So the idea of something that’s free, that requires almost nothing to play and that can keep adults and kids entertained for day after day makes a lot of sense to me. I just felt I should try and make it happen.
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Level Up: The Advanced 5e ruleset offers an SRD so you can make and sell your own games
EN Publishing has put together a single SRD index page that is home to very many PDFs. In effect, there are dozens of mini-SRDS for the multiple book collection of RPG rules.
Free to Download: It’s Tough to Be a God preview
The complete rules introduce the new Oracle class, new ancestries, monsters and magic.
The Dungeon Gits are coming
You are part of a mercenary troop; the other troop members are here with you, awakening on a pile of rotting corpses.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #144
RPG news is routinely itemised in this weekly bullet point collection, complete with illustrations, graphs and a hidden adventure game.
Nuovarden RPG and the Fortunes d4 System lands on Kickstarter
Nuovarden is a tabletop RPG about exploration and discovery in a dangerous world. The game is inspired by the likes of Avatar: The Last Airbender but also Castlevania and games like Monster Hunter.
Free to Download: The Book of Backgrounds
New in the DMsGuild’s collection of D&D third party content there’s Carinn Gaspar’s The Book of Backgrounds (Edition One).
Humble lists a bundle for Marc Miller’s classic Traveller sci-fi RPG
The bundle offers the core rules, the many episodes of The Traveller Adventure, and supplements such as The Spinward Machines.
Become a… Legends of Avallen review
The whole point of the game is to start off a fantasy commoner and become a legend in a world influenced by magic-using Romans.
Drunk Dungeons & Dragons: Pay what you want rules
So, here we are, with some practical but straightforward rules for drinking and being drunk, during the ethics of alcohol abuse and national stereotyping swirl in my brain.
