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Players typically roll a twenty-sided die, or D20 for most tasks in a Cypher. For healing and determining cypher levels a player will roll a six sided die, or D6. Rarely, a player or GM may find themselves rolling a D100, or two ten-sided dice to determine random events or outcomes.

What Dice do you need for a Cypher System game?

Just like many tabletop roleplaying games, a Cypher System game can cover a vast range of topics and themes, including violence, horror, romance, illness, and more. Any game worth playing will have safety tools and content warnings where players can let their group and/or GM know what topics might they be uncomfortable with. Monte Cook Games, the creator of the Cypher System has a robust "Consent in Gaming" worksheet groups can use to establish appropriate topics and themes for their games.

What if I am not comfortable with certain themes or content in a Cypher System game?

There are a variety of setting guides and player resources available to players, so much it may seem overwhelming! It has never been easier for a player to get into a Cypher System game as nearly all content is available for players via a robust Cypher System Open License (CSOL). The Basic rules which cover nearly everything a player will need is available for free. You may want to pick up the Cypher System Core Rulebook (commonly referred to as the "red book") or one of the many setting books for further reading.

What books or materials do I need to play the Cypher System?

In most tabletop games, characters have abilities that rarely change and can be counted on. In a Cypher System game, Cyphers give players variety and ever-changing abilities that result in dynamic gameplay. A Cypher is a single use ability or item a character can discover during the course of play. In some games they could look like magic potions or spell scrolls, others may look like goggles or even a supernatural blessing.

Most games tend to take 2-3 hours long and will be played over the course of weeks or months, referred to as a Campaign. Some groups choose to play single session games called one-shots or cypher-shorts and can be played in one sitting typically between 3-4 hours long.

How long does it take to play a Cypher System game?

Instead of classes, subclasses, species and backgrounds a Cypher System character is made using a 3 part sentence that consists of a Descriptor, Type and Focus. Each choice will determine character abilities and statistics. Type is chosen first from four options; the Warrior, Adept, Explorer, and Speaker. Damage dealers and fighters will choose Warrior. Spellcasters or those with supernatural abilities will choose Adept. Players who want to be charmers or bards will go for a Speaker. For those who want a little bit of everything, the Explorer offers a jack of all trades experience. The Descriptor is the overall adjective that describes your character. Finally, the Focus is where a player makes a character of their own with abilities that no other player at the table will have access to since no two Foci can be played at the same table. Final touches such as equipment and abilities are determined after creating your character sentence.

How do you make a character for Cypher System?

Players can increase the chances of success by determining what skills, tools, or help they can get to bring the difficulty rating down for any given task. A player who has rope and is trained in mountain climbing will reduce the challenge rating by easing the task roll. Additionally, players can spend effort from their stat pools to bring the challenge rating down. There are also times a player character may be hindered, increasing the difficulty of a given task.

What does it mean to Ease or Hinder a task in Cypher System?

When a twenty-sided dice, or D20 lands on a 17,18,19,or 20 players are considered to have rolled a critical success. a 17 or 18 does a touch more damage and a 19 or 20 earns players minor and major effects they can contribute to narratively in the game.

What is a critical success in a Cypher System?

When a 1 is rolled, or at other critical moments in the game the GM may play a GM Intrusion. It is something that occurs that complicates the scene, but offers the player an opportunity to earn XP, or Experience Points. A player can refuse a GM intrusion by spending 1 XP.

What is a GM Intrusion in a Cypher System game?

Players can spend an XP, or Experience Point to contribute narratively in the game or help their chances in a challenging combat. The player asks to play an intrusion and spends an XP to remember a fact important to the case, know where a secret door is, or other minor effect. This requires approval from the GM, but most minor effects or interesting story developments will be embraced.

What is a Player Intrusion in a Cypher System game?

The core mechanic in Cypher System is rolling a 20-sided die, and comparing the results to a Task Difficulty table. Every task, action, creature and object in the game is assigned a level and players roll to meet or beat the difficulty assigned to what they are trying to do. There are critical successes rolling a 17 or higher  and thrilling GM "intrusions" for rolling a 1. Players can improve their odds with skills, abilities, tools, and help from their friends. Characters can even tap into their XP pool to influence the course of the game with player intrusions! Players create a character by picking from a variety of options to form a 3 part sentence that includes a type, descriptor and focus. Each choice in a character sentence helps define the fantastic abilities and potential hindrances in the course of adventure.

How to Play Cypher

It's a great system for both the GM and the player. Easy to learn to run, simple enough mechanics to make rulings when needed, and easy to make your own NPCs and items if you wanted. As a player the variety in foci and descriptors help you customize your character despite the limit in character types available per setting book. You could have a table full of one type, but due to the mechanic restriction on the focus and the variety on descriptors, plus the ability to choose skills and abilities, allows for all players to feel their character is unique. 

