List of Libre Games
See also the List of Libre Supplements
- ... in Spaaace! • Zany space adventures powered by the Token Effort system.
- 3 - Unnatural Encounters • Contemporary, surreal horror where the highest goal is surviving more or less intact.
- 4C System • A supers retroclone.
- A Strange Charm • An RPG based on time travellers eternally reborn as they trawl the stars and lost years.
- Action! System • A free generic RPG.
- Active Exploits • A free, generic diceless RPG.
- Ad Astra • An open source, science fiction campaign setting.
- Advanced Dungeon Squad • Liam Brennan takes a shot at improving Dungeon Squad.
- Adventure Squad Core • A Dungeon Squad hack for adventure games of any time period.
- Adventures In The 41st Millennium • A modification of Dungeon Squad for the Warhammer 40K universe.
- Adventures of the Space Patrol • Retro-Cute Sci-Fi Role-Playing
- Alien Survivor • Fight off the alien menace in this Lady Blackbird hack.
- All The King's Men • Back from the Crusades, you must kill the bandit lord Robin Hood.
- Altars & Archetypes • A dungeoncrawling fantasy role-playing game.
- Alternate Dungeon Squad • A different take on Dungeon Squad by Liam Brennan.
- Anima Prime • A fast-paced RPG based on Final Fantasy and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Animalball Melee • A simplified d20 System for gladiatorial combat.
- Arcana Evolved • Monte Cook's d20 magnum opus, a riveting world of staff-wielding sorcerers, mages who speak to brooks and trees and those whose memories reach back to the beginning of time.
- 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.
- As the Tea Leaves Grow • Small Toad – youngest student of Master Iron Willow – gave the rarest tea flower in Master Iron Willow's considerable collection to a passing beauty.
- Astral Dreams • A free wargame.
- Bad Attitudes Revised • A game no longer available on the Internet.
- Banditron • The chase movie as space western.
- Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game • A fusion of Basic D&D with D&D 3E to create a simple, light-weight game.
- Beast Hunters • Tattooed hunters of beasts use their fiendish blood for sorcery.
- Blackbird Pie • A semi-open, generic Hackbird.
- Bloody Forks of the Ohio • A Lady Blackbird hack where George Washington faces off against the French.
- Bloody Forks of the Ohio (LARP) • A LARP inspired by Bloody Forks of the Ohio by Jason Morningstar.
- Cards Against Humanity • Cards Against Humanity is a free party game for horrible people.
- Castle Blackbird • A horror game set in the 19th century.
- Castles & Crusades • A nostalgia game powered by the SIEGE engine.
- Champions of the Thunderous Perches • A fantasy RPG.
- Chronicles • A dungeon crawl game.
- Circe • One of the first games to be open source.
- City of Rain, City of Darkness • A setting without a game.
- Confrontation Chess • Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
- Console • An RPG for emulating console video games.
- Contagion • A free wargame.
- CORE • A generic community-designed game.
- Core Elements • A distillation of the d20 System in just seven pages.
- Crawling for Cash • Bleak, nihilistic dungeon-crawling.
- Cyberpunk Remix • This game is about your crazy friends and family.
- d20 Anime • Play magical girls, sorcerers and mecha pilots using everyone's favourite system.
- d20 Modern • Modern role-playing, from occult investigation to special ops and anything in between.
- d20 Open Mass Combat System • A free wargame.
- Danger Patrol • The draft of a pulp adventure RPG.
- Dangers & Dweomers • A merger of Swords & Wizardry and Basic Fantasy.
- Dan's Diminutive d20 • Quick and easy d20 role-playing.
- Dark Dungeons • Dark Dungeons is a retroclone for the Rules Cyclopedia.
- Dark Millennium • A free wargame.
- Darkening Skies • A Lady Blackbird hack set upon an abandoned ship.
- Department 9 • You work for the Fates, manipulating people’s destinies to make sure everything goes according to The Plan.
- Destiny System • A universal RPG.
- Diaspora • Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
- Djinnbusters • Hunt ghosts in a land of sultans and deserts.
- Dominion Rules • Medieval classless fantasy role-playing.
- Donjon • A fantasy dungeoncrawl game with significant player narrative control.
- DQ Open Source • A DragonQuest retroclone.
- Draft • A generic RPG with rules for magic and hit locations.
- DragonNet RPG • A classless fantasy RPG.
- Dread • A diceless horror game that uses a Jenga tower.
- Dread House • Spend the night in a haunted house.
