The Logbook Project

Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design

The publishing name of Max Hervieux.

New games available on Patreon! $3 for the most recent, $10 for my whole collection.*

All games available individually on The Store, DrivethruRPG, and Itch.io.

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Tabletop Game Design:

Legend of the Elements, elemental magic kung-fu wuxia action Powered by the Apocalypse.
Legend of the Elements 2nd Edition is in development on Patreon! Weekly updates with the newest content I’ve made, for the $3 tier and higher!
*Full 1st Edition not included in Patreon Backlog.

Worlds Without Harmony, a game about ideological conflicts, unanswerable questions, and the people caught between them.

*Not be available in Patreon Backlog.

TITAN/child, children in a living mech trying to save the world at the cost of their innocence, or more.

Blood/Lust, gothic romantic horror the forbidden love between a vampire and their lover.

Magical/Girl, a normal girl and a spirit of justice face down dark spirits with compassion and understanding.
Currently under development! The prologue, Becoming Magic, is available on Patreon, with additional chapters added monthly! Two chapters have already been added!

Diadem, a game of Roman oratory and political backstabbing while trying to choose a new ruler.

In The Court Of The Poison King, desperate courtiers turning on each other to save a dying kingdom.

Remember Us., the decaying record of a surreal journey, already half-forgotten.

The Quiet Tower, collaborating on a great project until our differences bring it all down.

Overview of my Patreon games, including all the above* and more.

Other Projects, released for free, including a bunch of custom Monsterhearts content.

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Art:

Learning Pixel Art, an instructional book for learning this precise digital art form.

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About Max Hervieux:

Max is a bisexual cis man (he/him/his) who lives in Seattle, Washington. An avid roleplayer and artist, he lives with his fiancée Rebecca and their cats Ruby and Python. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact him by email at thelogbookproject@gmail.com or on Twitter @Logbook_Project.

 Legend of the Elements, 2nd Edition

Supernatural Martial Arts Action, Powered by the Apocalypse

Legend of the Elements is a tabletop roleplaying game about supernatural martial arts action. It features a group of characters with varying degrees of martial arts skill, magical talent, and worldy (and otherworldly) wisdom, working together to live their lives and achieve their goals.

After the original Legend of the Elements published in 2015, it enjoyed success and I was incredibly proud of the result after years of work. It was, however, still my first fully-published game, and with another half-decade of experience I knew I could make it a lot better. Work on 2nd Edition began in 2021, and it is now a sharper, more evocative, more fun version of itself. It has freed itself from the confines of being modeled directly on Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra (though they are still prominent touchstones), becoming more itself and more interesting for the shift.

Mechanically, 2nd Edition keeps what worked great (Tags, Chakras, the Playbooks), revising what struggled (Stats, Basic Moves, MC Reactions), and replacing what didn’t work at all (Respect, Plots, Subplaybooks), all while adding some novel systems to further support the game (Campfire Scenes, Lotus City).

A Complete Draft of the game is on my Patreon at the $3 Tier.

Gain Access on Patreon

Screenshots

The Plan For The Future

The game has reached a fully Complete state! I’ve even completed my playtesting of the general system, and while I might do another round of text revision and layout shifting, with a particular eye to maybe getting some more art back into the game, it could be released today and I’d be proud. However, before I get to that I want to do some final confirmation playtests specifically on the Lotus City material to make sure the things I’ve written are helpful and interesting enough. While I probably only need a few sessions, I’m not ready to call it down and start preparing for its crowdfunding until I’ve done that. Still, this game is very close to completion.