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Half-Truth Histories
Maudle Moot Heroes: Dire Lands
The Junkyard
Piecing It Together
If you like The Bell Must Toll Tonight check out...
When The Walls Fall   - a setting generator mini game focusing on creating a fallen city from stacking polyhedral dice
TURN   - Contemporary dungeoncrawls
Delve Too Deep   - A system-neutral fantasy one-shot adventure
The Library Beneath the Sands   - An adventure for the Knave and other Old School RPGs
SIDEQUEST Issue 5 - September 2021   - 4 Carnival Subclasses, Carnival Games, Narrative Combat System, & More
The Drama Module   - Card-based rules for inter character drama in the Fifth Edition rules.
Under the Garden - a short Mausritter adventure   - A one-shot adventure for Mausritter
The Potato King   - A ttrpg horror adventure
DOLLHOUSE - a FIST op   - A one-shot, one-room adventure.
The Delver's Expedition Handbook   - A guide to creating and playing in expeditions in fantasy roleplaying games.
Sangam: Academy of Poets   - a system neutral one shot
Hexploration Tool   - A quick little pdf to help with random hex map generation.
If you like This Mirror Has People In It check out...
Mud: A Golem Memoir   - A quiet, contemplative zine and solo roleplaying game
The Dying Lands   - A campaign sheet for sandbox gameplay in the known world of Mork Borg
Apollo 47 Technical Handbook   - A quiet game of techobabble.  2022
Domains Horror Roleplaying System Rulebook   - Narrative Horror TTRPG
Cracks in the Mirror   - A quiet, thoughtful game about exploring ancestral memories
The Land Whispers   - A card game of discovery and improvisational storytelling for 1-4 players
Last Tea Shop Classic   - A quiet game about running a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead.
The Potato King   - A ttrpg horror adventure
Chair   - Quiet terror, for one and onlookers
Knots in the Sky   - A quiet, surreal fantasy for two players.
Moonsailors   - A quiet space-faring rpg zine about being alone & not quite being alone.
The Quiet Offseason   - A hack of The Quiet Year to make it about Blaseball.
If you like Retrospective Games SRD check out...
PINKHACK SRD   - System reference document for PINKHACK.
LEADS   - A System Reference Document dedicated for hackers and game designers, in order to create game by Following the LEADS.
Four Points RPG System SRD   - System Reference Document for the Four Points RPG System
Push SRD   - A story-first, push-your-luck system for your games
Make a Wretched Game   - An easy-to-fill-in Wretched Game document
BFB SRD   - A Systems Reference Document for Beak, Feather, & Bone
Transmission Burst: Volume 1   - 12 story games of other worlds
Firelights Creator Kit and SRD   - Create your own content based on Firelights
The Bonds That Tie Us   - A GMless TTRPG about relationships
Tales' End   - An adventure about reflecting at the end of a journey.
STARJET Skirmish Engine   - System Reference Document for the STARJET Micro Skirmish Engine
it's been a long, long time   - a two-player game about a reunion.