Tabletop Games (Libre)
Games that you play face-to-face with others.
This page only shows free, libre and open tabletop games. For a list that includes proprietary shareable works (that is to say, noncommercial and verbatim works), see Tabletop Games (Shareable Works).
- General
- Role-Playing Games and Story Games
- Solitaire Games
- Live Action Roleplaying Games
- Retroclones
- Boardgames
- Miniatures Games
- Card Games
Tabletop Games
- Dark Passages ● A modern fusion and re-organisation of 0E and 1E rules.
- Darker Dungeons ● A tabletop RPG based on a streamlined version of the Rules Cyclopedia.
- D&D4.5 ● A partial clone of D&D 4E.
- Death of the Japanese Emperor ● An experiential larp for 4-8 players
- Death Takes A Holiday ● When Death takes a holiday, a hapless family of ghosts must shepherd the dearly departed.
- Department Nine ● Oracular spies fighting the future and Greek myths.
- Destiny System ● A universal RPG.
- Diaspora ● Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
- Dominion Rules ● Medieval classless fantasy role-playing.
- Donjon ● A fantasy dungeoncrawl game with significant player narrative control.
- Doodles & Dragons ● 'n celebration of finishing my year-long effort to draw a cartoon of every single monster in the 2nd Edition AD&D Monstrous Manual, I made a PDF containing a one page World of Dungeons hack along with every one of my cartoons.'
- DramaSystem SRD ● The basic system of the Hillfolk RPG.
- Dresden Files RPG ● A FATE RPG about modern magic.
- Drupal: The Card Game ● "In this quick card game 2-4 players compete to earn the most reputation by developing new Drupal modules and building complex websites!"
- Dulse ● A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
- Dungeon Delvers ● One page D&D varient
- Dungeon Raiders ● Simplification of Original D&D and early D&D
- Dungeon Squad 2 ● A fantasy RPG designed for quick play and no fuss.
- Dungeon World ● An RPG based on Apocalypse World for dungeoncrawling adventure.
- Dungeons & Dragons 3E ● The third edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game.
- Dungeons Daring ● A fantasy RPG designed by a committee.
- E6 ● The game inside Dungeons & Dragons.
- Edition Thirteen ● A new take on the 4C System
- Elevation of Privilege ● 'The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.'
- Enchanted Realms ● Role-playing with cards.
- Engine Heart ● An RPG in a post-human world.
- Enter the Avenger ● A short and simple swords & sorcery RPG.
- Epées & Sorcellerie ● A game inspired by Original Dungeons & Dragons with some modern changes.
- Errant RPG ● A fantasy role-playing game.
- Evil Wizards in a Cave ● 'Evil Wizards in a Cave is a short adventure module compatible with both the Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord fantasy role-playing games.'
- Exploding Kingdoms ● Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
- Explorations of the Haunted Island ● Described as "an attempt to use the mechanics from the board game Splendor to tell a story of investigating a mysterious island like in the TV show LOST or the videogame Myst."
- Fantastic Heroes & Witchery ● An extensive tabletop RPG.
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- Fantasy Craft ● A fantasy RPG based on the MasterCraft engine.
- FAST ● A light and simple skill-based RPG.
- FATE 2E ● A universal game based on the FATE engine.
- Fate Accelerated Edition ● A lite version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
- Fate Core System ● An extended version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
- Fate System Toolkit ● A toolkit for the Fate tabletop RPG.
- Final Decrees ● 'Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.'
- Fire & Sword ● An evolution of RuneQuest.
- Five By Five ● An original game system and toolkit.
- Floor Games ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
- For Gold & Glory ● A retroclone of 2E AD&D.
- Fortune Cookies and Nuclear War ● A game written in a paragraph.
- Fortune System Resource Document ● 'The Fortune System Resource Document includes the basic rules of the Fortune System. It also includes advice from existing Fortune System designers.'
- Four Colors al Fresco ● Play a superhero in the Italian Renaissance.
- Free FATE ● A free, expanded version of FATE.
- Fringe ● A half-finished RPG designed by committee.
Tabletop Game Resources
- A Spark in Fate Core ● 'This is an expansion of the (soon to be) award winning Fate Core, focussing on the process of collaborative world building. It includes some of the concepts found in The Spark RPG and helps you build an engaging setting with a history, fraught with danger and potential for growth.'
- Abulafia ● A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
- Bad Habits ● A Fiasco playset about backstabbing nuns.
- Bounty Hunter Blues ● A playset for the Fiasco role-playing game
- Dragon 2000 All You Can Eat ● A shady Chinese restaurant is the setting for a Fiasco playset.
