When you get into the Bounty Hunter life, it's like a Jazz Solo.
Do I know what a Jazz Solo is? No, but it's like that. Space Solo is a story game about being bounty hunters in space. It's a mostly setting free, but with lots of flavor to it. Play as a group of hunters doing missions and getting even better at doing it. Pretty cool, huh?
Alone Together in this Vast Space is a 2-player one-page ttrpg meant to be played in a single session.
To play, you need the game sheet, one 12-sided die and access to music.
It is about a lone passenger aboard a spaceship whose only company is the ship's AI. Using music, you will find out what you want to do on this interstellar journey, face threats, and connect more with the only other being with you.
You're just trying to get through the day. D66 mundane adventure seeds.
This pamphlet features a brief exploration of a torn apart spaceship, destroyed from a great space beast. Players should be cautious but swift—a variety of factors could lead to perilous events if brevity is not taken. On the other side, however, just staying in the ship could prove hazardous in itself.
Sinking Cities is a one page, double-sided TTRPG designed for 1 Guide (the GM), and 2-5 Salvagers, in a system made for exploring the world lost to the rising tides. In a simple roll under system for conflict resolution, Salvagers will become more and more adept at facing challenges as their die shrinks, but also grow closer to being claimed by the Cities. Will your Salvager find riches? Glory? Satisfy the Drive that has pushed them to explore this forsaken place? Or will they too sink into the depths, to join what is left of the world they once knew.
Wastoid is a gonzo, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi RPG, inspired by games like Fallout, Mutant Crawl Classics, and Gamma World. (Especially Fallout! But not so much that Microsoft should sue me.)
This is a table for generating ideas as of what your tech, mechanism or what else is powered by.
It is assumed that the setting is science fantasy.
A quick supplement for Vaults of Vaarn's Summer Jam, I wanted to adapt a niche concept I'm extremely fond of from a favorite game into something that can shake up your players' traversal of any science fantasy setting.
Inside you will find an existential threat to any party and a reason to explore the ruins of the world for answers.
Good for DMs who like to stress their players out during overland travel or people who just like cosmic levels of scientific peril.
Este jogo não é sobre ciborgues, hackear a Matrix e trocar tiros. Muito menos sobre enriquecer ou se tornar uma pessoa poderosa dessa forma. É bem provável que esses elementos estejam presentes, mas é importante ter em mente que nosso objetivo é contar uma história sobre viver às margens, encarar um sistema consolidado e como o capitalismo usa a tecnologia para explorar os indivíduos. Se plugue ciente dos riscos, das perdas e das tristezas que o futuro nos reserva, mas não desista de lutar por seu próprio amanhã.
Imagine um futuro em que é impossível viver sem tecnologia e grandes empresas controlam o mundo. Quem vive marginalizado precisa lutar por comida, dignidade e o direito de continuar vivendo. Em suas mãos está um pequeno manual para um jogo narrativo, ou RPG, em um futuro cyberpunk. Tem coragem para se conectar a esse mundo?
Trama Cards é um sistema de regras que te permite, usando um baralho, experienciar ficções imaginárias que hardware nenhum seria capaz de renderizar. Ele media naipes e objetivos para que ao puxar cartas, os números indiquem às Protagonistas e Narradora o rumo da história que será contada em conjunto.
Players take the role of a Seeker, a collective group of nomads, traders, ecologists, and hopefuls that have come together with the common goals of rebuilding the planet Eridoor. Seekers scrap what has been left behind by those before, in hopes that their work will one day contribute to the restoration of the planet's past beauty and splendor.
As you explore everything GLIDE has to offer, you will acquire Fame, which ultimately leads to the end of the game. How you earn Fame is up to you, with many different pathways leading to an end for every character. Want to explore even further? GLIDE offers rules for returning to your version of Eridoor with a new character!
A neofeudal cyberpunk game based in the Conflict System, which I first developed for Under Heaven Underworld. Drawing heavily from Ishinomori Shotari's Kamen Rider stories, for players 4-6, it uses d6s, pens, paper, a recounting of the present from which one imagines a vision for the future.
Utopia is a neo-futuristic roleplaying game, drawing on elements of cyberpunk and speculative science fiction. In Utopia, you will make some decisions about your setting, create a character with goals and ambitions and work to achieve those goals, while dealing with whatever challenges the world throws at you.
Tarot Byte is a tabletop role-playing game about witches navigating a sci-fi world. Participants are split into the Coven (Players) and the Oracle (Game Master) and work together to explore, cast spells, and hack their way through whatever strange sci-fi world you create together. So grab your crystal ball and load your laser gun and let's do some witchcraft!
Any Planet Is Earth is a set of sandbox guidelines for creating a near/far future adventure campaign. With an emphasis on realism, lateral thinking, and simple rules, players will seek jobs, bounties, trade, and rumors, accept death, and try to leave their mark on the starscape which naturally emerges from details, dilemmas, and decisions. The game takes its inspiration from Marc Miller's Classic Traveller, Chris McDowall's Into the Odd, Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity series, and the ethos of Free Kriegsspiel gaming.
People, Places & Perils is a solo story-building game about exploring a wondrous land.
