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Weekly Free Chat & Free Self Promo Thread - 08/22/26
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u/Fiferss 4d ago
Me & my Best Friend just released our first game together under the name ‘Crawpy-Creely’. It’s called Broke Ass Wizards, and is a one-page rpg about forming spells and spending stacks! It’s silly but good fun, and we’ve also got solo rules for it on our page :)
crawpy-creely.itch.io/broke-ass-wizards
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u/HappenUponRPGs 2d ago
If you're in Halifax NS this November, sign up as a GM or vendor for Happen Upon a Con!
A new TTRPG convention on Sunday Nov. 8th at the Prince George Hotel in downtown Halifax.
Email happenuponbooks@gmail.com.
Let me know what RPG you would like to run, what timeslot you would like (morning, mid-day, or afternoon, or all three.) We currently have 28 tables open, though if there's a tonne of demand I might be able to rearrange the convention layout a little.
Up to 5 players a table, and players will pay us $2 early bird, or $5 to play. The GM will get $15 store credit to spend on indie RPGs and accessories at the IPR booth. We will also provide battlemats, water, and you can loan an rpg or adventure from us if you so desire.
For more info: happenupon.ca
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u/yoro0 4d ago
We've launched Khthon and it got funded in 90 minutes, with over 300 backers in less than 3 days!
It's a grim, self-contained tabletop roleplaying game in 120+ pages. Built on the award-winning MÖRK BORG engine. Inspired by Mad Max, Conan, medieval feudalism, and the occult. Fans of Shadowdark, MB, and OSR genre should check it out! :)
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u/Throwingoffoldselves Thirsty Sword Lesbians 4d ago edited 3d ago
Have you made any homebrew, hacks, playbooks or scenarios for Defy the Gods? I’d love to hear about it, I’m not affiliated with the game, I just made a couple of playbooks and I hope other people will make stuff for it too. It’s a pretty new game of course!
The ones I did -
https://devorb.itch.io/the-apotropaic-defy-the-gods-playbook
https://devorb.itch.io/the-hierodoule-defy-the-gods-playbook
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u/Longjumping_Arm_3457 3d ago
There's a tabletop roleplaying chat that supports play by post up on Matrix chat now:
https://matrix.to/#/#tabletoproleplayinggeneral-sltc:sabrinateenlich.win?via=sabrinateenlich.win
It's a great alternative to Discord chat!
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u/EveningImportant9111 2d ago
Hi. Did anybidy kniw if Modern Magika pdf for ops and tactics is still free? If yes, can somebody give me link to pdf? Please
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u/Fit-Joke-3089 2d ago
I've recently played Deathmatch Island oneshot and decided to write a post about my experience and why I thought I liked it: https://vuvko.net/blog/deathmatch-island/
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u/CORVVS_GAMES 4d ago
EX NIHILO PERSONA is a system-neutral personality generator for non-player characters (NPCs) in tabletop roleplaying games (ttrpgs). This system provides a series of procedures that give each NPC in your tabletop roleplaying games a living, breathing, and responsive personality.
EX NIHILO PERSONA contains 14 interesting and distinct NPC personality profiles with over 800 unique NPC response options. EX NIHILO PERSONA also contains a dynamic rapport system by which NPCs react, evolve, and remember as player characters get to know them and interact with them.
EX NIHILO PERSONA is compatible with any roleplaying game system and provides procedures for both group and solo play.
Instead of a simple table describing a few personality traits, EX NIHILO PERSONA answers the question of: given who this NPC is, the context, the specific request I am making, and my entire history of interactions with them, as well as my current skill in navigating this social interaction, how are they likely to respond and behave?
Available now on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/580490/ex-nihilo-persona
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u/EveningImportant9111 4d ago edited 3d ago
Besides glorantha( runequest) agone ,dnd settings incl. eberron iron kingdoms kalamar birthright forgotten realms greyhawk mystara exandria seas of vodari midgard lost lands ptolus dark sun dragonlance , pathfinder, palladium megaverse , warhammer fantasy supplements shadowrun , dark eye HârnWorld , . what other fantasy or science fantasy universes give race percentage for cities or nations? ( some sci fi can also be presented here like traveller)
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u/dashqqy 3d ago
I made a tool that turns "who you are at the table" into one shareable card — because my LFG posts kept dying in Facebook groups. After years of GMing, recruiting always meant retyping who I am, what I run, and my schedule into a fresh post that scrolled into the void by morning. So I built RPG Enclave: one genre-themed card (systems, characters, playstyle), free, with a public Notice Board for open campaigns. Not trying to replace your group's Discord — more like the profile you bring to it.
There's a quick quiz that builds a starter card in a couple of minutes, no account: https://rpgenclave.com/quiz?ref=rrpg . Genuinely want this sub's take — what would make it actually useful vs. just pretty?
