Star and City has two play modes, one for in conflict and another for other times, and merges mechanics from TTRPGs like Blades in the Dark and Tenra Bansho Zero with inspiration from computer games like Dicey Dungeons.
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the_bookmarked RPG: Turn books from your shelves into spellbooks
the_bookmarked uses bookmarks with instructions on how to shape words found on real-life books from your shelves which reprogram robots.
Free to Download: DecKarnage! Quickstart
Space Otter says the game plays old school, random, silly and full of fluffy violence.
Odd Gobs: Survive a pocket-sized RPG of the gig economy and cyberpunk
One player is the GigL Master (GM), who creates the gigs for the Goblins PCs, who then have to travel the sprawling metropolis and perform their tasks.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #191
Routinely Itemised’s RPG news summarises reports and finds from the Geek Native blog and around the web.
Art gallery and Kickstarter pitch: Tales from the Firelit Gathering
If the campaign is successful, Tales from the Firelit Gathering will be 200 pages. As the project develops, Gelatinous Cubicles will work with the community to shape the book.
Flash Sale: Delver Lost Tales for Old-School Essentials
The Tabletop Engineer’s Devler Lost Takes is a collection of maps and tables for the OSR Old-School Essentials.
Lampblack solo RPG: Monsters, ambition and dangerous artists on Kickstarter
The author of Flameskin Chronicles and Talons and Teeth does comics and poetry and, in Lampblack, explores even more art, ambition and also monsters
Free to Download: SCP The Tabletop RPG Quickstart
The download dives straight into the rules, explaining attribute checks, exploding dice, the rule of one and versus rolls. Questions like “which dice do I use?” aren’t answered, so SCP RPG’s quickstart might be better suited to gamers with some experience.
Zephyr RPG: Explore anarchism, debt and obligation
PCs are Windfolk, people born from the emotions of the land itself. Creator Frederico Sohns is asking £20,000 to fund the project, has two weeks left to do it and is more than halfway there.
