The TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas Bundle is raising funds for a great cause. I'll do a tweet-long blurb for all 493 games included during the month it's running.
If you're interested in support Trans Rights in Texas, you can find the bundle here: itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-…
1. Paradigm Adventures: The Pocket Roleplaying Game by @SeanBurtonQB
For quick RPGs and newcomers alike, this bite-sized agnostic system is meant to minimize the work that can feel overwhelming to new GMs. Only 14 pages long, yet the only limit is the players' imagination!
2. Pigsmoke by @potatocubed
Step into the shoes of the faculty of Pigsmoke School of Sorcery, a learning institution for the magically gifted. Combining the fun of a magical world and the obstacles of surviving a teaching job, there's certain to be mirthful laughs for everyone!
3. Damn the Man, Save the Music by @turtleandbun
Juggle the responsibilities that determine the future of your record store while trying to accomplish a big personal goal. Silly and tender, this 103-page book includes illustrations by Evan Rowland and step-by-step guidance.
4. Let Me Take a Selfie by @ThoughtyGames
5 games using selfies to tell stories and explore emotions. These games explore relationships, crises, and fiction. All games require phones with cameras and text messaging, and are guaranteed to teach you more about others and yourself.
5. Noirlandia by @turtleandbun
A coop murder mystery RPG for 3-4 players about a desperate investigation in a fantastic city. Played with an actual cork board, no one knows the answers when you start. Find the truth or lose your mind trying. It’s just another day in Noirlandia.
6. Wight Wedding by @RuffleJax
You're invited to a freeform LARP about the first marriage between a human and a ghost. Please, no jokes about "til death do us part".
Wight Wedding is a dramatic-comedic freeform LARP for up to 25 players about family friction, death, and love.
7. This Party Sucks by @adanarama
About being a queer and/or trans who's (badly) processing a breakup, they attend 3 parties while trying not to think about their ex. 3 players laugh, wince, and (possibly) reflect on their own lives while telling the MC's story with tenderness.
8. The Stellar Beacon: Hopepunk Issue by @ninja_festive
New adventures for the TTRPG, Return to the Stars. It explores geek pop culture.
Includes 5 pieces by various authors: essays, a scenario, an adventure, story prompts, and encounters for the new sci-fi subgenre, Hopepunk.
9. Breakup on Re-Entry by @LeviathanFiles
Mech pilots must keep their identities secret or risk assassination. You just realized your lover's piloting your rival mech. Do you want to keep fighting? A game for 2 pilots who don't know their mortal enemy sleeps by them every night.
10. Fractured Kingdom by HouseDok.
Blends action, conspiracy, and horror and puts players in the heart of a mystery from the start. Every shadow holds the possibility of new nightmares, and not even one's dreams are safe.
A 236 page world, including artwork by Adam Sward.
11. For the Dungeon! by @TabletopCrow
Play as the hapless minions instead of heroes. Based on Powered by the Apocalypse and improv comedy to create the setting, it's a fast-paced game with a focus on creating memorable moments, so anyone can pick up and play with minimal effort.
12. Smash the System by @ErikTheBearik
Sneak into the domain of corporate oligarchs, discover conspiracies, sabotage machinery, steal files, and bring the whole thing crashing down. Stacking dice carefully before smacking them around your room is also great stress relief X3
13. Cyber Companion Cemetery by @Cynical_Poet
This 22 page book created by Joseph Dunkerley is a homage to all the beloved digital pets lost throughout the years, and reveals what happens to them after we think they're dead. Game page has a lovely ode I highly recommend reading.
14. The Glass Dream Game by @BENZORD
You'll need the rules for Playing the Dream.
Work together to build a better world through beauty and games. Overcome scars of war and apocalypse. Teach classes and go to friends' lectures. Build a utopia together, for everyone, if you can.
15. Kissing Comrades by @AdiraSlattery
This 2-player LARP is about kissing and being queer and resisting fascism. Love cannot always conquer all, but it is better to be with the people you love than to let them win. Use consent and look out for the emotions of yours and others.
16. Tricksters by @kurtpotts
Embody unique tricksters protecting a village. When making a roll, build a d6 pool based on any help you have, using a trick, or resisting a desire. In the end, you'll create the moral that the villagers will use to remember the fable you told.
17. Roller Rink Redux by @adanarama
If you spent grade school bday parties at roller rinks sitting out or skating with a death grip on the rails, and you now know you’re queer/trans, check out this game. Return to that time and be kinder to yourself than you knew how to be then.
18. Rainbow World by @matt_bohnhoff
A short world building game using Skittles. Friends generate a unique world in a half hour. Race, species, and gender agnostic!
Includes a one page supplement for Reese's Pieces or, with minor tweaking, cherry tomatoes or mini bell peppers.
19. You, An Astronaut by @turtleandbun
A solo game about being adrift in a familiar space. Your ship has been off-course for a long time. The dreams of cryo-sleep linger. How long have you been here? Will your distress call be answered? Do you even want an answer?
