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What if there are angels living among us? Daemons? What about ghosts? Is there such a thing as reincarnation? Can you gain power from your mortal flaws? What is the point of it all, anyway? This game explores these ideas in a free format. I’ve also written a book about these subjects at: www.mynubook.com. You can download the free game AND purchase OR read about my book. Thanks in advance for your comments/suggestions/etc.

There was only ever the void and the universes. The nearly empty spaces between universes and the universes themselves had existed together always. Once, the universes were restricted to the smallest area of space (a point) until the “Big Bang.” The universes had been created out of the seven elements that the Creator itself was made of and had made the angels out of before humanity existed. There are seven orders of angels, just as there are seven different kinds of angels. And, there were seven different reasons for them to go to war among themselves as well.

The angels were very surprised when they noticed the Creator creating something new. These human beings were endowed with a smaller spark of creation than were the angels; and, at first, they were ignored. But, that was not for long. Human beings have all seven Elements present in their forms, but one is always more prevalent than the other six. Some human beings can even focus the power of their spark to create miraculous feats. This game is mostly about them.

Resourceful started out as a treasure-hunter game, but it evolved to place more emphasis on resource management and could be used for a lot of things–with some work. This 24-hour version has some obvious gaps and flaws, but should surprise you a bit with stuff you haven’t seen before.

This is a game about resource management, strategy, outwitting the GM, and telling a cool story to justify all the stuff you want to do with game mechanics.

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This is a game about adventurous types out looking to recover lost artifacts, mighty weapons of power, and ancient relics. The default setting of the game is a soft sci-fi post-apocalyptic world where high-tech items may still exist in ruined cities, forgotten bomb shelters, hidden compounds, or remote and inhospitable wilderness regions. You can also send people looking for treasure in the pulp age, or on distant worlds, or in a fantasy realm if you like. Most of the setting stuff is just window dressing that will affect how things are described but not how the game mechanics work.

The game is written for a group of 3-6 people, one to GM. Someday I will add rules for one-on one play. You will need pencils, paper, ten-sided dice (at least 3, maybe 3 per player), and some kind of chips or beads or markers in four distinct colors. (You could use several decks of playing cards, treating each suit as a color.)

I’ve got yet another variant set of rules for Dungeon Squad – this one tries to replicate the class abilities and powers of characters from D&D 3.5 and 4.0. I’d like to get the word out as much as possible. There’s also a link to it (and more) on my website: dominowriting.com/games.html

The rules are the same as in the original Dungeon Squad except as listed.

Character Generation

Assign d4, d8 and d12 to Warrior, Wizard and Explorer as normal. Each character also begins with 15 Hit Points.

If you are using miniatures figures and battle maps from other RPGs, each figure moves 30 feet (six spaces) per turn. Spells, bows and other ranged attacks have a maximum distance of 100 feet (20 spaces). You can even account for cover and difficult terrain, if you want to make this simple game more complex.

“Stuff Dice”
In DSYAV, you assign your “Stuff Dice” (the d6 and d10) to special abilities from the list below. These include and replace the Swords, Bows, Armor and Magic Spells information listed in the normal rules.

If the GM allows it, you can use the “expensive gear” +1 rank rule to represent skills or magic items that aren’t special abilities found below. Remember, you can only carry four items of equipment with a dice value, including special abilities in the form of a piece of equipment.

Each character also begins with a small weapon (a staff or dagger or punch) doing d4 damage, which does not count against the equipment you can carry. Characters start with 10 gold pieces, most often spent on an Adventurer’s Kit, since weapons and armor are included in the special ability lists.

Beltaine is a 24 Hour RPG I did well over a year ago and never got around to posting. I think the card-based mechanic has some untapped potential, and I plan on revising the game and linking the suits more closely to the setting (after all, the point of using cards as a randomizer is to do things that dice can’t easily do, right?).

Beltaine is a game about the Faeries and creatures of Celtic myth living in the modern world. It’s being put together quickly as a part of the 24 hour RPG project, and will hopefully serve as a springboard for a cyberpunk-and-Fae game I hope to write later.

