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Broken Ruler Games is a tabletop game development studio founded by Todd Crapper (also known as The Warden) in 2011 with an emphasis on breaking rules to create new games from scratch. They have published several award-winning titles, including Killshot and High Plains Samurai through Kickstarter campaigns, while ScreenPlay received critical praise for its unique storytelling style based around the screen of a smartphone device used by one player during gameplay.
High Plains Samurai: Legends
Pandora: Total Destruction
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Caltrop Core v1.2   - An Introductory TTRPG Design SRD
Space Train Space Heist   - A high-octane, single session, 3-5 player GM-less, Forged In The Dark, goof of a game about space robbing a space train.
ROYAL BLOOD   - Beautiful tarot heist tabletop roleplaying game.
Score   - Big heists, small zine.
Novel Story   - A Solo RPG About the Life of a Novel
Hard Wired Island   - Retrofuture cyberpunk, inspired by 90s anime.
World of Blades   - A Blades in the Dark / World of Dungeons hack.
What's So Cool About Hulijings?   - A tiny little system for playing heisting tricksters
Capybara Capers   - A daring game of trust and thievery.
MindExplorer   - A solo ttrpg inspired by 90s educational software
BRIGHTHAMMER   - Rules Light High Fantasy Roleplaying
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
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Village Witch   - A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
Downfall   - Create the world, and then destroy it.
TOGETHER / ALONE   - a GM-less, 2-player game about cross-cultural connection through storytelling
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
CHVLR: A Wretched & Alone Game   - Just get in the robot.
Punchcard Memories   - a contemplative solo game about identity
Skeleton Song   - Find yourself in purgatory before He does.
Wizard Pals   - A collaborative game of magic, friendship, and identity.
The Creature Comes for Us   - A card-drawing game for 1+ players. Create a world, a menace to threaten it, heroes to fight it, and then do battle.
Ascendancy   - A cyberpunk TTRPG about psychics and identity
We War Crossed Lovers   - Can love conquer all?
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The Cloister   - A two player storytelling game about the last hour of a long journey home
Orbital Blues - An Unchained Melody   - An RPG about Sad Space Cowboys
Have I Been Good?   - a game for two players, one of whom is a dog
Sapling Soul   - A solo ttrpg where you explore a Forest and help heal it. Inspired by We Forest Three by Rae Nedjadi.
Compromise//Empire   - A 2-3 player GMless game about resisting Empire
You, an Astronaut   - a game for one player adrift in space
In the Light of a Setting Sun: Bonanza Edition   - Wild Western Roleplaying Game
T-DEF   - A GMless mini-zine game where you pit your troopers against alien invaders!
Hieronymous First Edition   - exploring strange worldscapes
The Oaths We Swore Amid Autumn Leaves   - Swear oaths to each other, meet rivals in battle, struggle against fate and destiny.
Something Happened & The Lights Are Out   - a game about saying goodbye before the collapse
KISSING COMRADES   - 200 word LARP of anti-fascist makeouts