Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying (Text-Only Edition) [$5.00]

Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying (Text-Only Edition) [$5.00]: by @rolistespod

"The play-based GonParis Method is a simple, smart, and effective way to banish encumbrance forever.  Adopt this dungeoneering strategy, and you’ll never be overloaded again."

This game is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to encumbrance rules and other tropes found in beloved dungeon-crawling games.

It is a GM-less storytelling game for 3 to 6 players, designed to be played in a few hours with polyhedral dice and no preparation.

Players in this game embody Adventurers who, as a group called a Party, have reached the last level of a Dungeon and defeated the Boss who presided over it. Play starts as Adventurers discover Loot you create. The objects you decide your Adventurer carries home makes up what you pack as their Final Inventory.

If Adventurers hold on to possessions that spark joy, they might feel invigorated and satisfied for the rest of their existence, or at least until their next adventure. But letting go of less emotionally charged but useful Belongings might prove to be a deadly mistake for the Party on their Journey Home.

Replay

It’s the transcript of a complete play session, edited for your enjoyment, to give you an overview of how the game works. This is inspired by the TRPG (Tabletalk Roleplaying Game) format popular in Japan.

Complete Rules

This includes the rules and everything you need to play the game in step-by-step instructions. This game is a collaborative storytelling game. You can jump straight to the GonParis Method and follow its Six Steps without prior reading. However, it works better if one player facilitates your first session by reading the rules in advance.

Play-Aids and Card Decks

You will find in the Appendix links to all the Play-aids and Card Decks in both JPG and PDF formats that you will need to play around a table.

Those are also included as a Miro board that you can copy to very easily play the game online.

About This "Text-Only" Edition

This current release is a work-in-progress but it already contains everything you need to play this game.

The sales from this edition will go towards hiring a professional graphic designer to make more legible and visually pleasing versions of the Rule Book, the Play-Aids and Card Decks.

Purchasing this current edition will get you:

• The Rule Book as it is currently laid-out with any future text updates;
• The updated versions of the Play-Aids and Card Decks, once I can afford a graphic designer;
• A voucher matching the value of your purchase, to spend on the next edition of the game which will be fully laid-out and will integrate art (price to be determined);
• A unique chance to "spark joy" with friends and to put your loot in order once and for all.

Credits

Original Design, Layout and Book Design: Kalum from The Rolistes Podcast.

Rules Editor: Chris S. Sims.

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Weird Frontiers RPG / $30.00

Weird Frontiers RPG / $30.00: Publisher: Stiff Whiskers Press

Within the pages of the Weird Frontiers RPG, you'll find a complete self-contained role-playing game dropped smack in the middle of a West gone weird!. 

Things have gotten plum weird since the events of The Seven Days of Night brought an end to the war, revealing the presence of an evil thicker than the darkest molasses that’d make the Devil himself blush! You can turn tail, or take the fight to the night, and you ain’t about to be called yeller! So, saddle your horses and clean those irons, ‘cause there’s something slithering across the dark frontier and it’s dead set on making vittles out of you and your ragtag posse.

The Weird Frontiers RPG is a standalone weird West role-playing game influenced by the works of HP Lovecraft and folklore pulled from all over the world. The game offers a new take on the genre with a rule set based upon and compatible with the popular Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG published by Goodman Games. 

Within the pages, you'll find

• 12 playable classes all touched by the supernatural

•  A complete rule set that introduces several new mechanics to help throw your players into a haunted west filled to the brim with weird!

• Spells, contraptions, elixirs, and miracles for those classes gifted with the talent of channeling the arcane/divine.

• "Death Crawls West" and "Lost Souls Canyon". Two ready-to-run adventures written by Peter C. Spahn, Brandon Goeringer (Death Crawls West), and Steve Bean (Lost Souls Canyon).

 

 

 

Price: $30.00

ZOMBIES - Business Card Edition / $0.00

ZOMBIES - Business Card Edition / $0.00: Publisher: SR 16

Made for the itch pleasure card jam!

Designed to create tense survivalist TTRPG gameplay in the zombie apocalypse, with a ruleset that just can't get any more readable, digestible and enjoyable, taking up less space than a bookmark on your gaming shelf!

This game became the second most popular in the jam in under 24 hours

Key Inspirations were: Alien RPG, Call of Cthulhu RPG, Planck, and the Last of Us.

Price: $0.00

Adventure! The brain-friendly, wallet-friendly RPG / $0.00

Adventure! The brain-friendly, wallet-friendly RPG / $0.00: Publisher: SR 16

This 26-page RPG is both wallet-friendly and brain-friendly, designed for a traditional tabletop RPG experience in any genre whatsoever.