The faerie courts are dangerous places, socially and physically, and it is easy to fall from favor. The safest thing to do when one does so is to go into exile on Earth. Some, like the Fomorians, live in permanent exile on Earth, either in hiding or disguised as humans. Fae on Earth often interbreed with humans, and their half-faerie children typically remain behind.

SpellCaster is a magical and physical combat game for two or more players. Each player is represented by a Spell Caster, a warrior mage trained in the ways of combat and magic, skilled in powerful martial arts techniques and armed with a complete arsenal of spells. The goal is to defeat all others players and remain the last spell caster alive. SpellCaster uses ordinary playing cards, but is no ordinary card game as it combines hex/grid map strategy. Since the game uses poker cards, generic playing pieces and any plain hex or grid map it is easy to play and easy on the budget, unlike most any other collectible trading card game. SpellCaster uses a unique system of card combinations in preparing and casting spells.

Requirements

• Graph or hex game mat or paper for a playing field
• One playing piece and one standard poker deck (52+Joker) for each player.

Setup

• Shuffle: Players shuffle their decks. Remember to keep your Joker in the deck.
• Burn Card: Draw the first card from your deck and place face-up next to your deck to create a discard pile.
• Draw: Each player Draws a hand of seven cards.
• Spell Preparation: Charge cards by placing them from your hand face down in front of you, creating prearranged spells if possible. You may refer to the spells list. You do not have to Prepare any spells, but you may not continue until your hand is reduced to five cards. (It is acceptable to achieve this by discarding two cards; it just is not a good strategy). This is a rare time when you may Charge more than one card, or even every card in your hand.
• Initiative: Play high-card with your opponent, by drawing one card from the top of your deck and placing it to the front of your deck to create a MOVE card (do not discard). If your cards match, draw another card. This card determines player turn order and starting movement; high card goes first, low second. You may move your playing piece in any direction to a maximum number of spaces equal to your MOVE card’s CV.
• Replenish: Draw enough to restore your hand to five cards before the first turn. It is the high card winner’s choice to place their piece first on the board, or second. The first turn begins after all players’ game pieces are in play.

Edge of the Century is my second 24 Hour RPG attempt. I didn’t get as much time to work on it as I’d wanted to (about 4 hours, total), but I think it’s still playable. The game has some innovative narrative mechanics (at least I hope they’re innovative) and a fairly unique, but fast, character creation process that’s also very narrative. Have fun!

The edge of the century draws near, as does the life of the great Queen Victoria. In America, the Native tribes have been decimated, and the frontier declared closed. England is beginning to lose her Empire, though for the moment it is safe. In the cities, women shout for the right to vote, workers strike for a living wage, and anarchists gather in secret with Das Capital in one hand and a bomb in another.

In Europe, ethnic unrest and a complex web of alliances will soon burn the continent in a war many men think will be good. They say that Europe has gone soft and weak and needs a war to make it strong again.

And underneath the calm, stoic Victorian facade, madness coils and twists, waiting to erupt. Secret societies meet, calling on spirits of the dead and ancient gods. Curses lay upon families, waiting to drag them down into madness, or worse.

Central Resolution Mechanic inspired by “dukereg” on the “Opportunity Pool” thread at http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-384462.html

HOUSE OF MASKS: A roleplaying game of Secrets and Sorcery, Power and Greed, Violence and Revenge

2008 Game Chef winner!

Six players switch in and out tag-team style to play three predefined characters in a complex, randomized web of intrigue and sorcery.

2. OVERVIEW:

In a far off land where mighty sorcerers dwell, the God-King Castor rules from a castle where the spirit realm and physical realm touch, allowing for powerful magics to happen and for a person’s spirit form to take control of one’s body. On the eve of Castor’s wedding to the foreign princess Inanna, a mysterious peasant woman named Thalia comes knocking on the palace door…

Each of six players play Aspects (either the “real world” or “spirit world” form) of one of three predefined player characters (PCs). Each player can take control of the PC under specific conditions.

