Role Playing Game

Mini Six Free RPG

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Mini Six is a minimalist free RPG based on the old West End d6 system. The authors write:

Mini Six is a fast and flexible rules system that encourages cinematic play. It’s based on a popular multi-genre role playing game that was created in the 1980’s.

All the rules you need for fast play are included on the first page. The following six densely packed pages present options and advanced rules such as character perks and complications, vehicles, magic, and stock characters.

About Mini Six:

Mini Six is a pen and paper roleplaying game. We assume that if you’ve come here, you’ve played one of those before.

Mechanically, it is a clone of well-known system. We’d love to use the name of that system, but because we don’t own the trademark or have permission to use it, we can’t. The system was first used in a popular science fiction role playing game released in the 1980’s. That system has been made open for use by it’s owner, West End Games, but the standard trademark license (STL) to refer to that system has not been released.

It’s not exactly the same as the original system, however. Mini Six is a smaller, leaner game than the original. In addition, a few tweaks have been made here and there to streamline play.

Mini Six is just the rules. No setting is included, but we intend to release some of our own. It can be used to play just about any genre of game. A few examples of fantasy, science fiction, and modern game elements are included.

Talislanta Setting Now Free

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Talislanta is a fantastic fantasy world setting thats well out of the standard realms of elves, orks and dwarves. I always thought it more in keeping with the fantasies of Jack Vance, or another great setting, Tekumel.

At any rate, the various books, once available commercially now are available for download here.

Adventures In The New Kingdoms RPG

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Dyson Logos offers the Adventures in the New Kingdoms RPG:

Adventures in the New Kingdoms is the setting I’ve been running Fantasy RPGs in for most of my life. It has seen incarnations as a setting for Moldvay B/X D&D, BECMI, AD&D1e and AD&D3.x with side trips into RoleMaster and an abortive attempt to convert it all to GURPS 2e.

The setting itself owes a lot to my first exposure to fantasy novels – the works of Michael Moorcock (specifically the Elric saga). The elves of the New Kingdoms are a doomed and ancient race, warriors and sorcerers of Law who even created their own slave races towards the end of their empire.

The ancient empire of the Kale has collapsed under its own weight and is being replaced by the age of man. Of the three greatest Kale cities, only one still remains within their grasp, the other two being the centres of great human city-states.

Dungeonslayers Old Fashioned RPG

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Dungeonslayers is a very well done, old school RPG. The author writes:

Welcome to Dungeonslayers, the role-playing game, in which your characters are slaying monsters and looting dungeons in a primitive and old-fashioned way. The rules of Dungeonslayers were designed to be very basic and simple on purpose, to bring the charm of old-school gaming back to life. Dungeonslayers is not about having elaborate, realistic rule mechanics nor about playing out pseudointellectual dramas filled with egomaniac monologues. Instead it’s about straightforward plots in your traditional fantasy world, where evil is still evil, where monsters are killed mercilessly, where devious traps strike and where fantastic loot awaits, while pencil and graph paper work their own special magic around the gaming table. So, let’s put on the chainmail once again, draw your blade or dig up your spell book, the next dungeon and its monstrous hordes await your return.

The site also has some neat one-page dungeons.

Dark Dungeon Fantasy Role Playing Game

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Dark Dungeon is a fantasy role playing game that’s gotten some pretty good reviews. The authors write:

The Dark Dungeon 2nd Edition game is designed to play fast and easy, give realistic results and provide a great variety between characters. Also, its fairly easy to learn, and you can make a new character in ten minutes even if you know little about Role Playing Games (also RPGs). We think this is one of the very best RPG systems around, better than any of the commercial ones we know (and we know quite a few). If you want to test our assertions, just try this free version of the rules. If you like them, don’t hesitate to share them among your friends and spread the word!