Tabletop Gaming
Details
Subcategories Boardgame, Card Game, LARP, Miniatures Game, Parlour Game, Tabletop Game System, Tabletop Roleplaying
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
4C System
A supers retroclone.
5E SRD
Ars Magica 5th Edition
'Play magi and their loyal companions and grogs in the fantastical world of medieval Mythic Europe.'
Dungeon World
Fate Accelerated Edition
Fellowship
Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine.
Piecepack
A set of pieces you can use to play many games.
Sahipkıran
'Sahipkıran is a fast and easy-to-learn, mini-agnostic tabletop wargame which you can use your miniature figures to fight battles with.'
100 / 3 RPG
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).
200 Word RPG Challenge
Create a role-playing game in 200 words or less.
24XX SRD
'24XX is the free version of the rules used by the 2400 series of RPGs.'
3D Printed Piecepack
A piecepack set that can be printed.
6d6 RPG
A universal RPG.
A Shadow among Shadows
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.
A Spark in Fate Core
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 World of Fire and Sand
A freeform game inspired by Dark Sun.
Abulafia
A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
AdventureLand
AdventureLand is a small, 4 pages RPG [written] in a hurry (about 6 hours) for advanced role-players.
Alchemy System
Alpha Word Game System
A comprehensive word game system.
Anima Prime
A fast-paced RPG inspired by manga and anime.
Arcmage
Arkfall
A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
Army Brats
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."
As The Tea Leaves Grow
Small Toad – youngest student of Master Iron Willow – gave the rarest tea flower in Master Iron Willow's considerable collection to a passing beauty.
Aumyr
A fantasy setting for tabletop role-playing games.
Avada Classic
Awen
A fantasy RPG.
Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut
—
Babes in the Wood
'Encounter the peculiar folks who reside within and help solve their problems while confronting your own relationships & fears.'
Bad Habits
A Fiasco playset about backstabbing nuns.
Bahama Taxi
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.
Bank Robbery LARP
—
Basic Fantasy RPG
Battle aXe
'Battle aXe is a fantasy mass combat supplement for old school tabletop role-playing games, and their clones.'
Beast Hunters
Tattooed hunters of beasts use their fiendish blood for sorcery.
Bedroom Wall Press
Bill Browne
Black Flag Roleplaying
Blades in the Dark RPG
Tabletop RPG of heists.
Blood, Guts & Glory
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.
Bloody Forks
A LARP about the French and American battles before the War of Independence. 11 players.
Brigandine
Bulletproof Blues
CAPERS Core Design Guide
'This PDF breaks down the CAPERS Core game system.'
CIA: Collect It All
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.
Cairn
A rules-light fantasy adventure RPG with quick character generation and deadly combat.
Cap & Trade
A game to teach people about carbon pricing.
Card Armies: Battle For Wesnoth
Cardenio's Daughter
Cardenio has a problem. He seems to be slipping between realities.
Cazadores
'Cazadores is a cooperative miniatures game about tracking and hunting monsters, beasts, and other things that go bump in the night.'
Circe
Cities Without Number
'This document contains the current systems reference document for the Cities Without Number cyberpunk RPG.'
City of Brass
—
Class Warfare
Mix and match your own Dungeon World classes.
Codename: Spandex
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.
Conquering Corsairs
A deck-building card game.
Crash / Lanterns Of The Dead
Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture.
Critical! Go Westerly
A light and light-hearted RPG.
D6Pool
A tabletop RPG set in modern times.
Daniel Solis' game icons
Game icons designed by Daniel Solis.
Daring Adventures
Daring Adventures offers quick, no-prep superhero roleplaying, roughly in the style of golden age comics.
Death Of The Japanese Emperor
An experiential larp for 4-8 players
Death Takes a Holiday
When Death takes a holiday, a hapless family of ghosts must shepherd the dearly departed.
Deathtrap Dungeon
A Parsley adventure.
Department Nine
Oracular spies fighting the future and Greek myths.
Destiny Dice
Play Fate Accelerated Edition with dice inspired by Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Donjon
A fantasy dungeoncrawl game with significant player narrative control.