Monte Cook's books take a little getting used to as far as navigation, but once you understand that it's something you don't think about much and can apply to other game systems under their umbrella (like Invisible Sun, etc).

Really love the ease of running Cypher system. And with an ever growing catalogue of settings, this is a great fit for almost any type of game you want to play. Sword & sorcery, supers, dark mystery, it has it all.

Michael

Very easy system to GM.  Works pretty well across genres.  Home to some of my favorite settings, like Numenera.  The Cypher System is one of my faves.

Great for those that want a little bit more crunch, let's say medium, then a pure story game, but don't want to have to worry about giant stat blocks and constantly looking up rules.

Malek

Cypher System is Monte Cook's dream system. When he created Monte Cook Games, he designed the system he always wanted to play.

The result is a not quite rules-light or crunchy system that finds a good middle ground.

Where the game truly shines is in the settings though. Before marketing it as a generic system with "genre slices", the settings for Numenera and The Strange were the vehicles to play the system.  They are the true gems of the Cypher System.

The x3 mechanic for difficulty can feel a little tacked on, as it seems it would just be easier to assign a flat number rather than 1-10 and then x3 to get the difficulty, but it works well enough in practice.

Cyphers, the namesake of the system, are really cool. They take the idea of consumables found in most other games and give them a greater purpose.

Perhaps my favorite products that support this system are the "Instant Adventures". They are a format of adventures that take almost no prep time. Others have replicated the format for other systems to varying degrees, but these are truly wonderful for the "just add dice" and play situations.

The only detraction in my opinion is not of the system, but the retirement of The Strange. It was an innovative world-hopping game that was the best multi-genre game I've ever played. (Think Sliders if you remember that show.) Due mostly to the simplicity of the Cypher system, it worked well and was lots of fun to play.

Great for those wanting less crunch than D&D, but more mechanics than FATE.

I learned it because I wanted to know a system that is generic enough to help me run occasional oneshots with my crazy ideas. It kinda of does that, but the Cyphers (one use powers) feel a bit out of place for a generic system. They were clearly designed to support its main CYPHER setting Numenera, where the world is littered with unstable one use magic items.

At its core it has a love-or-hate mechanic of spending your it points as the resources for your cool abilities. I love it, but lots of people will get confused and hate it

Other than that it works really well as a generic system for oneshots and short campaigns, with the shallow mechanics not holding the interest of players for longer campaigns

Rodrigo

Welcome to the Cypher System, where any setting, any genre, any character concept is possible! All you need to do is… multiply everything by 3.

Yes, Cypher’s core mechanic is “just multiply the difficulty by 3”, because apparently, simple numbers are for lesser beings. Instead of rolling a d20 against a DC like normal folk, Cypher asks you to multiply a number first, which means math gremlins will either love or absolutely hate this system.

Pros:
✔ Extremely flexible—you can run sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, or a game where everyone is sentient vending machines.
✔ Player-driven mechanics—players have real agency in deciding when to spend resources to succeed.
✔ GM-friendly—no dice rolling for the GM! Just vibe and decide their fate.

Cons:
✘ Multiplying by 3 is somehow harder than rolling dice. (Why not just use the difficulty number directly? We may never know.)
✘ The economy of effort points can get wonky—players either hoard them or blow them all at once like gamblers at a casino.
✘ The GM’s job is to make up everything on the fly, which is great until your players ask for actual structure.

Final Verdict: Cypher System is great for narrative-heavy games where players enjoy creative problem-solving and resource management, but if your table hates mental math or needs a crunchy combat system, expect blank stares and existential dread every time you say, "Now multiply that by 3."

4.5/10 - Just Give Me a Normal DC, Monte.

DuChampion (JJ)

I’ve always loved the idea of TTRPGs, but the thought of memorizing a bunch of stats and rules totally turned me off—until I tried the Cypher System. It keeps things super simple, so instead of getting stuck in the numbers, you actually get to focus on telling a great story with your friends. The GM doesn’t even roll dice, which makes the whole game feel more like a fun, shared narrative instead of a math test. Plus, the one-use Cyphers add this cool, unpredictable element that keeps every session exciting. If you want a game that’s easy to learn but still full of creative possibilities, this is the one to try.

Briar 

Have you ever been in a session and just want to do the coolest thing imaginable? Maybe it’s an epic move in battle or convincing a town Marshall to let you and your party out of jail on a technicality. What if the coolest thing isn’t something the game has figured out??? That’s where cypher comes in.  The simple yet deep mechanics allow players to “do something else” and role play every action and interaction. At our table we started in 5e but wanted to try something new and haven’t looked back.  Cypher lets you feel like an epic hero and focus on having fun.  That’s not to say it’s simple, it’s just streamlined and tailor made for RP heavy groups and players.

