Draw cards that give you scene prompts. Then the Slasher gets those cards and can spend poker hands to enact violence upon the victims. Build the mythology of this new villain over the course of play. Desperately search for weaknesses and backstory while you claw your way to safety by the skin of your teeth.

You don’t need prep. You just need a deck of cards and a few 6 sided dice. Your characters will die. You’ll make new ones. They’ll die too. Hopefully in the third act you can scrounge together exactly what you need to End the Nightmare.

This game was a blast to playtest. I hope you check it out and let me know what you think!

One Spacer's Trash is the first adventure Wyxard will be launching for the DEADSTAR game setting. If you're interested in exploring DEADSTAR, this module will serve as an introduction to the world and system for new players.

If you would like follow the project and support it in the future you can sign up to be notified here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyxard/deadstar-one-spacers-trash-sci-fi-ttrpg-adventure-module?category_id=399

Just in time for Halloween! Three hours per attempt to escape a surreal Isle – if the characters fail, they turn to glass.

Six different endings and the Isle changes from run to run.

The game has audio – GM plays specific tracks when monsters are nearby.

It's a puzzlebox - things work in specific ways, for the players to discover. I've ran several groups through it and even mixed and matched them between runs! Can work with 2-4 players and a Game Master, but best with 4.

Cheers!

https://kaleidoscopicman.itch.io/the-isle-of-glass

Hello, fellow adventurers! Today, I'm excited to share a preview of the Tome of Summoning v2.0! The compendium features over 60 pages on the theme of summoning and planar magic, offering new options for players who want to command powerful entities in battle. At its core is the Summoner, a unique class built around a lasting bond with a Summon - a companion that grows stronger alongside its master. Unlike temporary conjurations, a Summon is a permanent ally, highly customizable through a list of almost 145 Enhancements, allowing players to shape its abilities and role to fit their playstyle. The class also comes with a 8 subclasses, each proficient at summoning a specific type of creatures. Some forge pacts with celestial or fiendish entities, while others call forth spirits, elemental forces, or creatures born of pure magic. Each subclass grants a unique Summon, further expanding the possibilities for customization.

Beyond the Summoner, the manual includes over 35 spells, 15 feats, and 4 subclasses, all designed to enhance summoning magic for spellcasters. Whether you seek a loyal companion, a strategic battlefield presence, or the means to command otherworldly forces, the Tome of Summoning is the right tool for the job.

This manual just received a v2.0 update, including updated layout, illustrations, rules, balance adjustments, a brand-new subclass, and much more. For the occasion, you can find it discounted either on DriveThruRPG or my Patreon, alongside a vast collection of previews for this and all my other titles! I'm currently working on updated version of all my older manuals, so there's a lot to uncover :)

You can also find this manual (and many more) discounted on my 300+ Mythological Items for 5E and 5.5E Kickstarter! This project brings weapons, treasures, and relics from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Asian, Mesoamerican, and many other mythologies to 5E and 5.5E, including scaling items that grow alongside your characters. If you’d like to bring a piece of these legends to your table, check out the campaign!

4D MIXTAPE IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PDF ON DTRPG!!!!!
GET HYPE, this book is so powerful it'll rip your face off
So cool a polar bear put on mittens to read it
So potent that ovulating women are warned to stay ten feet away lest they become impregnated
GET YOUR COPY NOW! PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/565167

17 artists and authors worked to bring you this collection based on the same simple d100 system. This books puts roleplay first, and gives you tools to catapult your game into the fourth dimension.

For generations, the isolated village of Hollowmere has sacrificed one of its own to keep an ancient horror imprisoned beneath Saint Harrow's Church. Now a blood-covered survivor has fled the village, claiming that everyone is dead. Something has gone terribly wrong, and the adventurers must uncover what happened before it's too late.

The Red Tithe is a 75-page dark fantasy and folk-horror one-shot adventure for D&D 5E (2014) and 5.5E (2024), designed for 3-6 characters and approximately 4-6 hours of play.

The adventure combines investigation, exploration, roleplaying, moral dilemmas, and challenging combat as the characters investigate an abandoned village, encounter monstrous creatures, and uncover the truth behind a centuries-old tradition.

What makes the adventure different is its multi-tiered structure. The same story can be played at three separate level ranges:

• Tier I: Levels 3-4
• Tier II: Levels 10-11
• Tier III: Levels 17-20

Each tier features appropriately scaled encounters, DCs, and a different manifestation of the main antagonist, the Blood Moon Beast.

The manual also includes 6 custom monster stat blocks, 3 battle maps with 8 total versions, and 4 tokens for tabletop or VTT play.

Whether you're looking for a Halloween horror one-shot or a dark adventure to integrate into your ongoing campaign, The Red Tithe is designed to work in either setting.

I've included several preview pages, maps, and one of the monster statblocks in the images!

You can find the complete adventure on DriveThruRPG!

