Ultra Force Time squad [Free]

Ultra Force Time squad [Free]:

Time Force is a strategy story game where the players can time travel. It uses the cards as the map layout in random order to create a unique play through in each game. The game is intended to be challenging for the players enticing them to restart the scenario and go back in time. The game can be played anywhere, but a flat surface is the easiest to manage.  It will take about 2-3 hours to complete depending on how many cards are used. As with the additional cards you the GM and players can customize and alter the rules and cards to better suit your time and preferred play style.

Materials needed to play

1x deck of poker cards consisting of:

10x diamond cards

10x heart cards

10x spade cards

1x ace of heart

1x ace of spades

7x dice (d6) per player

1x sheet of paper per player

Something to write with (pencil is preferable)

1x player piece (anything you have will work)

This game is still under development. All feed back is appreciated!

Gilded Tongues [Free]

Gilded Tongues [Free]:

Gilded Tongues is a duet about lies, truth, and conscience. One player is a human, who is receiving help with their myriad of problems; the other player is the snake, a supernatural being that offers help through deceit. Gameplay focuses on discussion between the two characters as the human decides between deceiving those they care about or facing the consequences of the truth.

Made by regretfully ambitious fan of robots @EvilPlanCaptain

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unimalcamping [Free]

unimalcamping [Free]:

written for a zine. five pages.

this is a game for a group of up to 10
people. it's about being an animal
and going to summer camp.


one person must be designated the
facilitator. the facilitator will lead each
ritual, telling the other players what
to do. the facilitator is also a player,
so they will have to do all the same
things the players do.


this is not a oneshot. you're supposed
to play in sessions. one in-game day
per session works best.


materials required:

• paper, a writing utensil, and 2d6 for each player
  
  
• optionally, a camper playcard for each player (you can just use blank paper though)
  
  
• a fire source (candle, fireplace)

with material substitutions, this game
is online-friendly, via video/voice call,
voice-only call, or text. 

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Consensus | Together [Free]

Consensus | Together [Free]:

Consensus | Together is a pair of one-page narrative roleplaying games about a group of people working together to do something about the state of the world, and the importance of the rules that guide our interactions. Using an identical setup and facing the same challenges, each game has subtle variations in its mechanics and framing. These differences implicitly showcase two very different visions of what it means to work together using consensus-based decision making processes. As they play, players can use the rules to improve the game itself, provided of course that they can come to a consensus about how to do so.

Work together (or don’t) to discuss proposals on the agenda as you define and then work to achieve your goals. Will you desperately try to patch the broken process before everyone has Something Better to Do? Or will you revel in the chaos, embracing your personal hidden agenda as you gather information, build solidarity and enforce the rules through judicious use of Points of Order?

Consensus | Together is both a satirical game and an educational one, teaching people about making both decisions and games at the same time. Consensus sharply parodies elaborate consensus-for-its-own-sake cargo culting and explores the consequences of subtly terrible rules by demonstration. After your group decides this has gone on long enough, check out Together for a breath of fresh air. As you work together to make a difference, explore how good rules and structure can help keep you focused on the things that matter and resolve your disagreements.

This game is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Hack, pirate and distribute this game to your hearts’ content. If you found it useful, distressingly familiar, or even fun, please pass it along or stick it in your zines, in the hopes that our organizations in the real world can look more like Together, and less like Consensus.

Dhextiny [$3.00]

Dhextiny [$3.00]:

Dhextiny uses a variable success and failure mechanism that provides varied results and outcomes in game actions, as opposed to the usual binary result systems seen in most tabletop role-playing systems.

To determine results in the game, a combination of a shared hexagonal board, called the Dhextiny, is used together with a single six-sided die.

There’s a Dhextiny board included at the end of this document that can be printed for your use. However, if you cannot print the board, you can easily create one from a simple piece of paper and pencil, following its very basic design. You will also need a single token to keep track of where you are in terms of results on the Dhextiny board; again, for this you can use anything like another die, a coin, or even a simple cut-out piece of paper.

This has been designed as a generic system. As such, feel free to build upon it and create your own settings, worlds, and expansions over these basic rules.

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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Cerberus Reach [Free]

Cerberus Reach [Free]:

In Cerberus Reach you play as one of a remnant member of humanity, just trying to earn enough money to buy a ticket through the nearest Hyper-Gate. Because the Cerberus Reach has gone to shit, and the Void Dead are coming. Can you and your crew gather the creds to flee? Or will you just wind up another corpse in the Reach.

