Junior Braves of the Apocalypse RPG $9.99

Junior Braves of the Apocalypse RPG: $9.99

Publisher: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE! Who better to square off against an invasion of zombies, aliens, or ancient creatures than a teenage scout troop! After a week-long outdoors adventure, you and your fellow Junior Braves return home to find that the world was no longer the same. Your families are missing, there are terrible things roaming the streets, and you aren’t sure if help will ever arrive. You all need to be brave and use your skills to survive, to adapt, and to thrive. Based on the Kids on Bikes roleplaying game and the Junior Braves of the Apocalypse graphic novels, this guide is a complete, stand-alone rulebook that includes everything you need to  to tell your own stories of kids dealing with the end of the world! CHARACTERS Using stats like GRIT, CHARM, FIGHT, FLIGHT, BRAINS and BRAWN, you’ll jump into the action. Character creation is fast and easy--the better your skill, the bigger die you'll roll. But the dice explode, so even your weak skills have a chance for a stunning success! Flesh out your character with Tropes, Flaws, Skill Patches and Equipment. Earn Brave Tokens for clever play, and spend them at key points to influence how the game unfolds. AN AWARD WINNING SYSTEM Powered by the Gen Con RPG Award-winning Kids on Bikes, this game is easy to play, and quick to get started. Perfect for a fast, easy session or campaign, with a focus on rich story-telling and rewarding encounters. This game is fully compatible with Kids on Bikes, and can be used to expand or enhance your game.

Price: $9.99

Freight Chain Iron Core Rulebook $0.00

Freight Chain Iron Core Rulebook: $0.00

Publisher: jscottgaribay

Freight Chain Iron is a free-standing, complete universal Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TRPG) in the tradition of GURPs and Cypher. It presents three new TRPG innovations.

New Game Participant Type (Adding an observer role (beyond the traditional Gamemaster role and Player role)

Accelerated Play (GM starts with three sentences written and players start with a character sheet containing three words)

Player Hedge (the ability to move narrative control of an NPC, a location or an artifact from the GM to a Player)

You dream it, Freight Chain Iron lets you run it quickly and dynamically.

Price: $0.00

Orcball $3.00

Orcball: $3.00

Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard

A one-page game about trying to win the international ORCBALL championship despite a) the blatant cheating of the other team and b) the fact that all the refs are out of their gourds on shrooms and yelling at the moon in an attempt to learn more, better rules.

A cross between skirmish warfare and Calvinball.

Price: $3.00

The Last Thing on Your Mind $1.00

The Last Thing on Your Mind: $1.00

Publisher: Wasteland of Enchantment Games

I was in a melancholy funk. So I listened to my favorite melancholy song. Which led me to designing a melancholy little experience/ritual/game/thing.

The Last Thing on Your Mind is a solo letter writing experience that asks you to reflect on a part of your life that you once loved dearly but haven't given the attention it needs. It takes place as you (fictionally, of course) lay dying. The rest of the world fades away and you spend your very last thought considering your relationship to this neglected thing.

Price: $1.00

Under The Floorboards $15.00

Under The Floorboards: $15.00

Publisher: Loot The Room

Under The Floorboards is a tabletop roleplaying game for 2-5 players about tiny people living in a giant, hostile world, inspired by The Borrowers. The focus of the game is very story-driven, with an emphasis on collaborative storytelling and worldbuilding over stats and crunch.

Build your family and the house in which they live, then embark on an expedition into the land of giants in order to collect the things you need to survive - without being seen.

The game uses a simple 2d6 system for conflict resolution and an easy-to-pick-up story-building system to help GMs build engaging scenes on the fly.

Under The Floorboards is a low-prep game designed for one shot play but with tools to enable campaign play over multiple sessions. The game provides locations, hazards, and tools to quickly design your own content to keep surprising your players, and is perfect for convention play or to keep on your shelf for game nights when your whole group can't be there.

Under The Floorboards was funded as part of ZineQuest 2.

Print copies are available from loottheroom.itch.io/under-the-floorboards.

Price: $15.00

Critical Chill $2.00

Critical Chill: $2.00

Publisher: One Door Dungeons

Throw aside the rulebooks and dive into a system-agnostic rules-lite fantasy RPG set in Tree Vegas. A city of neon lights, orcs in suits, and adventurers on vacation.



In a few quick rolls, you will have your setting, plot, and characters to romp around the city of Tree Vegas.



Included:

1-Page (front and back) RPG setting.

Price: $2.00

Defiant Role Playing Game $19.90

Defiant Role Playing Game: $19.90

Publisher: Game Machinery

Defiant RPG is an urban fantasy game about the mighty, modern-day supernaturals, who rebelled against their destiny and, instead of destroying the world, decided to protect it. By enforcing a demanding set of rules, the Defiant aristocracy empowers protective seals around their cities, making them the only safe-havens in a world ravaged by the Apocalypse.

