Chris's Compendium of Free Role Playing Games

This is a collection of games, and links to games, that I've collected over the past decade. I'm always looking for more games, so if you have one to donate, please mail the web address to chris@homebrew.net. I prefer to just link to games, so that the author has complete control over the content, but if you have no place to keep the game, I might host it for you if it isn't too big.

If you are looking for computer or online games, this is not the place for you. These are all just pencil-and-paper roleplaying game rules.

If you would like to be notified of new additions to this page, please feel free to join my announcement list freerpgs. Since I hate spam, your email address will be kept private, and I'm lazy about updating here, so you'll only get announcements every month or so most likely.

If you want to post more info about your game, or would like to post a review of a game or just want to chat with other gamers, I have discussion forums set up for that.

• The Blade & the Will The Blade & the Will is an old school skill based role-playing game built on the Twenty Explodes Engine.
• PORTAL Player Oriented Roleplaying: Timing, Action & Lucidity
• Chronicles System A skill based dice-and paper RPG with an emphasis on steampunk campaign settings and optional rules for modern campaigns.
• Shattered Earth The Shattered Earth setting, along with D10/0 system.
• Nucleus Roleplay Extendable Game System
• Arcane Saga A fantasy RPG for as few as two players.
• Dominion Rules Fantasy and historical roleplaying based on the 12-sided die.
• Crimes People Play Players solve mysteries with a diverse group of colorful detectives.
• JAGS - (not) Just Another Gaming System
• 2d6 Quick & Dirty RPG rules for off-the cuff adventures.
• PDQ Core Rules The game engine used for Dead Inside and Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: The Roleplaying Game..
• Faunae Roleplaying of fabulous - even bestial - nature
• Legendary Lives and Lost Souls Two free RPGs from Marquee Press
• Digiworld A Digimon RPG.
• RyF English translation of a Spanish rules-light system.

• ENOCH RPG Role-playing in the Second Genesis
• Cosmic Synchronicity A multi-genre game engine
• Zamani Pulp Adventure Game System & Setting presented in Wiki Format
• MetaScape II Guild Space 400 pages of professional-grade core rules!
• Basic Fantasy RPG A rules-light game system based on the d20 SRD v3.5, but heavily rewritten with inspiration from early RPG game systems.

• OSRIC A compilation of rules for old school-style fantasy gaming.

• Wushu Open The Ancient Art of Action Roleplaying.

• Battles: Win or Lose A RPG that uses dice and trading card mechanics.

• GWing GWing is a Free Form RPG that's constantly evolving.

• Love the Bomb Love the Bomb is a free narrative role-playing game (RPG) about surviving the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.

• AGRPG Anything Goes Role Playing Game.

• Myriad RPG System Myriad is a rules-light modular role-playing system that can be adapted to any genre and setting.

• Tales of Adventure (ToAd) a Model Reality Kit

• S.A.V.A.G.E. Essentials Survival And Victory After Global Extinction... a post-apocalyptic role-playing game.

• URPG URPG is a generic "Conflict Simulation and Roleplaying Game".

• Creeks and Crawdads The revised "Impact System" version of the classic.

• A+ Fantasy A+ Fantasy is an original RPG system that is easily accessible and adaptable to any fantasy setting.

• Legendary Quest LQ is based entirely on actual European and Mediterranean folklore and mythology.

• Wandering Monsters High School What if monsters went to high school?

• Shinigami Chronicles This is a game about what happens after death, when a character doesn't want to cross over yet. They can get jobs as Shinigami - the Guardians of Death.

• Rob Bot and his Robotic Buds This new roleplaying game (RPG), created by series creator Philip Reed, lets you take on the role of Rob and his friends as they delve deep into mystery, suspense, destruction, and the quest for the perfect afternoon snack.

• Proletariat: The Uprising Vaguely satirical RPG/strategy game based on Russian nihilism and communism. Avenge yourselves upon the bourgeoisie!

• Ronin Story What is it that your samurai did? Why do they drift aimlessly back and forth across the Empire like a wave upon the sands?

• Epic Dice System An open roleplaying system and Phenomena: The Unseen.

• Zarrakan Zarrakan is a Fantasy Role-Playing Game set on the distant planet Cyphron where war and high adventure are everyday things.

• Freestyle Freestyle is a diceless system created for online rpg's.

• The Rule of 5 RPG The Rule of 5 is a role playing game set in a dystopic world.

• Piledrivers and Powerbombs Join the savage world of pro-wrestling!

• Tavern and Tales

• PLUS Player's Labor-Saving Utility System

• Myth A game of heroes battling evil in the lands of mythic roleplaying.

• vs Monsters Players take the roles of 19th century monster hunters living in the America of the time

• Dice Chucker A simple and fun system designed for the gamer looking for something different. It can be used in any genre from fantasy to sci-fi.

• Earth of the 4th Sun

• Babewatch the RPG

• Dreamscape the role playing game of dreams and nightmares

• Have-A-Go-Heroes The role-playing game of Marvel City's not-so-super superheroes, in the style of The Mystery Men.

