Welcome!

Sylvan Lawrence

14 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

Hey folks, Sylvan here!

Welcome to the Clawhammer Games website! We're just getting started here, and things will be up and running shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!

The site itself is going to serve a few different purposes, but the main one is to give me a space to post my thoughts on game design and tabletop play, as well as to give you a chance to see what I'm working on.

A hand from the Loom SRD cover, outstretched and covered in white thread

Weaving on the Loom: Navigating Tug-of-War

The origins of The Loom System

The Loom SRD

The Loom System is a tabletop role-playing game system that replaces dice and the Game Master with player-driven, archetypal storytelling. It empowers players through shared and individual playbooks, and pushes you to ask: what does a game look like where progression is mechanically irrelevant?

Before the Flood

Long ago, before our world, there was another. There was a Flood once, or so I have heard. It was vast and terrible in the way that only the greatest of disasters can be, a cataclysm so total in its destruction that when it swept the world, there was nothing

Backpack Game

Hark, Brave Adventurer! These lands are wild and untamed, and the journey you set forth upon shall be perilous. Prithee, take care, brave adventurer. Thou must traverse many obstacles to deliver thou’est most magicalest of art’efacts to the most neediest of people in need. Of course, thou must

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Weaving on the Loom: Navigating Tug-of-War

The Loom SRD

Before the Flood

Backpack Game