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An imagining of what AD&D 1st edition might have looked like if Gary Gygax had remained to design a new edition. Starts with the 1E rules and then applies the changes Gygax had been discussing in Dragon magazine and elsewhere, including Mountebanks, Savants, etc.
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Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
5 - Highly Crunchy |
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Enter a world in which the great apes dominate the evolutionary ladder. Players are returning astronauts who land on what they initially think must be an alien planet.
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Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
4 - Moderately Crunchy |
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You and your companions have traveled across long distances and faced many trials to come to this point, in the hope that you will be heard by the one person who can grant you what you need. Now you stand at the gate to the Monarch’s throne room, seeking entrance and an audience. All that stands in your way is the Gate Guard, who extends their hand and demands that you leave your weapons at the door. |
Collaborative Story |
No |
Yes |
2-6 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
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Who are you in this story? If you're the Girl... God chose you to save the world. Congrats. Here's the thing: Nobody gave you any superpowers. You get no Slayer strength, no kung-fu grip, no costume. You're just you. |
Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
No |
3 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
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When a god of speaks to you, it is not something you can ignore. Whether you are a queen, a beggar, a merchant or a bandit, when a god chooses you to be their champion your old life ends. Your new life comes with divine powers but these are not gifts. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
3+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
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Archipelago is a story/role-playing game where each player controls a major character. Player take turns directing and playing out a part of their character's story, leading them towards their selected point of destiny, while other players interact with and influence that story. |
Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
3+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
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You are members of a not-so-secret society of occultists known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. As it turns out, there’s lots of metaphysical issues in turn-of-the-century Great Britain, and as the foremost scholars and practitioners of theurgy and magicks, it falls to you to preserve the integrity of this mortal coil—and hopefully get some fame and money in the process. |
Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
Yes |
3-5 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
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ALAS VEGAS is a dark journey through a bizarre and terrifying casino city where sinister forces war for control and lives are worth no more than a handful of gambling chips. Caught in a struggle between rival factions, the players must find allies, the truth, and a way to escape. Memories are recovered, secrets are revealed, old debts are settled, and nothing is what it seems. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
No |
4-6 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
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Two good friends. They're "just" friends, you know. But there's of course a misunderstanding with the family of one of them… And now, things are about to get socially 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.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
Yes |
5 |
1 - Super Easy |