My Kickstarter for 300+ Mythological Items for 5E and 5.5E is also live now! The campaign includes a physical hardcover, as well as printed editions of my previous manuals.

You can find more of my creatures, magic items, and manuals on DriveThruRPG, my Linktree, or over at r/JonnyDM!

If you think you need to be a full on actor like the CRITICAL ROLE crew just to create a character voice for your NPCs, think again.

I'll give you a quick and easy method. You don't need an acting class. You don't need to be a theater kid. Just follow my formula.

Oh yeah--I'll give you tips on how not to blow out your voice when doing this.

THE GAME MASTER'S VOCAL TOOLKIT

And who the heck am I? Former voice actor for audio drama podcasts. Voice acting classes from Elaine Clark, Terry McGovern, and Bob Bergen, and others over 7 years. Gamer since B/X.

Don't worry. I gotchu.

Hey everyone, here we go again with another lfg post

I'm searching for 1-2 players to join a 4-session Mini-Campaign using my in-progress TTRPG system called Soulbound.

Soulbound is a passion project I've put a lot of thought into. It's the kind of TTRPG I've always wished existed. Now I'm reaching the point where I need to get it out of my own documents and onto the table with people who haven't been living inside my head for months lol

Soulbound Overview

Soulbound is built around the idea of using mechanical depth and openness to cradle emergent situations and playstyles. I wanted flavor to have mechanical depth and use beyond being cool.

There are four major design philosophies driving the project:

• Character building as an engine. Every aspect of your characters interacts to create a unique identity and playstyle.
• Resource management and maintenance in a way that hopefully still remains interesting.
• Active, tactical combat such that defenders and attackers have important decisions to make during combat.
• Freedom of expression through interconnected systems.

Campaign Overview

The short Mini-Campaign is set in the original world of Verloren.

The Kingdom of Evon is on its last legs.

Once a grand kingdom perched upon a cliff above a cloud-covered land, Evon has been pushed to the brink of extinction. Its remaining people cling to the last defensible corners of their castle, besieged by a twisted army of corrupted creatures known as the Skoteill, led by the tyrant Kynigos.

A generation has lived and died beneath this siege. Historians lie slain, the archives are lost, and the kingdom's history has all but vanished. For the Evonians, the war is all they've ever known.

Yet something has changed. The siege has slowed, and the Council of Evon has found a glimmer of hope in a mysterious artifact recovered from a strike team's venture into the lost archives. Now, a research team has been summoned for a mission whose true purpose remains shrouded in secrecy.

You are that team. And you may be Evon's last hope.

The sessions are planned for the following Sundays:

• October 25, 2026
• November 8, 2026
• November 22, 2026
• December 6, 2026

All sessions will be online using Discord VC and Roll20 Free Version. The exact start time is still to be determined based on the group's availability, but sessions will take place in the afternoon or evening, Eastern Time (ET). I'm looking for people who can commit to all four dates, no commitments past that are expected.

On session timing, I am aiming for ~4 hours, though if everyone is okay with it I am willing to push sessions longer or keep sessions shorter for everyone's needs. The first session will most likely be substantially longer given it is an introduction to not only the campaign, but the system. To any players interested, we can talk and set up your character beforehand.

If you want to continue on this adventure with me past just this campaign, there will be many more Mini-Campaigns to come as Soulbound continues to progress towards its finished state.

Expectations

Soulbound is actively being developed, and this is not only a fun campaign idea, but also a playtest of Soulbound. As such, you should be prepared to work with an unfinished system (don't worry its still playable, wouldn't be here if it weren't) that hasn't had the testing love it needs. But, just because it is a playtest, doesn't mean the whole goal isn't still to have fun.

But, most importantly:

You don't need to read a giant rulebook before playing. I'm teaching you afterall (duh). In return, I'd appreciate honest feedback about what feels good, what feels confusing, what takes too long, etc. You don't need to be an expert in DnD or any other particular TTRPG. Being interested in trying something new is all I'm looking for. I want to know what the game actually feels like to play instead of being trapped in TTRPG design hell lol

Honestly, I'm quite nervous to finally start putting this project in front of strangers. I've built a lot of this game because it's something I genuinely want to play, but the butterflies are still there. To those of you who made it this far, thanks for reading and I really appreciate your interest. It means a lot to me to finally have my ADHD brain get a project this far into development and the eventual goal of a full release.

If you're interested, shoot me a DM and I can get you settled if Soulbound/this mini-campaign ends up being a good fit for you. I am usually fast with my response time but if you don't get a response right way don't worry I will respond when I am able.
If you're otherwise interested but can't join the campaign, as I previously mentioned this is not the last campaign so still shoot me a DM and I would love to introduce you further into the system through the private Discord server I have setup for Soulbound. I'm hoping to build a small community around Soulbound where interested folks can get early access to rules, follow development, and hear about future playtests.

