Hack100 is a tabletop role-playing game system in which characters can be created in minutes and the vast majority of in-game actions are covered by around a dozen, rather than dozens of, skills.
It is also very flexible, eschewing standard lists of professions, skills, powers and monsters in favour of a freeform, collaborative approach. It is a generic system that is suitable for most genres of role-playing games.
Hack100: https://hack100rpg.com/
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FIST: Ultra Edition is a tabletop roleplaying game about paranormal mercenaries doing the tough jobs no one else can. In the game, you belong to a legendary rogue mercenary unit called FIST. You are a soldier of fortune who doesn’t fit into modern society. You are a disposable gun for hire, caught up in the death and destruction of pointless proxy wars and oppressive establishments. You may also be someone who can turn into a ghost or control bees with your mind.
Itch.io Store: https://claymorerpgs.itch.io/fist
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frogappreciator/fist-paranormal-mercenary-rpg-box-set/
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A one-shot tabletop RPG for up to six players (and one GM); where you play orcs trying to infiltrate a human infested city and abduct Prince Theodore Holstein. The rules are written with an eye to make them easy to pick up and learn, and encourage stupid plans and wild distractions, so it's a great game for cons - or just to keep on your shelf if your regular game is called off on short notice.
Havoc Brigade: https://gshowitt.itch.io/havoc-brigade
The Havoc brigade system is also being used for Eat the Reich in which you, a vampire commando, are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris and must cut a bloody swathe through nazi forces en route to your ultimate goal: drinking all of Adolf Hitler's blood.
Eat The Reich: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/eat-the-reich
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The Monster Overhaul is a massive Role Playing Game bestiary designed for at-table utility. Monsters are presented alongside useful tools, ready for immediate use in any scenario.
This 336 page book contains: 200+ Monsters, 160+ Pieces of original art.
20+ Maps, Random encounter tables, indexes, and a host of other useful tools.
Drivethru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/421868/The-Monster-Overhaul
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The 5th Edition - B/X hybrid, 5B applies OSR principles of play to a ruleset compatible with 5e D&D material.
Including:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_info.php?products_id=437330
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Shadowdark RPG is what old-school fantasy gaming would look like after being redesigned with 50 years of innovation.
The game is fast, familiar, intuitive, and deadly. It’s built for sword-and-sorcery adventures where fell monsters slither in darkness and frosty gems glint upon forgotten thrones, waiting to be discovered.
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark
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Space Aces is an homage to an undying love of happy, hopeful, & campy Sci Fi. A modular, lightweight, optimistic sci-fi tabletop adventure game toolbox for GM-led groups, co-op & solo play. Packed with over 75 tables, oracles & procedural generators for creating near-endless light-hearted rollicking romps through space a la Star Trek meets Futurama meets Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Space Aces: The Original Sheets https://p0rthos47.itch.io/space-aces
Space Aces: The New Guidebook: https://p0rthos47.itch.io/space-aces-tng
Space Aces: Accelerated https://p0rthos47.itch.io/space-aces-accelerated
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Through The Void is a minimalist OSR (Old School Renaissance) inspired RPG for 1-7 players by Tony Vasinda and the Plus One Team. The core rules of the game fit on 1 sheet of paper. Explore abandoned asteroid mines, hulking relics of the solar wars, and lunar labs. Through The Void provides the characters sheets, rules, and procedures you need to build thrilling space adventures and all you need are pencils, dice, and a few hours with your friends.
Through The Void is a Together We Go game based on Down We Go by Markus Linderum.
Together We Go: https://tonyplusone.itch.io/together-we-go
Down We Go: https://plusoneexp.com/collections/1-games/products/down-we-go-hardback
Through The Void: https://tonyplusone.itch.io/through-the-void
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A review of 13th Age. In the 13th Age of the world, adventurers seek their fortunes in the Dragon Empire while powerful individuals known as Icons pursue goals that may preserve the empire from chaos, or send it over the edge. It combines the best parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming with new story-focused rules.
