Tabletop Games (Common Content)

Games that you play face-to-face with others.

This page shows all shareable games. For a list that only contains free, libre and open works, see Tabletop Games (Libre)

For more details on the laws surrounding tabletop gaming copyright, see Protection from Chaos.

General

Tabletop Games

• Fate Game ● 'The game is set in a floating island and there the inhabitants have their own struggles with life. '
• 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.
• First of May ● A card game inspired by a song.
• FISC ● You are all members of the FISC, the financial investigation agency, the only hope of the Republic against the all-powerful multinational companies.
• 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.'
• Forty Thieves ● A minimalist beer-and-pretzels game about life as an Arabian thief.
• 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.
• Frost Devils ● An Alaskan take on Dust Devils.
• F-Sharp ● The bare bones of FATE.
• FUBAR ● You've been screwed … and at least one person wants you dead.
• Fudge ● An early generic RPG.
• Geasa ● A story telling game about fickle fairies.
• Generic Fantasy Quest Game ● A generic fantasy RPG with familiar races and classes.
• Genesys System ● A generic rules-light RPG.
• Ghost Lines ● '[A] 3-page micro-hack based on Apocalypse World, Dishonored, and Ghostbusters.'
• Ghost Runner ● As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
• Ghostlight ● Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
• Ghosts ● Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
• Go Fast, Turn Left ● You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
• Gods & Monsters ● An old-school style fantasy RPG.
• GORE ● A d%-based horror RPG.
• Grey Lotus ● A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
• Grim Portents ● A Dungeon World/Powered by the Apocalypse fan e-zine.
• Group Works ● 'A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings'
• GUMSHOE SRD ● 'The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience.'
• Gundam Blackbird ● A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
• Gunwave ● A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
• Hand Covers Bruise ● A game of strategy and guess work played only with hands.
• Heroes Against Darkness ● "[A] modern d20 RPG system that combines speed and simplicity with balance and depth."
• Hexpack ● An expansion to the Piecepack.
• High School Hearts ● light tabletop role-playing game of high schoolers dealing with the emotional roller-coaster of adolescence
• HiLo Heroes ● A superhero RPG.
• His Due ● Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
• Hoard ● Play a growing dragon.
• Hot Lamp ● Two detectives interrogate two suspects.
• House of Masks ● In a far off land where mighty sorcerers dwell, the God-King Castor rules from a castle where the spirit realm and physical realm touch, allowing for powerful magics to happen and for a person’s spirit form to take control of one’s body..
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb Shelter ● A 'game of paranoia and treachery for at least 4 players.'
• Hunters And Haunts ● A board game played on two different boards.
• Hyper ● A modular gaming system.
• Icar ● A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
• Icosahedral ● A role-playing game.
• Iliamna Unknown ● Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.

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Tabletop Game Resources

• Weapons & Gear ● A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
• World of Nevermore ● A setting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
• 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.'

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Sources of Tabletop Games

• Sand & Steam ● An RPG company.
• Stargazer Games ● A game designer.
• Stargazer's World ● A role-playing blog.
• Strolen's Citadel ● "[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource"
• 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'
• Valent Games ● An RPG publisher, now giving its works away gratis.
• Vincent Baker ● A game designer.
• Wizards of the Coast ● A game publisher.
• Yaruki Zero Games ● A company that publishes a number of games.

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Role-Playing Games and Story Games

RPGs and Story Games

• Ghost Runner ● As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
• Ghostlight ● Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
• Ghosts ● Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
• Go Fast, Turn Left ● You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
• Gods & Monsters ● An old-school style fantasy RPG.
• GORE ● A d%-based horror RPG.
• Grey Lotus ● A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
• Grim Portents ● A Dungeon World/Powered by the Apocalypse fan e-zine.
• GUMSHOE SRD ● 'The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience.'
• Gundam Blackbird ● A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
• Gunwave ● A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
• Heroes Against Darkness ● "[A] modern d20 RPG system that combines speed and simplicity with balance and depth."
• High School Hearts ● light tabletop role-playing game of high schoolers dealing with the emotional roller-coaster of adolescence
• HiLo Heroes ● A superhero RPG.
• His Due ● Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
• Hoard ● Play a growing dragon.
• Hot Lamp ● Two detectives interrogate two suspects.
• House of Masks ● In a far off land where mighty sorcerers dwell, the God-King Castor rules from a castle where the spirit realm and physical realm touch, allowing for powerful magics to happen and for a person’s spirit form to take control of one’s body..
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb Shelter ● A 'game of paranoia and treachery for at least 4 players.'
• Hyper ● A modular gaming system.
• Icar ● A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
• Icosahedral ● A role-playing game.
• Iliamna Unknown ● Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
• Into the Odd ● Adventures in the odd world.
• Inuma ● A system for shared, improvised storytelling.
• Invulnerable Tabletop Super Hero Roleplaying Game ● 'The Invulnerable RPG Year One Edition allows you to create your own hero, and experience worlds of adventure!'
• Iridium System ● A simple and realistic system combining skills and classes.
• Iron Edda ●
• It Came From The Wide Blue Yonder ● Cthulhu medieval supers.
• JAGS ● A universal generic games system.
• Jazz ● A flexible and easy-to-use game system drawn from many sources.
• Jumpers ● 'Survival roleplaying in the infinite multiverse'
• Kapow! ● superhero table-top game
• Kiss Roleplaying System ● Coins are the resolution method in this lite gaming system.
• Labyrinth Lord ● A retroclone of Basic/Expert D&D.
• Lady Blackbird ● A game, a setting and a starting adventure all in one; a collage of recent innovations in gaming.
• Lairshare ● A game about sharing a house with galactic dictators.
• Lamentations Of The Fire Princess ● Weird fantasy role-playing.
• Lasers & Feelings ● 'You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor.'
• Legendary Lives ● A nostalgic fantasy role-playing game.
• Little Wars ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
• Locus ● 'Locus is a set of roleplaying game rules for people who enjoy roleplaying but don't enjoy tedious combat, hard-to-remember rules, large tables, or restricted setting-bound play.'
• Longshot ● A science fiction Western.
• LORE ● The Lightweight Universal Roleplaying System.
• Lost Souls ● Play a lost soul returned from beyond the grave.
• Lycadian ● An elaborate fantasy setting and accompanying rules engine.
• Magic Sword ● A project to clone and improve upon D&D 4E.
• Magpie Codex ● A light and generic fantasy RPG.
• Making the Bigs ● A baseball role-playing game remix
• Malmsturm ● A German fantasy game based on FATE.

