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.

My third attempt at creating a game in 24 hours, and my second successful completion. This one is a war game for unaccompanied commander. 4 armies, 6 fronts, and 256 ways to configure the solitaire opponent. If you’re ready for conflict, roll out!

Well, this is my attempt to write a war game in 24 hours, officially stated at : (midnight) according to my watch ? which is 5-8 minuets off schedule from the rest of the world, but a day is still a day.

I had originally wanted to make a game where it was a long story, with all the rules being parenthetical remarks to back up what happened. However, being borderline obsessive compulsive, I stated making a list before I was ready ? prior preparation is a big no no in this contest. So I needed to try something else. Admittedly, I’ve been thinking about this for a few hours, but no writing. If you want to disqualify me on that ? well, its a war game, so it doesn’t fit the 24 hour rpg anyway.

In an instant, you can change your future. In 4 seconds, you can change the world. An RPG of precognitive military operatives with mechanic that focuses more on the degree of success than typical target-number systems.

4SIGHT is a traditional role-playing game in structure. One participant takes the role of the Game Master (or GM); the others participants take the role of player characters (PCs). These rules are presented in a fashion common to RPGs. Part 1 introduces the basic mechanics. Part 2 presents rules for characters. Part 3 presents rules for conflicts. Part 4 provides resources and advice for the GM.

In the dystopian world of underground animal fighting, a new sport has gained prominence among Space Pirate Circles. Now all Space Pirate Asteroids feature a Bunny Arena! In an electrocuted 2-meter ring sits two fluffy bunnies, cyberneticaly enhanced and drug-fuelled to become the ultimate in underground sports entertainment.

“Beyond the Glow” is my attempt to build a better Gamma World rpg within 24 hours – and I failed miserably. Nonetheless I’d like to submit the incomplete attempt because I like the cover ;-) I’ll continue to work on the game and provide an update (outside the 24 hour contest) once it’s really done. Sadly right now some major parts are missing because I fumbled at the end while working on layout questions and thus disrupted my time plan.

Maybe there is something of interest nonetheless…

Reaper Madness is a dark comedy RPG about dead people.

In Reaper Madness, players take on the roles of Grim Reapers. It?s their job to help the dead move on to whatever awaits them in the afterlife. Most of the time, this is a pretty simple thing?you just walk up to the soon-to-be deceased, snatch their soul, and then try not to stare too much or hurl when they get corpsified. Sometimes, though, the dead don?t want to move on, and it?s up to you to persuade them that their time on earth is through. Even simple jobs can become difficult if the Reaper gets too involved with the client before he or she dies; some people you just wish you could let live.

Transmutation is a game set in a fantastic world where the very rules of reality obey a strange form of alchemy.

Transmutation is a Roleplaying Game (RPG). This means that when you play Transmutation, you take on the persona of a character you created yourself. Then in this role, you, the other players, and an additional player called the Games Master (or just GM for short) work together to explore and achieve your characters? goals. Your part in this is to decide what your character does in response to situations and how he or she interacts with the other player?s characters. The other players do likewise. At the same time, the GM?s task is to fill in the details of the world, act out any extra characters, and make things interesting for you and the other players.

Savagery is a game of emotional combat. Having joined a club, characters decide now is time for a change in their lives. Whether that change is beneficial or brings them to madness and suffering is up to them.

If you haven?t encountered a Roleplaying Game (RPG) then a quick summary is that you work with other players, acting out characters of your own design to enjoy a fictional world of someone else?s design. The rules of the game are there to help guide you in having fun. But the important part is that you focus on making sure you?re not the only one enjoying themselves. And of course one of the most common ways to have fun in an RPG is to get into a fight. Not a real fight, an imaginary fight, since they?re easier to get into and less trouble if you lose.

Investigation Squad is a role-playing game set in a Game Runner made city packed with crime organizations and people. The players are the main members of a crack down organization created to control it.

The players get a set amount of people and money to make the organization, then they make their own decisions about what to do and where to go. Part of the organization is the tactical squad that handles the combat portion of the game.

The Game Runner (GR) creates all the things that the crime organizations do on a calendar of events and all the people and places in the organization. Thus the players discover a hidden world, it is not made up as they play.

The players do not create much of a character because it is not really necessary in the game.

This game is difficult to play because it is not always apparent what to do. I hope you enjoy the challenge

Crime Kings is a role playing where the players take on the role of criminals and try to make as much money as they can by doing bad guy things. The players decide what to do and what crimes to commit; then the GR improvises with his knowledge and tells them what happens.

The GR also makes a city with police that have procedures and other factions like drug dealers etc. These can also prove a problem to players and result in a more challenging game.

Repeatedly showing up on the scene of banks and robbing them with nothing happening would get boring. The game runner (GR) puts unexpected things in all the things the players do.

I hope you enjoy to game as much as I enjoyed making it.

SKY ACE

Is a game of tactical combat between highflying superheroes using playing cards and miniatures.

Sky Ace is my attempt to meet the 24 Hour RPG Challenge. Started on: June 22, 2005 at 9:45 PM and completed on: June 23, 2005 at 9:41 PM.