gritty games
Dark and realistic games that emphasize survival, tough choices, and serious consequences for actions.
Simple d100 Fantasy
Simple d100 Fantasy stems from my desire to have a default rules system for my many groups - one that is intuitive, avoids the most common issues of o...
Publisher: Vidargavia
Murder Mansion
A rules-light dungeon crawler inspired by classic survival horror videogames. In Murder Mansion, players take the role of Survivors: regular people lo...
I Could Do This In My Sleep
Hey, you awake? Hard to tell sometimes.Cybernetic implants keep the masses of Great Britain on their feet and working 16 hours a day, dead to the worl...
Publisher: Zachary Elliott-Hatton
Yl'fe
Yl'fe, an adventure horror escapade into the weird and intriguing. An oddity of faerie-like wonder and dread of the unexplainable wrapped into one! Yo...
Dieselpunk 1921
A skills based game set in an alternate history 1920s, where the streets are dominated by towering corporate skyscrapers and titanic automobiles. Dies...
Reanimated
Reanimated is a rules light TTRPG based on the Key Powered System, using the setting of a zombie apocalypse, inspired by low budget movies and featuri...
Publisher: Trapped Chest
SAKE (Sorcerers, Adventurers, Kings, and Economics)
SAKE (Sorcerers, Adventurers, Kings, and Economics) is a modular, d20, point-buy tabletop RPG that blends strategy game elements to embody powerful ru...
Publisher: Seventh Son Publishing
Down the Road Through the End of the World
Through the end of the world runs an old, dying road / to a place where they say all the rivers once flowed...No one really knows how it happened. All...
Publisher: Kodi Gonzaga
Cairn
Cairn is an adventure game for one facilitator (the Warden) and at least one other player. Players act as hardened adventurers exploring a dark & m...
Publisher: Yochai Gal
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