Free RPGs

Welcome to the RPG section of 1KM1KT. Here you’ll find member submissions of tabletop pen and paper role-playing games. All of the RPGs available in this section are free for download and are generally in .pdf format. If you’re interested in submitting your own RPG for publication, please visit our submissions page for details or send it to us using our contact form.

Travel the courts of Europe, seeking fame and glory, fighting sceptics and competitors. You sir, are a charlatan. But this is no petty game of scams and lies, but of wonder, inspiration and myths in the making.

Charlatan was inspired by men such as Casanova, Cagliostro, Rasputin, as well as Anastasia, the last Romanoff.

Step into a world gone to Hell as Yakuza gangsters given strange powers fight their way out of the madness. Features young punks versus demons and card based resolution system. Inspired by the Persona and Megami Tensei games.

As the vultures circled overhead, Bronze knelt upon the burning sand and tore two strips of cloth from his robe with which to bind his feet. He had stopped sweating two hours ago and had cast off his sword as dead weight the night before. Parched to the bone and completely defenseless, if the heat didn?t kill him before he reached Halandor, the grak dogs would. And that was the last thought Bronze had before he collapsed face down in the sand.

Bronze is a set of rules designed to emulate swords and sorcery adventure in the vein of Lin Carter, Fritz Leiber, and Robert E. Howard. Bronze actually began life as Zak Arntson?s Thord of Relings, a set of intriguing design notes that can be found over at the Harlekin Maus site (http://www.harlekin-maus.com). While attempting to play a game using those notes, several changes were made along the way and, ultimately, a new set of rules was born.

AssassinX is a short RPG of gory violence where the players take on the roles of professional (or not quite so professional) killers with a job to do.

This book includes full rules for designing a deadly and unhinged killing machine, and then throwing it into a nihilistic nightmare of murder and mayhem.

All you need to play is a pencil, 200 ten-sided dice, a few friends you can trust not to call the cops on you, and your own sick imagination

This isn’t your Daddies’ Enterprise. For one thing, some of these ships were built in Detroit! For another, it’s only the 21st Century, fifty years after WWIII, the Wet Fire Cracker War, instigated by the Cuban Missile Crisis and some meddling alien villains, the Azjeksi, or cockroaches, a fast-breeding Bad Guy race with problems of their own.

The Further Adventures of the Good Ship Shenandoah: The bare bones of a Space Opera setting, several alien races and some rules for making characters. Check it out and try to ignore the bad artwork.

Trapped! A Roleplaying Game of Comedic Horror.

The game uses a standard deck of cards instead of dice. Players send each other’s characters on dangerous missions and manipulate Extras to do stupid stuff

Trapped is a role-playing game for 3-6 players. That means you make up a fictional character and guide him through an imaginary world. In this game, the imaginary world is some dangerous place you can?t easily escape, and your character is likely somewhat comical in nature. Sometimes the other players make bad things happen to your character and you determine how you?ll try to get your character out of trouble.

Alternate Dungeon Squad is based on and expanded from the 24 hour game DUNGEON SQUAD created by Jason Morningstar as posted here. and is covered by the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Creative Commons license. Any comments regarding Alternate Dungeon Squad may be sent to bal3@hotmail.com

DUNGEON SQUAD is a great, simple system designed to introduce younger players to Role Playing Games. Alternate Dungeon Squad takes that and modifies it to suit my tastes as more experienced, older and time poor gamer.

It assumes a measure of RPG experience on behalf the players and referee, can be used in just about any fantasy setting and suits both story driven play as well as hack and slash gaming (or at least that?s the intention).

Greetings, one and all. Tonight’s Intergalactic Cooking Challenge looks like it’s going to be a rough one. Dash o’ Cinnamon, the high-flying pirate chef from Neo-England is back and ready to get his revenge on Elgar the Outsider. Does Dash have something new up his sleeve, or is his exuberant appeal to the crowd nothing more than false bravado? Are Dash’s allegations that Elgar was responsible for the spice raids on Neo-Bristol true?

Another game in 24 hours. Actually in 6 hours, in between a large number of other things. So much less material than my last one and much less completeness. Also had a bad computer crash part the way through those 6 hours, and lost about an hour. So call it 5 hours. But I got the core ideas in, so yay me. If this generates any interest, will do another version down the track. Doubt it, but you never know your luck and there is no accounting for taste. It is missing character sheet, game world examples and examples of play, and needs all of them to make it shine. Ah well.

Starriders is my effort to create a 24hour RPG. Though I finished it, I am not so much happy because my poor english limited the draft of the game.

For the rest Starriders is a sci-fi game in which you can drive starship around for the galaxy making business of all types. Yes, you can be a space pirate if you want :)