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This Year's Registered Games

This page will be updated once a week (usually on the weekend) with the latest registered games submitted that week.

In order of submission:

Diaspora
B. Murray, C.W. Marshall, T. Dyke, and B. Kerr

Diaspora is a role-playing game that uses the FATE system to deliver a hard science-fiction framework for adventure, where you build the setting on top of the basic, gritty axioms of the universe: everything is bigger than you are. You will pilot spaceraft driven by fusion torches that light the night sky towards rifts in the fabric of space that shift you between a small number of lost worlds, each with thousands of years of history. And it's all yours.

Although Diaspora is based on FATE, it is a complete game requiring no other purchases to play. You will need dice, pen, paper, and friends, but all the rules you need are right here.

$26.95 Hardcopy, $12.95 PDF
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Escape from Tentacle City
Willow Palecek

Tentacle City Has a Problem! It's overrun with giant tentacles bent on destruction! In this game of survival horror and dark comedy, you'll take on the role of an unlikely hero, scraped off the bottom of society. Winner of the 2008 Game Chef Golden Katana that Shoots Smaller Katanas Award for Game That Looks Like it Was the Most Fun to Write.

$15.00 Hardcopy, $5.00 PDF
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Ganakagok
Bill White

Ganakagok is a fantasy where characters are members of a tribe that lives in a night-time world on an island of ice who must deal with the coming of the Dawn and the changes it brings. Play involves the use of a deck of cards to generate situation, prompt narration, and inspire characters; each session produces an authentic-seeming myth of an imaginary people.

$15.00 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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On Her Majesty's Arcane Service
clash bowley

Her Majesty Elizabeth, Queen of England, secretly established in 1560, the second year of her reign, the Arcane Service. The Service is composed of people, usually but not solely of magical bent, who have sworn to protect the realm from magical assault. The player characters are assumed to be agents of Doctor Dee. They are people passionately devoted to the welfare of England, and of the Queen, and unafraid of dealing with magical creatures and powerful workers of magic. At times they may be performing political missions, perhaps in other lands, perhaps in England. At other times they will be defending the realm from magical assault from foes domestic and foreign. They can function as spies, as diplomats, as magical assault squads, and as investigators.

$22.71 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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A Penny for My Thoughts
Paul Tevis

Two women and a man, all dressed in white jumpsuits, sit around a table with a bowl of pennies in its center. Each of them has a small stack of pennies and a printed form. In front of the older woman sits a scrap of paper with the words "a taffy stretching machine" written on it.

"... and my father looked down at me and said, 'If you don't want to ride the roller coaster, you don't have to. You can wait here in the candy shop while your brother and I go,'" says the older woman. "I was scared." As she speaks, the remembered terror creeps into her voice.

Her expression suddenly goes blank. She turns to the man. "What did I do or say then?" she asks, offering him the single penny in front of her.

The man considers for a moment, his brow furrowed. Staring at her, he replies, "You said, 'No, I want to come with you.'"

She turns to the younger woman. "Or was it..." she begins, offering the same penny.

"You stayed there in the candy shop, chewing your taffy," the other woman says.

She pauses before speaking again. "Yes, I remember now. I said, 'No, I want to come with you.'" She hands her penny to the man. "And I had a fantastic time. It was so thrilling, so wonderful. That's when I knew what I wanted to do with my life. And that is what I remember."

She smiles as she writes on her sheet of paper, "When I think of taffy stretching machines, I remember how I discovered what I wanted to do with my life. I'd never felt such a sense of purpose before." After she finishes, she takes a penny from the bowl.

"A penny for my thoughts," she says.

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$15.00 Hardcopy, $7.95 PDF
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Montsegur 1244
Frederik J. Jensen

Montsegur 1244 - A story game about burning for your belief.

Do you renounce your heretic beliefs and do you wish to receive the forgiveness of the merciful Father?

In March 1244 this question was posed to several hundred Cathars. They had surrendered to the army that had besieged the castle of Montsegur for more than nine months. More than two hundred answered no, and thereby chose death by fire. Who were these people that chose to die for their belief?

In Montsegur 1244 the players collaborate to create a story about who these people were. Each player takes on the role of one of the besieged Cathars who will face the choice between life and faith.

A game for 3-6 players. Duration 3-6 hours.