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RPG and Story Game Resources

• Weapons & Gear ● A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
• World of Nevermore ● A setting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
• 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.'

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Sources of RPGs and Story Games

• Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
• (un)Playable_G4mes ● 'Where game ideas come to die'
• Valent Games ● An RPG publisher, now giving its works away gratis.
• Wizards of the Coast ● A game publisher.

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Solitaire Games

Solitaire Games

• Deathtrap Dungeon ● A Parsley adventure.

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• Storyleaves ● A solitaire game that tells a story.

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• The Plant ● A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.

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• Twenty One Turn Hero ● A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.

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Solitaire Game Resources

Sources of Solitaire Games

• Jason Morningstar ● Game designer for Bully Pulpit Games.

Live Action Roleplaying Games

LARPs

• Bank Robbery LARP ● A LARP about bank robbery which doesn't quite work.
• Bloody Forks ● A LARP about the French and American battles before the War of Independence. 11 players.
• Death of the Japanese Emperor ● An experiential larp for 4-8 players
• News Hole ● A LARP about the death of journalism.
• Providence Junction ● A Western LARP of small town secrets.
• Ruritania: 1844 ● A live-action role-playing game set in an alternate pseudo-history.
• Science Fiction Mystery ● An 11-player science fiction LARP.
• Second String Superheroes ● A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
• Sufficiently Advanced Technologies ● A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
• The Devil's Brood ● A Plantagenet family drama LARP for 7-9 players

LARP Resources

Sources of LARPs

Retroclones

Retroclones

• 4C System ● A supers retroclone.
• 4SRD ● A project to closely clone D&D 4E.
• Adventurer Conquerer King System ● 'Autarch's Adventurer Conqueror King System fulfills the promise of the original fantasy role-playing game by providing comprehensive, integrated support for play across all levels of a campaign.'
• Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game ● A fusion of Basic D&D with D&D 3E to create a simple, light-weight game.
• Dangers & Dweomers ● A merger of Swords & Wizardry and Basic Fantasy.
• Dark Dungeons ● A tabletop RPG based on the Rules Cyclopedia.
• 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.
• Darkest Dungeons ● A mash-up of the Rules Cyclopedia and Rolemaster.
• D&D4.5 ● A partial clone of D&D 4E.
• Epées & Sorcellerie ● A game inspired by Original Dungeons & Dragons with some modern changes.
• Exploding Kingdoms ● Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
• Fantastic Heroes & Witchery ● An extensive tabletop RPG.
• For Gold & Glory ● A retroclone of 2E AD&D.
• Labyrinth Lord ● A retroclone of Basic/Expert D&D.
• Lamentations Of The Fire Princess ● Weird fantasy role-playing.
• Magic Sword ● A project to clone and improve upon D&D 4E.
• Mazes & Perils ● 'Mazes & Perils is a game of imagination and role playing in a fantasy world, suitable for ages 10 and up.'
• Myth & Magic ● An adaptation of 2E AD&D.
• Open4E ● 'This system is intended to be a streamlined and open tactical RPG. The primary source of inspiration is Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition.'
• Orcus ● A clone of D&D 4E.
• OSRIC ● A retroclone of 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
• Pathfinder ● A role-playing game based on Dungeons & Dragons 3.5.
• Project 74 ● A rules-lite game that works only in conjunction with early editions of Dungeons & Dragons
• Rage, Precognition, Grace ● OSR Fantasy RPG based on Steve Jackson's "The Fantasy Trip" with updated rules and original races (no elves, dwarves, or halflings).
• Spellcraft & Swordplay ● A retro role-playing game that combines Chainmail and Original Dungeons & Dragons.
• Swords & Wizardry ● A retroclone of original and whitebox Dungeons & Dragons.
• The 52 Pages ● An old school tabletop RPG with each concept explained on one page.
• The Big Brown Book ● A take on 0E D&D that avoids using d20s altogether.
• Torch & Sword ● A retroclone of 0D&D.
• Ultramodern4 ● Dungeons & Dragons 4E rules in a modern setting.
• Warrior & Wizard ● A retroclone of The Fantasy Trip.
• Wrack & Wruin ● Ryan St's rewriting of original D&D in the style of Apocalypse World.
• ZeFRS ● A retroclone of TSR's Conan RPG.