20. Skill Points by @Hotchmoney
A zine focused on learning skills by playing RPGs. Includes contributions from 7 game designers with content to use at the table, advice on how RPGs can help develop new skills, and reports from designers who have used RPGs as a teaching method.
21. Reunification by @travisdhill
Play as members of a family split apart by a civil war. Ask questions to build familiarity, empathy, and compassion. It's about questioning to gain insight and trust. Included is a printout reference of questions. The game is 32 pages long.
22. Seedling by @thelawofnames
A game for 4 people. On the first day of spring, you wake up with a tiny plant growing out of the palm of your hand. It's rooted in your skin, in the middle of your life line. Part of your body as though it has always been there.
23. Turn by @ThoughtyGames
A slice-of-life, rural supernatural game for 3-6 people. Play as shapeshifters in a small, rural town. Balance human lives and habits with beast lives and instincts, while pursuing acceptance and community. Includes a unique town building system.
24. Orizuru: a half-formed thing by @IAmPhophos
A solo game about transforming into a beautiful bird. Play as someone undertaking a transformational quest from who they are now, to becoming something new. Take a piece of paper, write on it, fold it and reflect on the result.
25. World Maker by @NotWritingGames
A world builder meant to focus your energy into details, relationships, and traits that are relevant to your main characters or the players at the table. All you need is a deck of playing cards, something to write on/with, and 1-2 hours.
26. Around the Couch by @RrokAnrolle
A 'Descended from the Queen' hack. Play as housemates deciding the fate of their couch. Does it possess enough sentimental value that they decide to keep it, or has the time come for a new couch? Come together and share some memories.
27. 3ternity by @Cynical_Poet
This is a digital game for Windows and MacOS. "Live" out your cybernetic afterlife in bliss, with our company you can enjoy endless comfort within the handcrafted existence experience of our deluxe eternity.
"We’re" dying to meet you.
28. High Magic Lowlives by @GemRoomGames
A Post-Dungeon Fantasy game about wizard school dropouts who get into trouble with the Immortal Aristocracy to make coin and build their #brand. With 18k+ words, it includes a lot of content to help your game run smoothly.
29. Unincorporated by @bethanyharvey
Play ordinary people caught up in petty rivalries, intense frenemyships, and hopeless love affairs while trying to shake off heavy expectations. Can be played in 1-5 sessions with no prep and easy setup. Uses PbtA-style 2d6 +stat dice rolls.
30. The Scourge by @ErikTheBearik
A Lasers and Feelings hack about being an undead monster, grappling with your own humanity, and taking revenge. You were betrayed and executed by your Foe. Vengeance does not die though, and neither do you. Art by Florian-Ayala Fauna (she/her)
31. Strike! RPG: Tactical Combat and Heedless Adventure by @Jimbozig
A setting agnostic game. Combat is fast, no tedious bookkeeping, and no waiting while players math things out. Filled with tactical choices, exciting twists, and great character building and growth.
32. Dragonhearts by @AFractalDragon
About the clash of over-sized personalities between shapeshifters who can be human, dragon, and anything in between. Made of several small scenes, players also collaborate on world-building, and can change them later during the endgame!
33. An Altogether Different River by @ehronlime
A game about a Town, the people who left it and returned, and the people who stayed behind. About returning home and grappling with what has and hasn't changed. For 2-4 players and runs 3-4 hours long. Art by Venessa Tang.
34. When You Meet Your Doppelganger on the Road, You Must Make Out With Them by @meinberg13
meet your doppelganger on the road and decide whether or not to make out with them. It is a game about horror and intimacy, about self-identity and self-love and self-destruction.
35. Working for the Corp by @KDavidson925
A cyberpunk print and play Descended From the Queen game. Play people who work at The Corp and are tasked with defending sensitive info from runners. Jess Meier @burst0fhope added cards that made vast improvements. Art by @diwataMANILA
36. A Fistful of Darkness by @monkeyEcho
A Weird West Fantasy hack of Blades in the Dark with heavy emphasis on fantasy. Not a complete game, you'll need BitD to play. Includes 16 playbooks, 24 new factions, new mechanics, modified rules, and a world building toolbox. 180 pages.
37. Oh Maker by @KiennaS
A Descended From the Queen card-based game of communal story-telling co-created by @JustJasonPls. Play as androids who will confront their very nature. Includes 10 Creators and worlds, 52 prompt cards, and rules for alternate play without custom decks.
38. Samurai Androids by @MillisBrent
A minimalist game set in a future, after-human Japan. Play as an android exploring a world of urban ruins. Just a few files contain the complete rules, environs, denizens, and more. Much is left to the GM and Players for flexibility and fun.
39. Inventing Incantations by @feelingfickle
A solo, microRPG that acts as a step by step guide for writing spells. Good if you prefer the page and if you embrace tech! Available as a trifold brochure, a 4 page pdf, and a txt file.