$20.00 Hardcopy, $12.00 PDF
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Beat to Quarters
Neil Gow

"Deck! Sail! French Frigate, Amelie, 28 guns Sir! She's seen us!" "Thank you Mr Watson. Higgins, my compliments to the cook but dinner will have to wait. Mr Brown, bring us around - I mean to engage her before sundown." "Aye Aye Sir!" "Mr Scott-Hargreaves, have the ship cleared for action ... and Beat to Quarters!" Inspired by the novels of Forester and O'Brien, Beat to Quarters takes you on a voyage of action and intrigue during the Age of Sail. Fight the French with cutlass, pistol or cannon as you sail one of the mighty ships of the Royal Navy into battle. Beat to Quarters is a stand-alone game that is also fully compatible with Duty & Honour.

$20.41 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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Vox
Michael Fiegel and Chad Underkoffler

Vox features rules-light, character and story-driven gameplay that allows characters to develop not only attributes, but personalities and Selves, as they seek to unlock the mystery of their own existence. Vox introduces a novel "Voice Mechanic" which allows each player to control not only their own Persona, but the "Voice" of another player.

Vox uses the PDQ2 game engine, and is a member of the PDQ Family of books that includes critically-acclaimed RPGs such as Ninja Burger 2nd Edition, Dead Inside, The Zorcerer of Zo, and Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies. The PDQ2 system has been designed for evocative simplicity, speed, and flexibility in play. It was designed by Chad Underkoffler of Atomic Sock Monkey Press with additional writing by Michael Fiegel.

$30.00 Hardcopy, $14.95 PDF
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Slasher Flick
Cynthia Celeste Miller

Slasher Flick is a role-playing game that brings all the thrills of slasher movies from the screen to the tabletop. It's not a universal game that can easily be used for other genres. Every rule is designed with the sole purpose of capturing all the tropes and nuances of the source material.

Players take on the roles of potential victims for the psycho killer. This may be overly blunt, but that's the truth of the matter. It's very, very possible that any given character will be stabbed, strangled, eviscerated, decapitated, chopped into pieces or otherwise disposed of by the time the game is over. That's okay though, as each player controls not only a primary character (representing one of the characters in the movies that the audience knows will either survive or be one of the last to die) but can also share the secondary characters (representing lesser characters that the audience knows will be slain during the movie) with the other players.

So get ready to go to a cursed camp or babysit some kids on a dark and stormy night. After all, that noise you're hearing is just the wind. Isn't it?

$12.99 Hardcopy, $7.99 PDF
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Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
Chad Underkoffler

Skyships ply the 7 Skies, soaring from Cloud-Island to Cloud-Island for conquest, espionage, trade, and piracy. Kingdoms clash, cultures collide, and secrets abound. Heroes and villains roam Above the Blue, seeking action, intrigue, adventure, and style. Will you be one of them?

Enter the world of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (S7S), the latest game from Chad Underkoffler featuring the PDQ system! In S7S you'll find a richly detailed setting of sky-ships, piracy, intrigue, mysticism, musketeers, and more, whether you're sailing through the haunted Ghost Sky, battling pirates from the inconstant isle of Ilwuz, intriguing in the Spider Empress' court of Barathi, or chasing thieves across the rooftops of Agua Azul.

Weighing in at a hefty 323 pages, S7S offers an upgrade to your PDQ experience with the PDQ Sharp (PDQ#) system, fully realized and detailed with plenty of examples and packed with swashbuckling action. Those unfamiliar with PDQ will find a lightweight system that won't bog you down, and long-time PDQ fans will discover just a little extra "crunch" added to make those deadly duels ring with the clash of drawn steel.

$30 Hardcopy, $15.00 PDF
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Witch Girls Adventures
Malcolm Harris

Find out "What kind of witch are you?", with our complete Witch Girls Adventure Drama Diaries game. You and your friends can make your own unique witch girl characters and send them on adventures limited by your imaginations.

$19.99 Hardcopy
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Fiasco
Jason Morningstar

THINGS CAN GO WRONG, FAST...

...Maybe some dude from youth group talked you into boosting a case of motor oil, but now your cousin is dead in a swamp and you killed him. Maybe you and your girlfriend figured you could scare your wife into a divorce, but things went pear-shaped and now a gang of cranked-up Mexicans with latex gloves and a pit bull are looking for you.

It seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Fiasco is inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong - inspired by films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan. You'll play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It won't go well for them, to put it mildly, and in the end it will probably all go south in a glorious heap of jealousy, murder, and recrimination. It's designed to be played in a single session, usually around two and a half hours, with no prep.

