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| 07/26/2010 Hell For Leather
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| On the world’s bloodiest gameshow you must kill to survive. Tell gory stories of escape and mayhem! Build a tower of dice to survive! Describe horrible violence and earn some extra dice! Hell for Leather is the zero-prep storytelling game of explosive death and murder. There’s no GM, no lengthy setup, and it plays out [...]
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| 07/03/2010 FUBAR
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| You’ve been screwed… At least one person wants you dead… The only people you almost trust are people who don’t necessarily trust you… but you’ve got skills and talents that might just get you through… …might just let you get some revenge… …and might let you achieve your destiny. An easy to learn game for [...]
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| 07/01/2010 Lightning
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| LIGHTNING, by J MaC game pic included for better explanation. please tell me what you think rules: 1. the same teams offense line cannot cross its defensive line (opponent wins) (this would cause confusion) 2.one teams defense kills the other teams offense by forcing them both to meet at the end (defense line will always [...]
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| 07/01/2010 TunnelQuest 3
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| This is the third incarnation of my rules-lite old school fantasy game. It still draws heavily from Tunnels & Trolls but this time around I’ve tried to make it more of a complete game. I’ve included a character sheet and dungeon crawl adventure, a new colour of magic (prismatic), sample enemies and suggestions for incorporating [...]
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| 07/01/2010 Truth, Inc.
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| Truth, Inc. Cyberpunk Revival Contest Edition! Welcome to Truth, Inc. – a game of drama. Yes, drama. What does that mean you ask? Its a game about what happens when all hell breaks loose and shit hits the fan and, well you get the picture. Truth, Inc. is the center of the game, a large [...]
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| 06/28/2010 Last Res0rt
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| Far into the future, humanity has managed to survive an alien invasion… thanks to the hordes of the undead! Adventure alongside strange new alien races, take on all sorts of characters from the devilishly crafty Celeste to the terrifying Dead Inside, and use your senses to figure out how to survive… because the technology may [...]
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| 06/28/2010 Technogrammaton
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| History turns on moments, and one single change has created a world where Islam, not Christianity is ascendant. An agency called the Kaabayeen seek to hold together the fracturing world of Islam and root out terrorists and traitors. However, a new threat has appeared, computer users are finding that Hebrew characters have power in the [...]
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| 06/28/2010 NANOPUNK
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| Nanopunk is a FATE-based scenario of the near-future. After the world collapses under ecological and economic pressure, the corporations step in to save us. But we’ve sold our soul to the technology they use. Now we all have swarms of nanobots that keep us alive and healthy, but they have more control than you think. [...]
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| 06/21/2010 Telgrathia 1st Edition
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| Basically, this is what I’ve been working on all weekend (it’s been in concept longer, I just started writing Saturday, and now it’s Monday). It’s a new fantasy role playing game that stands beside the others by being entirely class-free, magic focused (but optional), and based on Blackjack-style “draws” for conflict resolution (combat or obstacle [...]
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| 06/14/2010 Cyberpunk Revival Entry (Cyberpunk Remix)
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| This game is about a world that might be if we aren’t careful, a world were everything is a lot weirder, where people’s brains can be hacked, mutant rats build temples to Mickey Mouse in the sewers, cranky droids run shops and complain about the old days, and your hippy mom’s new hobby involves genetic [...]
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| 05/17/2010 EverQuest
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| EverQuest is a fantasy roleplaying game set in western Europe. A group of friends is required to play, and one of them is the Game Master. The game contains 10 pages for characters, 1 page for combat, 2 pages for magic, 7 pages of monsters, a page for magical items, and a character sheet, totaling [...]
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| 04/20/2010 Travellers Of The Wasteland
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| Travellers of the Wasteland (TOTW) is a fantasy role-playing game. It is set in a magical otherworld known as the Wasteland, a place of mystery, danger, and adventure. This is a world to be explored, through decision-making and daring; a fabulous realm as hauntingly familiar and maddeningly distant as a dream. Travellers of the Wasteland [...]
