Negative Space: free works
- Advanced Role-Playing Mechanics
- A freeware post-holocaust game.
- Anarcha Australis
- A freeware post-holocaust game… set in Australia.
- Character Oriented Role-Playing Engine
- Fantasy game focusing on characters?
- Combat Monster
- A freeware generic game. Well, generic in the sense that you can beat people up in any genre. This one’s pulling your funny bone, folks, and then beating you over the head with it. Enjoy!
- Cran Fantasy Shell
- a freeware fantasy game
- Death or Glory
- A freeware fantasy game.
- Dramatic License (146.1 KB)
- Cinematic role-playing, either as cinematic adventures or cartoons. Available as a rich text file for use in any modern word processor.
- Fantasy gaming texts
- Free fantasy games, supplements, and other fantasy game info.
- Generic Easy Miniatures
- “GEM is a generic miniature wargaming ‘engine’. There is a point system which (hopefully) gives balanced battles. Stats are customizable for whatever style of battle one wants. Play is designed on the fast and furious style, but also with rolling handfuls of dice. If you've ever been bogged down in rolling and rolling with no resolution in sight, GEM is probably for you.”
- Greatly Abbreviated Mechanics, Etc.
- “The idea of GAME is to provide an ultra-compact, flexible system that can be fit onto a single 8.5" x 11" piece of paper, front and back. GAME serves only as the barest guideline for roleplaying and leaves all details to the GM’s judgement, and is meant to ease on-the-fly additions.”
- Harlequinade
- “The Ideal World is a paranoid place where the everyday is not as it appears… or is it? Superficially, the Ideal World is our own. The technology is familiar technology. The streets are the familiar streets. The inhabitants are, mostly, the faceless people we ignore every day. Lurking within this familiar facade is the joke. All you have to do is scratch the surface. Face it, nobody lives for ever. So enjoy yourself.”
- Hazon
- a possibly freeware fantasy game
- The Internet Library Today
- The Internet is a library of information provided by people with an ax to grind. But it’s only useful if you know how to use it.
- The Library of the Future
- As near as I can tell, the “net of the future” is a Santa Claus that’s supposed to give us whatever we want whenever we want it. But can it really be that simple?
- Monsters & Mazes
- “The game of dark underground labyrinths and those who abode in them. Where only the brave and the mighty will escape with marvelous gems and everprecious gold… WARNING: THIS GAME CONTAINS MATH!
- Net Games
- Complete free or shareware tabletop, paper-and-pencil role-playing games.
- OPIGS
- a freeware generic game, but “you had to be there”. Fits on a single sheet. Of paper.
- Realms of Adventure (153.6 KB)
- “This game is set in the medieval era, with castles, magic, and fantastic creatures. You can play a knight, a wizard, a rogue, a crusading priest, or any other character you chose… Looks like those barbarians kicked ass here.”
- Ringwielder
- A shareware fantasy/science fiction game. “The Orion was built using the principles of Psycho-Manipulative Energy. During its launch a terrible accident occurred. All animal and plant life was mutated, and the inhabitants were turned into characters from literature and imagination. They awaken with their old memories erased and new ones in their place, facing a starship defense system that is definitely not friendly.”
- Robot Wars
- A freeware diceless Mecha miniatures game. “The year, 2024, There are no more armies. Disputes are settled by large scale robotic wars. These are unmanned robots built by a neutral company in Switzerland.”
- The Roll-Playing Game of Big Dumb Fighters
- A freeware fantasy game. “This game has been designed with gamers in mind, and we know what you want—sex and violence.”
- The Shell Roleplaying System
- “This is the skeleton of a FRPG system.”
- Simple Laid-Back Universal Game
- A freeware generic game. Very freeform, probably an ancestral relation to FUDGE.
- Skill Oriented Universal Playing System (84.3 KB)
- A freeware fantasy/science fiction game “based totally on skills”.
- Swordhawk Rules (125.9 KB)
- Fantasy gaming in the Dungeons and Dragons tradition.
- System One Generic Role Playing System
- “The plan is for a GM to be able to quickly set up a fully detailed universe of mutant gerbils travelling the spaceways with cybernetic limbs and casting magic spells at everyone.”
- To Challenge Tomorrow
- A shareware space game. Zipped.
More Information
- 1KM1KT
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Lots of interesting free games. The name stands for “one thousand monkeys, one thousand typewriters,” and it appears they’re working on it.
- Free RPGs on the Web
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This is by far the best listing of downloadable role-playing games on the web. Judging from the descriptions of my two games, the author has actually read every game to write the description. Well organized.
- Angel/Demon: The Rapture
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“Do not fear, child. We are here to protect you, no matter what the cost.” A freeware setting for the World of Darkness.
- Coron’s Sources of Free RPGs
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Another listing of net RPGs, organized by genre.