Doodles & Dragons
—
Dragon 2000
A shady Chinese restaurant is the setting for a Fiasco playset.
DramaSystem SRD
Drupal: The Card Game
In this quick card game 2-4 players compete to earn the most reputation by developing new Drupal modules and building complex websites!
Dulse
A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
Dungeon Squad 2
A fantasy RPG designed for quick play and no fuss.
Edition Thirteen
A new take on the 4C System
Elevation Of Privilege
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
''Evil Wizards in a Cave is a short adventure module compatible with both the Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord fantasy role-playing games.''
Exploding Kingdoms
Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
Extra Ordinary
'Extra Ordinary is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world.'
F#
The bare bones of FATE.
FUBAR
—
Fantastic Classes Codex
Classes for Dungeon World.
Fantasy Express
'Fantasy Express is a new game, based on Against the Darkmaster and the Grievious Grimoire.'
Fast
A light and simple skill-based RPG.
Fate Core System
Fate System Toolkit
Final Bid
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
Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.
Fire & Sword
Five by Five
An original game system and toolkit.
Floor Games
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
Flower Rainbow
For Gold & Glory
For the Queen
'For the Queen is a game about love, duty, and devotion.'
Fortune Cookies And Nuclear War
A game written in a paragraph.
Fortune System Reference Document
The Fortune System Resource Document includes the basic rules of the Fortune System. It also includes advice from existing Fortune System designers.
Four Colors Al Fresco
Free Culcha Piecepack
This book is a collection of games that you can play with the piecepack.
Free for All
Free Culture, Games and Design
Fringe
Full Command
"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."
Ganakagok Cards
Cards for the game Ganakagok.
Geasa
A story telling game about fickle fairies.
Genesys System
A generic rules-light RPG.
Ghosts
Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
Glide
'GLIDE is a solo (and cooperative) sci-fi tabletop RPG adventure game inspired by the world of Frank Herbert's Dune.'
Go Fast Turn Left
You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
Gods & Monsters
Grim Portents
A Dungeon World/Powered by the Apocalypse fan e-zine.
Grimwild: Cinematic Fantasy Roleplaying
'Grimwild is a streamlined, character-driven, cinematic fantasy RPG.'
Group Works
A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings
Gumshoe SRD
Gunwave
A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
Hexpack
An expansion to the Piecepack.
Hierarchy of Interface
How people interact with tabletop games.
Hoard
Play a growing dragon.
House of Masks
—
Hyper
Icosahedral
A role-playing game.
Interactivities Ink
A creator of games you can print and play.
Invulnerable Tabletop Super Hero Roleplaying Game
'The Invulnerable RPG Year One Edition allows you to create your own hero, and experience worlds of adventure!'
Iron Edda
Fate-based roleplaying in a world of mecha and Norse legend.
It Came from the Wide Blue Yonder
Cthulhu medieval supers.
JAGS
Jazz (game)
A flexible and easy-to-use game system drawn from many sources.
Joe Banner
Writes adventures for Dungeon World.
Johnstone Metzger
A game designer.
Junk Land
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.
Keeping on the Borderlands
A Fiasco playset parodying Dungeons & Dragons.
Khas Fara
An evil witch has taken over a small town.
Knave
KNAVE is a rules toolkit by the creator of Maze Rats and The Alchemist's Repose for running old school fantasy RPGs without classes.
Lasers & Feelings
You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor.
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Libre Card Game
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/
Light Fantasy
Liminal Horror
'a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.'
Little Wars
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
Locus
'Locus is a bespoke, mystery/horror roleplay game with unique mechanics crafted entirely around horror.'
Longshot
A science fiction Western.
MULRAH
Malmsturm
Man & Ubermensch
A fascist super replaces the US president during WWII.
Mark Causey's Patreon games
Defunct.
Masters of the Heist
—
Microcosm
A game from Amagi Games.
Midgard
Midian
An intricate and lengthy RPG of dark fantasy.
Mini Six
Mist-Robed Gate
A roleplaying game of emotionally tempestuous arthaus wuxia.
Moxie
'Moxie is a tabletop RPG designed for players who crave storytelling packed with drama, suspense, and breathtaking action.'
