Indie RPGs
Pork Borg Rpg Pamphlet
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$7.00
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Mysterious creatures are attacking the hamlet of Starcross...
...and now there are only 9 villagers left!
In Pork Borg, characters are pitted against a mysterious villain said to be transforming the townsfolk into PIGS! This pamphlet is intended for use with MÖRK BORG.
Includes:
a quick list of rumours
a 5 room mini-dungeon
the Candlestick Man, an evil NPC with nefarious plans
Created by Gizmo the Bugbear, author of Book of Misery and more!
[Pork Borg] is an independent production by [Gizmo_the_Bugbear] and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.
8.5" x 11" (flat size) trifold pamphlet, full color both sides. Includes PDF.
Ihunt Rpg
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Hardcover
$88.00
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Be a hero. You pick the hours.
#iHunt is a story telling game about killing monsters in the gig economy. In it, you play millennials scraping by paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. A gig app called #iHunt offers them more money than they've ever made to hit the streets and kill vampires, werewolves, demons, and anything else that goes bump in the night.#iHunt uses a modified version of the Fate Core Rulebook. You do not need it to play.It's a high-drama, story-heavy urban fantasy roleplaying game.It takes a critical look at the gig economy with irreverent humor.Make your own hunters and monsters using easy collaborative tools.It uses one normal six-sided die, and four Fate Dice.Zine Supplements: We're expanding on the world of #iHunt through a series of "zine supplements" or as we call them, "zupplements." We're releasing at least one of these short books per month via our Machine Age Patreon. Every six months, we compile these into a "Season Book." The current season books are:Season One: Uncertain Times (Zines 01-07)Season Two: Persist & March On (Zines 08-14)This book is priced as it is for a few big reasons. I'm a fan of transparency, so here are the big ones:I need to be able to justify my time and work.Independent RPGs are criminally underpriced, and the industry isn't going to change itself.There are other games comparable by page count and price ratio. It's not my goal to undercut.If you cannot afford to buy the game at full price, I am committed to giving away free or deeply reduced copies. Pricing my game as it is allows me to do so. So far, I've given away over 100 free or reduced copies.I want to be able to participate in site-wide sales without reducing the price to a negligible amount.About Our Agenda: #iHunt is a game by and for the LGBTQ+ community. This is a game by and for poor people. This is a game for all the people society leaves behind and lets fall through the cracks. We wrote this game to see ourselves kicking butt in a world when the game industry at large is still hostile to diversity despite all claims to the contrary. This isn’t a game with some milquetoast sidebar about how “you’re allowed to play gender nonbinary characters.” This is a game about marginalized people. Are you allowed to play it if you’re not from a marginalized group? Of course. But understand that this is a game written with our concerns unapologetically first and foremost, front and center.
Acid Death Fantasy
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Hardcover
$34.00
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The slate was not wiped clean — it was shattered into countless jagged pieces, splintering a new worlds with the debris of the old. The second book published for Troika! is a complete setting with a distinct apocalyptic flavour by award winning industry veteran Luke Gearing. A new tone, a new style, and a new book to totally upend your Troika! games. 56 pages, 36 backgrounds, 36 enemies, and a framework to hang them off of.
Arc Doom Tabletop Rpg
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Tonight, we save the world. Immerse in ARC's rules-lite, tension-heavy adventures to race against the clock and slay the apocalypse. Capture your imagination with near-inescapable dooms that threaten limitless worlds...for a heart-racing story to remember. A high-quality, lushly designed and illustrated game.
Arc Doom Tabletop Rpg
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Hardcover
$68.00
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Tonight, we save the world. Immerse in ARC's rules-lite, tension-heavy adventures to race against the clock and slay the apocalypse. Capture your imagination with near-inescapable dooms that threaten limitless worlds...for a heart-racing story to remember. A high-quality, lushly designed and illustrated game.
Bluebeard's Bride Rpg
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Hardcover
$64.00
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A young bride is wed to an ugly, but powerful man with a blue beard. He invites her to explore the house,...but one room is forbidden. In Bluerbeard's Bride, you explore the mansion and create your own beautifully tragic version of the dark fairy tale. Experience the nightmarish memories that haunt the rooms of this broken place and discover the truth of what happened here. But it is up to you and your friends to decide whether you are a faithful or disloyal bride.
