Nope turns the investigative horror genre on its side, as the players make rolls to rationalize away the strange and spooky things they encounter. But as the investigation wears on, your powers of denial weaken, creating a natural pacing mechanism to bring in the weird bit by bit until it's screaming in your face. Built on the Breathless system, Nope! is easy to pick and play for a no prep one-shot.
Career Opportunities is a scenario for Cthulhu Dark, set in London’s punk scene in 1977. It is, crucially, actually built around setting up for and playing a gig.
The flames mercilessly consumed a thick layer of grime, revealing golden painting frames, forgotten reliquaries and arcane tomes from before the time of the Basilisks.
However, the cursed fire has continued blazing, burning the books to ashes, while a stream of liquid gold has found its way to the sewers, where it continues flowing and mixing with the city’s excrements. Onlookers still gather, unsure whether to fight against the blaze and save the temple, or to fan the flames and sate their avarice with molten gold.
Thus starts the narrative by an anonymous author, scrawled across three pieces of notebook paper and the literal back of an envelope, talking about how the mirror people are replacing people the author knows.
Intended to be used in a 20th-century horror tabletop RPG like The Lost Bay, there are no statistics or out-of-character advice so it can be used however you like, even simply enjoyed as weird microfiction. Based on all sorts of existing urban legends, old school folklore, and the 1987 song "Mirror People" by Love and Rockets.
This is a worldbuilding game. It is intended to be played by a group of three to six players and can be played in about one hour.
You will assume the roles of townsfolk who reside in a quiet medieval village. Recently, local farmers have reported seeing some kind of exotic beast in the mysterious forest nearby. Their accounts strain credulity, not least because they are wildly inconsistent. The village aldermen have called a town meeting to discuss the situation and decide how to respond.
"Under the Autumn Strangely" is a storytelling game of pastoral horror priming with anachronistic Americana set in a land that Never Was.
Inspired by "Over the Garden Wall" created by Patrick McHale, players collaboratively create a world uncanny and old. Codify and encourage tonal clash as the Three Roles meld whimsy, autumnal melancholy, and dread.
Take a wrong turn on a dusty road. Follow the sign past the red barn with peeling paint. Doubt your senses.
Get a little lost.
What Is The Lost Bay? The Lost Bay is a Suburban Gothic tabletop RPG se199X. The Lost Bay is also the name of the setting where the game takes place: a coastal suburb inspired by films and media from the 80s and 90s. In it you play as a young person touched by the Weird, an ancient force that gives you supernatural powers. You roam the Bay with your gang, its malls, arcade games shops, skateparks and beaches, and fight the Horror that has awakened.
This is a diceless and rules-light ttrpg. Encounters receive a difficultynumber, which will be determined by cards. Skills are used to reach the difficultynumber, without rolling dice. It is just a matter of how much you will exhaust yourself to succeed...
Pine Shallows is a tabletop roleplaying game inspired by The Goonies, Stranger Things, Gravity Falls and middle grade adventure book series like The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea in which you portray small town kids going on adventures and solving mysteries.
The digital book contains the rules to create your characters and play the game. In addition, the city of Pine Shallows is detailed with numerous locations, supporting cast and hooks. Also included are Catch Of The Day & Grasp of the Understory, two complete starting adventures.
From Beyond Cold Stars is a modification of the rules for What's So Cool About Outer Space?, tailored for tales of eldritch horror. When facing the uncanny, or drawing upon dread insight, you must roll a die with an odd number of sides (available in sets known as Zocchi dice). The entire game fits on two sides of a letter-sized page of paper.
BLOODSTONE is an action-packed horror tabletop roleplaying game with a dark, gothic feel.
The players are a group of hunters sent to the city of Heliwyr on a blood moon night to hunt down an Apostle attempting to ascend, opening a gateway to the realm of the Ancients.
Iron Gods is a body horror dungeon crawl set in a neon-soaked 1980s bodybuilding world. Think professional wrestling meets Cthulhu mythos, or Body Snatchers set in Pumping Iron. It operates on the Liminal Horror system: a rules light, d20 roll-under hack of Cairn and Into the Odd. Characters become gradually more mutated as they descend into the mouth of madness inside of a local bodybuilding gym in search of something evil beyond imagination.