Inspired by Rae Nedjadi’s ritual games.
40. The Reaper's Almanac by @wowcooltrauma
Players are Reapers who write to one another after reaping a human to keep them alive in memory. The reapers change and grow alongside their harvest. Included is The Path, a collection of guided prompts for The Reaper's Almanac.
41. Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire (Who Is Also One of the Aforementioned Sherlock Holmes) by @ThatOneGM
Play 1 of 4 Sherlock Holmes who team solve mysteries and one-up each other. Can you find out who's secretly a vampire? 2 page game includes a PDF and a narrated MP3.
42. CASS1N1 by @gnomedic
For 2-4 players. Play as team of scientists in search of the answer to: are we alone in the universe? Build your own solar system, probe 1 planet, analyze the data transmitted back, and terminate your spacecraft.
WARNING: Involves setting paper on fire.
43. A Dirty World by @GregStolze
Cynical P.I.? Mesmerizing femme fatale? Dead-hearted hit man or pure-hearted reformer raging against the dark? They're all here. The rules don't just support drama. They are drama. Includes several things to keep gameplay focused on characters.
44. The Steadfast and the Rebellious by @Aryl_Ether
A hack of REINCARNATION REDUX: Our Requiem. The last wall, offering your city limited protection against the demon king, has fallen. Citizens are left with 2 choices; do everything the tyrant demands, or resist. 2-4 players.
45. In Space, No One Can Hear You Feel by @Malhidael
You’ve both have just woken from cryo-sleep. The ship is beyond repair. Power is low. The oxygen supply already feels thin. Help is not coming. Together you face the darkness. These are your last moments. 2 players.
46. Playing Kindly by @RuffleJax
A zine full of thoughts on transparency, trauma, safety, and integrity in games. Includes lists, essays, and a useful new LARP mechanic for freeform-type games.
Please be sure to read the Content Note on the game page before diving in.
47. Million Dollar Soulmate by @GregStolze
About romantic ambiguity, one player is a millionaire looking for love. The other is the one person who perfectly amplifies the millionaire's personality. But do they nurture their best self, or their worst impulses? Play to find out!
48. Into The Wyrd and Wild by Feral Indie Studio
A supplement to incorporate a weird and terrifying wilderness into their games. Includes a light overhaul of the adventuring system, modified to fit better with a campaign centered around forays into the frightening wilderness.
49. Our Final Gathering: The Dreaded Reflections of the Immortal Soul by @lordneptune
Combines the GM-less storytelling of Reflection with the tumbling tower and tension of Dread as you play Highlander-esque immortals bent on killing the other PCs, because there can be only one!
50. Sense of an Ending by Sweevie
A supplement to use with Powered by the Apocalypse or Forged in the Dark game. It's designed for the times you play a short, limited series, or one shot of games that usually run longer to resolve. Please check the game page for Content Warning.
51. Ships That Pass by @ashcangames
About queer spaceships with crushes on each other, the biological allies they make along the way, and the Powers That Be threatening to separate them. Designed to help you tell stories of queer connection, resistance, allyship, and hope.
52. Tenarlian: The Longest Night (5E) by @CrumblingJames
Carnage, darkness, and madness run rampant in this holiday one-shot for 5e. Includes 6 pregen 9th level charas, a grim dark adventure through Elgolor manor with the house’s dying matron, and 2 maps of the 3-story manor.
53. Chasing the Ace by @zwgarth
A Descended From the Queen mecha-drama. Play a mecha squadron led by the legendary Ace. The Ace has confided in you a secret: at midnight tonight, they are going to steal their mecha and asked you to join them. You have until midnight to decide.
54. Bleak Spirit by @potatocubed
Play a wanderer with a heavy destiny into a world of majesty and mystery, where the world is gloomy, desolate, lonely -- but also beautiful. No one knows what's really going on until the very last scenes! 2-5 players, no dice or cards needed.
55. The Maker's Call by @ScottieStitch07
Solo game about the creation of new magic! Catalogue the attempts of The Maker as you seek to create a previously unseen type of magic. Play at your own pace: a session every day, every week, or however often you feel like playing!
56. The Curse of the House of Rookwood by @nerdypupgames
Create a cursed family with powers and troubled relationships. Take them on adventures in an alt history with monsters and dark magic. Will you work together to bury your skeletons, or will family drama be your undoing?
57. A Response to the Esteemed Dr. Crackpot by @EmilyJankowski2
Academic squabbles for 2+ players. Fight for your hypothesis in a series of responses published by a journal in your field. Defend your academic integrity at all costs. Everyone needs to know your rival is wrong.
58. Quietus by @sinister_beard
Powered by a simplified Blades in the Dark engine, create characters with tragic backstories and send them into a nightmare where their past trauma might be what saves them. If a story made you cry and scream, then it’s a great model for this game.