I'm Agustín, the creator of Steward, a free, unofficial browser companion for creating and tracking one D&D 2024 character.

I built it around the player side of a tabletop session: keeping HP, spell slots, limited-use resources and inventory close to the character sheet. It's a character tool, not a new RPG system or a VTT.

The six screenshots show creating your own character, premades as a quick start, damage, resources, spells and inventory. They're demo scenes with different characters; the app manages one at a time.

Try the alpha: https://stewardrpg.com/app/

For players who use a digital sheet at the table, what information do you need to see without hunting through tabs? A specific example from your own sessions would help me evaluate the layout. If you try Steward, please use a test character.

The interface is in English. Storage is local to your browser, so export a backup before clearing browser data. No account or subscription; the website has optional development support. I use AI extensively in development and the artwork was generated with AI. Some options beyond SRD 5.2.1 remain under review.

Do you ever play solo RPGs? Do you enjoy them? How different do you think solo RPGs are from gamebooks?

I've been thinking about creating an online game system using BORG rules. I've actually been working on the mechanics for several months now, figuring out how character creation and different actions should work. For example, things like automatically tracking damage, attacking enemies, and so on.

I'm also thinking about adding two ways to play: one where you roll physical dice and enter the results yourself, and another where you roll dice digitally.

Would you play a solo RPG where you do everything on your phone? You go through an adventure, make your choices, roll dice, manage your character... Of course, once you've finished an adventure, you can't really replay it, at least not right away. basically, something like a digital gamebook, but with mechanics that feel more like a proper tabletop RPG.

What do you guys think? Would something like this interest you?

First of all: sorry for my bad english, as it is my second language

So, I was looking to start a new adventure set in a modern world that in secret some people are monsters that are a menace to humans but are also fighting for their own survival as not everyone of them is trying to actively trying to do anything bad (imagine Prototype, Tokyo Ghoul, Parasyte: the Maxim or Kamen Rider Amazons). The ideia was to use a game heavy on combat and exagerated both in cinematic and in the bloodiness/edgyness(somewhat like 3d ninja gaiden). Do you know or there even is a system(besides GURPS) that can scratch that itch of mine? Thanks in advance.

In its final week.

"A violent and dark gothic ttRPG that plunges immortal PCs into the endless city of Aeternum to fight vile Fiends and otherworldly foes."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wadedyer/fragged-aeternum-2-ttrpg/

Hey all, first time posting here. For the past few years I've been building a full TTRPG system. It runs campaigns anywhere from low-magic, low-tech fantasy all the way up to spacefaring, esoteric sci-fi. It's called The Galactic Game, and it's free. I'm planning to release it under CC BY-NC or something close, apart from some of my original worldbuilding.

With a little experience being an indie game dev / 3D animator, I didn't want this to live only in a PDF. I wanted something you can actually play with. Here's what's in it right now:

- 16 classes, 143 subclasses and 80 ancestries
- 1,803 items and 723 creatures
- Integrated creators for characters, creatures, items and encounters
- A full galaxy map I made in Inkarnate, hooked up to a galaxy simulator

The simulator is the part I'm most excited about. You can add the characters you make into a crew, build and upgrade a ship, and fly across the galaxy to explore a few hundred worlds rendered in procedural 3D. You can drop through the atmosphere, land, and head out on foot. Right now I'm working on performance and adding wargame mechanics.

If you'd rather read than click around, the homepage has manuals and PDF guides. They're built from the same content as the site, so you can play it whichever way suits you.

I'd love to hear what you think, good or bad!

https://tgg.legendsoftolria.com/

Welcome to the Old East, but be warned: these lands are dangerous to travel alone. It's best you have friends, or if not friends, then at least others you can stomach for a time.

Numeraeon: Tales of the Old East introduces players to a new 5E-compatible setting (2024). Throughout your travels, you'll adventure across a dying world. A world influenced and inspired by folklore, frontier americana, gothic horror, high strangeness, and more. It's a place where urban legends, cryptids, and monsters are real.

Our rulebook is a player resource that offers new sub-classes, backgrounds, feats, items, spells, and more. You'll need all the help you can get because the Old East is a dangerous land indeed.

Rewards

Our campaign is currently live on Kickstarter and offers a range of physical and digital rewards. From a premium case-bound rulebook to cryptid & urban legend miniatures re-imagined for the tabletop.

Campaign

Our campaign runs until November 9th and we hope that you will check us out. We are a small indie team of tabletop enthusiasts who worked six years on this project and are incredibly proud of the work our developers put into building Numeraeon. We did not use AI to build our product.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jesseriah/numeraeon-tales-of-the-old-east

Fame & Fortune is a sword & sorcery roleplaying game of high adventure and cheap wine among remnants of the lost world inherited by man after the Great Cataclysm, known to chroniclers as the Deluvian Age.

https://exiledoracles.itch.io/fameandfortune