M.A.G is a rules-lite adventure game that can be used for most genres as-is. The game uses step die for the attributes and everything is an opposed roll. It is very flexible making it very simple to change to fit your style of game.
The game is very easy to play making it a great game for first time players. It works very well for solo thanks to the opposed roll resolution mechanics, and it uses almost all of the polyhedral die.
Since the game is so minimal and uses a simple difficulty die for opposed rolls, it is very simple to convert existing modules to use it, even on the fly. Simply assign a difficulty to the test and roll. Enemies work the same way, except they need hits. The rules include tips for creating enemies, which will be useful when converting modules.
S.A.R.O. (pronounced "sorrow") is a combination system reference guide (SRD) and tactical manifesto. It's a guide about making tactical roleplaying games.
The book is split into two parts. Part one is SARO: the manifesto. It's a set of rules and guidelines about making roleplaying games with interesting, tactical combat.
There are principles in here you can apply to your own games. Rules and suggestions about class design, terrain, encounter design, enemy design, item types, action economy, avoiding analysis paralysis, and more.
Part 2 is The Sorrows. It's a full Roleplaying Game about a team of superheros (the Sorrows). The game uses the principles laid out in the first part. First we tell you how it's done, then we show you. A rule, and an example.
Find out how to design powers that are interesting and fun, make combats memorable, and design games that are quick, dangerous, and provide players with meaningful choices.
SARO: Sometimes, Always, Rarely, Once.
Redígo ("re•DEE•go") is a game of narrative hand signs for roleplaying on the go. You can play on a walk, in a car, around a campfire, or even inside a cool fort made of blankets and chairs. It doesn't require dice, paper, or even a tabletop. All you need is a creative mind and someone to play with.
At heart, it’s a way of playing through conversation, and making decisions about your story together. You can pick up where any other tale left off, give life to your original story concept, or just take bits and pieces from your favorite legends and mash them together. It's built to accommodate any crazy ideas your players come up with on the spot, and to nurture your trust in your own creativity.
This is the Badger + Coyote System Reference Document. A free and open licensed version of Badger + Coyote that contains all the rules and design guidelines for you to make your own two player (duet) games.
Named after the original game, the system is designed for games that feature two characters of different personalities or outlooks working together: from two very different creatures, two humans who are opposite of each other, or even aliens from different planets.
The system is designed to be incredibly simple to pick up and jump into an adventure at a moment's notice, with the character duos already mostly defined.
The Personae SRD supports the themes of the Shadowlight RPG, where the curious investigate mysteries, explore paradoxes and delve into the hidden truths of the omniverse. Personae and Shadowlight are two sides of the same coin: when you play a Personae game, you're playing a Shadowlight game. Every unique Personae campaign is both a Personae stage and a monad of the omniverse.
Not only is Personae a complete and fully playable TTRPG system in its own right, but it's also a toolkit for creating original RPGs.
The Goldilocks Dice System is a TTRPG engine designed with the idea of a "happy medium" success criterion. Too much can be just as bad as not enough, but in different ways, so this system asks players to roll for the middle values on their dice, rather than looking for the highest or lowest value possible. Indeed, both those values represent disaster!
This system inherently makes failure far more interesting, because the roll automatically inspires different ways, and consequences, of failing depending on whether your roll is too high (overdoing it) or too low (not doing enough).
FAFO RPG is a simple, one-page, pick-up-and-play tabletop roleplaying system about bad situations, and whether you make them worse or better by taking risks.
Este manifesto reúne, de modo claro e conciso, as nuances e mecânicas que compõem o Point of View Engine (ou PoV Engine, para encurtar). previamente apresentado em jogos como Insetopia Segunda Edição e Caçada ao Colosso Segunda Edição.
Em suas páginas, você encontrará todas as informações necessárias para criar seu próprio jogo Firmado pelo Pov Engine, de modo gratuito e compartilhado.
Esta é a versão literal do meu meio de ver e lidar com jogos narrativos. Sinta-se livre para criar novos Dilemas e Protagonistas notáveis utilizando esta metodologia!
DIPER (Dynamic Interactive Pool-based Engine Roleplaying) is a tabletop roleplaying game framework that puts players in control of dynamic and engaging stories.
DIPER offers a game system centered around tags, allowing players to define their characters' traits, abilities, and flaws, and shape their development throughout the game.
With an emphasis on narrative-driven gameplay and strategic decision-making, DIPER provides endless possibilities for immersive and exciting roleplaying experiences.
Over here baz, this decrypted datadrive is loaded with CBR+PNK's Creator Toolkit, loaded with all the files you need to boot you up for designing material compatible with CBR+PNK. Pop it into your deck to access Compatibility Logos, official iconography, and a graphics pack that'll make your creations sleek'n'shinny.
Powered by Sentinel is a system reference document for designing tabletop role playing games based on Sentinel, by Meghan Cross and Siren’s Song Games. The original game can be found here.
It is a GMless system utilizing a standard deck of playing cards and set of polyhedral dice to tell the story of an extraordinary individual.
The SRD is CC-BY4.0 and comes with additional permissions to use the Powered by Sentinel logo, which can be found for download on this page. This SRD is free for use, but donations are much appreciated.
A minimalist tabletop RPG system based on exploding and imploding dice.