Candlelight Rpg
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Candlelight is a role playing game about the restless spirits of treasure hunters reckoning with their dark past and seeking hope in a haunted forest that wants to trap them there. It is a one-shot, rules-light game, focusing on collaborative and thematic storytelling and is designed to be flexible in how you bring it to the table:
An epilogue for any fantasy game following character death - especially a TPK!
A world-building prologue for any game needing a haunted forest or other cursed place.
A stand-alone game exploring themes of dark fantasy and supernatural horror - with a glimmering of hope and redemption.
Candlelight is a game for 1 or more players and a GM. Character creation is simple, taking place as part of the game introduction. The game uses six-sided dice of 2 colors (light and dark) and each session runs approximately 3-4 hours. While the game is based on dark fantasy and horror themes, conversations about player expectations and the use of safety tools are encouraged to best fit the tone of game you want at the table. Ghost stories can be bleak, dreadful, terrifying - but also reflective, inspiring and even hopeful. The paths you choose through the forest are up to you and your group.
Candlelight is Rooted in Trophy, using the core system of Trophy Dark to tell as story of desperate characters pushing their luck in a place that constantly threatens to overwhelm them. The key difference here is that the characters have already met their doom - while Trophy Dark progresses through a series of Rings and escalating horror, Candlelight starts at that final Ring where the characters have just died. It is at the dark heart of the forest that they will begin their journey, retracing the steps they took while living, seeking hope and an escape from the forest before they become a monstrosity that haunts it forever.
Candlelight is a complete, stand alone game which includes rules for play, tips for running the game and a series of tables to quickly add character creation and story options to your game with little preparation.
Damn the Man Save the Music Rp
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Welcome to Revolution Records. The kind of place that's been on the verge of closing since opening day. Damn the Man, Save the Music is a a roleplaying game for 3-4 players and a facilitator about making a last-ditch effort to save something you love. Play a ragtag group of underachievers, overachievers, street philosophers, and lovestruck artists united by one cause: to rescue your local record store from the oppressive hand of The Man&ellip; and to keep the music playing. You'll have to juggle the responsibilities of a day that will determine the future of your store, all while trying to accomplish a big personal goal. Can you confess your love to your crush and find the money that went missing from the cash box this morning? Can you pay off your debt to your parents while postering for tonight's big show? The clock is ticking and you've got until midnight to try. Damn the Man is inspired by movies like Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, and a love for the '90s. It's silly and tender and no familiarity with the source material is necessary. The 103 page, full-color book features illustrations by Evan Rowland and all the step-by-step guidance you need to play the game. For 3-4 players, 1 facilitator, about 3 hours
Dead Friend Rpg
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$19.00
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"Most Innovative" nominee for the 2019 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards! This is the 2023 edition from Hit Point Press Dead Friend is a roleplaying game for two players, who play a necromancer and a ghost. You will each play the role of a friend, one living and one dead. You will ask and answer questions to develop the characters, their community, their history together, and the motivations leading up to their final conflict. The script follows the dramatic structure of a necromancy ritual, and you will use the spellbook of instructions throughout the entire game like a witch reading spells from an ancient grimoire. The mood may be spooky or intimate, heartwrenching or hilarious — it is up to you as storytellers. Dead Friend requires 1 Tarot deck or 1 deck of mundane playing cards.
Deck Of Many Quests
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Games & Puzzles
$31.00
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Battle fearsome beasts. Parlay with pirates. Solve mysteries. Push back the apocalypse. The Deck of Many Quests is a tool for Game Masters and Adventurers alike. Think Cards Against Humanity meets Dungeons & Dragons! The deck provides you nearly limitless inspiration for quickly and easily building your own adventures. Inside this box are over 200,000 unique quests. The Deck of Many Quests is designed to be system-agnostic. It doesn’t matter what fantasy tabletop roleplaying game you’re into—we’re here to inspire you! There are no additional systems or rules to learn, so you can start creating your own adventures in no time. It's as easy as 1-2-3! Draw a Quest card and read its prompt Draw corresponding Item and/or Creature cards Use your imagination to tie the details of all cards together to create a unique quest for your game Your Adventure, Your Way Every card in The Deck of Many Quests has a star-rating. These ratings indicate how difficult a quest is, how much threat a creature can pose, and how rare or game-affecting an item can be. Feel free to separate your cards by star-rating to provide a leveled experience, or mix-and-match for interesting and unpredictable results! No matter what fantasy tabletop roleplaying game you run, The Deck of Many Quests will be a valuable tool in your storytelling arsenal. Create unique quests and adventures on the fly, and delight your players to no end.