Murderhobos
MurderHobos gets to the meat of dungeon crawling: killing things and taking their stuff.
Myriad
A rules-light modular generic RPG.
Mythic Mortals
"In Mythic Mortals you play as yourself, suddenly granted the unstable powers of Ancient Heroes!"
Nameless Horror
A horror RPG.
No Country for Old Kobolds
A roleplaying game based on Dungeon World.
Not-Too-Silly Stories
A rules-light, GMless game designed for children.
Novus
'Taking Novus to the next level, Novus 2e is a skill based system with no levels or classes.'
Number Appearing
A Dungeon World supplement.
ORC
A role-playing game that promises to model physics and biology.
Old Messila
Billy the Kid is on a train to Old Messila, doomed to hanging in this Hackbird.
One Page Dungeon Contest
One-page dungeons, part of an annual contest.
One Shot
''A Roleplaying Game of Sacrifice and Vengeance''
One-Page Dungeon Contest 2012
Over a hundred one-page dungeons.
Open Adventure
''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 Core Rules
'Open Adventure: Fantasy is a fast-paced, cinematic roleplaying system you can download for free today!'
Orcus
Osprey
Ostermark
A surreal game of the law set in the Old World.
PCGen
Panic at the Dojo
"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
'Pantheon is a storytelling game about a hero’s journey and the trials devised by the gods.'
Paragon System Reference Document
The rules from the AGON roleplaying game.
Pelgrane Press
Phantom 52
''A supernatural storytelling RPG''
Pollies
A generic dice-based RPG.
Powers For Good
''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.''
Project Utopia
'A strategy card game set in the fictional world of Project Utopia.'
Providence Junction
A Western LARP of small town secrets.
Purplest Prose
—
Push
A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
Quest-ions
Quest-ions is a fantasy roleplaying game with a novel mechanic using tokens.
Quick Play
A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
Rafu
Rafu, or Raffaele Manzo, is a game designer.
Rafu's Awkward
Awkward is a family-comedy role-playing game for 5 players which purports to be the "New Wave of Italian Freeform". Whatever that means.
Realms Of Wonder
Rules-lite, classless, nostalgic RPG.
Redbox Hack
A clever reinterpretation of fantasy gaming.
Resistance Toolbox
The rules from the RPGs 'Spire' and 'Heart'.
Return To Maniac Mansion
A game for Jonathan Walton's Stage One.
Revolucion
Chart the course of any revolution, real or imagined, in any time or place.
Rin
An abstract strategy game
Rookvale
''Rookvale is a [tabletop] game of cinematic tactical combat [with demons]''
Runebearer
A fantasy game which draws on several different RPG systems.
Sacred Steel
Sanglorian's Dungeon World Stuff
Game material for Dungeon World.
School Daze
An RPG about high school.
Science Comics
A comedic superheroes playset for Fiasco.
Science Fiction Mystery
An 11-player science fiction LARP.
Scrabblenauts
A game where spelling words with Scrabble tiles affects what happens in the story.
Second String Superheroes
A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
Shackled Self
A game of princes who pursue asceticism to save the world.
Shakespeare 2985
A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
Shrouded Lands
A community-made hexcrawl setting for D&D.
Skeksis cards for Ganakagok
Skeksis from the Dark Crystal on cards.
Slacking through the Sandbox
How to put together a slacker's sandbox.
So Now You're a Time Traveler
A *simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.*
Solar Sign
'This tactical tabletop wargame lets you command elite squads in gritty skirmishes, combining strategy, story, and supernatural power. '
Songs and Sagas
Sovereign
A Risk-like boardgame.
Stamtar
This work is a very simple method for the task resolution during RPG sessions.
Stardrifter
A science-fiction audiobook series
Starguide
—
Sufficiently Advanced Technologies
A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
Super Hero Fun
A tabletop RPG.
Super Repo
—
Synergy
An open-source, rules-light, role playing game that does not rely on a “game master” or similar role to manage the game.
Take on Establishments
'[A] collection of physical establishments and locations, brief descriptions (sights, sounds, smells), an NPC, and corresponding moves for Dungeon World.'
