Bully Pulpit Games, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

, is a small publisher of indie role-playing games. Their games include The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

Shab-al-Hiri Roach

The Shab-al-Hiri Roach is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. The game is GM-less and designed for single-session play at the end of which a winner is determined. Its tone is black comedy, lampooning academia.The game is about the internal...

, Grey Ranks

Grey Ranks (role-playing game)

Grey Ranks is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. The game is designed for three to five players and puts each of them in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising, serving as members of the Grey Ranks .- Game play :Play is conducted...

, and Fiasco

Fiasco (role-playing game)

- Overview :Fiasco is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. It is a GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation...

. Bully Pulpit's Jason Morningstar is also the creator of many other small, free games such as Dungeon Squad which are not published under the Bully Pulpit name.

The publisher is named for a phrase

Bully pulpit

A bully pulpit is a public office or other position of authority of sufficiently high rank that provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter...

 coined by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

. The site's logo includes a silhouette of the former President, and its front page includes a quote from him.