59. CC & SH Bundle of Joy! by @CCandSH
Second entry that's not a physical game. HOWEVER it's a bundle of all paid digital game they have or will have on itch.io. Including early releases and specials you won't find anywhere else, it's perfect for any CC & SH fan.
60. Sudden Death by @goatmealery
Supplement for 5E. Combat resolved with a single roll and conversation, allowing more time and impact for encounters. Classes mechanically balanced for resources available and have tables to determine how combat unfolds. Sudden death's an option.
61. Nibiru Roleplaying Game by @Araukana1
Play as Vagabonds; vagrant souls who wake up in a massive space station without memories. Piece together their story and travel through a skyless world, where nature and artificiality become one and memory and identity shape everything.
62. Kitchen Contest by @HansCTweets
A competitive cooking game for 3-4 players. Create a Chef and test your mettle to see who can be the Winner in a contest to cook the most delightful and delicious dishes! Create a Judge who scores the competition to determine the Winner!
63. Cake By The Ocean @RuffleJax
An American Freeform LARP. It’s your first Spring Break as a college student! You and your friends rent a beach house and celebrate. The music's great and the booze is flowing. What’s a freshie to do? Why, eat cake by the ocean, of course!
64. Termination Shock by @GregStolze
In 2064, a coalition set out to save us from ourselves. Now, humanity explores alien worlds and adapts to tech never made for them. Explore a galaxy filled with opportunity, mystery, and peril. What will you discover? Who will you become?
65. Princess with a Cursed Sword by @adult_witch
Single-page solo journaling game. Needs a tarot deck and 30+ min. Explore ruins with prompts, face challenges with coins, find the sword's resting place and see if she can make the sacrifice, and record her journey as a fairytale.
66. Barrow Keep by @Arr_Roo
A low-prep, old-school setting driven by playbooks and adaptable, easy-to-run scenarios. You play the young residents of the Keep, coming of age while dealing with mysteries, treacheries, and intrigues. How will you protect yourself and your friends?
67. One Page Lore: Fantasy Folk by @RexiconJesse
1 page supplement. Provides diverse and unique people no matter what system you use. Includes alts to and removes personality restrictions, social constraints, and problematic tropes, allowing for better, more engaging characters.
68. 1-6 Skeletons in a Stable by @DeusExMinima
Mico-Module for 5e. Minimal prep required. Includes setup hooks, NPCs, stat blocks for skeletons and skeletal warhorses, battle map, area map, vaguely worded lore, initiative tracker and HP checkboxes, suggested loot, and more!
69. They Cried Monster by Feral Indie Studio
Monster-hunting hack for 5e. Track monsters, solve mysteries, and face the dilemma of protecting humanity or the monsters they have been hired to slay. Balance social standing with the locals, and be quick against dangerous creatures.
70. Jonathan Frakes Wants Your Attention, And You Must Not Give It To Him by @PartyOfOnePod
You're haunted by a vengeful spirit in the form of Jonathan Frakes. He wants your attention, but you know any response will allow him to condemn you to hell for eternity. Can you survive?
71. The Moon Wants Me To Leave You by @therisingtithes
One Shifts under the moon, scared what it means for you and your love. One is Suspicious, seeing troubling things and worried the town will tear your love apart. You join to talk things out. It's a full moon. I'm so sorry.
72. Grandma Club by Third Country Press
The Lower Puffington Ladies’ Auxiliary Society is determined to win the annual Billinghamshire County Best Village award, but the village has trouble. It falls upon community-minded seniors to set things back to their proper place.
73. The Things We Leave Behind by @StygianFoxPub
Six scenarios for Call of Cthulhu 7e. Written by Brian M. Sammons, Scott Dorward, Simon Brake, Oscar Rios, and Jeff Moeller. Art by Davide Como, Badger McInnes, Dean Engelhardt, and Stephanie McAlea. Please check game page for CW.
74. Wandering Dreams by @SasquatchGames
Solo journaling game. Explore Soulsborne and Lovecraft inspired locations, beings, and items. Observe, approach, fight, and run from diffrent denizens. Explore with cards and dice for prompts and info. Set off into the world of the dream.
75. Towns Like Ours by @ThoughtyGames
Supplement for Turn (game 23 here). New Towns, Beast Archetypes, & Human Roles. There are many miles and moments, and enough material to tell different stories in the same towns as you find all the nooks and crannies of the town's history.
76. Space Train Space Heist by @sdunnewold
About space robbing a space train based on simplified Forged in the Dark. Play as a Hooligan, Egghead, Space Wizard, Space Cowboy, and more. Many things to do while stealing Nighthawks 2: Red-Tail Rising or the last living Zozo bird.
77. Agon by @john_harper
Fast-paced game of heroic action in the world of ancient myths. Play epic heroes seizing a chance for greatness. Set things right in the lands, overcome the trials of gods, monsters, and mortals, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back home.