$20.00 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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Time & Temp
Epidiah Ravachol

Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players. Employed by Marigold Staffing and working at Browne Chronometric Engineering, Inc., you travel through the ages actualizing solutions for the anomalies and paradoxes that threaten all of existence. You are reality's only line of defense in the war between the rigidity of causality and freewill. And your only reward is the hard earned satisfaction of a job well done (plus $11.50 an hour and a modest health package including comprehensive immunizations for history's most prolific diseases).

Join now and help make anachronism a thing of the past!

$20.00 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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Valtyr Chronicles
Chuck D. Yager

Enter into a world of high fantasy, a world fueled by magic and war, a world called Valtyr. Valtyr Chronicles marks the debut RPG book set in the rich and detailed world of Valtyr. Using a skill based D6 system, Valtyr Chronicles will be as easy to play and run as it is enticing to read. So strap on your sword and channel up the Voss...adventure is only a click away.

$35.00 Hardcopy, $7.00 PDF
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Kagematsu
Danielle Lewon

It is Japan 1572, the end of the Senguko period of history. Like many transitions of power the country is filled with strife, warring factions pulling any able bodied men into war, leaving villages populated by only women, children and old men.

Now a small, nearly indefensible village is living under the horror of a dangerous threat that casts its long shadow over the village. Without a defender, its people are almost certainly doomed.

Enter Kagematsu, a wayward ronin fleeing a troubled past. Here is a defender for the village, if only he can be swayed from his meandering course. So it is that several young women conspire among themselves to win his affections and steer him to their cause...

Kagematsu is a fast paced game for 3 to 6 players with quick scenes that should play out in one session.

$17.00 Hardcopy
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Chronica Feudalis: A Game of Imagined Adventure in Medieval Europe
Jeremy Keller

What was once lost has now been found...

After hundreds of years of obscurity, a manuscript from the 12th century has recently been discovered that details the rules for a role-playing game of historical proportions. Envisioned and enjoyed by medieval monks of some long-forgotten priory, their game will take you back in time to portray the brave knights, cunning outlaws, determined clerics, bold peasants, and brash barons of their age. Explore the British isles and the European continent as they were in the feudal era. Turn the tides of wars and scheme for political power in old kingdoms. Join a crusade, survive the inquisition, become the monarch that the annals of time forgot. History is now yours for the re-telling.

Renowned medievalist and RPG scholar Jeremy Keller has assembled this manuscript from its scattered fragments and translated it from its Middle English script. The text has been lovingly interpreted and re-forged into a game system ready to run the historical adventures you have always imagined the Middle Ages could be full of. Dubbed Chronica Feudalis, the system allows for characters that range from peasants to princes and gives them the tools to set forth on daring adventures, engaging in combat, parley, subterfuge and chases.

$20.00 Hardcopy, $10.00 PDF
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Ribbon Drive
Joe McDonald

In Ribbon Drive, we collectively create a story about a road trip. We do this in the comfort of a living room, over the course of 3-5 hours. We each create a character, one of the people going on this road trip. These characters are our individual jobs; each of us will roleplay one character's decisions and actions. We'll share the responsibility of narrating the obstacles and scenery that comes up all around out characters. Ribbon Drive creates stories about letting go on the open road, and we all work to both further and complicate this agenda during the game. It draws inspirations from road movies like Wristcutters, Everything Is Illuminated, y tu Mama Tambien, Little Miss Sunshine, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and Thelma & Louise (and, to a lesser extent, Two Lane Blacktop, The Doom Generation and Wild At Heart). Our ultimate goal is to create a thought-provoking, meaningful experience. We let the music guide us. We let the road throw us curves. As our characters, we rethink our attachment to the future.

$30.00 (Canadian) Hardcopy
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Misery Bubblegum
Tony Lower-Basch

Misery Bubblegum is a fast-playing (30-60 minutes) roleplaying game, contained entirely in a deck of cards. No props, no pencils, no paper, no dice.

It helps you tell the stories of strong, sympathetic young teens dealing with the incredible difficulties of relationships and identity. The system is forces people to look past the easy archetypes of the self-indulgent angst-puppies or unrepentant losers, and instead take the harder path of making characters they can believe in, even as those characters have a really hard time.

Because, yeah ... being young is hard, but it can also be beautiful.

$20.00 Hardcopy
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Dawg: The RPG
Ashok Desai

DAWG is the role-playing game that lets you unleash the full canine experience. Here you can learn what it truly is to be the pinnacle of evolution that is dog. That's right - DAWG is an exciting, fast-paced game where the players take on the roles of canines of all breeds and any attitudes, from the scruffy junkyard mutt to the snooty pedigreed poodle.