Sean Falese

Cypher is a fantastic medium-crunch system that is great for people who put roleplaying ahead of mechanics but still love to roll dice. It’s easy to learn, easy to teach, and covers a huge swath of possible genres. The individual books are superb at instantly evoking the theme of the game, and the focus on collaborative teamwork sparks group creativity like nothing else out there. If you haven’t given it a shot, you owe it to yourself to try!

Nate

I was introduced to the Cypher system about 6 months ago, and I’ve really fallen in love with it. As someone who comes from a mostly D&D background I was worried that a new system would be difficult to learn, but Cypher was very intuitive and I picked it up quickly. My GM, Eric, does a great job with narrative storytelling, and that’s an area that I think Cypher really excels in. The system feels very loose and free. If you’re looking for a RP focused system with some fun mechanics mixed in, I suggest trying out Cypher.

Jordan

Love the Cypher system! I've played in a number of different settings using the Cypher system and all are fantastic. Lots of creative freedom.  I feel rewarded for thinking outside the box. The shenanigans are limitless.

Ahloren

I have ran hundreds of Cypher System games, from long form "Numenera" campaign spanning over a course of years, shorter campaigns in "Its only magic" and s custom crafted wild west setting, to cypher shorts in "Predation" and "The Strange".  It truly is a system that can run nearly any kind of genre. It lends itself best to theatre of the mind but there is plenty of support in foundry and roll20, if a VTT is desired.

Player feedback is always positive, they all really enjoy the freedom a narrative forward system provides. The Intrusion mechanic is something players cheer, and jeer and we all love the unpredictability of the game. 

It is definitely a paradigm shift from the XP and loot mechanics of crunchier systems, but its pretty easy to adapt to and once you do, you will surprise and delight yourself and fellow players.

My favorite settings in the system are: "Old Gods of Appalachia", "Numenera" and "The Strange". Regardless of setting, if you are a story forward, roleplay heavy, collaborative storyteller - jump on the chance to give the game a shot.  A one shot with progenerated characters is a great way to get a taste of the system but I doubt  you will regret signing up for something long form and investing in a character that will build, discover, and grow as you play.

I like a variety of TTRPGs, but this one sits very solid at the top of the list.

Eric VanSingel

Cypher System is a groundbreaking tabletop game engine that allows for incredible flexibility to play any type of campaign, in any genre. One can play in the system’s flagship setting “Numenera” or in the worlds of popular podcasts such as “The Magnus Archives” and “Old Gods of Appalachia”. Additional settings can include Post-apocalyptic, sci fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, horror– if  you can name it the Cypher System has it! Regardless of the genre, Cypher System games feature a narrative forward play experience that emphasizes discovery, problem solving, character growth, and meaningful roleplay over defeating monsters and getting XP. Character creation is simple yet elegant, as players make a three-part sentence describing who they are going to play. The rules are simple enough for beginners to learn quickly, and sophisticated and deep enough for veterans to unleash their creativity in surprising new ways. 

Cypher Systems

Horror

Scifi

Modern

Fantasy

Cypher System

Monster of the Week (MotW) is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, about a group of monster hunters taking on the terrors that prey on humanity. Inspired by media like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, and Supernatural, players create characters based on archetypes. They might take on the Chosen, a hero with a grand destiny; the Divine, an angel or holy warrior here to protect humanity; the Monstrous, fighting against their own evil nature; the Professional “man-in-black”; and many more! One player, the Keeper or Game Master (GM), takes on the role of the world those characters inhabit. They’ll create the mysteries the hunters must investigate, the environments they’ll explore, and the victims, meddling authorities, and of course, monsters they’ll face.

Monster of the Week

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a heroic group of spacefarers faced the forces of evil in an epic struggle that still inspires us today! The Star Wars Roleplaying Game offers the opportunity to play out a fantastical space opera in one of the most beloved universes of all time. The Star Wars Roleplaying Game is a tabletop game played with pen, paper, and a set of special dice where players can create their own Jedi, scoundrel, alien, bounty hunter, and lots more to play out adventures in the world of the Star Wars films. One player, the Game Master (GM), acts as the rest of the galaxy, playing as the characters’ allies and enemies, and creating scenarios and obstacles for them to overcome.

Published by Fantasy Flight Games, the Star Wars Roleplaying Game is composed of three intercompatible games designed for different settings: Edge of the Empire, for playing smugglers and bounty hunters like Han Solo or Boba Fett; Age of Rebellion for playing rebel freedom fighters against the Galactic Empire like Luke Skywalker and Poe Dameron; and Force and Destiny for playing Jedi fleeing from the Empire’s reach, like Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi. 


Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games

Dungeons & Dragons 5e is the most popular tabletop role-playing game on the market. With its simplified rules, diverse settings, and player-driven customizability, it’s easy to see why! Perhaps you’ve dreamed of slinging arrows like Legolas, crushing enemies like Conan, or attacking angry chickens like Link—you can make that a reality in D&D 5e! There are three main aspects to a game of D&D: combat, exploration, and roleplay. Different games will feature different balances of these depending on how the people like to play but it’s up to you and your Dungeon Master (DM) to craft a world that you love! Whether it’s the Forgotten Realms, Critical Role’s Wildemount/Exandria, your own steampunk-themed world where wizards ride dinosaurs, or anything in between—your imagination truly is the limit!

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Pathfinder 1st Edition is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, in which players create heroic characters to embark on fantasy adventures. You might play as a noble elven wizard, a roguish halfling scoundrel, or a stout dwarven warrior, just to name a few. But Pathfinder is famous for the incredible variety of options players can choose from; there are two dozen character classes alone, so intrepid players might just as well choose the sword-and-sorcery wielding magus, the inspiring skald, or the gritty gunslinger! One player, the Game Master (GM), acts as the rest of the world those heroes explore. 

The GM presents encounters with memorable characters, mystical places, terrible monsters, and myriad other challenges to overcome. The players decide on a course of action using their characters’ skills, magic spells, or equipment—the only limit on what they can attempt is their imagination! Often, they’ll need to roll dice to find out whether they succeed or fail. But no matter what, the players’ choices result in a unique story of which they are both author and audience. For this reason, TTRPGs are often considered games of collaborative storytelling.

Pathfinder’s publisher Paizo has since released a second edition, but the first edition (or 1E) remains one of the most popular roleplaying games in the world!


Pathfinder 1e

Pathfinder 2nd Edition is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, in which players create heroic characters to embark on fantasy adventures. You might play as a noble elven wizard, a roguish halfling scoundrel, or a stout dwarven warrior, just to name a few. Pathfinder is famous for the incredible variety of options players can choose from; there are over three dozen character classes alone, so intrepid players might just as well choose the sword-and-sorcery wielding Magus, the spooky Witch, or the gritty Gunslinger! One player, the Game Master (GM), acts as the rest of the world those heroes explore. 

The GM presents encounters with memorable characters, mystical places, terrible monsters, and myriad other challenges to overcome. The players decide on a course of action using their characters’ skills, magic spells, or equipment—the only limit on what they can attempt is their imagination! Often, they’ll need to roll dice to find out whether they succeed or fail. But no matter what, the players’ choices result in a unique story of which they are both author and audience. For this reason, TTRPGs are often considered games of collaborative storytelling.

Pathfinder Second Edition revamps the rules from the game’s first edition, making character creation, adventuring, and combat more intuitive and easy to learn. It and its predecessor remain as two of the most popular roleplaying games in the world!


Pathfinder 2e

Vampire: The Masquerade presents a more dramatic, contemplative world than most tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). While the average TTRPG experience is a Dungeons & Dragons inspired one (fighting monsters and getting treasure), Vampire is about simply surviving and keeping a piece of yourself intact. Players in Vampire become the titular mythological figure in a version of our modern world. And while near-immortality and superpowers seems cool, they come at the cost of existing in a secret society where hunters and other clans are out to get you. And there’s also the whole hungering for blood thing. In a typical Vampire game, holding onto humanity is just as tough as fending off foes.

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition

You’ve played the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, you’ve watched all of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, what comes next? Cyberpunk RED is a different take on Night City, one that you play with your imagination and with friends. Cyberpunk RED is a tabletop RPG, or TTRPG, game. In it, you and friends create characters that try to survive and thrive in the dark world of Cyberpunk. You can wield weapons, hack, and augment yourself with implants just like in the video game. In fact, Cyberpunk 2077 takes a lot of inspiration from the TTRPG. Cyberpunk RED bridges the gap between the classic Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG and Cyberpunk 2077 by placing its adventures largely in the 2040s.

Cyberpunk Red

Gather a crew of expert spacefarers, with a diverse set of origins and skills, get a ship and fly the stars! Starfinder is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, of heroic science-fantasy adventure. Players take on the roles of fantasy creatures familiar or alien, and adopt one of over a dozen character classes with various skills and powers, from the battle-hardened Soldier and savvy Mechanic, to the space-wizard Mystic and stellar-powered Solarian! One player, the Game Master (GM) plays as the rest of the vast universe, including the player characters’ allies and opposition, and presents scenarios and obstacles for them to overcome. 

The players decide on a course of action using their characters’ skills, magic spells, or equipment—the only limit on what they can attempt is their imagination! Often, they’ll need to roll dice to find out whether they succeed or fail. But no matter what, the players’ choices result in a unique story of which they are both author and audience. For this reason, TTRPGs are often considered games of collaborative storytelling.


