Nightmare Theater is a rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game built around one-night horror experiences. These are represented in Scenarios, single page rulesets that allow players to pick them up, make a character, and quickly get to play. This collection has the Nightmare Theater core rulebook with five Scenarios (Culture, Homestead, Motel, Terminal, and THEY) mostly focused around more contemporary horror. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
Mutagen Trail and Picaresque are radical hacks of Goblinville. This text contains the full rules of play for both games.
Mutagen Trail is a roleplaying game for 3-5 players, including a GM, about a caravan of mutants traveling across a tractless wasteland. The mutants have to make decisions to survive day to day in a strange and hostile world. If they live long enough, maybe they’ll find some hope for the future. |
Roleplaying Game |
No |
Yes |
3-5 |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
Muse is a storytelling game where players collaborate and compete with each other to tell an enjoyable story. Before starting, players will brainstorm a Story Sheet upon which the story will be based. Players will generate Questions that will be answered as the story unfolds. Next, players will take turns narrating the story, with play passing from one player to the next in clockwise order. |
Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2-6 |
2 - Focus/Imagination |
Modern myth comes to London in this dynamic take on contemporary supernatural drama. Become a participant in a supernatural war that rages in secret throughout the city. Battle forces both magical and spiritual as you and those like you uphold the peace and hold back the night. |
Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
4 - Moderately Crunchy |
Mission Impossible heists and Tom Clancy technothriller meets Bourne-style kinetic fight sequences in this all-new action RPG, designed to tell cinematic action movies at the table. Check out the Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samjokopublishing/operators-rpg
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
Mind-controlling parasites are travelling back in time through memories to destroy all humans at the source. There is one in your brain and you must not let anyone know or super soldiers from the future will murder you. This is a game for two people. One of you will play the infected human, and one of you will play the forces around that human. We'll refer to these two players as the Human and the Worm.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2 |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
Members of the superhero/sentai group, Chroma Team, battle it out with giant kaiju monsters created by the evil Terrorlights.
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Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2-9 |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
MBAW is a very simple post-apocalyptic game based on the FUDGE rules, stripped down to just a handful of skills and whole lot of attitude. The skills all have silly names like “Take it Like a Man†or “Figure Stuff Outâ€. MBAW is by design a beer and pretzel game. Create some wacky characters and watch them go in a spectacular in a ball of flames. That’s pretty much it.
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Roleplaying Game |
Yes |
Yes |
2+ |
3 - Mildly Crunchy |
Lovecraftesque is a GMless storytelling game of creeping cosmic horror. Work with your friends to create a slow-building mystery culminating in a scene of eldritch terror.
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Roleplaying Game, Collaborative Story |
Yes |
No |
2-5 |
1 - Super Easy |
Life on Mars is a tabletop story game where we explore what life might be like aboard the first manned mission to Mars.
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Collaborative Story |
No |
No |
2+ |
2 - Focus/Imagination |