This 25-page RPG includes everything players and Dawg Masters need for creating characters (Dawgs), running combat (Dawgpiles!) and general gameplay. Also included are record sheets, adventure seeds, two human NPCs, three animal NPCs (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and a special Pet Perk.

$4.99 PDF
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Lady Blackbird: Adventures in the Wild Blue Yonder
John Harper

Lady Blackbird is on the run from an arranged marriage to Count Carlowe. She hired a smuggler skyship, The Owl, to take her from her palace on the Imperial world of Ilysium to the far reaches of the Remnants, so she could be with her once secret lover: the pirate king Uriah Flint.

HOWEVER, just before reaching the halfway point of Haven, The Owl was pursued and captured by the Imperial cruiser Hand of Sorrow, under charges of flying a false flag.

EVEN NOW, Lady Blackbird, her bodyguard, and the crew of The Owl are detained in the brig, while the Imperial commander runs the smuggler ship's registry over the wireless. It's only a matter of time before they discover the outstanding warrants and learn that The Owl is owned by none other than the infamous outcast, Cyrus Vance.

How will Lady Blackbird and the others escape the Hand of Sorrow?

What dangers lie in their path?

Will they be able to find the secret lair of the pirate king? if they do, will Uriah Flint accept Lady Blackbird as his bride? By the time they get there, will she want him to?

Go. Play. And find out.

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Action Castle
Jared A. Sorensen

Parsely #1: Action Castle is the first in a new line of games called "Parsely Games." Now you can "GO EAST" and "LIGHT LAMP" with the best of them. Canst thou master Action Castle before death claims thee? Parsely games are inspired by Ye Olde Text Parsers from days of yore, but substituting a live human for the computer parser. Parsely games are small, portable and fun for (almost) all occasions.

  • Play them anywhere! On trips, in long lines, camping, at game cons...
  • Play them with anyone! Young or old, expert or total n00b
  • Play with a few friends or 100 random strangers at the same time
$5.00 Hardcopy
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Secrets & Lies
Daniel Bayn

This rules-lite roleplaying game is designed to emulate noir crime films from "The Big Sleep" to "Brick." Includes rules, sample protagonists, relationship maps, and plenty of advice for both players and Directors.

$4.00 PDF
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MonkeyDome
Epidiah Ravachol, Emily Care Boss, Jason Keeley, John Stavropoulos and Jim Sullivan

MonkeyDome is a schizophrenic game of shifting tones and harsh lessons in the cruel world of the future where life is ruled by Grim Violence or Zany Action, and either may strike at any moment. Sometimes you just got to swing that shovel to see if you can end a man with a sickening crunch, or knock him out with "Dong!"

Together you and your friends will be making Survivors who are pitted against the crème-de-la-crème of postapocalyptic horrors, cannibals, and marauding hordes for their space in this ravaged world. Survivors who've learned harsh lessons and seen the worst life has to offer. Survivors who do whatever it takes to stay alive. Survivors occasionally played by Brendan Fraser.

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S/Lay w/Me
Ron Edwards

phantasmagoric face to face roleplaying

S/Lay w/Me is a game played by two people at a time. More may participate but only two will be active at once. Enjoying the game requires enthusiastic creativity concerning lovers and monsters.

$10.00 Hardcopy
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Shotgun Diaries: A Zombie Survival Roleplaying Game
John Wick

The Shotgun Diaries is John Wick's zombie survival horror roleplaying game. Using all the tropes of zombie horror as game mechanics, it is fast, easy to use and horrifying.

$5.00 PDF
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Open Quest
Newt Newport

A complete and easy to play Fantasy Roleplaying game, with monsters, magic and exotic locales. OpenQuest uses the classic D100 rules mechanic, which uses percentages to express the chance of success or failure. Open Quest is based on the Mongoose RuneQuest SRD (MRQ SRD), with ideas from previous editions of Chaosium's RuneQuest and Stormbringer 5th, mixed in with some common sense house rulings from the author's twenty years of experience with the D100 system.

