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There is a war going on every day, a war of ideologies. Its soldiers don’t march in lines or report to a large pentagonal building. It is a shadow war where information and bullets hold equal weight, cutting-edge technology changes the nature of crime and espionage, and enemies don’t always wear uniforms.
This game is about clandestine Special Forces parachuting... [click here for more] |
DwD Studios |
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Cepheus Modern is a 2d6-based OGL game based on Cepheus Light, for playing campaigns set in the modern era. Whatever your game is: modern paramilitary, retro espionage, World War II battles, mysterious explorers, or renegade hacktivists; Cepheus Modern has you covered. This rules-light game offers character creation with a variety of modern careers, skills and equipment, rules for... [click here for more] |
Stouthearted Games |
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We Used To Be Friends is a collaborative teenage detective drama game. As a group, you’ll create your teenagers, the city they live in, and a season-long mystery that ties them all together.
We Used To Be Friends involves a series of interwoven mysteries. You’ll have your season mystery, every character has their own personal mystery, and each session has its... [click here for more] |
Firestorm Ink |
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I stumbled out of the crashed alien spacecraft and toward the secret government bunker that housed the real Statue of Liberty. Agent Burks unloaded his plasma thrower into the surrounding forest, melting the trees before they had a chance to burn. The lizardman clone we were supposed to transport safely was bleeding to death in my arms. I had only one thought:
“Abraham Lincoln... [click here for more] |
Playful Leviathan Press |
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Get the team together
Created as part of the PocketQuest 2024 game jam, Pocket Aces is a rules-lite TTRPG about a team of thieves stealing secrets from the inside of their targets’ minds.
Inside, you’ll find:
Instructions for the card-based Pocket Aces game system
Six casino-themed character classes, each with its own unique heisting role
Tips for GMing a... [click here for more] |
Kevin Helock |
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Jamais Vu is an unofficial TTRPG inspired by the video game Disco Elysium. Play as an amnesiac investigator solving a case while discovering your own identity, while 24 aspects of your psyche (your skills!) fight for your attention.
Features include:
110+ pages game with solo, cooperative, and traditional modes (with a Game Master).
Zero-prep, sit-and-play ruleset with an extremely fast character... [click here for more] |
Mithrillica |
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Enter the dystopian future where mega-corporations rule the world. Heirs of Dystopia provide an easy-to-learn rules system to run One-Shot or ongoing games set in a tech-noir future. (UPDATED JAN 2023)
The first adventure for Heirs of Dystopia is now available here on DriveThruRPG.
TALES FROM THE DIAMOND NEXUS - JOB #1
THESE RULES INCLUDE EVERYTHING YOU NEED:
An easy-to-learn... [click here for more] |
One Shot RPG |
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Enter the world of gamblers, gunslingers, and cowboys. Way of the Gun provides an easy-to-learn rules system to run One-Shot or ongoing games set in the fictional old west.
THESE RULES INCLUDE EVERYTHING YOU NEED, FROM CHARACTER CREATION, EQUIPMENT AND GAMEPLAY RULES.
This publication is Pay-What-You-Want. It takes a lot of dedication and work to make these... [click here for more] |
One Shot RPG |
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A Creators' Kit for a Game of Disco and Cosmic Horror
Moonlight on Roseville Beach is a game of queer folks in 1979 hunting monsters, fending off sorcerers, and investigating the strange happenings in their seaside town. Now you can create your own mysteries, origin stories, and character options, as well as move the whole game to your own settings with Boardwalks... [click here for more] |
R. Rook Games |
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Rough Cuts is a collection of six micro games. Each is designed to be read and digested in a single sitting.
Jury Duty, a game about the social dynamics of jury deliberation.
Runners, a game about post-apocalyptic parkour action in a world full of monsters.
Snakegrinder: Misadventures through Time, a game about an 80s hair band that travels through time solving... [click here for more] |
Dangerous Games |
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Femme Noir is a pair of thematically-linked roleplaying games - Desperate and Becoming. These games were inspired by media about womanhood through a noir (or neo-noir) framework: not stories where a cipher-like femme fatale arrives on the scene to confuse and beguile a male lead, but ones about how women relate to each other.
How women define our identities is a fraught subject... [click here for more] |
Owl Knight Games |
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Inspired by the studies of renowned ufologist J. Allen Hynek, this 1960s journaling RPG sits you in his chair; studying reports of supposed witnesses of unidentified aerial phenomena. Tasked with keeping the public tame on the matter, you and your team must sift the truth from the hoaxes, prank calls, or probable hallucinations and uncover the science beneath.
Using a journal and 1d10, you will generate... [click here for more] |
ohhigames |
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You start as a rookie agent who
works for A TOP-SECRET organization.
Sent to a deep province
to investigate the unknown DANGER.
THEY live among us.
extraterrestrial beings hide in our
society prey on small communities.
HUNT THEM AND SURVIVE.
Hi! The game is inspired by The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Supernatural. Players take on... [click here for more] |
RPGuPolaka |
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Phiction-Knosis-Deth is a rules-lite RPG of 1970s paranoid conspiracy and investigation. It contains a 5-page player's guide and a 5-page gamemaster's guide of brutally efficient rules designed to plunge players into a terrifying vortex of unstable reality. Players will take on the role of an out-of-their-depth average Dick or Jane called from their mundane life to serve as cosmic cannon fodder in... [click here for more] |
Christine Caligula |
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“It was a fairyland case. I hate fairyland cases. Once magic gets involved in a case, you never know what is real and what is illusion. Who is acting on their own free will? Who’s been enchanted? It’s always a mess to sort out. But no matter how much I swear off the faerie cases, I always get drawn back in to another one.”
Fairyland Confidential is a game... [click here for more] |
Teapot Dome Games |
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Embark on a thrilling tabletop adventure with Detective Time, a concise and easy-to-play RPG that transforms you and your friends into a team of detectives ready to crack cases by any means necessary.
Detective Time is a simple 3-page tabletop RPG that is designed to be played with a game master and up to 6 players. This system has been designed to be simple to understand with rules straightforward... [click here for more] |
Rat In A Suit Productions |
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A Police Procedural RPG for one person
You are a US Marshal, Federal Agent, former spy, crime scene investigator, or local police officer. You have been recently transferred/blacklisted/assigned to a new unit and assigned a new partner or reconnected with an old friend. You are feeling out your role in the new world you find yourself in. Your goal is to serve the public trust, to protect the innocent,... [click here for more] |
Cameron Mount |
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A crime procedural, powered by the same system as Lady Blackbird, set in a novel pseudo-renaissance city governed by a unique set of legal practitioners who must cooperate to solve major crimes. Good for one-shots or short campaign play.
In the City of Valor, the system is law is divided into six domains, and enacted by six different kinds of officers:
Valessar: representing... [click here for more] |
Sweet Potato Press |
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Something strange and ominous has happened. You are the lone investigator trying to find some answers.
This is a journal-writing game for a single player. As you play, you will write entries in the voice of a fictional investigator. Over the course of play, you will learn the truth about three interconnected mysteries that you improvisationally create as you play. The game recreates the narrative... [click here for more] |
Teapot Dome Games |
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Silencers - a two-page RPG about inept assassins.
Players: Work as a solo assassin, a duo or a team. Take on hit jobs that invariably come with complications, while attempting to deal with whatever's going on in your life at the time.
GMs: Use the included tables to generate a mission or use the mission guide to make up your own.
Rules-light action gaming using a single d6. ... [click here for more] |
Savage Spiel |
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Haunt Hunters is a rules-light pulp horror TTRPG for 2-6 players, about exploring haunted places, solving mysteries, and dealing with the paranormal. Character creation is lightning-fast, and the rules are simple and designed as a springboard for roleplay and collaborative storytelling. Haunt Hunters is designed to elicit a lighthearted horror tone, in the vein of Ghostbusters, Phasmophobia, Scooby-Doo,... [click here for more] |
Dark House Publishing |
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This is a Breathless game in which you play a game of criminals trying to go on a heist. Although you are perfectly able to play it as a traditional GM-led game, it includes full rules for generating a heist (see the Heist Tracker) and playing through it without any GM at all.
System: Breathless
Type: Stand-alone game
Genre: Crime, heist
Mechanics:... [click here for more] |
Loreshaper Games |
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In COOKIE JAR, the players take turns accusing one another of a CRIME until the actual culprit is revealed. The crime can be anything from stealing a pie to vandalizing a school to murder.
Cookie Jar requires an obscene amount of dice. Which are not included in this PDF. ... [click here for more] |
post world games |
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In the roaring 20’s, spell core tommy guns are the gangster’s weapon of choice. You are a gang of capable criminals, and The Don has a job for you.
Heavily inspired by the structure of Lasers and Feelings, the character creation of Fate's Skill Modes, and the feel of my jazz playlist comes Spell Core Mafioso. This is a simple RPG to pick up and play when you want a quick... [click here for more] |
DiviDestined |
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Can you survive a murderous 1920s poker tournament? Who killed the passenger on the steam liner to New York in 1947? What happened to the surgeon? And will you be able save your guests from poisoning? Five murder mystery scripts take players to very different places and times in history, from a 1920s birthday party to a modern times charity event, from a steam liner in 1947 to the British coast, where... [click here for more] |
Jessica Holzhausen |
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Scared RPG
Scared is a rules light Tabletop RPG that uses a standard deck of playing card without any dice.
The game is fast, deadly, and easy to understand.
Best used in Modern setting, but can be used in any genre. ... [click here for more] |
Artikhun Rattanasritai |
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Four years of pre-med, four years of medical school, one year of residency, years of professional experience back on Earth and all the memory downloads about extraterrestrial culture have all taught you this: you don’t know anything about what you’re doing. Not here, anyway. On the Sphere, everything is weird and different.
The Sphere is one of the wonders of the galaxy, an enormous construct... [click here for more] |
Teapot Dome Games |
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Gangsters engage in deadly turf wars, petty criminals commit petty burglary, Old Ones await for their priests to bring them forth, and a few talented individuals protect us from these threats. The Whisperer and Darkness is a rules-lite cinematic RPG, based on the Shatter6 engine. It is a pulp-era game that combines the tales of over-the top heroes with the existential horror of Lovecraft. All that... [click here for more] |
Fourth Wish Games |
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We've all watched TV shows like NCIS, CSI, and Law & Order. But these shows aren't just about solving crimes; they're also about the personalities of the detectives solving the crimes.
Hot Pursuit is a tabletop RPG of collaborative story-telling. There's no central GM; players instead create detective characters with specific interpersonal relationships,... [click here for more] |
Brent P. Newhall's Musaeum |
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A Dinner to Die For is your guide to playing a game of How to Plan a Murder, the deliciously intriguing murder mystery dinner game.
The booklet explains the format of the game, the presentation of your character, and the rules of play.
A printer-friendly copy, which excludes images, is included.
Directors, We’ve Got You Covered
Share a link to A Dinner to Die For with your... [click here for more] |
Rising Phoenix Games |
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Fight For Rights is a game about politics, debate and education on important topics.
It is a lean system meant to add game-play to a player’s real-world investigation, education, and enrichment on the policies that impact their everyday lives.
This game is built on the Breathless SRD a product of Fari RPGs.
... [click here for more] |
Dungeon Rogues |
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This is a roleplaying game about people who live in a superhero universe. Elsewhere in the setting, Solarman is punching out the villainous Dr. Thunder right now. But this is not a game about them. This is about the guys in the background, who have to deal with the everyday hassles that most superheroes don’t worry about. Sure, you have some superpowers, but you still gotta pay the rent, right?... [click here for more] |
Teapot Dome Games |
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Publicly, the Weatherman’s Syndicate is a collection of freelance meteorologists who share resources, and work with publications across the world. Their crown jewel, the sky ship Skiromac, acting as a mobile hub for its members. Privately, they serve as supranational spies and information brokers, selling secrets to the highest bidder and shepherding sensitive cargo across borders. Although the syndicates’... [click here for more] |
Symphoneers |
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The Monster Investigation Club is an easily accessible roleplaying game that follows a gang of highly inquisitive teenage investigators uncovering the truth behind a monstrous visitation.
Play as one of five Clichés:
The Leader
The Danger-Prone
The Brains
The Coward
The Mascot
Investigate five types of monster:
Aliens
Cryptids
Ghosts
Goo Monsters
Occult Monsters
... [click here for more] |
A. J. Simpkin |
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A tool to develop and intrigue and discover the ramifications of a city-wide system, a la The Wire ... [click here for more] |
De Reel |
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This is the rules complete edition of Gilded Age. The World sections need work, but all player's guide sections and GM's guide sections are done, polished, edited, cleaned up, formatted and otherwise 100% complete.
Gilded Age is an RPG that has class-based characters and tactical combat, but an open-ended and flexible skill system.
The Gilded Age setting is Diesel Punk, similar to our earth's 1920s-1950,... [click here for more] |
Travis McCrory-Gardner |
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Airing Mondays at 8PM/7PM CST This is a role-playing game for two or more players, in which you’ll create a random episode of a long-running, serialized prime-time drama, probably airing on the USA Network. It’s set on a beach, or at least, near a beach. There are mysteries to solve; ones the cops can’t (or won’t) crack. That’s where you come in. Together you’ll play... [click here for more] |
Jeff Stormer |
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You’ve been accepted to wizard school, can you solve the mystery before it’s too late?
Play as young witches and wizards investigating the mystery of Magic School Castle. Solve clues, cast spells, and cause mischief in this rules light and narrative heavy tabletop role-playing game! This is a demo, check out the full game here! Features
- Create your... [click here for more] |
Tanner Wilson |
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Flex your improv skills with and against your friends in this rules-lite TTRPG. This GM-less, party-game style event works best with 2-4 players and will have your imagination working overtime. Design your eccentric character, steal the story from other players when they slip up, and come up with increasingly more ridiculous reasons why only you could have pulled off the heist of the century. ... [click here for more] |
Joanna Messineo |
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