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Over the last two decades, The Big List of RPG Plots has been cited, quoted, thanked and excerpted in articles for computer-game design, a book on Hollywood screenwriting, and more than a few pen-and-paper RPGs. I wrote it in 1993 as an article submission for Pyramid magazine (they rejected it). I later tried to shop it to Dragon and Shadis and others... [click here for more] |
Cumberland Games & Diversions |
FREE
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Kapow! The Super RPG!
The Sky's the Limit!
Unlock the power of your imagination! Any kind of superhero, any powers, any scope... One Simple, Fast, Exciting system! Kapow! gives you everything you need to play the superhero RPG of your dreams: Powers, vehicles, sidekicks, bases...it's all there, and You don't need a degree in accounting to create the hero you've always wanted to play!
Does your... [click here for more] |
SFX RPGs |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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GATEWAY RPG Tabletop System is a Free, rules-lite, easy to learn, fast-paced, and universal D20 Roleplaying Game framework that is perfect for introducing new players to the hobby of tabletop RPGs. This system allows for any theme or setting, from Fantasy to Cyberpunk,... [click here for more] |
Aurican's Lair |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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Hero DxD is a new superhero themed RPG written by Jeff Moore and illustrated by Darrel Miller. DxD uses an updated version of the Five By Five game mechanics. It introduces a new system for variable task difficulty and adds character Ability Scores that are custom made for superhero role-play.
The Marvelous DxD roll!
The key to the DxD game system is in the DxD (Die Times Die) roll... [click here for more] |
Dreams and Dragons |
FREE
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Grab your cowl and boldly display your colors as you fight for justice!
Built for the SUPERS! Comic Book Role Playing Game, SUPERS! Quick Start contains all you need for you and your friends to test drive the SUPERS! RPG. Answer the call when a friendly gathering turns to mayhem. The people need heroes, Are you ready?
Within these pages you will find:
A basic understanding of the game... [click here for more] |
HAZARD Studio |
FREE
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Welcome to Prowlers & Paragons!
Prowlers & Paragons (or P&P) is a tabletop roleplaying game with a narration-driven, rules-light system designed to emulate four-color superhero comics. Let’s break that down so you can see what you’re getting yourself into.
P&P is a tabletop roleplaying game. We’re going to assume you’ve got this one covered.
P&P... [click here for more] |
LakeSide Games |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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Learn to Play the Cypher System!
Victorian horror? High fantasy? Espionage? Galaxy-spanning space opera? With the Cypher System, running any of those is as easy as running or playing The Strange or Numenera. The Cypher System is the critically acclaimed, award-winning rules set that drives Numenera and The Strange, and easily adapts to an unlimited range of genres with a game engine that’s fast,... [click here for more] |
Monte Cook Games |
FREE
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?
The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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What would you do if you were offered the power of the gods?
Would you fight for Justice?
Would you avenge a lost soul?
Would you change the world?
Go ahead, take a drink…
Ambrosia : The Nectar of the Gods is a Tabletop Role Playing Game like no other.
Using a simple dice system, an innovative character sheet, and a trump system involving... [click here for more] |
Monster Chest Productions |
Pay What You Want
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Welcome to Krendel. Welcome to your world.
Krendel is a modular, universal role-playing game system that provides a toolbox to customize your game to any world you can imagine. Blending tactical simulation with cooperative narration, Krendel’s single die resolution provides the gradient of your success, or an alternative to failure, that may be tailored to help you realize... [click here for more] |
Grayscale Games LLC |
FREE
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The iconic comicbook artist, Herb Trimpe, passed away on April 13, 2015. In addition to all the stellar work he unleashed upon the comicbook world, Mr. Trimpe drew an illustration for our long-since out of print Silver Age superhero setting book, Omlevex back in '03. He was an amazing artist and a true gentleman.
To honor him and his impressive body of work, we have statted up Cliffhanger (the character... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
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The Daring Comics Training Room Rules is a free PDF download that allows you to see what the Daring Comics Role-Playing Game has to offer.
Included inside the PDF are:
A One-Shot adventure
Ten (10) Player-Character archetypes, ready to play.
