Games like After the Great Beast

What is The City Ethereal? The City Ethereal is a fantasy game that takes place in a modern world, though not our world. Players are Weavers that track down and deal with wayward spirits in a hidden world of spirits and magic. A Hidden Worldof Spirits and Magic A few hundred years ago, spiritualists and magiturges worked openly. The War of the Crows changed that, and the magic users of the world f…

THE WORLD CAME TO AN END... Well before you were born, the world ended. While there is no one thing that signified the end of days, archivists agree that the "Year the World Ended" was 2324. Disease, wars, and natural disasters destroyed civilization as we know it, driving people into tunnels and underground bunkers. Most of these pocket cities fell apart due to illness and infighting, leaving onl…

This game was created for the first ever July Sixth Park Dinojam! Dino-pocalypse! The portals opened a few months ago. Nobody knows who to blame - scientists? The military? Dark wizards? But it doesn't matter now. What matters is the dinosaurs came through and destroyed life as you knew it. This city, built by a massive life-giving lake, was like a beacon for the prehistoric predators. Only the st…

Fragments of WarAfter the war, thousands upon thousands of bipedal mechanized fighting vehicles (or “Bimechs”) were left scattered across the land. Many were brought back to the capital cities to be repaired or scrapped, but the majority of them were too damaged to be easily transported. With the war won, the victors simply left their mechanical refuse in the battlefields to rust and wither. Recla…

Welcome to Space Hundreds of years ago, humanity left the Old World behind in massive generation ships. Dozens of these ships set off into space, seeking new homes. Much of the interior of these ships was set up for farming, and humans took many plants and animals into the stars with them. Lo-Fi Sci-Fantasy? The Old World was full of magic, and humans brought that magic with them aboard their ship…

"Breathless - System Reference Document" is a game creation toolkit focused on survival and tension, with simple and condensed rules designed to fit on a half-fold brochure. Characters are talented and proactive, facing difficult tasks and perilous paths, with a core mechanic based on skill checks using polyhedral dice. This SRD provides rules, design guidelines, and everything needed to create your own Breathless game.

The End is Near Rise of the End is an apocalyptic horror tragedy; your characters will not survive. They are doomed from the start. But they don't know that, and this game about trying to do more than survive; this game is about living while you're alive. Security Tracker Rise of the End features the Security Tracker, inspired by Rise of the Apes' "STRENGTH Tracker". It tracks the survivors' growi…

Welcome to Menagerie! On a terraformed planet known as Menagerie, human scientists with the Uplift Project resurrected dinosaurs to observe and study. Not long after, however, the humans disappeared, and Menagerie’s population evolved beyond the scope of the original project. Over millennia, they became sapient, formed languages and societies, and abandoned things like predator and prey for the gr…

What is this? Therefore iAm is a roleplaying game set in the nearish future about artificially intelligent robots, or “automatons”, gaining sentience and seeking freedom. The story takes place over three acts, with each act encompassing not only its own tone, but also its own mechanics.  Character creation is worked directly into the story, meaning your character is always evolving through the act…

The Hopes & Dreams SRD is a creation toolkit that helps you design a game where every mechanic serves the narrative in a quick, and efficient way. This goal focused system puts player characters against what they dread the most in every single roll. Based on Hopes & Dreams, you will find here everything from rules, to design guidelines, to help you make your own game Ignited by Hopes & Dreams.Read…