Browse 622 entries in the catalog.
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
A percentile RPG on a single page where player characters consist of 3 attributes (Violence, Elegance and Intelligence), a profession, a one-sentenced description of their wishes and weaknesses and two hit points (body and insanity).
Create a role-playing game in 200 words or less.
'24XX is the free version of the rules used by the 2400 series of RPGs.'
A piecepack set that can be printed.
A universal RPG.
Here’s a game I made over the summer, inspired by but not entered into Game Chef, but I never got around to posting it here. It’s a mashup [of] Archipelago and some boardgame mechanics, where you explore an abandoned space ship.
This is an expansion of the (soon to be) award winning Fate Core, focussing on the process of collaborative world building. It includes some of the concepts found in The Spark RPG and helps you build an engaging setting with a history, fraught with danger and potential for growth.
A freeform game inspired by Dark Sun.
A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
AdventureLand is a small, 4 pages RPG [written] in a hurry (about 6 hours) for advanced role-players.
A modified d20 game set in its own universe.
OGL
A comprehensive word game system.
A fast-paced RPG inspired by manga and anime.
Arcmage is a free open source card game.
GPL
A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
Welcome to Fort Biloxi. Your parents have sent you to military school to help you focus". What could be scarier than military school? How about being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and the other new kids (the other players) are going to try to get expelled so you can go back to public school with all your friends."
Small Toad – youngest student of Master Iron Willow – gave the rarest tea flower in Master Iron Willow's considerable collection to a passing beauty.
A fantasy setting for tabletop role-playing games.
A fully-featured card game
GPL
A fantasy RPG.
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'Encounter the peculiar folks who reside within and help solve their problems while confronting your own relationships & fears.'
A Fiasco playset about backstabbing nuns.
The game is played by 2 to 4 players, who become taxi drivers in some city. They compete to gather the highest income by carrying passengers.
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A fusion of Basic D&D with D&D 3E to create a simple, light-weight game.
OGL
'Battle aXe is a fantasy mass combat supplement for old school tabletop role-playing games, and their clones.'
Tattooed hunters of beasts use their fiendish blood for sorcery.
Designer of Hulks and Horrors, Heaven's Shadow, and Drums of War.
OGL
GPL
'a free, open gaming system that enables anyone to play and create fantasy tabletop worlds, adventures, and sourcebooks'
ORC
Tabletop RPG of heists.
Blood, Guts & Glory is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of fantasy adventure. As the name would suggest, the game is in a somewhat "gritty" mould with the emphasis on visceral combat where you get specific injuries such as broken bones, torn muscles, burns and the like.
A LARP about the French and American battles before the War of Independence. 11 players.
Brigandine is a 28mm skirmish-level fantasy wargame that aims for speed and simplicity.
GNU FDL
Welcome to Bulletproof Blues: a "rules light" superhero roleplaying game set in the universe of Kalos Comics.
OGL
'This PDF breaks down the CAPERS Core game system.'
A competitive card game where players use intelligence collection techniques to solve international crises. On each turn, one player will try to defuse a crisis while their opponents interfere with reality checks.
A rules-light fantasy adventure RPG with quick character generation and deadly combat.
A game to teach people about carbon pricing.
Card Armies: Battle For Wesnoth is a strategy game designed by David Bradshaw.
GPL
Cardenio has a problem. He seems to be slipping between realities.
'Cazadores is a cooperative miniatures game about tracking and hunting monsters, beasts, and other things that go bump in the night.'
One of the first games to be open source.
GNU FDL
GPL
'This document contains the current systems reference document for the Cities Without Number cyberpunk RPG.'
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Mix and match your own Dungeon World classes.
Codename: Spandex is a retro-clone game that emulates the game mechanics of another out-of-print game (Golden Heroes) without using any of the copyrighted artistic presentation.
A deck-building card game.
Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture.
A light and light-hearted RPG.
A tabletop RPG set in modern times.
Game icons designed by Daniel Solis.
Daring Adventures offers quick, no-prep superhero roleplaying, roughly in the style of golden age comics.
An experiential larp for 4-8 players
When Death takes a holiday, a hapless family of ghosts must shepherd the dearly departed.
A Parsley adventure.
Oracular spies fighting the future and Greek myths.