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| 04/13/2010 MARKS
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| This is a (so far) generic system (character generation and resolution system)that attempts to be a storytelling tool as much as a game. I’ve taken/liberated/borrowed many of the ideas I’ve seen in newer story-oriented games and tried to combine them with a bit of old-school magic. I have no idea if it is a successful [...]
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| 04/13/2010 Newsies and Pickpockets
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| This is a game about, well, a bunch of newsboys living adventures in New Paris City just south of New York, but only in the very, very good maps. It’s a low fantasy game set in the first years of the XX century, with bits of steampunk.
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| 04/06/2010 Generic Fantasy Quest Game
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| You and a few of your friends have decided to become adventurers. Why? I don’t know. Ask yourselves! You know better than I. So where will you go? What will you do? Who will you find or fight along the way? And why? I don’t know. Ask your GM! He has all the answers.
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| 03/08/2010 44: A Game of Automatic Fear
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| 44 is a suspense and horror role-playing game set in the 1950s. A robot conspiracy is replacing humanity. You know they are here. And, you’re next. 44 is designed for single sessions with very little preparation required. It’s a great game for busy players looking for a one-shot session.
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| 03/08/2010 BATTLES ONE
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| Our imagination is the final frontier. There is more in a mind than there are stars in space. We can go anywhere in our imagination; we can fly, we can breath underwater, we can dig tunnels in seconds flat, we can go to the highest mountains and visit fresh water rivers for a break. Everything [...]
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| 02/16/2010 The Impulse RPG
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| The Impulse RPG is a generic rules set that is easy to use and customize. The rules are modular, so you can adapt them to your particular style of play and the needs of your game. The simplicity of the system lets you get into the game quickly and not have to slow down for [...]
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| 01/04/2010 A Strange Charm
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| Play a mysterious and alien Traveler or his human and robotic companions in ‘A Strange Charm’. Based on a popular British science fiction TV show, this role-playing game tells stories of humanity through its alien protagonist. In ‘A Strange Charm’, players adopt Roles in the story – Victory, Defeat, Love or Shadow – instead of [...]
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| 12/28/2009 Tunnel Quest 2
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| TQ2 is a very simple fantasy role-playing game designed for players new to the hobby or those wishing to kick start a game in under 5 minutes. The GM is not required to roll dice during play (unless he or she really wants to), the outcome of any event or encounter is based purely on [...]
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| 12/21/2009 Sword and Spell
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| Sword & Spell is a generic, old-school FRPG based on Xavier Raoult’s Warriors, Wizards and Wanderers. It assumes knowledge of fantasy tropes and RPGs. S&S is easy to learn, quick to play and adaptable to almost any fantasy setting with a minimum of fuss. House rules are encouraged. S&S is presented as both an 18-page [...]
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| 12/14/2009 One Roll Engine Toolkit
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| The One Roll Engine Toolkit is perfect for the advanced role player. Designed to allow a Game Master to convert any game to the ORE, as featured in such games as REIGN, GODLIKE and WILD TALENTS. This toolkit features the full One Roll Engine rules along with lots of optional rules to customize that rule [...]
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| 12/02/2009 Dog Town: Stripped
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| Dog Town is a pure punk roleplaying game set in the seedy underbelly of dangerous and decadent 1970′s New York. It is a homage to gangsterism and street life as portrayed in uncompromising films such as Goodfellas, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, Taxi Driver and Carlito’s Way. What is in those films is in the game and [...]
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| 11/29/2009 Twenty One Turn Hero Minigame
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| The world is in turmoil! THE SORCERER discovered a 21 turn spell that will destroy the world! YOU as a hero need to defeat the sorcerer! Good luck hero! This is a game for single player where you becomes the unfortunate hero that need to defeat the sorcerer that wants to destroy the world with [...]
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| 10/19/2009 Chronicles of the Drenai
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| Chronicles of the Drenai is an RPG based on David Gemmell’s dark and gritty heroic fantasy novels. In Chronicles of the Drenai you will play a character struggling to be a better person in a world that is cold, cruel and capricious. This is a game of desperate last stands, painful sacrifices for loyalty and [...]