Take on Magic Items
'"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
'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
Telecanter
A tabletop RPG website.
Terror of the Serpent Men
Dan Dynamo - renowned pulp hero - is playing host to the gorgeous Princess Aphasia of the Venusians.
The Carnival Of Dreams
A Swords Without Master adventure.
The Devil, John Moulton
''The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.''
The Dreaming Crucible
A story about troubled adolescents travelling to Faerie.
The Dryden Experiment
An unbounded Science Fiction Universe available under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA for development by authors, artists, game designers, and other creatives.
The Far Towers
Play travelling enforcers and heroes putting wrongs to right.
The Fate Codex
"The Fate Codex is a mostly-monthly e-zine featuring Quick Start Adventures and more for the Fate roleplaying system."
The Fifth World
Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
The GAME System
The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
The Green
The Hack
A 'class-and-level-based roguelike dungeon crawler game, reasonably compatible with other leading brands'
The Lands Of The Dead
''This [Dungeon World] supplement is a resource to help you and your players create interesting, exciting, mysterious and dangerous lives after death.''
The Later Blue Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed
A Sorcerer supplement.
The Logic of Tales and Dreams
—
The Long Way Home
RPG supplement for DSD6.
The Ouroboros Cycle
Books about roleplaying, ranging from general advice to specific settings.
The Penthouse
A Fiasco playset.
The Plant
A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
The Resistance Toolbox
Make your own games of desperate struggle using the Resistance System, the core rules that power the Spire RPG.
The Shadow of Yesterday
The Shrouded Lands
A fantasy setting.
The Simple Game System
A simple and generic rules-system based on d6s.
The Whispering Road
"The Whispering Road is a storytelling game of cooperation and exploration, inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli."
Theonosis
Tiny Tactics
Tiny d10
'the complete Tiny d10 tabletop role-playing game system, styled in the fantasy tradition'
To the Barricades
A boardgame about a faceoff between radicals and the police.
Toast
A rules-light universal RPG.
Tracy Barnett
Inclusive and original tabletop gaming content.
Trophy System Reference Document
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.
Twenty One Turn Hero
A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
Twisted Space
An encounter for the RPG Dungeons & Dragons 4E.
Uncharted Worlds
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
'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.'
Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley
There is a whole lot happening in Verdigris Valley, the borderlands between the Kingdom of Kotalia and the high steppes of the Pashuan tribes.
Vicious Crucible of Villa Argentate
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.
Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower
—
WTactics
Warrior & Wizard
Warrior, Rogue & Mage
A rules lite dungeoncrawl.
Weapons & Gear
A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
Weasels
A simple system of intelligent weasels living in The Forest that must deal with a threat. Easy for kids.
Weird World
'Weird World is a game about playing characters with unnatural powers in a dangerous, exciting world.'
What's Old Is New
Wide Stance
A game about repressed homosexuality, written in five minutes.
Witless Minion
The role-playing game of mooks, minions, and dupes.
Wizard-Spawned Insanities
The Monthly Monsters project is back with another monster manual for Dungeon World!
Wordplay Basics
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
Wordplay Core Rules
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
Worlds Without Number
'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.'
Worlds in Peril
Superhero roleplaying Powered by the Apocalypse.
Wretched & Alone SRD
Wretched & Alone games are solo journaling games about struggling in the face of insurmountable odds to survive, or to achieve something important.
Xceptional
A supers RPG.
Yags
You All Meet In A Tavern
—
saga (WTactics game)
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
"and Bake for 15 Minutes" Fudge
a simple character creation and brief game play paradigm for Grey Ghost Press's Fudge RPG
13th Age
3 Unnatural Encounters
Contemporary, surreal horror where the highest goal is surviving more or less intact.
4CC
A superhero RPG.
4SRD
A Wanderer's Romance
A game of earth, air, fire, water and balance.
A+ Fantasy
A fantasy RPG.
Action System
Ad Astra
A science fiction campaign setting.
Advanced Dungeon Squad
Liam Brennan takes a shot at improving Dungeon Squad.
Adventure Squad Abilities
A supplement for Dungeon Squad from Domino Writing.
