Games like Runaway Hirelings

A Greeblin’s Journey is a solo journaling game about a traveling creature called a Greeblin. They have become unsettled from their home and are now traveling for the first time in a world they have never explored. The road is strange and not nearly as kind as their bed, but they had to do something. They had to go somewhere. This project is a digital-only (for now) zine! The game uses 2 six-side…

Escape of the Free Magus is a single session role-playing game where each player takes on the role of a wizard who has been imprisoned in the wizard's tower. By morning one of you will escape this tower, but until then the decision must be made... Who should leave? The Game Preparation Required: players should read the rules, coins or tokens equal to two times the number of players, large index ca…

The world is changing and the forest spirits must act, or do they? What do they do? Should they reveal themselves to the humans and make their powers known? One doesn't want to. The other thinks it is worth it.  This 2 Player Tabletop Role-Playing Game is about going for a walk and talking the issue out while walking across the forests and fields of the world. The Game Preparation Required: Just r…

Teenie Tiny Things Sitting on a bus you look around you and daydream. What if the clouds are battleships that fight in an ocean of breezes? Imagine how they operate, the difficulty of keeping together fluffy machinery. Somewhere else a person puts their hands in their pockets and feels rice in them. They walk and listen to birds and just feel rice swishing around.  At night another person presses …

Oldham Rules is a minimal tabletop role-playing game, that focuses on quick characters, quick game prep (for creating antagonists and encounters), and focusing on jumping straight into playing a game of medieval fantasy adventuring. With an art direction and world inspired by the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts, of peasants riding snails and fighting little horned devils with pitchforks. It …

Create a world that changes the further you are from what is familiar. Use it for solo gaming, GM prep, GM-less games, drawing maps or worldbuilding just for fun. Use it for stories about fighting dragons, or stories with no fighting at all. Bring the world to life with random tables of everything from abstract social values to legumes. What do I need? At least one six sided die Pencil and paper F…

A Storytelling Card Game About Beautiful Heroes with Tragic Backstories You are an adventurer. You journey through dangerous lands in search of… well, that’s up to you. It’s a hard and dangerous life, and everyone has a different reason for taking it up. But you are also royalty. From a distant land, or a nearby kingdom, you were born into wealth, power, and prestige. But you left it all behind. W…

This adventure was written as a submission to the Pamphlet Dungeon Jam 2019! This is a lost tomb of religious importance, not yours but someone else's. A big religion that had a prophet who could commune with god. This dungeon is his tomb, but deep within and behind its filigree is a dark lake that murmurs and gnashes communications to any who come near. Blasphemous utterings of nonsense that unra…

This is an art book containing scanned pages from tabletop games artist Thomas Novosel's 2017 sketchbooks bundled together into a large PDF. This collected art book also contains a number of zines by Thomas that were made/released in 2017 including: the sharpie sketchbookmonster butts vol 1inktober 2017sketchbook excerpts 1 Contents 276 page hires PDF- - - A Link of Importance - - - My Patreon: W…

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The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!