This TTRPG contains everything you need to play including rules, a setting guide, and a sample mission. All you need are some six sided dice.

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Coven: a game about supernatural roommates [Free]

Coven: a game about supernatural roommates [Free]:

Coven is a game about supernatural roommates. Two to five players and one Facilitator will work together to create a story about more-than-ordinary people living together, facing challenges both mundane and magical. As a player, you’ll create and act out the life of one supernatural characters. As a Faciliatator, you’ll be responsible for providing the world the characters inhabit, from the people they encounter to the obstacles they find in their paths. At its heart, Coven is about relationships between people who share common interests, but maybe not common experiences. A vampire is not the same as a witch, but they are both different from a regular human in similar ways. This can bring people together—or force them apart. How will your coven fare? 

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Blood on Red Soil [40% Off] [$3.00]

Blood on Red Soil [40% Off] [$3.00]:

Blood on Red Soil is a solo journaling game
about overwhelming odds and acting decisively in the face of near certain
death. It is about tapping into a mix of bravery, stubbornness, and a desire to
go on set against a backdrop of red landscapes and deadly conditions. It is
about feeling anger for being abandoned while also understanding why.

You play as the last remaining crew member of a
scrubbed mission to Mars after an unexpected storm rips through the site. You
know how quickly this planet can turn on you and are all too aware of the
hundreds of ways you could die here. You must successfully navigate the coming
days knowing that any small mistake could be your last.

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This game also requires a standard deck of 52 playing cards, a 6-sided die, 14 tokens, a tumbling block tower (optional), and a way of recording your play: a audio or video recording device is recommended, but pen and paper will also work.

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Blood on Red Soil was made as part of the Wretched & Alone game jam using the Wretched & Alone SRD. The Wretched was created by Chris Bissette.

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Community Copies are available for those experiencing economic hardship. For every copy of Blood on Red Soil sold at full price ($5 or more) a free copy will be added for those who cannot engage with Blood on Red Soil due to economic hardship, especially as a result of being part of a marginalized group. 

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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This is for those who want to engage with Blood on Red Soil but the cost would cause financial hardship. For every copy of the game purchased at full price, a community copy is added for those who need it. Please take advantage of this if you need to, no questions or judgement. 

Under The Floorboards [$10.00]

Under The Floorboards [$10.00]:

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.

For print copies, see below.

Buy Now$10.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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Community Copies provided by Kickstarter backers. If you are marginalised or are in financial need, feel free to take one - no questions asked.

The zine is a 48-page, A5 saddle-stitched booklet printed in black ink on 160gsm natural paper with a sturdy heavyweight cover in a classic mustard yellow intended to evoke beloved clothbound books from childhood.

Price includes international shipping anywhere in the world, as well as an immediate download of the game in PDF form. Please do not forget to add your address - itch will let you checkout without this. If you do not enter your address, please email chris@loottheroom.uk with the correct details.

Several Miles from Heaven [$4.00]

Several Miles from Heaven [$4.00]:

You are two horny teenagers.

You both have a crush on each other but are loathe to reveal it.

You are also burgeoning demigods (though you do yet not know this).

You will be stripping and telling stories.

* * *

Several Miles from Heaven is a roleplaying game for two players, and involves the actual removal of clothing as a game mechanic. An early version appeared in the 200 Word RPG Contest.

CREDITS

Game Design and Writing: Sharang Biswas

Art Direction: Sweta Mohapatra

Illustration: MJ Barros

Special Thanks: Mark Bosz, Nick Tyson, Evan Torner, Kat Jones, Lucian Kahn, Anna Anthropy

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Tavern at the End of the World [$3.00]

Tavern at the End of the World [$3.00]:

Tavern. Publichouse. There are a lot of words for the thing you run. The one you like these days, as occupiers’ boots tramp through your streets, is refuge. You offer a hard drink, a good meal, somewhere to hide. And other, more slippery things. Until they shut you down.

TAVERN AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a journaling role-playing game for one player. It requires a tarot deck and can be played in half an hour or more. And it fits on one printed page.

The city is under occupation. You keep your establishment afloat by serving this embattled community. But if you want to continue to do it, you'll need to stay off the occupying forces' radar.

