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Perfect map to run an encounter at an oasis.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these maps individually or collectively as their own product. In DriveThruRPG... [click here for more] |
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This map is perfect of huge battles in the forest.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these maps individually or collectively as their own product. In DriveThruRPG... [click here for more] |
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Perfect map to run a chase encounter over rooftops.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these maps individually or collectively as their own product. In DriveThruRPG... [click here for more] |
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This map is perfect of huge battles in the forest.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these maps individually or collectively as their own product. In DriveThruRPG... [click here for more] |
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Do you ever wish you just had a quick update for an older Year Zero Engine (YZE) game? You’ve played the newer ones and have them down pat, but the rules in some older games are just different enough to mess you up? Coriolis Conversion to Modern Year Zero Engine (YZE) is the answer!
This document is designed as a quick reference that GMs can use when playing Coriolis – The... [click here for more] |
Free League Publishing |
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The area of space surrounding Sol warrants a proper sci-fi role-playing game adaptation. Indeed, many games adopted the region, either as a two-dimensional abstraction or as some representation of the real three-dimensional space. However, currently, there is little in the way of an up-to-date, concrete star-maps of Sol's immediate neighborhood for the various older-school sci-fi RPGs, such as the... [click here for more] |
Stellagama Publishing |
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“What primal, inconceivable source of age-old myth-cycles and haunting nightmares might I be on the brink of uncovering?”
IMPORTANT NOTE: This PDF contains the text of a full set of game statistics describing the creatures, rituals, and artifacts from Lovecraft's original Cthulhu Mythos. In OGL terms it is a “System Reference... [click here for more] |
Cthulhu Reborn |
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Got something that uses the Fate Accelerated defaults for Fate Core, and you wish it used Fate Core's defaults? Or vice-versa? This handy guide from one of the Fate system's originators gives you perspectives and methods to make the conversion process a snap.
Inside you'll find:
An overview of the differences between the Core and Accelerated defaults for Fate Core.
A method for converting skills... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions |
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24XX is the free version of the rules used by the 2400 series of RPGs, with advice on how to adapt these files for your own game. The SRD is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Materials include:
Plain text system reference document (SRD)
PDF versions for layout reference
Affinity Publisher version for use as template
Vector... [click here for more] |
Pretendo Games |
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Encyclopedia Manticorica is the companion reference document for the Tale of the Manticore podcast. It is an ongoing 'living document' that lists rules hacks and lore. It will be updated on an ongoing basis, after each new season. Take it for free, or kick in a buck if you are so inclined. I will put all proceeds towards improving this product. ... [click here for more] |
Tale of the Manticore |
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The 5e System Reference Document v5.1 in PDF and Word format.
This document is meant to ensure that the complete 5e system reference document remains available for future players and creators. It is presented in a more accessable format and distributed for free.
The PDF files are text only. There is a portrait version for double-sided printing and a landscape version for veiwing on a computer or... [click here for more] |
Eternal 5e Publishing |
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Thoughts on Forging in the Dark is a guide to making and modifying games using the Forged in the Dark tabletop roleplaying game system. Originally written for Blades in the Dark by John Harper, the Forged in the Dark engine has been adapted for use by Scum and Villainy, Band of Blades, and many indie games.
This is a guide for anyone... [click here for more] |
Small Cool Games |
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A quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to use 3 pages within an InDesign file to make a flexible book cover, easily exportable to multiple formats!
Easily resize the spine without having to manipulate as many elements.
Easily export to multiple formats: PDF for sale, PDFs for print, PDF to add to the Lightning Source template for print on demand, JPGs or TIFs for web/print/3D rendering use.
... [click here for more] |
Adam Jury |
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Adventure Design in Practice is a structured analysis on my upcoming next adventure that will hit the gaming table with my regular group in three days from the time of writing this. It is my personal preparation work in a documented format with designer notes in a classic game master guide style.
I analyze collaborative storytelling and how it can be fused with more linear story design.... [click here for more] |
ThinkDifferent |
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Encounters are the motor of your storytelling. The way they are structured contributes the most to your table top experience.