Adventure Squad Core
A Dungeon Squad hack for adventure games of any time period.
Adventurer Conqueror King System
Adventures in the 41st Millennium
A modification of Dungeon Squad for the Warhammer 40K universe.
Adventures of the Space Patrol
Aetherverse
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.
Alien Survivor
Fight off the alien menace in this Lady Blackbird hack.
All The King’s Men
Back from the Crusades, you must kill the bandit lord Robin Hood.
Altars & Archetypes
A dungeoncrawling fantasy role-playing game.
Alternate Dungeon Squad
A different take on Dungeon Squad by Liam Brennan.
Always/Never/Now
A Lady Blackbird-esque RPG.
Anchorhold
A complete RPG setting.
Animalball Melee
Animalball Partners
Apocalypse World
An all-rights-reserved tabletop roleplaying game that has inspired many other games.
Ardwin
A REIGN setting that explores race, genetics and cultural identity. (REIGN Supplement #14)
Argh! The Supernatural RPG
modern-day supernatural thriller RPG
Astral Dreams
Backswords & Bucklers
Bad Attitudes
An action movie RPG.
Bad Habit
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.
Badass
An RPG of high octane action.
Badgerbrough Inquisitive
Information about a fantasy world, in the form of a newspaper.
Bajjutsu Master
—
Basic Dungeons & Dragons
An all rights reserved game, but that has been cloned by free and open games.
Basic Roleplaying
Beyond Belief Games
Bhaloidam
Tell Stories & Play Games with your Tribe
Blazing World
The first planar document.
Bloc by Bloc
A fun and educational tabletop game inspired by contemporary urban insurrection.
Blogs Against Humanity
A short, GMless tabletop game.
Bloody Forks of the Ohio
A Lady Blackbird hack where George Washington faces off against the French.
Blue Rose
Boarsdraft
Wizards at a wizarding school, trying to pass their classes while fighting evil.
BrickQuest
—
Brytenwalda
A Britain-themed miniatures game.
Bugs Of Venus
Earth has been under siege for 200 years.
Cards Against Humanity
A free do-it-yourself party game where you match cards in humorous ways
Cascade Failure
Castle Blackbird
A Gothic horror role-playing game.
Catalyst Games
Tabletop game designers.
Cheapass Games
—
Chronicles
A fantasy game.
City of Rain, City of Darkness
A setting without a game.
Classroom Activity Guide for Happy Birthday, Robot!
A guide for teachers running the closed game Happy Birthday, Robot!
Companies & Carpools
Try not to go murderously insane!
Confrontation Chess
Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
Console
An RPG for emulating console video games.
Contagion
Crawling For Cash
Bleak, nihilistic dungeon-crawling.
Critical Hits
The journal of gamer culture.
Crystal Obelisk
CthulhuTech: the Shadow War
Cyberpunk Remix
D100II Srd
D20 Anime
D20 Open Mass Combat System
Dan D20
Danger Mountain
Play in a 1970s environmental movie.
Danger Patrol
A role-playing game set in the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s.
Dangers & Dweomers
Daniel Solis' Blog
An artist and game designer.
Dark Dungeons
Dark Passages
Darkening Skies
An unofficial sequel to Lady Blackbird.
Darker Dungeons
Death School
America's enemies attack a school for elite agents.
Decktet
—
Destiny Of The Metal Gods
Pseudo-viking medieval Ragnarok mecha.
Diaspora
Diggy Diggy Dice
—
Djinnbusters
Hunt ghosts in a land of sultans and deserts.
Domino Writing
I have been a tabletop gamer for about 25 years, mostly with pen-and-paper role playing games.
Draft
Dread
A diceless horror game that uses a Jenga tower.
Dread House
Spend the night in a haunted house.
Dresden Files RPG
Drowning & Falling
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Adventure and Death from Drowning and Falling
Dungeon Crawl Risus
Dungeoncrawling in Risus.
Dungeon Squad
A simple dungeon-crawl game.
Dungeon Squad (Jim Adams version)
A hack of Dungeon Squad by Jim Adams.
Dungeon Squad Companion
New options for Dungeon Squad.