78. The Blue Lotus Hack by @TJerrianne
Built on Black Hack 1e. Includes New classes and variants of Black Hack classes, Magic spells and psychic gifts, Monsters, Enchanted items, and a mini campaign setting for the southern reaches of the continent of Varas. Originally on DTRPG.
79. Rough Riders! by Third Country Press
About hard-fighting men and women who are driven equally by their lust for battle and their complete insanity. Will your team achieve your objective, or will the stress of combat compel you to do something sufficiently ridiculous?
80. Ink Transference by @NinjaPenguinAM
A play by mail game where players get to be mildly psychic aliens learning about humans through lab reports.
Cover and character art by @BriDanann
Layout by Diwata diwatamnl.itch.io
81. The Spirit of Small Gifts by @TheInstaGrahame
A Spirit of Small Gifts drops small trinkets so the recipient has them when they're needed. The goals are: Get people to talk to their friends about RPGs, foster problem solving, and have an excuse to send letters in the mail.
82. The Keepers of the Cards by @temporalhiccup
A Descended from the Queen game. Inspired by the Magical Girl genre. About young characters, friendships that change over time, magic that must be harnessed and claimed, magical hijinks that cause problems at school or home!
83. Supertables by @lxnrhinners
Four tables with nearly 1300 different combinations dealing with superheroes. Includes some structures connecting them that can be used to create powers and contexts for characters in a superhero setting. Flexible enough for customization
84. 1-6 Oozes in the Dark by @DeusExMinima
If this looks familiar, it's from the creators of 1-6 Skeletons in a Stable (game 68 here). This supplement has all the same perks and boons, but this time for low-level adventurers fighting oozes. Even includes gray ooze stat blocks.
85. Offworlders by @chrisperrywolf
Scifi game about adventurers, outlaws, and guns for hire making their fortune on the rough end of the galaxy. Designed to pick up and play in just a few minutes as a one-off game, but with enough meat to play a short campaign as well.
86. Deep Nightly Fathoms by MRDR Hobo
Explore the Kingdom of Night, a liminal space between life, dream and death. Art and inspiration from Gustave Doré. Includes expansions, PCs, rules for exploration, tools to run a point-crawl exploration game, and random adventure tables.
87. The World is Ending and We Are Very Large Dogs by @QueerBuccaneer
Weave stories of bright moments in the face of Armageddon. The mood, intensity and tone are up to you to decide, as the adaptable ruleset for anything from a Mars Attacks-esque alien invasion to a dark ending.
88. Tavern at the End of the World by @adult_witch
Same creator as Princess with a Cursed Sword (game 65), use tarot cards for prompts and coins for tense moments. The city is under occupation. Receive visitors to your tavern, but keep a low profile and maybe journal in code.
89. Rise or Fall of [INSERT NAME HERE] by @SonOfGabriel
Solo journaling. Follow the story of a student at a new hs, a questing knight, a struggling artist, or a child who found the door to a magic kingdom. Goals and priorities shift as you chart their story to an uncertain end.
90. Union Strong by @Nonbinary_Fury
Inspired by Mafia and Werewolf. Play as union leaders, bosses, and scabs. Work to unionize your shop, or stop the same. Playable in 45 minutes to an hour, this game requires index cards, a deck of playing cards, and some pencils.
91. Way Down Below by @KiennaS and @JustJasonPls
Solo journaling Descended from the Queen game inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice. Bring your love back from Hades. Answer prompts about them, your past, and your psyche and make the choice: will you turn to see if your love follows?
92. Eldritch Ancestries: Merfolk by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Includes 6 heritages, 12 level 1 feats, 5 level 5 feats, 3 level 9 feats, 2 level 13 feats, 3 alchemical items, 3 weapons, 2 kinds of ammunition, 4 weapon traits, and 3 magic items, all new and unique.
93. Eldritch Ancestries: Felsine by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Includes ancestry with lore and suggestions, 6 heritages, 9 level 1 ancestry feats, 4 level 5 ancestry feats, 2 level 9 ancestry feats, 2 level 13 ancestry feats, 1 NEW level 17 feat, and 3 new weapons.
94. Eldritch Heritages: Necrid by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Includes new heritage, Lore, Necrid Hardcore: a sudden death true-to-undead optional variant, 8 level 1 feats, 4 level 5 feats, 3 level 9 feats, 2 level, 13 feats, and a new Alchemical formula
95. Eldritch Ancestries: Morshes by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Med Plant-based creatures, they're like Leshies but bigger. Includes 1 ancestry, 6 heritages, 8 Level 1 feats, 5 level 5 feats, 3 level 9 feats, 3 level 13 feats, and 2 level 17 feats.
96. Eldritch Heritage: Chili Leshy by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Bring the heat with a SPICY new heritage for the fleshy ancestry, with 2 accompanying feats!
Burn your enemies with spicy chemicals, throw bursting peppers, and harness your temper to bring the pain.