Play Fate Accelerated Edition with dice inspired by Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
A fantasy dungeoncrawl game with significant player narrative control.
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A shady Chinese restaurant is the setting for a Fiasco playset.
The basic system of the Hillfolk RPG.
OGL
In this quick card game 2-4 players compete to earn the most reputation by developing new Drupal modules and building complex websites!
A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
A fantasy RPG designed for quick play and no fuss.
A new take on the 4C System
The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.
''Evil Wizards in a Cave is a short adventure module compatible with both the Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord fantasy role-playing games.''
Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
'Extra Ordinary is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world.'
The bare bones of FATE.
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Classes for Dungeon World.
'Fantasy Express is a new game, based on Against the Darkmaster and the Grievious Grimoire.'
A light and simple skill-based RPG.
An extended version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
OGL
A toolkit for the Fate tabletop RPG.
OGL
Final Bid is an auction-based tabletop roleplaying game for 3-6 players. Each 2-4 hour session is a standalone story, perfect for one shots. There are six different film settings for you to play in, each with 8 of their own unique Roles to play.
Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.
An evolution of RuneQuest.
FAL
An original game system and toolkit.
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
Aztec daisies, god-rabbits and divine parties meet in this Aztec soap opera.
GNU FDL
A retroclone of 2E AD&D.
OGL
'For the Queen is a game about love, duty, and devotion.'
A game written in a paragraph.
The Fortune System Resource Document includes the basic rules of the Fortune System. It also includes advice from existing Fortune System designers.
Play a superhero in the Italian Renaissance.
OGL
This book is a collection of games that you can play with the piecepack.
Free Culture, Games and Design
A half-finished RPG designed by committee.
GPL
"Full Command is a 7 page core ruleset for simulating battles all the way from a skirmish level with a handful of individual models through to full scale war with units totalling hundreds of miniatures."
Cards for the game Ganakagok.
A story telling game about fickle fairies.
A generic rules-light RPG.
Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
'GLIDE is a solo (and cooperative) sci-fi tabletop RPG adventure game inspired by the world of Frank Herbert's Dune.'
You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
An old-school style fantasy RPG.
GNU FDL
A Dungeon World/Powered by the Apocalypse fan e-zine.
'Grimwild is a streamlined, character-driven, cinematic fantasy RPG.'
A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings
The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience.
OGL
A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
An expansion to the Piecepack.
How people interact with tabletop games.
Play a growing dragon.
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A modular gaming system.
GPL
A role-playing game.
'The Invulnerable RPG Year One Edition allows you to create your own hero, and experience worlds of adventure!'
Fate-based roleplaying in a world of mecha and Norse legend.
Cthulhu medieval supers.
A universal generic games system.
GNU FDL
A flexible and easy-to-use game system drawn from many sources.
Writes adventures for Dungeon World.
A game designer.
In this resource-driven card game for 1-4 players, you're an optimistic, scrappy adventurer set in a paradoxically lush wasteland of junk. You need to be the first to build one of the many super cool things you can make with the scrap you collect.
A Fiasco playset parodying Dungeons & Dragons.
An evil witch has taken over a small town.
KNAVE is a rules toolkit by the creator of Maze Rats and The Alchemist's Repose for running old school fantasy RPGs without classes.
You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor.
'Level Up is a standalone 5E fantasy tabletop RPG. Developed from the start to be compatible with original 5E (O5E), it is a fully-featured ‘advanced’ 5E ruleset which has been written from the ground up.'
OGL
ORC
In a time where time wasnt, Seven Factions struggle for Liberation of the others so that they may live free and without struggle. This is the world of Libre. Old site: https://web.archive.org/web/20100703235005/http://librecardgame.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/
'a solid re-implementation of the classic B/X rules, but reinterpreted with an eye to the needs of the modern gamer'
ORC
'a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.'
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
'Locus is a bespoke, mystery/horror roleplay game with unique mechanics crafted entirely around horror.'
A science fiction Western.
An RPG that has undergone considerable changes in recent versions.
OGL
A German fantasy game based on FATE.
OGL
A fascist super replaces the US president during WWII.
Defunct.
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A game from Amagi Games.
Play a viking hero on epic adventures.
CC BY-SA
An intricate and lengthy RPG of dark fantasy.Own license
A short and sweet take on the d6 System.