You play as an adventuring bear. At the start of each day, you embark on a new journey. You discover new places. You may make some friends. You will face some challenges.
By the end of the day, you will have more stories to share. As you rest, you look back on the encounters you had and learn a new connection between events, people and places. You take notes on your journal and update your map, before you go to bed and get ready for another day of adventure.
Parabola is a one-page tabletop RPG about sci-fi action, with quick, simple, narrative-focused rules that double up on information and let you cut to the action. You'll need some friends and a handful of six-sided dice to play.
Wield the four fundamental forces of the universe — gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces — as you explore a metallic world of adventure and danger, combining manifold dice rolls with narrative beats and skills.
Space Places consists of four tables of space-faring prompts suitable for science fiction table top RPGS, roleplaying, world building, and storytelling. They are useful as standalone prompts to encourage roleplaying the discovery of new places, or as prompts to build maps in conjunction with another game system.
Explore new places, places of safety, dangerous places, and strange places.
Requires: one six-sided die and paper lined with hexagons or squares.
Spin Cycle is a fast, pick up and play one page TTRPG for players and a GM. You play as grizzled old cyberpunk heisters going on one last job. With your tools breaking left and right and death always around the corner, what will you sacrifice to get it done?
Helion, Our Domain is a storytelling game for GM-less or GM-led play powered by Breathless.
Guide an extrasolar colony as explorers struggle for survival. You'll weave stories about the heroes who emerge to lead the settlement and determine whether they fall into ruin or manage to triumph.
The game has a traditional ruleset for GM-led play, and also features an Oracle that uses a pack of cards for GM-free or GM-mediated play. Both have win and failure conditions.
Free Traders is an attempt to make a minimalist sci-fi RPG. It is a love letter to Wing Commander: Privateer, West End Games' Star Wars D6 in general and the Tramp Freighters sourcebook in particular, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy and doodling space ships in my notebooks in school.
By traveling to the distant past, your characters can seek to learn more about their past to better understand the present and, hopefully, improve the future. While this game contains some concepts drawn from the Assassin's Creed game series, it is mainly inspired by Presto Studios’sThe Journeyman Project game series released in the 1990’s.
Using a dice mechanic based on the BAD TIMES system and my own Blossom system of character creation, you create unique Travelers to explore the past. Time-Travelers need to hide your existence to the temporal locals, so you take on new Personas while in the past. However, relying too much on your Past Persona can Bleed into your own identity, changing yourself and those you care the most about around you in your Present!
The galaxy of Astra is a small genre-neutral sci-fi setting for your TTRPG that gives only enough for your players to build on, while still giving you a story hook or two for every system.
ACP is an ENNIE-nominated, light-hearted sci-fi TTRPG for 3 to 5 players, inspired by Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern by Takuma Okada.
It's a GM-less game, intended to be played over 1 or 2 sessions of 3 to 4 hours.
Dark Star is a Lumen TTRPG about daring Explorers on a Dyson Sphere called Dark Star Station. Dark Star Station is a mysterious technological marvel that is unmatched in the galaxy. With your team of dashing adventurers you can explore the mysteries of this immense and unknowable station. Chart the mysterious Dark Zones, unpowered sections of Dark Star Station that could hold any number of untold riches or dangers. Sabotage Active Zones to drive out inhabitants or to save other nearby Active Zones. Search abandoned laboratories for Darktech, the advanced technology left behind by the station's creators. If none of these strike your fancy, you could always serve one of the various factions on Dark Star Station and help them achieve their goals!
(current year) is a simple system (2d10 rolls, set damages, set DCs) for creating people and an area to play a game in, and then playing the game. The system also comes with a number of tables to roll on in order to generate people, most of which are system-agnostic and can be used to generate characters for other games in modern settings.
MOBILE FRAME ZERO: FIREBRANDS is a roleplaying party game by Meguey Baker & D. Vincent Baker, set in Joshua A.C. Newman’s MOBILE FRAME ZERO universe. You don’t need to be familiar with MF0: RAPID ATTACK or MF0: INTERCEPT ORBIT to play.
A roguelike solo card game where you, as the survivor Stella Hoshiko, have to escape from a space station that was taken over by a cosmic anomaly.
This is Felis Chimeris a Biopunk Slice of Life RPG where you play as Transgenic Cats living in the cramped streets of Lotus. You'll get to create your cat and play together as a colony of weird ferals finding your own way in the humid darkness of the city.
Lotus is one of the main districts of the space station city orbiting Jupiter, New Heaven. Which is the setting of my other Biopunk Angel game,
Make Our Own Heaven. You don't need to have read or played that game to understand this one, they just happen in the same setting. Below is the paragraph about Lotus from the other book, just in case you need more inspiration.
The Breach is a game set in a dystopian retro-future.
Inspired by the great science fiction novels of the 70s, The Breach will catapult you through time and space, to discover infinite parallel worlds, called Paradoxes.
As a watcher, you will be called to collect data and information to discover the secrets hidden in the endless universes.
Mons is a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game of monster partners. It uses 24XX rules by Jason Tocci, and is primarily inspired by Pokémon Adventures by Hidenori Kusaka.