- Dread (The First Book Of Pandemonium) • A game of supernatural demon hunters.
- Dresden Files RPG • Based on the books of the same title.
- Drowning and Falling • The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Adventure and Death from Drowning and Falling
- Dulse • A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
- Dungeon Crawl - Risus • Dungeoncrawling in Risus.
- Dungeon Squad Companion • New options for Dungeon Squad.
- Dungeon Squad (game) • A simple dungeon-crawl game.
- Dungeon Squad (Jim Adams) • A hack of Dungeon Squad by Jim Adams.
- Dungeons & Dragons • The first and most popular RPG.
- Dungeons Daring • A fantasy RPG designed by a committee.
- Dungeonslayers • A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game.
- e20 System • A roleplaying game whose mechanics allow for fast game play, streamlined character creation and advancement, and a cinematic storytelling experience adaptable to any genre or style of play.
- Eclipse Phase • Singularity role-playing.
- Edition 13 • A new take on the 4C System
- El Rey Muerto • A Spanish RPG.
- Enchanted Realms • Role-playing with cards.
- Epitome • A free, universal RPG.
- Escape from Thanatos • A Space Opera where one takes on the roles of Captain Talia Mercury, Merchant Prince Marcus Dunn, ageing Space Knight Sir Lux Angelo, Francisco - Talia's stalwart companion, and Mona - a mysterious stowaway as they crash land on the planet Thanatos after escaping the Omegan Empire!
- Executive Decision • Play as the President or members of his executive!
- Explosions & Escapes • A simple, clean RPG for emulating action movies.
- FAST • A light and simple skill-based RPG.
- FATE (game) • A universal game based on the FATE engine.
- Fire and Sword • An evolution of RuneQuest.
- 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.
- Fortune Cookies and Nuclear War • A one paragraph game about diplomatic negotiations over dinner.
- 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.
- Fringe • A half-finished RPG designed by committee.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gods and Monsters • An old-school style fantasy RPG.
- GORE • A d%-based horror RPG.
- Grey Lotus • A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
- Gunwave • A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
- Hearth & Hunt • A coming-of-age ritual on the edge of the world.
- His Due • Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
- Hoard • Play a growing dragon.
- 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..
- Hyper • A modular gaming system.
- Icar • A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
- Iliamna Unknown • Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
- Inuma • A system for shared, improvised storytelling.
- Iridium System • A simple and realistic system combining skills and classes.
- It Came from the Wide Blue Yonder • A medieval, Cthulhu superhero role-playing game.
- JAGS • A universal generic games system.
- Jazz • A flexible and easy-to-use game system drawn from many sources.
- 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, Lady Blackbird is a collage of recent innovations in gaming.
- Lamentations of the Fire Princess • Weird fantasy role-playing.
- Legendary Lives • A nostalgic fantasy role-playing game.
- Legends Of Anglerre • Play action-packed fantasy using the award-winning FATE RPG system.
- Little Wars and Floor Games • Two books written long ago by HG Wells on the storytelling games he played with his children.
- Longshot • You’re a colonist four light years away from home, scraping by thanks to the occasional supply ship from Earth.
- 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.
- Magpie Codex • A light and generic fantasy RPG.
- Making the Bigs • A baseball role-playing game remix
- Man and Ubermensch • A fascist superhero replaces the US President during World War II.
- Maschine Zeit • The story of the beginning of the Machine Age.
- Mayhem Academy • Enrol at a private school for tomorrow's amoral killing machines.
- 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.
- Metafiction • A short RPG about those who can travel through fiction.
- Metropole Luxury Coffin • The Metropole Luxury Coffin is home to the dregs of society. You’re not like them, though. You’re going to get out of here someday.
- Microcosm • A game from Amagi Games.
- Microlite20 • A simplified version of the d20 System.
- Midgard • Play a viking hero on epic adventures.
- Midian • An intricate and lengthy RPG of dark fantasy.
- Minions, Inc • Play the minion servant of a supervillain.
- Mirima Tyalie • A simple fantasy RPG.
- Monsters Menace Monopoly • Spice up your Monopoly game with Godzilla.
- MULRAH • An RPG that has undergone considerable changes in recent versions.
- Mutant Future • Post-apocalyptic role-playing compatible with Labyrinth Lord.
- Mutant Hunter • Uses a handful of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
- My Darn Ex-Wife • Play a squid mechanic or a redneck father in this Lady Blackbird hack.