OGL
A roleplaying game of emotionally tempestuous arthaus wuxia.
'Moxie is a tabletop RPG designed for players who crave storytelling packed with drama, suspense, and breathtaking action.'
MurderHobos gets to the meat of dungeon crawling: killing things and taking their stuff.
A rules-light modular generic RPG.
"In Mythic Mortals you play as yourself, suddenly granted the unstable powers of Ancient Heroes!"
A horror RPG.
A roleplaying game based on Dungeon World.
A rules-light, GMless game designed for children.
'Taking Novus to the next level, Novus 2e is a skill based system with no levels or classes.'
A Dungeon World supplement.
A role-playing game that promises to model physics and biology.
Billy the Kid is on a train to Old Messila, doomed to hanging in this Hackbird.
One-page dungeons, part of an annual contest.
''A Roleplaying Game of Sacrifice and Vengeance''
Over a hundred one-page dungeons.
''Open Adventure is a full-featured tabletop adventure game that offers out-of-box support for medieval fantasy and science-fiction expeditions.''
'Open Adventure: Fantasy is a fast-paced, cinematic roleplaying system you can download for free today!'
A clone of D&D 4E.
OGL
A generic role-playing engine.
GPL
A surreal game of the law set in the Old World.
A character generator for the d20 System.
LGPL
"Panic at the Dojo is a tabletop game for 3-5 players set in a modern world where martial arts reigns supreme, and magic exists a little bit."
'Pantheon is a storytelling game about a hero’s journey and the trials devised by the gods.'
The rules from the AGON roleplaying game.
An RPG publisher.
OGL
''A supernatural storytelling RPG''
A generic dice-based RPG.
''Powers For Good is a fast-moving roleplaying game of team superheroics in the style of comic books such as Legion of Superheroes and New X-men, or TV shows like Justice League. Together with your friends you can create an entire team of superheroes in just a few minutes and leap into whatever the GM has stewing.''
'A strategy card game set in the fictional world of Project Utopia.'
A Western LARP of small town secrets.
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A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
Quest-ions is a fantasy roleplaying game with a novel mechanic using tokens.
A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
Rafu, or Raffaele Manzo, is a game designer.
Awkward is a family-comedy role-playing game for 5 players which purports to be the "New Wave of Italian Freeform". Whatever that means.
Rules-lite, classless, nostalgic RPG.
A clever reinterpretation of fantasy gaming.
The rules from the RPGs 'Spire' and 'Heart'.
A game for Jonathan Walton's Stage One.
Chart the course of any revolution, real or imagined, in any time or place.
An abstract strategy game
''Rookvale is a [tabletop] game of cinematic tactical combat [with demons]''
A fantasy game which draws on several different RPG systems.
An RPG once lost, but capable of preservation thanks to its open license.
GNU FDL
Game material for Dungeon World.
An RPG about high school.
A comedic superheroes playset for Fiasco.
An 11-player science fiction LARP.
A game where spelling words with Scrabble tiles affects what happens in the story.
A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
A game of princes who pursue asceticism to save the world.
A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
A community-made hexcrawl setting for D&D.
Skeksis from the Dark Crystal on cards.
How to put together a slacker's sandbox.
A *simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.*
'This tactical tabletop wargame lets you command elite squads in gritty skirmishes, combining strategy, story, and supernatural power. '
'Songs and Sagas is a condensed OSR inspired tabletop role-playing game of axes, runes, spirits and legends'
ORC
A Risk-like boardgame.
This work is a very simple method for the task resolution during RPG sessions.
A science-fiction audiobook series
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A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
A tabletop RPG.
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An open-source, rules-light, role playing game that does not rely on a “game master” or similar role to manage the game.
'[A] collection of physical establishments and locations, brief descriptions (sights, sounds, smells), an NPC, and corresponding moves for Dungeon World.'
'"Take On Magic Items" is a collection of magic items for Dungeon World, though a clever game master could easily translate these items into the fantasy system of choice, especially systems that encourage rulings not rules.'
'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
A tabletop RPG website.
Dan Dynamo - renowned pulp hero - is playing host to the gorgeous Princess Aphasia of the Venusians.
A Swords Without Master adventure.
''The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.''
A story about troubled adolescents travelling to Faerie.