Each player has a randomized goal, which will likely conflict with the other PCs and possibly conflict with the player of the other aspect of their PC. There are three decks of goals (one for each character) with three goals in each deck. Each goal is identified with a symbolic image: a hand with a Key in it (representing Secrets and Magic), a hand wrapped in a Necklace (representing Greed and Power), or a hand holding a drop of Blood (representing Violence and Revenge).

Beyond the initial setup phase of the game, characters have almost complete freedom to act. They are only constrained by their imaginations and the other players. When two characters oppose one another, the players use the conflict rules, which are tremendously simple and flexible. One player (called the Objector) sets two possible outcomes that could happen to the opposed characters. The other player in the conflict (called the Actor) then applies one of these outcomes to their character and one to the Objector’s character.

Two cards called Boons grant special privileges to their holders. The Boon of Beginnings allows the holder to frame scenes. The Boon of Endings allows the holder to call for the end of a scene. Either Boon can be used to activate a character’s sorcerous abilities. In a conflict, these magical powers can be used to reject the stakes set by an Objector and set new stakes. After any use of a Boon, the user gives the Boon away to some other player (which other player depends on how the Boon is used).

Here is a game i wrote in a hour or two. Its been too long since I have submitted so here it is. A bank robbing rpg. Its rules lite, and two pages long. But i feel its a good peice of work.

“Whats the catch?” Asks your friend Jose. “The police will probably respond within minutes so we need to strike fast” As you conceal your pistol and open the door. Jose and you pull down your masks and draw guns; A guard prepares to fire but Jose fires first, nailing the guard in the skull. “THIS IS A F’IN ROBBERY!” Screams Jose.

In The Californian Job, you and a few friends pose as Bank Robbers, with the GM controlling NPC’s and the police. Your duty is to roleplay one day, the day of your bank robbery. The game is not designed to be used in campaigns; but as a role playing exercise.

Heya, this is your darling psychopathic submission sitter Evil1 reporting in. I have seen some people on rpglab saying they have submitted rpgs here and i have checked my box to no avail

So i will flat out say this: I am online EVERY DAY and my yahoo client alerts me to ALL new mail inside my inbox folder. BUT now i am setting up a filter (cross your fingers…)  that will send ALL emails that have the word RPG in the subject to my inbox instead of into the spam folder. Hopefully with this new filter in my yahoo you will no longer have to cry like a baby to my pal keeton. Aaron is austrailian and i forgot who else is also on the role of adding your submissions but i know that its about time i helped a bit.

1km1kt itself is sort of a inactive place at the moment, but hopefully when summer starts we will start seeing more people and more submissions! I myself can be contacted @ my email/yahoo messenger robbiemackmeed(at)yahoo.com

I look forward to posting your submissions, guys!

Adventures in the 41st Millennium puts you behind the gun in battle against hordes of enemies, or in a planet doomed by anarchy and run by gangs.

This game runs on the original Dungeon Squad System and brings the Warhammer 40,000 Universe to life as your party tries to survive the mass combat of the 41st Millennium.

In this First Edition, you can play as Imperial Guard, Space Marines or the people who inhabit Home Worlds across the vast stars. Note that while Imperial Guard and Space Marines may fight in huge battles, Home World characters fight in gang warfare or live the lives of regular inhabitants of one of four worlds: Imperial World, Hive World, Feral World and Void Born.

This game is sure to bring an exciting world of fun and entertainment; now, it’s up to you to take your weapon and head out. Are you ready?

Introduction
This is a Role Playing Game set in the futuristic nightmare of Warhammer 40,000 and this game comes off the hinges of the wonderful creation by Jason Morningstar, Dungeon Squad. Creators Neuicon and Sean Daniels have delved into the world of 40,000 when they were introduced to Dark Heresy (the official Role Playing Game of Warhammer 40,000), and quickly fell in love with it. Neuicon, having played Dungeon Squad, opted for something simple and fun to get those interested in Warhammer 40,000 into
gameplay using an exciting system, designed to entertain you and keep you on the edge of your seat!

This game comes off the release of Starcraft: Tactical Miniatures Combat, where you command skirmish-sized squads into battle against your foes! The fun of that game has helped in the inspiration to continue releasing new, fun and awesome games available to everyone!