KATABASIS is a folkpunk pointcrawl ttrpg about exploring, accepting, and rejecting death, inspired by the Dark Souls trilogy, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and the work of Jean-Pierre Ugarte, among others. It's a tactical combat game with a beginning and end, where death is a minor setback and the build you craft is a reflection of who you once were as a person. This version is the second edition, taking many of the ideas from the original release three years ago and dramatically revamping them. Anyone who supported the original version gets this one free, forever. Thank you.
Rise of the End is an apocalyptic horror tragedy; your characters will not survive. They are doomed from the start. But they don't know that, and this game about trying to do more than survive; this game is about living while you're alive.
Rise of the End features the Security Tracker, inspired by Rise of the Apes' "STRENGTH Tracker". It tracks the survivors' growing security and sense of complacency at the end of the world, allowing them to live rather than merely survive, but also giving them something to lose.
Ditches N' Witches is a single page solo ttrpg that ends with you repeatedly smashing a table.
VKILLER is a short horror-comedy TTRPG. The players are streamers and VTubers at VibeCon, a popular but poorly managed streamer convention. (It even has a zipline!) They're here for three days of fun, networking, and if they ride that zipline, regret.
The Hollow Queen is a horror noir storytelling game, inspired by "True Detective" (Season 1), "Se7en", "30 Coins" and "Archive 81". Although set in a modern city, it can be easily transported to other periods, including dystopian futures like cyberpunk. In this city, the supernatural is not common, so events related to the Hollow Queen often test the sanity of investigators and other characters.
Dungeon Bitches is a game wherein disaster-lesbians get Fucked Up in dungeons. CW: this game contains gore, nudity, sexuality, trauma, and mentions of abuse and assault.
Available in Hardcover Print on DTRPG!
In Dungeon Bitches, the world is harsh and cold. “Polite” society has left you with no place, so you’ve struck out to find one of your own. Out into the dark cracks and forgotten margins. It’s not an easy life, but at least it won’t be a lonely one. Dungeon Bitches is a game about queer women banding together. It’s about trauma. It’s about community. It’s about pain. It’s about survival. But most of all, it’s very gay.
Project ECCO is a game of time travel and cosmic horror—a solo journaling game with a twist. Time travel across the pages of a planner, writing in and marking up the dates based on prompts as you go, ultimately creating an artifact of your travels through time.
You work for the mysterious organization known only as The Agency , tasked with tracking a time-consuming entity throughout an entire year.
In the end, will you destroy the Entity? Do you dare question the Agency? Can you find yourself?
Ritual is a tabletop roleplaying game for 3-6 players. Inspired heavily by The Wicker Man, Midsommar, Raph D’amico’s The Zone RPG, and Jason Cordova’s Brindlewood Bay.
Chthonic Metro Gods is a set of modular, MOSAIC Strict cards for use in any roleplaying game system.
The bridge-sized PDF currently includes three (3) cards including:
THE IMMORTAL SEAL
· Souls-like experience in Pamhlet TTRPG format.
· Unmerciful Dark Fantasy.
· Play Solo, GMless or with a group.
· Zero-Prep.
EL SELLO INMORTAL
· Experiencia souls-like en formato juego de rol de panfleto.
· Fantasía oscura sin misericordia.
· Juega en solitario, sin GM o con un grupo.
· Sin preparación obligatoria.
Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, The Long Way Down is a solo Wretched and Alone game that allows you to play out Orpheus' descent into the Underworld to find his love, and their journey back to the surface. Encounter denizens of the Underworld, compose your epic, and stay strong as doubt crawls into your mind.
Will you look back, only to lose her again? Or will your resolve hold long enough for your to both make it out of the Underworld alive?
There's only one way to find out - but you'll have to take the long way down...
CW: The Long Way Down deals heavily with themes of loss, death, and hopelessness.
This is a horror ttrpg meant to inspire fear, dread, and similar emotions. Warnings for death, discussion of mental health issues including themes of insanity, institutions, and medication, as well as mutation and disfigurement, and more. Player discretion is advised.
This Mortal Coil is both a standalone science-horror setting/rulebook for Liminal Horror and a toolkit for incorporating necromancy and space travel into your own Liminal Horror, Cairn, and other Into the Odd inspired games.
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