97. Pathfinder 2e Monsters: Armipod Mimics by @EldritchDream
From the inconvenience of a pack eating the coffers of the local tavern to the Alpha-led heists of banks to the swarming lair of the Queens, these intelligent insects might surprise your players with their complexity.
98. Pathfinder 2e Monsters: Reef Elasmobreaker by @EldritchDream
Cyber land-sharks from Numeria! These cybernetically enhanced sharks are a precursor to an upcoming product including several variations and related Numerian-altered-creatures.
99. Pathfinder 2e Monsters: Curseveil by @EldritchDream
Curseveils sap memories from those in their fog or strike with ghostly claws. Survivors tell of ghosts, people turning on each other, and mysterious wounds. They can act as a direct encounter or an environmental challenge.
100. Pathfinder 2e Monsters: Mugrim and Mugrim Boss by @EldritchDream
Created by unscrupulous mages, these small creatures are eager to serve and horribly brainwashed. They maintain, defend, and work amid dungeons, towers, lairs, and universities. Good for low-level adventures.
101. Candlelight by @trollhands
A game about the restless spirits of treasure hunters reckoning with their dark past and seeking hope in a haunted forest that wants to trap them. A one-shot, rules-light game, it focuses on collab storytelling and is designed to be flexible.
102. Our Innermost Thoughts by @travisdhill
A collection of five RPGs played mostly solo. They ask a lot of questions, forcing you to reflect on who you are, your background, your status, and possibly even some aspects that have been hidden up to now.
103. Let's Rob RJ McElhenny and Steal Her Golden Quill by @glaiveguisarme
Take on a fantasy novelist because you're tired of the bad takes she keeps unloading on Twitter. It is, notably, a game with no subtext whatsoever and legally you can't prove otherwise. 3-5 players.
104. Over the Top by @Nonbinary_Fury
On the Western Front, you and other soldiers squat in muddy trenches, ducking to avoid artillery shells and hoping trench fever gets the other side first. Soon the order will come, and you’ll all go up, over the top, and into waiting guns.
105. Eldritch Ancestries: Bugbear by @EldritchDream
Pathfinder 2e supplement. Strong and boisterous, anyone who makes a friend of you is in for a life of adventure, strange entertainment, and a powerful ally. Includes intro and lore, 1 ancestry, 3 heritages, and 15 feats.
106. Eldritch Dedications: Lich by @EldritchDream
Not every lich is evil and you found ways to save your soul while gaining power and longevity. Includes 12 feats, a new ritual, archetype starting at level 10 and can be taken as any spellcaster who can cast 5+ level spells.
107. The Portal at Hill House by @travisdhill
Solo journaling game. Something drew you to this house. A thread dangling from the hem of a shirt, longing to be pulled. Reason and history warned not to cave to those new yet eons-old desire to seek it out. Yet you are here...
108. Chromatic Sorcerer Archetype by @Evie_Monarch
DnD 5e supplement. Created in celebration of Pride 2020, this allows you to carve your own magical identity from the weave, changing the damage type of spells and granting you powerful boons based on your choices.
109. How to Make Your RPG/Story Game More Healing/Therapeutic by @MariaMison
Let's apply it dutifully to running games, as we are all in desperate need of release from suffering. You may consider this a LARP but also I'm joining the unironically published essays on itch gang.
110. Splat: Perspectives on Play by @Hotchmoney
Follow up to Skill Points (20 here), 11 writers give advice on how to game for an audience, how to resolve interpersonal conflicts at the table, how RPGs are used in therapy and in the classroom, and about agency, flow, and fun.
111. Ronin Fighter Archetype by @Evie_Monarch
DnD 5e supplement. Allows you to follow a philosophical path of fighting, gaining powerful abilities tied to the path you choose. Will you choose the path of the wind, the path of the night, or the path of the tide?
112. Totally Real Human Adults by @CRLegge
Play as one in a stack of creatures in a trench coat. Perform normal human tasks without being discovered; anything a normal human adult would do. Work together (or against each other in teams) to be the most credible human you can be.
113. Mainframe by @gordiemurphy
Cyberpunk hack of Tunnel Goons. Play as mercs who specialize in hunting down and capturing or deleting corporate AI programs. With no body, your consciousness is permanently wired into Mainframe. Each session, find and deal with a program.
114. Goons in Toyland by Mr_Ray
Based on Tunnel Goon and Shroom Goons. Toys protect their human child. Out of the same imagination that created these toy guardians, evil shapeshifting Bougee are also made. The Bougee want nothing more than to feed on a child's worst fears.
115. Rewwixta by @ghargremxul
Solo story gen. Recount tales of revolt, rebellion, and uprising against colonial powers. Based on brilli, a Maltese folk game. Explicitly non-canon, and you're encouraged to tell your own stories. 12 pages with 1.5 pages of image and academic refs.
116. Sentinel @meghanlynnFTW
Solo journaling game. Create a solitary guardian and their Sanctuary. Use cards and dice. Relive memories, face threats, and find interesting objects while time passes. Eventually find out what happens to The Sanctuary when you no longer guard it.
