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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.
YZ Worldbuilding: Alien Trilogy
Year Zero Worldbuilding creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs.
Kill Kindness: Fight the alt-right Christofascist government in post-apocalyptic Florida
Characters must build a web of spies, overthrow the company and kill an immortal. That’s all.
Art and pitch from La Notte Eterna – a horror-gothic setting for 5e
Ali Ribelli Edizioni is a thoroughly well-established Italian publisher with hundreds of titles and international distribution deals. Imagine if they did RPGs too.
2d20 RPG bundle: Dune, Star Trek, Fallout, Dishonored TTRPGs and more
Now, on the Bundle of Holding, there is the Worlds of 2d20 deal, and it’s a cracker! We’ve until Monday, 27th February, to snap up the tiers we want.
Ghost: A solo RPG journalling game of melancholy
Structured a bit like a choose-your-own-adventure game, Alice He’s Ghost is a journalling game, an RPG zine, that explores themes of place and melancholy. At some point in the game, a ghost will appear.
Cities Without Number: Free and system-neutral cyberpunk as Kevin Crawford smashes through $250k on Kickstarter
Now Cities Without Number brings the talent to Kickstarter and has smashed through one-quarter of a million despite a free game being on the cards.
Craftando Games wants to translate the Brazilian RPG Libra into English
Libra is about balance in a world of diversity and constant change. There is a fight for survival, a struggle for land, and a battle against barons and colonels. There’s also investigation, mystery and magic.
