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You Are a Beacon
Getting There
PDQ Shakespeare
Quadratic Engine
Headcanon
The Fledgling and the Vale
Disaster Wizards
Fundamentally unlovable creature killer in trouble
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Primal Quest - Essentials   - A Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game
A Dragon Game   - A game about dragons and subterranean adventuring
Swordquest - Micro Edition   - A One Page Fantasy Adventure Game
BRIGHTHAMMER   - Rules Light High Fantasy Roleplaying
Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells   - A rules light, Star & Sorcery Role Playing Game with an Old School spirit!
SLEDGEHAMMER   - Rules Light Grim Dark Fantasy RPG
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Core Rules   - Streamlines Neo OSR Rules for Pulp Fantasy Sword & Sorcery Adventures
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Test Kitchen   - A co-op time management party RPG for 3 to 5 players.
Elegy   - Solo Vampiric Roleplaying
FiviE   - Compatible with games
Kosmosaurs   - An RPG about Dinosaurs who protect the Galaxy from Evil Forces
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A Visit To San Sibilia   - A solo journaling game about visiting an ever changing city
Lost Emblem Saga   - a pocket-sized fantasy rpg
Hack n Slash   - Pocket-sized Dungeon Crawler TTRPG
Tiniest D&D Business Cards   - Pocket Fantasy Adventure Game
Swordquest - Micro Edition   - A One Page Fantasy Adventure Game
Places in Verse   - 7 settings for any system
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Mini Map Helper   - A pocket-sized map-making tool.
Wallet Stations   - Pocket sized Space Station generator!
POCKET SCVM   - A pocket sized MÖRK BORG character journal!
What Eyes Do You Look Out From?   - A pocket-sized generator for TTRPGs
Tiny Tokens   - A pocket-sized "No Dice, No Masters" roleplaying game system.
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The Sixgun Hack   - A Wild West RPG powered by The Black Hack
The Wretched   - Survive alone in the black
Forest of Mist - Dungeon Pamphlet Jam   - A pamphlet adventure for the Black Hack 2E and other rules-lite games.
Contracts, Formulae, Spears, & Grifts   - Four Classes for use with The Black Hack second edition
Temple Of The Bat Serpent   - An old school pamphlet dungeon
The Mephitic Laboratory Of The Pescamancer   - A print-n-play pamphlet dungeon
Drained Temple of the Brackish Basin   - A pamphlet dungeon crawl for the Mausritter RPG
How to make cool TTRPG pamphlets   - A free pamphlet teaching how to make RPG pamphlets
Micromaiden Spirit Grid   - cyber dungeon
The Forgotten Warband & The Dreadful Horde, for Black Hack   - 8 classes pack for the Black Hack
Ancient Undead Spider Wizard   - Deluxe Digital EP = PDF + 17 mp3s + Digital Handouts + more!
The Blue Lotus Hack   - An oldschool rpg and setting based on The Black Hack 1e