Downfall Rpg
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2016 Best Setting Indie Groundbreaker Award
2016 Game of the Year Indie Groundbreaker nominee
BUILD THE WORLD... AND THEN DESTROY IT
What Flaw will be the root of your society's downfall?
In Downfall, you choose a Flaw you want to explore and build a unique and irredeemably broken world around it. See how Greed destroys a city, how Loyalty corrupts a kingdom, or how Curiosity betrays a galactic empire. You’ll craft traditions that bring your society to life, then see how it all comes tumbling down.
3 players. 2-4 hours. No prep, no GM.
Dread Rpg
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$39.00
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WINNER OF THE 2006 GOLD ENNIE FOR INNOVATION Beyond the door we could hear the highway, the cars, the trucks, the roar of freedom. Beyond the door. But the twenty feet between us and the door, between us and the highway... Only the lighter's dying blue flame interrupted that ocean of darkness... where It waited, just where we left It. Explore hostile worlds of your own creation with Dread, a game carved from the intense emotions buried in your favorite horror stories. Through individually crafted questionnaires, players are coaxed into revealing their characters' abilities, shortcomings, personalities, and fears. These characters are plunged into macabre tales devised by the host. When moments of conflict and peril arise in the story, it is the players' nerves, rather than the whims of dice, that determine the fates of their characters. This book, a few friends, your own sick imagination, and one set of Jenga® blocks is all you need. "Dread is... a look at what roleplaying can be, not a look at what it already is." - James D. Hargrove, RPG.net reviewer. "Dude, seriously, Dread. Unease and nerves are physically built into the resolution mechanics of the game!" - Luke Crane, author of the Burning Wheel and Burning Empires.
Eden Rpg
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$26.00
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What kind of human will you be? Timid like a rabbit? Loyal like a wolf? Or maybe deadly like a serpent? Our favorite animals taught us everything we know. The nature of their lessons varies: the advice of the cooperative ants is very different from that of the thieving raccoons. Can we get along with our fellow humans with only the animals to guide us? The time has come to find out. In Eden you'll collaborate to create a unique map of the Garden, then role-play as the first generation of humans living among its creatures. How will their lessons shape your future? Will you live together in peace and friendship as one human family? Or will you shun your humanity and become more and more like the beasts that surround you?
Epitaph Rpg
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$31.00
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Epitaph is a biographical role-playing game about life and the events that make us who we are. Epitaph is an intimate look at the events that shape a person’s life. During play, you’ll explore the timeline of someone who has died (called the Departed) in order to gain gradual insight into their world, their identity, and their history. Ultimately you’ll come to know, understand, and empathize with them in a deep, complex way. Epitaph is GMless and requires no prep before play—just grab your friends around a table or via video chat, open the book, and start creating. The game features a variable level of role-playing commitment: on your turn you can describe a moment in time, create and play a scene with others, or give an interactive monologue as one of the characters from the story. The tone of the game is up to the players—it can be anything from lighthearted and goofy to bittersweet and tragic. Epitaph puts you inside the mind of a very ordinary person and leaves you feeling like you knew them. A tabletop roleplaying game for 3-5 players. 2-3 hours. No prep, no dice, no GM.
Epyllion a Dragon Epic Softcov
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EPYLLION: A DRAGON EPIC RPG SC Epyllion is a tabletop role playing game about young drakes who investigate rumors, solve problems, and discover the truth of a growing evil in Dragonia. While you play, you and your friends tell awesome stories, explore what it means to be a drak of Dragonia, and discover the value of friendship through magical, whimsical, and heartfelt adventures.
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