A roleplaying game set in an Iron Age fantasy world beset by wizardly despots, in which the players portray the Knights of the Circle. Features a brutal, jarring, fine-grained and vicious combat system. Free in PDF form.
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Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
5 |
5 - Highly Crunchy |
Crisis is a story game of escalating stakes racing against disaster to tell a story. Players define the margins and color in the major points at the beginning of the session, and explore those plots, people, and places in detail during the scenes themselves. Each scene features a player character designated the Protagonist whose story is told for that scene. Another player is their Foil, putting obstacles in their way to test them and show all of us what they are capable of. |
Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
4-6 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A short freestyle game in which two participants play human commuters on a bus or train, while two others play their dreams.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
No |
4 |
1 - Super Easy |
In this dark fantasy, sword&sorcery setting you are a member of the Brotherhood of the Iron Fist, a company of mercenaries who work in the shadows in the City of Judas.
The setting focuses around an imaginary Jerusalem, heart of flaming religious crusades between the church of Christ and the cult of Judas, with the new sept of the Book of Q getting stronger each day. Which side will you choose to fight for?
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Roleplaying Game, Powered by the Apocalypse |
No |
Yes |
3-6 |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
An Action Hero RPG with rules in the format of a Hollywood Screenplay. Vie for top billing in your own action movie!
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
3+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A GMless game about a family going camping, facing unpleasant experiences while in the great outdoors, and then looking back on those difficulties fondly. Beta V2. PWYW.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2-5 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
An apocalypse that never arrived. An ancient secret society in turmoil. Your loyalties are divided. Your beliefs are in doubt. Do you stand with a shattered sect, or let it fall into chaos? |
Collaborative Story |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
CORE is a hybrid RPG SRD: it uses trad concepts & narrativist techniques to produce character-driven emergent story. The design focus on simplicity, speed, and improvisation. Everything is on the same scale. All actions use a single Yes/No/And/But mechanic. Results are narratively interpreted. And it was built to be hacked. |
Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A near-future action-adventure RPG. Fast-playing and often funny, it offers a lighter take on the cyberpunk genre, both in terms of system and tone. Cyberblues City uses a much modified version of the Fudge roleplaying system designed to make it easy on GMs. And best of all, it is absolutely free. |
Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
CYBER//PUNK is a hack of John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings, inspired by works like Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, and Shadowrun. Play a grizzled ex-police hacker, an unhinged sexbot turned living weapon, or any number of other characters. Infiltrate megacorps, outwit the yakuza, and steal top-secret AIs. All the rules fit on one page, and the game is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. |
Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |