Games like A Tiny Shortsword

low-tech + anti-capitalist + power fantasy What do you do when one man owns everything? You steal it, and you break his stuff. Our Farm is a tabletop RPG for 3-5 players. You play as displaced farmers piloting magical golems - farm equipment retrofitted for battle - to take back your land from the wizard Tysanto, who gained a monopoly on food production and forced you into sharecropping. He’s po…

A bunch of quirky "microgames," one-day RPGs that I typically whip up in three or fewer hours. This collection is to hold all the games for May so I'm not cluttering up my store page. I don't know that I'm going to get one done a day, but I'd expect at least 14 over the course of the month. Note: Despite being microgames/one-day projects, I have no sense of scale and many of these are closer to 10…

"The referee advice is gold. I know of few better sources for concisely explaining what to prioritize when running this sort of game." - Brendan S, Necropraxis, Wonder and Wickedness "I often quibble with RPG magic systems either being too complex or too restrictive, but this hit a great balance between flexibility and ease-of-use, while adding a special dash of creativity and Lady Luck." - Ars Ma…

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"Druid is an adventure game with different puzzles and riddles where you play as a druid who searches for a wise master and helps to magic forest dwellers. Overcome all obstacles to find your teacher!"

A minimalist, rules-light RPG for playing old-school fantasy stories, in the spirit of the game originally devised by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax in the 70s. Another fantasy RPG among hundreds of already existing ones? Certainly. But everything you need to know — including rules for fleshing out any player character you have in mind, combat mechanics, a table of items and other adventuring resourc…

Ugis was born to tell stories, in a simple and fun way. It puts together a solid structure for easy, fast, and long-term play, without having narrative limitations from oppressive rules. It is suitable for everyone, from the beginner who has only heard of rpg, to the veteran who has been pounding the tables for decades offering challenges to suit every appetite, always remaining minimal and dilige…

95% funded!!! Grab your enerQi-Blaster and step through the magic gate - there's a job for you to do! Soul Detectives can do amazing things, but magic alone can't help them.  Sometimes they need a Team that cleans up the mess! You are a Cleaner, part of the Clean-Up Crew and you are the ones they call when things get messy. Who are you playing?In Clean-Up Crew, you take up the role of Cleaners, p…

Hail and well met, Adventurers! QuestFellows is a GM-less collaborative story-telling and role-playing game for 2 or more players, based on the Four Points RPG System. QuestFellows combines the atmosphere and themes of classic high fantasy adventure, with a narrative, player-driven and fully cooperative role-playing experience. Overview In QuestFellows, you and your fellow Players take on the role…

tactical action | old school theming Trespasser is a tabletop roleplaying game about peasants-turned-adventurers carving out safe refuge amid the long collapse of their dying world. Designed for player-driven sandbox campaigns of survival and dungeon crawling, Trespasser borrows themes of early tabletop and pairs them with a tactical combat system inspired by 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. If you…

WHEN THE BROADSWORDS SING (WBS) is an OSR micro-RPG that draws on games like Knave and Barbarians of Lemuria to provide a sword-and-sorcery flavored take on the classic dungeon crawl experience. The game is 6 pages long, fitting on three sheets of paper front-and-back. 2-page rules document, laid out to be printed and folded as a tri-fold2 pages of random tables to use during character creation, t…