This game features an action economy that aims to have both simplicity and depth, and extremely free and easy character creation,making it perfect for RPG players new and old.

Price: $0.00

Cold Cuts & Melancholy: A Lasers & Feelings RPG Hack / $2.00

Cold Cuts & Melancholy: A Lasers & Feelings RPG Hack / $2.00: Publisher: Bannerless Games

Cold Cuts & Melancholy is a two-page hack of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings, shifting the action from the final frontier to somewhere closer to home: New Jersey.

You are a Crew of mobsters and you run things in Jersey. The boss of your crime family has been hospitalized after crashing his car during one of his “spells.” Business waits for no one: collections need to be made, spouses placated, kids managed and rivals whacked. Just keep stuffing the black hole at the center of your soul with gabagool and you’ll be fine.

Is it possible to keep your family and your Family happy? Can you keep doing what you do without suffering an existential crisis? Use these quick-start Crew creation rules and the Therapy Notes Season Generator to create a rat's nest of plots, vices, and complications. Just try not to get whacked.

Includes 2-page PDF.

Content and layout by Ken Lowery.

Cold Cuts & Melancholy adapted from Lasers & Feelings by John Harper under CC BY 4.0. You should check it out, it's great. New Jersey Turnpike image modified from Famartin under CC BY-SA 4.0. 

Price: $2.00

Voidheart Symphony / $19.99

Voidheart Symphony / $19.99: Publisher: UFO Press

PSYCHIC REVOLUTION IN THE SHADOWS OF YOUR CITY

There’s a wound in the world, a rot eating at hope and community and empathy. You’ve seen it in dark alleyways and gleaming boardrooms, gifting terrible power to those who will use it to hurt others.

You’ve had enough. You’re going to dive through that wound into the nightmare castle on the other side. You’re going to find the avatar of the one bringing you misery, and strike them down.

But what’s next, once you’ve stolen their power and ruined their ambitions? Will you return to your daily grind? Cherish those who are close to you? Or revel in the power you have taken from the void? 

Because within that wound, the castle waits, and it is hungry.

WHAT IS VOIDHEART SYMPHONY?

Voidheart Symphony is a tabletop roleplaying game about mundane people diving into a demon-filled labyrinth to save the ones they love. Based on Apocalypse World and Rhapsody of Blood, it’ll fill your story with dramatic choices and dynamic action.

Your rebels each have a core strength – they may be an Authority, a Provider, a Watcher. But your enemy is far too great for you to face alone. Those you care for will grant you powers of their own: an investigative journalist can give you the searing light of the Sun, and a caring mentor may give you the healing power of the Gardener. 

You’ll need to use that strength as you investigate your targets in the mundane world, and as you fight breathtaking and uncanny foes in that nightmare castle.

The World and the Void will both offer you their power, and make their own demands. How will you strike that balance? What will your revolution fight for? That’s your story to tell.

Price: $19.99

What Once Went Wrong / $5.99

What Once Went Wrong / $5.99: Publisher: NerdBurger Games

What Once Went Wrong

Oh, boy!

In What Once Went Wrong, you portray a time traveler who "leaps into" the body of someone in the past in order to help fix something that went wrong in their life. Only when you have helped fix the problem can you leap out...and hopefully leap home.

In addition to describing the world of the game, presenting challenges to the players, and portraying various other characters, the game master also portrays the observer, a guide from the traveler's time who helps the traveler by filling in missing information and suggesting things that might need fixing.

The game is structured such that the GM does not know exactly what change needs to be made for the traveler to leap out. They'll discover this together as the game is played.

What Once Went Wrong draws inspiration from and is a love letter to Quantum Leap.

Price: $5.99

SHARP: Short Hand Adventure Role Playing - RPG on a Business Card / $1.00

SHARP: Short Hand Adventure Role Playing - RPG on a Business Card / $1.00: Publisher: Tim Bannock

Built for the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam, SHARP is a rules-lite fantasy adventure tabletop role-playing game. Using the tropes you're already familiar with, SHARP performs two neat little tricks:

1. SHARP re-casts Classes as flexible role combinations, so you can play interesting and bizarre combinations.
2. SHARP gives the GM tools to build all challenges from the same framework, so the only difference between fighting goblins and saving commoners from a burning building is the players' ingenuity!

Formatted to fit on a business card, one side includes rules for creating adventurers and taking action, plus four pregenerated characters. The other side gives GMs the tools they need to adjudicate actions and challenge the adventurers, as well as two sources of inspiration: a list of tons of different challenges and levels, and a random table for rolling up the inciting incident that starts your adventure!