Dungeon World Index
—
Dungeons & Dragons 3E
Dungeons & Dragons 4E
Not free and open itself, but cloned by free and open projects.
Dungeons Daring
Dungeonslayers 3X
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (editions 3 and 3.5).
Dungeonslayers 4
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (4th edition).
E6
Eclipse Phase
Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future.
El Rey Muerto
A Spanish RPG.
Engine Heart
An RPG in a post-human world.
Enter The Avenger
Epees & Sorcellerie
Epitome
Errant RPG
Executive Decision
Compete for the trust of the President of the United States.
Explosions & Escapes
A simple, clean RPG for emulating action movies.
Fantastic Heroes & Witchery
Fantastic Stories
Fantasy Craft
Fate
The engine of several popular tabletop roleplaying games.
Fate 2E
Fate Game
'The game is set in a floating island and there the inhabitants have their own struggles with life. '
Feedback Loops in Game Design
Fight!
A fast-paced 2 player card game of risk and luck. Punch, kick, parry and dodge your way to victory!
First Year of Our REIGN
Supplements 1 to 6 for REIGN.
For Truth's Sake
Forty Thieves
A minimalist beer-and-pretzels game about life as an Arabian thief.
Free Wars
Frost Devils
An Alaskan take on Dust Devils.
Fudge
Generic Fantasy Quest Game
A generic fantasy RPG with familiar races and classes.
Genesis Of Legend
An RPG publisher.
Ghost Lines
'[A] 3-page micro-hack based on Apocalypse World, Dishonored, and Ghostbusters.'
Ghost Runner
Ghostlight
Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
Glain
Gore
Grand OGL Wiki
Gremlin Legions
A game designer.
Grey Lotus
Gundam Blackbird
A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
Hand Covers Bruise
A game of strategy and guess work played only with hands.
Hearts Blazing
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.
Hereticwerks
A blog of roleplaying content.
Heroes Against Darkness
(A) modern d20 RPG system that combines speed and simplicity with balance and depth.
HiLo Heroes
A superhero RPG.
His Due
Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
Hopefinder
Hot Lamp
Two detectives interrogate two suspects.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Shelter
—
Hunters & Haunts
A board game played on two different boards.
Icar
A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
Iliamna Unknown
Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
Into the Odd
Adventures in the odd world.
Inuma
A system for shared, improvised storytelling.
Iridium System
Island Of Eo
Jacob Randolph
Game designer.
Jumpers
'Survival roleplaying in the infinite multiverse'
Justen Brown
Kapow! The Super RPG
superhero table-top game
Kodrek
A three-way game of shifting alliances.
Kormakur
—
Labyrinth Lord
Lady Blackbird
A game, a setting and a starting adventure all in one; a collage of recent innovations in gaming.
Lady Blackbird Companion
A setting and rules companion to Lady Blackbird.
Lairshare
A game about sharing a house with galactic dictators.
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Legendary Lives
A nostalgic fantasy role-playing game.
Leviathans
Leviathans is a steampunk game that simulates combat between warships that have taken to the air in an alternate history 1910.
Lord Scurlock
A sequel to the Lady Blackbird indie darling.
Lore
The Lightweight Universal Roleplaying System.
Lost Souls
Play a lost soul returned from beyond the grave.
Lycadian
Machine of Death (game)
A game of creative assassination.
Magic Sword
Magister Lor
A story game and sequel to indie darling Lady Blackbird.
Magpie Codex
Making The Bigs
A baseball role-playing game remix
Maschine Zeit
The story of the beginning of the Machine Age.
Masks
Mayhem Academy
Enrol at a private school for tomorrow's amoral killing machines.
Mazes & Perils
Meatbot Massacre
A fun and engaging game of gladiatorial battles in the far future, where the dice you gather determines your actions for that round.
Men Of Stones
Merchants' Reach
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes that brings wuxia action into a city environment, with NPCs, factions and rules for firearms.
Metafiction
A short RPG about those who can travel through fiction.
Metropole Luxury Coffin
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.
Microlite20
Microlite20 4E
Play a simpler, lighter D&D 4E
Milky Way Express
"Milky Way Express is a Free Print-and-Play space trading and exploration game."
