Games like Jinx - a Blades in the Dark playbook

CBR+PNK Core is a fast-paced, one-shot cyberpunk game using a modified Forged in the Dark system. Players take on the role of RUNNERS – mercenaries, criminals, and activists – in a gritty, ultraviolent world, with each game featuring a new cast of characters on their final run. The game consists of eight-panel pamphlets, including a GM guide, runner file, and framework for consequences, advice, and campaign play. The 1.5 augmented edition features updates to the core game.

You are a Sockgoblin! One of many loyal to the Great And All Powerful And Really Important Queen, living in the secret underground goblin city. Your Queen demands all sorts of items from the surface world; coffee, really big hats, the occasional hubcap. But what she craves most are Socks. Every year, the Queen demands a sock tithe, which is where you, little sockgoblin, come in! Every other Sockgo…

"CBR+PNK is a one-shot tabletop RPG set in a cyberpunk world, where players assume the roles of mercenaries, criminals, or activists on their final mission. The game uses a simplified Forged In The Dark system, with Approaches and Skills differentiating characters, and comes with a GM pamphlet for rules, a Run generator, and customizable Threats. The Player pamphlet is a character sheet with creation rules and focus on Stress, special actions, and recovery."

"Abenteuerspiel!" is a freeform adventure game for solitaire, cooperative, or referee-guided play, using six dice, an index card, and a pencil. Inspired by "Messerspiel" and "Trophy Gold," it provides lightweight mechanics to spark creativity and flexibility, with customizable aspects to tailor to your preferred narrative or simulationist style of play. Ideal for quick character creation and immersion into any genre, setting, or time period.

Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark is a rerelease of the popular 2017 Synthicide RPG using the Forged in the Dark engine.  In Synthicide, the Galaxy has entered a dark age where human life has no value. Sharpers have to fight for their lives, while trying to earn enough money for food and spaceship fuel. Create characters who are a mix of lethal skills, high tech cyberware, and unique mutations If …

Voidfarers is a Forged in the Dark game about the crew of a spaceship, a group of vagrants, and their struggle to survive, focusing on the choices and relationships they make while doing so. There are moments high octane drama with criminal operations, revolutions squabbles, hegemonic oppression, violent skirmishes, and high-G maneuvers. There are also moments of calm, the quiet intimacy…

"Nasty, Brutish, & Long" is a tabletop RPG focused on class warfare and revolution, using the Forged in the Dark system. Players choose characters from different social classes, and the game takes place in a world on the brink of major change. The goal is to explore the effects of revolution, whether it's caused by magical or industrial upheaval, social uprising, or the decline of nobility. The outcome of the revolution is determined through gameplay.

Life isn't kind to anyone in Doskvol, where lives are crushed under the gears of capital and corruption. But some people are decidedly more vulnerable and less able to fight back than others. Children are often not present in any given game of Blades in the Dark. We know they exist, as the setting wouldn’t be able to work without the pool of labor to be exploited by the capitalists replacing itsel…

"Bloodstone" is an action-packed horror tabletop RPG set in the cursed city of Heliwyr, where inhabitants' corrupt blood unleashes a wicked force during blood moon nights. Players, as hunters, must race against the clock to stop an Apostle from ascending and opening a gateway to the Ancients' realm. The game is designed for one-shot sessions, offering new challenges and hunters in each playthrough, as the blood moon nights in Heliwyr are eternal.

A young thief and newcomer You’re new here. New to the crew, new to Doskvol, or just new to being a scoundrel. You might be the youngest in the crew, but you know a trick or two. You know how to lift some coin, how to slip out of the local Bluecoat precinct, and how to annoy someone with endless questions. You’ve made friends with ghosts and pulled off a few small-time cons, and now you think you’…