An unbounded Science Fiction Universe available under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA for development by authors, artists, game designers, and other creatives.
Play travelling enforcers and heroes putting wrongs to right.
"The Fate Codex is a mostly-monthly e-zine featuring Quick Start Adventures and more for the Fate roleplaying system."
Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
A Donjon supplement by Valent Games.
GNU FDL
A 'class-and-level-based roguelike dungeon crawler game, reasonably compatible with other leading brands'
''This [Dungeon World] supplement is a resource to help you and your players create interesting, exciting, mysterious and dangerous lives after death.''
A Sorcerer supplement.
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RPG supplement for DSD6.
Books about roleplaying, ranging from general advice to specific settings.
A Fiasco playset.
A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
Make your own games of desperate struggle using the Resistance System, the core rules that power the Spire RPG.
A fantasy setting.
A simple and generic rules-system based on d6s.
"The Whispering Road is a storytelling game of cooperation and exploration, inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli."
An open source tile laying game.
GPL
'the complete Tiny d10 tabletop role-playing game system, styled in the fantasy tradition'
A boardgame about a faceoff between radicals and the police.
A rules-light universal RPG.
Inclusive and original tabletop gaming content.
Trophy is a collaborative storytelling game about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a forest that doesn’t want them there.
A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
An encounter for the RPG Dungeons & Dragons 4E.
Uncharted Worlds is a Space Opera roleplaying game built upon the Apocalypse World rules. It’s inspired by the big, bold, larger-than-life space-faring epics like Mass Effect, Firefly, Star Trek, and by games like Traveller, Masters of Orion, Starcraft (and a bit of Galaxy Trucker).
'Unsung Tales is a card-based roleplaying game, in which you and your friends will work together to tell stories of mystery and adventure in a Sword and Sorcery world.'
There is a whole lot happening in Verdigris Valley, the borderlands between the Kingdom of Kotalia and the high steppes of the Pashuan tribes.
The Vicious Crucible of Villa Argentate is game for up to six players and a GM. It plays in three to five sessions, or a pulse-pouding single session of jump cuts and action sequences. Best of all, it's free.
—
'We're a community of free culture-loving individuals, creating a free card game.'
GPL
A retroclone of The Fantasy Trip.
OGL
A rules lite dungeoncrawl.
A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
A simple system of intelligent weasels living in The Forest that must deal with a threat. Easy for kids.
'Weird World is a game about playing characters with unnatural powers in a dangerous, exciting world.'
'What's OLD is NEW uses a flexible d6 dice pool system and lifepath character creation rules.'
OGL
ORC
A game about repressed homosexuality, written in five minutes.
The role-playing game of mooks, minions, and dupes.
The Monthly Monsters project is back with another monster manual for Dungeon World!
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
'the mechanics of the game and trivially-derived content such as weapon damage dice, spell and ability names, and other necessary material for reproduction and use.'
Superhero roleplaying Powered by the Apocalypse.
Wretched & Alone games are solo journaling games about struggling in the face of insurmountable odds to survive, or to achieve something important.
A supers RPG.
A moderately crunchy cinematic rules system.
GPL
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"A nerdy, tactical fast paced hero combat game in a fantasy setting: Items, builds, abilities, fast to play, 1vs1, action points, scales for more players, with an ever evolving hero pool."
GPL
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
a simple character creation and brief game play paradigm for Grey Ghost Press's Fudge RPG
Contemporary, surreal horror where the highest goal is surviving more or less intact.
A superhero RPG.
A project to closely clone D&D 4E.
OGL
A game of earth, air, fire, water and balance.
A fantasy RPG.
The Action! System Core Rules provide all of the basic rules necessary to create and play a role-playing game. Create adventures and characters based on your favorite movies, TV shows or novels.
OGL
A science fiction campaign setting.
Liam Brennan takes a shot at improving Dungeon Squad.
A supplement for Dungeon Squad from Domino Writing.
A Dungeon Squad hack for adventure games of any time period.
An old school style roleplaying game with a focus on kingdom-building.
OGL
A modification of Dungeon Squad for the Warhammer 40K universe.