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| 10/07/2009 Monster Faire Card Game
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| The Monster Faire Card Game is a card game (obviously). In it, the players take on the roles of Mad Scientists. They live in crumbling old manors near the town of Beastly Vale, and compete in building Monsters from parts of dead bodies and bringing them to life. Requires two standard decks of playing cards, [...]
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| 09/25/2009 MULRAH
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| MULRAH v0.3 In just one page, MULRAH (My Universal Lite Roleplaying Adventure Heuristic) integrates and streamlines the best elements of acclaimed generic RPG core systems, primarily PDQ and FATE. MULRAH marries the “everything is a character” concept from FATE with the “story effectiveness” and “story-telling damage” dynamics of PDQ into one game in a clear, [...]
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| 09/14/2009 MicroFudged DIP
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| A year or more ago I found 1KM1KT and discovered a whole world of innovative game designs delivered for free to the roleplaying community. Among them, Timothy Dedeaux has given us two gems, Edge of the century and DIP-Styx. When I read these two games I realized that I could seemlessly adapt their conflict resolution [...]
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| 09/03/2009 Mythic
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| I have put together an RPG of what I hope is mythical fantasy (hence, the name). It deviates from a number of RPGS by having a relatively streamlined character creation process and by emphasizing epic (in the traditional sense of the word) storytelling over hack-n-slash gameplay. Mythic is slightly different from other role-playing games in [...]
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| 08/24/2009 City of Rain, City of Darkness
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| Imagine a city where it never stops raining, airships rule the skies, and desperate citizens fight for survival. The wealthy build higher and higher into the sky, seeking to escape the damp while they leave to the darkness the laborers on which industry thrives. Technology and industry march on through the shadows and the downpour, [...]
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| 08/14/2009 Those Dark Places
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| When I was very young I was introduced to a movie that would change the way I looked at science fiction cinema. The movie was Ridley Scott’s ALIEN. I had never seen anything like it. I was brought up on the Star Wars movies and one of my favourite shows was Star Trek – it [...]
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| 08/07/2009 Pikmin RPG
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| Explore with the help of pikmin, small plant creatures. You should be familiar with the Pikmin series of videogames or you won’t understand this game. This is my first shot at writing a full rpg. I do not own Pikmin or any of it’s trademarks. Pikmin and all of it’s trademarks are property of nintendo. [...]
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| 08/06/2009 Radiance
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| Radiance is a game which takes you to the primitive roots of storytelling. You and your friend will tell stories where anything (a mountain, a gust of wind, a bike, even a war or a celebration) can become a character, and while you’re listening to your friends’ narrate, you’ll be able to introduce redirections which [...]
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| 08/05/2009 Ironsilk Kingdom
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| Ironsilk Kingdom is a medieval martial arts setting full of mystery, drama, adventure, and mystical secrets. It is a 24-hour Savage Setting for the Savage Worlds RPG. You need the Explorer’s Edition rules to use this setting. Here you can play an honorable samurai warrior, a stealthy ninja saboteur, or a philosopher who has discovered [...]
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| 07/31/2009 Roguelike Solitaire
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| Roguelike Solitaire – The hack’n'slash adventure This is a single or up to 3 player pen and paper RPG. This is a playable demo version that contains a random dungeon generator,random treasure tables and Character generation including 3 races and 4 classes. You will also be able to wield 2 weapons simultaneously or a weapon [...]
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| 07/31/2009 FEAR RPG
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| Ever played a roleplaying game where only thieves can pick locks, or where rapiers do the same type of damage as clubs? Or where each character has hundreds of different skills, or you have to buy twenty rulebooks to play? FEAR RPG was born out of frustration with games that are so simplistic that any [...]
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| 07/16/2009 FLAG: Fictional Lands Adventure Game
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| A game that never was… I got two pages into making notes for a fast and simple RPG I was going to release but felt that I had gone into too much detail. I dropped it in favour of my much simpler SKETCH system. I’ve now dug it out, added some more notes and done [...]