WHAT YOU GET:

• You get a complete fantasy adventure TTRPG that fits on a business card.
• Included are a PDF version as well as a high resolution image version.

CREDITS:

Created by Matthew Bannock

Developed by Tim Bannock for the #pleasurecardrpg jam on itch.io

Icons from game-icons.net:

• Bowman, Rear Aura by Lorc under CC BY 3.0
• Mounted Knight by Skoll under CC BY 3.0
• Swordwoman by Cathelineau under CC BY 3.0

Price: $1.00

Love & Barbed Wire - a letter writing game for two people ^

Love & Barbed Wire - a letter writing game for two people ^:
A soldier and their loved one write letters to each other during the First World War. Will their relationship survive the war? - [und;1,000 goal]

Eldritch RPG: 2nd Edition ^

Eldritch RPG: 2nd Edition ^:
A new edition of the Eldritch RPG! - [$15,000 goal]

DEATH IN SPACE ^

DEATH IN SPACE ^:
A rules-light tabletop roleplaying game in a gritty science fiction setting. - [kr50,000 goal]

Tales of Teralecia ^

Tales of Teralecia ^:
Tales of Teralecia is a fun and exciting table top RPG that will definitely be a great way to spend your weekend. - [$2,000 goal]

Goblin Country, a GM-less RPG Zine ^

Goblin Country, a GM-less RPG Zine ^:
An GM-less RPG about goblins going on adventures, and the trouble that follows. - [und;1,200 goal]

A Tear-able RPG [Free]

A Tear-able RPG [Free]: A business card sized RPG tool

Remember that night [Free]

Remember that night [Free]: An intimist micro-RPG about memories.

A Crowning Feast [Free]

A Crowning Feast [Free]:

Play as the head chef of the new ruler in a floundering kingdom. It's Coronation Day, and that means a feast! Whether this new ruler lasts or not, the real question is, will you?

This is a play-anywhere solo game. All you need is a d6, pen and paper, and your imagination. Feel free to share your menus and your tales on twitter, tumblr or instagram with #acfrpg

Created for the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam.

Available in a screenshot for digital play, original colours, or a simple white background for easy printing.

Towards Utopia [Free]

Towards Utopia [Free]: A card to help you stay focused.

Business Card Bookmark Character Generator [Free]

Business Card Bookmark Character Generator [Free]: A character creation game

Long Distance Camping [Free]

Long Distance Camping [Free]:

It's 2021 and you haven't seen any of your friends for over a year.  Time to escape the real world by going on an imaginary camping trip!  Long Distance Camping is a relaxing tabletop RPG meant to be played over the internet with friends.  ⛺

Long Distance Camping only requires a six-sided dice and a group of friends to play.

Support this game at $2 or more for a printable PDF version.

Inspired by media like Yuru Camp and games like Ryuutama.  Enjoy a relaxing time camping together!  No bugs included.

Credits
Game by cloverfirefly

Special Thanks to npckc

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Apprentice [Free]

Apprentice [Free]:

Apprentice is a story building, single player detective game in which you piece together clues to find the reason behind your boss's weird behavior.

This is perfect for players who are looking for a quick, first person detective table top RPG. You can explore the story of another character while investigating the provided clues in forms of small drawings and dialogue.

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Lost Cities [Free]

Lost Cities [Free]:

The Great Burial plunged the entire world beneath soil and rock. Find and reunite the Cities.

Lost Cities is a light solo role playing game where you lead a crew in search of the many neighboring civilizations buried beneath the ground. You'll encounter strange creatures and perilous obstacles as your morale slowly dwindles. 

What secrets will you uncover? What fate will your crew ultimately face? Only your wits and your dice can say!

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Sturm Und Drang [Free]

Sturm Und Drang [Free]:

Sturm Und Drang

1. Proper noun A German 18th Century movement in art, literature, and music that was a rejection of The Enlightment's focus on only logic; the movement focused on the expression and experience of emotions, particularly ones of awe and inspired by nature.

2. noun. A Lasers and Feelings hack based on the 18th Century movement which relies on tables for character creation and the setting, and depends on the Game Runner and players' sense of whimsy, the sublime, and having a good time as an artist/writer/musician in a moody location for an unspecified period of time.

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• Sturm Und Drang is in alpha stage. It has not been playtested. It is not available for sale.
• After playtesting, feedback, and revisions, S.U.D. will enter beta stage where donations are allowed.
• After v. 1.0 is released after extensive playtesting and even more revisions, a paid copy may be available, if this game reaches that point of development.

