jcb's ttrpg library

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Hello there! Welcome to my TTRPG library. If you're here it's because I gave you the key. Congrats. Look around, download a pdf you want to keep. Some games have a “Content" button beneath them, click on that to see all of the docs for it. Okay enjoy!

📔 Full Games 📔

Alley-Oop

 [website]		 TTRPG where you play as basketball players, and also sort of play basketball games.
Core Mechanic: PC’s bball skill determines their die size. e.g. rookies are d4.

Ars Magica

 Mage simulator with intricate rolling mechanics.
Core Mechanic: Intricacy, and lots of it.

Beyond the Supernatural

 [website]		 Supernatural stuff, but beyond it.

Blades in the Dark

 [website]		 Thieves & stuff.
Core Mechanic: Roll d6 pool, if you get a 6, you succeed on your task.

Daggerheart

 [website]		 A mishmash of D&D and other games.
Core Mechanic: Hope/fear 2d12.

Draw Steel

[website]
  • Heroes
  • Monsters
 MCDM’s D&D adjacent game, with notable differences.
Core Mechanic: 2d12 with tiered outcomes. No to hit, just levels of damage/effect.

Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

 [website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 It’s Dune, haven’t really looked at it.
Core Mechanic: ???

Exalted

 [website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 White Wolf game. In this you’re a badass monk.
Core Mechanic: d10 pool that generates successes

Fate Core & Accelerated)

[website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 Aspects, rules light, very loosey goosey on character creation. Setting agnostic.
Core Mechanic: Fate dice.

GURPS Lite

 [website]		 Grandaddy of setting agnostic rules, now in lite form!
Core Mechanic: ???

Hunter: The Reckoning

 [website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 White Wolf game. In this you’re a monster hunter.
Core Mechanic: d10 pool that generates successes

Kids on Bikes (1st ed)

 [website]		 Wanna play Stranger Things?
Core Mechanic: Uses all polyhedral dice for stats (e.g. d4 is your worst stat). Also all players control a “superpowered” character, aka Eleven.

Liminal Horror

 [website]		 Some kinda horror investigation game.
Core Mechanic: ???

Lordsworn

 [website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 GMless, knights returning after apocalypse that kills their gods.
Core Mechanic: ???

Mausritter

 [website]		 Rules-light mouse hexcrawler.
Core Mechanic: d20, but saves success is under the target, not over.

Monster of the Week

 [website]
  • Quickstart Guide
  • Core Rulebook
 Buffy/X-files simulator.
Core Mechanic: ???

Mork Borg (external link)

 D&D if a metal Swede made it.
Core Mechanic: d20, DR 12, players roll everything in combat.

Mortdrakon

 [website]		 D&D adjacent, inspired by old D&D.
Core Mechanic: ??? (d20 I think)

Nasty, Brutish, & Long

 [website]		 Blades in the Dark but for revolutionary drama.
Core Mechanic: Roll d6 dice pool, one 6 = success.

Pathfinder 2e

 [website]		 Spiritual sequel to D&D 3.5e.
Core Mechanic: d20

Shadowdark

 [website]		 Grimdark, D&D if it had guts.
Core Mechanic: 5e D&D more or less (mostly less).

The Sprawl

 [website]		 Haxx0rs.
Core Mechanic: ??? (can’t remember)

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

 [website]		 Gay-ass adventures.
Core Mechanic: ???

Vampire: The Masquerade

 [website]		 White Wolf. Sexy vamps (except noferatu)
Core Mechanic: d10 pool generates successes

📕 Dungeons & Dragons 📕

3.5e Core Books

 Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, & Monster Manual

4e Core Books & Some Supplements

 Player's Handbook, PHB 2, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, Adventurer's Bault, Manual of the Planes, Martial Power

5e 2014

 Core books, supplements, and the old playtest version.

d20 Homebrew/3rd Party

 Various stuff that works for 5e but also d20 in general.

ARCADIA

 MCDM's short-run magazine for 5e.

Unearthed Arcana

 D&D 5e playtest material from 2016-present, includes OneD&D/2024 playtest stuff (note: is badly organized. WotC's fault, not mine).

📙 D&D Adjacent 📙

HERE IS SOME FUCKING D&D

 D&D simplified, and you're mad about it.

Microlite20

 [website]		 Super simplified d20 rules.

Old School Essentials

 [website]		 Recapturing OD&D style.

📘 Quickstarts/Free 📘

Candela Obscura

 [website]		 Critical Role's Call of Chthulu-esque game.

Fallout RPG

 [website]		 RPG in the Fallout setting.

Household

 [website]

Punkapocalyptic

 [website]		 Punks? in the Apocalypse?

Savage Worlds Test Drive

 [website] (feat. Deadlands)		 Savage Worlds ruleset, using Deadlands.

Witcher: Easy Mode

 [website]		 The Witcher RPG.

Worlds Without Number

 [website]

📗 Solo Games 📗

Bound/Bound Together

 [website]		 (technically can be 2 player)

Rewwixta

 [website]		 ??

📓 Other/One Page/Playtests 📓

The Crownless

 [website]		 Weird Elden Ring/Dark Souls inspired game.

Dadlands

 [website]		 McElroy bros game.

Elder Scrolls TC

 [website]		 Total conversion of D&D 5e.

Feast of Legends

 [website]		 Wendy's ill-fated TTRPG that they made for some fucking reason.

FERAL

 [website]		 Playtest

Runt

 [website]		 Setting agnostic, ultra light rules, no dice.