Welcome to the San Jenaro Short Games Digest, Volume 2! For this fall’s issue, we’re bringing you 21, count ‘em, new games! We’ve got games for everyone in here, of all sorts of styles. The San Jenaro Co-Op is a fully operational machine of game making, and we want you along for the ride.
Check out some of what we’ve got in store for you:
In Tina Falcon’s Sponsored* Skating RPG,... [click here for more]
Yeah, the "world" ended, but we're still here, which means it's time to (re)Build.
Flatpack (re)Fix the Future is a table top roleplaying game for all ages. You and four of your friends play the youth (flexible) born after the end of the world with joy in their hearts, understanding in their minds, and a quest to Fix the Future!
WRENCHes, the youth, adventure in a post-post apocalyptic setting collecting... [click here for more]
Sinister Stories is a story game inspired by classic horror comics like the old Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror stories. It's simultaneously light-hearted and dark, taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to the oddly puritanical moralizing these comics delivered.
The game uses a gambling system that requires two six-sided dice, and four-colored poker chips (or other counters).
The game shines... [click here for more]
This book features ten short horror roleplaying games:
Days of Harvest: A solo journaling game about a witch trying to survive a difficult winter, and you play by cleaning out your kitchen.
Don't Break the Caul: A hack of Evil Hat Productions' Don't Rest Your Head, about the experience of pregnancy.
Far Better: A slasher horror story in the... [click here for more]
The ghosts hate intruders
You are an intruder
They hate you
Maschine Zeit is ghost stories in space stations. It does quick, brutal horror in the vein of Alien, Event Horizon, Pandorum, Life, and other movies set in a future where people go places they shouldn't be, and die terrifying deaths.
It's designed for improvised one-shot games, which emulate the arcs of horror cinema. You can play it long-term... [click here for more]
This book features four complete horror roleplaying games, two "Features" and two "Shorts." It's drive-in creature feature cinema but for RPGs:
My Roommate, Valentía: First, a love letter to Guillermo del Toro with the short journalling game My Roommate, Valentía. You are a kid with a ghost friend, and the hauntingis the least of your problems.
Found Film: A Powered... [click here for more]