• Tales from the Wood The Woodland Creatures RPG

• Barbarians of Lemuria RPG Heroic Swords & Sorcery!

• Legendary Tales High fantasy RPG.

• AIF Many years from now, in the vastness of space...

• Dark Spell By Jeffrey Schecter

• FEAR RPG a Flexible, Easy And Realistic fantasy RolePlaying? Game

• Dragonfly By Jeffrey Schecter

• Red Raven RPG Contains a playable module with a basic version of the rules.

• CARPS Customizable Abstract Roleplaying System

• Athala by Tristan Collet

• StickGuy, the Roleplaying Game By Chris Gunning.

• CJ Carella's WitchCraft corebook Using the Unisystem rules.

• Lila "...an historical setting in the Vedic times of ancient India."

• BrutalRPG It is both a fast-and-furious wargame and a hack-and-slash role-playing game.

• Alternacy and Mnemonic Two games on one page, brought to you by Alpha-Zulu Games.

• Eliminator role-playing game A modern day "skirmish type game" by Neil Cooper.

• Apathy

• Base113 Home of the free sci-fi/fantasy roleplaying game PROTEUS and the upcoming roleplaying game Enigma.

• Poor Fellows RPG Jolly Roleplaying game in Polish and English.

• UNIVERSAL Simple Reality RPG Rules

• Entalis RPG Free SciFi? RPG.

• Project Evo

• Rene' (Wuthering Heights)

• Force 9 Sci-Fi Combat Roleplaying. Based on the FUDGE system.

• FATE: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainmentâ„¢ Based on the FUDGE system.

• Ars Magica 4th Edition Free with registration.

• FaLoR (Fast and Loose Role-playing)

• Impresa Express Lite Xd10 Open collaborative system for use by gamers and publishers alike.

• Active Exploits Diceless Roleplaying

• General Roleplaying System / Faerie Fire

• Versus System

• Tri-Stat dX As seen in Big Eyes, Small Mouth and Silver Age Sentinels and others. Free PDF version with registration. buy Tri-Stat dX on Amazon

• The World of Gaianar

• Dark Dungeon fantasy roleplaying game

• Alternative Roleplaying System (ARS)

• FreeformRPG

• Darkness Dark future fantasy roleplaying

• Mirima Tyalie Mirima Tyalie is a free (as in the FSF's definition of free) tabletop role-playing system.

• Risus The Anything RPG

• STEAM Community driven generic Role-Playing Game system based on a percentile dice system and fast action.

• Brikwars Wargaming with interchangable plastic parts.

• DragonGrace Infinity System (Diceless)

• LILA A Hindu-esque RPG

• Primal Edge RPG A free, contemporary science fiction RPG experience by James Hand

• The Window

• Icar The Free Science Fiction RPG

• The PG-13 B-Movie Game System By Guildhall Press

• FAST RPG Covers everything from super-heroes to hobbits, and does it with simple mechanics.

• deadEarth Post-apocalyptic Earth. "Brutal and fun"

• SCORE A simple multi-setting system, by Jacob E. Boucher

• GURPS Lite Steve Jackson Games classic RPG trimmed down and given away free!

• ZIGZAG

• Crestfallen bronze age fantasy roleplaying with a strong celtic flavour.

• Sorcerer

• Mithlund Fantasy RPG, world.

• Avalonnia (French RPG)

• Terras

• Battlestorm Basic Simplified free version of Ral Partha's miniature battle game.

• Fantasized Adventures

• Lego Fantasy War Gamehttp://www.homebrew.net/games/cool.gif

• Questfrom Computer Concepts

• INJU v1.0Using the Storyteller rules by White Wolf Games, Inc.

• Fuzion-- R. Talsorian Gameshttp://www.homebrew.net/games/cool.gif

• Runebearerby Chris Magoun -- Magic and Religion clash in a ruined world

• Evolution: The First Step...

• Transcendence

• Outlaws of the Water Margin-- A Chinese Role-playing Game

• Mutant Bikers of the Atomic Wastelandshttp://www.homebrew.net/games/cool.gif

• Lucky 13 / Universe 13by Simon Richardson

• RIP Roleplaying the Infinite Possibilities

• TUGS by Aina Rasolomalala

• THE GUIDE TO ADVENTURE

• SYNDICATE (roleplaying the dark future)

• Heavy Ordnance by Christopher Blankley

• Powergame by Mikko Kauppinen

• OPIGS Supers: by Andrew Arensburger - RMS

• OPIGS: One Page GamIng? System by David Mar 1987http://www.homebrew.net/games/cool.gif

• SAGA: Simple And Generic Adventures by E. Chris Garrison

• GAME: Greatly Abbreviated Mechanics, Etc. by E. Chris Garrison

• SLUG (Simple, Laid-back Universal Game) By Steffan O'Sullivan

• FUDGE:(zipped text files) or (pdf): Freeform, Universal, Donated Gaming Engine By Steffan O'Sullivanhttp://www.homebrew.net/games/cool.gif
  buy Fudge Expanded Edition on Amazon ||

Since someone asked... means an item has been added at the last update.
means I think this game is particularly cool for some reason known only to me. :-) Est. 1994