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| 07/06/2009 Doomed Planet
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| This game is a head-on crash into a world on the verge of collapse. Players take the roles of survivors fighting to save everything they have ever loved or villains hell-bent on bringing the Earth to its knees. There are no dice, there are no cards. Each character has a reserve of points they can [...]
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| 07/06/2009 One Mask
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| Just when the people needed a hero the most, a mysterious figure appeared. The iron fist of oppression is beginning to tremble with fear and frustration and the downtrodden citizens are lifting their heads for the first time in years. They are looking up to see if they can catch a glimpse of that masked [...]
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| 06/30/2009 Magic Pants vs. Power Squid!
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| Magic Pants vs. Power Squid! is a 24 hour rpg for Rob Lang’s contest. It is a simple low level supers rpg where gear and motivation are as important as stats. The right pants can save the world! Did you ever wonder why superheroes wear their underwear on the outside? Are they in too much [...]
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| 06/30/2009 Tunnel Wars
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| Tunnel Wars is a simple, easy to play game about subterranean combat in magic pants made of copper. In Tunnel Wars, you play as either a dwarf or a goblin on opposite sides of the decades long Copper War. It isn’t a serious game by any measure of the word “serious,” and this was a [...]
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| 06/30/2009 The Penguin Harlequinade
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| The Penguin Harlequinade is a fast-paced comic role-playing game based on Commedia dell’Arte, an ancient Italian style of masked comedy theatre. The game focusses on ludicrous plans, ridiculous plots and very silly action. If you don’t mind playing a character with the mental attributes of a brain-damaged ant high on caffeine, you’ll really enjoy this [...]
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| 06/30/2009 Santiago Joe
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| A free, diceless, fast paced Role Playing Game Where you are the movie STARS and the WRITER-DIRECTOR Of the many Adventure B-Movies of Oblivion Movies that never were, but that you would have loved to see. Enjoy them during college, your coffee break, when you can’t sleep on the phone, while you’re on the bus, [...]
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| 06/29/2009 Sords
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| This is a little RPG I came up with while I was suffering a bout of insomnia. It is an attempt to create a fun, simple arena-style combat game that is supposed to be a 1/2 day diversion while the DM makes an adventure. This has been slightly playtested, but if you think values should [...]
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| 06/29/2009 Appliance Adventures
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| Appliance Adventures is a narrative role playing game where the players take on the role of intelligent kitchen appliances. The game emphasizes teamwork and exploration over combat. This is arguably a playable game, but it doesn’t look very good. There is much missing from this first draft: graphics, fit & finish, a fleshed-out sample adventure, [...]
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| 06/26/2009 Geodesic Gnomes
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| In the cities of the future, people who find themselves with no place within society because of unemployment, criminal behaviour, or just mental illness find themselves pushed out of the domes that protect them from the hazards of the world around them. And since no one wants to live outside the domes, they move into [...]
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| 06/25/2009 Start Anywhere: The Hunt for Green January
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| The End of Everything Since the day the world ended, maybe the multiverse hasn’t finished with you. Some of you claim to know, but who’s to say, really? Whatever the case, as the cold closed in, each of you reached out, from some resource you never knew you had, for any way to go on. [...]
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| 06/23/2009 Doom and Cookies
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| Something is coming, something dark and terrible and if you cannot escape it a vast and horrible fate awaits you. You must escape the orphanage, your home with the other children for as long as you can remember before this doom finds you. But what is this doom? What exactly is coming for you? Is [...]
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| 06/23/2009 Mother’s Milk
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| I have always been fascinated by anthropomorphic creatures in mythology, literature, and fictional sources such as cinema, video games, and comics. I would ask of the reader not to label this game as a ‘furry’ game as that term has garnered a negative connotation with some portions of the role-laying community lately. In many ways, [...]
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| 06/17/2009 Keeton Must Die! Teddy Bear Blood Sport
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| At one time their stores were once populated every strip mall in America. Children would line up to create their new friend: pick a skin, eyes, a nose, the mouth and then fill it with fluff. It was magical experience and every child wanted one. However, soon the economy failed and the stores were left [...]