Retroclone Resources

Sources of Retroclones

• Artikid ● "[A]n Italian full-time web-developer, part-time illustrator and games geek."
• Goblinoid Games ● A publisher of retro-style tabletop games.
• Gratis Games ● A provider of free retroclones.
• Justen Brown ● An author of retroclones.

Boardgames

Boardgames

• Army Brats ● "Welcome to Fort Biloxi. Your parents have sent you to military school to "help you focus". What could be scarier than military school? How about being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and the other new kids (the other players) are going to try to get expelled so you can go back to public school with all your friends."
• BrickQuest ● 'Fantasy boardgaming in an ABS universe'
• Confrontation Chess ● Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
• Hexpack ● An expansion to the Piecepack.
• Hunters And Haunts ● A board game played on two different boards.
• Kodrek ● A three-way game of shifting alliances.
• Monsters Menace Monopoly ● Spice up your Monopoly game with Godzilla.
• Piecepack ● A set of pieces you can use to play many games.
• Push ● A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
• Sovereign ● A Risk-like boardgame.
• Take-Back-Toe ● A simple, abstract board game.
• Tannenberg 4 ● 'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
• To the Barricades ● A boardgame about a faceoff between radicals and the police.
• Vector 3 ● Sci-fi based tabletop board game.

Boardgame Resources

Sources of Boardgames

• Domino Writing ● "I have been a tabletop gamer for about 25 years, mostly with pen-and-paper role playing games."
• Interactivities Ink ● A creator of games you can print and play.

Miniatures Games

Miniatures Games

• Aetherverse ● 'Aetherverse is a tabletop sci-fi wargame that I first published in 2004. The concept of the game was to create a sort of “universal” rules system that players could use to create and play with armies sourced from any of the many miniatures manufacturers on the market. While this had been done before in a generic sense, I designed the system to build armies that had real character rather than just being a collection of numbers.'
• Astral Dreams ● A space opera miniatures wargame.
• Brigandine ● 'Brigandine is a 28mm skirmish-level fantasy wargame that aims for speed and simplicity.'
• BrikWars ● "BrikWars is the plastic-brick wargaming system that throws the peaceful worlds of your favorite construction toys into wanton chaos and destruction!"
• Brytenwalda ● A Britain-themed miniatures game.
• Confrontation Chess ● Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
• Floor Games ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
• Leviathans ● 'Leviathans is a steampunk game that simulates combat between warships that have taken to the air in an alternate history 1910.'
• Little Wars ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
• Meatbot Massacre ● A fun and engaging game of gladiatorial battles in the far future, where the dice you gather determines your actions for that round.
• Mobile Frame Zero ● 'A tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!'
• Plastic Attack ● A miniatures game that uses plastic soldiers.
• Saga ● A rules-light narrative game engine.
• Toybox Wars ● Ready an army from your old toys!
• Very Simple Generic Miniatures Rules ● Quick and easy (though probably not well-balanced) rules for playing miniatures games with any figurines you have lying about.

Miniatures Games Resources

Sources of Miniatures Games

• Domino Writing ● "I have been a tabletop gamer for about 25 years, mostly with pen-and-paper role playing games."
• Tabletop Battles ● A website.

Card Games

Card Games

• Cards Against Humanity ● A free do-it-yourself party game where you match cards in humorous ways
• Conquering Corsairs ● A deck-building card game.
• Decktet ● 'The Decktet is a deck of cards with suits, ranks, and named images. It is structurally unlike ordinary poker and tarot decks, meaning that you can do different things with it.'
• 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!"
• Elevation of Privilege ● 'The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.'
• Final Decrees ● 'Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.'
• First of May ● A card game inspired by a song.
• Libre: The Open Source Card Game ● 'In a time where time wasn't, Seven Factions struggle for Liberation of the others so that they may live free and without struggle. This is the world of Libre.'
• Phylo ● 'Phylo is: (1) a card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex, and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity; (2) an exercise in crowd sourcing, [free] access, and [transparent] game development; and (3) FREAKIN’ AWESOME!'
• Project Utopia ● 'A strategy card game set in the fictional world of Project Utopia.'
• Rainbow Deck ● 'The Rainbow Deck is a card game system that has a total of 162 cards.'
• 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.'
• Unsung Tales ● 'Unsung Tales is a card-based roleplaying game, in which you and your friends will work together to tell stories of mystery and adventure in a Sword and Sorcery world.'
• WTactics ● 'We're a community of free culture-loving individuals, creating a free card game.'

Card Games Resources

Sources of Card Games

• Yaruki Zero Games ● A company that publishes a number of games.