Receive visitors to your establishment. Turn over a tarot card and use the game prompts to help decide who comes calling and what they're looking for. A drink, a hot meal, a secret meeting to ferment revolution.

But keep a low profile. Throw coins to find out what kind of heat your visitor brings down on you. What kind of action are you willing to take to keep the occupiers away from your doorstep?

Write in your journal. But be sure to hide any illegal activity behind coded language or euphemism. If your establishment gets raided, your journal could be seized as evidence against you.

One of our city’s new protectors stopped in for a nightcap, but objected to sharing the bar with refugees. Once he tasted the drink I mixed up special for him, though, he quieted down immediately.

Designed & written by Anna Anthropy and  illustrated by Rayne Klar. Shout out to Sharang Biswas for coming up with the name. The tarot deck in the photo is the Tarot of Pagan Cats.

Tavern at the End of the World is a Princess Sword game, and is based on my other game Princess with a Cursed Sword.

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Inscrutable Cities [$5.00]

Inscrutable Cities [$5.00]:

It requires no cards, dice, or tokens, and falls somewhere between "lyric table-top role play," "interactive fanfiction," and "guided meditation from an alternate universe." It is designed to be suitable for both solo play and with a group, in person or remote. The shortest possible complete play-through takes about half an hour.

A Note on the Source Material

This game is inspired by, and in response to, the works of Italo Calvino, primarily but not exclusively Invisible Cities. It's intended as a submission to "If on a summer's night a game designer...", a Calvino-themed game jam that runs from the summer solstice to the fall equinox, and as such, will be completed no later than the end of that jam. Without getting too into the weeds here, my conceptual goal is to allow players to re-experience the awe and mystery of the worlds Calvino so meticulously built in language, without his unrelenting fixation on women's bodies, among other things that sour a lot of his fiction for me.

Q & A:

Why are you selling it now if it isn't done yet?

I am presently, for lack of a better phrase, a "full-time writer" (unemployed), so pre-orders very directly support the time and resources needed to fully develop the project.

What steps are involved in this project's completion?

In addition to finishing and revising the writing and testing the  game play, I'm also:

• Designing the cover art in both full color and printer-friendly black and white.
• Designing and typesetting the interior layout in both full color and printer-friendly black and white.
• Designing and testing an html version with dyslexia-friendly font, screen-reader-friendly markup, and colorblind-friendly palette.

Some things I would also love to do, were resources no object, but which are only really possible past a certain threshold of support:

• Make the eventual release totally free, very cheap, or by suggested donation.
• A custom in-browser randomizer that will pick outcomes for you if you're feeling indecisive or want to add dice-roll style suspense into your session.
• Physical zine copies with cute paper and everything. Ah, the dream...

What does "pre-order" mean? Why is it listed as a download? Where's the file?

Itch's pre-order function works like most pre-orders, allowing you to support a project financially upfront and entitling you to the completed version as soon as it's released. The Itch-specific quirk here is that, for some reason beyond my understanding, it's labeled as a type of download, even though there is no file on the other end (yet). When the project is released, you will automatically have access to the complete version.

You can, in the meantime, download the character creator sheets as a free demo! These, I've heard, are fun on their own but will also give you an idea of the overall aesthetic and play mechanics of the game.

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 when they are released:

God Remains [$5.00]

God Remains [$5.00]:

God Remains

The Omnigod was everything. He gave and he took away. With his face of glory he conferred forgiveness, with his face of evil he conferred punishment, with his face of wisdom he conferred enlightenment, but truth was always one step away.

Now he's dead. You rebelled and killed him. Now you're free.

Now, only god remains.

This is a game about building a home out of the remains of a fallen god. You will play as members of the People, who look after their peers and carve spaces to turn the God Head into a home while facing the void of space and the threat of bodily decay.

If you're familiar with Power by the Apocalypse games, this might be a little different from what you're used to, but you'll figure it out right away.  It’s inspired on turn-based strategy games over your traditional epic tales of adventure.

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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Grab one of these if you just can't afford the game! I trust you ;)

Debt Is Only The Beginning [Free]

Debt Is Only The Beginning [Free]:

The classic image of a mage is a wealthy scholar, usually male, sequestered away in an ivory tower. Surrounded by books, familiars, and strange instruments of all sorts, he is content to perform his experiments and work his rituals in pleasant solitude, knowing that the outside world will never intrude on what is truly important.



