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
- Sneaky Cards ● 'Sneaky Cards is designed to encourage, inspire, or facilitate playful interactions. Breaking up the tedium of everyday life, with small entertaining objectives. Each card is created to be unique and develop different kinds of play.'
- So Now You're a Time Traveler ● A 'simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.'
- Sovereign ● A Risk-like boardgame.
- Spellchrome ● A classless version of the d20 System.
- Spellcraft & Swordplay ● A retro role-playing game that combines Chainmail and Original Dungeons & Dragons.
- Spirit of the Century ● Pulp two-fisted adventure in the 1930s.
- SRD5 ● A clone of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.
- Standard Method for Tasks Resolution in Role-Playing Games ● "This work is a very simple method for the task resolution during RPG sessions."
- Star Blades ● Science fiction role-playing using the original Dungeons & Dragons rules.
- Steampunkfitters ● A roleplaying game that celebrates the sense of possibility in the Victorian era.
- Steel and Flame ● A more pulpy swords and sorcery esq RPG
- Sufficiently Advanced Technologies ● A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
- Super Hero Fun ● A tabletop RPG.
- Super Repo ● 'It’s a comedic superhero game, wherein you play people with superpowers who chose to work a mundane job rather than fight crime.'
- Sweet20 ● Bringing indie sensibilities to the d20 System.
- Swords & Wizardry ● A retroclone of original and whitebox Dungeons & Dragons.
- Synergy ● An open-source, rules-light, role playing game that does not rely on a “game master” or similar role to manage the game.
- Tannenberg 4 ● 'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
- Tech Noir ● A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
- Telgrathia ● A fantasy game based on Blackjack.
- Terror Of The Serpent Men ● Dan Dynamo - renowned pulp hero - is playing host to the gorgeous Princess Aphasia of the Venusians.
- The 52 Pages ● An old school tabletop RPG with each concept explained on one page.
- The Age of Shadow ● A role-playing game designed for one of the most popular fantasy trilogies of all time.
- The Big Brown Book ● A take on 0E D&D that avoids using d20s altogether.
- The Carnival of Dreams ● A Swords Without Master adventure.
- The Devil, John Moulton ● 'The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.'
- The Dreaming Crucible ● A story about troubled adolescents travelling to Faerie.
- The Far Towers ● Play travelling enforcers and heroes putting wrongs to right.
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- The Fifth World ● Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
- The GAME System ● The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
- The Logic of Tales & Dreams ● Once upon a time, there was a writer who wrote a story game that doesn't exist. This is that game.
- The Modern Path ● A tabletop RPG.
- The Ouroboros Cycle ● Books about roleplaying, ranging from general advice to specific settings.
- The Plant ● A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
- The Shackled Self ● A game of princes who pursue asceticism to save the world.
- The Shrouded Lands ● A fantasy setting.
- The Simple Game System ● A simple and generic rules-system based on d6s.
- The Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower ● 'The Eburnean Tower has stood for centuries as a symbol of scholarship, arcane power, and ruthless domination.'
- The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley ● 'The borderlands of the Verdigris Valley have never been peaceful, but now an invasion force gathers at the summit of the Pashuan Way, looking hungrily down on the rich homesteads and crippled fort below.'
- The Wizard's Amulet ● An adventure for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.
- To the Barricades ● A boardgame about a faceoff between radicals and the police.
- Toast ● A rules-light universal RPG.
- Torch & Sword ● A retroclone of 0D&D.
- Traveller ● A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
- TRIC SRD ● A 4E clone.
- Tricks and Treats ● A Halloween-themed tabletop RPG about trick-or-treaters out on Halloween who must overcome scary monsters to rescue a friend
- Tri-Fold FATE ● The basic rules of FATE on three pages.
- True20 ● A d20-based RPG.
- Twenty One Turn Hero ● A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
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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