It uses 3 familiar Attributes and 3 Resource pools. The task resolution mechanic is inspired on exploding dices, but with a twist!
24XX SRD es la versión gratuita de las reglas utilizadas por la serie 2400 de juegos de rol escritos por Jason Tocci. Estas reglas están publicada bajo una licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Además de las reglas, dentro de los archivos encontrarás consejos sobre cómo adaptar las reglas y diseño para tus propias creaciones.
This SRD is documentation to create 4 days, 4 season (4D4S) games.
The SRD is based on Autumn Bells by Jared Mason. The original game is available here.
4D4S games are solo journaling games about a character or object's experiences. The story is told through snapshots of the most influential years.
The game is played by laying out a grid of cards. The 4 rows represented the years selected for the game (eg 1, 5, 30, 100). The 4 columns represent the 4 seasons within the year (eg Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring). Players turn cards over one at a time, exploring prompts and mechanics as they do.
About Frontearth Striders
Frontearth Striders is a tabletop role-playing game about explorers striding through a turbulent world and being dragged into all sorts of problems-with simple and playable rules.
The world of Frontearth Striders is based on the setting of ‘Legacy of Earenean’, A Korean role playing game written by Kyeon-Hwan Jeon. Though 700 years have passed from the original world, and now equipped with 1950s technology. External link: https://gearoong.itch.io/frontearth-striders
Traducción fan de SRD de Blades in the Dark al español. Estoy valorando montar algún juego con este sistema y necesitaba esta traducción como paso previo. La publico, siguiendo las directices de la licencia indicada por su autor John Harper, con la idea de ahorrarle ese trabajo a quien esté en mi misma situación.
Bastionland Press, enero de 2022. Versión 0.4
Texto original : Chris McDowal Arte del SRD en español: Perplexing Ruins Traducido por: La esquina del rol, versión 0.3. Revisión: Blind Archivist Texto traducido en español bajo licencia CC-BY-4.0 para su uso.
Gamble With Fate (GWF) is my attempt at creating a fun system focused on a shared mechanic between GM & Players alike that binds them together in a strategic tug of war.
The mechanics are based around anteing and spending dice to increase your chances! But changing fate isn't always a good thing....
Versatile for any number of settings with Character Creation being a blank canvas for GMs, designers and Players alike. Characters are only defined by their powers which usually cost a hefty price to invoke~!
Leap Engine is a set of core rules for playing a role-playing game with your friends. The rules are light and concise, built around a simple d10 roll-under mechanic. The game promotes the idea that players are the ones controlling how far to push certain situation. They will, inevitably, create complications for themselves and give the GM an opportunity to build on that.
The idea behind BONDS comes from a desire to share the simple, yet amazing aspects of what it means to play and love tabletop games (known as 'TTRPGs') with people in your life who aren't all that familiar or experienced with the hobby. The game requires little no experience for both the GM and the Player, and you will only need paper, pen and 2d6 to play. Created to introduce beginners to tabletop RPGs in a way that feels both accessible and personal.
CUPS is one of the most approachable universal systems to date. With flexible rules that allow for solo or group play, and a system that can be transposed into any setting, CUPS reaches across all genres and gets to the heart of dice-based ttrpgs; the dice.
A system reference document to create your own games with the presented principles of design.
THE PREMISE
In this document, you will not find claims of disruptive game design elements. This is just a referential and derivative work, a conjunction of design principles that draw on The Magus (Momatoes) and Archipelago III (Matthijs Holter).
Combining the very best of them into a solo story-driven game design document.
The Hints and Hijinx system is a purpose-built solo mystery system that's easy to design mystery games for, & puts the power of deduction in the hands of the player!
This is the Firelights Creator Kit. Within this document, you will find the game's System Reference Document (or SRD) as well as a checklist of things to consider when designing your own gane Guided by Firelights.
Firelights is a condensed and open licensed solo/co-op role-playing game about a guided journey across a plagued land. It is a game of exploration, discovery, and challenges inspired by the Metroivania video game genre.
Players take on the role of a last of its kind lone-protagonist whose role is to guide back the dead back to the underworld after a corruption took over.
Using only the most accessible gaming material (2 six sided dice, a deck of card, and a notebook), players will tackle challenges, evade danger, explore and create a map of the land, fight dangerous bosses, search for treasures, and more.
ENI is a ruleset for role-playing games that aims to - quickly and easily - provide the adventure you seek through collaborative storytelling, growing tension, and meaningful choices. It can be played with or without a game narrator.
It was successfully funded as part of #ZineQuest4 on Kickstarter on August 31st, 2022. Like all campaigns by EX1ST GAMES, this project funded an afforestation association. Thanks to the ENI backers, we funded the planting of 100 trees.
ENI is an open-source framework available for free, for creators to modify and monetize their original content. Download the Source Code and get hacking. Your creativity will be rewarded with a Game Jam sometime soon.
If you just want to exercise your imagination or have some storylines you want to try out, then download the Zine, Character Sheet, and Journal Templates, and start playing today! For ease of play, we provided the main rules on a One-Page PDF with a Character Sheet on the back. Enjoy and let me know about the typos. Together we make games better.
TL-N Core is a gm-less roleplaying SRD, based on the rules of the Brazilian TTRPG Tractatus Ludico-Narrativus.
TL-N Core was created for the Anarchy in the tabletop Jam.