Would that you could have that. Ivory towers don’t come cheap nowadays. You’ve maybe heard of a friend of a friend who crashes on his uber-rich friend’s ivory-colored silk couches, but you couldn’t afford so much of a swatch of the couch fabric, let alone the penthouse in which the couch sits. There are still some mages in the one percent. You’re not one of them. The best you can do is throw yourself on their tender mercies.

Maybe you’re an apprentice. Maybe you’re running from something, or someone. Maybe you just needed a cheap spot to crash until you can finish school in the city. For whatever reason, you found yourself signing your soul away on this lease to one of the fat cat casters. It’s not too bad, you have hot water and a bed of your own and maybe even a kitchen. It’s within your price range, which is a miracle. Good thing, too; if you don’t make rent by the end of the year, it’s gonna be your ass handed over to the Goetia or the Faerie Courts or whoever’s weird sigil was on the contract you signed.

But hey, you’ve dealt with worse, right?

Debt is Only The Beginning is a rules-light tabletop dealing with magic and uncertain living situations, and was originally published for Avery Alder's Rentpunk Game Jam. It will always be PWYW.

Wickies [$5.00]

Wickies [$5.00]:

You are wickies, both of you, light-keepers employed by the United States Light-House Establishment. Your job is to tend to a lighthouse far off the coast, and make sure the light is lit every night.

You have both been brought to this barren rock on a tender ship, to serve your four-week stint before you are relieved.

You are neither of you strangers to hard work, but the days and nights do take their toll. As the weeks go by, will you keep it together or will you turn on each other? What lies beneath the waves? What strange power does the lighthouse hold? What secrets do you keep from each other?

Wickies is a 2-player GM-less rpg based on the Wretched and Alone rules by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders. You take on the roles of lighthouse keepers, one of you will be the older Keeper, who is in charge, and one of you will be the younger Assistant.

Wickies is available as a A5-size zine of 20 pages.

This game was created for the Wretched and Alone game jam 2020: https://itch.io/jam/wretched-jam

Chris Bissette's game The Wretched can be found here: https://loottheroom.itch.io/wretched

The Wretched and Alone SRD is available here: https://sealedlibrary.itch.io/wretched-alone-srd

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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For anyone who feels they cannot afford this game right now, but want it, there are free community copies available. This also (and especially) applies to other entrants in the Wretched and Alone jam.

Lost Emblem Saga [Free]

Lost Emblem Saga [Free]:

Lost Emblem Saga is a rules-light fantasy minirpg that's built off of the same framework as Nine Black Jewel Moons, and -- alas! -- grew far too big for any pocketmod, so I decided to try my hand at a quarter-page-sized zine instead :D 

It's also a homage to a certain long-running strategy rpg that likes its fires and emblem, at least as far as flavours and tropes go.  I've made some tweaks here and there, ha.  LES even comes with its own mini-setting, an overview of the continent of Illone.

Hopefully even if the bones of the beastie aren't to one's taste, there may be a bit of the meat on it to your liking.  Enjoy ~

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Spoken in the Dark [$3.00]

Spoken in the Dark [$3.00]:

Words have power. 

When you learn new languages you look at the world anew. 

When you look at the world with new eyes you realise you can change it. 

But you can't do it alone.

You play two people on a new world, plucked from your life and home. Neither of you speak the other's language fluently, but in the process of learning it you discover, with these new words, you can change this world and maybe one day get home.

A game for those of you who, like me, cannot learn alone.

Spoken in the Dark is a prompt based 2 or more player game using the Forged in the Dark dice system to enhance your language practice.

This is an early version of the game to see if there is interest. Future development plans include more moves, playbooks, translations, and art.

Purchasing the book at this price will provide you with access to all future developments to the game for free. The price may change later, but it will not affect those of you who have already purchased a copy. 

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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Claim a free copy for those who are experiencing poverty or marginalised access to the gaming community.

Copies are limited but there will be more when other copies are bought. 

The Floor is Lava [Free]

The Floor is Lava [Free]: A tabletop platformer RPG

Slayers ^

Slayers:

A tabletop RPG of monster hunting in a strange city. - [$1,500 goal]

5A System Enhanced Edition ^

5A System Enhanced Edition:

A ruleset for tabletop roleplaying that has been under development for 20 years, now finally ready to be shared. - [kr120,000 goal]