Starfinder

Take on the roles of Marvel's most famous Super Heroes—or create your own—to fight some of the most dangerous Super Villains in the Marvel Universe!

Featuring the All-New, All-Different d616 System, the MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME gives players the chance to explore their own corner of the multiverse. 

All you need is the book, three six-sided dice, and a group of friends. What're you waiting for? Start your adventure today!

Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game brings you and your friends into the beloved setting of Avatar Legends—as new heroes of your own stories! Weave tales of self-discovery and action with your team of friends, and go penguin-sledding while you're at it! 

In this RPG, you might face off with the Triple Threat Triad in Republic City, travel through a spirit portal to rescue a missing child, negotiate peace between Earth Kingdom outlaws, pursue enemies through the Four Nations, and even learn a thing or two from beloved Avatar Legends characters.

Avatar Legends: The RPG

Welcome to your new assignment, Captain. Your continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before…

Star Trek Adventures takes you to the Final Frontier of the Galaxy, where new discoveries await keen explorers of Starfleet. Your duties may take you to the edges of known space, or to Federation colonies in need, to the borders of neighbouring galactic powers or into the eye of interstellar phenomena. Your ship and your crew epitomise the best Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets has to offer, and you are needed more than ever.

A new threat looms from across the Gamma Quadrant, as it is confirmed by Commander Sisko and his crew that the Dominion, led by the Founders, represent a significant threat to the Alpha Quadrant. Tension is already high in the region of Bajor and Deep Space 9, as the Maquis continue to act against the Cardassian-Federation peace treaty, with Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager preparing for their mission in the Badlands. It is a volatile time for the Federation and new crews have never been in higher demand.

Star Trek Adventures - First Edition

The Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game takes you to the final frontier!

From the 21st through to the 32nd century, join Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and countless other civilizations, and journey across the Star Trek universe with your crew. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life-forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy.

Tell your stories and unravel the mysteries of the unknown!

Star Trek Adventures - Second Edition

Lancer is set 15,000 years from the present day, where a revolutionary interplanetary state, Union, struggles to win a better world for the whole of humanity. You’ll not see the project complete, but you’ll put your shoulder to the wheel, struggle, and advance.

There are many pilots in the galaxy, but only one of you. Your character is a lancer, a mech ace renowned for their skill in their machine. Developed half a millennia prior to the current day of Lancer’s setting, mechanized chassis — mechs — have redefined how war is fought across the Orion Arm. Under your command, your mech is a weapon unparalleled, and with your mech and your comrades by your side, you’ll write your own story.

Lancer

How will you re-shape the world? Will you join with a plucky band of survivors to fight off all comers and carve out your own settlement? Will you team up with pre-existing factions like the Brotherhood of Steel or Super Mutants to enforce your own ideals on the wasteland? Ghoul or robot, paladin or raider, it’s your choice - and the consequences are yours.

Create your own survivors, super mutants, ghouls, and even Mister Handy robots, and immerse yourselves in the iconic post-nuclear apocalyptic world, while gamemasters guide their group through unique Fallout stories. This 2d20 edition of Fallout is as close to the bottlecap-bartering, wasteland wandering, Brotherhood battling excitement of Fallout you can get.

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game

A giant robot is smashing down Main Street. Your best friend tried to kiss you. Your mom thinks your grades need work. Your mentor thinks your team is bringing you down. Oh, and your costume is ripped.

Just another day in Halcyon City...

Masks: A New Generation is a superhero roleplaying game in which a team of young heroes fights villains, saves lives, and tries to figure out who they are—noble paragons? Dark avengers? Or regular kids? All against the backdrop of Halcyon City, the greatest city in the world.

Masks: A New Generation

Alice is Missing is a silent role-playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls.

The game is played live and without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together.

Alice is Missing

Gamma rays and neutrino bursts erupt from dying stars to cook you alive, black holes tear you apart, and the void itself boils your blood and seizes your brain. Try to scream and no one can hear you – hold your breath and you rupture your lungs.

Space isn’t as empty as you’d think, either – its frontiers are ever expanding. Rival governments wage a cold war of aggression while greedy corporations vie for valuable resources. Colonists reach for the stars and gamble with their lives – each new world tamed is either feast or famine. And there are things lurking in the shadows of every asteroid – things strange and different and deadly. Things alien.

This is the official ALIEN tabletop roleplaying game – a universe of body horror and corporate brinkmanship, where synthetic people play god while space truckers and marines serve host to newborn ghoulish creatures. It’s a harsh and unforgiving universe and you are nothing if not expendable.

Stay alive if you can.

