Roleplaying Games

All free and licensed under Creative Commons.

For a while, I set myself the goal of publishing one new role-playing game every two months. One month writing, one month recovering. This built up quite a catalogue while it lasted, and some of them I am very proud of indeed. Most are in the mould of indie, rules-light games designed to scratch a very particular itch.

Games

All of these games can be acquired as print copies or free pdfs via Lulu.com. They're presented here in the order of how much I like them. Supporting material, such as character sheets, can be found in the collections in the next section.

Alas, Lulu.com no longer directly links different formats of the same product together, so you will have to search for the pdf versions on their site. Or you can ownload the collections on this page and get a lot of games in one archive.

Rivers and Lakes

Fluid historical wuxia action

Night of the Sevens

Adds style-specific abilities and a campaign skeleton to Rivers and Lakes

Merchants' Reach

Adds firearms and European colonialism to Rivers and Lakes

Ring of Changes

Conspiracy, alchemy and dangerous bargains

Sorcerer's Symposium

Madcap magic running out of control at a conference

Mayhem Academy

A boarding school for tomorrow's hired killers

Putting the Band Back Together

We're putting the band back together

Loop Garou

Repeat the same day until you survive the werewolves

His Due

You have made a contract with a familiar for strange and terrible powers

Sunless Seas

Go with the flow and visit countless worlds

Somnambulance

Growing up is hard enough without your body going out by itself at night

The Last Challenge

Storytelling by heroes who have done it all

Bulwark

Tie-in RPG based on the card game

Destiny of the Metal Gods

Giant, Norse god-themed mecha, powered by Rivers and Lakes

Nightmare Foundry

Victorian Britain has been ravaged by a parascientific cataclysm

Leanheart Edge

Rebuild a ruined stronghold under precarious political circumstances

Warlord's Wager

Compete in a despot's martial games, powered by Sorcerer's Symposium

Lairshare

A houseshare with some other evil overlords

Crawling for Cash

Explore dungeons, get money. Or die.

3

Reality is tissue thin, and driven by numerology

Collections

These zip files are collections of pdfs of these games, including any supplmentary material such as character sheets. They are the most convenient way to download what you need.

Collection 1

3
Crawling for Cash
Rivers and Lakes
Night of the Sevens
Merchants' Reach
Sorcerer's Symposium
the Last Challenge

Collection 2

Destiny of the Metal Gods
His Due
Mayhem Academy
Somnambulance
Warlord's Wager

Collection 3

Lairshare
Loop Garou
Nightmare Foundry
Putting the Band Back Together
Sunless Seas