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| 06/11/2009 Apotheosis Blues
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| I hate being kept waiting to kill someone. I’d been sitting in my car for so long that my backside had forgotten what it was like to not be numb. The abandoned church across the street looked exactly the same now as it did when I pulled up six hours ago. An old Three Doors [...]
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| 06/09/2009 Joe in Ten Persons
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| Joe in Ten Persons is a role-playing game of choices, consequences and being your own worst enemy. It’s designed to be played in a single session for 3 – 5 players running anywhere from two to three hours. In JiTP, each player will take on the role of one of ten versions of a man [...]
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| 06/08/2009 Hundedammerung
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| Hundedämmerung is something different in the world of role-playing games. Most games allow players to portray beings of greater than human power wielding forces that ordinary people barely understand. This game allows you to play… a dog. Not just any dog, but a dog that has been lifted to human levels of intelligence, albeit the [...]
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| 06/08/2009 Extended Mission
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| Players control robot explorers searching through the mysteries of a devastated Earth, while trying to avoid system failures, coyote attacks, shorting out in a pond, or being blown to pieces by deranged war machines 2499: We return home. The colonies of Mars, born in hope, grew up in pain, despair and hard decisions. Some thought [...]
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| 06/07/2009 Gamba Robo!
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| Activate the Cosmo Drive! There’s a menace rampaging through the city demolishing sky scrapers with enormous chains made out of pure energy. The Army, Air Force and Navy have all been crushed by the towering robotic monster. You might be young and inexperienced, but you’re our last hope. Only Space Getnar V can take that [...]
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| 06/04/2009 A Fistful of Frenchmen
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| Take part in the fight to liberate Texas from its French oppression! This is a mostly-finished alpha version of what will hopefully be a more in-depth system/setting. Based on 2d6+mods resolution, fixed damage. The year is 1844. Following their successful defense against Mexican forces, the Republic of Texas faced a new foe. Quick to take [...]
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| 05/31/2009 Jedi
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| Jedi is an original RPG that used to be based on the Star Wars universe. It is simple, complete, and has been over 25 years in the making. Rules cover Character Creation, Aliens, Droids, Combat, Skills, Vehicles and starships (of all sizes), Force Powers and skills, World Creation, and much more. Uses 6-sided exclusively for [...]
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| 05/31/2009 Of G-Men and Supermen
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| A super hero is a lot like a Squid. In its natural environment, its sleek, sleek, strong, cunning, and graceful. But when you really stop to look at them, they’re really kind of disturbing and otherworldly – the implications of their abilities are like tentacles splaying out in unknown directions. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – [...]
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| 05/27/2009 Insectum
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| Insectum is a 24 Hour RPG challenge entry by Dennis N. Santana. It is a game that takes its inspiration from both the story games and the action games by incorporating classes, combat and magic with Scenes, Story Arcs, Tokens and much freedom for the Game Master. It is also a game about bugpeople! In [...]
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| 05/27/2009 Badass Presidents
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| Badass Presidents is an RPG about playing super-powered American Presidents as they fight against cthulean space horrors, Evil Jesus, and reborn deities in a post-apocalyptic world. Need I say more? No? Good. Badass Presidents is a game of playing American Presidents who are sufficiently badass. The world has been destroyed, overrun by mutants, evil deities, [...]
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| 05/14/2009 Awesome!
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| Awesome! is a game of telling a story about just how awesome your characters are, and how they kick ass and take names accomplishing mighty feats of derring-do, blockbuster action movie style! For Awesome! characters, the question is not whether they succeed, only how awesome their success is! Taking A Turn In Awesome! the character’s [...]
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| 04/26/2009 Medium
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| A game where you bring part of your own life into the game and then fictionalize it. You play yourself at a seance trying to connect to the spirit of a dead friend with whom you still have issues. The spirits are fictional versions of living people you know, and with whom you have a [...]
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| 04/22/2009 The Great Hamster Rebellion
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| The Great Hamster Rebellion is where pet shop residents meet the Boxer Rebels. The Hamster Republic has been invaded by the robotic Mekaton, and only the mysterious and wise Master Keeton can lead young kung fu hamsters to victory! For a thousand generations, the hundred tribes of the Hamster Republic lived in peace among themselves [...]
