Black Mass is a roleplaying game about two people leaving a community that doesn’t want them, to the woods that calls for them. Those travelers, Lydia and Catherine, confront their pasts to seek their own black mass, a moment of transformation, to put the tools of change into their own hands.
Black Mass is a tarot-based tabletop roleplaying game played in one sitting over the course of two to three hours. Black Mass is for four to eight players, including a proctor, who facilitates the game.
THE NEWLY ARRIVED is a tabletop roleplaying game, exploring the themes of survival, belonging, and trust.
You will embody an outsider.
Where did you come from? Who were you before? What has brought you here and why are you compelled to join this established community?
In the same story, you will represent a voice of the Council.
As part of this group, you will determine whether or not the Newly Arrived will become members of your community. What happened before that keeps you closed off? Why risk opening up your community to strangers? Is it worthwhile to take a leap of faith and trust the unfamiliar?
SOLO
“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!” ― Sidney Buchman
The Sealed Library is a solo journaling RPG played with a deck of cards, a tumbling block tower and a notebook/scroll.
You are the sole surviving librarian of the greatest library in history. It sits in the centre of culture for an ancient land, now fallen to invaders. They pillage and raze.
The library has been barricaded and you are under siege. What important texts can you move down into the vaults and seal away forever before the barricade breaks?
What will future generations discover inside the Sealed Library?
You are hungry, you are scared, you are desperate. The fate of the combined knowledge of generations is in your hands. You know the chances you will see the outside world again are slim, but this is bigger than you.
A bundle of games and a zine, packaged together.
PHYSICAL RPGS:
In Anomalous, 2-4 players control researchers on an isolated space station at the edge of a wormhole, trying to complete their mission to study the other side while coping with their emotions and relationships with the other researchers on the station.
Super Elite Dino Force is a one-shot RPG system wherein you can pretend to be 80’s style action heroes; who happen to also be dinosaurs.
Uneasy Lies the Head is a gmless tabletop RPG of royal court intrigue and drama.
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The Bookshelf is a game about taking the time to organize your books, remember their value, and rewrite a story based on the stories you have already created. If you have toys, photos, or magazines, you think about different merits and continue the narrative.
At the end of your bookshelf you can choose to write another part of the story, put your writing aside, or pass The Bookshelf --and your own story--along to a friend. Perhaps they will add to your story or write a new one themselves.
A small, simple, and fast game about resolving conflict with violence, technique, and luck for 2+ players.
Set the scene, create fighters, pick techniques and roll dice to see who comes out on top.
A collection of seven tiny RPG games designed during short breaks and bus rides within a single week. The rules of each game have less than 200 words, making them very light and easy to play. These games were carefully designed, but still remain untested. Feel free to tweak the rules to make them more enjoyable.
Made during 200 Word RPG Challenge.
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After a long fall, you've landed on something soft. A bit squishy and squelchy, really. And moving. Is it... a worm?
Plunge into the Judicial Well in search of redemption (and possibly escape!) in this fully illustrated adventure, So You've Been Thrown Down a Well.
You will also find 6 well-worthy backgrounds for your players to choose from, as well as a handy list of 36 objects thrown in the well (other than you): Well-dwellers and worm-cultists, flooded tunnels, weird mushrooms, and some invertebrates that might be lunch... or allies! Up to you!
Your story is built and told in three modular phases:
1. Crafting a unique deck of Oracle cards through the mail, using your friends zipcodes to randomize prompts and elements of your illustrations. Phase I is available as a free demo as part of the Step Up for the Postal Service game jam.
2. Using those cards to build a flawed City corrupted by Darkness and populate it with hopeful citizens who aspire to overcome those flaws with Light.
3. Acting out the story of the overcoming of darkness in favor of light, using your characters and cards from prior phases to bring hope and revolution to your world.
SUPPLEMENT
Lowcountry Crawl is a roleplaying game supplement for DnD-ish games. Most of the content is system-agnostic, but the creature stats are OSR.
It's chock full of tables, house rules, monsters, and other resources acting together as a toolbox for generating a deep coastal South-inspired atmosphere. In this inaugural Zine we will be exploring the Barrier Islands.
2033: You’ve been pursuing your scientific exploration on Mars, 11 Earth-months into the 12 you’ll be spending in Galileo Base, after which you will board your drop-shuttle and return to Earth. Much of the operation of the structures is automated, allowing you to spend most of your time on your own research.
Today, a mining drone on a routine sampling program broke through into a cavern. Originally, everyone assumed it was natural, but it quickly became apparent this was the result of construction. Finding the first evidence of another intelligent species would be the scientific achievement for the ages. You’ve decided to explore it as a group and share in the glory that will soon be coming your way.
OmniMyth: Fables is a character-driven fantasy roleplaying game where the adventure is secondary to the friends you make along the way. You'll wield unique and powerful weapons and abilities to fight back the forces of your Guide's imagination. If you feel so inclined, traipse through the scenic town of Tana's Dell and discover the sordid alchemical secrets it contains between the trees.