Minions Inc
Play the minion servant of a supervillain.
Mirima Tyalie
Mobile Frame Zero
'A tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!'
Monikers
"A love letter to one of the greatest folk games of all time."
Monsters Menace Monopoly
Spice up your Monopoly game with Godzilla.
Muse
A collaborative storytelling game.
Mutant Future
Mutant Hunter
Uses a handful of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
Mutants & Masterminds
My Darn Ex-Wife
Play a squid mechanic or a redneck father in this Hackbird.
My Supernatural Romance
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.
Myth & Magic
Mythender
"Mythender is a roleplaying adventure game about stabbing gods in the face and sundering every mythic being until there’s none left."
Nain
A wizarding setting for REIGN. (REIGN Supplement #13)
Necronautica
News Hole
A LARP about the death of journalism.
Night Of The Sevens
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes containing optional rules and a series of linked quests.
Noteworthy
OSRIC
Old School Hack
Trying to capture that sweet spot in a new way.
Omnibus.io
A Dungeon World database.
Once I Was A Warrior
A "meditation on fate, growing older and how people change over time."
One Roll Monsters
Randomly generate monsters for REIGN.
One Roll Spells
Randomly generate spells for REIGN.
One-Page Dungeon Contest 2011
A collection of rules-free dungeons on one page each.
Open4E
OpenD6
OpenQuest
Out Of The Violent Planet
A REIGN supplement, where humans match alien supertechnology with unrelenting violence. (REIGN Supplement #15)
Out for Blood
Unofficial supplement for Feng Shui.
PFSRD
Path 2 Victory
Pathfinder
Pathfinder Second Edition
Pathwarden
Perfect20
Phylo
'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!'
Pirate Game
A roleplaying game set on a water world.
Pirate Squad
A Dungeon Squad hack for piratical adventures.
Pitch Deck
"Pitch Deck is a game about convincing your friends to invest in the most ridiculous startups imaginable."
Plastic Attack
A miniatures game that uses plastic soldiers.
Post Apoc Bird
A Lady Blackbird hack set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future.
Princes of Arabia
—
Project 74
Prometheus SRD
Psychic Warrior
Post apocalyptic Dungeon Squad.
Putting the Band Back Together
Anarchy reigns when an obsessive, talentless band reforms for one last tour, heedless of body count.
Quasar
Generic sci-fi game rules.
QuestWorlds System Reference Document
REIGN Supplement 16
"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."
Rage, Precognition, Grace
OSR Fantasy RPG based on Steve Jackson's "The Fantasy Trip" with updated rules and original races (no elves, dwarves, or halflings).
Rainbow Deck
'The Rainbow Deck is a card game system that has a total of 162 cards.'
Raven Crowking's Fantasy Game
Renaissance
Resolute, Adventurer & Genius
A rules-light pulp game.
Retrocalypse
A Fallout-style RPG based on Old School Hack.
Ring Of Changes
Fight a conspiracy with your cabal of alchemists.
Rivers & Lakes
A slimline historical wuxia game.
Robot Hamlet vs Richard III
Robot Hamlet and his companions have been abandoned on the terrifying Ghost Asteroid by the villainous robot Richard III.
Rosalind Wells Ambassador To Space
A five-year-old girl named Rosalind tries to resolve the problems of her alien visitors.
Runequest
Ruritania 1844
A live-action role-playing game set in an alternate pseudo-history.
SMAF 17
—
Saga
A rules-light narrative game engine.
Saga Machine
Sarrenor
A fantasy campaign setting for Dungeon World.
Second Year of Our REIGN
Supplements 7 to 12 for REIGN.
Secret Hitler
"Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5–10 people about finding and stopping the Secret Hitler."
Secret Santicore 2011
A collection of role-playing material.
Shadow Hack
A mashup of Old School Hack and Shadowrun.
Shadows
Simple 20
Slash
"slash is a card-based party game in which players compete to create the best romantic fan fiction pairing."
Sneaky Cards
*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.*
Somnambulance
Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
Sorcerer's Symposium
—
Spacepirates
Space opera in what appears to be German.