I've compiled a collection of design principles for encounters using my business consultancy skillset. It's been refeshing to deploy those practices to role playing domain and I feel it has given me a new angle to the subject in general.
Key highlights and learning include:... [click here for more] |
ThinkDifferent |
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What can change a person's very nature?
How can the broken be made whole?
What does it mean to be a hero?
In a world where most people still dismiss genre fiction as ‘trash’ or ‘pulp,' it should be no surprise that role playing games don’t have a reputation for literary value. And, to be fair, I can understand why: most adventures are just... [click here for more] |
Larcenous Designs, LLC |
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Free Fantasy RPG Stock Art from M. Meredith Williams! This large cache of his fantasy work has over 80 public domain images from the fantastic to the bizarre. These are suitable for any Fantasy RPG, from 0e to 5e, Pathfinder and The OSR. They were curated by Actuarial Games to reflect 50 years of DnD styling.
Please note, these drawings are over 100 years old and are high quality black and white... [click here for more] |
Actuarial Games |
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System Reference Document 5.1
Split and bookmarked by Derek Ruiz
This release encompasses a multi-PDF work that takes the SRD 5.1 and separates it into several PDF documents and adds PDF bookmarks to them, for ease of use. The SRD is an invaluable tool and reference document for TTRPG creators, having the ability to use bookmarks and having pertinent parts of the documents separated is integral... [click here for more] |
Elven Tower |
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Inside this pack you will find 30 high-resolution images (300 DPI in PNG format) for use in your own ICRPG publications! Some of the drawings included in this pack are: - Weapons - Potions - Armor - Helmets - Books - Scrolls - Dungeon Door - Coins - Treasure Chests - Pile of Skulls - Bones - Anvil - Barrels - Alchemy Ingredients - Ale and Food - Castle on a Hill - Desert Fortress - Runestones - Cave... [click here for more] |
Axebane Games |
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Hard S.F. Worldbuilding Cookbook #4.1: The Candle Flame : A star system with a flame yellow sun
A how-to guide for writers and roleplayers
Start with your story. Choose locations, find situations, and inspire novel prompts as you need them. Have the science behind them at your fingertips, when you want it.
Inspiration first, then worldbuilding.
Hard... [click here for more] |
John Freeman |
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Perfect map to run an encounter at a mountain pass. This map features realistic-assets like mountains, cliffs and rocks.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot... [click here for more] |
CZRPG |
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Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbook #3: Rogue Planets
A how-to guide for writers and roleplayers
Start with your story. Choose locations, find situations, and inspire novel prompts as you need them. Have the science behind them at your fingertips, when you want it.
Inspiration first, then worldbuilding.
The Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbooks:
Written... [click here for more] |
John Freeman |
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This PDF includes handouts from Baron’s Storyteller Roundtable, a workshop about social and group-dynamic aspects of social deception game Blood On The Clocktower. Now, for the first time, you can get all 65+ handouts in one book.
Storyteller Roundtable draws from twenty-five years studying, working with, and teaching small-group dynamics. Roundtable helps your group... [click here for more] |
Baron Ted |
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Perfect map to run an encounter involving an orc camp at the top of snowy mountains in an arctic environment.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these... [click here for more] |
CZRPG |
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Open License Motif SRD
As requested, an open license system reference document for Built Using the Motif Framework tools and Runs On Motif licensed games! Create your own system neutral tools or brand new TTPRGs based on Motif!
Uses the very open terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may create and publish your own Motif products, as a fan or as a publisher,... [click here for more] |
Thought Punks |
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Perfect map to run an encounter in a cabin located in a forest. The map offers many terrain features like cliffs, rocks, and trees.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch.... [click here for more] |
CZRPG |
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Looking for affordable hand-drawn fantasy stock art? You've come to the right place my friend!
