#microrpg

[ritunn]

Psychopomps Ltd: A Business Card TTRPG

The dead should stay dead and that's exactly what you were hired for! Take on the role of a spirit guide in your own spirit escort company, completing jobs by solving the issues of mortals and the undead causing problems for them in this compact TTRPG that fits entirely on a business card.

If you want to download or support the game, check out its Itch page! It's free, but for $2 get a simple character sheet and sample character. However, right now, I have up to 31 full copies available for free until Halloween.

[islanderscaper]

Are you tired of dealing with the cost of living and late-stage capitalism? Have you and your friends ever talked about buying a castle or a large plot of country land somewhere and starting your commune or collective?

Our Commune is a 24-word RPG for 2 or more players.

[magicfred]

Search for “Micro RPG” in the App Store and Google Play.

[computationalcalculator]

Help! My DM Skipped Session To Read A Light Novel, But The Rest Of Us Were Already Here, So We Ordered Pizza And Made Up A MicroRPG About Getting Isekai'd With A Rotating Focus Player And Some D6s, But First We Made A Character By Taking Turns Each Describing A Generic Trait And A Reason Why He Was Unpopular Before Getting Isekai'd And Something About The Fantasy World, And Then The Person On My Right Rolled A D6 And Described An Encounter For That Difficulty Level (Like A Monster Or A Cute Girl Or Something), And I Described What I Tried To Do And Rolled Three D6s And It Worked If Any One Or More Added Up To The Difficulty Exactly, But If I Used A Nerdy Skill Or Magic Power I Could Roll An Extra D6 And Discard The Highest, Or If I Tried To Flirt Badly Or Make Up A New Power I Could Roll An Extra D6 And Discard The Lowest, And Then The Player To My Left Would Get A Turn With A New Encounter (Or Trying Something Different To Solve The Same One If I Failed), And We Kept Playing Until The Pizza Got Here??

with apologies to NagaiTaitoru. okay to archive, but if for some strange reason you don't want to write out the full title 😛 it can be referred to as:

MijikaiTaitoru, or "Help! My DM Skipped Session To Read A Light Novel ..."

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

[symberzite]

SKELLINGTON RPG: FIGHT IN AN UNDEAD ARMY, MAKE PUNS, PLAY A TROMBONE

A microRPG I cooked up on lunch break at work based on an old wint tweet. Honestly I like the system and wouldn't mind doing more one shot stuff with it.

[omophagic-beast]

well! i ended up making a submission for the 24-word RPG jam thats going on! HUNGER is a microRPG about..... well. being hungry!

ROLL. EAT. HUNT.

[indiepressrevolution]

Restocked at IPR!

The Deck of Many Quests - The Deck of Many Quests is a tool for Game Masters and Adventurers alike. Think Cards Against Humanity meets Dungeons & Dragons! The deck provides you nearly limitless inspiration for quickly and easily building your own adventures.

Dwelling - Dwelling is a role-playing game and short story for one. Taking on the role of the embodied narrator you will wander through your new strange home at night. Conjuring spectres and finding they summon parts of your past along with them. Read, write, and draw in this curated solitary experience of a sleepless night in a haunted house.

Bookmark microRPG Collection - A collection of 5 micro RPGs of single-player, 2 player, and 2+ player games to be played with a book, printed on full-color cardstock bookmarks. With these games, write, draw, connect, and black out parts of the book to make something new with them. All you need is a pen or a pencil and a book.

Genofunk - GenoFunk is an RPG about dying Heroes in a world touched by the Apocalypse.

Sapphic Space Pirates: Luck Of The Harbor Edition - Sapphic Space Pirates is a diceless, game master free roleplaying game for 2 to 6 players. Explore the stars and the bonds of queer community in a cozy adventure. Build your own ship, choose the journey you are on and explore a galaxy full of colorful nebula and bloodthirsty pirates with a crew as gay as you are.

[pagesofkenna]

If I didn't desperately need to get this printed in time to hand out at Gen Con I would probably spend another week tinkering with the layout, but here's the microRPG I wrote for the back of my business card!

(inspired by Ghost Trick and my Twitter display name, which is an inside joke from like a decade ago lmao)

[eldritchkraken]

@that-house i got very excited and made a spreadsheet to use for your game, hope that's ok!

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

[ladyvaingloria]

I have made another game! This one is my first foray into non-free games, but there's a budget of community copies if you need. You play as fraudulent occultists running scam online storefronts, and simultaneously doing very real psychic battles against internet-manifesting fate-beings that will destroy the world unless they get informed that they exist. It's got dice pool manipulation and collaborative play without communication!

[autumnreblogs]

thinking about creating a roleplaying game based on “Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron” but based on the Locked Tomb, instead, where you play as a Lyctor, called “I Often Think About This”

Gameplay consists of spending 10,000 years with God the Emperor, over a series of randomly generated prompts. The goal is to keep your sanity as long as possible before you inevitably decide to murder him, at which point you lose the game.

[largshirepress]

What is this?

This is a game about being the undead horrors that protect an ancient temple. You’re rotting away and can hardly hold yourself up, but you are persistent, and your God is on your side. It is for telling stories about monsters and exploring the motivations of evil creatures. It’s dark, grim, and probably be goofy.

[jinlile]

Cant wait to set up an afternoon to play some games!!!

[saturdaynightgaming]

We know lockdown has many of us in the blues but it is a good opportunity to get the family together for a few hours of fun. We just dropped a micro-rpg that requires little to none RPG experience to play. Perfect for having a relaxing good time.

The best part is that it is FREE. No cost to anyone. Just download a copy and get the family together.

This is just something we wanted to share with everyone during this time. We know personally that lockdown can be no fun. Especially if you have little children that don't quite understand why things are happening. We hope you enjoy and have some good fun!

[magicfred]

La nouvelle fraise 🍓 vous attaque à coup de javelot! #microrpg #strawberry https://www.instagram.com/p/B2WjFFsDcNY/?igshid=1oceiplz7n117

[blockmechanics]

I wanna make a JoJo-inspired microRPG anyone wanna brainstorm with me?