Alien: The Roleplaying Game

Brindlewood Bay is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines Murder, She Wrote with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England Town. Over the course of their investigations, they become aware of a dark occult conspiracy that connects the cases, and will eventually have to face that conspiracy in order to save their community. The game is low-prep and easy to play no matter your experience with tabletop roleplaying games.

Brindlewood Bay

Girl by Moonlight is a game about the tragic struggles and defiant triumphs of a group of magical girls resisting an oppressive society. It explores the heartbreak of denying who you really are, and the transcendent power of relationships and community.

Girl By Moonlight

Here's the lowdown: City of Mist is set in a modern city where legends are real people. Heroes, tricksters, and monsters are reborn inside ordinary people, regular Joes and Janes, who gain supernatural powers connected to their legendary alter-egos.
Someone is running the show in this City, and it's up to you to find out who. Hit the streets. Collect the clues. Face small-time villains and demi-gods in epic showdowns. Solve not just the case, but also your own personal mystery and the secrets at the core of this very City.

This is your City: gritty, corrupt, and rife with magic and mystery.

City of Mist

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends. If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place. A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Kids on Bikes is a Collaborative Storytelling RPG set in small towns with big adventure! 

In Kids on Bikes, you take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand. Kids on Bikes even allows you to create a communally controlled Powered Character to add another dimension of gameplay to your games!

Jump right into the action quick and create your own band of rag-tag mystery solvers today!

Kids on Bikes

Kids on Brooms is a collaborative role-playing game about taking on the life of a witch or wizard at a magical school you all attend- a place full of mystery, danger, and thrilling adventure. From dealing with strict professors to facing down mythical beasts, players will get the opportunity to ride brooms, brew potions, and cast powerful magic as they uncover the incredible secrets their school and its inhabitants hold. Built using the ENnie Award-Winning Kids on Bikes framework, it is a rules-light, narrative-first storytelling game perfect for new players and gaming veterans alike!

Kids on Brooms

Legend in the Mist is a rustic fantasy RPG based on the award-winning and groundbreaking narrative game engine of City of Mist.

Spin a fireside tale of unlikely villagers setting out on a quest into a greater unknown world, rife with peril and mystery, in the vein of The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke, and many other classic fantasy stories, or create your own legendary realms with the game’s open-ended system and one-roll-to-rule-them-all easy to learn gameplay

Legend in the Mist

Dragonbane is a classic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game full of magic, mystery, and adventure. It is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast and furious play, with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run. This is a game with room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for the adventurers. Free League Publishing calls this playstyle “mirth and mayhem roleplaying” – great for long campaigns, but also perfect for a one-shot.

Dragonbane is a translation of Drakar och Demoner, Scandinavia’s first and biggest tabletop RPG, originally launched in 1982. This new and reimagined edition has one foot firmly planted in the heritage of decades of Swedish gaming and the other in the modern and innovative game design for which Free League Publishing is known worldwide.

Dragonbane

Fablecraft is a fully virtual tabletop RPG. It’s easy for GMs and players to learn, whether you've slain many dragons or are completely new to the genre. Fablecraft features its own system, gorgeous human-made art, pre-built campaigns that eliminate prep, and a growing list of homebrew tools.

Fablecraft

Unwise deals. Blaster fights. High adventure among the stars. Welcome to the world of Scum and Villainy.

Scum and Villainy is a Forged in the Dark game about a spaceship crew trying to make ends meet under the iron-fisted rule of the Galactic Hegemony.

Work with the members of your crew to thrive despite powerful criminal syndicates, warring noble families, dangerous aliens, and strange mystics. Explore the ruins of lost civilizations for fun and profit. Can your motley crew hold it together long enough to strike it big and insure your fame across the sector?

Scum and Villainy

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay takes you back to the Old World. Get the gang together, create your (anti)heroes, and set off to face vile corruption, scheming plotters, and terrifying creatures intent on destruction.

The Old World is a grim and perilous place. Its vast mountain ranges are teeming with warlike Orcs and Goblins. The deep forests are the home of marauding Beastmen. The corrupting force of Chaos leeches into the world, the result of a tragic accident when the world was young. The insidious taint of Chaos leaves folk hideously altered, and liable to seek solace in the worship of Daemons and the Ruinous Powers of the Chaos gods. The followers of Chaos gather in the north, armies of reavers and monsters that threaten to overwhelm the world. But they also reside in secret in the towns and cities of the Old World: an enemy within plotting to overthrow civilization and establish their own regime in its place.

Nations such as the Empire stand defiant against the darkness. Its people come from all walks of life, from landed aristocracy to the urban poor. Most are heedless of the true dangers that beset their world; they imagine themselves safe within city walls and merely try to make a good living for themselves. But there are those adventurous folk who, driven through desperation or ambition, seek to confront dangers and win renown.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Roleplaying in the ’80s That Never Was:

In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop.

