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The article discusses various types of tabletop roleplaying game projects that focus on different themes and genres, such as horror fiction with a cyberpunk twist or dark fantasy inspired by HPLJ's ideas about immortality in his works like 'Deathwatch'. The author also mentions several off-brand Lovecraftian games which combine elements from the Cthulhu Mythos mythology. Other examples include an original system called OSHIMAI that involves storytelling and children playing as audience members, a game for single sessions with short stories set to be played by young people inspired by horror webcomic Candle Cove. Finally mentioned are several other projects such as Eternal Lies [working title] powered by Apocalypse...ish --The cycle turned,...
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Curse of the Alta Silva   - Can you survive the night?
Dungeons Deep   - The World Below is Where We  Confront Ourselves
Sunset Kills   - Buffy and Charmed meets PbtA
Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Campaign   - A 'dark ages' hexcrawl.
This Game Takes Place in Your Home Town   - A horror rpg for two players
Telling the Bees   - A storytelling game about the year in the life of a small, farming community, as told to the town's bees.
Rennasistance: The Rough Cut Edition   - Music is Magic. Revolution is Liberation.
While We Wait for Death   - While we wait for death to arrive, we tell stories about when they didn't show up.
WINTERGREEN   - A minty-fresh, portable micro RPG
Told By Starlight   - A storytelling game about drawing constellations and creating mythology
The Festival of Deep Winter   - A storytelling game about tradition, intimacy, and comfort.
Her Odyssey   - A solo journaling RPG about a wanderer trying to return home - or find a new home.
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World of Dungeons   - Simple, quick, dungeon-crawling action
Definitely Wizards   - A TTRPG about not being a wizard
Pocket Delver   - A solo dungeon-crawling game
Mind Crawler   - A solo/journaling RPG about dungeon crawling through your own mind.
GrimBlade RPG   - A light and fast-paced roleplaying game of adventures and stories set within an implied Grim Fantasy world.
Major Magicka   - A chaotic no-prep rules-lite game about weird wizard academia.
Secret Bastard Dungeon   - A Little Coffin
Crowns RPG, OSR Fantasy   - An OSR ruleset that is compact, light, punchy, and is easily hackable
The Wizard's Grimoire   - A Tabletop Roleplaying Game Zine
Escape from Demon Castle Dracula   - A horror-themed dungeon-crawling card-based solo journaling ttrpg
The Forest That Knows Your Name   - A forestcrawl adventure for PINKHACK and other OSRs.
Dwarves of Zwölfheim   - A one page, mega-dungeon crawling TTRPG