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| 04/22/2009 Out of Frame: An RPG of Cinema Escape
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| It’s the 1950s. Or is it? You have the eerie feeling that you are being watched, that you are really a character in a B-movie. And you don’t like the way the Directors look. It’s time to find the Producer and get some answers. It’s the ‘50s. Oddly, you can’t quite remember the year. You’re [...]
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| 04/06/2009 Atlantis
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| Atlantis is a roleplaying game where you play the last inhabitants of the Isle of Atlantis during its last days. Atlantis is burning and at midnight will sink into the sea, forever. Attempt to flee Atlantis while facing your Hopes, deeds, fears, and dooms before midnight, when Atlantis sinks under the waves forever.
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| 04/03/2009 Dulse
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| Dulse is a game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them. In addition to being the name of the game, Dulse is also a character – one who is literally central. The events that inform play, and the other three characters, revolve around Dulse. Across five life-changing events, you [...]
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| 02/25/2009 Superliga
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| Enter a world… where valiant knights do battle with robot dragons and the elves are pointier than usual. Superliga is d20-based, flexible, and awesome. A much more professional looking edition of Superliga. More content! More balance! More columns! A sample campaign! What more could you ask for? More books! Ha! They’re coming soon :) Superliga [...]
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| 02/19/2009 Normality
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| IOWA WE CASK NIACIN WE IX APOGEE IOWA Enter the world of Normality – how long can you stay sane? What IS sane, when the world is mad? Is madness supposed to be an excuse for those things you did? Normality began life as a fairly standard post-cyberpunk post-apocalyptic science fiction game. However, that version [...]
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| 02/04/2009 Haven
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| After nearly four years of procrastination, here’s my first stab at the 24-hour RPG challenge. Haven grew out of a desire to re-examine a setting that featured in a friend’s homebrew game back in the late ’80s. In the interests of simplicity, I used a coin-toss mechanic that I think serves its purpose pretty well. [...]
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| 02/03/2009 Midgard: Viking Legends
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| Midgard is a mythic-historical roleplaying game, where you take on the role of a legendary Viking hero and complete your own epic quests. With unique and highly-thematic dice mechanics, in-depth grizzled combat and plenty of viking magic and special combat powers, in Midgard you’ll find a shield-splitting, berserk-stoking, rape and pillage of a game. Midgard [...]
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| 02/02/2009 Sufficiently Advanced
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| A roleplaying game of the far future. Characters work for AIs who can send themselves messages from the future. Attributes are based on built-in technology, and players can use Twists to affect the plot. Once upon a time, fire was at the cutting edge of technology. Those who had it were almost gods to those [...]
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| 01/28/2009 The 13th Year
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| Farsight Games presents ‘The 13th Year’ a complete and FREE Tabletop Roleplaying Game. Explore the post-atomic wastelands of the alternate Earth of 1952 in ‘The 13th Year’, an original tabletop roleplaying game for the SKETCH system. Struggle against the odds to get home, try to start a new life or simply survive in the 13th [...]
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| 12/09/2008 KUBOS
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| Dave Morris was once asked if he could go back and rewrite Dragon Warriors, his RPG gamebook series from the 1980s, what would he change. He answered that he would have taken the advice of a friend and make the entire system revolve around a single six sided die. I decided to take that as [...]
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| 10/01/2008 Inquisition
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| Welcome to Hive World Golgotha XVII; you are an Inquisitor of the great Imperium of Man in the world of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. You have been summoned to cleanse an underground base infested with Chaos. This is a solitaire Role Playing Game and should be easily played and completed. Inquisition was created by Neuicon [...]
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| 08/15/2008 Taverns & Drakes
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| Hear Ye, Hear Ye The Kingdom of Blim, under the Not Too Bad Leadership of King Harold the Adequate, is no longer in need of Adventurers as the Kingdom has more than its fair share and has been satisfactorily protected from monsters of all sorts for quite some time. With 80 percent of those listing [...]