Pelgrane Press: https://pelgranepress.com/13th-age/
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VICTORY BASIC is a classic dungeon delving game inspired by original and basic edition fantasy wargames rules.
The system is based in part on the Dungeon World roleplaying game published by Sage Kobold Productions.
Rules: https://sersavictory.itch.io/victory-basic
Cyclic Dungeon Generation: https://sersavictory.itch.io/cyclic-dungeon-generation
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Return to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, a brand new adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien using the rules for 5E. Based on the second edition of The One Ring.
Pre-order: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/store/?product_id=7820499124482
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Slayers is a tabletop RPG of mercenaries and monster hunters for hire. Known by locals as Slayers, players wander a haunted city, cursed long ago to expand towards the horizon forever. Slayers help clean out the monsters that infest the alleyways and shadows, and those that the city seems to be manifesting on its own
Digital version of Slayers: https://gilarpgs.itch.io/slayers
Physical Version: https://gilarpgs.myshopify.com/products/slayers
Weather in your RPG: https://dragonsarereal.bearblog.dev/weather-in-your-rpg/
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Oz by author Andrew Kolb is a detailed setting, compatible with 5th Edition. Like Andrew's previous book Neverland a great deal of effort has been put into this book for players and GM's alike.
Episode 104 Neverland: https://dragonsarereal.bearblog.dev/104-neverland/
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A rules-light D6 RPG system that puts creativity over complexity, but delivers a suprising amount of variation and mechanical wiggle. A D6 dice pooling with a few key innovations like boons and banes, strikes instead of hit points and variable damage, and a micro-resource called karma.
EZD6: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/397599/EZD6-Core-Rulebook
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Blood and Gold is a rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game with old school sensibilities combined with modern fluid mechanics. It is Fast to Learn, Fast to the Table, and compatible with content from the 70s through today!
Mork Borg: https://jnohr.itch.io/mrk-borg-free
Blood & Gold: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/398574/Blood-and-Gold
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2400 is a plug-and-play toolkit. It’s not just one RPG, but a series of self-contained modules, easy to slot in or ignore entirely. Each one is 3 pages plus a cover, fitting on two sides of a letter-sized sheet of paper.
2400: https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400
24xx SRD: https://jasontocci.itch.io/24xx
Breathless Jam: https://itch.io/jam/breathless-jam/entries
Cargo: https://dragonsarereal.itch.io/cargo
The Hidden: https://dragonsarereal.itch.io/the-hidden
Purple Worm Podcast: https://anchor.fm/purple-worm
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Breathless is a survival horror role-playing game featuring dreading mechanics. Every skill check brings you one step closer to more dangerous situations. Characters are talented and proactive, but the path that lies in front of them is perilous. They will face difficult tasks, try to catch their breath, scavenge what they can find, and try to get through in one piece.
Breathless SRD: https://fari.games/en/srds/fari-rpgs/breathless-srd
Breathless Itch Page: https://fari-rpgs.itch.io/breathless-srd
Breathless Game Jam: https://itch.io/jam/breathless-jam
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Starting off from a Kickstarter in 2021 as Rocket to Russia, the 3,2,1...Action Rule Book is the core rules from that KS, These core rules can be used as the basis for a game with any style you'd like.
3,2,1...Action! Rule Book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/330233/321Action-Rules--Point-Nemo--How-To-Play-BETA
Rocket to Russia: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/367404/Rocket-To-Russia
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How to run a Funnel adventure in 5th Edition.
5th Edition Funnel: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/186076/Fifth-Edition-Funnel
The OSR Guide to Playing 5e: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/390592/The-OSR-Guide-to-Playing-5e--Module-Included-Playtest
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The final book in the Level Up: Advanced 5e line: Trials and Treasures.
Website: https://www.levelup5e.com/
Everyday Heroes blogpost: https://dragonsarereal.substack.com/p/everyday-heroes
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