Soon a summer of strangeness ensues. Can you balance your duties as a full time lifeguard with your personal life? All the while a creature from the darkest depths casts its shadow over the Big Surf Challenge.
Free to Download: Children of the Black Monolith from Gildor Games
The Legends of Gildor, in the style of Howard, Leiber, Moorcock, and Wagner, emphasises the player and non-player characters, their decisions, and the sometimes terrible consequences of their actions.
Free to Download: DecKarnage! Quickstart
Space Otter says the game plays old school, random, silly and full of fluffy violence.
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.
Free to Download: Chrono-Rogue starter set
The setting is a colossal multiverse of possibilities as character pirates slip in and out of time undetected, conquering timelines from the shadows.
Free to Download: Broken Compass quickstart
The Broken Compass ride started with a wildly successful Kickstarter, then lots of praise and then the publisher Two Little Mice being bought by gaming powerhouse CMON.
Free to Download: The True OSR – Obsolete Shi**y Rules sickstart
The conflict between the DM and the players is handled by an engine in The True OSR, which uses tokens called XPicks that the DM can use to warp players’ words or players can use to make sure their characters succeed in actions.
Free to Download: Reaver – Sword & Sorcery RPG quickstart
The cover shows a grim brute of a fighter, and sure enough, the pitch for Reaver is that it’s inspired by Robert E. Howard, Charles R. Saunders and Karl Edward Wagner but also says it’s less gonzo and more grim.
Free to Download: Shattered Worlds Introduction Guide
The guide from Dmitry Nosovky, Je Shields, Dean Spencer et al tells of the fracture and the breaking of the veil between different worlds. The result is a gritty setting merging tech and magic.
N.K. Jemisn’s Hugo-winning Fifth Season gets a TTRPG
Green Ronin tells me that not only is N.K. Jemisim signing a few bookplates in a special tier but has been involved throughout the RPGs design.