Playtesting feedback can be left in the Forum or sent directly to sunkenrust@gmail.com.

We Don't Live Here Anymore [Free]

We Don't Live Here Anymore [Free]:

'We Don't Live Here Anymore' is a game about dealing with major life changes and allowing yourself to move on without sacrificing the good things that got you to here.

How to Play:

If you are about to have a big life change (moving, new job, etc.)

Write 8 things you will miss about your current situation in the spaces on the back of the card. For each item, roll a d4 twice and write the letter in the corresponding space on the grid.

No more than once per day, when you encounter or think of something you won’t miss, roll a d4 twice and completely fill in the corresponding space on the grid.

You win if you fill in all the blank spaces and there are still numbered spaces visible.

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If you have recently made a big life change

The eight items should be what you miss from before the change. Spaces are filled in when you find something you enjoy in your new situation. The win condition remains the same as before.

*made for the 'Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam'*

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Scrappy Sauces [Free]

Scrappy Sauces [Free]: Created for the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam

IDOLS [$1.00]

IDOLS [$1.00]:

IDOLS is a pocket-sized/business-card fantasy game for you to play simple adventures with your friends on the go.

Using only a six-sided die and the card the game is printed on, solve problems and win fights with your skills, class, and equipment.

I made this game for myself, to carry with me and my friends whenever we're out or at a con or wherever else we may want to pass some time.

Failure in this game is unmentioned, but not because it's impossible to fail. Talk with the people you want to play with about what failure looks like—either when you start playing, at the start of each session, or even per each action.

This game was entered to the Pleasure-not-Business Card Jam.

In order to download this everyday-carry game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Support this everyday-carry game at or above a special price point to receive something exclusive.

If you don't want to spend a dollar on this game, please take a free community copy.

Each dollar tipped above the minimum price for the game adds a community copy, and every two purchases add a community copy as well.

I hope you enjoy!

Laser Sports [Free]

Laser Sports [Free]:

Learn from your injuries and do what your coach tells you to survive this season. 

This is a dice game to simulate the comeback season of a minor league Laser Sports team. This is a role-playing game in which players control characters who are in turn controlled by a ghost they summoned to be good at sports. 

- D66 system

- Game Master optional

- Candles and robes sold separately

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Weirdwood [$7.00]

Weirdwood [$7.00]:

Feeding on the dreams, emotions, and inner darkness of humanity, the Weirdwood is a primordial forest that grows just beyond perception. Its roots spread to every corner of the world, and the stuff of nightmares linger in the shadows of its ancient trees.

Sometimes, a persistent branch finds its way into the material realm, pushing through the cracks in abandoned buildings or blooming in dark alleyways.

Sometimes, something else comes through...

WEIRDWOOD is a narrative roleplaying game of dreams, nightmares, and the darkness in between. The characters belong to the Vartijat, an ancient order dedicated to protecting an unsuspecting world from a mysterious realm born from countless lifetimes of imagination. Whether hunting down fell creatures or thwarting the ambitions of those who seek to bend the Weirdwood's power to their own selfish ends, the Vartijat are humanity's first and last line of defense against the eternal darkness.

The Weirdwood is rarely the same in every location. For each game, the players create a unique version of the Weirdwood as it exists in their chosen city by answering a series of prompts from the Gamemaster to define its physical characteristics, important locations, native inhabitants, and magical qualities.

WEIRDWOOD uses a simple, collaborative dice-pool system for task resolution that encourages players to introduce complications and interesting narrative elements. Suitable for three to five people, the game is ideal for players who prioritize storytelling, theme, and drama over strictly defined rules.

The 32 page fully-illustrated black & white rulebook contains everything you need to play. You can use any size or style dice.  

To receive updates about WEIRDWOOD and other projects from Last Redoubt Games, be sure to join the LRG Mailing List. You'll get access to free text-only copies of the games REVENANT and HOUNDS OF THE TSAR just for joining!

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Zany! [Free]

Zany! [Free]:

Create a Zany cartoon character, and use the Story flowchart to harass an annoying Mark. Describe your antics, and vote on who’s is the zaniest, then roll to see if you get the Mark (YAY!) or the Mark gets you! (BOO!) Take them down enough Pegs and you’ll be the stars of the cartoon !

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Let's Kill Dracula [Free]

Let's Kill Dracula [Free]: The year is 1500, and you are a very angry sack of blood.

Do you remember the garden? [Free]

Do you remember the garden? [Free]: its heart of marble housing birds who sang like lost machines