117. Shepherds by AirkSeablade
Adaptation of Powered by the Apocalypse. Young members of a League of professional do-gooders try to protect peace and safety. Shepherds forge bonds of trust with each other, grow and mature as people, and possibly foil evil plots along the way.
118. Butterfly Princesses Of The Swordlands by @SprintingOwl
By all accounts, things should be peaceful, but minor factions fight with magics, song, and blades they receive at birth. Why? They're all in line for the throne. 12 page mini-trpg with a unique dice curling mechanic.
119. Hell Holes by @aryxymaraki
Fantasy golf dice game for 1-6 players. Select your club and roll dice to see how your shot went. Play through 9 Circles of Old Hell Downs. The demonic Caddy interferes by offering special clubs to whoever is in last place at the end of a circle.
120. Adrift by @mitchelldaily
Journaling game. Cast into uncertainty, you're encouraged to be kind to yourself to survive, maybe even thrive. Can be played alone or with friends near and far. Made for a few minutes a day for several days, but can be adapted to other experiences.
121. WitchPunks by @witchpunks
Punk witches fight against a society that wants to ignore or exploit them. Uses a free-form, narrative-driven task resolution system that uses two six-sided dice and includes a "failing forward" mechanic. Genre agnostic. Check game page for CW.
122. Climbing the Witch's Tower by @MaenadMags
Join companions and seek something from the Witch, convinced that you'll navigate the Tower as others fall by the wayside. Each of you has your own relationship with the Witch, and will be compelled by their Tower in unique ways.
123. Bewitched by @Lynne_M_Meyer
You and the other bi+ witches must find and rescue a unicorn. Let your bi flag fly in this micro RPG full of witchy fun! Choose from 8 character options. Each specializes in a different skill, and is equipped with a unique magickal tool and wand.
124. Come With A Price by Blue Maelstrom
A coven of witches harness nearly unlimited magical power to make their dreams come true. Magic demands sacrifice. Sometimes deals are struck. Make bargains, do the impossible, and reshape the world: that's the life of a witch.
125. Monster Manifest by @JNButlerArt
300+ creatures from the SRD5 adapted for Quest RPG. Full of NPCs for your games. Includes a toolkit to make your own NPCs adapted from other TTRPG systems or built from scratch. Written, illustrated, designed, & edited by J.N. Butler.
126. Garfield ± You by @dannyplaysrpgs
2 player RPG about experiencing major milestones in your life while being visited by Garfield. One player plays the Human, and the other plays Garfield. Garfield is also a phone. Inspired by Garfield phones washing up on French shores.
127. Forgotten Gods by @quinnntastic_
Forgotten gods,
left behind by a society
that no longer wanted you.
but you weren't Forgotten alone.
About otherness and clutching each other tightly against the uncaring. Write letters about who you were, who you are, who you will become.
128. Tales’ End by @colinmcummings
Remember the journey that brought you here. How did the world around you change? Designed to open up dialogue with prompts. Guides players in an adventure through vignettes. Genre agnostic and can be played solo or in a group.
129. Eldritch Ancestries: Grippli by @EldritchDream
A frog-like, spiritual and family oriented folk, including the families they find. Spirits and insects answer their call. Includes 1 ancestry, 6 heritages, 19 feats, 1 new weapon, 1 new creature, and 1 new animal companion.
130. Fairy Corgi Steeplechase by @varnished_truth
Fairies used to ride corgis into battle, but now they ride for fun and prestige. You’re an up-and-coming trainer of racing teams, and this year you’ve been invited to the Cravat Crown races! Will your team win the glory?
131. The Coven at the End of the Lane by @Miss_Jess03
You always wondered what was behind the doors of the spooky house at the end of the block. Now, make it your own. Choose between enchanter, goth, hag, herbalist, or occultist, choose a familiar, and create your home.
132. The Books Were Wrong by @thisischivu
History's written by imperfect people and you try to help cultures viewed wrongly as evil. Spend time with a culture and take notes to set things right so the next adventurers who approach will have better understanding and knowledge.
133. Azoulas Playable Origin by @Evie_Monarch
DnD 5e supplement. A new origin (race) of plant-based humanoids, the Azoulas travel the forests of the world and protect them from harm with their Fey abilities and natural toxins.
134. The Enduring by Jfan999
An unofficial playbook for Masks: A New Generation. The Enduring is a playbook about playing a hero who has lost their powers but has decided to keep on being a hero. It deals in themes of loss, recovery and how you redefine yourself after a loss.
135. Those of Us Who Know Better by @NearFutures
Play transgender superheroes whose powers come at a price. Civilians by day, heroes by night, use your powers to problem solve and offer protection and support around town. Be warned, every use of a superpower can cost dearly.
