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

• Powers For Good ● 'Powers For Good is a fast-moving roleplaying game of team superheroics in the style of comic books such as Legion of Superheroes and New X-men, or TV shows like Justice League. Together with your friends you can create an entire team of superheroes in just a few minutes and leap into whatever the GM has stewing.'
• Princes Of Arabia ● A role-playing game with assassins' and thieves' guilds.
• Project 74 ● A rules-lite game that works only in conjunction with early editions of Dungeons & Dragons
• Prometheus SRD ● An open version of the character creation and advancement rules from Dungeons & Dragons 3E.
• Providence Junction ● A Western LARP of small town secrets.
• Psychic Warrior ● Post apocalyptic Dungeon Squad.
• Push ● A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
• Putting The Band Back Together ● Anarchy reigns when an obsessive, talentless band reforms for one last tour, heedless of body count.
• Quad System ● An RPG.
• Quasar ● Generic sci-fi game rules.
• Quest-ions ● 'Quest-ions is a fantasy roleplaying game with a novel mechanic using tokens.'
• Quick-Play ● A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
• Quick-Play ● '[A] very simple universal system ... Meant for short games with quick startup, it is a diceless game that contains within it full character creation, conflict resolution, supernatural/superhuman abilities, and even a few optional rules – all contained in three pages.'
• 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).
• Rainbow Deck ● 'The Rainbow Deck is a card game system that has a total of 162 cards.'
• Raven Crowking's Fantasy Game ● Raven Crowking's reworking of Dungeons & Dragons
• Realms of Wonder ● Rules-lite, classless, nostalgic RPG.
• Redbox Hack ● A clever reinterpretation of fantasy gaming.
• Renaissance ● 'Renaissance is a free D100 roleplaying system designed for historical and fantasy gaming in the age of black powder weapons.'
• Resolute, Adventurer & Genius ● A rules-light pulp game.
• Retrocalypse ● A Fallout-style RPG based on Old School Hack.
• Return to Maniac Mansion ● A game for Jonathan Walton's Stage One.
• Revolucion ● Chart the course of any revolution, real or imagined, in any time or place.
• Ring of Changes ● Fight a conspiracy with your cabal of alchemists.
• Rivers & Lakes ● A slimline historical wuxia game.
• Robot Hamlet vs Richard III ● Robot Hamlet and his companions have been abandoned on the terrifying Ghost Asteroid by the villainous robot Richard III.
• Rookvale ● 'Rookvale is a [tabletop] game of cinematic tactical combat [with demons]'
• Rosalind Wells, Ambassador to Space ● A five-year-old girl named Rosalind tries to resolve the problems of her alien visitors.
• Runebearer ● A fantasy game which draws on several different RPG systems.
• RuneQuest ● The RuneQuest core rules.
• Ruritania: 1844 ● A live-action role-playing game set in an alternate pseudo-history.
• Sacred Steel ● An RPG once lost, but capable of preservation thanks to its open licence.
• Saga ● A rules-light narrative game engine.
• School Daze ● An RPG about high school.
• Science Fiction Mystery ● An 11-player science fiction LARP.
• Scrabblenauts ● A game where spelling words with Scrabble tiles affects what happens in the story.
• Second String Superheroes ● A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
• Seventh ● A fantasy role-playing game.
• Shadow of Yesterday ● A pioneering RPG where characters are defined by their Keys and Secrets.
• Shadow-Hack ● A mashup of Old School Hack and Shadowrun.
• Shadows ● Children accompanied by their formidable Shadows.
• Shakespeare 2985 ● A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
• Simple 20 ● A simple d20-based RPG.
• SMAF 17 ● A 'role-playing game where you take the role of survivors in one of what can only be the last of humanity’s outposts.'
• 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.'
• Somnambulance ● Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
• Sorcerer's Symposium ● A madcap game of magic running out of control at a wizards' conference.
• Sovereign ● A Risk-like boardgame.
• SpacePirates ● Space opera in what appears to be German.

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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

• SMAF 17 ● A 'role-playing game where you take the role of survivors in one of what can only be the last of humanity’s outposts.'
• 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.'
• Somnambulance ● Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
• Sorcerer's Symposium ● A madcap game of magic running out of control at a wizards' conference.
• SpacePirates ● Space opera in what appears to be German.
• 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.
• Spite ● 'Spite: The Second Book of Pandemonium is a new game of supernatural horror-action.'
• 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.
• Star Empire ● Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
• Star Quest ● A science fiction game and a setting with no strict cannon.
• Star Wreck ● An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
• 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
• Stories System ● A generic rules-lite game engine.
• Story Games Names Project ● A big book of names from different cultures.
• Storyleaves ● A solitaire game that tells a story.
• student/ZOMBIE ● A survival horror RPG about zombies, and school shootings.
• 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.'
• Superliga ● A d20-based game dedicated to gonzo gaming.
• 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.
• Tale of Navri ● An adventure game set on a skyship.
• Talislanta ● A role-playing game without any elves.
• Tea Party ● Play Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber in this Lady Blackbird hack.
• Tech Noir ● A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
• Telgrathia ● A fantasy game based on Blackjack.
• Ten Thousand Worlds ● A game which allows you to describe almost anything based on its 'levels'.
• 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 Beggar's Opera (RPG) ● An experimental RPG based on the John Gay play of the same name.
• 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 Faces of Angels ● A story of those with inhuman power and very human relationships.
• 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 Great Tournament ● Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
• The Last Challenge ● Old warriors gather round a campfire to tell stories of their exploits and prepare for the final battle of their careers.
• 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.

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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.