The download has several images for the proposed ratings and a two-page explainer. It suggests games could be rated on violence, language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, horror and mature themes.
Cloud Empress RPG: Nausicaa meets Mothership horror
Cloud Empress is a tabletop RPG by watt that’s smashed Kickstarter goals and takes a far future world inspired by the likes of Dune and the manga Nausicaa and applies it to the sci-fi horror of Mothership.
The Towninator smashes it
A year after not hitting Kickstarter goals, The Towninator from Andreas Barbesgaard is back. It’s an approach to generating single-sheet towns and tracking how RPG PCs interact.
Project Phoenix: RPG developers adopt Paizo’s new open game license
Bastion Press is financing a new open game license, putting some money in so publishers can use it without reinventing the wheel.
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.
Free to Download: Tower of the Vampire for Legends of Gildor
Tower of the Vampire is the first in a series of sword and sorcery fantasy adventures involving characters driven by duty, vengeance, devotion, curiosity, or plain greed. It comes with pre-genned characters, so you can get going quickly.
Free to Download: Empty, a Distemper jumpstart
Distemper takes place a year after the peak of the dog flu, a devastating and highly contagious mutant of canine distemper that killed 80% of humanity in a matter of months.
Free to Download: Isle of Dragons – Player’s Guide
The OSR RPG Isle of Dragons by C.K. Ipson has a free to download Player’s Guide.
Free to Download: Welcome to Grimsbury – Player’s Guide
Ubique Publication’s Welcome to Grimsbury: Player’s Guide is 60 pages of folk horror, rated 4.5/5 and entirely free from DriveThruRPG.
Free to Download: TGS Games’ Vault Peddlers Core Rules
Consumed by avarice, division and calamity. Where once the Glittering Courts stood resolute – lauding over the collapsing systems below, now a wildness and Quickreef have taken root; subsuming off the edifices of the past.









