Banshee's wake is a game meant to be printed on a single A4 piece of paper and folded like a pamphlet. You'll draw upon the map and ask questions of your fellow banshees, hoping the truth you speak to be gentle. It won't be.
The Rhythm of the Rhyme is a celebration of poetry. You can find poetry everywhere, even if it doesn't look or sound like it: from music to clever wordplay on memes and social media, the power of poetry evolves and lives on. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't still create poetry!
This game is a hack for Ironsworn/Starforged by Shawn Tomkins, that allows you to include personal development in you Solo RPG experience. It give a guide on how to use the games stats to motivate yourself for regular habits. It also gives some ideas on how to use the quests and iron vows as opportunities to explore personal challenges and problems.
You, the Dungeon.
As an artist is their cryptic painting and a poet their lines of verse, you shall be this grand construction that exists only in the minds and imaginations of those who observe its description.
What you build shall be an extension of yourself, so build fearlessly and with only your ego to guide you.
Perhaps you will show it to prying eyes and curious hands.
Perhaps you will keep it hidden, its mysteries privileged only to you...
A game made for the 24-Word Jam as an introduction to the Buddhist conceptualisation of Samsara; the cyclic nature of recreation and suffering.
Reversing Rolls is a one sheet 4-page zine to gamify your goals and help incentivize motivate you to complete them by making a competition (or challenge for solo) out of your goals. You'll roll dice, strategically place them, and hope to accomplish the things you normally procrastinate in order to get your dice on to the right side of the line by the end of the week and win!
Diedream is a one-page (front and back) solo TTRPG that you play in your head.
Within two sides of A5 is an elegant game system that allows a player to go on adventures in the comfort of their bed with nothing more than their brain and their fingers.
The Eunice Williams Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Franklin County, Massachusetts. Eunice Williams was an English colonist who was killed at the site in 1704. On nights in February, the story goes, you can see her ghost at the bridge, still looking for her lost and murdered children.
The Ghost of Eunice Williams is a divination game of real folk necromancy. It's probably harmless.
The CDC recommends getting 150 minutes of cardio and 2 strength-training exercises in per week. But time is freaking weird, how are you supposed to keep track? With these cute pixel-art cards, of course!
Each card has two objects made up of a total of 30 squares, and each square represents 5 minutes. As you exercise, fill in or mark off the squares, writing any leftover minutes in another box. Once you fill all the boxes, your 150 minutes is complete!
In the center of each card are two additional objects. Every day that you do at least 10 minutes of strength training, mark one off. Finish the whole card each week to work toward a fit, healthy body! 🥳
You are stuck somewhere, metaphorically or literally, and you need out. Maybe this is a rut, or maybe it's the world around you. This is a very light, one-page meditative, contemplative piece to let you sit with the discomfort.
"Day by Day" is a simple energy management game I've created to share a bit of my journey as a late-diagnosed autistic person. It's a small window into some of the challenges and insights I've gathered along the way.
The Dark Room is a solo journaling RPG about a re-discovery of yourself to embrace your past and escape from the dark room.
This game was Created with the Fireflights creator Kit by Fari RPGs and submitted during the Firelights Jam. You will only need a deck of cards, two six-sided dice, a note and a pencil to explore surreal landscapes with butterflies.
The content may include expressions of depression, PTSD, anxiety, psychological illness and distress. You are encouraged to read and play with caution and awareness of your mental condition.
Soft Focuses is a solo journaling game that encourages people to experience their life as though they had ADHD. Players make an alternate version of themselves that has ADHD, create a list of stats, and then recreate moments from their day as this ‘other them’ would have experienced. It's not so much walking a mile in someone else's shoes as it is putting new insoles in your own shoes.
Martyr is a solo, journaling game (powered by Sentinel) that can be played using a standard deck of cards and a set of polyhedral dice.
The player takes on the role of a person imprisoned and put on trial for their beliefs, waiting for judgement to be handed down. Gameplay explores past miraculous events you've performed, visions from the higher power you serve, as well as creating those who both follow and oppose your teachings and culminates in receiving judgement and facing the sentence handed down by those who have sought to silence you.
ogygia is a spindlewheel mini-game inspired by the myth of calypso, an immortal trapped on an island paradise, with only the company of various travelers who always end up leaving.
meditations on the travel of ice and its subsequent vanishment is a journaling game. reflect on the way that you have shaped the world, and the way that it has shaped you in turn.
The Oldest Game is a twelve-word narrative game inspired by Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.
The Oldest Game was created for the 12-word RPG Jam.
This is a journaling game about dealing with ADHD. At the end of every night you write a journal entry about a fictionalized version of yourself. They have attempted the same things you have throughout the day, but usually with very different results. Create stats for this new version of yourself and roll on modifier tables to see how different your day might have been.
A Collection of Business Card Games Inspired by Stoicism
Areté is a Greek word that is commonly translated as “excellence”, but its meaning goes beyond that, and could actually be translated as “living as your best self.” And in Stoicism, this would mean living well, according to the famous Stoic virtues Courage, Wisdom, Moderation and Justice.
These small Business Card Games are a mixture of game and thought exercises. They are inspired by many of the teachings and concepts I have studied over the last couple of years. They were created mainly for myself, as a way to deal with my anxiety.
Snow is a GM-less, meditative tabletop roleplaying game that puts a player in the role of someone who is clearing snow from a driveway while trying to clear their mind. It’s falling thick out there and plenty has already piled up.
Grief :: Leaf is a single person ritual experience to support your soft, sad self.
The Daisy-Chain House is a game for 4+ about creating a family. About meeting one’s needs without depriving others. About compromise without sacrifice. About finding love, in all the forms it may take.
Work together to create a found family, romantic or otherwise.
Seedling is a short role playing exploration for four people.
Fuller Covered Bridge is a dull solo ttrpg. The game has nothing to do with bridges.
Write about all of the boring parts of the world after the Earth simulation accidentally gets reset.
To play the game, you just need something to write with and someone to show your writing to.
A simple, one page solo game about putting yourself back together after falling apart inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
This is a short, solo game that was written for the Asian Devs Together #StopAsianHateJam. It's a game of two halves. Firstly, there's a business card-sized component which you can print out and carry around in your wallet. When someone views you as a perpetual foreigner and asks, "Where are you from?", you can cross out an icon on the card. Later, you can use a series of questions or prompts to help you create a fantasy monster based on the encounter you had, either for the purposes of catharsis or for use in other games. When you've crossed out all the icons on the card, you will have completed the game.