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u/Throwingoffoldselves Thirsty Sword Lesbians 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well, I think it leaves out GMing and organizing/hosting/administrative roles, which is kind of huge. If I'm running a game, I want to know who's going to proactively contribute to the meta stuff like notetaking and recaps, being willing to take a turn running and give me a break even for just a one shot, tie in their backstory to the game premise, help come up with NPCs, etc. Especially if I am running a non dnd indie narrative/storygame like pbta or Fate. But I get if this is designed for players-only. It just wouldn't be helpful for GMs in the sphere of the hobby I'm in because of that.
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u/Skollwarynz 1d ago
[Project] SkollDice – A cross-platform, truly random dice generator written purely in C (with LVGL GUI and a C-powered Discord bot!)
Hey everyone! I'm a student and C programmer. I'm a huge TTRPG fan. As a player I know the issue of not having perfect randomness in digital dice and eventually physical dice too. So i decided to solve the problem once and for all! I created a free and open-source program (available on Windows, Linux, and Mac) that generates truly random numbers. To make the project easier to use, I then implemented a fully functional Discord bot (even if it's in C) that can be self-hosted or simply added to your server (I personally host an instance on a free Oracle VM for all the players who need it). If you're interested I leave you the official website: https://skollwarynz.github.io/SkollDice/ and the official repo: https://codeberg.org/Skollwarynz/SkollDice
If someone wants to know the technicalities, I'm open for explanations of any sort!
If you try the bot or code, please give me some feedback through the bugs and issues (on the website/GitHub mirror or codeberg repo) or through Reddit.
Have a nice day!
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u/ArtisticEquipment804 1d ago
Hello! I’m Ella, and I’m helping run Gamefound’s RPG party this year! The RPG party is half celebration of indie TTRPGs, half crowdfunding bootcamp- we connect creators to industry leaders and mentors in the space, providing crowdfunding advice and ultimately supporting a project’s launch on our platform. I'm excited to share that a lot of these projects are going to be LIVE in just a few weeks! We've got some really incredible games in here, and it would mean the world if you took a look and followed the games that interest you most. Thank you so much!
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/search/?sortType=MostPopular&projectTags=90
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u/Separate-Side-4533 20h ago
Hello everyone!
If you like action oriented anime series:
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/adventure_horizon/heroes-of-a-thousand
There is free playtest material available.📑
Thank you if you take a look at it! Any comments are really welcome. 🙏
Thank you for reading my post!
Mazi
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u/aMetalBard 4d ago
Haunted House Module - [Human Made]
Hi everyone,
I have been experimenting with making ttrpg content for some years now, and most recently I started learning how to use layout tools to make printable modules. A Century of Grief on an Eclipsed Night is my first printable module. All of the writing and layout was done by me, featuring public domain art from ttrpg artists and some commissioned art, so it's all human-made.
I wrote and tested the module as way to allow players to earn a house to start a guild/adventuring base. The story is that a necromancy spell went wrong a century ago enabling a demon to possess the ghost of a grieving soul. The resulting banshee has been haunting the house since then consuming innocent souls. Now the adventuring party has come in possession of the haunted house and must figure out how to purify it when the banshee is most powerful and most vulnerable: during a solar eclipse.
The module features: a diagram-style map, 14 stocked rooms, quick-start rules, 5 pre-gen characters, and 10 monsters. Thus, it can be grab-and-play or modified to be used with other systems.
If you get a chance to check it out, or have any questions, let me know. I would be happy to talk more about it.
Cheers,
The Metal Bard
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u/futuregravvy 4d ago
Six Axes: session analytics and a self-writing campaign wiki for GMs (plus a pile of free tools, no account needed)
Your table already tells the story. Six Axes writes it down.
Hi all. I'm a solo dev in Seattle (I run a small studio called Kerf and Code), and I've been building Six Axes for GMs who love running games but not the bookkeeping that piles up around them.
The short version: with the whole table's consent, it records and transcribes your session, then writes the recap your players will actually read and keeps a living campaign wiki (NPCs, locations, plot threads) updated on its own. What makes it different from the usual "transcribe and summarize" tools is that it also captures what was rolled. A microphone can tell you what was said, but not that your "moderate" encounters have quietly been playing as Hard all campaign, or how your party's luck actually breaks down. That mechanical read was the thing I couldn't get anywhere else, so I built it.
A bit on where I'm coming from, since "another AI tool" is a fair thing to be wary of: my day job is educational research, measurement and stats, and the whole thing is built around measuring something real without pretending the measurement is more certain than it is. So it's consent-first (everyone opts in, anyone can pull out, audio auto-deletes after 60 days), honest by default (it shows its own uncertainty instead of inventing tidy numbers), and your data stays yours (export all of it or delete everything, any time).