$23.55 Hardcopy, $9.42 PDF
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Hellcats and Hockeysticks: A Role-Playing Game of chaos, anarchy, and decidedly unladylike behavior
Andrew Peregrine

Hellcats and Hockeysticks is a role-playing game of decidedly unladylike behaviour. St Erisian's is the most dangerous girls school in the world, and you are one of the pupils. Given the school's reputation there are plenty of people that want to see it shut down. So it is up to you and your friends to see they don't succeed, by fair means or foul. That is, if you can stop fighting among yourselves. The weapons at your disposal are myriad, strange scientific devices, magical energy or even just a good old fashioned blunt object like a hockeystick. Chaos, Anarchy, Sorcery and midnight feasts await in the halls of St Erisian's school.

$9.42 PDF
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Labyrinths & Lycanthropes
Joe J. Prince

Gather your friends and embark on an epic quest for gold, glory, fame and fortune! Play badass adventurers, travel a fantastical land, meet interesting creatures and kill them. They were evil anyway.

Probably...

Worth buying for the Remi Treuer cover art alone, L&L is THE fantasy RPG you have been waiting for.

L&L needs next to no preparation time, you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Random labyrinth generation and a rotating GM puts the GAME back into RPG.

Let humour be your hammer and chuckles your chainmail as you plunge into the alliteration addled world of L&L.

In a land arising from your own twisted imagination you will (re)discover the fun of no nonsense monster bashing! Choose from the only three classes you'll ever need: Fighter, Ninja or Mage and take on labyrinth after labyrinth of malevolent minions and big bad bastards.

Sometimes it takes badasses to do good things...

$16.00 Hardcopy, $8.00 PDF
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Umläut: Game of Metal
Rich Stokes

Heavy Metal. The very name itself drips with power, testosterone and hairspray. Warriors on the stage of history, wielding their axes and mics as they do battle for glory! Trusts are forged and betrayed, mighty empires rise and fall. Ultimately, the only truth worth living for is Metal.

Long of hair and tight of pants, you join the ranks of Metal in your quest for babes, booze and glory. Try to Make It Big and hunt down an elusive record contract.

These are the heroes of an age.

This is their story.

Umläut: Game of Metal is a storytelling game which gives each player the chance to create and control their own Heavy Metal band. Simple mechanics let you chart their career as they rehearse, play gigs, fight among themselves and pull crazy publicity stunts. Will you make it big, or are your records destined to languish in the discount bin of obscurity? Can you hold your band together when the going is rough, or will you self destruct in a drug-fuelled clash of egos?

3+ Players
3-4 Hours
No GM!
No Prep!

£12.00 Hardcopy, £6.00/$10.00 PDF
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The Dance and the Dawn
Dev Purkayastha

This game tells a fable of three Ladies who came upon the Ice Queen's court and danced with four Lords, all in the pursuit of the One True Love that could yield happiness. The conclusion of that fable is up to you. The Dance and the Dawn is a game for 3-5 players and is played over a chessboard. One player plays the part of the Narrator (and will control the Duke and Queen, as well as several Lords), and the other players will each control one of the Ladies. The game is a bit of a fairy tale and a bit of a puzzle: each Lady is trying to determine the character of the various Lords, and must pick one at the end of the game. Will you choose your One True Love, or will you pick the Soulless Lord, dooming you to become the next Ice Queen?

$12.00 Hardcopy, $5.00 PDF
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44: A Game of Automatic Fear
Matt Snyder

44 is a suspense and horror role-playing game designed for single sessions with very little preparation required. It's a great game for busy players looking for a one-shot session.

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Atomic Highway - Post Apocalyptic Roleplaying
Colin Chapman

Civilization came crashing down. Billions died.
A new Dark Age has begun. The descendants of the apocalypse's survivors scavenge the remnants of the Before Times, struggling to build a new life amidst the ruins of the old. In a savage world where the strong ravage and exploit the weak, the survivors' settlements are oases, connected only by convoys of armed and armored vehicles that run the gauntlet of raiders... and worse.
Though the threats of chemical and biological agents and radiation have all but faded, their taint lingers on in every mutant born to man and beast.
This is the world of Atomic Highway.

Atomic Highway is a complete roleplaying game. All you need to play it is this book, a few friends, paper and pencils, and a few ordinary dice.

