"Steambots and Megaswords". A fast-paced, spontaneous roleplaying game inspired by the Final Fantasy series of video games as well as "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and other animated shows and movies. The game combines narrative freedom in character scenes and combat maneuvers with elemental powers, Soulbound Weapons, and the summoning of Eidolons to allow you to create your own stories and action scenes. Winner of the 2011 Indie RPG Award for Best Free Game.
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Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A complete, stand-alone RPG adventure with pre-generated characters set in a high-action cyberpunk future.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A comprehensive zombie creation system to surprise and alarm players. A list of equipment crucial to surviving a world of shambling horrors. Detailed character creation rule for Norms, Survivors and the Inspired. A full exposition of the Unisystem rule mechanics, suitable for any game in any time period. AFMBE is well suited to one-offs and short campaigns. The rules provide eleven different settings, all of them teeming with zombies. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
4 - Moderately Crunchy |
A diceless storytelling system that uses playing cards and an open-ended stat system, "Argument" is designed to support any genre, from modern-day to cybertech or fantasy worlds. It uses a descriptive scale for all attributes, skills, and tasks, encouraging verbal description of ideas and actions, thus feeding into emerging storylines.
Note: This is the second release draft of the first public playtest version of the Argument system.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A fan-made creation based on the TV series, using D&D 4E mechanics. The game includes 18 playable species, 6 character classes, 50+ monsters directly from the show, and a full 17 page adventure.
NOTE from the author - Though I’m not releasing a new version just for this, people reading this original post should note that hit points should be initially calculated using your constitution SCORE, not your constitution MODIFIER.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
4 - Moderately Crunchy |
A game about doubt.
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Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
3-5 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A GM-less game for 2-4+ players about rising up against an overwhelming power that is trying to crush you. All you have is what you carry with you, and those who rise up by your side. Together, you can turn the tide. Together, you can dethrone a god. This game was written for the "Attack and Dethrone God Jam." It is played with a deck of playing cards and some six-sided dice.
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Collaborative Story, Powered by the Apocalypse |
Yes |
No |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A GUMSHOE-based investigative roleplaying game of private detectives, cops, supernatural investigators and academics exploring unsolved murders and cases of mysterious phenomena.
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Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A hack of the Apocalypse World engine permitting play in George R.R. Martin's intrigue-filled world of Westeros.
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Roleplaying Game, Powered by the Apocalypse |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A history-telling game in which players collaboratively create events on a hand-drawn map over a thousand year period.
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Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
5+ |
1 - Super Easy |