- My Supernatural Romance • An RPG for couples, originally inspired by True Blood, Twilight, Let the Right One In, Buffy, and other tales of star-crossed vampire-human romances.
- Myriad • A rules-light modular generic RPG.
- New Realms • "Yet ANOTHER Universal Anime RPG."
- Noteworthy • The only role-playing game where the characters are all bloggers.
- Not-Too-Silly Stories • A rules-light, GMless game designed for children.
- Old Messila • Billy the Kid is on a train to Old Messila, doomed to hanging in this Lady Blackbird hack.
- Old School Hack • Trying to capture that sweet spot in a new way.
- OpenD6 • The popular D6 System finally released as open.
- OpenQuest • A complete and easy to play fantasy roleplaying game, with monsters, magic and exotic locales. OpenQuest uses the classic D100 rules mechanic, which uses percentages to express the chance of success or failure.
- Organic Rules Components • A role-playing game that promises to model physics and biology.
- Osprey • A generic role-playing engine.
- OSRIC • A retroclone of 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
- Ostermark, The Butterforger • A surreal game of the law set in the Old World.
- OSTS • A generic rules-light RPG.
- Pathfinder • An adaptation of the d20 System.
- Pirate Squad • A Dungeon Squad hack for piratical adventures.
- Plastic Attack • A miniatures game that uses plastic soldiers.
- Pollies • A generic dice-based RPG.
- Post Apoc-Bird • A Lady Blackbird hack set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future.
- 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.
- Psychic Warrior • Post apocalyptic Dungeon Squad.
- Putting the Band Back Together • Anarchy reigns when an obsessive, talentless band reforms for one last tour, heedless of body count.
- Quasar • Generic sci-fi game rules.
- 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.
- 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 and Lakes • A slimline historical wuxia game.
- RUGS • A generic rules-light game engine.
- 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.
- Seventh • A fantasy role-playing game.
- Shadow of Yesterday • A pioneering RPG where characters are defined by their Keys and Secrets.
- Shadows • Children accompanied by their formidable Shadows.
- Simple 20 • A simple d20-based RPG.
- SKETCH System • A rules-light generic game engine.
- Slayer of Dragon • A martial arts RPG.
- 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.
- 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.
- Starblazer Adventures • Role-playing in the far-flung future.
- Stories System • A generic rules-lite game engine.
- 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.
- 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 Age of Shadow • A role-playing game designed for one of the most popular fantasy trilogies of all time.
- The Alchemy System • A modified d20 game set in its own universe.
- 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.
- The Fifth World • Humans after civilisation.
- The G.A.M.E System • The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
- The Genesys System • A generic rules-light RPG.
- The Great Tournament • Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
- The Lady Blackbird • A hack of Lady Blackbird set in the Age of Sail.
- 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 and Dreams • Once upon a time, there was a writer who wrote a story game that doesn't exist. This is that game.
- The Mustang • A short game about three youths who confront a demon horse.
- The Plant • A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
- The Princess Game • This is a game about a little girl. The only little girl in the whole wide world. The only person there is, really.
- The Simple Game System • A simple and generic rules-system based on d6s.
- The Undying Lands • People from the real world are catapulted into a land of fairy tales.
- Thrilling Noir Stories • A rules-light RPG for the noir genre.
- Time & Temp • Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players.
- Tiny Triangles • Play mice champions for whom it's not how you fight but what you fight for.
- Toast • A rules-light universal RPG.
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- Traveller • A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
- Treasure • A modular, symbols-based RPG.
- Tri-Fold FATE • The basic rules of FATE on three pages.
- True20 • A generic RPG based on a lite version of the d20 System.
- Twenty One Turn Hero • A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
- Two Worlds • d20 role-playing based on the computer game of the same name.
- Valence • Rebuild the fallen Human Empire.
- Vampires - A Postmodern Roleplaying Game • In this game, vampires are constantly engaged in a violent physical struggle for power, respect and security.
- 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.
- Violence • A parody which brings the gratuitous violence of the dungeon into the modern age.
- vs Monsters • A 24HRPG by Phil Reed.
- Warlord's Wager • Contest and intrigue at the Warlord's court.
- Warrior & Wizard • A retroclone of The Fantasy Trip.
- Warrior, Rogue and Mage • A rules lite dungeoncrawl.
- Wayfarers • Points-buy medieval fantasy role-playing.
- Weasels! • A simple system of intelligent weasels living in The Forest that must deal with a threat. Easy for kids.
- Witless Minion • The role-playing game of mooks, minions, and dupes.
- Wordplay • A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
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