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This game is about War, Pain, and Hate.  You warred with the Colonists. You warred with yourselves. Then the Imperials came to your “aid”. Your cousins to the North fight under the banners of the North Valley Army and with the (allegedly) radical Valley Commandos. You and your family are residents of the Southern Capital, occupied by a coalition of the Army of the Republic of the Valley, the South…

(This is the text to be translated for LocJAM RPG. For more details, check the event page https://itch.io/jam/locjam-rpg and this step by step guide https://itch.io/t/1505008/joining-locjam-for-dummies )Role-playing games don't  need to be intimidating! Reading giant manuals and preparing for hours can be fun, but what if you just want a last minute game? What if you're new to the genre and just w…

The Game  You are the Last Magus, out of your tower, witnessing the world you once knew crumble, fall to pieces... The shadows grow long, and in these final days of this Age of Magic, you sense a familiar presence beckoning you from the shadows, calling you to rest. It is Death. It is patient. Your work is not yet done. This is the world that you loved for all your long life, filled with mar…

A young woman is being sacrificed by royal decree to a beautiful, cruel, and ravenous harpy. And your band of wandering mercenaries has been hired to rescue her. But this job is anything but easy! Local legends say the harpy’s lair is haunted, the two guarding the sacrifice are both notorious badasses, and it turns out that one or more of you have history with the queen ordering the sacrifice. B…

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…

"Charge SRD is a free, open-source tabletop RPG system found on fari.community, also available in French and Spanish. It offers flexible character creation, adjustable campaign tones, and diverse extras for tailored storytelling. Powered by Charge games emphasize group struggles and quick dice resolution, inspiring over dozens of published titles."

You and your friends have trained hard in order to enter the greatest tournament in the world. But all of your blood, sweat, and tears isn’t for you.  It’s for the Hero.  The Hero has entered the tournament to defeat the Villain. The Hero needs all of you, their closest friends and most powerful allies, to enter the tournament with them. You’ll clear their path by scouting the Villain’s powers …

Vast Death Temple is a solo, GM-less journaling game using the Wretched & Alone formula originally created by Chirs Bissette with modifications I made at my own leisure. Requires: pencil, paper, at least one d6 (possibly more or use digital), one deck of playing cards, optionally a second deck of tarot or similar cards, 10 small totems and a tumbling tower (or a d20). This game was created for th…

Run around in the Aussie outback, punching evil dropbears in the face. Story There once was a young property developer, with grand visions of urban sprawl and rows upon rows of the same generic houses. One night, the young property developer prayed for the death of every native animal that held back his development plans while dreaming of miles upon miles of open fields with not a single tree in…

Citizen Goon - Goon City: Troika! A Goon City: Troika! Player Citizen Generator I recently released Goon City: Troika! Trashcan Edition, a hack of Tunnel Goons by Highland Paranormal Society and Troika! by Melsonian Arts Council,  and this is a complete Player Citizen (Character) Generator that gets you ready to explore the infinitely odd City in one click. I will periodically update and expand th…