Spellchrome
Spellcraft & Swordplay
Spirit of the Century
Star Blades
Star Empire
Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
Star Quest
Star Wreck RPG
An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
Stargazers World
A role-playing blog.
Steampunkfitters
Story Games Names Project
A big book of names from different cultures.
Storyleaves
A solitaire game that tells a story.
Strolen's Citadel
[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource
Superliga
A d20-based game dedicated to gonzo gaming.
Sweet20
Swords & Wizardry
TRIC SRD
Take Back Toe
A simple, abstract board game.
Tale Of Navri
An adventure game set on a skyship.
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque
Horror role-playing resource.
Talislanta
A role-playing game without any elves.
Tea Party
Play Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber in this Lady Blackbird hack.
Tech Noir
Ten Thousand Worlds
A game which allows you to describe almost anything based on its 'levels'.
The 52 Pages
The Age of Shadow
The Beggar's Opera RPG
An experimental RPG based on the John Gay play of the same name.
The Big Brown Book
The Devil's Brood
A Plantagenet family drama LARP for 7-9 players
The Face of Angels
A story of those with inhuman power and very human relationships.
The Great Tournament
Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
The Last Challenge
Old warriors gather round a campfire to tell stories of their exploits and prepare for the final battle of their careers.
The Modern Path
The Princess Game
This is a game about a little girl. The only little girl in the whole wide world. The only person there is, really.
The Travels of the Lost Pangolin
Systems for solitaire roleplaying games.
The Trial Of Poland
The rise of Solidarity in Poland.
The Trouble With Rose
A game about that troublesome Rose!
The Uncanny Highway
The Undying Lands
People from the real world are catapulted into a land of fairy tales.
The Wizard's Amulet
Thetis
A world of nautical fantasy adventure.
Third Year of Our REIGN
Three alternative settings for REIGN.
Threshold Tragic Superheroes
Sick people become superheroes.
Thrilling Noir Stories
A rules-light RPG for the noir genre.
Time & Temp
Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players.
Tiny Triangles
Play mice champions for whom it's not how you fight but what you fight for.
Torch & Sword
Torus One
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.
Toybox Wars
Ready an army from your old toys!
Traveller
Treasure
A modular, symbols-based RPG.
Tri-Fold Fate
True20
Two-Page Space
—
Ultramodern4
Unlikely Treasures 1
Utku Tönel
Creator of miniatures and roleplaying games.
Valence
Rebuild the fallen Human Empire.
Vampires, a postmodern roleplaying game
In this game, vampires are constantly engaged in a violent physical struggle for power, respect and security.
Vector 3
Sci-fi based tabletop board game.
Venn's Revenge
A game of spacial relationships.
Very Simple Generic Miniatures Rules
Quick and easy (though probably not well-balanced) rules for playing miniatures games with any figurines you have lying about.
Viento Libre
A steampunk RPG set on a Goblin airship.
Violence
A parody which brings the gratuitous violence of the dungeon into the modern age.
Voidspanners
Vs Elves
Vs. Monsters
WaRP
War Galley
War Galley is a game of naval warfare, which can be built and played using only matches.
Warlord's Wager
Contest and intrigue at the Warlord's court.
Wayfarers
What Is a Roleplaying Game
—
Where Are Your Keys
A game for teaching languages in a fun and accessible way
Wings Keeton and The Airship of Doom
An RPG of high adventure in the 1920s.
World Of Nevermore
Wrack & Wruin
Wreckdivers
—
Xodd
A boardgame.
Year Zero Engine
Zamani
A detailed pulp-and-planet game.
Zap! The Science Fiction RPG
a science fiction tabletop RPG using the SFX! system
Zombie Squad
Why mess around with clerics and balors when you can have zombies?
Zounds! The Fantasy RPG
a fantasy roleplaying game using the SFX! system
d0x3d!
"d0x3d! is a cooperative game, for 2-4 players. Players assume the role of hackers, infiltrating a network."
d100 System
A tabletop roleplaying game engine.
d20 Modern
d20 System
…in Spaaace!
Zany space adventures powered by the Token Effort system.