The basic Daring Comics RPG rules needed to play the adventure and give the game a test drive.
Curious about the game but haven’t... [click here for more] |
Daring Entertainment |
FREE
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Five by Five (fīv-bī-fīv)
adj.
1. In radio communication on a scale of 1 to 5 measuring signal strength and clarity, "Five by Five" indicates the best possible strength and clarity of signal.
2. Condition or state of being the best you can be; perfect. (slang)
Five by Five (fīv-bī-fīv)
noun.
1. An original game system and RPG Toolkit by Jeff Moore.
Five... [click here for more] |
Dreams and Dragons |
FREE
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You and your friends are sitting around talking about comic books, ’cause that’s what we do, after all…
You’ve just finished reading Harbinger #21 and are wondering about Peter Stanchek’s powers. The key phrase that you’re excitedly debating is from Peter: “You know … it affects me pretty hard. Every time I scan someone. The homeless I wipe... [click here for more] |
Catalyst Game Labs |
FREE
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Welcome to Prowlers & Paragons!
Prowlers & Paragons (or P&P) is a tabletop roleplaying game with a narration-driven, rules-light system designed to emulate four-color superhero comics. Let’s break that down so you can see what you’re getting yourself into.
P&P is a tabletop roleplaying game. We’re going to assume you’ve got this one covered.... [click here for more] |
LakeSide Games |
FREE
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Welcome to Krendel. Welcome to your world.
Command magic with sorcery, draw strength from the flock of your faith, charge into the fray with cybernetics, bend reality with your mind, or mutate into something more. Continuing where Krendel Core left off, Krendel Powers helps you more fully customize your characters and setting with a diverse range of powers.
Krendel Powers introduces:... [click here for more] |
Grayscale Games LLC |
FREE
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First Issues is a simple, playbook-based, superheroic storygame: using just a pocketful of change and your imagination, you can create your own comic book adventures featuring the eight superheroes provided, or you can even make up your own superhero.
The documents provided include eight ready-to-play characters, a blank template for creating your own superhero and a brief guide... [click here for more] |
Groundhoggoth Games |
Pay What You Want
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FASERIP is a neo-clone game of super heroes, based on a classic 1980s role-playing game.
The game contains a flexible yet streamlined super power system, and a completely new character generation system which keeps the fun and unpredictability of the original game’s random character generation but tempers it with an emphasis on balance and player choice to prevent the balance problems that... [click here for more] |
Gurbintroll Games |
FREE
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Power Outage is a simplified Table Top RPG designed with the intent of being played between Adults (As Game Masters) and young children (As the Players). Players take on the roles of superheroes they create in an alternate Earth world where the mysterious country-sized island of Outage, Alaska is a hotbed of adventure and intrigue. The island is broken up into several districts, each with their own... [click here for more] |
Go Nerdy |
Pay What You Want
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These cards are for use with MADCAP: SCREWBALL CARTOON ROLE-PLAY
Each card includes:
A Gimmick, an upside and a downside for your character. Some of them are General gimmicks (for use in any game), while others are specific to a genre (Medieval, Wild West, Sci-Fi, Teen Mystery, Horror, Cyberpunk). Pass these out to the players to... [click here for more] |
Sanguine Productions |
Pay What You Want
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In the world of Breaking Point, technology managed to unlock superpowers. Manipulating energy, slowing or speeding time, altering their physiology, altering probability itself -- all of these became accepted parts of life. Science fiction quickly became fact, and humanity was quick to adapt. The world is a thriving place, and what used to be miracles are now the cornerstone of people’s lives... [click here for more] |
Dicey Dudes |
FREE
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An Introduction to the Tales of Gunslingers, Samurai, Gangsters, Barbarians, and Steampunk in a Post-Apocalyptic World of Qi Warriors
“These are not mere contraptions built from the scrap metal of old, my dear apprentice. These are the foundation for a new world, and those who build them control its fate.” – Deckland Burr, creator of The Salvation
The One Land... [click here for more] |
Broken Ruler Games |
FREE
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Welcome to the Ultimate adventure. Ultimate Hero combines aspects of comic book heroes with science fiction gameplay. The game takes place in the not-so-distant future, where humankind is settling into an age of space exploration. Humanity has met many new races throughout the galaxy, but a dark cloud looms on the horizon: Many of our new allies are seeking help against a deadly threat.