Features:

  • The V6 Engine: a simple, fast-playing game system that emphasizes cinematic, or "movie-style" action, supported with many clear examples.
  • Quick and easy character creation rules providing dozens of potential character types. Tear along the shattered highway as a road warrior, track down monstrous threats as a brave tribal warrior, or unearth the wonders of the past as a canny scavenger.
  • Rules for mutants and mutations, including optional rules for humanoid animals and psychic powers.
  • Straightforward rules for a wide variety of vehicles and modifications.
  • A complete bestiary of threats, mundane and mutated.
  • Easy-to-use scavenging tables - you never know what you'll unearth.
  • A customizable setting with advice and tips on how to create your own post-apocalyptic world.
  • Roleplaying and game running advice for Players and Game Masters, new and experienced alike.
  • A ready-to-use introductory adventure.
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Norwegian Style
Erlend Sand Bruer, Tor Kjetil Edland, Arvid Falch, Ole Peder Giæver, Martin Gudmundsen, Matthijs Holter, Magnus Jakobsson, Håken Lid, Lasse Lundin, Anders Nygaard, Tomas HV Mørkrid, Erling Rognli, Margrete Somerville, Øyvind Stengrundet, Even Tømte, and Rune Valle

In this book, you will find a number of role-playing games written by Norwegian designers. They vary in length, form and content from 15-minute poems to year-long campaigns, from GM-less freeform to competitive resource management games, from light-hearted fantasy slapstick to grimly realistic stories of patricide.

They have only one thing in common. They're Nøwegian Style.

Expect to be challenged.

$15.00 Hardcopy
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Last Train Out of Warsaw
Jason Morningstar

Last Train Out Of Warsaw is a short, focused roleplaying game using Matthijs Holter's Archipelago II as a rules engine.

Set on the eve of the German encirclement of Warsaw in 1939, this game casts players in the roles of some of the passengers on the very last train out of that doomed city. Play progresses through a fixed series of scenes as the train flees the horrors of war towards safety in Romania. The train journey is fraught with incidents both external - a German air attack, a bandit raid, a station full of Poles desperate to get on the train - and internal - each passenger has issues and secrets that will be revealed through play and which may quite literally derail the escape.

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The Drifter's Escape
Ben Lehman

The Drifter's Escape is an anthology of short stories and a role-playing game. Like most anthologies, there is a unified theme to the entries: they are all about the role of the American drifter, and his place in the American landscape. The stories and the game do not intersect except thematically. There are seven stories, ranging in length from three pages to nineteen, and they are all written by my brother, Jake Lehman. There is one role-playing game, and it is written by me, Ben Lehman.

The game is for three or more players (the largest group which I have played it with is 7, although it scales past that) of similar age and maturity. The game takes 1-3 hours to play to completion, about 20 minutes of which is set-up. If you eat an early dinner, it can be played after dinner and before you go to sleep.

In the game, one player takes the role of the Drifter, someone who is coming into a new place, where they know no one, with the intent to leave rather than settle down. The other players take the role of the forces (The Devil and The Man) trying to get the Drifter to submit to their ownership of his life and soul. At the start of the game, The Devil and The Man control everyone but the Drifter. As the game is played, some people might redeem themselves and leave their control.

A recent player of the game described it as "a very quiet, very powerful experience." My play of the game has felt the same. The stories that the game produces are about ordinary people and their ordinary lives, but despite (or because of) that they are engrossing and often deeply affecting.

$13.00 Hardcopy
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Ocean
Jake Richmond

An abandoned underwater research station. A nightmarish creature from the depths of the ocean. A trapped group of amnesiac survivors. These are the clues. Solve the mystery. A new survival/mystery story engine from the creator of Panty Explosion and Sea Dracula.

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The Black Spot
Mark Silcox

The Black Spot is a storytelling game in which players act out the kinds of terrifying tales told in horror films like those of Sam Raimi, George A. Romero and Wes Craven. The ultimate fate of every player's character is determined via draws from a special deck of cards. Most of the rest of what happens in each story is left up to the players' imaginations.

Will Gretchen, the pensive cheerleader, outrun the Mad Slasher of Middletown Gorge? Will Hans, the happy-go-lucky drifter, ever discover the dark secret of that abandoned coal mine off Route 67? Will the passengers of Omega Airlines Flight 099 escape the desert island before awakening its grim and bloodthirsty protector? The answers to all such questions depend upon you, the player, with perhaps just the tiniest nudge from the hand of fate.

$3.00 PDF
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Little Fears, Nightmare Edition
Jason L. Blair

Monsters are real and they hunt children like you from the shadows. All you have are your wits, your belief, and the friends by your side. No adults can help you. No one else can save you.

Vampires, witches, werewolves, magic, and more await you inside these pages. Find your courage, fight the monsters, become a hero.

Completely reimagined, with an all-new system, Little Fears Nightmare Edition is the definitive version of the classic game.

You're not scared, are you?

$25.00 Hardcopy, $9.00 PDF
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