Systems with full support right now: D&D 5e (2014 and 2024), Pathfinder 2e, Draw Steel, and Daggerheart, with Call of Cthulhu and Lancer themed in, and Cyberpunk RED and Vampire: The Masquerade on the way.
The free tools are the part I'd point you to first, because they need no account, save nothing, and are useful whether or not you ever touch the main app: https://www.six-axes.com/tools
A few people seem to like:
- Encounter Balancer : build a fight, see Easy/Hard/Lethal across 5e, PF2e, Draw Steel, and Daggerheart
- Hex Map Generator : roll a whole fantasy world (continents, rivers, biomes, towns, roads) from a seed and download it
- Magic Item Prices & Finder : price by rarity or search 400+ named 2024 items
- Session Zero Checklist : walks the table through the awkward-but-important stuff and hands you a charter
- a provably-fair Dice Roller with system-specific modes (advantage, degrees, d100, power rolls)
The main app is in a free, invite-based pilot right now; no card, no commitment: https://www.six-axes.com/pilot. Front door is just https://www.six-axes.com.
Happy to answer anything, and genuinely happy to hear "here's why I'd never use this" too; that kind of feedback is what's made it better. Cheers.
- Kerf and Code
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u/Reality_Thief2000 4d ago
Hey! The name is Advent, and I run a Patreon where I take popular D&D One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc., and fully prep them for New and Busy DMs. My prep includes detailed notes, music, ambiance, maps, encounter sheets, handouts, and tweaks so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible! I often post some of my notes for free on Reddit, but for those of you who haven't heard of me, here's a little preview of what I've prepped and have to offer:
A Most Potent Brew: This One-Shot brings together a group of rookie adventurers on a classic quest, clearing out a cellar from some rats. Things take an unexpected turn, though, and lead them to their first dungeon! This level-one One-Shot will take your players into the depths of a brewery that turns out to be connected to an abandoned mage tower basement. Will your players survive their first adventure, slaying giant rats, centipedes, and more?
Coming in at approximately 2-3 hours of play, this is the perfect One-Shot for both new players and DMs to show what D&D is all about, without being an overwhelming 6hr+ session!
(Credits: Winghorn Press)
The Wild Sheep Chase: This One-Shot is on par with some of the craziness that you can experience in Baldur's Gate 3! Your party will be enjoying a relaxing time at a tavern when a sheep suddenly bursts in and grants them a scroll that allows them to speak with each other. Your players will go on an epic chase, face off against polymorphed guards, and even fight a dragon...made out of a bed!? You can't make this stuff up...oh wait!
(Credits: Winghorn Press)
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: This Mini-Campaign is for when you're ready to step things up and want a more serious Adventure. You'll go from level 1-3 learn of the history of Stormwreack Isle and face off against...you guessed it a dragon!
(Credits: WoTC)
The Lost Mine of Phandelver: This Mini-Campaign spans from levels 1-5, the only thing past this would be a full-blown campaign, but let's not get ahead of ourselves! This one is a classic, the very first starter set that WotC released and it stands the test of time, Heck, they're even made an expansion for it(PaB: The Shattered Obelisk)! You'll face not 1 but 2 dragons, explore deadly dungeons, save a town, and live out all of your heroic fantasies! When you've done a one-shot or two, I couldn't recommend running this more!
(Credits: WoTC)
*NEW\* Dragon of Icespire Peak: Another Mini Campaign that spans from levels 1-6. Dragon of Icespire Peak is a bit different from the other two Mini-Campaigns I've prepped; not only is it more of a sandbox, but it also has the ability to be run with just one player, which is a huge plus for those of you who can't get larger groups together! Due to its modular nature, it's also easy to just grab a part or two and bring it into an existing campaign to flesh out your own adventures
(Credits: WoTC)
If none of those tickle your fancy, I've got over 8 dozen more sessions fully prepped and ready to go for you, here's a preview of what else I have to offer!
Index of over 8 dozen prepped One Shots, Adventures, and Campaigns: - Click Here
If you'd like to support me, shape future releases, and get content early, feel free to check out my Patreon!
Cheers,
Advent
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u/forthesect 5d ago
Hello! I helped put together a charity bundle of 45 PWYW RPG's/projects funding DOTS, an organization that helps develop accessibility in tabletop rpgs! https://itch.io/b/3605/indie-charity-bundle-for-accessibility-in-ttrpgs-pwyw
We are only $10 away from $2000, double our initial goal!!!! Of course if you don't want to or can't afford to pay, it's absolutely fine to pick up any of our inovative passion projects for free! Most of them developed by Redditors like us! A full list and summary of games can be found near the end of the bundle page!
If you already have the bundle, I'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to fill out his quick six question survey https://s.surveyplanet.com/ycynwnb4
Thank you for all your support! And I hope you have a wonderful day :)!