Inside this free pack of 74 hand-drawn images you will find a variety of fantasy items, including daggers, swords, axes, staves, shields, scrolls, spellbooks, potions, torches, war banners, tools, and more! Perfect for an RPG adventure, a dungeon-crawling card game, a medieval trick-taking... [click here for more] |
Axebane Games |
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Macy, our family dog, has passed. She was the best. May she live on in a thousand adventures and be loved by a thousand gamers. ... [click here for more] |
Publisher's Choice Stock Art |
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Perfect map to run an encounter in a road through a Fey forest.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell these maps individually or collectively as their... [click here for more] |
CZRPG |
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With the Weird Frontiers RPG form-fillable character sheet you'll be able to quickly fill and keep track of your heroes as they blaze a trail across the weird west! This character sheet should be used for characters 1st level and up. A zero-level (funnel) sheet is also included.
... [click here for more] |
Stiff Whiskers Press |
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OSR Rosetta Stone
So many versions of dungeons and dragons! Wouldn't it be easy if there was a one page conversion guide?
There is! It's PWYW! check it out. ... [click here for more] |
Hack & Slash Publishing |
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Whether you're a publisher looking to use some icons to break up text on a page, quickly replace RPG terms with iconography, or a GM or player who wants to make a more interesting character sheet or handout, this icon set will help you! It covers a range of common classes, races, conditions, dice, and common RPG terms.
The icons skew heavily to the 5th edition of the best known RPG because that... [click here for more] |
Inkwell Ideas |
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This is an MSWORD (.DOCX) reference document including the non-formatted, artless Open Content material from Cepheus Deluxe (which is most of that book). Perfect for creators and anyone wishing to customize the rules.
You can get the actual Cepheus Deluxe rules , with full layout, art, and gameplay examples - HERE. ... [click here for more] |
Stellagama Publishing |
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This is an unofficial template that resembles the trade dress for Dragonbane, in a way that is distinct enough from the original trade dress to be in compliance with the Third-Party License.
You may modify this template however you like, and are allowed to use it commercially. You may not resell this template, or redistribute it in any way that competes with it.
Land of the Blind,... [click here for more] |
Land of the Blind |
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Perfect map to run an encounter in an forest road. The map offers many terrain features like cliffs, rocks, trees.
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You may use these maps for both personal and commercial use. They can be altered, modified, cropped, or combined, but must maintain their original resolution. If you use these maps in commercial products, you must credit Christian Zeuch. You cannot resell... [click here for more] |
CZRPG |
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My name is Chamomile, I have illustrations, and now, so do you.
Contained in this pack are over a hundred color and black-and-white stock illustrations for the fantasy genre released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license for pay-what-you-want. That means you can pay any amount of money including none at all for the pack, you can use the illustrations in any product you like... [click here for more] |
ChamomileHasAdventures |
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TTRPGs are storytelling, acting, and logic games where the players take on roles in the fiction as part of engaging with the game.
There are a lot of them.
This is a guide to making your own.
It is not a step by step assembly manual. It covers personal theory and experiences, and some elements of it are apt to get outdated pretty quickly (publication date 2024!)
However, if you want to do some... [click here for more] |
Richard Kelly |
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Need some cyberpunk-themed figure flats for your next game?
Look no further!
Enclosed is an assortment of paper models or “figure flats” intended to represent characters on the tabletop in skirmishes and other situations where it’s important to tell who is where.
Just print out on regular copy paper (or on cardstock if you’d prefer a bit more weight), then cut out and assemble. The names... [click here for more] |
Gun Metal Games |
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Free Monster Fantasy Stock Art from the Creative Commons! Hundreds of cool images in a variety of styles. All of the art is of monsters! Some of it is in my other stock art collections, but much of it is new.
Monsters include:
Basilisk, Black Pudding, Centaur, Chimera, Cockatrice, Djinn, Dragons, Dryads, Dwarf. Efreeti, etc. ect, it goes on and on. There is enough art in here to populate... [click here for more] |
Actuarial Games |
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For the benefit of hobbyists and publishers alike, the Quantum Engine SRD provides an editable (DOCX format), art-less version of the Quantum Engine rules used in Cepheus Atom and Barbaric!, all packed into a uniform, simple, and easily editable format.