In this roleplaying game, you play teenagers in the late 1980s, solving Mysteries connected to the Loop. Choose between character Types such as the Bookworm, the Troublemaker, the Popular Kid and the Weirdo. Everyday Life is full of nagging parents, never-ending homework and classmates bullying and being bullied. Explore the secrets of the Loop in two main game settings – one based on the Swedish Mälaren Islands, the other on Boulder City, Nevada.

The Mysteries let the characters encounter the strange machines and weird creatures that have come to haunt the countryside after the Loop was built. The kids get to escape their everyday problems and be part of something meaningful and magical – but also dangerous.

Tales From the Loop

The Dune: Adventures in the Imperium roleplaying game takes you into a far future beyond anything you have imagined, where fear is the mind killer so be sure to keep your wits about you. The Imperium is a place of deadly duels, feudal politics, and mysterious abilities, noble Houses politic constantly for power, influence, and vengeance in a universe where a blade can change the fortunes of millions. Build your House, carve your place in the universe or rebuild an ancient lineage and fight for the Imperial throne. 

Take your characters on a journey through the storied worlds of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece, inhabit elite agents working for noble Houses where Mentats, Swordmasters, Spies, Bene Gesserit Sisters, Devious Advisors, or even desert Fremen join together to follow your banner.  

Whoever you choose to be, remember that those that control the spice control the universe. 

Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

Forbidden Lands is a new take on classic fantasy roleplaying. In this sandbox survival roleplaying game, you’re not heroes sent on missions dictated by others – instead, you are raiders and rogues bent on making your own mark on a cursed world. You will discover lost tombs, fight terrible monsters, wander the wild lands, and if you live long enough, build your own stronghold to defend.

Forbidden Lands

In August 2000, Dungeons and Dragons 3e became the first edition to be published by Wizards of the Coast, who had acquired the previous publisher, TSR, in 1997. This edition saw the introduction of Skills, Feats, the Sorcerer class, and more, in addition to removing the previous editions' restrictions on class and race combinations.

Three years later, in July 2003, a revised version of the 3e rules was released that made lots of small changes to the rules, and expanding on the Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual. This version, known as 3.5e, sought to address balancing and gameplay issues from 3e, and made many changes to help improve the game.


Dungeons & Dragons 3/3.5e

Welcome to the Labyrinth, infinite worlds linked by twisting corridors of magic. Here, you find realms like Midgard, Hades, the Dreadful Domains, and homebrew creations tied together by the mysterious will of the Maze. These countless worlds rarely resemble one another on the surface, but share a unifying truth—heroes shape them.
The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. This means it keeps all the best parts of D&D 5e and adds a Kobold Press spin to the well-loved game. It combines the Creative Commons foundation of 5th Edition with new elements to create a powerful Kobold-style 5E with teeth.

Tales of the Valiant

A neon-noir wonderland that’ll take your breath away. One way or another.

An evocative world of conflicts and contrasts that dares to ask the hard questions and investigate the powers of empathy, the poisons of fear, and the burdens of being human during inhumane times. An iconic and unforgiving playground of endless possibilities that picks you up, slaps you in the face, and tells you to wake up.

Time to live. Or time to die.

Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game propels you into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories.

The game pushes the boundaries of investigative gameplay in tabletop RPGs, giving you a range of tools to solve an array of cases far beyond retiring Replicants. Beyond the core casework, the RPG showcases the key themes of Blade Runner – sci-fi action, corporate intrigue, existential character drama, and moral conflict. It challenges you to question your friends, empathize with your enemies, and explore the poisons and perseverance of hope and humanity during inhumane times.

Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game

DIE RPG is a roleplaying game based on the comic of the same name by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans – and it too has been made by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans! In DIE, you play a group of authentically flawed and desperate real-world people (Personas) who are sucked into a cursed roleplaying game and take on the form of heroes, villains and power players (Paragons). 

Some of you might want to get back to the real world for whatever’s waiting for you there. Some of you might want to stay in a reality where you can finally get what you want out of life. You all have to agree whether you stay or go, and dead people can’t vote. It can get pretty bloody.

DIE: The Roleplaying Game

You’re no hero.
You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them. 
Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you.

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Gaia is dying. The ices melt, while the seas swell. The heat rises, while the forests wither. Extinction threatens millions, in favor of the few. The Garou — warlike shapeshifters torn be­tween Rage and spirit, between Wolf and Man, and champions of the earth-mother — have failed. The Apocalypse is here.

Yet, a new generation of Garou now call upon their Rage to confront the forces of destruction, avarice, and greed ravaging the earth-mother. With tooth and claw the Garou will wrest her from the brink of death — or follow her enemies to the grave. Will you answer their howl? What legends will the Garou sing of you? When will you Rage?

