GameSearch

An AI-Powered Search and Recommendation Engine for Itch.io RPGs

not signs... patterns.
Created for TRANS ORACULAR JAM, hosted by stargazersasha and Moira Campbell. Find patterns, reach meaning, separate signal from noise. And take notes.  Not recommended for players who may experience psychosis and/or obsessive compulsions. Included: a PDF designed for screens and a PDF designed for print, with facing pages for note-taking.  Free community copies available. not signs... patterns. © 2024 by Rook Feld is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 
Price:
$1.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 3 reviews)
Published:
01 May 2024 @ 16:16 UTC
These games are similar to not signs... patterns. ...
The Valley Standard   - A style guide for solo TTRPG note-taking
Princess with a Cursed Sword   - A solo journaling game
Ribbons: A Setting Guide for Masks   - Magical girls fighting evil and schoolwork.
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
YOU ARE A BEAST   - A microgame about existing as a trans person.
What's So Cool About Lucha Libre?   - A rules-lite Borderpunk RPG about superheroic luchadores fighting evil for 1 GM and 1+ players.
Thousand Year Old Vampire   - PDF and HARDBACK available.  A beautiful, sad, solo RPG about the crush of time and vampires.
Black Skies For Babylon   - The worlds greatest combat tragedy RPG
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
Low Spell Slots   - the game of giving executive dysfunction the finger
Dead Letter Society   - Death doesn't mean you can't write back. Softcover available.
not signs... patterns. is similar to...
High Table Presence   - a micrometagame about taking up space
Scopicity [Legacy]   - New Version Available On New Project Page
Sherwood | A Game of Outlaws & Arcana   - A Tabletop Game of Magic and Outlaws: Physical Preorders Available!
Hideous Daylight   - A pen-and-paper adventure module of sun-soaked horror. Compatible with Old-School Essentials and Cairn..
Temple of 1000 Swords   - A tarot inspired TTRPG dungeon-delve for Old-School Essentials.
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
Wyvern Songs   - A high-fantasy adventure anthology for Old-School Essentials
Fabien's Atelier   - A puzzle dungeon TTRPG adventure module for Cairn
Thousand Year Old Vampire   - PDF and HARDBACK available.  A beautiful, sad, solo RPG about the crush of time and vampires.
Dead Letter Society   - Death doesn't mean you can't write back. Softcover available.
Fuck You, I'm a Goblin!   - A Lasers & Feelings hack about not taking any more shit from polite society
A Dragon Is My Friend   - A singleplayer tabletop RPG about taking care of an injured dragon.
If you like Baloney in Our Slacks check out...
Mutants In the Night   - A Forged in the Dark table-top role playing game about finding
Charge RPG   - The Free, Open and Generic Role-Playing Game to Power Your Storytelling
Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition   - Monster Hunting, Forged in the Dark
In the Dark   - Simple FitD roleplaying for any setting
The Hunted   - Folk horror roleplaying, forged in the dark
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.
Charge SRD   - An SRD to make action packed RPGs with forward momentum.
Court of Blades - Scandal Forged in the Dark   - The game of intrigue, romance, and peril, Forged in the Dark.
Subway Runners   - A tabletop RPG of gig-economy metro workers clearing up monsters in a subway that dug too deep.
Arcanademia   - Arcanademia: A Forged in the Dark Game
Minutes to Midnight   - A modern cold-war roleplaying game forged in the dark
Neon Black   - Steal from the rich. Save your friends.
If you like Octane check out...
OCEANS 2400   - Cinematic Heist RPG
Dash - A Charge Condensed Game   - A print friendly & condensed version of Charge.
B.R.A.S.S. Playtest Edition   - A one-page RPG of explosive Hollywood action and titanic alien robots!
A Family of Blades   - Modern Action & Intrigue, Forged in the Dark
Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game   - A Fate-powered  tabletop RPG based on the popular Atomic Robo graphic novels and webcomic.
I have gone this far   - A demon possessed your charge. How do you save them?
Trespasser   - Fantasy tactics TTRPG with old-school theming.
Songs of the Northlanders   - a roleplaying game of desperate action
Our Farm Becomes the Battlefield   - low-tech + anti-capitalist + power fantasy; illuminated ttrpg
The Price Others Pay   - A short ritual for figuring out how (or whether) to charge money for your creation.
Shoot 'n' Loot   - A Rules-lite Tactical Shooter TTRPG with Millions of Guns, Powered by the Apocalypse
The Path Of The Wolves   - Fight the Monsters With Steel or Silver in This Unofficial Witcher Inspired TTRPG
If you like Aquilus Issue #2 check out...
Patchwork World Sixth Edition   - Weird fantasy PbtA with no playbooks & no stats
A Crucible For Silver   - Weird Fantasy OSR rules lite RPG with mercenary companies
BROKEN LUCK - a Troika zine   - rpg zine
The Electrum Archive - Issue 01   - A Science Fantasy RPG Zine
The Shifting City   - A System Agnostic RPG Zine
Kingscairn Issue 1   - A Victorian Science Fantasy Zine for Troika!
dungeonpunk   - a punk fantasy zine rpg
Old Wind #1 an OSR zine (Electric Bastionland)   - An OSR zine with an assortment of extra rules for Electric Bastionland and other OSR games
The One   - A solo tabletop RPG about relationships in a weird fantasy city.
Skill Points   - An RPG zine about learning through play.
RPG Design Zine   - A How-To Zine about Tabletop RPG Design
SYZYGY - Ashcan Edition   - weird science fantasy roleplaying