This package file also includes a very permissive license for using these rules hwile claiming compatibility with... [click here for more] |
Stellagama Publishing |
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Free Fantasy RPG Stock Art from John D Batten! This large cache of his fantasy work has over 240 public domain images from the fantsatic to the bizarre. These are suitable for any Fantasy RPG, from 0e to 5e, Pathfinder and The OSR. They were curated by Actuarial Games to reflect 50 years of DnD sensibility.
Please note, these drawings are over 100 years old and are high quality black and white... [click here for more] |
Actuarial Games |
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Standardcat is a 24-page Affinity Publisher template suitable for self-publishing roleplaying games. The template includes:
a pdf version of the template for universal access
2 page sizes (A5 and 5.5 x 8.5in)
complete set of heading, body, table, header and footer text styles
alternating row colour table format
several styles to help format stat blocks
designed with two freely available fonts: Alegreya... [click here for more] |
WTF Studio |
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A basic GM advice column for running prehistoric animals. One of my three entries to Wayfinder #22. The other two entries will be published in it. ... [click here for more] |
Druid GM Designs |
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Free Fantasy RPG Stock Art from Harry Clarke! This large cache of his fantasy work has over 100 public domain images from the fantastic to the bizarre. These are suitable for any Fantasy RPG, from 0e to 5e, Pathfinder and The OSR. They were curated by Actuarial Games to reflect 50 years of DnD styling.
Ilustrations from the books:
Faust (Including color plates!)
Tales of Mystery & Imagination... [click here for more] |
Actuarial Games |
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The ACE Adventure Design Method is useful for RPG adventure designers and authors alike. It uses four acronyms: ACE, AIMS, LAND and WHAT to aid in the design of an adventure from a purely fictional point-of-view, allowing you to leave the "crunch" of mechanics behind while you focus of the conflict, npcs, locations and encounters.
The video link describes and shows an example of use for the L.A.N.D.... [click here for more] |
Brian Holland |
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Welcome to the Lost Road. You become lost in all in things. In your life. Sense of self. And more. One day you lost your way and became truly Lost. Finding a Door, you escaped the labirynth you found yourself in. Now you are on the Road, a strange realm connected to all worlds.
A short 6 page mini-RPG.
Runs on Motif, using the Motif Framework. Be sure to check out... [click here for more] |
Thought Punks |
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The RPG Handbook is a system-free guide to playing tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs). The RPG Handbook looks at:
Inviting new players to try out tabletop RPGs.
Getting kids involved in trying out imaginative games.
Emphasizing deeper character development.
Making it easy to run and vary solo and team RPG gameplay.
Turning players into GMs - and GMs into games designers.
Offering GMs the means to rapidly... [click here for more] |
Dragonfly |
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Have you ever heard of Stalbeck, Isishira or Colliunza? How about Al Qaţalī, Hamångborg or Agélais? Probably not, because they don’t exist. But they sound like they might, and when it comes to fantasy worldbuilding that’s all that matters.
We built an algorithm to deconstruct sets of real city, town and location names from different countries, regions and cultures around the world and then... [click here for more] |
Xeno & Kraft |
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This guide covers the very basics of the USA's intellectual property law, as applied to roleplaying games. The guide covers copyrights, trademarks, patents, and how they apply in the RPG world. The guide then goes over a few types of pre-existing material that creators can leverage in their own creations without incurring legal liability, such as stock characters and publicly-licensed content.
It's... [click here for more] |
Omnichromatic Pirate Unicorn Games |
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This 2022 extensive 102 page checklist and price guide provides the reader with valuable information regarding all known Fighting Fantasy books, collectables and related merchandise. Now includes foreign books and lots of other new bonus material. Red text denotes additions and amendments.
Although the odd gem can still be found, it covers everything from 1982 through to 2022 for the 40th Anniversary.... [click here for more] |
Fighting Fantasy Collector |
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