- Fantastic Classes Codex ● Classes for Dungeon World.
- Fantasy Generators for World of Dungeons and Other Games ● Situation generators for fantasy games.
- Ganakagok Cards ● Cards for the game Ganakagok.
- Grand OGL Wiki ● A collection of open game content, primarily for Dungeons & Dragons.
- Hierarchy of Interface for Tabletop Games ● How people interact with tabletop games.
- Keeping On The Borderlands ● A Fiasco playset parodying Dungeons & Dragons.
- Khas Fara, Village of Fear ● An evil witch has taken over a small town.
- News Of The Empire ● A one-page Victorian steampunk setting, written in newspaper format
- One Page Dungeon Contest 2011 ● A collection of rules-free dungeons on one page each.
- PCGen ● A character generator for the d20 System.
- Skeksis Cards for Ganakagok ● Skeksis from the Dark Crystal on cards.
- Slacking through the Sandbox ● How to put together a slacker's sandbox.
- Take on Establishments ● '[A] collection of physical establishments and locations, brief descriptions (sights, sounds, smells), an NPC, and corresponding moves for Dungeon World.'
- Take on Magic Items ● '"Take On Magic Items" is a collection of magic items for Dungeon World, though a clever game master could easily translate these items into the fantasy system of choice, especially systems that encourage rulings not rules.'
- The Green ● A Donjon supplement by Valent Games.
- The Lands of the Dead ● 'This [Dungeon World] supplement is a resource to help you and your players create interesting, exciting, mysterious and dangerous lives after death.'
- The Later Blue Book of Amaxathroth the Cursed ● A Sorcerer supplement.
- The Penthouse ● A Fiasco playset.
- Twisted Space ● An encounter for the RPG Dungeons & Dragons 4E.
- Unlikely Treasures 1 ● Tables of treasures for dungeon-crawling fantasy.
- Voidspanners ● A swashbuckling space adventure for Basic Fantasy RPG.
- vs Elves ● A supplement for vs Monsters.
- Weapons & Gear ● A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
- You All Meet In A Tavern ● 'As a fledgling adventurer you have decided that the best way to get into the business is by attending the monthly Adventurer-Nite at the local White Griffon Tavern.'
Sources of Tabletop Games
- 1KM1KT ● A host of gratis role-playing games.
- Alderon's Tower ● Chris Gonnerman's website.
- Amagi Games ● A game company which publishes libre tabletop games and supplements.
- Animalball Partners ● A website that hosted tabletop games.
- Artikid ● "[A]n Italian full-time web-developer, part-time illustrator and games geek."
- Bedroom Wall Press ● 'Designer of Hulks and Horrors, Heaven's Shadow, and Drums of War.'
- Berengad Games ● A publisher of story games.
- Beyond Belief Games ● Swords & Wizardry ports.
- Bill Browne ● RPG creator.
- Brent P Newhall ● A NASA web developer and game designer.
- Chris Sakkas ● A fan of free culture.
- CRN Games ● A publisher of fun and eclectic games.
- Crystal Obelisk ● A collection of resources for medieval study and tabletop gaming.
- D101 Games ● A small press RPG company.
- Daniel Solis ● An artist and game designer.
- Evil Hat Productions ● A small press RPG company.
- Goblinoid Games ● A publisher of retro-style tabletop games.
- Grand OGL Wiki ● A collection of open game content from other sources.
- Gratis Games ● A provider of free retroclones.
- Green Ronin Publishing ● An RPG publisher.
- Greg Christopher ● An author of RPGs.
- HG Wells ● A famous author.
- Interactivities Ink ● A creator of games you can print and play.
- James D Hargrove ● An author.
- Jason Morningstar ● Game designer for Bully Pulpit Games.
- Jeff Moore ● An RPG author.
- Joe Banner ● Writes adventures for Dungeon World.
- Johnstone Metzger ● A game designer.
- Josh Roby ● A game designer.
- Justen Brown ● An author of retroclones.
- Mongoose Publishing ● A game publisher.
- Pelgrane Press ● An RPG publisher.
- Rafu ● Rafu, or Raffaele Manzo, is a game designer.
- Ronin Arts ● A publisher.
- Sage LaTorra ● RPG designer.
- Sand & Steam ● An RPG company.
- Stuart Chaplin ● Story game author.
- Tabletop Battles ● A website.
- TakeOnRules ● A publisher.
- Teapot Dome Games ● A publisher of free role-playing games.
- Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
- (un)Playable_G4mes ● 'Where game ideas come to die'
- Wizards of the Coast ● A game publisher.
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