The Player Characters are the Defiant blue-bloods, leading the supernatural society of fallen angels, demons, ancient gods, and dragons. They are powerful rulers, with their own Holdings (like clubs or luxurious mansions) and faithful subjects.

The rulebook contains:

• Complete game rules that will let you play exciting games in the world of Defiant 
• A comprehensive description of the intriguing Defiant universe
• Two robust chapters for the Game Master, focusing on preparing and running the game, with Basic and Advances rules to choose from
• Ready-to-play Province with dozens of NPCs, locations and two Story Arcs
• 4 Origins available to play: Angels, Deava, Infernals, and Leviathans
• 20 Personal Themes for the Characters, with dozens of Traits to choose from, Theme Questions the Players can ask during the game and special powers
• 9 Marital Themes with the rules on how to navigate the chosen marriage
• 9 Court Themes with multiple subjects to govern and problems to deal with
• 12 Great Houses the Characters may come from, with their own Creeds and Sacred Traditions
• 6 Holding Themes, enabling you to choose and customize your Character’s home

Game rules highlights:

• There’s no simple “You succeeded” or “You failed” outcome. There’s always a choice, an obstacle, or some trouble involved, but also bonuses, unexpected benefits, and lucky turns of events.
• Players can influence the story by using different Theme Questions, tailored to playing their chosen Themes. The “Gem” Character can ask, “How am I the center of this event?” or the Guide can ask, “Who approaches me about my teachings?”.
• Instead of Skills or Attributes, the Characters have descriptive Traits the Players can use creatively. The Traits may sound like “Athletic body,” “Thrives during tournaments,” “Knows how to charm,” “Acclaimed style.”

Price: $19.90

Morningstar:The Triumvirate Pacts $4.99

Morningstar:The Triumvirate Pacts: $4.99

Publisher: Frontier Gaming

Morningstar: The Triumvirate Pacts is a science fiction/fantasy roleplay game in which Players can use magic, technology or raw strategy in order to achieve their goals. Set in a backdrop of the search for harmony throughout Known Space, take up the mantel of a Morningstar Order and bring justice to the Galaxy... or use your autonomy to further your own ends.

With a unique system to track your Renown and Infamy, and a new way to measure the different types of XP your exploits will earn you, this 132 page rulebook will allow you to take part in epic adventures on a Galactic scale.

There are 8 playable Species to choose from, based on legendary and modern myth, and brought to life for you to experience now.

Price: $4.99

The Neon Game - Full Version $2.99

The Neon Game - Full Version: $2.99

Publisher: PLus Jokers Games

Shine up that chrome and tune up that cyberdeck, you’re headed straight for the intersection of the highest of crimes and the blackest of ops.



Welcome to the Neon Game, where Dealers engage freelance operators – Suits – to run clandestine Hands for business and pleasure (and sometimes both).  The Hands are dangerous, but the rewards are lucrative.  Will your Suit play their cards right, and retire rich and infamous?  Or will they bleed out in an alley, unmourned and unknown, food for the rats and the cyberware scavengers?



Based on the universal Alpha-7 ruleset, The Neon Game allows you to create and run games based in a cyberpunk world of your choosing.

• For players, this book takes you through a simple yet flexible character creation, getting you up and ready to play your first Hand in a matter of minutes.
• For GMs, it gives you access to resources for generating Hands, creating gangs, and designing virtual systems.
• For gaming groups, it gives you direction on how to create, populate and personalize your own cyberpunk haven using the Conflict system to define who, what and where the points of interest are in your world.

Price: $2.99

And You Shall Shatter Temples [Free]

And You Shall Shatter Temples [Free]:

They may be gods, but you are done being faithful.

It's time to burn their kingdom down.



Sing songs with the words they could not take from you. Raise the banner woven from the flags you stole back from them. Arm yourself with the swords you forged from their discarded bones.

And You Shall Shatter Temples is a game about rising up against an overwhelming power that is trying to crush you. All you have is what you carry with you, and those who rise up by your side. Together, you can turn the tide. Together, you can dethrone a god.

This game was written for the Attack and Dethrone God Jam. It is a GM-less game, meant for 2-4+ players, and is played with a deck of playing cards and some six-sided dice.

While the illustrated version of the game is priced at $7, the plain text version of game is available for whatever price you wish to pay for it, and I encourage you to donating whatever money you would have spent on this game to organisations supporting marginalised people, and working for a more just and equitable future. Here's a list to get you started, but don't stop there.

If you play the game, please let me know what you think of it, either in the comments here, or on Twitter.

