Games like StoriesRPG - Power Ups!

Welcome! This is a two-page, printable tool for creating climactic moments of tactics and tension - without combat!  Whether an epic chase, the struggle to save a sinking ship, or a desperate search for a medicinal ingredient, this will help you create collaborative goals and a real sense of drama! As a certified teacher, I find the narrative focus in most TTRPGs to be reductive - the action and …

Welcome! This is a two-page, printable set of cards designed to help you become better at running tabletop RPGs.  Though designed to work with the StoriesRPG base rules, it works with any tabletop RPG, giving you tips for improving: Trust & Collaboration: Help players build community and connection.Speaking & Listening: Help players improve their improv and attention.Writing & Storytelling: Help…

Welcome! This is a two-page, printable approach to designing engaging, dramatic scenes for any story - whether one you choose to write out, or for a story game.  Though designed to work with the StoriesRPG base game, it works with any tabletop RPG, breaking every scene into four parts: The Hook: A read-aloud description to set the scene!Explore: A list of things to describe and questions to ask to…

Stories Podcast has delighted kids and parents for years; Stories RPG is a game for telling epic tales for kids and adults from 6 to 99.   Stories RPG focuses on narrative, helping kids learn to tell stories as they build their characters and the world.  Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 of Starsworn, a print and play choose-your-own-adventure/coloring book, are available at StoriesRPG.com, alon…

Partnerz in Grime is a story game in which the players take on the role of a crew of goblins: awesomely awful, magical critters hiding out on the edges of hooman society getting into all sorts of trouble. The game is a story arc for Stories RPG. It includes all the rules in the free one-page game, along with illustrations by the incredible Rob Hebert, fun extra rules, a world-building tool, and s…

77%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, stability

77% User Score Based on 1,628 reviews

Fantasy Grounds is a hybrid application which allows you to play and create your own RPG games. It facilitates this play and provides some optional add-on Adventure modules which can be loaded and played with very little preparation. Each game will require a GameMaster (GM) and one or more players. Games may be played in a session as short as a few hours or continued with multiple sessions over a …

94%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 10,360 reviews

Critic Score 89%Based on 2 reviews

Wildermyth is a character-driven, procedurally-generated tactical RPG. Lead a band of unique heroes as they grow from a reluctant farmers into legendary fighters. Battle threats lurking in the Yondering Lands and discover secrets that the land has to offer.

88%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, optimization

94% User Score Based on 4,294 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 21 reviews

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

79%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, optimization

79% User Score Based on 2,278 reviews

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

84%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

graphics, grinding

84% User Score Based on 292 reviews

Erannorth Reborn is a Rogue-lite, Deck Building RPG game. You take on the role of a supernatural creature (or a human with supernatural abilities), as he or she struggles to survive through a relentless pursuit from the Order of Light.