Can... [click here for more] |
Paragon Notion |
FREE
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![Quickstart Ruleset [Sixcess] - HR1001A](/images/4755/124127-thumb140.jpg)
Before you take the plunge on Sixcess Core check out the Quickstart Rules!
This brief overview of Sixcess (6S) condensed down into 7 pages will give you the basics of how 6S works and what it can offer your gaming experience as well as some insight into what the full book offers.
Clean and easy to read or print.
The Quickstart Rules also include a free sample adventure set in a (mostly) generic... [click here for more] |
Harsh Realities |
Pay What You Want
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Dreams & Dystopias is a diceless roleplaying game that asks you to unlearn some of the things you know and ready yourself for a new kind of gaming experience. There are no dice and hardly any stats. Instead of dice, the system utilizes Chess mechanics.
The Alpha Test 1.9 PDF release is packed full of optional rules, guidelines and ideas. Playtest it, hack it, find out what works, and... [click here for more] |
Sad Press |
FREE
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You are the first super-powered beings in the world. What will you do with your power? There are no Heroes. There are no Villains. Only hard choices await in this amazing supers RPG.
The AMP: Year One QuickStart includes the following: -Setting and Rules Summary -Intro Adventure: Team Player -8 Pregenerated Characters ... [click here for more] |
Third Eye Games |
Pay What You Want
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MARS! The year is 2101 and CITY 001, the first and only city of Mars, is a thriving metropolis. Filled with wondrous technology and mighty heroes, the city has flourished since it was founded by the hero known as THE MIGHTY BRAIN, utilizing the technology of THE BLUE LASER to power all aspects of life. You are a citizen of the city, and your fate is yours to decide. You can be a superhero fighting... [click here for more] |
Real Business Studios |
FREE
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When modern soldiers are transported to ancient Rome, law enforcement officers fight inter-dimensional intruders, post-collapse humans scavenge for alien technologies, or heroic warriors and wizards battle monstrous evil, Forge Engine is there to quickly and seamlessly support your stories.
The Forge Engine universal RPG system puts full control of your character and your game into... [click here for more] |
Hero Forge Games |
FREE
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Can you protect your city? Are you strong enough to save the world? The galaxy is on the brink of annihilation. What kind of hero are you?
Welcome to the Ultimate adventure. Ultimate Hero combines aspects of comic book heroes with science fiction gameplay. The game takes place in the not-so-distant future, where humankind is settling into an age of space exploration. Humanity has met many... [click here for more] |
Paragon Notion |
Pay What You Want
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This free document is designed by Sean Patrick Fannon for those players and Editors who want a more concrete idea of how efficient the various Trait levels are.
About Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul
Ever wanted to tell your own comicbook stories, but possibly you lacked artistic ability? Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul is a comicbook toolkit, allowing... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
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In this free Issue for Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul, the heroes face a group of revolutionaries intent on using the law to protect themselves. How can the heroes overcome them when they technically aren't doing anything illegal?
About Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul
Ever wanted to tell your own comicbook stories, but possibly you lacked artistic ability?... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
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About Retrostar
Excitement. Adventure. Disco. (Skin-tight jumpsuit not included)
Retrostar is a roleplaying game that faithfully emulates the science fiction TV shows of the 1970s. This is not simply a standard universal system that just happens to be adorned with era-specific artwork. Every aspect, nuance and trope of those wonderfully cheesy old shows is brought to life by the game system.... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
Pay What You Want
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In 2001 Mike Mearls wrote these innovative "Open Game License" rules, combining the familiar "D20" mechanics of Dungeons and Dragons with the superpowered dangers of GODLIKE. This is a complete game system.
Also includes recommended combat rules for GODLIKE games using the OGL rules. ... [click here for more] |
Arc Dream Publishing |
FREE
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Dare To Walk The Onyx Path
This brochure contains:
An intro letter from Rich Thomas, founder of Onyx Path Publishing, that describes the Onyx Path business model and how the company is re-energizing the WW game lines.