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Superhero stories are often so painfully cis. Isn’t it time we changed that up?
Hero Too! Is a teen superhero story for trans people. It is a single player journaling game where you will use prompts and advice to guide your character through their supeheroic school as they deal with issues both related to their trans identity and due to just being a supehero.
The world can be hard for trans people. Lucky for us, we’re so much more badass than it.
Contained within are three Dungeon World funnels each designed to test the determination and bravery of three to six normal everyday folk in the face of abominable creeping evil.
The first, Saviors of Hogtown: Porcine villagers are called to rise above their station and save someone else’s bacon.
The second, The King Beneath the Castle: Simple townsfolk escape certain doom only to stumble upon a far more sinister danger.
The third, Shark God’s Chunder: A sleepy seaside town is thrust into chaos when a leviathan vows revenge.
Things can change.
You just have to stand up and fight for it.
Take on the roles of normal people with the capability to become heroes, explore a fantastical world that houses mankind’s inner feelings, and find a way to fight back using power only you can wield.
Duke DeCorticus is dying!
The peaceful lynchpin duchy of Plandra is under threat. Its quasi-arboreal ruler is starved of his esoteric earths, sedition is rife, assassins glint in the shadows and green ink is everywhere! The quest to restore stability takes you to the Rainbow Badlands, across the precipitous face of The Wall and into the very vaults of the hump-backed sky!
Fronds of Benevolence is a chapbook adventure for TROIKA! best suited for groups of 4 to 6 characters.
This collection features 15 short dungeons that are fully compatible with the world's most popular table top RPG. Each dungeon is quick to read, simple to prep, and fun to play. Each Dungeon includes a map and full descriptions of the challenges and surprises that the Player Characters will face all on a single page. Some Dungeons will include a new, feature monster designed specifically for the Dungeon. Others may include strange new game mechanisms or super rare magic items.
Mythic Mortals is a tabletop role-playing game where you and your friends play as your real-world selves suddenly granted incredible powers. Kickstarted in 2015, Mythic Mortals is a visual and tactile joy.
Mall Kids is a simple tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) about teens who work at a mall and the events that make up their daily lives. You won't be fighting monsters (probably) or saving captured royalty (most likely) but you will be interacting with your friends to collaboratively tell a story about how rebellious teens deal with the brute force of consumer-based capitalism.
In Behind the Magic, you’ll create a fantasy mockumentary by playing a group of incompetent adventurers on a quest to save the world.
Players take turns setting up and acting out scenes in character. These scenes are interspersed with reality-television style "confessionals" with the Bard who is documenting their journey.
Become a trickster charged with protecting a small village. Teach the villagers lessons and chase after your worldly desires. Then see what sordid tales these mortals tell of your bizarre interventions.
Agents of the O.D.D. is a tabletop roleplaying game of conscripted cryptids, shaky psychics, burned spies, and other investigators of the paranormal. Based on the rules from Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland, and inspired by series like Hellboy, Planetary, and The Laundry Files.
The only way out is through. Can you make it through the Dark?
You were exiled from the City. Whatever you once were, whatever life you lived before, it has been cut off from you as the gates slam shut behind you. Right now, you are but one of the lost in these catacombs, desperately searching for that one, flickering light of hope:
Somewhere down here in the dark, they say there is a way out.
You are not the first nor the last to be exiled, and you are not alone down here. You can work together with your fellow exiles, or you can conspire against them, but know this - it is a long, hard road to walk alone.
Feathers is a game about fallen angels looking for meaning and comfort in our world, using Avery Alder's Belonging Outside Belonging system. It's diceless, GMless, intimate, and very, very queer, for 3-4 players, designed to be played in a single session.
Glitter Hearts is an action-packed RPG in a fun filled world of everyday people who transform into powerful super heroes that fight off the forces of evil. Your character will try to find the balance between their everyday life needs and heeding the call to save the world. You and your friends will create your own hero, your own team, and even your own special mascot. With over 150 different moves to choose from, you can build your ideal magical hero that is uniquely you!
In Damn the Man, you’ll juggle the responsibilities of a day that will determine the future of your record store, all while trying to accomplish a big personal goal. Can you confess your love to your crush and find the money that went missing from the cash box? Can you pay off your debt to your parents while promoting tonight’s big show? The clock is ticking and you’ve got until midnight to try.
Damn the Man is inspired by movies like Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, and a love for the ’90s. It’s silly and tender and no familiarity with the source material is necessary to enjoy the game.
A DELICIOUSLY DANGEROUS CULINARY ADVENTURE FOR A GROUP OF STARVING LEVEL ADVENTURERS.
In Demon Chef Bakto’s dungeon, a fresh party of adventurers is ready to make him a dangerously delicious dish, or die trying. Have you the creativity and skills to please this legendary chef or will you find a way to end his evil cuisine?
What will your agent give up to protect the public from terrors beyond sense or reason?
Pick up your phone and report in.