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| 08/15/2008 Krone
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| As a badass Barbarian, you heft your mighty battle ax and cut down your enemies while trying to contain your rage. As a badass Noble, you use your social position to scheme your way to power while trying to overcome your madness. As a badass Sorcerer, you use blood to summon vile demons to do [...]
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| 08/15/2008 Sovereign
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| Abandoned Your parents left you, left you to fend for yourself in the harsh world. Destined for a life of destitution and despair, you had little hope for survival. The Emperor Rescued You His servants found you and recognized the faintest sliver of greatness you held. They rescued you, gave you a new home and [...]
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| 08/12/2008 The Sword of Martin
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| The Sword of Martin allows players to take on the role of creature’s in Brain Jacques’s world of Redwall. It uses a versatile priority-based system that uses a roll-high d10 resolution mechanic. These two facets combine well, allowing players to truly take on whatever role they care to, from a former family man whose life [...]
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| 08/11/2008 Tunnel Quest
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| Tunnel Quest is a brief but complete set of fantasy role-playing rules. The original ideas were spawned by Paul Elliot (of Zenobia fame; if you’ve never heard of it, Google it!) and further developed by myself. The system favours a quick and easy style of play with limited bookkeeping for the GM – a single [...]
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| 07/30/2008 Apathy: The Calling
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| Apathy: The Calling is a lighthearted RPG in the vein of games such as call of cthulhu. The Player’s play everyday joes picked by Cthulhu and must deal with their increasingly weird world. [1.2] Introduction or This is YOUR life! Stan sat there on the couch, while the Yuggya invaded his home, but it was [...]
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| 07/03/2008 Picking Sides The Role Playing Game
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| What if there are angels living among us? Daemons? What about ghosts? Is there such a thing as reincarnation? Can you gain power from your mortal flaws? What is the point of it all, anyway? This game explores these ideas in a free format. I’ve also written a book about these subjects at: www.mynubook.com. You [...]
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| 06/23/2008 Resourceful
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| Resourceful started out as a treasure-hunter game, but it evolved to place more emphasis on resource management and could be used for a lot of things–with some work. This 24-hour version has some obvious gaps and flaws, but should surprise you a bit with stuff you haven’t seen before. This is a game about resource [...]
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| 06/20/2008 DUNGEON SQUAD – Yet Another Variant
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| I’ve got yet another variant set of rules for Dungeon Squad – this one tries to replicate the class abilities and powers of characters from D&D 3.5 and 4.0. I’d like to get the word out as much as possible. There’s also a link to it (and more) on my website: dominowriting.com/games.html The rules are [...]
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| 06/09/2008 Beltaine
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| Beltaine is a 24 Hour RPG I did well over a year ago and never got around to posting. I think the card-based mechanic has some untapped potential, and I plan on revising the game and linking the suits more closely to the setting (after all, the point of using cards as a randomizer is [...]
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| 05/30/2008 SpellCaster
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| SpellCaster is a magical and physical combat game for two or more players. Each player is represented by a Spell Caster, a warrior mage trained in the ways of combat and magic, skilled in powerful martial arts techniques and armed with a complete arsenal of spells. The goal is to defeat all others players and [...]
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| 05/30/2008 Edge of the Century
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| Edge of the Century is my second 24 Hour RPG attempt. I didn’t get as much time to work on it as I’d wanted to (about 4 hours, total), but I think it’s still playable. The game has some innovative narrative mechanics (at least I hope they’re innovative) and a fairly unique, but fast, character [...]
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| 05/23/2008 House of Masks
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| HOUSE OF MASKS: A roleplaying game of Secrets and Sorcery, Power and Greed, Violence and Revenge 2008 Game Chef winner! Six players switch in and out tag-team style to play three predefined characters in a complex, randomized web of intrigue and sorcery. 2. OVERVIEW: In a far off land where mighty sorcerers dwell, the God-King [...]