INSOMNIA Re: DEATH [$5.00]

INSOMNIA Re: DEATH [$5.00]:

Navigate between the real world (the Real) and the realm of dreams (the Dream) as the nightmares are real. You have been suffering some insomnia and the veil between world has cause them to blur. Will you face the darkness and emerge back in the Real? Or does the nightmares of both realities come crashing down and send you deep into the void?

INSOMNIA Re: DEATH is a single-player journal-recording RPG using the Wretched & Alone system and game jam. Through a series of personal reflections, obstacles, and encounters, the player will determine their fate, unless the nightmares get to them first. 

In order to download this RPG Game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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A Wretched Luncheon With Your Best Friend Who Sucks at Cooking [$5.00]

A Wretched Luncheon With Your Best Friend Who Sucks at Cooking [$5.00]:

Your best friend wants to cook an unforgettable luncheon for you. They are very excited about this idea. You are less excited about this idea, since the last time your friend cooked for you, they burned down your kitchen.

You have formed a compromise: the cooking will take place in your friend’s house, not your own, and you will have the right to check in on them every ten minutes – just so long as you don’t actually open the kitchen door. You also intend to keep a log of key events for the sake of posterity.


A solo+ TTRPG about friendship, stubbornness and kitchen fires, based on the Wretched and Alone SRD by Chris Bissette. You will need either a 6-sided die, a deck of standard playing cards with the jokers removed and a tumbling block tower or set of tarot cards. Includes a 2 player option.

Cover image by Noel Bauza, sourced from Pexels (licenced under CC0).

Content Warnings

The core premise of the game is of kitchen fires played for comedic effect, though there is no loss of life or large-scale property damage. The text contains swear words. Some prompts relate to a fictional soap opera with common tropes such as illness, non-permanent character death and non-graphic violence. Feel free to skip any prompts which cause you discomfort.

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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These community copies have been set aside for anyone unable to afford the sales price. Please only claim a copy if this applies to you. I will add a new copy for each full price sale of the game.

Below 459 [Free]

Below 459 [Free]:

The year is 1968. You find yourself aboard a damaged West German Type 205 U-Boat. You’ve set out for the Baltic Sea, keeping an eye on those socialists from the DDR just next door. Then, the incident happened.

Somehow, you are the only one who survived, the dead bodies of your Kameraden all around. The boat lays still on the sea floor, water dripping from the ceiling. You cannot escape and have to wait for the rescue team. To make yourself know, you have to find the Funkboje first and launch it to the surface to send an S.O.S. Until then, you have to survive, both physically and mentally.

Below 459 is a GM-less, solo journaling ttrpg played with a set of cards, a d6, and a tumbling tower.

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Safety: This game includes themes of isolation, narrow spaces, despair, violence, death and ideological conflict.

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Below 459 was created for the Wretched & Alone 2020  Game Jam This game is based on The Wretched by Chris Bissette using the Wretched and Alone SRD.

WE ARE GONE, or The Long Walk To Wretched Bay [$1.00]

WE ARE GONE, or The Long Walk To Wretched Bay [$1.00]:

Your expedition to this vast north has gone awry and must be abandoned. Your dreams of glory are a distant, mocking memory; now all that matters is survival, pursuing the narrowest possible chance of survival. Your ship lies paralysed in the ice behind you, while before you stretches the impossible trek to the dubious safety of the whaling station at Wretched Bay. Godspeed you, Captain, and Heaven preserve you.

Made using the Wretched and Alone system, but utilising a can of spam instead of a block tower, this is a 1-person journal RPG in which you play as the Captain of a doomed expedition, trekking back across miles of ice, pursuing the faintest hope of survival.  Document your travels through the detritus your expedition leaves behind as it makes its long, slow, agonising way back to Wretched Bay.

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

The Shape of Your Heart [$3.00]

The Shape of Your Heart [$3.00]:

Created for the Wretched & Alone Game Jam

The first time you saw them, you knew they were different.

Their friends are all clueless. They have no idea what’s coming. They have no idea what you can do. But this one is smarter, sharper, more observant. They see you around corners, catch your eye when you think you’re hidden. They sense you. They feel you. And you can’t stop thinking about them.

Is this what love is?

People will try to stop you, to tear you down. Will you be stopped by the police? The other victims? Your own shortcomings? Or the object of your obsession themselves?Going in, you know it won’t be easy.

But when has love ever been easy?

Content Warning: stalking and murder, with various other shades of slasher film tropes as well.

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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If you're in need and would like to play the game, please feel free to take a community copy. One new copy will be added for every purchase of the game.