136. Butter Princess by @OxSago
Based on Trophy Dark. A play-to-lose collab horror. 90 pounds of grade-A butter was hand-sculpted into the Butter Princess, and you have an interest in the fate of that rep of Midwestern royalty. A weekend here may let you forget your weekday.
137. Lit RPG Set by @lxnrhinners
4 Bookmark games. They are spooky and ominous, silly and optimistic, quiet and blends in with the book as you read it, loud and actively destroys the book, and then itself. Better yet, they can be replayed with different books or the same book.
138. Heroic Fates: Complete by @Evie_Monarch
DnD 5e supplement. New mechanic that lets players and GMs plot out a general progression path for your chara. Includes a new series of penalties and bonuses that develop into unique abilities as you overcome your fate.
139. No Glimmer Through the Night - A Starter Story for Locus by @CobbleSprite
68 pages, based on mythos version of the disappearance of 3 lighthouse keepers in 1900. Investigate what happened as monsters manifest. Find a way off the island or what you can do to change things.
140. Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat by @kaldrenon
You are 3+ kobolds in a trench coat. Working together, you are trying to pass off as human. You have a specific thing you're trying to do. You win if you do it. You lose if you get caught being kobolds. Art by @eldritchsmite
141. Crisis by @wowcooltrauma
For 2-6 players. Based on Belonging Outside Belonging. Grapple with the duality of being a hero. The struggle between civilian and heroic identities and what success in one has cost the other. What are the things truly worth saving?
142. Penultimate: A Game of Wits Between Death and the Witch Who Fell in Love With Them by @quinnntastic_
The Witch and Death had a love affair, but it ends today. What will you say before the Witch succumbs to mortality? How long can you extend your final moments together?
143. The Creature Comes for Us by OrionQK
Solo or 2+. Prepare to fight against an unknown threat. Can be a 1-shot or for other systems. Finished game can be a well-developed world for a post-apocalyptic game or with ruins and a story for a future adventuring party to explore.
144. Village Witch by @EliotSilvarian
Solo journaling game with 2+ player option about a witch finding a home. You completed your training and are ready to become a village witch. You’re sent to find a village to work in and have a year to find where you want to make your life.
145. Planar Compass by @PlanarCompass
Old School Essentials supplement. 60 page zine, 30 page player's booklet to avoid spoilers. Includes 4 Classes, Rules for Psionics, 40+ Psionic Powers, 3 Adventures, Dungeon, and mini setting to act as home base or a fantastic one-off.
146. The Empress and Her Seer by @adult_witch
Solo journaling game. Interpret the Empress' dreams with tarot cards. Face challenges to her rule with coin tosses to see if she prepared herself or is too distracted. You are the only one she can trust. Chronicle your memoirs.
147. Shine Force: Trapped in Nightmare Town by @ComradeBubbles
Simulates a manga/anime series, in particular a story arc wherein the titular Shine Force find themselves in a horrific alternate reality. Contains core rules and alt rules for the Basic and Really Dynamic system.
148. The Wanderers by @tozieer
2 players, play through mail. Use cards as prompts to write letters about love you find and lives you live as you build a new home in the interstellar colonies. Enclose a playing card to inspire your partner's reply. Solo mode is a journaling game.
149. Lesbian Werewolves on a Beach by @slashersaurus
Collab narrative for 4 players. 3 play the Lesbian Werewolf Thruple, and 1 plays The Force of Nature, who creates the environments and natural occurrences. The 3 love each other and can't talk about it to save their lives.
150. Season of Dreams by @Flyingfox369
Based on Powered by the Apocalypse. Go between modern Earth and a world inspired by Celtic myth but modified by charas' dreams and actions. Weave a story of magic, monsters, and mystery, with moments from the charas' vice, goals and virtue.
151. No Sacrifice Without Blood by @hyphenartist
Modern gothic game about immortal, cannibalistic beings. Includes monsters, unavoidable lust for human blood, body-hiding hijinks, open-ended chara creation, mechanics for "how badly do you want it?" and cover art by Emily Houser.
152. The Unlit Path by @tozieer
From the creators of The Wanderers (game 148). Plays like it but about vampires wandering the world and watching the centuries sail by. The world around you changes with the centuries, but delivery of the written word stays comfortably the same.
153. Pilgrims of the Nighted Path by @NateTreme
Made for PROLE but can be adapted for other games. Hex crawl about trick or treating in S. Louisiana. Includes 16 keyed hexes on a map and random encounter tables, zombies, monsters, doom metal bands, zydeco ghosts, and a dentist.
154. As My Body Crumbles by @KiennaS and @JustJustinPls
Solo journaling game of discovery and death. Setting and genre agnostic, play anything from a robot to a raised undead as you uncover things and piece together answers about your existence, the past, and your Creator.
155. Dethrone the Divine by Mr_Ray
Uses the DPS system. 3-6 players. Here’s how it is: Gods are dicks. But this doesn't sit right with everyone. Make your own god, rewrite the rules of the world, remake things in your own image. Build a following and dethrone the divine.
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