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| 05/21/2008 The Californian Job
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| “Whats the catch?” Asks your friend Jose. “The police will probably respond within
minutes so we need to strike fast” As you conceal your pistol and open the door. Jose and
you pull down your masks and draw guns; A guard prepares to fire but Jose fires first, nailing
the guard in the skull. “THIS IS A FUCKIN ROBBERY!” Screams Jose.
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| 05/14/2008 Submission problems!?
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| Heya, this is your darling psychopathic submission sitter Evil1 reporting in. I have seen some people on rpglab saying they have submitted rpgs here and i have checked my box to no avail So i will flat out say this: I am online EVERY DAY and my yahoo client alerts me to ALL new mail [...]
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| 05/03/2008 Dungeon Squad: Adventures in the 41st Millennium
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| Adventures in the 41st Millennium puts you behind the gun in battle against hordes of enemies, or in a planet doomed by anarchy and run by gangs. This game runs on the original Dungeon Squad System and brings the Warhammer 40,000 Universe to life as your party tries to survive the mass combat of the [...]
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| 04/30/2008 Starcraft: Tactical Miniatures Combat
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| Starcraft: Tactical Miniatures Combat is a game of skirmish-based combat set in the Starcraft Universe. This game was created by Neuicon and Sean Daniels, and play-tested over a period of time. The rules are fun, exciting and very simple to understand. If you have ever played Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures or Star Wars Miniatures, then [...]
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| 04/29/2008 Comments are open!
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| Comments are now open for the games and submissions on this site! You can now post your thoughts, reviews, etc. about the game submissions directly under the game’s intro page. If you have an opinion or a suggestion on this, please post a comment below or email me.
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| 04/28/2008 Terribly Beautiful
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| How will you be remembered after you die? This is the question being faced by the Terribly Beautiful, former prostitutes who find themselves facing a slow death at the hands of the disease known as the Pale. Is there still hope to be found when life is slipping away? TO TOUCH IMMORTALITY It is the [...]
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| 04/27/2008 Warriors, Wizards & Wanderers
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| Welcome to a world where magic exists and legends are true, a world where knights battle dragons to save the day, a world where cunning thieves try to outsmart powerful warlocks to snatch some of their treasures. Welcome to the fantasy world of Warriors, Wizards & Wanderers! Warriors, Wizards & Wanderers is a complete fantasy [...]
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| 04/26/2008 Star Wars: Great Hyperspace War
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| “The galaxy is in great peril. With the advent of the Sith invasion of the galaxy, the Jedi order is calling on their members to take an active role in the defense of the galaxy. The Sith are ruthless enemies with nothing to lose, so the characters must out forth their every effort to stop [...]
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| 04/26/2008 Five by Five
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| Five by Five is a “choose your trait” style RPG that makes unique use of the d6 (called the d5) to create an easy to learn and easy to play universal task resolution system. The game is meant to be flexible enough to satisfy a variety of settings and easy enough to pick up and [...]
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| 04/26/2008 Powers-Brawl RPG
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| Powers-Brawl is the RPG of superhero battles with the emphasis on POWERS! Creating a character is as simple as choosing a few powers. There are no points to spend or attributes to roll… just select some powers and start playing right away! Players who are not sure what kinds of characters they want can even [...]
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| 04/26/2008 Pillaging the Pitiless Palace
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| As the prisoner of a selfish, cruel dictator who swiped all your merchandise, you can get mad and you can also get even. You just need to get out of your cell and escape the palace with all the loot you can carry, before the helpful staff put you on the menu for their pet [...]
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| 04/26/2008 The Dream Merchants
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| My Game Chef 2007 entry: The Dream Merchants The Pitch: In the future…memory is currency. The players take the role of Dream Merchants who trade in forbidden and special memories in a world where strong emotions are punished. Will these memories hold the key to save their souls? Or will they end up like the [...]
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| 04/26/2008 Dark Spell Diceless
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| Dark Spell Diceless is a collaborative fantasy role-playing game that puts authority into the hands of the players. Features an unpredictable diceless resolution system with almost no resource management, no bidding, and absolutely no GM fiat. Simple rules to create any sort of fantasy monster or hero. Flexible and powerful but well defined magic. Can [...]
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