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.

Companion, Accuser, Wine, No Character Sheets, Pre-generated Characters

In a Grove is a game for four players about the fallibility of truth as experienced through the divergent accounts of four different witnesses to a single event.

Chairman’s Second Challenge: In this game you don’t directly play a human. What you are actually playing is a representation of a human in a fictional account as narrated by a faulty narrator. This is highlighted by the fact that the narrator has unlimited veto authority over your actions and your actions change each time you run through the same time period as narrated by different people.

It’s clich? to meet up with the rest of your PC party in a tavern before heading out to conquer the world. Inside the tavern itself, however, is a whole world waiting to be conquered. Barquest is an RPG where you play a denizen of a medieval-style drinking establishment. The object is to party until last call?without getting thrown out, knocked out, or otherwise incapacitated. This game can also be used as a supplement to your current campaign to make the standard tavern situation far more interesting.

A three course meal with Prologue, History and Epilogue, covering the last four thousand years of human history through the eyes of Insects made human by the fickle will of the Ancient Greek Gods. Immortal Humans, or Alien Insects wearing human form, or even simple souls trapped like inclusions in Amber, you be the judge. A game in which the roles of Narrator, Protagonist and Adversary are up for grabs, with action played out almost entirely in flashbacks into history.

Care to try your hand at the immortal power struggle? Come, take control of a piece of the crime pie in this roaring twenties based game of deals, power, and crime. Stuggle with your companions and your boss for power, all the while throwing about the accusatory finger and earning wine for the business. What depths will you sink too when your beneath a high pillow?

Deep in the heart of darkest Africa lies a legendary city where all of one’s wildest dreams will come true. You are one of six intrepid explorers who will face unfathomable dangers trying to make their way to this City of Brass. The path will lead you into new friendships and perhaps make deadly enemies. Are you worthy to enter the City of Brass?

Philosophical Masters travel the tumultuous roads of Warring States period China, seeking a ruler who will accept their philsophy and make them Minister. A strategic board-game overlay belies a subtle role-playing game of moral conundrums and the price of power.

It is late summer in Puteoli, south of Rome, 61 A.D., when the city finds itself unexpectedly playing host to the god Bacchus. Caught up in the madness of wine, the citizens throw off their togas and mingle as equals with slaves and foreigners in a debased fervor. Gameplay follows the characters through events of wine, debauchery, and the cruel sporting of gods, as they struggle to evade soldiers, and accusers, and reunite with a companion from whom they have been separated.

Narrative Roleplaying in a surreal soviet state that never existed. Worker’s paradise is inspired by the history and culture of Stalinist Russia, but set in a lush country of vineyards and bizarre biological engineering. Enjoy persecuting the hapless citizens of a tiny nation with extrajudicial proceedings whose outcome depends more on the work put into it by the police than on the actual guilt of the victim. But beware, since your fellows can always lodge accusations against you, which leaves you before the Regional Triumvirate.

You are a Mongol Tribal leader, a Khan of the twelfth and thirteenth century. Your calling in life is to lead your people into dominance over the world, because your minds are sharp, your bodies are strong, and your Horde is INVINCIBLE!

Vietnam War; Accuser, Companion and Invincible; No character generation and no character sheets.

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, men are thrown together and put to the ultimate test. This war changes everyone. Become a Marine and explore how you can cope with everything Vietnam has to throw at you: especially your fellow soldiers. Nobody escapes unscathed.