Retro-Cute Sci-Fi Role-Playing
OGL
Aetherverse is a tabletop sci-fi wargame that I first published in 2004. The concept of the game was to create a sort of “universal” rules system that players could use to create and play with armies sourced from any of the many miniatures manufacturers on the market. While this had been done before in a generic sense, I designed the system to build armies that had real character rather than just being a collection of numbers.
Fight off the alien menace in this Lady Blackbird hack.
Back from the Crusades, you must kill the bandit lord Robin Hood.
A dungeoncrawling fantasy role-playing game.
A different take on Dungeon Squad by Liam Brennan.
A Lady Blackbird-esque RPG.
A complete RPG setting.
A simplified d20 System for gladiatorial combat.
OGL
A website that hosted tabletop games.
OGL
An all-rights-reserved tabletop roleplaying game that has inspired many other games.
A REIGN setting that explores race, genetics and cultural identity. (REIGN Supplement #14)
modern-day supernatural thriller RPG
A space opera miniatures wargame.
OGL
Fantasy dungeoncrawling in Elizabethan England.
OGL
An action movie RPG.
Bad Habit is a cooperative game for 2-5 players where you must work together to learn the patience and empathy necessary to help those who suffer from Non-Suicidal Self Injury.
An RPG of high octane action.
Information about a fantasy world, in the form of a newspaper.
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An all rights reserved game, but that has been cloned by free and open games.
'a system of core rules for tabletop roleplaying'
ORC
Swords & Wizardry ports.
OGL
Tell Stories & Play Games with your Tribe
The first planar document.
A fun and educational tabletop game inspired by contemporary urban insurrection.
A short, GMless tabletop game.
A Lady Blackbird hack where George Washington faces off against the French.
Wizards at a wizarding school, trying to pass their classes while fighting evil.
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A Britain-themed miniatures game.
Earth has been under siege for 200 years.
A free do-it-yourself party game where you match cards in humorous ways
Life in a post-apocalyptic future.
OGL
A Gothic horror role-playing game.
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A fantasy game.
A setting without a game.
A guide for teachers running the closed game Happy Birthday, Robot!
Try not to go murderously insane!
Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
An RPG for emulating console video games.
Bleak, nihilistic dungeon-crawling.
The journal of gamer culture.
A collection of resources for medieval study and tabletop gaming.
OGL
'CthulhuTech is science fantasy role playing game, set in a high-tech near-future Earth, with magic and monsters blended in.'
ORC
This game is about your crazy friends and family.
OGL
This allows you to play the old d100 games.
OGL
Play magical girls, sorcerers and mecha pilots using everyone's favourite system.
OGL
Quick and easy d20 role-playing.
OGL
Play in a 1970s environmental movie.
A role-playing game set in the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s.
A merger of Swords & Wizardry and Basic Fantasy.
OGL
An artist and game designer.
A tabletop RPG based on the Rules Cyclopedia.
OGL
ORC
A modern fusion and re-organisation of 0E and 1E rules.
OGL
An unofficial sequel to Lady Blackbird.
A tabletop RPG based on a streamlined version of the Rules Cyclopedia.
OGL
America's enemies attack a school for elite agents.
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Pseudo-viking medieval Ragnarok mecha.
Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
OGL
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Hunt ghosts in a land of sultans and deserts.
I have been a tabletop gamer for about 25 years, mostly with pen-and-paper role playing games.
A generic RPG with rules for magic and hit locations.
OCL
A diceless horror game that uses a Jenga tower.
Spend the night in a haunted house.
A FATE RPG about modern magic.
OGL
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Adventure and Death from Drowning and Falling
Dungeoncrawling in Risus.
A simple dungeon-crawl game.
A hack of Dungeon Squad by Jim Adams.
New options for Dungeon Squad.
The third edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game.
OGL
Not free and open itself, but cloned by free and open projects.
A fantasy RPG designed by a committee.
OGL
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (editions 3 and 3.5).
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (4th edition).
The game inside Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future.
A Spanish RPG.
An RPG in a post-human world.
A short and simple swords & sorcery RPG.
CC BY-SA
A game inspired by Original Dungeons & Dragons with some modern changes.
OGL
A free, universal RPG.
OCL
A fantasy role-playing game.
OGL
Compete for the trust of the President of the United States.
A simple, clean RPG for emulating action movies.
An extensive tabletop RPG.