By the Sounding Sea [$3.00]

By the Sounding Sea [$3.00]:

Created for the Wretched & Alone Game Jam

You are the eldest child of a middle-class family in 1800s England. Despite the weight upon you to marry well and bring prestige and security to your household, you have made a grave mistake and incurred your family’s scorn.

Your punishment has sent you on a pilgrimage into the moorlands to your deceased aunt's expansive manor which looks out over the sea from a tall, sheer cliff. Throughout the halls of this empty home, the sea echoes. It beckons to your subconscious, begging you to give in to your already blooming despair.

"Come to me. 

Be with me. 

Drown in me."

You can only hope that the distractions are enough to keep the ocean out of your mind, that all of your hard work will be worth it somehow. You only need to last until your family retrieves you.

That is, if you can resist the waves for that long.

Content Warning: physical and social isolation, mental health (especially depression and psychosis), suicide, unreality, and familial abuse.

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If you're in need and can't afford a copy of the game, help yourself to a community copy of the game. Every sale contributes one copy to the pool.

My Soul to Keep [$3.00]

My Soul to Keep [$3.00]:

My Soul to Keep is a solo, gm-less journaling game in which you play a young child plagued by night terrors and struggling with their faith.  You will deal with challenges and abuses during the day and translate your traumas into the horrors that haunt your dreams. You will draw cards and write journal entries based on specific prompts in order to craft a story about faith and doubt. Is the real threat the monsters under the bed or your parents' religious fundamentalism?

This game is based on The Wretched by Chris Bissette and was created for the Wretched & Alone Jam.

Content Warning: This game includes themes of child abuse, religious trauma, fear, isolation, and unreality.

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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

If you're in need and can't afford a copy of the game, help yourself to a community copy. Every sale will add another copy to the pool, and tips in $3 increments over the asking price will add additional copies on top of that as a way of paying it forward.

The Creation [$3.00]

The Creation [$3.00]:

The Creation is a game of survival, fear, and monsters. In it, you play the role of agolem that has been abandoned by your creator. You face threats from withoutand within. The mob, driven by hate and fear, will return and assault the castle.Meanwhile, something has poisoned your body. Your only hope is to recreate the

catalyst of your “birth” before your body fails or the villagers arrive to destroy you.

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Before The Dawn [$1.00]

Before The Dawn [$1.00]:

Before the dawn is a solo journaling game using the Wretched & Alone SRD. It is played using a pack of cards, a tumbling block tower, a handful of twigs, and one six-sided die.

This is a folk horror tale like many others - someone has ventured too deep into the woods and awakened something terrible. A hungry, ancient thing.

In this version of the story, however, you are the horrible creature.

Your continued existence is tenuous, and relies on sacrifice and solitude. You must rid these woods of the intruder before the sun rises or be torn to pieces beneath its firey gaze.

Before The Dawn comes as an A5 print-ready .pdf file.

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“From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder.”

Adam Nevill, The Ritual

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

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Community access is supported by everyone who purchases a copy at the recommended price.

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You will also receive a copy of Before The Dawn

There's More to This House... [$4.00]

There's More to This House... [$4.00]:

WHERE DID THAT DOOR COME FROM?It wasn’t there when you fell asleep. But it appeared in the middle of your wall. Even though you just moved here with your family, you would have noticed it before. The door doesn’t feel safe, but your hand gravitates to the knob anyway.It’s unlocked...An impossible hallway extends into the darkness. You can’t see what’s at the end. Your family is terrified, but you’re curious about what lies in the depths of your home.

You plan your expedition.

There's More to This House... is a solo survival and mapmaking RPG played with a deck of cards, a tumbling block tower, two 6-sided dice, and graph paper.

You are a new homeowner that discovers their home is growing and expanding on the inside. Even though you sense danger deep within your home, you're drawn to explore the new hallways and rooms that appear.  You are alone. You can’t communicate with your family, and they aren’t able to reach you. As you venture deeper, your mental stability cracks. It’s not likely you’ll survive, but something draws you deeper inside.

Note: There are heavy themes of hopelessness, isolation, gaslighting, and death. If you are not comfortable exploring any of these concepts, this may not be the game for you.

There’s More to This House... draws heavy inspiration from House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and short stories such as Brian Russell’s “NoEnd House” and Charlotte Bywater’s “Hidden Door”.

There's More to This House... comes as a 17-page PDF and was created for the Wretched & Alone Game Jam.

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There’s More to This House... is based on The Wretched by Chris Bissette using the Wretched & Alone SRD. 

In order to download this solo RPG you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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If you can't afford a copy of the game, please help yourself to a community copy of the RPG. There are 25 copies available, but more can and will be added.

• 1 community copy will be added with each PDF purchase
• 1 community copy will be added for every $3 increment tipped above asking price