In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, you play as the Garou, a creature of flesh and spirit, blessed and cursed with primal rage. Born to fight and die in a desperate war to protect Gaia — the very living earth — you engage in an unequal battle against the greed and power-hunger of human civilization that has trapped the world in a choking web of technology and corruption.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition

Mutant: Year Zero takes you to the world after the great Apocalypse. Humanity’s proud civilization has fallen. The cities are dead wastelands, winds sweeping along empty streets turned into graveyards. But life ­remains. Among the ruins, the People live. You are the heirs of humanity – but not quite human anymore. Your bodies and minds are capable of superhuman feats. You are mutants.

Mutant: Year Zero

Coriolis – The Third Horizon is a science fiction role playing game set in a remote cluster of star systems called The Third Horizon. It is a place ravaged by conflicts and war, but also home to proud civilizations, both new and old. Here, the so called First Come colonists of old worship the Icons, while the newly arrived Zenithians pursue an aggressive imperialistic agenda through trade and military power.

Coriolis – The Third Horizon

The world is broken. In a collapsing universe, your crew is your only family. Death in Space takes you to a grimy blue-collar future in a universe filled with risk, but also opportunity.

Death in Space is a game about adventure and uncertain journeys out into the darkness of space, where the void whispers to the unlucky and imbues travelers’ bodies with strange powers. It is about you and your crew making a home of your spacecraft or station, your only sanctuary in a dangerous universe. Most of all, it is about surviving in an abandoned frontier system where resources are scarce, and competition is fierce.

Engage in power struggles and build your crew’s reputation. Salvage and steal to endure a ruthless universe. And above all, do anything you can to get that next job. Your life will depend on it.


Death in Space

The world is ending. ⸐
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Constantly in flux; shifting, distorting, always reborn as something worse. Destruction by ecological catastrophes, the fallout of history’s belligerence; by modern man-made Miseries or the blood spilled by the reckless machine of capitalist supremacy. Mankind’s greatest ability truly is to destroy itself in creative ways. Designer demise, consumer-customized death, endlessly on repeat.

Poisonous space rocks, nuclear weapons, cyclical revolutions, warring nations, warring corporations, warring neighbors; pandemics, tsunamis, volcanoes. In between it all: direct person-machine interfaces, tactical neural implants, and bacteria from outer space hijacking intercellular nanorobotics. And the sky is full of ads.

Everyone is interfaced/injected/infected/infested with something. Everyone wants something from everyone else. Everyone is a liar and a cheat. Everyone wants more creds.

Welcome to the year 20X3.

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Old-School Essentials is an award-winning role-playing game of fantastic adventure, monsters, and magic. Players delve into forbidden crypts and forsaken ruins, explore haunted forests and perilous mountain ranges, sail the high seas in search of lost lands, recover fabulous treasures, and unearth secrets of ancient magic.

Old-School Essentials

Twenty-four years ago, an alliance of Elves, Men, and Dwarves defeated a horde of Orcs and Wild Wolves, under a sky darkened by Giant Bats, inaugurating a new era of prosperity for the Free Peoples. But twenty years is a long time for peace to last, and in many dark corners of the earth a shadow is lengthening once again.
Enter the world of Middle-earth with The One Ring™, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.

The One Ring 2e

Become a Power Ranger and protect Angel Grove and the Earth against the evil forces of Rita Repulsa, Lord Zedd, Master Vile, and more in the epic world of Power Rangers! Whether you interrupt Rita’s monster attacks in her attempt of world domination or defeat the forces of the Machine Empire from invading Earth, there is no limit to the heroic stories you will tell.

In the Power Rangers Roleplaying Game, create your ultimate Power Ranger persona by combining personal traits, childhood influences, and your chosen Ranger color to make a hero worthy of the Power!

Power Rangers Roleplaying Game

A Storytelling Game of Desperate Measures. You saw what you shouldn’t have, the veil pulled back from the secret world and the monsters who prowl it. You chronicled the tragedies they wrought, these monsters, and the victims upon whom they preyed. You grasped the extent of their influence and witnessed the corruption of the organizations formed to keep them in check. And you vowed to do something about it. Tonight, you act. It’s time for a Reckoning.

Hunter: The Reckoning

By the time they hit adolescence, most people have gotten over their fear of the dark. They spend their midnight hour on gushy phone calls, diary ramblings, and wet dreams. They fall asleep peacefully, assured that the shadows hold no monsters.

But the shadows do hold monsters. You know because you’re one of them. Wickedness dwells within your heart, hunger courses through your veins. High school weighs on you and teen drama puts you on edge, but you have power. What do you do next?

Monsterhearts 2 lets you and your friends create stories about sexy monsters, teenage angst, personal horror, and secret love triangles. When you play, you explore the terror and confusion of having a body that is changing without your permission.

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