OGL
'Fantastic Stories is a fun-filled accessible micro tabletop role-playing game about brave heroes embarking on grand quests, all conveniently designed to fit on a drink coaster!'
ORC
A fantasy RPG based on the MasterCraft engine.
OGL
The engine of several popular tabletop roleplaying games.
A universal game based on the FATE engine.
OGL
'The game is set in a floating island and there the inhabitants have their own struggles with life. '
An infographic by Daniel Solis.
CC BY
A fast-paced 2 player card game of risk and luck. Punch, kick, parry and dodge your way to victory!
Supplements 1 to 6 for REIGN.
'For Truth's Sake is a solo-journaling rpg about studying culture's other than your own.'
ORC
A minimalist beer-and-pretzels game about life as an Arabian thief.
“Free Wars” is an open table top wargame system designed to be used with whatever you have at hand.
OGL
An Alaskan take on Dust Devils.
An early generic RPG.
OGL
A generic fantasy RPG with familiar races and classes.
An RPG publisher.
'[A] 3-page micro-hack based on Apocalypse World, Dishonored, and Ghostbusters.'
As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
OGL
Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
A setting for use with any D&D style game.
OCL
A d%-based horror RPG.
OGL
A collection of open game content from other sources.
OGL
A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
OCL
A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
A game of strategy and guess work played only with hands.
Hearts Blazing is a casual storygame for 3 to 5 players who have a love of episodic fiction and about 1 to 2 hours. After generating a fiction setting together, players take on the roles of dynamic but recognizable spec-fic archetypes.
A blog of roleplaying content.
(A) modern d20 RPG system that combines speed and simplicity with balance and depth.
A superhero RPG.
Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
'a Modern Zombie Apocalypse Survival Hack of Pathfinder Second Edition'
ORC
OGL
Two detectives interrogate two suspects.
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A board game played on two different boards.
A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
Adventures in the odd world.
A system for shared, improvised storytelling.
A simple and realistic system combining skills and classes.
OGL
'Survival roleplaying in the infinite multiverse'
An author of retroclones.
OGL
superhero table-top game
A three-way game of shifting alliances.
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A retroclone of Basic/Expert D&D.
OGL
A game, a setting and a starting adventure all in one; a collage of recent innovations in gaming.
A setting and rules companion to Lady Blackbird.
A game about sharing a house with galactic dictators.
Weird fantasy role-playing.
OGL
A nostalgic fantasy role-playing game.
Leviathans is a steampunk game that simulates combat between warships that have taken to the air in an alternate history 1910.
A sequel to the Lady Blackbird indie darling.
The Lightweight Universal Roleplaying System.
Play a lost soul returned from beyond the grave.
An elaborate fantasy setting and accompanying rules engine.
OCL
A game of creative assassination.
A project to clone and improve upon D&D 4E.
OGL
A story game and sequel to indie darling Lady Blackbird.
A light and generic fantasy RPG.
OGL
A baseball role-playing game remix
The story of the beginning of the Machine Age.
''Masks is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of super powered heroes, with addictive character generation and comic-book combat pacing.''
OGL
Enrol at a private school for tomorrow's amoral killing machines.
''Mazes & Perils is a game of imagination and role playing in a fantasy world, suitable for ages 10 and up.''
OGL
A fun and engaging game of gladiatorial battles in the far future, where the dice you gather determines your actions for that round.
"This is a game of drama, of desires, motivations, and downfalls. You play characters caught up in a devastating circle of events that can lead only to a tragic fall."
OGL
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes that brings wuxia action into a city environment, with NPCs, factions and rules for firearms.
A short RPG about those who can travel through fiction.
The Metropole Luxury Coffin is home to the dregs of society. You’re not like them, though. You’re going to get out of here someday.
A simplified version of the d20 System.
OGL
Play a simpler, lighter D&D 4E
"Milky Way Express is a Free Print-and-Play space trading and exploration game."
Play the minion servant of a supervillain.
A simple fantasy RPG.
OCL
'A tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!'
"A love letter to one of the greatest folk games of all time."
Spice up your Monopoly game with Godzilla.
A collaborative storytelling game.
Post-apocalyptic role-playing compatible with Labyrinth Lord.
OGL
Uses a handful of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
Play a squid mechanic or a redneck father in this Hackbird.
