Independent Games

44: A Game of Automatic Fear by Matt Snyder Someone you know was just replaced by a machine. No one else knows. You are next. 44 is a suspense and horror role-playing game designed for single sessions with very little preparation required. It's a great game for busy players looking for a one-shot session. GM and 1+ Players 3-4 hours 36 pages

A DIRTY WORLD Explore the rain-slicked streets of Film Noir in a game by Greg Stoltz Pursuing the blackest secrets of human evil. Enter a milieu of deception and corrosion where justice is rare and flawed... but swift. Cynical P.I.? Mesmerizing femme fatale? Dead-hearted hit man or pure-hearted reformer raging against the dark? A Dirty World has them all. It also features... An entirely reworked O…

DANCE OF THE DAMNED A storytelling game of decadence and despair by Andrew Peregrine A plague sweeps the land, but you are safe within the walls of a great castle. However, you may not be as safe as you think, for the spectres of fear and decadence walk where the plague has been denied. You are about to tell the story of the inhabitants of the castle. Will they be spared the plague only to fall to…

ESCAPE FROM TENTACLE CITY by Willow Palecek Tentacle City Has a Problem! It's overrun with giant tentacles bent on destruction! In this game of survival horror and dark comedy, you'll take on the role of an unlikely hero, scraped off the bottom of society. 4-6 players 44 pages

HELLCATS AND HOCKEYSTICKS A role-playing game of chaos, anarchy,and decidedly unladylike behaviour by Adnrew Peregrine St Erisian's school for girls has stood for over a hundred years and survived war, plague, famine, demonic attack, strange explosions in the science block and countless attempts to get it closed by the government. To be fair, not all of these disasters were the fault of the girls…

MAGICAL FURY A Magical Girl RPG (by Ewen Cluney) Magical Fury is a dark magical girl RPG, inspired by anime series like Madoka Magica, Sailor Moon, and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Your characters start out as normal girls who discover that they are reincarnated magical girls. They awaken to their powers under fire, and it will be up to you to decide where she goes with new her life from there. Th…

NAMES - The Story Game Name Project A collection of names and related lists from dozens of different cultures, times, and places. Everything from Maori, Russian, and Chinese to Hobo.

PANTY EXPLOSION A psychic schoolgirl adventure game by Jake Richmond & Matt Schlotte "There are over 864,644 known forces at work against Psychic Japanese schoolgirls" Play Panty Explosion and takee the role of a Psychic Japanese Schoolgirl. With the help of your friends you will endure high school, battle nightmarish demons, best rivals, achieve goals and explore the mysterious and terrifying wor…

PIE SHOP It's the Quiet Ones You Have to Watch. Do not buy this book. It's content is sick and twisted, possibly more than is necessary or excusable. It may be the most disturbing role-playing game you will ever read. Your Mother won't like it. Your Priest won't like it. Put it down and leave the shop now. Otherwise you only have yourself to blame. This game explores extremely dark and unpleasant…

SECRETS & LIES Hardboiled Triple Feature (by Daniel Bayn) "Secrets & Lies" is a noir roleplaying game in the style of Raymond Chandler. This dead tree edition includes the core rules and two settings: Urbanimus and Covenant. GM & 1+ players 114 pages

STICKMEN The Lines Have Been Drawn (by James Norbury) The battle between stickmen and doodles has raged since the first cave paintings and will continue until the last human has been ground to dust. The doodle hordes are merciless, corrupt monstrosities whose inklust can never be sated. Where numbers are high they overrun the Sticklands, twisting them into scratchy, festering shadows until they ar…

YOUNG AT HEART by Fraser Simons In this roleplaying game you and some friends are going to work semi-cooperatively to get an all-star baseball player through the most difficult, and maybe the most defining day of their life. Young at Heart does not concern itself with simulating the game of baseball. Instead, it focuses on getting into the headspace of the pitcher and what they are going through o…