Darkest Hour is a horror tabletop game designed for one-shot horror sessions. It can be played as a GMless game or with a GM, and can accommodate 2 to 5 players (with or without a GM) for one to two play sessions totaling 2 to 5 hours. It can be played with as little as the book and three six-sided dice.
A solo micro RPG built using the Havoc Engine (as seen in Eat The Reich).
The setup: You wake up in the sub-level basement of the hotel. You can't remember your name or face. In your pocket, you find a photo of a target and a note that reads... "You are a Psycho Killler."
You'll need: a standard set of RPG dice as well as a fistful of extra D6s. Fill out the Character Report and head to the elevator.
The game: each floor has an objective and a threat. You select a stat and roll that many dice, allot successes, take injuries, and repeat. When the objective is complete, the elevator (however improbable) appears to take you up higher.
Everyone in the occult underground is familiar with Trystero, the unassailable and secret mail service. Everyone knows the Trystero is secure and extremely fast. Less people know it achieves this alacrity by sending its certified Couriers through a dangerous anomalous liminal space, the so-called "Backrooms." As part of a Courier’s crew, that's where you come in. Transporting packages through the Backrooms ain’t a job for one person. Sadly, your Courier has died, and only they knew the route. You need to find your way out with the packages intact or you might as well be dead. You’re fucked.
Recursive Transit is a system agnostic one page time loop written for the 2024 One Page Dungeon Contest. The train your party is riding in has slipped into the liminal space between the shadows of reality, traveling the same segment of track on an endless loop. To break the loop, your party will need to navigate the perils of the train and overcome its challenges, all while racing against the clock.
Monstrum is a tabletop roleplaying game set in a grimdark, gothic world inspired by games like Dark Souls. It can be played Solo, or with up to 4 players and a GM.
HAUNTED ECHOES is a lightweight TTRPG focused on one-shots and short term games where we play as weird detectives in the rainy streets of a fantasy victorian city. Use your talents to gather clues, solve cases, banish ghosts, deal with elemental demons and ruthless scoundrels while trying to search for an answer to the question that haunts your very being. Inside you will find rules for:
Liminal Horror is a rules-lite, adaptable modern horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.
SubUrbana is a world that is entirely suburban. There is no densely packed downtown. There are no high rises. There are nested streets, and fences. There are shopping malls and fast food drive-thrus. There are some highways. All the trappings of American Suburban Life.
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.