An RPG for couples, originally inspired by True Blood, Twilight, Let the Right One In, Buffy, and other tales of star-crossed vampire-human romances.
An adaptation of 2E AD&D.
OGL
"Mythender is a roleplaying adventure game about stabbing gods in the face and sundering every mythic being until there’s none left."
A wizarding setting for REIGN. (REIGN Supplement #13)
A game of heroic soldiers fighting against an alien invasion.
OGL
A LARP about the death of journalism.
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes containing optional rules and a series of linked quests.
The only role-playing game where the characters are all bloggers.
CC BY-NC
A retroclone of 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
Trying to capture that sweet spot in a new way.
A Dungeon World database.
A "meditation on fate, growing older and how people change over time."
Randomly generate monsters for REIGN.
Randomly generate spells for REIGN.
A collection of rules-free dungeons on one page each.
'This system is intended to be a streamlined and open tactical RPG. The primary source of inspiration is Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition.'
OGL
The popular D6 System finally released as open.
OGL
A complete and easy to play fantasy roleplaying game, with monsters, magic and exotic locales. OpenQuest uses the classic D100 rules mechanic, which uses percentages to express the chance of success or failure.
OGL
A REIGN supplement, where humans match alien supertechnology with unrelenting violence. (REIGN Supplement #15)
Unofficial supplement for Feng Shui.
A collection of Pathfinder official and third party materials.
OGL
'Path 2 Victory is a tabletop roleplaying and skirmish game. It simplifies the PF2e rules so monster and hero profiles fit on a single playing card, but keeps them rich and detailed enough to provide tactical and imaginative gameplay.'
ORC
A role-playing game based on Dungeons & Dragons 3.5.
OGL
A fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.
ORC
OGL
' Pathwarden is a Pathfinder 2e hack released under ORC License.'
ORC
'Phylo is: (1) a card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex, and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity; (2) an exercise in crowd sourcing, (free) access, and (transparent) game development; and (3) FREAKIN’ AWESOME!'
A roleplaying game set on a water world.
A Dungeon Squad hack for piratical adventures.
"Pitch Deck is a game about convincing your friends to invest in the most ridiculous startups imaginable."
A miniatures game that uses plastic soldiers.
A Lady Blackbird hack set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future.
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A rules-lite game that works only in conjunction with early editions of Dungeons & Dragons
OCL
An open version of the character creation and advancement rules from Dungeons & Dragons 3E.
OGL
Post apocalyptic Dungeon Squad.
Anarchy reigns when an obsessive, talentless band reforms for one last tour, heedless of body count.
Generic sci-fi game rules.Own license
'QuestWorlds is a rules and prep-lite RPG system that facilitates beginning play easily, and resolving conflicts in play quickly.'
ORC
"A grab bag of rules support. Nain, Ardwin and Out of the Violent Planet all get expanded material, but much of it is perfectly adaptable to any REIGN game at all, full stop."
OSR Fantasy RPG based on Steve Jackson's "The Fantasy Trip" with updated rules and original races (no elves, dwarves, or halflings).
'The Rainbow Deck is a card game system that has a total of 162 cards.'
Raven Crowking's reworking of Dungeons & Dragons
OGL
''Renaissance is a free D100 roleplaying system designed for historical and fantasy gaming in the age of black powder weapons.''
OGL
A rules-light pulp game.
A Fallout-style RPG based on Old School Hack.
Fight a conspiracy with your cabal of alchemists.
A slimline historical wuxia game.
Robot Hamlet and his companions have been abandoned on the terrifying Ghost Asteroid by the villainous robot Richard III.
A five-year-old girl named Rosalind tries to resolve the problems of her alien visitors.
The RuneQuest core rules.
OGL
A live-action role-playing game set in an alternate pseudo-history.
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A rules-light narrative game engine.
''Saga Machine is a brand new tabletop role-playing system by the Tab Creations Collective.''
OGL
A fantasy campaign setting for Dungeon World.
Supplements 7 to 12 for REIGN.
"Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5–10 people about finding and stopping the Secret Hitler."
A collection of role-playing material.
A mashup of Old School Hack and Shadowrun.
Children accompanied by their formidable Shadows.
CC BY
A simple d20-based RPG.
OGL
"slash is a card-based party game in which players compete to create the best romantic fan fiction pairing."
