" by pinpanar9 can feel quite this validating and encouraging, but it does. They really are the backbone of itch rpg reviewing
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It feels disproportionate that a single rating/review of "good" by pinpanar9 can feel quite this validating and encouraging, but it does. They really are the backbone of itch rpg reviewing
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Went ahead and put a bunch of my most popular work - including my Mothership class, my sci-fi gig economy solo RPG (and its Online-focused expansion!), and my cyberpunk microgame trilogy - on sale through the end of November!
itch.io/s/166208/thu...
itch.io/s/166208/thu...
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Went ahead and put a bunch of my most popular work - including my Mothership class, my sci-fi gig economy solo RPG (and its Online-focused expansion!), and my cyberpunk microgame trilogy - on sale through the end of November!
itch.io/s/166208/thu...
itch.io/s/166208/thu...
It's ready and released! My website is fully updated, visually and content-wise. My Itch pages are refreshed too, my DTRPG is up to speed, my Patreon is updated, and also I released The Shining Void publicly (it was kinda supposed to be a while ago).
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The Logbook Project
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November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
It's ready and released! My website is fully updated, visually and content-wise. My Itch pages are refreshed too, my DTRPG is up to speed, my Patreon is updated, and also I released The Shining Void publicly (it was kinda supposed to be a while ago).
logbook-project.com
logbook-project.com
It's the most back burner project I have, and I'm not nearly ready to try to develop it to the extent I dream of, but one day I WILL be able to write Copper Ganglia.
I keep reaching the point of actually manifesting my dream projects, so I KNOW I will manage this one. One day.
I keep reaching the point of actually manifesting my dream projects, so I KNOW I will manage this one. One day.
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's the most back burner project I have, and I'm not nearly ready to try to develop it to the extent I dream of, but one day I WILL be able to write Copper Ganglia.
I keep reaching the point of actually manifesting my dream projects, so I KNOW I will manage this one. One day.
I keep reaching the point of actually manifesting my dream projects, so I KNOW I will manage this one. One day.
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Website update going great. I'm now pivoting my attention to updating my Itch game pages to be up-to-date and compatible with the website, so if you get updates on my stuff it's mostly cosmetic. Though The Shining Void WILL be releasing for the first time on Itch in the process, that one'll be new.
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Website update going great. I'm now pivoting my attention to updating my Itch game pages to be up-to-date and compatible with the website, so if you get updates on my stuff it's mostly cosmetic. Though The Shining Void WILL be releasing for the first time on Itch in the process, that one'll be new.
Also: DAMN my website redesign is looking good. It's not live yet but it's getting close.
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Also: DAMN my website redesign is looking good. It's not live yet but it's getting close.
Nothing sparks my Remastering urge quite like needing to take screenshots of my various games to advertise them on my site. Many of them are older and smaller, and I've really refined my layout approach in the last couple years, but I probably don't really have the time or energy to remaster em all.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Nothing sparks my Remastering urge quite like needing to take screenshots of my various games to advertise them on my site. Many of them are older and smaller, and I've really refined my layout approach in the last couple years, but I probably don't really have the time or energy to remaster em all.
FINALLY.
It's gonna be a minute until you see it but at long last I've wrestled with the custom CSS injection on Squarespace until it did what I wanted, I've been trying to get this right for years.
THIS is the thing that will actually get my site to look the way I've always wanted it to.
It's gonna be a minute until you see it but at long last I've wrestled with the custom CSS injection on Squarespace until it did what I wanted, I've been trying to get this right for years.
THIS is the thing that will actually get my site to look the way I've always wanted it to.
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
FINALLY.
It's gonna be a minute until you see it but at long last I've wrestled with the custom CSS injection on Squarespace until it did what I wanted, I've been trying to get this right for years.
THIS is the thing that will actually get my site to look the way I've always wanted it to.
It's gonna be a minute until you see it but at long last I've wrestled with the custom CSS injection on Squarespace until it did what I wanted, I've been trying to get this right for years.
THIS is the thing that will actually get my site to look the way I've always wanted it to.
If anyone trips over something weird happening on my website, I'm mucking around on the back end prepping some redesigns. If it gets in the way of actually doing what you wanted somehow plz reach out and I'll get it fixed
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
If anyone trips over something weird happening on my website, I'm mucking around on the back end prepping some redesigns. If it gets in the way of actually doing what you wanted somehow plz reach out and I'll get it fixed