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ASKESIS

a 1d100 character demotivations table

blake stone / fenced forest

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Diversified SRD

A 3d6 TTRPG system that includes templates and logo.

Lucky Newt Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Heroes of Lite

A Streamlined Strategy TRPG

nattwentea

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Epistolary solo RPG system

A solo-rpg system, used in games like the Van Witch, Moon Soup, and the Sun Fleet

sunflower_wizard

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Moons Among Us

A Cosmic Gender Experience

Greys

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Deadly Revelation

A Murder Mystery Tabletop RPG

nattwentea

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

The Genius Lamp

a ""game"" created through both drunken and automatic writing with no edits permitted

blake stone / fenced forest

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Rooms, Rules, and Reclamation: Games For #LibreBaskervilleJam

Avant-garde games about interpretation, emotion, and reclamation.

Hy Libre!

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Sunraise

A Solarpunk Poetry Game

II!M

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

greenbelts & gardens

a collection of devotional rituals-as-games for citybound witches of all ages

blake stone / fenced forest

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Alone with a Legacy

A hack of Takuma Okada's Alone Among the Stars about passing down a legacy through the ages.

thefeelerofit

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

HIGH & DRY

A solo journaling game about one day in the life of someone left stranded on an island.

d.v. whelan

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

The Settlers Print-And-Play Adventure

A game of imagination, writing, character creation, and divination.

Ewan Matthews

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Finding Styles

A TTRPG that can't decide if it has a GM, uses dice or tokens. Find your style!

ValeryNorth

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

What's So Cool About SolarPunk?

A simple #WSCA game about living in a solarpunk world

Affinity Games Collective

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Nous protégeras-tu, Golem ?

Jeu textuel à narration émergente dans un univers mystique

Shiny Sansonnet

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Reimagine the Dragon

Flycheese reimagines items form the Dragon magazine.

FlycheeseDM

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Hyper Life DEMO DISC (beta)

The rulebook for the the Hyper Life TTRPG system (BETA)

Hyper Life!

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Under Strange Moons

A creative bootstrapping activity

Greys

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

We Are Seeds Ourselves

A Cyclic Expansion for Moons Among Us

Greys

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

The Lighthouse Keeper

An epistolary game about your career as a keeper of an isolated lighthouse.

RedBard97

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Dioses menguantes

Un juego sobre la vejez y el olvido en una tarjeta de visita.

Yeray Pérez Vallejo

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

The Blood

A game about spellcasting vampires fueled by an arcane force

Falconian Productions

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

mixology

a solo journalling TTRPG focused around having drinks with revenant donovan hart.

sophiades

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

but no more is here

[2 pages – 10 min.] "Gosh, I don't know what I'm doing"

dan qui dam

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

let's play shadowgraphs

psychological entertainment in a pack of cards

incorrigible

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

A TEN LTR RPG

A fast, flexible role- and word-play game.

N U T H A T C H G A M E S

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

You Enter This House Alone But You Are Not Alone

A solo journaling game based on the Carta SRD about exploring an abandoned mansion.

Sunken Rust

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

The Masks We Wear

A Tarot-based TRPG about exploring the unknown

nattwentea

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

It's life, Baby.

that's how it is [symptoms, neurodiversity, care]

dan qui dam

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Gut Punch: A Game of Rebellion

They told you that you'd have to kill your companions to earn your freedom. Is there a better way?

PlayNerdAllies

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Wicked Frontier

A Wild-Western storytelling and secret-keeping game

leo a. v.

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Pan-American Cooperative Network: A Solarpunk Setting & Worldbuilding Project of the Gold Coast

Text material that fleshes out a determined look at a solarpunk future

sunflower_wizard

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Ghostly Gratitude

Fireside tales of autumn days: a journaling game for one or more to record fall's best memories.

KeepYourSecrets

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

You'll Never Believe It

A texting-based microgame

Falconian Productions

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

there is a ghost in this place

A sort-of epistolary game about ghosts

Marx of High Water

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

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