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Games That Are NOT Chess
Have you ever wanted to play chess but realized you were bad at chess? You've got your Queen's Gambit, your Blitz, your Glorb's Attack; who can keep it all straight? When it comes to chess, if you haven't done hours of homework, you've basically already lost. And that's just no fun! So here are 30 chess-adjacent games you can play with chess pieces that are not chess.
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Fake Chess   - Play like a master.
We Saved The World Once   - A 2-player TTRPG about former friends
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
AQUA SQUAD!   - A Tunnel Goons hack of aquatic and aquatic-adjacent adventure.
An Abomination   - Five games in one!
Checkmörk   - A collection of chess themed enemies for MÖRK BORG
DiChess   - Chess, but the pieces are dice
Unspeakable: A Game of Unutterable Horror For Two   - A journaling-adjacent word game for the end of the world, guided by tarot.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today   - a game no one should ever have to play
Games That Are NOT Chess is similar to...
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
nine reasons to . . .   - a therapy-adjacent tarot journaling game
FTL   - A non-linear chess-like
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
Deluge: The Corrupting Rain   - An OSR adjacent TTRPG focusing on corruption and survival in the end times.
Adventure Chapbook Vol. 1   - Three full length adventures inspired by one-page, one-shots from 30 Days
Two Summers   - Live two wonderful adventures 30 years apart!
Two Summers: first holiday memories   - Live two parallel adventures, 30 years apart!
Odd Jobs, Long Nights, and Cold Mornings   - a two [or three!] player game about adjacent acquaintances, professional respect, and catching feelings
don't cut the tree/be the tree   - [solo ttrpg – 2 pages – 30 min.] two seeds, two letters, two sides of a solo ttrpg game
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Queer As Fuck CharGen   - Roll dice to get a queer as fuck PC
Evocación. Tell me your story / Cuéntame tu historia   - A journaling game to create a character’s emotional backstory
Arcane Astrology   - Build a character's identity using their horoscope!
Blades of Ether   - Show the Cloud Sea the Power of Your Bonds!
THE CROWNLESS   - Elden Ring inspired Mini TTRPG of killing gods and burning the world
Arcane Focus   - Ask yourself: what is magic made of? And what tools do you use to shape it?
Falling   - 36 questions to create trust between players, or the characters themselves.
Living Axiom - A Troika! Background   - A Troika! Background for the reified
The Gold Hack   - A brief game revolving around burning passion
MiniBX   - A mini hack
Anti-Sisyphus: Narrative 1   - Make any game a story game in classic Anti-Sisyphus style
A Voyage to Fairy-Land   - 15 paper minis for tabletop rpgs
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FIST: Ultra Edition   - A paranormal mercenary roleplaying game
Paranormal Inc.   - A gm-less mystery game of paranormal investigation!
All Hands on Deck   - A storytelling game about a ship, its crew, and the sea they sail on
Paranormal Inc.: Bust More Ghosts   - A mystery supplement for Paranormal Inc.
Lilancholy   - A guide to a secret world
Dwindle   - Occult cyberpunk in the shadow of a twilight city
No Stone Unturned   - A tabletop RPG about the collateral that comes from exploring a world that is rebuilding from an apocalypse.
The City Stretches Out In All Directions Without Limits   - A solo game about driving public transit in an endless city
Before the Spire Falls   - 2-4 players, witches traveling to reclaim their world from the Nothing
Ashes   - A game about life and death
Ryne   - A wild fantasy TTRPG about people building communities in the footsteps of titans
HIT & DIE   - A minimalist skirmish game based on MiniBX
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RPG Design Zine   - A How-To Zine about Tabletop RPG Design
Locus   - Personal Horror Roleplaying game.
Blind Luck - Business Card   - A Unique Dice Alternative.
Trophies Of Violence   - An alternative system for death in A Dragon Game
Chasing the Ace   - A card-prompt storytelling game about mecha pilots caught in the shadow of their legendary squadron leader.
Wizardry!   - Alternative magic rules, spells & spellbooks for DURF
EMERGE8 SRD   - For TTRPGs you design as you play.
ARSINO d6   - Text-based d6 Alternative
Suffering Extended - A MÖRK BORG Supplement   - Alternative rules and additional content compatible with MÖRK BORG
RISE   - Evolution in game design
One Page Solo Engine   - A minimal, all-in-one toolkit to play your favorite tabletop RPGs without a GM.
RUNE   - A solo soulslike TTRPG