*Sneaky Cards is designed to encourage, inspire, or facilitate playful interactions. Breaking up the tedium of everyday life, with small entertaining objectives. Each card is created to be unique and develop different kinds of play.*
Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
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Space opera in what appears to be German.
A classless version of the d20 System.
OGL
A retro role-playing game that combines Chainmail and Original Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
Pulp two-fisted adventure in the 1930s.
OGL
Science fiction role-playing using the original Dungeons & Dragons rules.
OGL
Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
A science fiction game and a setting with no strict cannon.
OCL
An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
A role-playing blog.
A roleplaying game that celebrates the sense of possibility in the Victorian era.
CC BY
A big book of names from different cultures.
A solitaire game that tells a story.
[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource
A d20-based game dedicated to gonzo gaming.
Bringing indie sensibilities to the d20 System.
CC BY
A retroclone of original and whitebox Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
A simple, abstract board game.
An adventure game set on a skyship.
Horror role-playing resource.
A role-playing game without any elves.
Play Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber in this Lady Blackbird hack.
A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
OGL
A game which allows you to describe almost anything based on its 'levels'.
An old school tabletop RPG with each concept explained on one page.
OGL
A role-playing game designed for one of the most popular fantasy trilogies of all time.
OGL
An experimental RPG based on the John Gay play of the same name.
A take on 0E D&D that avoids using d20s altogether.
OGL
A Plantagenet family drama LARP for 7-9 players
A story of those with inhuman power and very human relationships.
Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
Old warriors gather round a campfire to tell stories of their exploits and prepare for the final battle of their careers.
This is a game about a little girl. The only little girl in the whole wide world. The only person there is, really.
Systems for solitaire roleplaying games.
The rise of Solidarity in Poland.
A game about that troublesome Rose!
'Players on the Uncanny Highway experience life as the truckers, bikers, runaways, journalists, musicians, hippies, fugitives, and assorted lost souls stranded together on a road where every American legend appears to be true.'
ORC
People from the real world are catapulted into a land of fairy tales.
An adventure for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
A world of nautical fantasy adventure.
Three alternative settings for REIGN.
Sick people become superheroes.
A rules-light RPG for the noir genre.
Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players.
Play mice champions for whom it's not how you fight but what you fight for.
A retroclone of 0D&D.
OGL
Torus One RPG is a science fiction role-playing game, where all the action happens in a crowded ring-shaped space station with a circumference of 1609 meters.
Ready an army from your old toys!
A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
OGL
A modular, symbols-based RPG.
The basic rules of FATE on three pages.
OGL
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Dungeons & Dragons 4E rules in a modern setting.
OGL
Tables of treasures for dungeon-crawling fantasy.
CC BY-SA
Creator of miniatures and roleplaying games.
Rebuild the fallen Human Empire.
In this game, vampires are constantly engaged in a violent physical struggle for power, respect and security.
Sci-fi based tabletop board game.
A game of spacial relationships.
Quick and easy (though probably not well-balanced) rules for playing miniatures games with any figurines you have lying about.
A steampunk RPG set on a Goblin airship.
A parody which brings the gratuitous violence of the dungeon into the modern age.
A swashbuckling space adventure for Basic Fantasy RPG.
OGL
A supplement for vs Monsters.
OGL
A 24HRPG by Phil Reed.
OGL
An OGL version of the RPG Over the Edge.
OGL
War Galley is a game of naval warfare, which can be built and played using only matches.
Contest and intrigue at the Warlord's court.
Points-buy medieval fantasy role-playing.
OGL
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A game for teaching languages in a fun and accessible way
An RPG of high adventure in the 1920s.
A setting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
OCL
Ryan St's rewriting of original D&D in the style of Apocalypse World.
OGL
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A boardgame.
A detailed pulp-and-planet game.
a science fiction tabletop RPG using the SFX! system
Why mess around with clerics and balors when you can have zombies?
a fantasy roleplaying game using the SFX! system
"d0x3d! is a cooperative game, for 2-4 players. Players assume the role of hackers, infiltrating a network."
A tabletop roleplaying game engine.
Modern role-playing, from occult investigation to special ops and anything in between.
OGL
The game engine behind Dungeons & Dragons third edition.
OGL
Zany space adventures powered by the Token Effort system.