44: A Game of Automatic Fear

"Someone you know was just replaced by a machine. No one else knows. You are next."

44: A Game of Automatic Fear is a suspense RPG. You portray people who know a robot conspiracy called Section 44 is replacing humanity. Can you survive before the conspiracy replaces you with a machine?

Set in the backdrop of the early 1950s, a time of high paranoia, 44 works like an Alfre...   [click here for more]

6d6 Ultra-Lite

This is a light and fast system ideal for story and character centred games. It ignores most of the combat mechanics of the full 6d6 RPG and focuses on the narrative aspect of the game.

Players can be told all they need to know about the Ultra-Lite version in 30 seconds.

Each character is represent by a deck of character cards, usually around...   [click here for more]

Abstract Dungeon (beta test)

Abstract Dungeon is a new RPG now in open beta test.

Abstract Dungeon is designed to be super fast and rules light. It emphasizes creative story telling over tactile combat and power gaming. You can use it as a quick pick-up game, introduce friends who are scared of RPG math, or play an ongoing campaign.

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Active Exploits Diceless Roleplaying

Aether Legacy Preview Game: The Bad Luck Gambit

Discover the steampunk world of Aether Legacy, where airships, humans, mechanical beings all clash in epic battles throughout the land, sea and sky. Where there are no boundaries to what you can do within reason, where the actions you take during battle are only as creative as you can imagine. 

In the preview game for Aether Legacy, your adventure begins as one of AirCaptain Ellis&...   [click here for more]

Albion - free introduction

This is the complete introductory section of Albion. It gives an overview of the setting and the rules basics. Go here to purchase the full book in PDF or in print with a free PDF included.

Celtic fantasy roleplaying in a once and future Britain. The day after tomorrow, the seas rose and society crumbled. The Druid Order rebuilt, drawing on ideas of a...   [click here for more]

Alpha Omega Quick Start Guide

Always/Never/Now

You were the best. Underground, cyberpunk street samurai, burglars and breakers, agents of a mysterious spymaster with half a name, zero history, and a plan. He made the missions and you carried them out. You were the go-to crew for high-stakes break-ins, dangerous ops, and impossible escapes. You fought the megacorps, the tyrants, the killers—all for the sake of making a better future...   [click here for more]

Angels - Essentials

Everything you need to get a taste of Angels is here... for free.

Angels - Essentials is a free, quick look at the simple game of the unseen forces wring for human souls, Angels. It includes all the essential Print2Play pages from the core rulebook with a brief introduction to the game and Setting as a whole. 

Includes:

Argh!

Unlock the power of your imagination? Any kind of monster, any kind of mystery... One Simple, Fast, Exciting system!

Argh! gives you everything you need to play the supernatural thriller of your dreams... or nightmares! Supernatural Powers, magic, aliens, monsters...it's all there, and you don't need a degree in accounting to create the Slayer,...   [click here for more]

Aspyrias Adventuring System 101: Armor & Shields

You are here because you wish to learn the Aspyrias Adventuring System.  It is the first of its kind, combining the ingenuity of a deck building board game with the limitless possibilities of a roleplaying game. 

This preview showcases armor & shields and how their respective cards are used in the Aspyrias Adventuring System.

Avatar Record Sheet

Please note that the Avatar record sheet is included at standard resolution in the core rule book Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal.

More than a decade in the making, including five years of extensive gam...   [click here for more]

Azamar the RPG - Core Supplement

This is the Core Rules Supplement to the full game.  Use it to augment, re-organize, and amplify your existing game experience with Azamar now!

Azamar is a massive gaming world full of adventure, danger, and magic! Take a look this original Core Rules and Players Guide book as the quintessential entrance into an expansive world fraught with turmoil. Change ...   [click here for more]

Basic SDL

The ultimate introduction to diceless role-playing is now available on RPGNow!

Basic SDL takes the new revolution in role-playing to the next level, distilling the popular System DLTM ruleset into one page. Gamemasters can easily use Basic SDL to introduce skeptical players to the SDL ruleset, providing them with character creation, a simplified...   [click here for more]

BATTLEMAGE - Main Rules

(Please note: if you have bought the full rules you already own these rules!)

BATTLEMAGE is a fantasy wargame for two or more players. Each person controls a small warband of warriors, each led by a powerful Battlemage. You are fighting for power and glory, but more than that you are fighting for control of the world of Ra'al.

A game of BATTLEMAGE is fought betw...   [click here for more]

BattleTech: Quick-Start Rules: Classic BattleTech

Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor—the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a 100 tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal, with enough firepower to level a city block. The Classic BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life as vast empires and tiny factions battle fo...   [click here for more]

Beyond the Beyond

What to do when all has been done?

This is a tiny, folded storytelling game. Beyond the Beyond is set in the most distant imaginable future, where life takes on an infinite variety of form and all things are possible. The story's protagonist faces many foes and challenges, but none more deadly than those who were once considered friends. 

Print it out double-s...   [click here for more]

Brass & Steel Quickstart: The Case of the Croquet Mallet

You are cordially invited!

Lord Rocksavage will be hosting a country house weekend at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, seat of his father George, 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley.  While Mum and Dad are on an airship journey through the Orient, His Lordship and his lovely wife Sybil are having a get-together for the younger set. 

Then, with a "Whack!" and a "Thud!&qu...   [click here for more]

Broken Rooms Example of Play

Download a free Broken Rooms Example of Play PDF that highlights the Momentum Roleplaying System and the use of Meridians in and out of combat.

Burning Wheel Gold: Hub and Spokes

Burning Wheel uses a simple D6 die pool system at its core. Grab a handful of dice equal to your skill or stat. Roll the dice. Any 4s, 5s or 6s that result are considered successes. You need a certain number of successes to pass tests. The system builds on that simple core to create deep, dynamic results. During play, the GM challenges a player's Beliefs. The player overcomes these challenges ...   [click here for more]

Calvinball: The CCCG

Have you ever been in a game store and noticed a bargain bin filled with old, obsolete CCG decks and booster packs?  Maybe you've played a few of these games, until the publisher discontinued them, leaving you with a pile of virtually useless cards.  They look so sad, don't they?  Just sitting there...waiting for somebody to play with them...

Calvinball: The CCCG<>...   [click here for more]

Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul -- Random Character Creation

This free document gives you everything you need to whip up random characters for CC&VF! It also provides you with a dozen new pre-made character templates!

About Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul

Ever wanted to tell your own comicbook stories, but possibly you lacked artistic ability? Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul is a comicbook to...   [click here for more]

Cascade Failure

Cascade Failure is a post-apocalypse future RPG. Set in the aftermath of a devastating war that collapsed the interstellar economy, Cascade Failure is a survival RPG that casts the characters out into a dangerous and hostile universe. The game is built on a rugged OGL chassis that is melded with a variety of new subsystems to round out your character. You can jump into unique character cla...   [click here for more]

Changeling: The Lost Demo

This free booklet gives you and five of your friends everything you need to play your first game of Changeling:The Lost, White Wolf’s all-new Storytelling Game of Beautiful Madness.

Discover the wonder and terror of the Lost in “Dwelling in Darkness,” a complete introductory scenario.

All the necessary rules are included. All you need is a few ...   [click here for more]

Chronicles of Blood - Solo War Game

An war game game for just one person - YOU!

The world of Arax is a world filled with blood and battle, magic and monsters, slaughter and sorcery. It is a world where the weak are crushed and the strong survive, where those who are bigger and more powerful bully those who are weaker and more vulnerable. It is a world at war, w...   [click here for more]