A look at the past year's worth of projects by gameline.
The August 2013 to August 2014 schedule, including brief descriptions of the projects and their estimated... [click here for more] |
Onyx Path Publishing |
FREE
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INFINITE POWER, INFINITE POSSIBILITIES...
With this FREE PDF, you can get a taste of the Infinite Power Universe.
You can design any kind of Hero you can imagine by picking from dozens of Example Powers or custom build your own Powers by deciding on things like Range, Duration, Trigger, and Effect.
The Infinite Power System is easy to learn, with a few simple concepts, but complex enough for hard... [click here for more] |
Bonsai Entertainment |
FREE
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This free document gives you everything you need to whip up random characters for CC&VF! It also provides you with a dozen new pre-made character templates!
About Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul
Ever wanted to tell your own comicbook stories, but possibly you lacked artistic ability? Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul is a comicbook toolkit, allowing... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
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Crusader Game Books is proud to announce the release of
Super Crusaders III!
Character creation is a snap, just pick what you want, no math, and there are lots of customizable powers to choose from so you can make what you want the way you want it.
The game focuses on what your character can do, and not how he compares to similar characters, so there... [click here for more] |
Crusader Game Books |
Pay What You Want
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Business card character sheets for the D6xD6 RPG, suitable for printing on card stock and cutting on the dotted lines, or for use with perforated business-card stock such as Avery 8371.
For a draft of the D6xD6 core rules and five sample settings, plus a list of other worlds in development, visit www.d6xd6.com. Or purchase the best-selling D6xD6 Core Book or D6xD6 Expanded... [click here for more] |
Popcorn Press |
FREE
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This Free Preview Edition of Other Worlds contains the full introduction chapter, a rules summary, character sheets, and an art preview.
Other Worlds is a roleplaying game of heroic action and adventure for any genre. The game is driven by description: descriptions of characters, details of actions, and dramatic visualisations. Numbers and dice rolls are secondary to the action;... [click here for more] |
Signal 13 |
FREE
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Welcome to the Ultimate adventure. Ultimate Hero combines aspects of comic book heroes with science fiction gameplay. The game takes place in the not-so-distant future, where humankind is settling into an age of space exploration. Humanity has met many new races throughout the galaxy, but a dark cloud looms on the horizon: Many of our new allies are seeking help against a deadly threat.
Can... [click here for more] |
Paragon Notion |
FREE
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This is a roleplaying game about people who live in a superhero universe. Elsewhere in the setting, Solarman is punching out the villainous Dr. Thunder right now. But this is not a game about them. This is about the guys in the background, who have to deal with the everyday hassles that most superheroes don’t worry about. Sure, you have some superpowers, but you still gotta pay the rent, right?... [click here for more] |
Teapot Dome Games |
Pay What You Want
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Welcome to Titan Effect!
Titan Effect is set in a contemporary world where psychic spies clash with genetically enhanced soldiers, in a secret war in which the future of the human evolution is at stake.
Players take on the role of trained operatives gifted with psychic abilities, and who work for the international clandestine organization known as the SPEAR. Their mission: to watch... [click here for more] |
Knight Errant Media |
FREE
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Christmas Comes But Once a Year is a free mini-supplement for Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul.
Meet Holly Daye, a twisted, psychotic young woman with an agenda that's likely to lead to direct conflict with the superheroes of your series. In this supplement, we provide you with her stats and some ideas for using her in your own games.
About Capes, Cowls... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
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Dr. Nik’s Happy Fun Rules is easy to learn, just as easy to master, and makes for fast, simple play that puts role-playing above complicated rule mechanics. These FUDGE based rules are campaign independent, work equally well in any genre or setting, and are designed to be light and hyper-flexible. Dr. Nik’s Happy Fun Rules is designed for fast interactive story-telling and is not intended... [click here for more] |
paNik productions |
FREE
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Embrace the old "Holiday Special" one-shot comics of years past with this holiday-themed CC&VF villain!
About Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul
Ever wanted to tell your own comicbook stories, but possibly you lacked artistic ability? Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul is a comicbook toolkit, allowing you and one or more friends to tell your... [click here for more] |
Spectrum Games |
FREE
|
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