Role Playing Games

Weapons of Body and Soul Martial Arts RPG

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Weapons of Body and Soul is a martial arts RPG currently in playtesting. The author writes:

The focus of the game is on being a Martial Artist in a land of mythology, where demons and beasts reign and humans can manifest the energy of their spirit to defend themselves. While the primary focus of the game is on combat, the end goal is not about gaining loot. It is about mastering your skills and learning to overcome challenges, becoming greater than you were and achieving your goals.

While it is a combat focused game, you are not required to play a fighter. There are rules in place to play other kinds of characters. This includes a diplomat, or a skill specialist such as an engineer, an inventor, or a smith. WBS emphasises three main design goals. 1) Realism and accuracy. 2) Skill focused gameplay, with high skill trumping high attributes. 3) Tactics in combat, including reasons to use weaker attacks, or to fight at less than your full capacity

Plotypus Storytelling Game

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Plotypus is a

collaborative storytelling game; it enables any group to tell an epic story with a riveting plot. Players draw setting and character cards for inspiration and narrate the story through eight pivotal chapters.

The game is best with 2-5 players but works with any group size. Duration depends on personal preference and ranges from 15 – 45 minutes. Plotypus is appropriate for all ages

Exosolar RPG

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Exosolar is a free rpg

about robots struggling to survive on an alien planet. Players will have to make the most of their limited resources as they overcome obstacles that threaten their mission. This is a rules­light RPG with a focus on narrative. One player is the GM (game master) and controls the world while the other players are the robots.

Hackers And Hustlers RPG

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Hackers and Hustlers is a free RPG designed as a “high tech farce.” The author writes:

It is the very near future. You are coworkers and roommates: running a startup out of an old Victorian in San Francisco, where you also live. Your founders went to Burning Man and refused to return. Malicious forces are at work.

Fourteen Free Microlite 20 RPG Variants

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Microlite 20 is a set of minimalist RPG rules designed for compatibility with Old School Dungeons and Dragons materials, as well as the d20 OGL. Fourteen free Microlite 20 variants are available at the link.