Prep Fast. Play Fast. D6Pool is a modern roleplaying system designed for fast preparation and fast play. It is free to download and anyone is welcome to post new ideas for the rules, new skill sets, and new NPCs, adventures or campaigns.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
The game of 70s environmental disaster movies. Mother Earth is crying, and she will have her revenge. The game is divided into two parts - before the disaster and during the disaster - and can be played by 2-6 light-hearted, melodramatic friends. Four is probably best. There is no GM. |
Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2+ |
1 - Super Easy |
A retro sci-fi action/adventure roleplaying game game. The idea is to create the episodes of a 50s-style TV show in the vein of the old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials (with maybe a dash of the Venture Bros., Star Wars, and Indiana Jones).
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
4 - Moderately Crunchy |
A game in which the players portray gods and collaboratively create a fantasy world from scratch: giving you all the tools and advice by which a few ordinary people can set themselves up with ultimate power for an evening, and leave you with a complete, detailed fantasy world. It will, if you make use of it, give you a world with complete landscapes, history, cultures, and characters. And it will be fun, too.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
No |
2+ |
1 - Super Easy |
A Surreal Science Fiction Reality-Hopping RPG in which Players portray the crew of a "SlipShip," traveling to other dimensions and mind-twisting alternate realities.
DayTrippers is a genre sim that blends traditional and modern/narrativist techniques: a new approach to a surrealistic sci-fi multiversal milieu, in which an assortment of colorful character classes pilot unique machines into dream worlds and divergent universes, to retrieve items of value and bring them back home. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A storygame in which players portray multiple characters, examining the life of a protagonist to discover what turned them into a criminal, bound for the electric chair.
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Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
3+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
Every day or so, the Grim Reaper sends the Boxmullers a postcard. Each postcard would be emblazoned with a cryptic clue as to who was about to die. Death Takes a Holiday is a collaborative story-telling entertainment, intended to be played by a small coterie of friends and acquaintances, perhaps two to five in number. |
Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2-5 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A round-robin roleplaying game of Fantasy Thieves in a Fantasy City, with magic and whatnot and a sort-of Victorian underworld vibe. You can play with or without a GM.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
No |
3+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
A Game of Unwitting Spies Tempted by Easy Money. Deniable is a storygame that takes inspiration from those wickedly satirical British spy dramas, such as Spy, Spooks... or those gritty police series such as Luther and Murphie's law. This is an RPG unlike any you've played before: be prepared to laugh, cry and cause mayhem to your hapless heroes.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
A roleplaying game of mangy street punks who discover the secrets of magic and immortality. You've got some survival skills, and they'll help you escape the city, hopefully. You've got some magic, too. It'll help you out of a bind, but it'll also make The Man furious. But before you can leave this city that's trying to kill you, you've got some Unfinished Business to attend to.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
Yes |
2-4 |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |